Chapter 29

Good evening everyone, I hope that this post finds all of you having a wonderful Friday night! It is March 7th, 2014 and I am finding myself two days into my 29th year of life. This past Wednesday was my Birthday (hence why I have titled this Post Chapter 29). Birthdays are great events that help us to look back at the past year and see all that God has done and then to look forward to all that God is going to be doing. The phrase I found myself saying over and over again on my Birthday was, "God is SO faithful!" In one year, God has brought an incredible joy, peace, direction, focus and love into my life. He took the ashes found in my 28th year of life and made them into something beautiful in my 29th. He has blessed me with a Church Community I love to call home, he has continued to grow relationships in my life that encourage me and bring life to me and also, and he has blessed me with new friends whom I feel so blessed to have. He has provided me SO many people in my life who love and support me and on my Birthday, this was MORE than evident. God is faithful. He has placed opportunities to disciple women (my age and younger) in their relationship with the LORD and wow-the desires of my heart are being given to me. I can attest to the fact that He blesses everything that we do in His name and for His glory. There is so much light surrounding me; a great contrast to that of darkness that seemed to only cloak me in the previous year. I am just in awe of all that God is capable of. He has grown my trust in him, my faith in him and my peace. Where all of these use to lack, they are now in abundance. All because I bent my knees to doing His will. Was that easy? By no means! Was it worth it? Yes. The more we press into him, the greater he grows our desire for him. For instance, He has placed this burning desire to memorize Scripture and to challenge and lead others to do such. This past week, Ps 62:1-2, 8 was the passage memorized. It is written, " In God alone my soul waits in silence. From him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall never be greatly shaken....Trust in Him at all times, O people, pour out your heart to him. God is a refuge for us." This is now tucked away into my heart and my head. Such beautiful truth. This passage proclaims that we are able to trust in him at all times and he promises to be our refuge! How incredible. God is faithful. I am anticipating what the next adventure will be. Will I get to the opportunity to lead more women in their walk with Christ? Will I finally get to meet my life partner and bless him as his wife? Will I get to continue to do life with people in my surrounding community? Wherever God will place me, I know that He will be right beside me as he always has been. And truly, that is the best truth present in my 29th Chapter. Be blessed!