Worry And Then Some

As most of you know yesterday I had my math graduation exam. I was so nervous and worried that I didn't know what to do. I prayed and asked God to be with me as I endured the worst subject known to man for 90+ minutes. God did place his comforting hand upon my heart but today as I anxiously await the results of my exam I though about writing a post on "worry". It ended up that I decided to write more but I did find quite a few verses on this particular subject that I would like to talk about. Some of you may have heard bits of this one before:

Matthew 6:25 -27 (NLT)
That is why I tell you not to worry about every day life -- whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Look at the birds. They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly father feeds them. And aren't you more valuable to Him then they are? Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?

In my last post I made sure to make it clear to you that your heavenly father loves you with an unfailing, never ending love, that you can never lose! =) Great reminder isn't it? :) Well not only will your father never forsake you, HE TAKES CARE OF YOU!!!!!!! The verse above even says: Your heavenly father feeds the birds. And aren't you more valuable to Him then they are? God knows your needs better than you know your needs and if you ask him to he will take care of them. So why worry???

So many of us worry about money, food, clothes, and about what we are going to do tomorrow. Hey can I share something with you today friend? TOMORROW ISN'T PROMISED!!!! God may call you home tonight, God may come back tonight! WE DON'T KNOW!! I'm not saying don't plan, and don't save but you've got to trust God and stop worrying so much about the future, that you're not participating in the present. A friend told me yesterday that the present is a gift, that's why they call it "the present". 

Matthew 6:34 (NLT)
"So don't worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will bring it's own worries. Today's trouble are enough for today."

Stop worrying so much about tomorrow. Plan in case it comes and then don't worry about it. If God comes down before then, as Pastor Kevin always says, my last breath on earth will be my first breath in heaven!

A pastor friend once told me that when you worry, that is just you trying to take control. So give God control. He wants you to, and your life will be better in his hands, rather than your own.

I went on Google looking for some Christian quotes in this area of subject. Here are a few that I want to share with you:

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of it's sorrow. It empties today of it's strength." - Corrie Ten Boom

"No one can pray and worry at the same time. You pray to STOP worrying!" -Unknown

"I'll give you some symptoms of a sign that your faith is deteriorating -- whenever you face all of your problems and you trust only your plans to get you out -- it is a sign that your faith is deteriorating." -T.D. Jakes

Let's talk about that last quote for a minute. Have you ever heard the phrase, "We didn't plan for this..." "This wasn't apart of my plan..." or even "My plan is foolproof!" WAKE UP!!!!!!! Just because it is written down somewhere on paper with a pen, or on a white board doesn't mean that it's going to happen, or if it does that it's going to go the way you planned. Just ask my mom! Things change and whether it is the enemy throwing a curve ball your way, God changing some things around for the better of your life, or just plain life, your plans aren't always going to be able to help! When the enemy attacks, you telling him that you have a doctors appointment Saturday or a wedding Thursday isn't going to help you!!! Throwing scriptures in his face WILL!!!!!!!

When I woke up yesterday morning and was so worried about my exam I decided to pray before going down stairs. So, I set down on my bedside and prayed hard. I prayed for the test, for my nerves, and for God to take away all of my worry about it. 

Isaiah 41:10 says:
Don't be afraid for I am with you. Don't be discouraged for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand. 

By the way can I tell you that there is nothing you can say or do to let God down. You can't let Him down because GUESS WHAT FRIEND!?! YOUR NOT HOLDING HIM UP!!!! God holds you up with his victorious right hand!! Isn't that refreshing to read!:)

Friend, God can take your worries away if you'll just trust him and give him control:) Not to say that your never going to have a worry, but they would be a much lighter burden if you let God worry about them instead of trying to worry over everything yourself. 

I want to leave you with what I consider a comforting verse.

Matthew 11:28
Then Jesus said, "Come to me, all you who are weary and carry heavy burdens and I will give you rest.

For those of you that read my about me on here, you will know that I have said this. God is greater that anything you'll ever have to face in life. Lean on him, HE WILL GIVE YOU REST!!!! God will lift your burdens if you just talk to him my friend!!!!

I pray that if something is laying heavy on your heart today, that you will just give it to God and lean on him for rest. Feel free to email me if you need to talk. God loves you friend!!

May the Almighty bless you and yours abundantly!!!!!!!

First Post

Today I was sitting outside of a friends house, looking up at the clouds in the sky thinking about how amazing God is, (You know having a Psalm 46:10 moment) and I couldn't help but think about ways that I could share the gospel of Jesus Christ with other people. A few weeks ago God laid the idea of doing a blog on my heart. You see God blessed me at a young age with the ability to write but for years I knew nothing of God and the wonderful things He can do. I always wrote things just to write and had never thought about writing for the glory of God. But now that I have been saved, baptized, and have (by His grace) built up an amazing relationship with Him through my Lord and savior Jesus Christ, there is nothing I would love more!!!

HEY GUESS WHAT FRIEND!!!! YOU ARE LOVED BY A FATHER WITH AN UNFAILING, UNDYING, NEVER ENDING LOVE!!!!! Do you know how I know this? Because His word says it, in a number of verses. I mean really pick one. For example:

Psalm 13:5 
But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.

Psalm 6:4 
Turn, O LORD, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love.

Psalm 32:10 
Many are the woes of the wicked, but the LORD's unfailing love surrounds the man who trusts in him.

Isn't it heartwarming to read those verses? :) To know that you have a father that loves you and that there is nothing that you can ever do to lose that love. Let me repeat that for some of you who may miss that part, THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO LOSE YOUR HEAVENLY FATHERS LOVE!!! You may lose the love of your earthly father or your earthly mother, your friend, grandparent, aunt, uncle, sibling but God has told you in scripture "Never will I leave you. Never will I forsake you". It doesn't matter what your trial what your trouble it doesn't matter what you have done!!! The almighty God loves you!!! 

I know some of you just read that and said to yourself "But Kelcy you don't know what I've done, God could never love me knowing what I've done, I don't deserve his love." But I've got some great news for you friend!! Are you ready!?! I don't deserve his love either, none of us do but he loves us anyway!! We are not perfect we are just forgiven. 

Romans 3:23
For all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God.

You're right I don't know what you have done, but God does, he knows the depths of your heart, he knows your deepest,  darkest, most personal secrets but when you go to him in prayer and cry out to him asking for his forgiveness guess what??? He forgives and forgets your sin! 

Some of you who know me probably know that last year I was in with some people that I shouldn't have been around. You know that I was dating someone of the same sex and my family was falling apart at the seams. But the Lord God almighty took the situation that I was in, and turned it around, and my first good prayer to God was prayed when my heart wasn't exactly in the right place, but my family and I started going to church, and on April 4, 2012 I gave my life over to Christ and on June 10, 2012 my entire family was baptized together. My faith is growing stronger everyday and I know that there is nothing in this world that is beyond my reach with God on my side. I'm not going to tell you that my life is perfect now it's not, the enemy attacks me every time he gets the chance because he doesn't like my love for God, but when he sends trials my way I stomp the floor, I fight him off with scripture and I remember a verse that can get me through just about anything:

John 16:33
I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.

Make sure you get that last part my friend because that as my pastor would say will set your wet wood on fire!!! Jesus himself overcame this world and so can you!

I want to leave you with a verse that I hope you will remember 

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

When your down in the deepest, darkest part of the valley and your telling yourself that you can't do anymore, that it's just to much, that you don't have the strength. Pray for strength my friend because if you have God on your side you can do anything!! 

I pray that whoever reads this, will have their hearts filled with an overwhelming joy, and I pray that if your not right with God that you get right with him because friend if you read the bible and watch the news you will know that the end days are here. The time of salvation is now. 

May God bless you and yours abundantly!!!