Blessings For Today!

God's grace for the day was abundant and His faithfulness was once again poured out and made super evident! First grace of the week was that I finally got switched to day school, which means Il be completely done with school this summer as compared to next year sometime!!! ...............PRAISE THE LORD! :)  

Today was my first day going to school with my new schedule of class time, as well as all new faces that I knew non of! I was a little nervous to be in a completely new environment, being the odd ball out of the groove. As I walked into class I randomly picked a seat towards the back and eventually began talking to and asking the girl sitting next to me some questions. After talking back and forth for some time I come to find out that she is a christian, is graduating on friday, is getting married in March, and is moving back to where I used to live (El Centro). She began telling me about the Baptist Church  that she attends up here in San Diego and was asking about any good churches down in El Centro . I was able to share with her where I had the privilege of worshiping when I lived down in the valley and encourage her in the importance of being in a fellowship of believers, especially as a newly married couple. 

This morning I was just doing my devo's as normal as I was eating my breakfast, going about my morning not really thinking about school or the day ahead of me. As I was walking out the door to leave for school my mom called out "Hannah, be a blessing today", as I shut the door behind me my reaction was a sarcastic, "yeah mom sure"! How ridiculous does that sound, like really? Here God has just answered a prayer that I have been asking for now for 4 months and has provided the funds to receive this amazing education in training for an excellent career. He has placed me in an environment where I can shine bright for Him and be a light in a dark place and my attitude is one of I am in this for me, to graduate and be successful. HOW LAME!!! 

I cannot say enough how amazed I am at what the Lord continues to do in my heart and life and how He uses me every single day even without we realizing it sometimes. May my heart and mind be awakened to the hand of God leading and guiding me. May I be sensitive to His Spirit when it calls and commands me to do or not to do things, to say or not to say something. God would you constantly remind me that my life is not my own, that even though I can only see this small picture of my life, keep revealing day after day as I walk by faith the bigger things that you are orchestrating for eternity. 

The God I have the greatest honor to serve and worship is truly a one of a kind loving, faithful, and gracious Father, who is soo intimately involved in the littlest areas of our lives. Thank you Jesus! 

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19

God is Able

   Here are the lyrics to  a beautiful song and reminder from Hillsong based off of the verse from Ephesians 3:20.






God is able, He will never fail


He is Almighty God

Greater than all we seek

Greater than all we ask


He has done great things


Chorus 1
          
Lifted up He defeated the grave
      
Raised to life our God is able
  
In His Name we overcome
  
For the Lord our God is able


Verse 2
God is with us
God is on our side
He will make a way
Far above all we know
Far above all we hope
He has done great things


(Repeat Chorus)


Bridge
 
God is with us
  D
He will go before
   
He will never leave us
      
He will never leave us


God is for us

He has open arms
    
He will never fail us
    
He will never fail us


(Repeat Chorus)


Ending
    
For the Lord our God is able
  
For the Lord our God is able


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Grace For The Day

The past two days have been filled with Gods grace being poured out, and even better given the awareness to see the grace and faithfulness in the situations all throughout the day.

• First was able to catch up with a girlfriend that I hadn't talked to in awhile. She came into the salon and while doing her hair was able to rejoice over the fact that her husband gets to come back from training in Alaska after a month tomorrow. I have seen soo much growth in her spiritually and her reliance on God during the present and future hard times, being separated from her husband and raising two little boys we were able to have some really great conversations. 
• Then today my friend Mariah invited me to go to a woman's bible study with her that her goes to here in Coronado. It was so refreshing to be in a small group of  woman studying the Word, having fellowship, praying for one another and just being the body of Christ. It has been awhile since I have been in a bible study and it was such a blessing to meet new people and just get and be encourage and encourage other woman of God. 
• The topic that the study is going through is how to be a woman of grace. Grace is so important in those relationships we have with immediate family those we live with, as well as those that we come in contact with on a daily basis. As we are in the world the most affective way that we can show and be Christ to the  lost an dying world is to show love and grace. This is the most practical and noticeable way. I feel like I say this about everything I write about but its such a crucial thing to remember and let happen. The work has to be done only by the Christ we have to throw our hands up and let Christ produce these characteristics inside of us we CANNOT do it on our own in our own strength. 

My Inspiration

One of the blogs I follow is my younger sisters who just recently moved to Chicago this past summer to attend Moody Bible Institute. She is an amazing writer and loves the Lord and it has been cool to keep updated on her new life in a new city, and all that God has been teaching her through her posts. From reading her blog regularly I was inspired by a little thing she would do almost daily. At least once a week if not daily she titles her posts "Todays Grace" where she will include either a verse, or truth, or just things that happened during the day where God was faithful and blessed! 

This really got me thinking about my own heart and life and how I so easily get caught up in the day forgetting or just not giving God enough credit for the happenings of the day (whether good or bad). I know i get so busy trying to get things done and worrying about stupid stuff like  what to wear and eat and where I need to go and all that I forget about God and being aware to little things He may want me to be paying attention to. I want to challenge all who read this to stop and take a look at your own heart and see if this is maybe not a common thing in all our lives. Make it a habit at the end of the day or throughout the day to be aware of the big and small ways that God gives grace to you and remains steadfast and faithful 24/7!! 

"For you know the GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you may by His poverty might become rich". 2 Corinthians 8:9

The Need To Be Content

Philippians 4:11 Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

1 Timothy 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world and we cannot take anything out of the world. 

Hebrews 13:5 Keep your life free from the love of money and be content with what you have for HE said I will never leave you nor forsake you. 

   These are just a few places in Scripture where it talks about contentment, being happy and at peace with where God has you at the point in time. Ohhh my how this is such a hard hard thing for me. It seems like every day I am constantly struggling with this no matter how positive I try to be with situations in life. I constantly fall back into the ritual of analyzing, stratagizing, and trying to manipulate life to work the way I think it should. I lose sight of, or rather ignore what God's plans and seeking out what He is trying to teach me or show me through it all. Oh Lord help my unbelief and my lack of trust in You!! It will truly only be by the power and work of the Spirit in my life that I will over come this struggle with sin that I have. It has to be a daily, momentary awareness of the blessings and all the things that God has given me. It is such a frustrating and discouraging thing but praise to God for being such a faithful, loving, and steadfast Father, full of love and mercy. 

School has been a very frustrating thing, with the environment and being completely over begin in school and just wanting to be settled into a job working full-time. Staying motivated and positive about this amazing opportunity I have been give to develop skills for a life career has not always been the easiest. I know girls who would kill to be given this opportunity but constantly I am found complaining and feeling sorry for myself. WOW!!!! I am constantly reminded how much I don't deserve all that I have been given, it is so humbling. Thank you Lord for ALL that you have given, down to the breath that I wake up daily with. Lord use me for your glory and I shine Your love in the dark corners of this world that you have positioned me in.