Tis the Season to Listen to God!

I have been happily in my middle American lifestyle for many years, however the past year or so has been a challenge. If it could go wrong it has!  For the longest time I blamed other people..some I knew, some I did not....but it was still there fault. Definitely not mine! Then I blamed God. He was punishing me from running from my calling to get back into church. When I got back to church and it got worse I blamed Satan for all the things shaking up my life....until today.

Two weeks ago I became a member of Summers Baptist Church in "little town" Arkansas. The Lord is strong in this church and it seems that the message since returning has always been just for me. Whether it be helping others you love come back to their faith or letting go and letting God in. Today we learned about accepting God's timing and having faith that it is up to Him. As I listened to Brother Paul talk I could not help but think about all the things that have been going on in my life recently...ranging from a heat-less car to my house not refinanced when I wanted it to be to many other things just not taking place when I wanted them to.  These things are not attacks..just not taking place when I think they should.

I need to listen to God's placings on my heart and let Him decide when my life will move forward and in what direction. By being faithful, I should trust that He is in control.  But - as my blog title says, I am a bit OCD...and giving another person control is hard enough, let alone the Holy Spirit that I can not physically see.  As I kept thinking about this at church today, I kept feeling pressed to write this blog, surely other people feel this way too.

How to I let go and let God? How do I trust that He will provide me and my family what we need and in the right time? I know because of His word and I believe because of my faith. 

Through this blog, I hope to write about my trials and tribulations in an effort to remind myself that God is in control and to help use His word to keep my OCD and need to be in control myself in check.

It's time for God folks. It's time to take off the stress jacket we have had for years and trust in His judgement, timing, and unconditional love.

I'm working on it! Are you?

Versus that I need today regarding God's Timing:

• Ecclesiastes 8:6  For there is a time and a way for everything, although man's trouble lies heavy on him.
• Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In  all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.