Love

Well, I don’t know what it is about this age (2 1/5 to 3) but kids just seem to loose it! Jake has been acting out so much the past few weeks. Some times he can be so sweet and others times he is totally out of control! Well today, he got a hold of a crayon when he was supposed to be taking a nap. I went in to check on him and he was coloring. He was coloring his bed! Not ON his bed, his BED! Then as I started to look around his room, it was like a horror film! I could actually here the music! He colored all over his bed, Wyatt's bed, his rocking horse and my beautiful light green glider! My glider! O no! I thought I was going to burst in to tears! By the grace of God, I took a deep breath and was able to talk to him and not get angry or yell.
I have been praying 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 in my life.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. (I) Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.
I have been praying for patients and the ability to control my temper and be kind to every one. I want to be more loving... especially to my kids. I am called to love... I want to Love...Love is not easily angered and 1 Peter 4:8 says
Above all, keep your love for one another at full strength, since love covers a multitude of sins.

I Love my kids. I want to love them as God say to love them not just how I feel like loving them. Like I said I had been praying for this and God gave me the opportunity today to put it into action. Jake was punished for his actions, but not out of my anger out of my love for him and wanting him to make right choices. He said he was sorry and I said I forgave him, and I did. Love does cover a multitude of sins! Gods love covers my sin and lets me forgive to. I thank God for testing me and showing me He is faithful to answer prayers and to be working on me. Thankfully, I believe everything will come out and can be washed...just like me.

So, I was eating some Costco chicken today. I really love Costco chicken. I was once asked a question "if you only had one food to eat for a month what would it be?" for me I think it would be Costco chicken. It's good, versital, healthy, full of protine and low in fat. What a great food chicken is. So as I am thinking about this my mind starts to wander a bit. I started to think about the Isrealites wondering through the desert and how God gave them manna falling from the sky to eat. Now if I know God at all I am sure manna was a very well balanced meal. Good in protien and filled with stuff our body needs to survive. How is it that the people could grow tired of this food falling from the sky? They had to eat it for 40 years! Not only that, but they were promised a land flowing with milk and honey. Why would they want manna when they could be eating milk and honey? God wanted to deliver them to the promised land, but they were the ones keeping it from happening. No wonder God did not give them better food or more variety...He did not want them to stay where they were! He wanted them to move forward with faith they did not have. God can take us to great places if we let Him lead and take us there.

"Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe." Jude 1:5

So, that's what I thought about...while eating chicken. :)

heaven

Jake told me today that he wants to go to heaven. He said, I want to go to heaven to be with Jesus and give him a biiiig hug. I said o'ya?
He said 'good fish go to heaven and bad fish go to hail'(hell), 'so I want to be a good fish and go be with Jesus' (Matthew 13:47-49).

I thought to myself... everyone wants to go to heaven, even the devil wants to go to heaven but does not want to submit to God. Only those who love and obey God and submitt to his athourity, will (John 14:21). Then I thought... Why do people want to go to heaven? Heaven is a place to stay in the presents of God and worship Him always. A place to stay and gather with others that love Him. If people don't want to do that on this planet and this life... why would they want to do it for all eternity?
I thank God, that even at two years old Jake loves and wants to be with Jesus, now and for eternity. Our prayer for him and the prayer at his dedication was that he may never know a day that he didn't know and love Jesus. We can now see that prayer is already being answered. Thank you God for your word, the ability to pray and for answered prayers.

Jesus lover of my soul

Jake likes it when I sing to him before he goes to sleep. I sing to him before naps and bed time, he wont sleep unless I do. SO today, before nap, I was singing Jesus lover of my soul. The words are Jesus lover of my soul all consuming fire is in your gaze, Jesus I want you to know I will follow you all of my days... When I got to this part my mind started to wander. I will follow you all of my days... Will I follow you all of my days? I know I will be tested, I think about my brothers and sisters in Christ all over the world dieing for there faith, and I think would I still follow you? Would I follow Jesus unto death like he asks? what if my children were being threatened would I still follow? I love my kids, I am not sure I could handle that! As I am thinking all this, more than a few verses came to mind. Matthew 10:28
Don't be afraid of those who want to kill your body, they cannot touch your soul. Fear only God, who can destroy both body and soul in hell.and Matthew 10:37
if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.

OK, great. I know I am to love God more than my family... he commands it and says I am not worthy of Him if I do. I also know I am not to fear man but God alone. As I continue to sing the song with this all going on in my head... I think I will follow you all of my days. Will I? I want to, I can say that I will, but will I... I am so week!? Then by the grace of God He comes to me in that small and gentle voice and say to me 2 Peter 1:3
By His divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself my means of His marvelous glory and excellence.
wow, I said to my self! He has already given me everything I need because I have come to know Him!!! I am gong to be OK! and beyond that He said in 1 Corinthians 10:13
The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful! He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.
wow, again! I know that when I am tempted not just in every day stuff but even when I am tempted to not follow Him he is faithful to show me a way out because he loves me and gave himself for me!!! thank you Jesus that I can so completely trust in you!!! Thank you for your word that is alive and speaks to me!

are you saved?

www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?sid=1229081242121

I took a listen to this sermon today and it about knocked my socks off. I have doubted before if I was truly saved or not. Now I can look at scripture and see that I am after heavy evaluation. Praise God! I would ask you to do the same as I did and compare your self to what the bible has to say. The bible says nothing about praying a prayer one time to be saved but says everything about repenting and believing. Not every one who says they are a christian really is. Not every one that confesses Christ as Lord with there mouth will go to haven. Please take a listen to this.
You can listen to just the audio or scroll down a bit and watch the video.
www.sermonaudio.com/sermonifo.asp?sid=1229081242121
Matthew 7:21-23
Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord' will enter the Kingdom of heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord' did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles? then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'

Bible Verses

So, we have been trying to teach Jake some bible verses. We have been so surprised to see how well he is learning them! We got a few that he knows on camera before his nap (only two on this blog but more to come). He is tired and being a little quite but you still get the gist. When I here Jake say he loves the bible or here him praying for our church and the people in our lives or here him quote scripture or tell us bible storys, I fill so over joyed. Now with my two boys and now that Jake is getting older I am understanding more and more Psalm 127: 3-5

Children are a gift from the Lord; They are a reward from Him. Children born to a young man are like arrows in a warrior's hands. How joyful is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be put to shame when he confronts his accusers at the city gates. (nlt)

I often have to remind myself of this on the hard days, when they are crying or not listening or pooping there pants. It encourages me to continue to raise my kids for and according to the Lords will. It really helps in the hard times and becomes even more true in the good. I thank God for our little arrows!

night out

WOW, WOW,WOW. That is what I have to say about the Lion King. I had the opportunity last night to go see it at the Sacramento convention center. My mom bought her and my sister in law and my cousin and me tickets. It was so much fun. We all loved it. If you get the opportunity to go, I say go and see. The costumes were amazing! visually it was just stunning and the music was equally as beautiful.
Further more it was fun to get out of the house. I have not been to the theater in a few years! and I love it. Its just so darn expensive! so even more a blessing that I did not have to buy my ticket!
This was my first time away from Wyatt for longer than a couple hours. Kevin had both boys all night. Wyatt would not take a bottle and would not eat with out me there so that was bad and I am not sure how that will work out in the future for other outings but we shall see.
sorry no pictures this time, I could not take pictures in the theater.