Weekend Meditations

Hello friends!

Knitting and meditating this weekend. I am working on one of my many projects. This one in particular is a stash busting blanket. I wanted to use up some yarn I have had for awhile and I am holding 3 strands together.  It will be a longer project but I will share it finished one day soon! Maybe. LOL!

A renewed mind really does change everything. It changes impossibility into possibility!
God’s Word tells us eyes on Jesus... His Word will guide us into the mind of Christ.  Where marriages stay together when sin rips a wound wide open.  Where your children are wayward but you have  the power of prayer to help them.  Where your finances are struggling but scarcity is turned into abundance.
But Jesus!
Renew your mind; set your mind on heavenly things. Christ restores, heals, saves, breaks strongholds, forgives and most all loves.
Amen🙌🏻💙

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Have a great weekend!

Blessings -
tracy

God’s Word Changes Us

The Word of God didn’t always come alive to me.  I didn’t grow up reading the Bible. I wasn’t even taught to read it all.  It wasn’t until as an adult that I became interested in reading it as I matured in Christ.  Little by little God watered the seeds that He had planted as a teen when I became a new believer. 

The desire still wasn’t that strong even though I claimed to love God.  My obedience to God wasn’t as strong as my obedience to the world for a long time.  Yet the Lord through His mercy and grace gave me a desire little by little because when I “thought” I had control I really didn’t.  It’s a struggle I had in parenting, thinking you can always decide for your children. Boy was I wrong.  Through that time of parenting and fighting the enemy for my family.  I became dependent on the Only One who could control my situation;my family struggles. 

I heard this quote today by Billy Graham, “when we get to the end of ourselves that’s when we come to God.” 

You may know what that feels like.  I did during that time. I still get chocked up remembering but it’s good to remember what God has done in our lives and what He has brought you through.  For me, it was through the storms He places a passion for more of His Word which is more of Him!  Jesus Christ is waiting in those pages my friend. He provides help, hope, deliverance, saving and so much mercy and grace than we can imagine.  God uses us and strengthens our weak hearts and changes our hard hearts.

Long story but it’s my story of why I love God’s Word and why there is a growing desire for more of it inside me everyday.  Have you found that desire too? .

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*Illuminated Scripture Journals shown are my favorite gift from husband💗

Knit the Gospel into your hear t FB group will be studying 1/2 Thessalonians soon! (I don’t have all the details yet but feel free to join us anytime! 

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Much Love 

trAcy

We need God

Knitting and reading this morning!
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Hello friends!

I am reading through Jen Wilkin's book None like Him and I have stopped at self-sufficient because as I read this chapter I was nodding my head in agreement. I have turned to self sufficiency in myself instead of God alone. God is self sufficient, we are not. He doesn't need us. We need Him. You have heard this saying, "they are so needy". Right? I have said it and felt that way.  There are sinful desires that we think we need and can lead to bad things for sure but we were created to need God.  There is a part of us that has needs only He can meet. So really were created needy, to need Him.

Here are some ways we deny God and boy it might sting because I am guilty of these too.
Prayerlessness, forgetfulness, lack of conviction of sin, avoiding christian friends, and anger in trials these all hit me because how many times have I avoided prayer? Things in life are going great but no time to acknowledge the One who gives me everything. Forgetting where my provisions come from, that it is not based solely on my job or our circumstances. God put me where I am.
Have I avoided friends before, sure have when sin has taken root.  For sure we don't want conviction to sting us in the heart so we avoid church or anything that has to do with God. Concealing our lives as if everything is great when its not.
Oh and anger can take us down a rabbit hole of emotions away from God. There is no humble of heart toward God because we got this.
Wrong! We dont have everthting together as a beliver, we have nothing
but the sufficiency of Christ if we allow Him to have control.

All of these things, we are talking about here are indicators that we as believers are not relying of God but our own self suffiency.
I have been exhausted in ministry with my husband and felt the anxiety and worry that is when I took on the self sufficiency role in my life and didn't hand it over to God. In my lack, is where He is glorified. Only God is self sufficient. Only God has no needs.
We do have needs. We have a lack that God can fill with abundance. As believers, we should always seek Him to meet our every need.

How am I relying on God alone today? Lord I am in need of you for sure every hour and day. Amen

"And my God, will supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Jesus Christ." Phillipians 4:19

Thanks for hanging around here, and taking the time to read my ramblings. I am thankful for the truths God is teaching me and I hope by me sharing with you and not keeping them in I can help share His sufficiency and love for each of us.

Christ alone,

trAcy