"Stir it up" Dear Lord, work your sweetness into me!!!

   

Good morning and happy Thursday, I pray you had a wonderful nights sleep and that you have risen and feel "full" of rest and of the spirit of Christ! I love the moment I awake in the morning, before my feet ever touch the floor I am overcome with thanksgiving that God has given me another day to be with my loves, to "get it right" or at least to try and "get it right" I thank him for the day and ask him to please lead me to where I need to be, to place me where I am most needed and to let me walk straight and with his spirit inside of me like a light shining for someone in the darkness. 

    In prayer this morning, as I sat in the warmth of my home, enjoying the beauty from behind the glass as it is very cold and windy out. I prayed for each of you, that today be the first day of the rest of your life in mind and spirit, that you would allow someone or something to touch your heart in such a way today that God is validated, that you feel him at a time today that he is most needed and that when you do feel him that the effect only increases your faith and your BELIEF. I prayed for those of you who are watching as your loved one is slowly slipping away making ready to join our Father in Heaven, asking God to bless you with his peace, calm and comfort. I asked God to bless each of us with knowledge that nothing here of this earth is to much for us to overcome with his hand and his strength. I asked God to forgive me for my shortcomings and to bless me with his power to learn from my mistakes and to know that each time I do make a mistake it is actually a blessing if I will use it as a learning tool to redirect and not make the same mistake again. We all are so loved, we all have been given such a wonderful gift...I thank you so much Father, I love you and ask you to hold my friends in your hands today and bless them  with your mercy and your grace. In the sweet name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

    I came across the following story on facebook last night and after reading it and then reading it again...felt that this was something that perhaps someone might benefit from reading, I know I did!!!

I needed to read this♥ ...

From Proverbs 31 Ministries♥

"Stir It Up

by: Marybeth Whalen

“[For] it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.” Philippians 2:13 (NIV 1984)

I took a sip of coffee and grimaced as I peered into the cup. Everything looked like it should, but the coffee wasn’t sweet. Yet I remembered tearing open the little yellow packets and sprinkling the sweet crystals over the surface of the caramel  colored liquid. Then I realized that—while I had added the sugar—I had never stirred it into the coffee. Without that stirring action, the sugar couldn’t work all the way through.

I do this with my faith as well. I add all the necessary ingredients. I’ve got my Bible, my devotion subscription, my godly girlfriends, my church, my special quiet time journal, my praise and worship songs, my verses memorized. If you looked at me, you’d say it’s all there.

But I’d rather avoid the stirring up part, truth be told. I’d tell you that I know it’s good for me. I’d tell you that it’s not good to stay in one place. I’d tell you that you should submit to God and let Him stir you up and that I’d be glad to pray for you during that process.

But me? No. Just leave me alone. Let me sit. I’d rather look okay and be comfortable than be stirred up and reach my full potential.

Have you ever had those feelings?

Maybe today you’re feeling stirred up. Your finances or your job or your marriage or your children or your friendships or your dreams feel like a cyclone is swirling through them, leaving you unsettled and unstable. You might be wondering why God is letting this happen, why He’s forgotten you. Not thinking that it just might be His hand doing the stirring. He’s using those swirling forces to reach all the parts of you that He wants to get to. As today’s verse reminds us, He works in you to accomplish His purpose for you.

Years ago a friend and I were making a big pot of spaghetti sauce. We left the pot on the stove and went off to join our families outside. But when we returned we smelled something burning. We pulled the lid off the pot to peer at the sauce. The sauce looked fine. All the elements were there: the red color, the thickness of the liquid, the chunks of meat and slivers of onions and spices. It was only as we took a long spoon and dug deep into the pot that we discovered that the sauce at the very bottom had become stuck because we hadn’t been inside stirring it up, keeping it moving, not letting it settle. When things get settled, they become stuck.

As you are stirred up in life, thank God that He loves you enough to not let you get stuck, to not leave you bitter. The elements are there—and that’s important—but it’s in the stirring that we become all that He has in mind.

Dear Lord, when I am feeling stirred up, help me to think of it as You working Your sweetness into me, as You preventing me from becoming stuck. I want to move forward with You and become what You have in mind. In Jesus’ Name, Amen."