♫O Great God♫

Lately, God has really been teaching me to trust in Him with my future... which seems to be a common lesson for me. But once again, He keeps showing me that He has control in the driver seat. One way is a book I am reading for my Theology class by John MacArthur called Found: God's Will. Find the Direction and Purpose God Wants for Your Life. A little book everyone should read at some point! And other ways through songs, scripture, and even through the little things in life.

Thursday morning I was really struggling, and a line from a song on Vally of Vision popped in my head, o great God of highest heaven, occupy my lowly heart. EGG! I had to listened to it on my iPod.  

O great God of highest heaven
Occupy my lowly heart
Own it all and reign supreme
Conquer every rebel power
Let no vice or sin remain
That resists Your holy war
You have loved and purchased me
Make me Yours forevermore

I was blinded by my sin
Had no ears to hear Your voice
Did not know Your love within
Had no taste for heaven’s joys
Then Your Spirit gave me life
Opened up Your Word to me
Through the gospel of Your Son
Gave me endless hope and peace

Help me now to live a life
That’s dependent on Your grace
Keep my heart and guard my soul
From the evils that I face
You are worthy to be praised
With my every thought and deed
O great God of highest heaven
Glorify Your Name through me

This is now my life prayer at the moment. Help me now to live a life, that's dependent of Your grace. Not what is here at the moment, not what lies ahead, but on Your grace alone! For You have a way! Your will be done! O great God, glorify Your name through me!

If you think of me, please pray that I will continue to look up, and not forward. That my heart will be occupied with His grace, and not my desires. 

You Are EVERYTHING I Need

This is my new favorite song at the moment. With school starting up, I feel like I don't have time for anything else. To tell the truth, with other stuff plus school, I'm a bit stressed... and I'm not one to get stressed. Once again, I think God is really using this time in my life, as a working single and now college student, to put my trust in Him. It's not all about having a perfect grade... which at least I have an A in Humanities. He is everything I need! He is my strength in my weakness! 

2 Corinthians 12:9 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 of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me."

If you think of me, please pray for me during this time in my life. That I will trust God during this season He has me in! And also, that I can be able to see His grace through out my day. Because it's there! 

History, History, History

Last week I signed up for my classes. And because Liberty has something wrong with their website for you to sign up for classes, you have to call. Well, I didn't have a very nice lady to talk to, and long story short I am taking history and humanities in the same term. I love history! Math and history are my to strong subjects. But I'm not to thrilled with taking two history's for my first term. So prayer would be much appreciated!
I am just reminded that this is one more thing God is using to help me to learn to trust Him. I'm not stressed, just kinda bummed. I'm also reminded of Ecclesiastes 3:1; "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven." He's got me doing two history subjects at once for a reason... maybe I'm going to love it. But please pray that when I start them next week, I will continue to trust God, and also, they would go smoothly since this is my first term heading back to school.

Chapter 2: A House

Sorry it's been a while since I have updated about the move. Not sure if I said this in Chapter 1, but my parents were planning on going up to VA toward the end of April to look for a house. Well, by the grace of God, we found a house without making a trip! If that's not an open door for this move, I don't know what is! Please pray for me though. Kel and I are gonna have to share a room again, and I'm not to thrilled about it. But I do know this is God's provision.
Also, I've been kinda stressing out a little, so please pray! Knowing I'll have to be looking for a job is weighing on me. I don't want a job that will be taking me away from my family, along with my church family. I would love a office job, but I know God is in control!
I know this is kinda silly. But I've also been thinking, will I ever find the right guy? I just can't see any guy liking a girl like me. So, if you will, please pray that I'll be content being single. I would love to be a stay at home mom... but if that's not what God has for me, I want to do what He wants me to do.

His Sovereign Will

As some of you know, I've been going thru a hard time the last few months. And I haven't been trusting God like I should. To tell the truth, I've been falling away from him. I feel beat up... mentally and physically, and even at times I feel numb, because of all that has happened really in the last year. I don't get stressed out very easily, but lately, I get stressed out about everything. Same thing that happened to me 2 years ago, when I was getting sick and they thought my appendix erupted, but then the doctors finally said it is probably stress. Well, that has been happening at night again. I haven't felt like myself at all lately.
When we were in VA, I was able to meet a friend for coffee Wednesday night and she was so encouraging! It was one of the best parts of the trip. She is such a dear friend! God really used her to get to my broken heart.
For the next few days I was able to see God at work again. I was able to pray again, and I felt like he was listing for the first time in a long time. And on Sunday, my family went to Kingsway, and how great it was to be with our church family again! It was so encouraging! And worship was amazing! God once again used the song God Moves. And when the first line was sung, I just broke down in tears. "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform." Wow! "He plants His footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. Deep in His dark and hidden mines, with never-failing skill, He fashions all His bright designs, and works His sovereign will." Never-failing. I get a lump in my throat just thinking about it. And he fashions all his bright designs and works his sovereign will. Isn't he amazing? For the first time, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. It seems like the storm is passing. I'm not sure how long it's gonna take, but it's starting to.I love the part in the 3rd verse, "The bud may have a bitter taste, but sweet will be the flower." Things are gonna be hard, he allows them to be, but in the end he has a perfect plan for it all.
A new year has began, and I don't know what I'm gonna do, where I'm gonna live, who I'm gonna marry, or what 2011 alone holds. But I do know one thing... he knows. And he is going to work his sovereign will!
I use to think, God has plan A and plan B. And if plan A didn't work, he always had plan B. That is all just a bunch of mumbo jumbo. He has 1 plan, a "bright design", his sovereign will! And he has known about it since the beginning of time. In verse 2 of the song, it says, "O fearful saints new courage take, the clouds that you now dread, are big with mercy and will break, in blassings on your head. Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace. Behind a frowning providence, He hides a smiling face." A smilling face. See, he knows what's coming, and I can't wait to get there! But then again... he has his perfect timing. Let his will be done!

Needing God's Help

Hey friends,
Please pray for me. I must say, I'm getting a little scared about flying Monday morning. Going alone is making me nervous. My first plan leaves at the crack of dawn... and on the 22nd, I leave late at night. Please pray that God will be wiht me and keep me safe. And everything goes smoothly.
Also pray for me to trust God with my life. The last few days have been really hard. Today, has been a little better, but I really need God's help... I know I can't do this alone.

On another note... War Eagle!

Please Pray For Me!

I'm feeling a little stressed out! I know I'm needed to trust God with it... but it's hard! One thing that's on my mind is VA. I'm not worried about going to VA without my parents. Because I stayed here in Florida without them a few times. But it's the fly back home. I'm a little worried about my siblings. haha I guess it's my older sister/motherly instincts. Please pray! Knowing we will be changing in Atlanta... kinda stresses me out!
Also, a few other things I've been dealing with... I'm needing prayer for too. If you think about me, pray that God would give me peace with what He has given me, and that I will have the strength to trust in Him in this area!
I keep listening to "I Have a Shelter", and one verse I love! It says;
♫I have a shelter in the storm.When troubles pour upon me. Though fears are rising like a flood. My soul can rest securely. O Jesus, I will hide in You. My place of peace and solace. No trial is deeper than Your love. That comforts all my sorrows♫

He is good! 

What is God's direction?

Hey blog readers,
Please keep me in your prayers!!! I'm very lost at the moment!
Last week, my dad had a talk with me. About life. I told him I was not sure if I wanted to go to college.... He challenged me, that if I'm not going to college, I need to get a "plan" together. What I'm going to do instead....

Life is so hard! I've been praying... LOTS, that God would make the plan He has for me at this moment clear. One thing keeps coming up... but I'm trying to be careful about it. Making sure it's not my heart telling me this... because as some of you know... my heart has been wrong before! And it was really neat, last week my mom shared with me that scripture says "the heart is deceitful above all else!" I can totally relate!

But please pray for me! I'm not exactly sure what He has for me. Whether I don't go to college or I do. If so, where do I go? Do I go away or stay here? Do I move back to VA? I don't want to... but is that His plan for me? Also, my desire is to get married young... but is that His plan? Or, is it something else...?
He has a plan for me!!! He says so in His Word! Jeremiah 29:11. It's time for that next step! =)

Change of plans?...

Life is hard! I'm learning that more and more, day by day. As a kid, you dream of when you are an adult, life will be so easy. HAHA NOT! I'm a planner! So, even in high school... I had my college life planned out! I was told I would get a basketball scholarship... I was hoping to go to UVA, get a business or sports related degree... get married after college, and start a family.
Things started changing right before I started my senior year of high school. Things came up, and I ended up not playing basketball my last year. I had looked forward to playing senior year my whole basketball "career"! To me... that... was... BIG! To be announced as a starting senior before a game was, ah, just to cool! Because of this, I was so stressed out, I got physically ill. Was not trusting God with it at all!
Fall of 2008, my parents began to talk about moving back to Pensacola, Florida. Moving back was never apart of my plan in life! I never wanted to move back here! So, when my parents said they were moving... I was planning on staying and living with my grandparents (which I had been doing 3 days a week already). God once again changed my plans!
Clearly I am here in P'cola... and I am so glad I moved.
But once again, God is changing my plans. At the end of January, I was really praying about what God wanted me to do in college. Doing Liberty University Online, and get a accounting degree was clear.
The last 2 weeks though, I have been uneasy about it all. Is God's plan for me to really go to college... at all?
Also... God has put it on my heart to be a wife and a mother. And I know some moms who went to college, got married, started having kids, never used their college degree... and are still paying for the loans. I'm not 100% sure I will get married... or even when... but it's just a thought....
Please pray for me! I'm feeling very lost in this area. Along with the pressure of everyone asking, "So what are you wanting to do in college?" That's not what life is about, right... to go to college?
As well as, pray that God would give me wisdom! What I need to do right now... what is His plan for me?

Starbucks-aholic

As most of you know (if not all) I love coffee... in particular, Starbucks Coffee. There has only been one drink from this company that I cannot drink! (the Pumpkin Spice Latte if you must know.) But my all time favorite is the classic Mocha Frappuccino. Mmmm, so good! =)

Well, the reason for this post, is not to go on and on about what I love. But to ask yall to pray for me!!!
Wednesday night we had care group, and we were talking about what we are passionate about. My dad was talking about how C.J. Mahaney had mentioned in a message that if he had 30 minutes to look at your check book, he could tell you what you are passionate about. Whether it be shoes, music, sports, etc. During the meeting, I was very convicted... just thinking to myself "what do I spend the most money on?" It did not take long till I thought Starbucks!
This week  alone I have bought 2 Mocha Fraps! And they are now $5! NOT FAIR! But do the math! haha That's $10 I have spent on coffee! Sooooo, I have concluded that I am going to buy one a month (if that!). Now that is not one drink a month... if ya want to get me a drink, please feel free! heehee ;) But that is me buying one! Please pray for me! It's so easy to run in to a Starbucks and get a drink. And it does not help that there is one in our Target... or that others have drive-thru!
It really get's ya thinking... "What am I passionate about?" There is always something you have a passion for. I wish I could say for myself it was the gospel... the Good News! But I hate to say it isn't!
Pray that I would have self control in this area... and God would use this to help me grow more passionate about the gospel, and not a silly coffee drink! As well as keeping me accountable! =)

Prayer requests

hey yall!
hope your are having a good week!!!!!

here are a few prayer request........

1. please pray that we can find a house.......... one that will fit our needs and that will allow 2 very big dogs and a cat!
   
2. also, please pray for me! that i can trust God with finding another job and that he will provide a car for me too.
   
3. that God will help us during this time, and give my parents wisdom.
   
4. and, just start praying that everything will go smoothly!!!!!

love ya friends!
=)brittany