" I place my full confidence in God. He has a good purpose for my life."

I recently decided in the beginning of January that I was going to do a Facebook Fast. I had always told others that If I did not do Pictures on the side I would delete my Facebook. Well I felt that given the fact I was not doing work due to my pregnancy that It was the time to do this Fast. I logged off. I was shocked at just how many of you had requested me not to, Not for just random posts, but the little bits of encouraging posts I did from time to time. Such as, spiritual, My Mom posts about my kids, or Wife posts about my husband. I was blessed to see just how many of you were praying for our pregnancy with Cove. I decided to go ahead and head away from Facebook land to grow with Jesus more. 

Here are a few things I have learned being off:

• I have had much more time to spend with my family.
• I have gotten a lot of accomplishments done around my home in this time.
• I have realized just how much time I did devote to Facebook. (pretty sad actually)
• I began to pray for some things and a Big Prayer was answered pretty quickly. I was so excited and still am. I'll post about that later when it is okay to do so.
• I have realized just how much I missed all of your prayer requests and posts about whats good in your life. 
• There were several that crossed my mind daily that I wondered about. I wanted to jump on just to check on you. but I didn't.
• I also noticed just how much more time I had to pray.                                                                                                                  

However, After being off for almost a Month, I have been praying and started my Daily Bible readings again. We recently had an AWESOME Revival at our church and one of the things that the Pastor hit on was asking the Holy Spirit what He had to say to us. We often just pray and ask God to do this or that, But we don't spend the time in silence to ask What HE wants from us. So I did this. I did my little bible study and read some, When finished I asked God. "What do you want me to hear from you Lord? Am I doing okay with raising my Children....? Ect..." I was shocked in what I heard. I'm not good at this, Just starting, But It was pretty neat what I heard him say to me when I turned everything off and got completely quiet and just listened. 

" You are doing well in raising your children. I want more of your time. Do not worry, I will bless you for devoting your time to me. Your family will be taken care of and your children will prosper, your husband will be taken care of. I have much for you and am getting ready to bless you in ways you can't imagine. Continue to spread My Word to others and make My way known. I will bless you for it. Keep coming to me with your thoughts and prayers. I love it when you spend this time with me. Your family will be taken care of."   

This blessed my soul so very much. I did feel like He was telling me to keep spreading his word. So I begin to think of ways other then just Facebook to do this. This is where these Blog posts come in play. I have prayed over this and feel like This will be a good place to share something that is on my heart or share a small devotional that I had read, scripture or maybe even what I feel him say from time to time. So this is how I will now be sharing with others. :) I'm sure I'll do a few family posts as well given this blog is about our little family and how God has blessed us. Even though It's been too long since my last post. Haha!

In today's reading, I focused on What we started last night in our Women's class at church. "Becoming A Proverbs Woman". Yes, I'm sure we ladies have all heard this at some point in time. But we have a memory verse to remember each week and I wanted to share it with you. I think this will help hold me accountable in doing this little lesson weekly. 

This Week's scripture is: 

Proverbs 31:10-11 A Wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more then rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value.

We are also supposed to Speak a word of Affirmation over ourselves daily to remind us of God's word. Today's Word of Affirmation is: I place my full confidence in God. He has a good purpose for my life.

After reading this morning, I felt this small passage of Scripture really hit the spot. It's found in Psalm 25. Read the whole passage when you have time, But I really loved the scriptures within it. 

After reading these, I had another moment of silence and asked the Holy Spirit what he would have me hear from these scriptures b/c they really touched my heart! I didn't know If I would hear something or nothing. But yet again, I felt the Holy Spirit speak. 

"Tell my children I am listening, to keep searching for me and they will find me. I hear each of their prayers and have them in my heart. I am working them out in the best way for them. Keep coming to me daily. I love it when they spend time with me. I will bless them."

I just thought this was too sweet. I feel like after reading this passage of scripture that It really showed me something. There are days that we feel like NOTHING is going in the way we would like or hope or think it should go. We may be stressed, tired, worn down, discouraged, hurt, lost ect. But God tells us that we need to keep searching. He has our best interest at heart and will be there for us. In the 1st - 3rd verses. I see how we need to be. "O Lord, I give my life to you. I trust in you, my God! Do not let me be disgraced or let my enemies rejoice in my defeat. No one who trusts in you will ever be disgraced. but disgrace comes to those who try to deceive others."

The next verses I posted above are 8-15.  Telling us How the Lord is good and  does what is right. He shows the proper path to those who go astray. He leads the humble in doing right, teaching them His way. That is just part of these verses. 

I feel like we need to put our full trust in God daily and let him lead our paths as he stated. I feel like that is what his word is referring to that he wanted me to share. He hears our every prayer and is working them out the best way for each of us. We have to remember though, Not to pray "God Please Give Me." It needs to be "God, Please give me YOUR WILL for my life." Then when in doing that, He will direct our Paths and we will have a peace in knowing he has got us on the right track! 

So when your day is going what seems to be awful. Remember, Tell yourself that word of Affirmation. "I place my full confidence in God. He has a good purpose for my life." Remember these verses and passage of scripture. Remember he has said to keep searching for him, He is setting your path up already, You just have to ask Him to lead you down the right one. 

I hope you all have a Blessed day ahead of you! Keep your heads up high and remember to Praise him for each little blessing or happy time in your day. I think you will be surprised at just how many you will notice once you start thanking him for them. :) 

In other good news to you: I promise not to make each post this long. I just needed to explain why I'm back on Facebook and wanted to fit in these little devotionals as well. Thank you for taking the time to read! 

God Bless & All the Best, 

Candace