Sunday
I do appreciate that I blog far too often...I guess that in a way it's a way of me escaping from everything for a little while!
Yesterday I started a new job (in addition to my current job). Now- I keep going on about patience, and how I am certain that the Lord is developing mine- yesterday was further proof of this! I was left for five hours to do...wait for it...NOTHING! Officially I was "stocking and tidying shelves" but I was told by my manager to "just make sure everything was neat and brought forward to the edge of the shelf so it looks full..." That took about 15 minutes...and I did it a few times...which left me with about 4 hours left to do nothing. It was mind numbingly boring! I found that I had lots of time to myself to pray though! I must have prayed for hours!
Today was spent mainly at church. The morning communion service was lovely, and was taken by a guest speaker who we know well. His daughter Louise is seriously ill, battling a brain tumour at the moment, yet her parents still have so much faith and hope, and in fact, this morning he said that sometimes God answers our prayers in ways that we don't want him to, but still, God knows best. It really touched me. He preached from Psalm 86...which was actually what I needed to hear (both for myself and in order to direct others to). I dislike praying for myself, because I have a deep-rooted stubburness within me and i'm too proud...so I hate admitting that I need help. Yet today, I really needed to hear Psalm 86, and to really consider it's words.
I haven't had the happiest few days but I KNOW that God is with me and that he is in control of my life, and that gives me so much comfort. I feel like this week the devil has constantly been on my back nagging me saying "God? How can God be with you when you're feeling like this?" but the worse I feel, the more I want to praise God and thank him for creating me and for loving me like he does!
I hope that perhaps somebody who stumbles across this will think "yes...maybe things in my life aren't going the way that I want them too, but hey, God knows best and i'm going to keep on praising him!"
God bless!
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Author: emmalea
Location: Staffordshire United Kingdom
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Age: 19
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i became a christian on 6th december 2005, after a long struggle to find the lord. being the daughter of a minister, the sister-in-law of a pastor, the sister of a youth pastor and a "pretty good teen" by most standards, i guess, to some extent, i greatly assumed my...
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