So I have been thinking all day about God and His great blessings to my life this past year. It is hard to imagine that over a year ago I was in the middle of 3 different interviews with churches and now I am serving, loving, and leading the one God has placed me in. I am amazed at the fact that last year at this time I was full of fear at the fact I was not sure I was ready to pastor a church and be a little shepherd for Jesus. I know now, a year later, that I should not have been scared and full of fear and can trust and know God is faithful to me and guides me and supplies all that I need each day to lead and love His church. God has brought a great new and exciting church family into my life this year that has stretched and challenged me in many ways. God has blessed with me with many new friendships and given me 3 great partners in His ministry and leadership at Zion. All the while God was placing new people into my life, God was also strengthening and taking current relationships deeper and supplying me with greater friends and confidants in my life.
Not only has God blessed me in new and old relationships but God has blessed me with many new gifts also. God has given me a house and fixed my cars when I needed them. God has sold the house I lived in for the last 6 years and supplied the needs to help take care of my moms house when it needs it. God has provide answer to how things work now financially and materially in the ministry and has even blessed in the health insurance and retirement area. God has given challenges this past year but also solved them for me when I just simply trust and obey what He says. God has blessed me more this year than any other year as He has given me less and taken things away. God has been the great provider and sustainer of what I need.
Not only has God taken care of my material needs, He also ahs blessed with good health. Having 4 children can be stressful when it comes to sickness but God provides. God has kept our family clean and healthy most of the year and when we have been sick, God has provided the energy and patience that my beloved and I have needed. My God has blessed my mother with a year of cancer and then cure as He has walked with us and we have walked with her. God has placed physical challenges before us and has walked with us during the answer and recovery. And knowing all this, I know that even now some of the uncertainty about healthy will be answered and taken care of by God. God has been the great healer in 2014.
And now comes 2015....I know with everything God has blessed me with in 2014, 2015 will be a year full of blessings and even if it is my last year, God will be faithful and full of love, mercy and grace for me. Praise be to our God, forever and ever.
Tomorrow I would like to share some of the things God has taught me this past year.
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