Thankful Thursday – Conviction and God’s Word

Do you ever wish you could sing really well, or preach, or teach Sunday School and Children’s church? Or on the other hand do you wish sometimes that you didn’t do those things? I know this is an odd way to start a blog post but I must confess I’ve been desiring to serve the Lord like so-and-so does and thinking “why can’t I do….. like this person.” “why do I have to do this when I could be doing that?” All of these things stemmed from not being satisfied with where God has me, happy with what He has me doing.

God, ever so faithfully, brought these verses to my mind the other day as I was contemplating my dis-contentment.

1 Corinthians 12

1. Now concerning Spiritual gifts, bretheren, I would not have you ignorant.

8. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

9. To another Faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

12. For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

13. For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body…

15. If the foot shall say, because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

16. And if the ear shall say, because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

17. If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

18. But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

21. And the eye cannot say unto the hand,  have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

22. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem more feeble, are necessary:

28. And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

29. Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers?  are all workers of miricles?

30. Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

I know I’ve skipped over some verses here in an effort to shorten this post and give you an idea of where I’m going with this. My point is that God used these verses in my life this week to say “Hey, I don’t have you doing such and such because I need you to do this” What I do in my service for God is not more or less important than what someone else is doing, it is right in God’s will, where I need to be! I continued reading:

31. But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

1 Corinthians 13

1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2. And though I have te gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

8. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

13. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

I don’t know how I ever missed that these two chapters “just fit” together but I realized, more importantly, that whatever I do in the service of the Lord, if its not done with love, “it profiteth me nothing.”  I hope I got across my thoughts clearly today and that this was at least a little help/encouragement to someone else.

Random Pictures

I finally got around to downloading some pictures off of my camera and wanted to share them but each of these activities didn’t seem like they needed their own post so I’m going to combine :)

 

Back when Matt, Missy and Jonathan were here we took Jonathan to the duck pond in Shannon’s convertible mustang. so here is Jonathan and I in the back seat with our all-too-cool hats on. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Teens playing outside before a Wednesday Evening Service.

 

Some of them are a little nuts :S wonder where they get that from :S

 

Of coarse I had to include Easter Pictures! We had a wonderful day and it turned out very nice as well.

 

 

 

This is Austin and Mikaela

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, Kenny and I went Easter egg hunting with Austin and Mikaela.

I have to tattle on Austin… This picture was taken after lunch, the reason he has his hands like that is because he spilt some of his lunch on his shirt and tie. Poor kid.

This is Jessica, Mikaela, Austin and Robbie

 

 

 

 

And last but not least the match-y, match-y couples :)

 

 

Steven and Christina

Kenny and Becky (us)

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter and that you enjoyed my random pictures :) Please, if you think about it, pray for our youth rally and revival services at Emmanuel Baptist Church!

Thankful Thursday – Good Friends & Family

I know one of my first Thankful Thursday’s was about friends and I’ve done one on family before too, but I just couldn’t pass up telling you some more!

On Thursday evenings Kenny usually comes down after work to spend part of his weekend with me and sometimes we get together with Brittney and Stephany, two good friends of mine since grade school! This particular Thursday Stephy had to work late and I was going to be at Emmanuel with Kenny on Friday and Saturday for our Youth Lock-in and an Anniversary Party, so he didn’t come down. But Brittney still came over, poor girl, and I put her to work she volunteered to help address invitations.

I have truly been blessed by all the people who have pitched in to help with Kenny and my wedding!

Mom, Brittney and I sat at our Dining room table and watched “The Inheritance” while we addressed all 175 invitations – I actually don’t know the exact number we addressed but we ordered 175 to make sure we would have plenty.

Thank you Mom and Brittney for all your hard work!

DIY – Bath Soak & Sugar Foot Scrub

Ok as of right now none of my bridesmaids or ladies helping with the wedding can read this post! :) Just Kidding :)
I mentioned yesterday in my quick update on our lives that I had made gifts to give out at the wedding and these are two of them. First I show you my really cute jars and then give you the recipe’s for the Bath Soak and Sugar Scrub (so if your just here to get a really good, easy-peasy recipe’ you now know where to find it!)


First, I measured the jar lids and drew all the circles on the back of scrapbook paper then cut them out. – I told you this was going to be really simple! 




After that I hot glued just one edge of the label, recipe’ facing down, to the jar lid and hot glued a bow on top of that.

Ta-Da!!!! Ok, so this might not be exciting to anyone but me, but I had fun doing this and I hope the ladies receiving these will enjoy them. :)
Now for the Recipe’s
Best Bath Soak Ever! – I got this recipe’ from a good friend, who is actually going to be in the wedding, Amanda!
1 cup                Epsom Salt
1/3 cup             Sea Salt
1 TBS               Baby Oil
2-3 drops         Scented oil – I used vanilla, the original recipe’ called for Lavendar, you can use whatever you like and it should work just fine.
Mix together – When I’m making this for myself I dump all the ingredients into an old mayonnaise jar and shake it up until all the salts are blended with the oils.
To Use – sprinkle a couple tablespoons worth into warm bath water and enjoy :)
Sugar Scrub – I got this recipe’ from a blog I ran across called Maybe Matilda
3 cups                  White Sugar
1 cup & 2 TBS     Good quality oil – I used Baby oil since that’s what I had on hand for the bath soak but the lady I got this recipe’ from said she used olive oil.
*Mix these together in a bowl before adding Essential Oil.*
10 drops              Essential Oil per jar
I just did Vanilla for each of my jars to keep it simple but if you wanted to do a different scent for each jar you would just separate the mixture above into different containers before adding Essential Oil and mixing.
To Use – This is great if you give yourself a pedicure and want to gently scrub the “ruff parts” off, I’ve also used this on my hands to scrub paint off. Whatever you use it for it will make your skin nice and soft!

Enjoy!

I linked this project up to Handy Man, Crafty Woman

Busy Busy Busy!

Once again I have to apologize for not blogging regularly. Kenny just informed me Sunday that the wedding is 7 weeks away! Needless to say we are very busy!

Here’s a quick run down of what we’ve been up to.

• Lock-in with the Teens
• The Peroki Family, Missionaries to Romania, presented their work and were taken on for support
• Finished my veil
• Painted the mirrors and window at the Barbershop
• Addressing Invitations – Those will be in the mail soon!
• Crossroads Rescue Mission came to present their ministry
• Still searching for a car to replace my car – you can read about that here
• Made Bath Soak and Sugar Scrub to give as gifts at the wedding
• Services at Sugar Mountain Assisted Living
• Preparing choir for Easter – this is more Kenny, I just sit at the piano and play around!
• Preparing for Revival and the S.W.A.T. T.E.A.M. Rally for the teens ( Spiritual Warfare And Training for Teens Energized to Actively Minister )
• Mom finishing the Tax Season YAY!!!!!!!!
• Cleaning and preparing for Easter at our house
• Designing my own blog header and layout – its actually a lot more fun and less work than I thought it would be :)

I know there are a lot of other things we’ve been doing but in all the hub-bub I can’t remember what they are! Later this week I’ll be sharing some more details and pictures about the stuff we’ve been doing. Until then…