My Birth Story:
I was supposed to be induced on December 16th and so the weekend of December 12th
Mandrae and I had plans to go to a movie and dinner and hang out as a couple for the last
time. So on December 11th we had fun together and Mandrae was being his normal self and
cracking some jokes and had me on the floor crying laughing. Anyway I went to bed that
night and woke up at 4 am to use the bathroom. I got back in bed and felt really wet so I
checked myself and determined it was nothing and went back to sleep. Then all of sudden I
felt like I was swimming in bed! So I stood up and had water flowing down my legs and all
over the floor. So I ran in the living room where Mandrae had fallen asleep watching sports
and told him in a scared and shaking voice, “My water broke!!!” I ran to the bathroom
thinking the water would stop coming and it did nothing of the sort! My water leaked for
like 3 hours, or should I say poured. Anyway I got my bag and got dressed and told Mandrae
to pack his clothes and then we were on our way. By the time I got there my clothes were
soaking wet. We checked in at the ER and then I was in the bed waiting on the lil one to
come. At that point I hadn’t felt any pain so far and thought man this is easy. For the
next 7 hours I didn’t really feel too much, nothing like I expected. Then at the 7th hour
my body went into shock. The nurses had been asking me the whole time if I wanted an
epidural and pretty much wanting me to have it. I really wanted a natural child birth
though so I kept my cool and kept denying it. The pain got worse but I never made a sound.
I took it like a champ. J Then when my body went into shock I said I wanted an epidural and
before I got one I needed to use the bathroom. After Mandrae helped me to the restroom w
the IV cords and monitor cords all over the place, I REALLY had to use the bathroom. I sat
down and stuff was coming out everywhere. I started to get really bad diarrhea and couldn’t
get off the toilet. The nurse started banging on the door saying, “Get out the epidural is
here and we have to do it now, come on we are waiting on you.” So I sucked it all in so it
wouldn’t come out and braved my way out to the bed to get my epidural. The man that gave me
the epidural had just finished running outside in the freezing cold and so his hands were
like ice and by this point I was having intense pressure and contractions every 15 minutes.
So while he was sticking the needle in my back I had like 10 contractions. This was the
worst pain I had ever experienced and I kept leaning forward from the pain and the dr. was
telling me to lean back towards him or he could mess up but w the contractions it was almost
impossible. He was also cracking jokes that this was his first epidural and let me tell u
that at this time I did not find that funny! So Mandrae was holding my hand and I had a
puddle of tears in front of me and u could tell Mandrae would have done anything to trade me
places. He was so so great for the whole delivery. Anyway they had checked me about 20 min
before the epidural and I was 7 cm. After the epidural the nurse checked me and I was a
full 10 cm. So that means that when my body went into shock I was ready to push! So I
didn’t need the epidural and could have the baby by now. But since I had an epidural then
the contractions slowed down a ton and they needed me to wait an hour to start pushing to
let the epidural take place. By now I felt a lot of pressure which the epidural doesn’t
take away and this was the only pain I was feeling before and so really the epidural did me
no good at all. So after an hour they had me start pushing and so I started to push and my
contractions were every 5 min and so every 5 min I had to push for one minute. I always
thought pushing would be the easy part but no. Since I was numb I couldn’t tell if I was
really doing anything or if my pushing was doing any good. Pushing was HARD! At one point
the nurse left and I felt a contraction coming on and so Mandrae stood at the bottom of the
bed and coached me through the push. He was so great. So after 2 hours of pushing and
getting really no where except that Mandrae could see the top of her head but she kept
coming close and then going back in so they gave me pletocin to get my contractions closer
together and so I was able to push every minute then and within 30 minutes she was out at
1:10 pm. In order to get her out the doctor had to cut me because she wouldn’t fit. So I
thought I was having a 9 or 10 lb baby and really chubby one at that and when I saw her my
heart just filled with so much happiness her lil body was so long and so tiny. She wasn’t
chubby at all and I was so excited. She was adorable. While they were weighing and
measuring her right by my head the dr. sewed me up. After I was stitched up they dropped
off baby to be breastfed and left her with me the rest of my stay in the hospital. I was
ready to go home by around 5 pm that day but they make u stay 24 hours in the hospital. So
every 3 hours I had to breast feed and change diapers and I hadn’t slept for like 2 days at
this point and had to take care of a brand new baby and I had no idea what to do. It did
come pretty natural though. She did a great job breastfeeding until I gave her a passie.
Once I did that she refused to breastfeed. She didn’t eat at all the second day. We left
the hospital around 4 pm the next day the 13th. When we got home she still wouldn’t
breastfeed and went like 40 hours without eating and I broke down! I started bawling because
she was acting like she was dying and couldn’t breathe and so I couldn’t stop crying and
wanted to take her to the hospital. Luckily my mom was here and told me she would be fine.
So I stayed up all night again trying to breastfeed and calling the breastfeeding hotline
with no answer. So finally the next morning we had to give her some formula. The next few
days I tried and tried and she finally breastfed with a shield. I still didn’t have a lot
of milk though. Once my mom left after a week I had NO appetite at all and didn’t eat for 4
days straight and so my milk started to get less and less. We then on vacation for
Christmas to Denison, TX/ Hutchinson, KS/ and Woodland Park, CO and I breastfed her 2 to 3
times a day. By the time I got home I was dried up and so we did formula only. I was really
sad but there was nothing I could do. Now I have only 2 weeks left til I go back to work
and we have no idea who we will get to watch her. We are at a loss right now and I am
horrified to leave her with anyone. She is so tiny still and it really scares me. She is
so gorgeous, adorable, cute and silly and she will hear it her whole life from us I am sure.
I still want another one soon and would be okay with getting pregnant in one month. It is
really hard though to stay up with her all night because she wont sleep at night, only
during the day. But I know it will all be worth it. WE LOVE HER TO DEATH!
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Friday, November 20, 2009
Almost ready
so yesterday I had my 37 week sonogram and the lady that did the sonogram was shocked when she was trying to find the baby. The baby was so low she couldnt even see her face! it was crazy and she told me that she thought that i was dialated and to get it checked bc the baby was in position! so after being weighed, 181 LBS!!! (ive gained 40 lbs so far! golly!), the dr. (who didnt believe that i was dialated) checked me and sd that I am 2 to 3 cm dialated and the baby could come any time now. and it could be 2 to 3 weeks til she comes too. She said that I measure on my stomach outwardly with a 35 week baby but on the sono the baby weighs 7 lbs right now and so I am measuring big that way. That means my baby will be double the size of Parker! so sad! Anyway the dr. said that if the baby gets bigger I might need to be induced because she is pretty big right now. Anyway I am just sitting here waiting on lil baby to come. Mandrae is super excited for her to come. It is so cute. We are all ready!
Friday, November 13, 2009
9 months- 37 weeks
Ok here are pics of me at 9 months last nite. I feel like I gain 3 lbs a day! URGH! I am big, ready to pop and ready for this baby to come. Today is Mandrae's bday and we were hoping Anissa would be born today but doesnt seem like that will happen. He is getting off at 6 pm today and so we are going to Olive Garden for dinner and then to the movie 2012 at 10 pm. Fun Fun! He is turning 26 years old. Happy Birthday Mandrae.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Nov. 8th, 2009
"Devastated but not destroyed"
2 Corinthians 4
Destiny Church
People in the world are snapping:
Examples:
- the shooting at the airforce base in Texas (shooter snapped)
- Rhianna and Chris Brown (chris brown snapped)
- the father that ran over his daughter because she was too westernized (father snapped)
- the pastor in Oklahoma that killed himself
- people are losing their jobs, houses and family members
- people are going through divorces and leaving each other
we might be devastated but we cannot be destroyed
We need to live with new covenant which is based on Christ and what He can do not what we can do.
On our worst day there is still good news- the Gospel.
The best is still yet to come.
We still have trials to go through though.
We need to remember that whatever we have or wherever we are going is because of the grace of God. Just because we have trials doesnt mean that we will not triumph.
1. We are afflicted in every way but not crushed.
Regardless of the affliction we experience, God still loves us and cares. Just because we are in a jam doesnt mean that we cant have joy.
Most people think that your marriage is bad if you have trials but the good and honorable thing about marriage is holding your commitment to each other in all the trials of life.
Having joy in trials isnt saying it will be a joyous time for you but that your attitude should be one of joy in the midst of trial.
Knowing God and having faith in the midst of trials should be enough to give us joy in our trials. God is in process of working something out for our good in the midst of the bad.
2. We can be perplexed but not despairing:
meaning that we can be confused- just because we cant figure out what or why God does what he does, doesnt mean we are losers or low in our faith.
3. We are persecuted but not forsaken:
Just bc we are going thru trials, doesnt mean that God doesnt love us.
Romans 8:30-35
Gods relationship with us is like super glue. To seperate the bond of super glue you have to acutally pull off the other side that it is glued to. When God makes a bond with us, it is stronger than any other bond. If God is stuck to us, who can come between us? No one can stop God's plan. Whatever comes our way we may be devastated but we are not ultimately destroyed.
4. We are struck down but not destoyed.
When your a believer in Jesus you cant be knocked down.
Just like the toy we all used to get for Christmas. The toy that cost like $7 that we played with the most despite the multitude of gifts that we got for Christmas. The lil punching bags that u blow up and they have sand in the bottom of them. When your kids go to sleep and u r turning off lights and walking around putting everything away, you see the punching man and u start to hit. No matter how many times u hit that lil blow up punching man you cant knock him down! That is the same way we are with Christ, we can get struck down but no one can knock us down.
BECAUSE OF CHRIST WE ARE DEVASTATED BUT NOT DESTROYED!
weve all felt devastated but God has not hung us our to dry.
?s:
How can we know our purpose in Christ?
The general purpose of all believers is:
1. Worship Him
2. Be apart of the body of Christ (church) and be involved in a ministry
3. Share your faith
The specific purpose for us all comes down to our personality, experiences, ect. We are to just live a holy life and God will bring us the opportunities that we need to fulfill our purpose in Him. We just need to be open and available and live a holy life.
It is okay to not know your specific purpose. It will be revealed to you in time.
Will you go to heaven if you kill yourself?
Yes! Alot of people believe that u cant go to heaven once u kill yourself bc you never had a chance to confess that sin and when Christ died on the cross he died for ALL of our sins. Past, present and future sins! He died before we were ever born and so he died for all of our sins, including the ones we have not committed yet. If we were to die in a car accident right now, there will be some sins that we were not able to confess to too and we will still go to heaven. Same with killing yourself. Christ already died for that sin.
"Devastated but not destroyed"
2 Corinthians 4
Destiny Church
People in the world are snapping:
Examples:
- the shooting at the airforce base in Texas (shooter snapped)
- Rhianna and Chris Brown (chris brown snapped)
- the father that ran over his daughter because she was too westernized (father snapped)
- the pastor in Oklahoma that killed himself
- people are losing their jobs, houses and family members
- people are going through divorces and leaving each other
we might be devastated but we cannot be destroyed
We need to live with new covenant which is based on Christ and what He can do not what we can do.
On our worst day there is still good news- the Gospel.
The best is still yet to come.
We still have trials to go through though.
We need to remember that whatever we have or wherever we are going is because of the grace of God. Just because we have trials doesnt mean that we will not triumph.
1. We are afflicted in every way but not crushed.
Regardless of the affliction we experience, God still loves us and cares. Just because we are in a jam doesnt mean that we cant have joy.
Most people think that your marriage is bad if you have trials but the good and honorable thing about marriage is holding your commitment to each other in all the trials of life.
Having joy in trials isnt saying it will be a joyous time for you but that your attitude should be one of joy in the midst of trial.
Knowing God and having faith in the midst of trials should be enough to give us joy in our trials. God is in process of working something out for our good in the midst of the bad.
2. We can be perplexed but not despairing:
meaning that we can be confused- just because we cant figure out what or why God does what he does, doesnt mean we are losers or low in our faith.
3. We are persecuted but not forsaken:
Just bc we are going thru trials, doesnt mean that God doesnt love us.
Romans 8:30-35
Gods relationship with us is like super glue. To seperate the bond of super glue you have to acutally pull off the other side that it is glued to. When God makes a bond with us, it is stronger than any other bond. If God is stuck to us, who can come between us? No one can stop God's plan. Whatever comes our way we may be devastated but we are not ultimately destroyed.
4. We are struck down but not destoyed.
When your a believer in Jesus you cant be knocked down.
Just like the toy we all used to get for Christmas. The toy that cost like $7 that we played with the most despite the multitude of gifts that we got for Christmas. The lil punching bags that u blow up and they have sand in the bottom of them. When your kids go to sleep and u r turning off lights and walking around putting everything away, you see the punching man and u start to hit. No matter how many times u hit that lil blow up punching man you cant knock him down! That is the same way we are with Christ, we can get struck down but no one can knock us down.
BECAUSE OF CHRIST WE ARE DEVASTATED BUT NOT DESTROYED!
weve all felt devastated but God has not hung us our to dry.
?s:
How can we know our purpose in Christ?
The general purpose of all believers is:
1. Worship Him
2. Be apart of the body of Christ (church) and be involved in a ministry
3. Share your faith
The specific purpose for us all comes down to our personality, experiences, ect. We are to just live a holy life and God will bring us the opportunities that we need to fulfill our purpose in Him. We just need to be open and available and live a holy life.
It is okay to not know your specific purpose. It will be revealed to you in time.
Will you go to heaven if you kill yourself?
Yes! Alot of people believe that u cant go to heaven once u kill yourself bc you never had a chance to confess that sin and when Christ died on the cross he died for ALL of our sins. Past, present and future sins! He died before we were ever born and so he died for all of our sins, including the ones we have not committed yet. If we were to die in a car accident right now, there will be some sins that we were not able to confess to too and we will still go to heaven. Same with killing yourself. Christ already died for that sin.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Latest Dr. Update
Ok so I went to the dr. again yesterday. Another disappointing appt. I waited in the waiting room for 2 hours, one lady even walked out and yelled at them and sd that she was going to find a new dr. office, and then when I got in the room I waited one hour for the dr. Then when she finally got in there she was hungry, in a hurry and cranky. I was trying to get all my concerns and questions answered but shew as totally distracted. I asked about my ears because they ache like they are infected every single night and give me migraines every nite and I am miserable. She checked my ears and couldnt see anything and sd that even if i did have an infection she wouldnt give me anything anyway because they dont recommend treating them with anything anyway. (?) Then I told her about my back pain and hip pain and she cut me off and sd yeah that is normal and the only cure is to deliver, ok well see u in 2 weeks and walked out! What in the world??
She did check the babies heartbeat and it is 148 and that was it. I gained 6 lbs!! in 2 weeks!! That is alot! Man maybe I need to slow down?
The nurse before the dr was really helpful though. I told her about my cramps at nite and how I cant even walk in the morning bc my cramps are so bad and she told me to eat bananas and that she got them all the time too when she was pregnant. So that was helpful at least.
Anyway I guess we will see when Anissa comes.
I am totally clueless as to if she is even close to coming now. Before I thought it would be anyday but who knows now.
The nurse told me I need to take it easy and keep my feet up but the dr. didnt really care what I do.
Anyway I get a sonogram on Nov. 19th at my next appt so Mandrae will go with me then. Except we were hoping she would come on the 13th but we will see. Maybe we still have a chance for the 21st?
She did check the babies heartbeat and it is 148 and that was it. I gained 6 lbs!! in 2 weeks!! That is alot! Man maybe I need to slow down?
The nurse before the dr was really helpful though. I told her about my cramps at nite and how I cant even walk in the morning bc my cramps are so bad and she told me to eat bananas and that she got them all the time too when she was pregnant. So that was helpful at least.
Anyway I guess we will see when Anissa comes.
I am totally clueless as to if she is even close to coming now. Before I thought it would be anyday but who knows now.
The nurse told me I need to take it easy and keep my feet up but the dr. didnt really care what I do.
Anyway I get a sonogram on Nov. 19th at my next appt so Mandrae will go with me then. Except we were hoping she would come on the 13th but we will see. Maybe we still have a chance for the 21st?
Inspiration
So I was sitting in church the other day and realized something. I am so excited to go to church and learn what the pastor has to say and preach on. I am so excited to learn more about God. I remember in high school I hated listening to the sermon and just wanted to go for praise and worship but now I cant wait to hear the sermon and learn how to live a better life married and at work and as a future parent. I am so encouraged that I have this excitement inside of me and it just makes me so happy. Just thought I would share that I have the joy of the Lord inside of me and excitement of becoming a stronger Christian. Praise God, He is good! I think that moving to Fort Worth has really helped me get excited to share the Word. I hated it at first but maybe that was God's way of getting me to become stronger in my faith. It is crazy how God puts you in areas that you are not happy with or comfortable and then He reveals why He does it. I guess we are where God wants us. :)
R U kidding me?
Ok so yesterday I went to Target after my dr. appt. and I was getting outta my car and there was a family next to me that was loading their car. The wife turned her head and her empty cart started to roll down the hill and she looked at it and then turned her head and got in her car. The cart was rolling really fast and heading towards a van because she was on top of a hill. There was a Target worker there w a lot of carts and the cart rolled right by him and he didnt move. The cart was going towards a car and was going to hit it hard. I guess the worker wanted to see it hit the car- who knows. So I being pregnant took off! I ran as fast as I could and just barely saved the poor van. I turned around walked the cart to the worker and walked inside. No one seemed to care that the van was saved. Who knows what this world is coming to when 3 grown adults watch a preg woman chase down a cart when they were all closer in the first place! ?
Monday, November 2, 2009
Ole School Holiness
Destiny Church
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Transcend
Ole School Holiness
1 Peter 1: 16-19
Social Media has a HUGE impact on the world today. (face book, blogs, myspace, twitter, utube, tv internet, ipods, dvrs, ect)We now have access to the Bible through the actual book, our phones, online but do we have it in our hearts?What is missing today? An emphasis on holiness.This is an aspect of faith that only works when we have the right mentality. We cant have a worldy mindset.When you travel on an airplane and want to use ur internet you have to pay to use the air card. The only thing is that you can only use the internet when you are at least 10,000 feet in the air or higher. You cannot use their internet when you are on the ground.Same with with faith and holiness, it only works when we have the correct Godly mindset. The solution to our issues or problems in life might be that we need to live holy.Our society has broken away from holiness and we need to get back to the ole school holiness that used to be so important. Whenever we choose the world’s way and not God, we are rejecting holiness. Our society needs better people- not better finances, jobs, technology, fundraisers, homes, ect- we need people with a desire to be holy. We need to have a zeal for God but in accordance to knowledge.
1 Timothy 4:3This passage talks about men out in the world professing truths that are not holy or true. These men are lovers of money, of self, unloving, unholy, haters, lovers of pleasure rather than God. 2 Timothy 3:4-7For example, I was watching the Tyra show the other day (just so I can see what Anissa will be growing up with and hearing in the world). Tyra tends to profess a lot of worldly views and truths that are completely wrong but this show really hit me hard. They were talking about living out your sexual fantasies and there was a Christian childrens writer (woman) on the show who wanted to be a porn star having sex with 2 men for one day while her boyfriend filmed her. Her boyfriend came on the show and she told him that she wanted to act out that fantasy and he didn’t want her to. Tyra and the audience booed him and told him that he is close minded and not a supportive boyfriend for not allowing it and Tyra convinced the woman to act out her fantasy anyway and turn it into a reality. I was appalled.
Because of our relationship with God we ought to live holy. We are called to live like Christ. The question becomes how will we live when we get to heaven? Not are we going to heaven because we already know that we are. We need to have the fear of God.We have minimalized God so much now a days that we have lost the fear of God. God will still judge us accordingly.
Single women need to remember to marry a man that loves God more than they love you. (quote from pastor, just had to throw that in)
Once we become believers, our previous generations no longer will hold us down. We are no longer held back by generational curses, our parents, grandparents, and relatives and their evil ways. We no longer have an excuse. Because of the blood of Jesus we have a new zip code in Christ and that is holiness. We are to choose not to continue in sin because we don’t want God to be mad at us. It is one thing to have your spouse mad at you but a whole other thing to have God mad at you.
What are the benefits of being holy?Everyone in Christ gets the basic benefits but how you live impacts your commission. Pastor, before he became a pastor was a suit salesman and they gave him a base salary plus a commission for every suit he sold. It is the same with our benefits in Christ. How we live impacts our commission in Christ. God promises a special commission with Him when we live holy.We are called to be gracious when it is in our power to be gracious. Just because man (even management at your job) tells you to do something doesn’t mean we are to do it- we are to follow God only, and if Gods way contradicts the human instructions then we regroup and follow Gods instructions. We are to obey God’s mission. Pastor went to see his grandmother in a nursing home to check on her because she has had a lot of surgeries on her bad knees, back, shoulders and hips and is bed ridden 24-7. When he got there he asked her how life is sitting in a bed all the time and all she had was tv and gross food. The first and only thing outta her mouth was, “GOD IS GOOD!”
THAT IS OLE SCHOOL HOLINESS!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Transcend
Ole School Holiness
1 Peter 1: 16-19
Social Media has a HUGE impact on the world today. (face book, blogs, myspace, twitter, utube, tv internet, ipods, dvrs, ect)We now have access to the Bible through the actual book, our phones, online but do we have it in our hearts?What is missing today? An emphasis on holiness.This is an aspect of faith that only works when we have the right mentality. We cant have a worldy mindset.When you travel on an airplane and want to use ur internet you have to pay to use the air card. The only thing is that you can only use the internet when you are at least 10,000 feet in the air or higher. You cannot use their internet when you are on the ground.Same with with faith and holiness, it only works when we have the correct Godly mindset. The solution to our issues or problems in life might be that we need to live holy.Our society has broken away from holiness and we need to get back to the ole school holiness that used to be so important. Whenever we choose the world’s way and not God, we are rejecting holiness. Our society needs better people- not better finances, jobs, technology, fundraisers, homes, ect- we need people with a desire to be holy. We need to have a zeal for God but in accordance to knowledge.
1 Timothy 4:3This passage talks about men out in the world professing truths that are not holy or true. These men are lovers of money, of self, unloving, unholy, haters, lovers of pleasure rather than God. 2 Timothy 3:4-7For example, I was watching the Tyra show the other day (just so I can see what Anissa will be growing up with and hearing in the world). Tyra tends to profess a lot of worldly views and truths that are completely wrong but this show really hit me hard. They were talking about living out your sexual fantasies and there was a Christian childrens writer (woman) on the show who wanted to be a porn star having sex with 2 men for one day while her boyfriend filmed her. Her boyfriend came on the show and she told him that she wanted to act out that fantasy and he didn’t want her to. Tyra and the audience booed him and told him that he is close minded and not a supportive boyfriend for not allowing it and Tyra convinced the woman to act out her fantasy anyway and turn it into a reality. I was appalled.
Because of our relationship with God we ought to live holy. We are called to live like Christ. The question becomes how will we live when we get to heaven? Not are we going to heaven because we already know that we are. We need to have the fear of God.We have minimalized God so much now a days that we have lost the fear of God. God will still judge us accordingly.
Single women need to remember to marry a man that loves God more than they love you. (quote from pastor, just had to throw that in)
Once we become believers, our previous generations no longer will hold us down. We are no longer held back by generational curses, our parents, grandparents, and relatives and their evil ways. We no longer have an excuse. Because of the blood of Jesus we have a new zip code in Christ and that is holiness. We are to choose not to continue in sin because we don’t want God to be mad at us. It is one thing to have your spouse mad at you but a whole other thing to have God mad at you.
What are the benefits of being holy?Everyone in Christ gets the basic benefits but how you live impacts your commission. Pastor, before he became a pastor was a suit salesman and they gave him a base salary plus a commission for every suit he sold. It is the same with our benefits in Christ. How we live impacts our commission in Christ. God promises a special commission with Him when we live holy.We are called to be gracious when it is in our power to be gracious. Just because man (even management at your job) tells you to do something doesn’t mean we are to do it- we are to follow God only, and if Gods way contradicts the human instructions then we regroup and follow Gods instructions. We are to obey God’s mission. Pastor went to see his grandmother in a nursing home to check on her because she has had a lot of surgeries on her bad knees, back, shoulders and hips and is bed ridden 24-7. When he got there he asked her how life is sitting in a bed all the time and all she had was tv and gross food. The first and only thing outta her mouth was, “GOD IS GOOD!”
THAT IS OLE SCHOOL HOLINESS!
Friday, October 30, 2009
Newest Sermon
Transcend
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Destiny Church
Pastor Womack
1 Peter 1:13
Ready, Set, Live!
Now is the time to live out our faith. First thing to do when living out faith is to manage our mindset. We need to make sure we are not walking around mentally flabby and make sure our mind is set and prepared to live out our spiritual life.
Just as we are coached to do on the basketball court, stay on our toes and be ready for anything that comes our way. Same with spiritually. Stay on our toes mentally and spiritually and be ready for the things the world and satan throw at us. We must not be mentally lazy.
We are called to be learners of Gods Word. If we don’t use it, we will lose it. We have to live and read God’s Word. (Not the daily bread, it is a good tool but not sufficient to the Word of God- it is like trying to live on vitamins without eating, but we still have to eat)
We must make time to meditate on God’s Word. Life gets too busy and stressful and we don’t make time for it.
On game day athletes will show up for a game at 6 am knowing the game starts at 7 pm so that they have time to mentally prepare – get their minds right and stay focused for the task ahead.
Do we have our spiritual game face on?
Are we still learning God’s word? (not do we already know it but are we still learning and seeking it?)
We need to get rid of our stinking thinking. Our thinking should reflect God and not our thoughts. When life doesn’t go our way, our thinking is always impacted. (when we lose our job, family member dies, lose house or car, ect- we turn to human thinking and not God’s way of thinking)
For example:
Last week, a young man went into a bank to rob it and met the woman behind the counter. She started to pray and ask him why he would want to do this when he had so much to live for. They started to talk while he held the gun to her head. He asked her to pray with him and she did and he even gave her the bullet in his gun. He was seen on an interview with Oprah, where he said that he knew that God was talking to him and not the lady behind the counter. She held the money out to him many times and he chose not to take the money and walked out of the bank with his life changed. His mom made him turn himself in later on that evening after seeing his face on the news and he later admitted on Oprah that he had robbed a bank a week earlier. Anyway the woman in the bank had a different way of thinking when the worst came her way and God was able to speak through her and a life was changed in the process.
The robber couldn’t get away from stinking thinking because life didn’t go his way. He knew what he was doing was wrong but he wanted to provide money for his family and celebrate his 2 year old girls bday.
It is tough to think clearly and biblically when life falls apart.
If you are not in God’s Word you cant decipher stinking thinking.
What is the quality of the decisions that you have been making?
Secondly we need to focus on God’s favor and biblical hope.
Not hoping that something will happen but knowing that we will be victorious when trials come our way.
It is one thing to know grace but another to live by grace. When you understand the Word you set your hope on God’s grace. We can hope in Jesus.
WHATEVER WE FOCUS ON WILL DETERMINE OUR EMOTIONS!
If you focus on a dead and scary economy you will be in fear.
If you focus on Christ you will live confidently.
Where do u see the grace of God showing up in your life?
His grace shows up in time to strengthen our hope in Christ in the future.
He also shows up in others lives to be an inspiration and hope to us.
We are called to move forwards in our lives and not backwards
We are obedient to God to possess His favor not to gain His favor.
Now that we are believers we can feel His conviction and that is why he allows us to live however we want and still go to heaven but His conviction causes us to constantly move forward and want to live righteous.
Now that we understand salvation we cannot go back to our former lusts. We are called to move ahead.
Live like you know that God is your father because Satan is no longer your father.
95% of babies walk backwards before they learn to walk forwards and that is how it is in our spiritual lives too. When we are babies in Christ we start out by walking backwards and build our ways to walking forwards.
Are you moving forward or backward in Christ?
Where are u tempted to not grow in Christ?
Are u making spiritual excuses? (by saying I can do whatever I want because I will go to heaven anyway)
Be God’s Next Top Model
God wants us to model after Him.
He wants us to be holy, just as he is holy.
We need to compare ourselves to Christ in whom there is no sin.
Where is God challenging us to look more like Him?
We are to be holy in ALL our behavior. (home, work, kids, spouse, bball court, finances, driving, ect)
We are to represent Christ EVERYWHERE.
If we pray for something and God doesn’t answer the way we were hoping, we are to have confidence in the face that he is still able to answer that request- he just chose not to. Like the 3 men in the fiery furnace, they said that if God does not deliver us we know He is still able to and they had hope and confidence in that fact.
Gods will might not be ours but He is still able to do anything!
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Destiny Church
Pastor Womack
1 Peter 1:13
Ready, Set, Live!
Now is the time to live out our faith. First thing to do when living out faith is to manage our mindset. We need to make sure we are not walking around mentally flabby and make sure our mind is set and prepared to live out our spiritual life.
Just as we are coached to do on the basketball court, stay on our toes and be ready for anything that comes our way. Same with spiritually. Stay on our toes mentally and spiritually and be ready for the things the world and satan throw at us. We must not be mentally lazy.
We are called to be learners of Gods Word. If we don’t use it, we will lose it. We have to live and read God’s Word. (Not the daily bread, it is a good tool but not sufficient to the Word of God- it is like trying to live on vitamins without eating, but we still have to eat)
We must make time to meditate on God’s Word. Life gets too busy and stressful and we don’t make time for it.
On game day athletes will show up for a game at 6 am knowing the game starts at 7 pm so that they have time to mentally prepare – get their minds right and stay focused for the task ahead.
Do we have our spiritual game face on?
Are we still learning God’s word? (not do we already know it but are we still learning and seeking it?)
We need to get rid of our stinking thinking. Our thinking should reflect God and not our thoughts. When life doesn’t go our way, our thinking is always impacted. (when we lose our job, family member dies, lose house or car, ect- we turn to human thinking and not God’s way of thinking)
For example:
Last week, a young man went into a bank to rob it and met the woman behind the counter. She started to pray and ask him why he would want to do this when he had so much to live for. They started to talk while he held the gun to her head. He asked her to pray with him and she did and he even gave her the bullet in his gun. He was seen on an interview with Oprah, where he said that he knew that God was talking to him and not the lady behind the counter. She held the money out to him many times and he chose not to take the money and walked out of the bank with his life changed. His mom made him turn himself in later on that evening after seeing his face on the news and he later admitted on Oprah that he had robbed a bank a week earlier. Anyway the woman in the bank had a different way of thinking when the worst came her way and God was able to speak through her and a life was changed in the process.
The robber couldn’t get away from stinking thinking because life didn’t go his way. He knew what he was doing was wrong but he wanted to provide money for his family and celebrate his 2 year old girls bday.
It is tough to think clearly and biblically when life falls apart.
If you are not in God’s Word you cant decipher stinking thinking.
What is the quality of the decisions that you have been making?
Secondly we need to focus on God’s favor and biblical hope.
Not hoping that something will happen but knowing that we will be victorious when trials come our way.
It is one thing to know grace but another to live by grace. When you understand the Word you set your hope on God’s grace. We can hope in Jesus.
WHATEVER WE FOCUS ON WILL DETERMINE OUR EMOTIONS!
If you focus on a dead and scary economy you will be in fear.
If you focus on Christ you will live confidently.
Where do u see the grace of God showing up in your life?
His grace shows up in time to strengthen our hope in Christ in the future.
He also shows up in others lives to be an inspiration and hope to us.
We are called to move forwards in our lives and not backwards
We are obedient to God to possess His favor not to gain His favor.
Now that we are believers we can feel His conviction and that is why he allows us to live however we want and still go to heaven but His conviction causes us to constantly move forward and want to live righteous.
Now that we understand salvation we cannot go back to our former lusts. We are called to move ahead.
Live like you know that God is your father because Satan is no longer your father.
95% of babies walk backwards before they learn to walk forwards and that is how it is in our spiritual lives too. When we are babies in Christ we start out by walking backwards and build our ways to walking forwards.
Are you moving forward or backward in Christ?
Where are u tempted to not grow in Christ?
Are u making spiritual excuses? (by saying I can do whatever I want because I will go to heaven anyway)
Be God’s Next Top Model
God wants us to model after Him.
He wants us to be holy, just as he is holy.
We need to compare ourselves to Christ in whom there is no sin.
Where is God challenging us to look more like Him?
We are to be holy in ALL our behavior. (home, work, kids, spouse, bball court, finances, driving, ect)
We are to represent Christ EVERYWHERE.
If we pray for something and God doesn’t answer the way we were hoping, we are to have confidence in the face that he is still able to answer that request- he just chose not to. Like the 3 men in the fiery furnace, they said that if God does not deliver us we know He is still able to and they had hope and confidence in that fact.
Gods will might not be ours but He is still able to do anything!
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