Living & Learning: Keeping Peace Daily

2011/06/06

Keeping Peace Daily

If you haven't seen my failures, you either haven't spent a day with me yet or you haven't read my blog before. But if you know me, you know I have failed often, worried unnecessarily, and questioned much.
These last few days I have been feeling good physically and life went on as normal. ( physically and emotionally can be pretty back and forth!) But for the most part, I have been (what is the word?) content, at peace, at ease. Something like that anyway. I see also the great things God is doing in our lives through trials. He sure has been good to us! The other good thing has been that when I did start to get off track and start worrying or feeling overwhelmed... I had a few friends a text message away. So, I would send a message asking them to pray and I guess warn them in a way... going off track here, pray me back on. (maybe they wish they hadn't given me their cell number already =D, though I know better than to believe that from these ladies lol.... ) Also received some encouraging messages and words from people in other forms. As you know, or do now if you didn't, the battle within me continues to hang on to the truth God has taught me and in doing so keep that peace.
Friday, I got a call from the doctor's office saying I have an ultrasound set for Monday (today). They want to have another look to see if there is any change from the results they had last time.That came up a lot quicker then I expected and so I started to feel nervous again and again, had to be reminded to trust God . His grace continues to be sufficient.
Don't know what to expect today. My hopes of course are that all will look normal now. Either way though we need God's hand holding ours, both through hard days and days of rejoicing. I don't want to only call on Him and be close to Him when I go through hard times but also enjoy the good times with God in the center, giving thanks to Him always.

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Anonymous said...: Praying for you Nancy!!; 6/06/2011

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Life saving Verses

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,—Romans 3:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.—Romans 6:23

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,—John 1:12

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.—John 3:16-17

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.—Ephesians 2:8-9

because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”—Romans 10:9-13

Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.—1 Peter 1:8-9

Saved By Grace

All of us are born sinful. People might do good things but we are not born good....because to be good would mean to be perfect, never breaking God's commands, always doing God's will. So first we have to acknowledge that we have all sinned. Then we can cry out to God for mercy and forgiveness and repentance. God has paid the price of sin through Jesus who died on the cross for our sins. If we believe in Jesus, confess our sins and turn from it, He will forgive us.The bible says to seek God and search for Him with your whole heart. If we do this and ask Him to fill us with the holy Spirit, He will and that gives us a new life. This is what it means to be born again. There is no other gift as great as the gift of the holy Spirit! We then will want the things of God. We will love God and He will become the most important thing.This does not mean now you will be perfect. This just means that God will teach you and show you day by day what he wants or does not want you to do. It will not make life easy, and there will still be temptations and mistakes. So we just have to continually pray and ask for His guidance.When a baby is born they need time to grow and learn . It does not happen all at once. The same thing when we are born again, we will grow each day, and become more like Jesus. God will show us bit by bit. Only God is able to do all this in our lives. .It is not the things we do that make us Christian, it is faith. We can not make ourselves Christians no matter how hard we try. By faith though he will bring us to Himself and we will want to live the way God wants us to and the things we are doing will often show that we are Christians. God will make us a light in the dark because of what he has done in our lives.

2011/06/06

Keeping Peace Daily

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