Andrea Johns Blog ~ NewLifeMiracles
God, you're leading me. With confidence I face my day. Every duty and interruption are appointments you've sent my way.
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are you being used?
I was asked to work yesterday but I told them I couldn't because of a church service that I knew God wanted me to attend.
I didn't know why I was suppose to be there until I got there. I wasn't there for my own enjoyment but God had me there interceding for the service.
If you know me, I'm not to quiet but I tend to be quieter around people I don't know. Polite but quiet. But when I worship, I feel like a vessel. I open myself up to God 100%. Though I am loud, I have never understood those who are opposite. How can you keep your mouth shut in His Presence?
If you are in the audience and you have your eyes on me, you have your eyes on the wrong thing. I personally have my eyes on Jesus. I'm not looking around to who is doing what. My mind is on Him.
I go in a service and pray that God will use me as He will. There are times He does but for the most part I am just praying and worshiping Jesus. I do believe that Jesus hears the meek but how can you contain His Presence without showing it?
In my fifteen years of being around Spirit Filled believers..I have seen many things and felt many things. I am just like the rest, I learn as I go....
I questioned something that had never happened before. It had to do with me and what I felt in the Spirit. Usually God shows me at a different stage (when this happens) but this time He showed me at the beginning. Honestly it all confused me. I sought counsel to understand what happened. It helped for me to understand what I felt but I still questioned Gods timing? After much thought it occurs to me that God can show you something at any point that He wants to and this was one of those times.
I picked up on at least a couple different spirits operating within this place. My spirit was waring in the heavenlies. You see loud in the natural but I see and hear a Warrior Cry. If only we could see into the Spirit Realm. We would realize what we are fighting against.
I take how God choses to use me very seriously. Have I got it all figured out? NO. But I am learning. What a patient God we serve.
I'm by no means an expert but I am willing. And that is what it is going to take to change the world. Be willing to be used by God.
When was the last time God used you?
Are you willing to step into the water?
I chose to close my eyes, arms out-stretched and blindly fall into to Him. I guarantee He will be there to catch me.
Are you willing to do the same?
on a love high
Colton called last night and asked me if I wanted to watch Daelynn. I jumped at the chance.
I was on a love-high all night. She is the sweetest little thing. How can such a little creature be so sweet?
I was tired (due to being up and down with her during the night) but it was worth it all. I plan on ordering a bed and a swing for her. Gigi is getting prepared for next time.
I think I am going to love this g-ma thing
.....I've been trying to write down my thoughts so I can come back to them later and share them with you. Today is not a good day to share thoughts...
Today is a day that I am grateful for my husband, my children and my grandchild.
Love is a good thing
let those who have an ear
Just because you are smart, can memorize bible scriptures, and are a good person still doesn't mean you have anything interesting to say.
It surprises the people who have an opinions and those who could care less.
If you were a beautiful woman, most people would agree you were. Not all people feel the same about greatness and the spoken word.
We speak but we have nothing to say.
Most people must think they are right or they wouldn't open their mouth? Do some people even care of they are right?
What if you are right but your attitude stinks? You've done lost the battle because they have tuned you out before your point is even made.
In the line of work I do I have heard it all. People will tell you much more than you care to hear. Maybe people just want to feel that someone is listening? Whether wrong or right.....
I've been thinking today what I am good at and what I am not. The things I would like to do for Christ and things I'm not yet equipped to do.
WE are all unique.
We all have something to offer this BIG world.
We shouldn't listen to those who tell us otherwise by their sharp tongue.
Be slow to speak and quick to hear.........
where is your miracle?
If you aren't looking for a miracle, how will you know when one comes your way?
If something good happens to you, will you just chalk it up to a fluke? Or will you give God the credit?
Do we even know what a miracle is?
1 : an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs
2 : an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment
3 Christian Science : a divinely natural phenomenon experienced humanly as the fulfillment of spiritual law
Do we try to give ourselves the credit for the happen chance?
I can't get out of mind if you aren't looking for your miracle you will miss it.
I want my life and my Spiritual encounters with Christ to be extraordinary. Don't you? Who wants the same old, same old?
Let's both agree that we are looking for our NEXT MIRACLE...
groundhog day
Groundhog Day....
Have you ever?
What a silly holiday.
Have you ever looked into why we observe this day?
You can google it or I will help you out with one site...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day
Most of what we do is Pagan in origin.
This is just another example.
Think about why you do what you do before you do it
let's fly high
I want to share a vision that I had over a week ago.
I haven't been able to shake this vision....
I was on the left wing of an eagle. I turned to look to my right and the eagle turned and looked at me at the same time. I wasn't frightened at all. I was riding on his wing.
What a vision!
The month of January was difficult for me. I know this vision is Gods way of telling me He is in control and that He is carrying me.
I want to share the scripture that goes along with this vision...
But those who wait on the Lord will find new strength. They will fly high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31
What encouragment the Lord gives to His children.
His awesome power never stops amazing me.
Today is February 1st.
I feel myself flying high with the Lord in control....
new heaven
We've all heard and probably said it when someone passes away....their in heaven now.
I don't want to dissect the subject of heaven but I do have a thought.
I have never thought of heaven being biblical correct for where the dead are right now. Some what argue that the dead stay in the ground. Some what say that the dead are in paradise. We all have different opinions of the scriptures we read.
I have believed the dead were with Christ because to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
Here is my thought.....if there is to be an new heaven and a new earth than there must have been an old heaven and an old earth. Right?
Here is the scripture....
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone. Rev 21:1
I have never looked at it from this point of view.
From here on out I won't feel so bad about saying the dead are in heaven (now).
Old Heaven and New Heaven.
What an thought...
what the church is not
I was asking myself some questions today while snowed in
...We read Matthew, Mark, Luke, John...we see the works that Jesus did and also the works that the disciples did. How does these works compare to the works of the church today?
How many healings or miracles are we seeing in a two hour Sunday morning service?
Everywhere that Jesus went....miracles followed.
And greater works we should do...what has happened to the church?
Church has become something that Jesus never created it to be.... a social event. A place to get a "goose pimple".
If you truly needed God wouldn't you be on your knee's crying out to him? But instead we seek out doctors, bankers, and moonlight makers. We seek out everything and everyone but Him. We give Him ten minutes and think we have sacrificed.
When was the last time something finally clicked (spiritually) and change took place in your life?
Pastors have become business men. They are attempting to keep churches a float in this depressed economy.
Did Jesus have a elaborate building with an expensive mortgage? Did Jesus have an enormous salary?
Did Jesus have a jet on standby?
When I compare the bible with the Men of God today...how far we have come from what was intended!
The church is not flowing in what God created for IT...
get ready
My daughter Beth's soon to be sister in law has started a blog. She states she is blogging for motivation. Blogging is a good way to get you up and going. It forces you to do SOMETHING. I like Erika's blog. It is funny and it is real. Her website is .... http://erikabrandon.blogspot.com/ .
We become part of the lives we read about daily. We know details that most would never know. We know their good days and we know their bad days. We become a fly on the wall so to speak.
Haven't we become a nation of "the reality shows"?
Erika's blog has inspired me along with the Julie and Julia movie. It is easy for life to become a sounding board of whining and complaining. If we aren't careful we will look at what we don't have instead of what we have got.
I started a website 6 years ago so I could do something for God. I was blogging before it became fashionable. I have loved to journal and it seemed to be an easy transition for me to take the website to journaling only.
Most christians seem fake to me. You seldom see the real them. With my blog I allow you to see the good days along with the bad. Living for Christ changed my life but it doesn't mean my life became perfect.
This past year has been a struggle to know where do I go from here? Do I continue to blog or just do away with the site all together? I couldn't imagine not writing in some way. Though I do wish I was a better speller. My dictionary has disappeared and when Terry isn't here I am in trouble
.I want to step it up!!! Not that I want to do away with personal aspects of my life but I want to start teaching more. I don't want to debate issues I just want to use what I know to spread to others. God is a very broad subject.
LET'S DO SOMETHING FOR THE KINGDOM!!!!
WHAT DO WE HAVE TO LOSE?
I am frankly tired of feeling unworthy while the "world" shows us God. Anyone of you who read my entries know how unworthy I am. We know there are smarter people out there than me. People we degrees and influence. I am just me. Andrea. God bought and God sanctified. No matter how small we think we are we have something to offer those around us.
I am ready to use what God has given me.
Are you ready?
it is what it is
Sawyer was talking about church the other day. He wants God on his terms not on his parents terms. In a way I understand this. We must all meet God face to face for ourselves. Our need or lack of need shouldn't be based on our parents requirements but on our commitment to Him.
Terry and I at one time were critical of others spiritually. So many people are hypocrites. Church is a habit not an relationship. I do believe over time we got better with this issue. You just learn to accept others for where they are and let God deal with them. And He does.
What I still have a problem with is those in authority not living up to what they themselves teach. It is a hard pill to swallow to watch them not living it. It's not like they don't know it, they just talk a big talk.
I feel inadequate to jump into my calling. Surely there must be others who are more qualified then myself? Than I see them not living what they preach. But the thing is I am.
I am just by nature a rule follower. I don't drive but 5 miles over the speed limit. I never steal and I didn't lie. I was just too afraid of getting into trouble.
People are disappointing at times.
For me I must remind myself that they to are imperfect.
We are all on equal playing fields.
They aren't above or below me.
Jesus does take up my slack.
Because of my imperfection, He carries me.
The simple truth is people are smarter, witter, prettier and richer than me.
But SO WHAT!
Do I not also have something to contribute?
Was I not created for such a time as this?
I realize others can do things better than I can.
It is what it is.
But I also realize I have something to offer.
Take what helps you and leave the rest.
Someone else may need it
