Set the world on fire

"If you don't straighten up I'm going to put you up for adoption!!" said a very annoyed father of two very energetic teenage girls fighting. This happened right infront of my eyes at Walmart yesterday the very day after I spent my entire Saturday in the streets of Philly feeding drug addicts. This comment bothered me very much. The daughters didn't even bat an eyelash at what the father said and it makes me wonder why.... are they that use to their daddy speaking like that to them? It bothered me! I just spent a day with people who have allowed drugs to take over their life and I wonder.. did their parents ever have anything nice to say to them? Or is this all they know because their parents did the same thing? Or maybe they had a great upbringing and made some dumb choices and here they are? I'm not going to know the answers if I don't get to know them. I would like to get to know them and tell them about the life they could have. A beautiful life their heavenly father died for. I truly had no idea what I signed up for I just knew I wanted to help more. I felt God prodding me to get out their and reach out and be His hands and feet so I signed up for the first thing that came along. A trip to Philadelphia to cook hot dogs while everyone else told them about Jesus and told them about Victory Outreach a place they could go stay at to get healthier FOR FREE! Carrie and I were knocking out the dogs let me tell you so I didn't have a lot of time to truly process what was taking place. I do remember one girl especially who was so shocked the hot dogs were free. She just lost her house and was so excited to get some food! Carrie gave her a hug and she was crying a bit. I do remember more being so thankful and excited over hot dogs. After the cooking was over we were standing there waiting for the grill to cool down I remember just taking it all in. The filth all around us, the trash, the people with no hope, the people going down the street for a temporary high and coming back up for free food or just conversation, the fighting, the whitnesses trying to show them hope telling them of a God who loves them. Jesus adores these people and most of these people just don't care about themselves. Most of them never had anybody to tell them they could be great in this world. Nobody positive in their life to speak great things into them! I can't sit back and do nothing anymore! I want every single person I cooked a hot dog for on Saturday to know Jesus! I can't rely on missionaries or strong brave Christians to do the job! I have to do my part! This life is not all about me! I am living for eternity who am I taking with me? This life doesn't end here and forever is a very long time how can I sit back and watch people suffer? How can I not even try?

Isaiah 58:10

Amplified Bible (AMP)

¹⁰ And if you pour out that with which you sustain your own life for the hungry and satisfy the need of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity and gloom become like the noonday.

 

We all make our own choices and even cause our own pain by those choices but Jesus never said let my people suffer. They chose to shoot up heroin instead of getting a job so let them suffer.....NO! We need to reach out and encourage them! We need to share God's love with this world!

 

 

Step it up! We have got to step it up!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well done...

Happy Friday!!!!!

I am still determined to strive to make everyday a FRIDAY! Why is it that on Friday everyone has an extra stride in their step? A little extra joy? That special feeling that the work week is about over! I want to live everyday like FRIDAY!!

Storytime~

So I can't trust leaving my dogs out to roam and do their biz because they will wonder off to the neighbors or just chow down on poo. Sorry TMI but it's just the truth. So I have to stand at my door or outside on the doorstep and watch my dogs go do their biz one at a time. This morning I realized that when I get impatient waiting and call for Riley (in a mean impatient mommy tone) she turns and slowly walks towards me like oh man I'm in trouble and when I say slowly I mean the dog barely moves at all. But when she starts obeying me I start praising her saying, "Good Girl, Riley! Come! Good Girl!" because I'm happy she's obeying and suddenly she's happy too and gets a certain stride in her step and even starts running towards me sometimes. She's happy that I'm happy and I'm happy she's being obedient! Then it hits me~ why am I not like this with God more? My main goal should be to be His hands and feet and to want to obey Him at all times and have that stride in my step and even run towards Him! My goal at the end of the day should be to hear God say, "Well done my faithful servant!"

Moriah Peters has a new song out based on the verse Matthew 25:21 and as I think about how my dog Riley gets a stride in her step for being a good girl and making mommy happy I too should get a stride in my step for doing my heavenly father's work and hearing Him say well done.

Lyrics to Well Done :

So let my life speak loud and clear
Lord, I wanna hear

Well done, well done
I'm gonna chase You, Lord
I'm gonna show the world Your love, woah
I'll run, I'll run
I'm gonna run this race
To hear You say well done

I'm so glad that I get to serve You, Lord
You're the only One I am living for, woah
I'm gonna run straight into Your open arms
I'm gonna follow You with my all heart, woah, woah

I know my ultimate goal needs to be getting my mind off of myself and onto others. Reaching out more and getting out of my comfort zone! Running this race and finishing right! It's not too late!!

Never Give Up!

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Check out today's Joyce Meyer devotional:

Back on Track

by Joyce Meyer - posted September 21, 2012

For we are God's [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born
anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].
—Ephesians 2:10

We are God's own handiwork. He created us with His own hands. We got messed up, so we had to be recreated in Christ Jesus. We had to be born again so that we could go ahead and do those good works that God had preplanned and predestined for us before Satan tried to ruin us.

Just because you and I have had trouble in our lives or just because we have made mistakes does not mean that God's plan has been changed. It is still there. All we have to do is get back on track.

From the book New Day, New You by Joyce Meyer. Copyright © 2006 by Joyce Meyer. Published by InProv. All rights reserved.

Content..

I got through a few workouts last week but yea not really. The one day I would finish one interval circuit and then fast forward to the next (you do each interval three times) until finally I just got annoyed and quit. I'm not in this at all anymore. I've hit that wall I'm having trouble getting through. My eating is better ok ok except the weekends oh and the ice coffee addiction I started again but with that said the scale is creeping down slowly again however the exercise I am struggling with! These last 20lbs or so are going to be HARD HARD HARD! Heck I'll be happy and possibly even content with 10 more at this point! HA!

con·tent

adjective

satisfied with what one is or has; not wanting more or anything else.

 

 

 

 

Nope! I don't want to be content! I don't want to be satisfied..... I want to keep striving for more! To better myself and always improve!

 

 

As I say that now I will get up and try to actually finish a workout!

 

 

DIG DEEP!

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Poop Happens

Well kiddos I regret to inform you that Month 2 has yet to start! :(

I could blame it on my week at work so far but truth be told I go into "screw" it mode when I'm stressed. I don't care I just want to eat junk and not workout and have a poor me pity party. Thankfully I haven't over done it on the food I just haven't started INSANITY yet & I have had a poor me pity party.... quite a few of them actually.

 I have a slight feeling when I do start INSANITY again I will hate the world cuz this girl is gonna be T I R E D ! but it will be GREAT!!

So my goal for tonight is to start Month 2 & bust my boootay !!


I'm going to push myself to

DIG DEEP
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Ready for Month 2 Try 2 of Insanity!

I'm ready! I am so so so ready to get back on track! I HATE HATE HATE that gross feeling of just not being mindful of what I'm eating. That full miserable feeling of eating way too much! Bleh! I'm ready to feel good,workout hard, & lose this last bit of weight!!

I'm ready for positive thinking and motivation!


Month 2 starts tomorrow & it is ON!


DIG DEEP
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Getting Back on Track

So I'm up 5lbs and that's just from my BEACH getaway. May I say something entirely honest? It was farking soooooooo worth it!! I needed to relax and let my hair down LOL and I had me some BACON cheese fries!! Yummmmmmmo!!

HOWEVER I forgot how hard it is to get back on track! Plus it's the "pms" week before when I want to eat everything in sight and for some crazy reason I just want me some M&M's.

Next week starts Month 2 of INSANITY so it's go time people! We got this! We can do this! Keep it up! I've got blubber to get rid of before cute winter sweaters! I am excited to wear a turtleneck sweater again with a pair of dress pants and not worry about my bulge sticking out all over (yea the back bulge and the muffin top). LET'S GO!!!!!!!!


We were made for so much more than a food addiction! We were made for so much more than to be lazy!


DIG DEEP!!
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Make life count while you wait

Well my friends this last week has been ummm well.....lets just say interesting. I always said I would be completely honest with everything in this "rollercoaster". Maybe you will call me a nutcase or maybe you can relate and just knowing someone else is going through the same thing makes you feel better? I don't know but here we go~

Storytime~

I've always been a dreamer for as long as I can remember. I'd have scary dreams and run to my parents room and sleep with them. My dad was a farmer so he'd get up at 3:00 a.m. so usually it would be crawling in bed with my mom. The big bed was better anyways and that security of your mom being right there helped me sleep the rest of the night....well morning. Well I'm embarassed to tell you I haven't grown out of that. (well i don't drive over to my mamas) I've been dreaming crazy dreams where I just talk or jump out of bed or scream bloody murder. Usually I don't remember what I'm dreaming and then sometimes I remember parts. Well last Tuesday evening I remember getting dizzy before bed but just brushed it off as low blood sugar or something. Then in the middle of the night I woke myself up screaming bloody murder and let me tell you I had a hard time getting back to sleep. That next morning I had this heavy pressure in my chest and my left arm was tingling. Now I have acid reflux and get the crazy heartburn, chest pain what have you and years ago they did a bunch of heart tests just to make sure but diagnosed me with reflux. This time I had a tingling going down my entire arm and it scared me I won't lie. I tried to go about my morning but I hated to put it off if something serious was happening. I called the doctor that morning and they wanted me to go to the ER. (joy) Yea I freaked out I won't lie. Long story short and a bazillion tests later I am fine. My heart is healthy, my diet is fine, my exercising is fine we are supposed to exercise people!! ....So what the crap happened? Well I have an appointment with my family doctor in a few weeks but right now I'm calling it anxiety. There was a lady I knew at the ER the same time thinking she was having a heart attack and they determined it was anxiety. I have talked with two other people that get those same symptoms.

CRAZY!!!!!

So why would a Jesus girl have anxiety? Pfffffttttttt you tell me.... Guess I'm not trusting God as much as I thought? Fears of the unknown? Unhappiness when life doesn't go my way? I don't know... just getting old and being an emotional hormonal human being? What I do know is there are times I truly feel trapped. Like there is so much more to life yet I can't seem to move forward. There are days I feel my life caving in on me. There are days I feel like I am the worst Jesus girl, hot and cold all the time, such a hypocrite, you name it I think it. Then there's the insecurity issues I have showing my arms, the issues I have upsetting people, *cough cough people pleaser*, ummmm I am a NUTCASE!!!

Then a verse comes to mind:
1 Peter 5:7
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Then I think of God's love and His grace and His mercy and I could go on and on and on. He is just so sweet. Everyday is a brand new day and He wants me to surrender it to Him. Yes I may have crazy issues I am an imperfect human being but I need to release my "issues" to Him. Yes I may try to please people too much but pleasing God needs to be top priority. Yes I have insecurities but God created me in His image and He thinks I'm pretty perfect. I am enough for God why can't He be enough for me ?

I say I believe God  has the best plans for me but do I truly believe it? YES!!!! So it's time for me to stop being wishy washy while I wait! Stop being depressed while I wait! Stop being bitter when everyone else gets their opportunities while I wait!

Mom used to quote Isaiah 64: about waiting on the Lord. It doesn’t mean being complacent. It means understanding that he has a plan, and that we’re not the ones in control. In the meantime, we need to strive to use our gifts and abilities fully. – Tim Tebow


Let's make this life count!
Live Deep
♥

Keep Pressing On

-Victoria Osteen
http://www.victoriaosteen.com/pages/bloglist.aspx

September 04, 2012
You know how some people just always look like they have it all together in life? One thing I've learned is that trials and difficulties affect all people. No one gets a free ride or a "hall pass" from challenges in this life. If someone is making it, if they are on top of the mountain, it's because they are pressing.


In Philippians 3:13, Paul said it like this, "There is one thing that I do, forgetting the past, I press forward to what lies ahead." He was saying, "I don't care what's happened, I'm pressing forward. I don't want to become complacent. I don't want to get stuck; I'm moving forward."


This isn't always easy. In fact, it's a fight. There is effort involved in pressing on, but with effort comes success. Resistance will come against us all, but we have the choice to either stand still or fight life through!


Scripture calls this the fight of faith—and it's a good fight. Do you know what makes a good fight? When you're on the winning side! You know that you're winning as long as you keep on going—keep pressing, keep praying, keep declaring, keep forgiving, keep obeying His Word. You have to stay in the game if you are going to win!


The enemy will try all day long to take you out by reminding you of what happened in your past. He'll remind you of every time you made a mistake or said something wrong. He'll attack hard on the battlefield of your mind. But do you know how to stand against those negative thoughts when they come? By simply speaking the truth of God's Word. See, you can't speak one thing and think about something else. Your thoughts have to follow your words. That's why Matthew 6:31 says, "Take no thought saying (what shall we eat or what shall we wear)" because when you say something, you are taking hold of it in your heart. If you speak words of worry, you will take hold of worry. If you speak God's promises, you take hold of God's promises.


Today, I encourage you to take hold of the good things God has in store for your future. Keep your eye on the prize. Focus on speaking the Word of God over yourself and your family every single day. Take hold of the truth. Bind it to your heart. Let it nourish and refresh your soul. As you press forward, you'll receive the victory and blessing God has in store for you!


"Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-14, NKJV)

Embrace Who You Are

Ok here's the thing....

I am over this "diet"! I am over exercise! I want to quit! I want to do whatever I want and not have to worry about bulge! THIS SUCKS!

However the truth is we need discipline in our lives and I will always have a weight problem if I don't keep it in check. So I need to suck it up and keep going!

This weekend I went dress shopping and cried the whole way home I was so discouraged. I have worked so damn hard but still have "problem" areas. I ruined a perfectly good day because all I could focus on was the negative.

I'm tired of wasting moments and even entire days being depressed or just down or unhappy. I'm tired of hating what I see in the mirror. I'm tired of being tired! ha!

So for all the years I spent untagging myself in facebook pics or just negatively talking about myself in a picture I am taking a picture of myself everyday and saying something positive to me.

Embrace who you are and look in that mirror and tell yourself how incredibly awesome you are!!


Today's pic:

Well follow me on instagram because I can't figure out how to load the pic here yet!


LOL


Live Deep
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