God is so good to me,,,,I keep saying it and he keeps pouring it on.

I won this printer on

I am so thankful for this win, We have been looking and looking at printers but knowing we could not afford it right now, I thank God that he choose to give this to me. This one is even better than one I would have even looked at.
My God shall supply all your need. Praise the Lord.

Beginning to Understand

As I sit here and ponder what has been going on in our lives over the past 10 months, I stand amazed at what the Lord has done for us. I am beginning to understand why the Lord has taken us to this spot in our life.
Mike has been so sick for the past year and a half and has not had the insurance to have these issues worked out. It is just so expensive to go to the doctor but when we moved here to Kentucky, I went to sign my children up for the medical card and because we had no income, Mike and I qualified for the medical card, the lady just automatically gave it to us, as I have said before even our doctor asked how we had the medical card, He said "they do not give that to adults very often."
We know that God seen fit to give us that card.
Since we have had the card the doctor has made sure he has run every test possible on Mike. He has also run test on me and some issues have been revealed that I am working on getting resolved also.
I said all that to say this, God knows what he is doing in your life. Sometimes we can get so caught up in worrying what others think that we fail to stop and realize that we are bought with a price and that we belong to God and that he can do whatever, whenever he wants to in our lives. My life belongs to the Lord. If he wants to take us out of the ministry and set us on the backside of a mountain for a time and grow us, that is his choice.

One thing the Lord has taught me through this trial is all of my righteousness is as filthy rags in his sight. He has put me in a place where I am able to do very little for him but yet in his grace he has showered me with his goodness.
I have put so much stock in my works for the Lord and that I felt the more I worked for him, the more I obeyed him, the more I won souls for him, the more I, I, I, I, I,
then he would be obligated to bless me, but I have learned that even though all of those things are good, our motives need to be right. We are not to do those things to gain his favor, or to gain the favor of man, he wants us to do them because we love him. My motives have been so wrong for so long.
He has loved me so much through this trial, even when my heart was not right, even when my faith wasn't strong, even when I haven't won a soul for him, even though I have nothing to offer him. I am humbled that such a King like him would love someone like me.
I loved him, because he first loved me.......Is more true today in my life than ever before. We are not under the law of bondage, we are under the law of Grace.
Oh, the Lord wants us to serve him with our heart, not to be seen of men. Don't serve the Lord because you might get a spanking, serve him because you love him.

He has loved me like I was his only child.
When I say God has been good to me, I mean it with all my heart.
I love you Lord.

God has been so good to me.

I cannot believe the month of May is gone already. It was a rather busy month for us.
First, we had some friends that came from Kansas and spent a week with us, Miranda is from one of the families we had in our church in Goodland. She was able to take a Senior trip and raise money to go anywhere she wanted to go, and she choose to come and spend a week with Sarah my daughter, What an awesome priviledge, God really used them to help us through a hard time the week they came and God had it all planned months ago. What a sweet time of fellowship and laughter. They mean the world to me.

My boys did get to come home for a couple of weeks also. I just thank the Lord for the time of fellowship and refreshment he gave me in May, the trial we are going through has really weighed on us and the Lord knew we needed this month to just keep our minds off of our situation. I love the Lord for that.

Today, we are getting more company. Miranda and Paige (her sister) are coming again, Savannah (my adopted daughter, not really but we tell her she is..lol.) Justin and Steven ( two more of our adopted sons, not really but we tell them they are too.)
They are traveling out here for a wedding of one of their friends from college. We just happen to be close enough for the girls to stay with us.

God has been good to us. I thank God for my friends. Sometimes when you are going through hard times, you can get like Elijah and think we are all by ourselves, but then the Lord reminds us there are a whole lot of other people standing with you.
I thank God for the people he has brought our way. It reminds me that our work is never in vain. I just love the people he has allowed to walk through my life.