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He is Faithful

Jaime Wiebel — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 05:03:00 +0000

My Grandma and I were talking today about the
faithfulness of God. My grandma whom I have had the privilege of studying the
Word of God with my whole life was telling me she could write a book about how
faithful God has been to her.

I said let’s do it. You get started. You have the first
one hundred pages and then I will take it from there.

This is her current story (I hope she doesn’t mind
me sharing). Living on Social Security. Just had home taxes due this month. Car
license plates to pay for. Car insurance. She pays everything after she tithes.

As she was sitting on a frontage road at a stop sign
two days ago, someone turned too close to the corner, crosses the line, hit the
front end of her car and continues to drive away.

With all these things going on in her life (finacially) and she
is reminding me how faithful God has been to her. Explaining how He has always
taken care of her and she is confident that He always will.

What an inspiration she is. She says she doesn’t have
to worry about where the money is going to come from or if she is going to get
it because she knows that GOD IS FAITHFUL.

She is right. He will never leave us
nor forsake us.

She loves to tell me the story of when her children
were small and my grandfather was hurt from work and they were living on $35 a
week. She said people were bringing in meals and groceries. Their bills were
always paid and they continued to trust God would take care of them and He did.

Here is my half of the book. Don’t worry today it
won’t be 100+ pages.

I have been a stay-at-home mom for 8 years. When my
husband and I decided that I would stay home we were not sure how we would be
able to manage with our income being cut by more than half.

I knew that God would take care of us. Growing up,
my family lived on a shoestring budget. I always felt like we had everything
even though I knew we didn’t have much money. It was a life I had been
accustomed to growing up and felt we too could handle it and knew God would be
faithful.

I have many similar stories as my grandma. There
are weeks that I have looked at the shampoo bottle and thought for certain it
will be gone before Friday and it lasts for two more weeks.

I cannot tell you how many times the diaper box has
looked nearly empty and should not last through Tuesday and it lasts until the
next payday.

When Mother Hubbard’s cupboard seems completely bare, we eat better meals than when our cupboards are full.

The checkbook appears to be completely empty but we
have not one more need until Friday payday.

Every bill is paid, every month and on time.

One thing that my husband and I have learned is we
were completely frivolous with our money before I stopped working. The most
important thing that we have learned, however, is GOD IS FAITHFUL.

Time and time again we seem to be living on the edge
of being completely empty and yet we have all we need.

In the past eight years we have not been without. GOD
IS FAITHFUL.

We are not frugal. We get the things we need and
often times get the things that we want but the bottom line is we trust that
God will take care of us. We trust His promises to us. We have no doubts of
what He will and can do because we have lived His promises.

I can rest in the promise of Matthew 6:25-26 “That
is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life–whether you have enough
food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your
body more than clothing? Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest
or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far
more valuable to Him than they are?”

As my grandma and I were sitting by the pond at the
park today, we were admiring the instinctual skills of a large group of ducks walking around pecking at the ground.
I said, “What are they eating?” The only thing we could see were a few leaves and the
grass.

The funny thing was the ducks knew. They knew what
was there was worthy of being food. They knew where to go to get what they needed.
They were not wandering around the park with the heads thrown back, quacking
songs of worry about where they were going to get their next meal. It was just
there for them. They knew it.

Don’t miss the part in Matthew 6:26 when Jesus says,
“Aren’t you more valuable to Him than they are?” God takes care of the ducks.
They don’t question his sources. They don’t question the amount or if He has
limits. They just eat. No worries.

Christ reminds us we are more valuable than they are. What
am I promised? I am promised that God will take care of me and I can tell you without question GOD IS FAITHFUL.

Check out previous posts here: Grace and Mercy, Back to School and
You Are His Masterpiece

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I’ll Give Him All of Me!

Jaime Wiebel — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:31:00 +0000

He answered,
“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as
yourself.'” Luke 10:27

Is this you or is this something that you struggle
with?

We devote ourselves endlessly
to our children’s activities. We will pay whatever it takes to get them to be
the best or one of the best.

We will give all our time,
days, nights, weekends… whatever it takes.

We will be their biggest
agent and promoter.

Maybe it is not your
children’s activities, maybe it is your significant other or your family. Maybe
it is yourself, maybe it is your hobby, your job, your extra-curricular
activities.

We so often are willing to
give our heart, soul, mind, and strength to many things or many people.

In Luke 10, Jesus is
answering an expert of the law. He wants to know what he must do to inherit
eternal life. He next wants to know what is written in the law and how does the
law read according to Jesus. They were trying to catch Jesus not answering
according to the law.

To them their life was the
law and it was based on their beliefs. They wanted to follow the law with their
actions but not with their hearts. They were the first to point out others
failing, but couldn’t see the failures in their own lives.

Jesus defined the law. Jesus
came to not give more laws but to fulfill the law in giving his life as a
sacrifice for us.

Jesus quickly answered this
lawyer saying, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul,
with all your mind and with all your strength.” Not just with your empty words
or your actions, but with your being.

How many times do we devote
ourselves to all the other things this world offers and we are quickly let
down. We are quickly disappointed. Like these men we are seeking more.

As Jesus answers us here in
Luke our heart, soul, mind and strength are being put in the wrong place and in
the wrong person.

I don’t know about you
but I don’t want to be let down. I don’t want to be disappointed.

So instead of relying on the
things of this world to build me up. Instead of depending on the people of this
word to not let me down, I can do one thing. I can change my focus. I can
change the direction at which I seek my strength.

You may be thinking right now
that I am crazy. You have families that need your strength. You have spouses
that need your heart. You have jobs that need your mind. You have everyday life
that needs your soul. You are so divided. How can you give any more?

Where do you fit God into all
that giving? What is left for The One you are to be devoted to?

The LORD is my strength
and my shield. I trust Him with all my heart. He helps me and my heart is
filled with joy. I burst out in songs of thanksgiving. Psalm 28:7

I love the promises that we
are given through God’s Word.

So, how can we give the Lord
ALL our heart; why would we give Him all our heart when we feel like we have so
little left to give?

I am not suggesting giving
Him the pieces that you have left. I am not suggesting that you give him the
parts of you that you can free today. I am not suggesting that you fit
Him in for your five minute pick me up. Neither is HE.

Think about your heart, soul,
strength, and mind. That is ALL of you. This is a sacrifice. This is a
surrender. This is putting yourself aside, to gain life.

What is His promise? HE
promises to be your strength. He promises to be your shield. He helps your
heart be filled with joy. So much joy that you are bursting out with songs.

Anyone in need of a little joy?
Anyone seeking out joy or happiness in things and people, just to be left
seeking more.

Daily, Seek Him first. Daily, Seek Him with all that
you have in you. Intentionally, seek Him with all of your might.

Here are a couple of ways to
give your heart.

If you have children, Deuteronomy 6:7 tells
us: Repeat them (the Lord’s commands) again and again to your children. Talk
about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are
going to bed and when you are getting up.

At your job, Colossians 3:23 says:
Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord
rather than for people.

With Christ, you have hope.
You can have hope in the present. You can have hope for the future. You can
rest you soul in the moments and trials of this life.

I am a constant work of God
but I can be assured with giving him my heart that He will be my strength. He
will be my shield. He will be my fortress and I can find refuge in Him. He will
never leave me nor forsake me.

Are you ready to give your
heart, soul, mind, and strength? Who will you choose to give it to?

Please encourage us with
comments and
SHARING below on ways that you give your heart to Christ in your everyday
life.

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Who Is? I AM!

Jaime Wiebel — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 21:48:00 +0000

I can’t do this.

There must be someone better than I suited for this job.

I am not tall enough…pretty enough…skilled enough…experienced enough…worthy enough… the list goes on.

Does anyone relate to those statements?

You want to take a new step in your life but you feel (fill in the blank) holding you back. Maybe one of the above statements fill in your blank.

Often times we try and build ourselves up. Maybe we talk ourselves into being better. Maybe we look ourselves in the mirror. Like the SNL sketch: I am smart enough. I am good enough and people like me.

I love the story of Moses because I am assured of God’s greatness not my own.

Many of you may know the story of Moses from the popular movie The Ten Commandments.

Moses was a Hebrew baby boy and in his time the Pharaoh commanded all baby boys to be killed. His mother, however, saw that he was special and hid him for three months. When she could no longer keep him hidden she put him in the reeds along the bank of the Nile River.

Along came the Pharaoh’s daughter, she found him, took him into the palace and eventually adopted him as her own.

Moses was raised with all the advantages. He was wealthy. A trained warrior. He was educated. He had all the benefits a man could have.

At this time the Hebrews were slaves to the Egyptians. Moses was out among the people and noticed an Egyptian beating a Hebrew man. Moses stood up for the Hebrew and killed the Egyptian and thinking no one was looking buried Him in the sand.

The next day Moses saw two Hebrew men fighting and tried stepping in but one of the men asked Moses if he was going to kill them like he killed the Egyptian. The pharaoh found out what had happened, tried killing Moses, so Moses fled to the wilderness.

If you are wondering if God can use you at this point in your life consider Moses’s training. Moses spent the next forty years in the wilderness before God would appear to him in a burning bush. Forty years.

When God appeared to Moses in the burning bush He told Moses he had seen the oppression of His people and He wanted Moses to go to Egypt and lead His people to their own fertile and spacious land. The land “flowing with milk and honey”.

10 Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt.” 11 But Moses protested to God, “Who am I to appear before Pharaoh? Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?” 12 God answered, “I will be with you. And this is your sign that I am the one who has sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God at this very mountain.” 13 But Moses protested, “If I go to the people of Israel and tell them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ they will ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what should I tell them?” 14 God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. Say this to the people of Israel: I Am has sent me to you.” 15 God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: Yahweh. The God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.

This is my eternal name,
my name to remember for all generations. -Exodus 3:10-15 (NLT)

In verse 11 Moses protests with God. Who Am I? I am not… and he immediately tries disqualifying himself as a candidate to do God’s work.

Wonder what Moses was thinking. Well, I know I was a prince and have had training, but you know God I killed a man and then they tried killing me… and… well uh… Who am I?

Can you see Moses trying to talk God out of this task? (Even if he didn’t say it out loud) Sound familiar to anyone?

God doesn’t try to give him a pep talk here. He doesn’t try telling him all the ways he is qualified for the job and how amazing he will be at it. Look back at verse 12 God answers, “I will be with you.”
Again Moses protests to God. He tries again. Well uh… if I say this then they will say, who is it that is sending you?

First of all, Moses sees a burning bush and it is not being consumed by the fire. Secondly, the VOICE OF THE LORD is coming from this bush. I don’t know about you but I tend to think I am going to act on that command from the Lord.

But would I? Do I tend to um well um… around the things God asks me to do, big or small?

Do I start to list all my shortcomings and my inadequacies? Do I start to tell God all the things that make me not worthy to do His work?

God answers him in the most amazing way. Tell them I AM WHO I AM.

He is telling Moses I have always been, I will always be.

What I don’t see is how I am able or worthy to do God’s work. Honestly, I am not.

God is not asking me to go do his work alone. He is not asking me to come with all my super talents and try to impress the world with all I can do.

God answers Moses and He tells us simply, saying I AM.

God wants us to come with a willing obedient heart. Not the best resume.

He will use us for His will and for His purposes and He will equip us to do the work that He asks us to do.

When I come to Him saying I am not… GOD reminds me it’s okay because… I AM.

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Thirst No More

Jaime Wiebel — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 21:45:00 +0000

When something happens in the day my first instinct is to run to the phone and call my best friend, my husband.

If I am struggling with the kids or if one of them is being especially trying today… off I run.

Something really funny happens… off I run.

I am not able to talk to my husband about every situation because he is at work. As soon as I start this relay back to the phone, I realize, I have to wait for him to be available.

Often times, that need leaves me feeling alone and secluded. Even though I have other people around me (my kids) I begin to sometimes feel isolated.

This would probably explain my talks-a-lot syndrome. Anyone else have this? I get around other moms or really anyone who will listen and I begin talking their ears off. My off button seems to be malfunctioning, and I just cannot shut my mouth.

The great news is there is nothing really wrong with me. We were made to be social with one another. We were not made to be isolated and secluded.

I am left with this question. As much as I seek out relationships with others, my husband, my family, my friends, am I seeking that kind of relationship with my creator? The One who seeks our relationship as much as we seek it with others?

After this giant workout of running to talk to this person or that person, the bottom line is, I am thirsting for something more. As much as I love my family and friends not one of them can quench my thirst like my Heavenly Father.

I am reminded of the women at the well. You can read the full version in John 4:1-42. I love this story for many reasons so I want to explore it a little bit with you.

In the first part of this chapter Jesus and the disciples are going from Judea to Galilee. Verse 4 says: And He had to pass through Samaria.

The word had I find very interesting. You see as Jewish people traveled in this region they did not go through Samaria. In fact, even though it was the shorter route, they would go out of their way to travel around it.

In John, we are told that Jesus had to go this way. The word here means it was necessary. It was necessary for Jesus to go this way. Why? What did He have in mind?

I am not going to begin to pretend I know the mind of Christ but let’s look at what He did while He was there and maybe we can see why he had to go this way.

Verse 6: Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

The woman continues her line of questioning and asks Jesus if He is greater than Jacob.

13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”15The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.”

Sir give me this water so I will be thirsty no more. I love her immediate desire. Read on and you will see why her life has left her with this desire.

16 He said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.” 17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.”

Look at her desire for relationship. She has not only had one husband but had five husbands. Now the man she was living with wasn’t even her husband.

Jesus doesn’t rebuke this woman here. What He tells her is very simple yet it went to her core.

Why did Jesus have to go this route? Why does He seek us out on the route we are traveling on?

He wants us to know this.

I know you. I know all that you have done. I know all your past mistakes. I know who you are today and I know the choices that you will make tomorrow.

So He came with this important message.

I have what you need. I am not just interested in your current position in life. I have the living water you need to satisfy your soul, not just to quench a thirsty mouth.

He comes to the well to offer eternal life. No matter your past. No matter your current situation, that you may see no way out of. His message is the same.

Verse 25 says: The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.” 26Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”

WOW! Were you ready for that? Here Christ declares for the first time, to a woman, to a Samaritan Women, this amazing statement. I AM HE! I AM HE! No more questions could be asked. She knew and His offer to her is the same He offers you today.

Are you thirsty for this water? The water that satisfies your soul. The type of water that requires only one drink and you will never thirst again.

I don’t know about you but as great as my relationships are, I always need a little more.

So instead of running to my phone, I can run to Christ. He has the water I need to thirst no more.

If you would like to read another post checkout Will You Follow
Bible References used from BibleHub.com

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Family Fun Friday

Jaime Wiebel — Tue, 26 May 2015 16:54:00 +0000

I had the amazing opportunity to go to my son’s classroom for Family Fun Friday. I was actually going to have my sister go and talk about her job as an ecologist but it turned out that she was sick and I had to go in her place.

I love how God changes our plans in unexpected ways. Since last minute is my specialty, I decided to go and talk about my current pursuits in serving God in my life.

I had a great afternoon talking to the students about writing, blogging and loving my Lord. What an amazing opportunity to mix things that I love most. My children, my opportunities to spread the Good News of the Gospel through writing, and talking to the students about how much God impacts my whole life.

I extended to the students an opportunity to guest blog on my page. This was voluntary (and meant extra homework), so I am glad to have received an entry.

This entry is from Olivia. I asked the students to draw a picture and write about how God affects their lives and gave them several writing ideas.

Thank you Olivia for your entry. Great Job and thank you for sharing your beautiful heart.

Olivia wrote “When God Helps me!” Inside with her picture her quote says, “God help me, now I am not scared.”

Thank you Olivia for sharing a simple yet profound truth. How many times do we try to do things in our lives through our own strength? We sometimes even let our fears get in the way of God doing His work through us. Read Am I In the Way? for more on getting out of God’s way so He can do His work in us.

Once we submit our fears to the Lord and rely on Him, He is free to release our fears.

Olivia, remember this amazing promise that Moses gave to Joshua before entering the land God had promised to His people, from Deuteronomy 31:8. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD will personally go ahead of you. He will be with you; he will neither fail you nor abandon you. (NLT)

We are told time and time again, DO NOT BE AFRAID! I love this promise. We are told that the LORD will personally go before us. How awesome He is! With that amazing promise we don’t have to be afraid. We can embrace our fears and in His presence we can be Fearless.

Enjoy this beautiful new song called Fearless by Mia Fieldes.

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Had Enough? Here’s a Cup of Sufficient Grace!

Jaime Wiebel — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:29:00 +0000

How many of you woke up today and thought enough already?
Today is a new day and I am ready for a new beginning. You have been going
through your life and day after day it seems to be the same rehashed story just
a different day.

Have you ever seen the movie Groundhog Day? Bill Murray, the
star of the show, wakes up and it is the same day over and over again. At first
he is so down and out; he thinks I cannot live this day over again and refuses
to get out of bed. It is just an
unbearable situation.

Have you been there? Waking up to start a new day with a
grumble, with an, “I cannot take another day like I had yesterday.”

Recently, in my life, I had those days over and over again. I
wasn’t refusing to get out of bed but it was really taking a toll on me. It was
really beginning to take a toll on my family and friends because they had to
listen to my grumbles. My heart and attitude to say the least was sour. If that
was you, I am sorry.

I felt like my grumbles were legitimate. I am still not sure
that they were not legitimate, that is not the point. My grumbles were being
poured out to the wrong sources.

I am the type of person to wear my emotions on my sleeve. I
feel so deeply, that I quickly get hurt. This hurt was driving deep down into
my soul. I kept thinking today is a new day. I can brush off my feelings from
yesterday and start over today. These feelings, however, didn’t want to give up
so easily.

I would try to wrap my brain around this, sometimes all
day. It began to consume me until it was
almost eating at every heart-string that I have.

Look back at the last few paragraphs, do you see yourself
there? Do you hear yourself there? Now look carefully at how much I tried to figure this all out.

I would cry about this. I would talk about it to everyone
that I thought could help me change it. I was putting all my greatest efforts
at making my situation different.

As I looked back at all my efforts, they seemed to fade with
each passing day. I would wake up the next day to do it all over again.

I was becoming so busy at laying it at others feet and well,
they couldn’t fix it. I certainly couldn’t fix it. Now I realize God didn’t
want me to fix it.

Don’t get me wrong I was praying about this situation. I was
asking God to fix it the way I wanted Him to and in my time. My prayers and
thoughts were not entirely selfish, but I was praying that my will be done and
not God’s. I was praying as if He is
some sort of fix it my way and we can all move on, happily ever after, kind of
God.

Until the moment, listen to this carefully, until the moment I prayed for Him to
change me, and for Him to align me with His will, did He answer my prayers. I surrendered
it to Him. Please read Lay Down All Your Heavy Burdens to get more insight on
surrendering.

In Matthew 11:28 Jesus
says, “Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

Do you have those prayers? Are you praying regularly for God
to fix the situation that you are in? Are you treating Him like some sort of
genie God on your knees day and night trying to get Him to do what you are
asking Him?

In 2 Corinthians 12, Paul, who became one of God’s greatest missionaries,
tells us about a thorn that he has in his flesh. This was not an actual thorn.
What he was saying was he had this affliction tormenting him so much and he pleaded
three times for the Lord to take it away.

I felt like this was me. I was pleading with God. I was
crying out to him. When He wasn’t fixing it the way I wanted Him to. When He
wasn’t laying out the path I wanted Him to, I pleaded in torment.

My heart was breaking. I thought that since my heart was
breaking for the things God wants our hearts to break for, like the injustice
to his people, this was okay.

This is what Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 12:9 that God
said to him, this is what God tells me, and this is what He is telling you
right now in the midst of your tormented days. Paul says, But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is
made perfect in weakness,” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my
weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

God does not promise us an easy life free of burden and
affliction. He promises that He is enough for us in the midst of the burdens,
if we lean on Him.

God can fix His own situations, I can’t.

I can
surrender. I can ask for my thoughts and actions to be aligned with His will,
and not my own.

Seems simple? That’s the tough part. It means surrendering
myself, taking up my cross daily (Luke 9:23), and living in alignment with the
will of God.

Are you in what seems like an unbearable situation, in a
state of personal torment?

God wants you to draw near to Him. He wants you to give it
to Him. Look back at 2 Corinthians 12:9 He says, My grace is sufficient for
you. It is enough for you. It is actually all you need. He also says His power
is made perfect in your weakness.

Are you feeling weak? Are you feeling like you cannot do
this again today? Give it up. Ask God to take your heavy burdens. Ask God to
help you draw closer to Him and to live in alignment with His will. He will
then show you His awesome power.

Please share this with a friend, you never know someone’s
real heart or the personal struggles that they may be going through. And guess
what, you can’t fix them anyway, but God can. May you extend to them that opportunity?

Please share in the comments below how God has made His
power perfect in your weaknesses. You can also encourage us with comments about
how He has lifted a heavy burden when you have surrendered.

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