God's Awesome Family

  Thinking about making the trip down to Decatur today made me sick to my stomach yesterday.It would be a lie to tell you I'm not afraid of semi trucks since my wreck with one in May. While I was getting ready this morning, I heard the rain hitting pretty hard on the bathroom window. But I had resolved to leave my fate on I-85 with God.

 Yesterday I asked my mom and a few close friends that are always close in my heart to pray for me. I always appreciate the people who care enough to pray. I know God hears their earnest prayers! I experienced many traveling mercies today, thanks to God. It seemed as if I had a gentle bubble around my big ole car.

 Remember when you were a child, and you'd ask one of your favorite siblings,"Would you go ask Dad...?" Anxiously, you waited for their return to see if their persuasion pleased your father. Remember how happy you both were when they came back with a big smile and said, "He said, "Yes!"  :)

Being part of God's family is like that when we share our prayer request with each other. Together we feel the joy of our Heavenly Father's blessing. For those of you who have shared those special blessings with me I hope you know how much I love you. You are near and dear to my heart forever. You are part of my FOREVER FAMILY. I'm even more thankful for a wonderful Savior who goes before us in every situation. We are so blessed to be a part of His love and grace!

Thanksgiving and Prayer  2 Thessalonians 1:3-12 (NIV)

³ We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters,^[b] and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. ⁴ Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.

⁵ All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. ⁶ God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you ⁷ and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. ⁸ He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. ⁹ They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might ¹⁰ on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.

¹¹ With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. ¹² We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.^[c]   

                                                                                                                                                                 

Romans Chapter 8:14-26

¹⁴ For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. ¹⁵ The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.^[f] And by him we cry, “Abba,^[g] Father.” ¹⁶ The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. ¹⁷ Now if we are children, then we are heirs —heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

Present Suffering and Future Glory

¹⁸ I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. ¹⁹ For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. ²⁰ For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope ²¹ that^[h] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
²² We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. ²³ Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. ²⁴ For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
²⁶ In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. ²⁷ And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
                                                                                                                                                                   
     God Bless you- I'm praying for you too. I love you.