My Journey

Faithbuilding…

If you’ve been reading this the past month, you know that increasing my faith seems to be the theme in my life.  This week the Lord is using the ministry I organize at church to push me and develop my faith even more.

Discipleship  is my passion, and I absolutely love that our church has a ministry that allows women to be discipled one on one.   Usually after an informational coffee where women come to join the ministry and sign up to either be mentored, mentor, or both, I have to personally  find an additional 3 or 4 women who would like to mentor.  We rarely have an even number of mentors and mentees show up, but its usually relatively easy to find 3 or 4 women in the church who would like to disciple someone.  However, after the coffee this weekend, I now have 14 women wanting to be mentored and 1 woman who showed up who was willing to mentor.   Crazy how God did that right.  He has now given me the opportunity to watch him bring me 13 mentors so that every woman with the desire to be discipled will have the chance to be discipled!

This is faithbuilding at its finest for me.  I have such a passion for this and a desire to see women discipled that its easy for me to want to take over and convince people of the value and find those 13 women on my own.   Instead, I need to sit back, pray hard, and let God bring women to me, place women on my heart to contact, and just trust that God will work.

Pray for me and for those future mentors over the next 3 weeks!  My deadline is Feb. 25th, and I’ll let you know how God chooses to work this one out!

Goals:

• Life goes so much better when I get out of bed in the morning.  Every morning is still a battle though!  “What does it mean to be obedient” are the words the Lord is putting in my mind to push me out of bed these days.

• I’ve given up reading True Spirituality.  I really enjoyed the first chapter, but I think I’ll save the rest for a different season of life.

• Through chapter 3 of Crazy Love.  Its a pretty easy read; so far its focused a lot on how big God is and how small we are and how that should cause us to live differently than how we do.   Great content I just can’t get into the book for some reason.  I’ll keep plugging away though and pray that if  God needs to teach me something, He will open my eyes to it while I’m reading.

• Re reading Shepherding a Child’s Heart by Tedd Tripp.  We’re entering a new stage with Avery so need to reread some stuff out of this book.  LOVE this book.

• Started reading Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands by Paul David Tripp.  A great friend gave it to me last year and I started it but never finished.  It perfectly applied to life right now so am starting it again.  Thanks Rachel!

• The boundaries are also going back up in regards to the computer and TV.  I’ve been so tired that those things seem to be sucking me in and wasting time.

• This one seems a little silly to add to the list, but I’m putting it so I’ll actually do it.  I’m not a big fan of doctor’s but I am making it a goal to at least call the doctor this week and set up an appointment to see what’s wrong with me.   I’m tired of being tired.

I think that’s a long enough list for the week =)