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Seeking God Daily and LinkUp

Jaime Wiebel — Wed, 16 May 2018 10:00:03 +0000

Hello, Sweet Friends!

I am so glad that you are joining me. If you were here for the last post, you will know that I decided to take a two-week break. You can read more here and visit my awesome friends that join me each week for my linkup. The great news is I have had a ton of fun with my grandma planning for the Facebook Group Seeking God Daily.

I am trying to use this week, the full week before field trips and my kids are home for the summer, to get some planning and hopefully writing done. I wish I was able to batch write so I could just schedule for the summer but that has never happened and I don’t think it will now, either. Anyone else able to do that? I would love some tips on how you get that done, throwing littles into the mix would really be impressive.

Back to Seeking God Daily. I have absolutely loved being a part of this group. I am joined by three of my blogging buddies, Melanie Redd, Michele Morin, and Julie Loos. These ladies are the best and their writing inspires me daily.

The group is designed to gain perspective and knowledge on God’s Word from several viewpoints. Each of us has a story inside and in this group, you will certainly see that. These ladies are packed with stories, and what I love is they always point life back to the Bible and have a Biblical and Christian worldview.

You will hear about the ups and downs of life and how God inspires us to keep moving day after day and Seeking after Him.

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If you want to join our group, we would love to have you! It is open to the public, so bring your friends. It is a great supportive community that is focused on digging deeper into God’s Word and having a great conversation about it. We love to hear from our friends there and conversations are where it is at.

You can find us here at Seeking God Daily and request to join.

I am super excited to see what the summer holds. For the first time, we are going to do a word study. We are going to dig deep into a word and see what the Bible has to teach us about it. I think it is going to be pretty great.

I have already been digging into our first word- GRACE – and let me tell you. Our God is Awesome. He never ceases to amaze me and Bible heroes I have grown up learning about and even have studied as an adult are coming to life in a whole new way. That is what happens when you peel back the layers of a story and dig in.

I can’t wait to see what God is going to do with this and I look forward to you joining us there.

Linkup with Sitting Among Friends Blog Party

Blog Parties are such a great place to meet people and build connections around the web. This is one reason, I love this party. Please make sure to visit another friend in the linkup!

I would love to sit down face-to-face with you but since we can’t do that I love to meet you here. I love to hear your stories and see your work.

This is a Christian based website and so is the material that I promote here. Please remember that when linking up. I do reserve the right to remove posts.

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I would appreciate you linking back to Seeking God or #SittingAmongFriends somewhere on your page. (You can also use the SAF picture with a link)

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Double-Minded Life and Sitting Among Friends #76

Jaime Wiebel — Wed, 24 May 2017 06:14:00 +0000

I was young when I came to know Christ. I grew up in the church and when I made my decision to trust Christ as my personal Savior, it seemed like an obvious choice. I knew I was a sinner and in need of a rescue.

However, that obvious choice didn’t seem to follow me. When I was a teenager, I began making poor decisions. I didn’t really know how to have an authentic personal relationship with Christ. I knew all the rules and how I was supposed to play by them, which lead in part to my rebellion.

The older I got, the worse the decisions were that I made. It seemed as if there was no turning back. I had failed to the nth degree and I constantly felt the way I had ended up, tossed in the sea.

It seemed somehow in my upbringing, I missed the grace. I missed that the rules were supposed to point us to Christ but then were free to walk in His grace. We were no longer in rebellion to Him but were truly His children meant to be the inheritors of all that Christ was and has to give us.

I stayed infant in my thinking and as a result didn’t really experience the grace that was gifted to me through the shed blood on the cross.

Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. Ephesians 4:14

One of my scariest encounters with the ocean was when I was living in Hawaii. The currents were especially strong one afternoon. As the waves came in they literally picked me up off the beach and drug me into the water.

As I was tossed around in a cycle, like in a washing machine, I wasn’t quite sure I was going to get out. The shore break was big and the water kept turning over and over. If I had not been pulled out, I am not sure I would have been able to fight the force of the wave.

My decisions in my life often left me feeling the same way. Living life as an infant Christian, I had never grown to a place where I saw the real rescue. The result was a life feeling tossed back and forth between the things of this world and the convictions I felt deep in my heart.

But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. James 1:6

Even though I knew in my heart that Jesus was the answer, I believed the lies of the world that I could conquer all things by myself. I guess you would have to say, I doubted God was really capable of fully rescuing me.

I knew trusting Him as my personal Savior meant rescuing me from hell and eternal separation from Him, but I never relied on or trusted Him to rescue me from myself or from the situations I had gotten myself into.

The result was always feeling this compulsion to be pulled into the world and all it claims to offer. I felt like I was being tossed like the day at the beach. I felt unstable. As I look back on it, it feels so reckless.

Their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do. James 1:8

Here is the biggest problem with living this way.

That man should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. James 1:7

Ouch! That one seems to hurt the most.

Living, what James calls, a double-minded life leaves me tossed around in my life. It leaves me unstable.

I can’t say, I have put my faith and trust in God and then never live a day for Him. I was meant for worship. I was meant for fellowship with my King. That is why we were created to be in communion with Him.

Three of the biggest things that I missed out on by living a double-minded life.

Not receiving blessings from God. James 1:7 says I shouldn’t have expected to receive anything from the Lord.

Not giving glory and honor to God.

Not being a light that reflected or pointed people to His kingdom.

While so much time feels like it was lost on myself, I learned a valuable lesson in my dependence on Him. Not to miss another day.

If you feel like this double-minded person or the person that is struggling between choosing the things of this world and things that are eternal. Don’t lose heart.

Make today count. You can turn from those ways. Understand that you are no longer in rebellion to God. You no longer have to live in this world like the sinner you were before you put your trust in Christ. You are free to obey His Word.

Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. John 14:23.

Christ has come not only to make His dwelling among us but in us. We are the home in which He resides and what we are to reflect is that He is welcome to live and love us there.

It would do us good to regularly remember and thank God for what He did for us at the cross. I think we can be so accustomed to saying it that it loses it awesome ability to transform or hearts and minds.

Feeling torn between two places. The choice may seem obvious from these verses but life doesn’t always appear that easy. It is a real conscience decision that you must make.

One way to learn the best ways to follow Christ is to earnestly seek Him through His Word. There is nothing that will be more life transformational.

In lieu of having a featured friend this week, I want to introduce to you Seeking God Daily. Because a couple friends and I are passionate about sharing God’s Word we have joined forces to bring together a Facebook Group called Seeking God Daily.

Seeking God Daily is a group that offers hope, encouragement, and support in learning God’s Word and applying the truths to our walk with Christ.

We want to encourage one another through authentic, honest, and respectful conversation as we earnestly seek Him daily.

Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

While we are still getting final details underway, I hope you will join us in preparation for this group. You can find it by clicking HERE! Simply Hit the Join button and your requests will be sent.

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