The Special Encounters

The last couple of months I have allowed the worries of the world to interfere with my spiritual growth.  About a week ago I got a tweet from a new follower named Stephanie and it read: “Hey lady! How is God treating you today?”  I literally stopped what I was doing because it caught me off guard. I was just tweeting random craziness and out of nowhere here was someone asking how God was treating me.  I instantly felt condemned about my recent actions, words and thoughts.  I responded “Hi, he’s been great to me, what about you?” I replied but you know, sometimes we go through the motions and say what we feel people expect us to say or we answer with truth not really pondering the significance of the words we speak.  Later that week Stephanie tweeted Everyone has something they feel strongly about.  But the question becomes are you going to do anything about it.

Yesterday I went to the track to walk and I had the pleasure of accompanying a beautiful young lady around my age that I knew while growing up.  It was my first time really talking to her and her spirit was AH-MAY-ZING! She spoke with such grace and conviction about her love for God and all he’s done and is doing in her life.  I saw in her what I need to see in myself.  She truly inspired me and spoke to my heart and made me do inventory of my spiritual characteristics.  After leaving the track, I felt like God put us on the track at the same time for a reason.  I thought back to the tweet Everyone has something they feel strongly about.  But the question becomes are you going to do anything about it. And it meant something totally different at that moment.  I ‘claim’ to have such a Fear Of and Love For God, yet I do nothing about it.  It’s not in my everyday talk or my walk and definitely not in my tweets LOL. I’m not saying that it should be all that I talk about, but it should be evident when coming into contact with me.

So Today my Voices are Praying: praying for forgiveness of my transgressions, strength in my never ending journey of being a better person, awareness of my actions both good and bad, control to guard my tongue from the things that are unlike him and I pray most of all for a more profound voice to speak of his greatness!

In the words of Stephanie How is God treating you today? And what are you going to do about it?

…Until Next Time

Moments of Stillness

I started a book called “Mornings with JESUS” it is 365 devotions to start each day with. It was recommended by one of my twitter followers.  It’s very similar to what I had in mind when I started my blog.  It includes short inserts that don’t take up much of your time but it’s always a good message.  Reading the book made me question my blogs because somewhere along the way of my blogs, God starting giving me more information that needed to be related so my blogs got a little longer.  A few people mentioned the long blogs, but I would never want the acceptance of what I’m doing to overpower the message that God wants delivered… so I continued to write as the sprit led me. 

About a week or 2 ago my church and book club member wrote a response on a blog saying that it’s ok to be still. In the introduction of “Mornings with Jesus” it reads “Stillness is a word and concept that is foreign to our modern, scheduled ears.  But Jesus is all about stillness..”  This served as confirmation that I was being led by the spirit and doing the right thing.

Today my voices are saying even if you do not take time out to read my blogs daily, make sure to put aside some time to spend with God.  I am also guilty of feeling as though there isn’t enough time for me to fit it in...but whenever I go too long without giving God his quality time he reminds me that it’s only because of him that I’m able to accomplish all that I do.

Freely give God your time daily, before you have nowhere to go but down on your knees and pray! Moments of stillness can save you a lifetime of heartache.

..Until Next Time