This day marked the culmination of 6 weeks of exercising an attitude of gratitude and cultivating a re-commitment to making myself "available" , daily, for a more intimate relationship with Jesus, the Lover of my soul.
Even as I write those words I'm humbled by the stalk difference between me...and Him! The very fact that I had to "work" at this taught me so much about myself--the difference between my human weaknesses and His omnipotence; my limited, self- centered understanding and His omniscience; my flakiness and His unchanging faithfulness. God didn't just "show-up"...He "hung around" waiting for ME to show up! It's incredibly humbling to have to admit that it wasn't always easy to carve out the time to take pause, reflect back and put into words the experiences of each day. Not because I am such a busy person with such a full life...but because I am so innately selfish with my time and energy. Because it comes more natural to me to walk in fear before faith...in worry before worship. How grateful I am that Jesus IS alive and with me... that there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus...and that I need never lose heart...because I can be sure of this: "Though my outer man is wasting away my inner man is being renewed day by day. " So loving and patient is My Lord and my God! Thank you Jesus that "you are with me always, even to the end of the age because I would never want to do a single day without you!
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10/16/2012 06:23:41 am
Day 40.The Results Are In of 40 Days of looking for “infallible proof” of God’s Presence In My Life:
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Don't you just love how God meets each of us right where we are, at the point of our specific needs and "speaks" from His Word, to each of us so individually and personally! It never ceases to amaze me! Congrats on taking the challenge and finishing the course! Your post details the "rewards". Wow. Pretty awesome! Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks, Karen, for the invitation to join with you in this 40 day venture! My family has been a great encouragement through it and now that it is all over, my daughter said to me that she is thinking what she might like to do of her own along similar lines. That was the biggest indication to me of its worth and value! It is truly a happy thing when others who are close to us see our desire to draw nearer to Jesus, observe the results and thirst for the same themselves!
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Would you believe it was actually TWO years ago (In November) that I first took the challenge God whispered to my heart, to take that first 40 Day Journey, documenting each day for accountability? The 40 Days of Infallible Proof of God's Presence was a challenge posed by my Pastor, Jay Gibson of Harvest Oaks Church in Allen, TX. He, too, has been documenting his experiences with those he serves, for accountability. The blessings resulting have been multiplied in so many ways with the "sharing" by those who participated as they have served to "encourage each other, building one another up" in our faith and drawing us into greater intimacy with our Lord and Savior, Jesus.
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"The...account I made...that Jesus...presented Himself alive...by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days..."
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