Happy Birthday Karah Lee!

Happy Birthday Karah! Thanks for being the sweet and caring little sister you are! I hope you have lots of fun today! I love you!!!

Jeremiah 29:11-13- “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for wholeness and not for evil, to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with your whole heart.”

The First Commandment

“The duties required in the first commandment are, the knowing and acknowledging of God to be the only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify him accordingly, by thinking, meditating, remembering, highly esteeming, honoring, adoring, choosing, loving, desiring, fearing of him; believing him; trusting him; calling upon him, giving all praise and thanks and yielding all obedience and submission to him with the whole man; being careful in all things to please him, and sorrowful when in anything he is offended; and walking humbly with him.” –The Westminster Larger Catechism

Everyone of those verbs mentioned is very significant and rich in their meaning, aren’t they? As I read over them, I can clearly see how I fail to know, acknowledge, worship, and glorify God, at all times, as my only true God.

In her book “Idols of The Heart” Elyse Fitzpatrick helps partially walk us through the list:

-Thinking about God. Do I think of God continually or only infrequently, such as when I want or need something?
-Meditating on God. Do I meditate on His character- His holiness, His goodness, His love?
- Remembering God. Do I remember Him in everything I do and say, or do I rarely think of Him?
-Esteeming God. Am I highly esteeming Him, or do I highly esteem or value other things?

Those are all challenging questions, but oh so precious and convicting! If your answers were “no” to one or more, don’t be discouraged because “from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace!!!” (John 1:18)

Yes, More Pictures :)

These are from this past weekend while some Orlando friends were in town....

It's Ready!

My new discipleship blog I shared about in my last post is up and running. Feel free to stop by and check it out!

Beautiful Adornment

Continued prayer would be wonderful!

Announcement

I’m not sure if I shared this on here before, but for a year now God’s been stirring my heart to find a way I can reach out to the middle and high school girls I know. I’ve thought about many different options and I believe that God is having me start a discipleship blog for these girls. My prayer is that I can be an encouragement to them as they face daily circumstances the world brings.

On the blog (with God’s help :) I’ll help walk the girls through subjects like:

-The Gospel
-Relationships with friends, parents, and guys
-Modesty
-Time management
-Biblical Womanhood (as a daughter and young lady)
-Cultivating a love for the home

That’s just to name a few…Most of the posts will have a “girly” spin. My desire through this blog is not to take away from any biblical counsel given from their parents or “get in the way” of their relationship with God, but simply to be an encouragement to continue growing in those relationships and fight hard in bringing glory to God in all things.

I would like to continue posting on this blog, but the other one is taking up a lot of my time right now in the beginning. So sorry if you see oodles of “picture” posts =). Hopefully after the other one is up and running I’ll be able to post on here more often.

I’m not sure what God has in store for the new blog (how long it will last/what it will turn into), but God has given me much faith to try it out and I’m excited to see how He will use it!

Feel free to spread the word! I believe God is calling me to reach many girls, not just the one’s I come in contact with daily.

Please pray:

-That God would provide grace and wisdom to speak into these girls lives.
-For time to post
-That I’ll have everything up by next Monday, April 20th =)

Thank you all so much for your support, encouragement, and prayers (I’ve already received so much). I am so blessed!

Spring!

My All Star Sisters