Seasons

A few weeks back I spoke about feeling melancholy and sad as I packed up the office. I have to say that up until a few days ago I was still feeling that way; but something is changing. Something exciting is happening. Growing up in Texas I saw the different seasons change. I not only saw the trees drop their leaves I felt it. It’s kinda hard to describe if you have never gone through a season change. That’s what I feel is happening now-with A New Harvest. It’s a change; it’s a God change.
I can hardly wait to turn the corner and have that AH-HA moment. You know the one where God opens your eyes and all you can say is ah-ha!!
My hearts a-pounding…..

Ecclesiastes 3 tells us, There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven:
Verse 4 says, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,…

I personally am putting on that smile and gathering my dancing shoes; I can almost hear Jesus ask; “will you dance with me? Take my hand and I will lead!”

Have a wonderful week in the Lord!

Melancholy and Anxiousness

As I was cleaning out closets and going through stuff at the office this week, I was hit with a sense of melancholy. I started thinking about the things that had happened in the office and also where God was leading us as we take this next turn. I feel a little timid and anxious because I don’t know. (There’s that control thing again, when will I learn?) But the one thing I do sense is that God has some exciting things in store for A New Harvest. I feel He is saying to us as His church– to take His hand, let Him lead and trust Him– for He is the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.
So, as we begin to turn the corner into a new season with the Lord, and when those anxious moments come upon us - remember Phil. 4:4-7
4Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Have a wonderful week in the Lord!

Gods Counsel-Our Worries

The other night my son and I were talking and he said something that got me thinking. He said God sits on His throne and thousands of people from everywhere go to Him for His counsel. They lay down their lives which include their wants and desires to seek His. They lay down their worries and burdens. As he said this, I had a vision in my head of God’s throne and people walking to it and casting their problems to Him and some of them telling Him their troubles. I thought about the many times I go to God to lay my burden at His feet, I say, take it Lord; but do I really leave it with Him? I know I‘ve written about this same thing many times, but for some reason He keeps drawing me back to it. (I think He’s slowly showing me how to trust Him, it’s just taking me awhile to catch on) : >)
God already knows what I/we carry-He knows how to fix it. The thing is; every time we take our worries back, Satan wins. He wins because we lose the peace God gives us when we leave it with Him.

For he himself is our peace,… Ephesians 2:14

Busyness and Remembering

I want to share something with you that I read this week. It really got me thinking about my busyness, about how we can get so caught up in the things of this life that we forget about why we follow Jesus and that He should always be 1st in our life no matter what. I know when I read the following I was convicted because I saw times in my own life where I have forgotten Jesus.

Six Hours One Friday by Max Lucado.

Can you still remember? Are you still in love with Him?...Remember Jesus. Before you remember anything remember Him. If you forget anything, don’t forget Him.

Oh, but how quickly we forget, So much happens through the years. So many changes within. So many alterations without. And, somewhere, back there, we leave Him. We don’t turn away from Him...we just don’t take Him with us. Assignments come. Promotions come. Budgets are made. Kids are born, and the Christ...the Christ is forgotten.

Has it been awhile since you stared at the heavens in speechless amazement? Has it been awhile since you realized God’s divinity and your carnality?

If it has, then you need to know something.
He is still there. He hasn’t left. Under all those papers and books and reports and years. In the midst of all those voices and faces and memories and pictures, He is still there.

Have a wonderful week in the Lord!