Chorus:
I get to love you.
It’s the best thing that I’ll ever do.
I get to love you.
It’s a promise I’m making to you:
Whatever may come your heart I will choose
Forever I’m yours, Forever i do.

I get to love you.”

Are you crying yet?  I haven’t stopped listening to it since the wedding.  I’d never heard it before, but it’s so perfect and I made myself remember the words so I could look it up when I got home.  🙂

2. Someone I prayed for made a miraculous recovery.  There are two sisters who are clients at my job and one got incredibly sick.  It was to the point where you could say it was just over.  I was so upset over this, but prayed for a miracle.  The other sister was obviously distraught and I hadn’t asked about her for I didn’t want to be nosy or upset her.  She came in one day and brought her up and said she was doing much better.  I started crying and was so excited to hear this!  The weekend before I was listening to a sermon by Charles Stanley about God’s Silence and he mentioned Lazarus.  When he did for some reason this lady popped in my head and I prayed for her and said what a miracle it would be if this lady not only recovered, but did well.

My God is a provider, a healer, and a miracle worker.

“CONFESS YOUR FAULTS ONE TO ANOTHER, AND PRAY ONE FOR ANOTHER, THAT YE MAY BE HEALED. THE EFFECTUAL FERVENT PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN AVAILETH MUCH.” – JAMES 5:16

I got to see two answered prayers in one week!  It was so amazing and a testament to how good my God is.  I am so thankful to finally be thankful.  My God does hear my prayers.  Sometimes, the answer is no.

With all of this said I’ll tell you this also.

Last week I read something I had written a while back and realized how far I have come in my journey with God.  He has delivered me from so much.  I almost forgot how I once was crippled with anxiety and afraid of everything.

“BEHOLD, I WILL DO A NEW THING; NOW IT SHALL SPRING FORTH; SHALL YE NOT KNOW IT? I WILL EVEN MAKE A WAY IN THE WILDERNESS, AND RIVERS IN THE DESERT.” – ISAIAH 43:19

I went from being afraid of everything and never sharing what was on my mind to having to control my tongue and repenting.  First, I had God cleanse me of fear and then had to be cleansed from bitterness.  Walking with God is definitely a marathon and not a sprint.  He is Creator of time and has eternity to wait out our hissy fits.  I am so thankful we cannot be plucked from His hand.  I am so thankful I did not get what I so desperately wanted and told a friend it is unfathomable how much God loves me.
“She will be ok” as I threw both spiritual and physical fits over having to give up what I wanted most.

God: “I’ll wait.”

I cannot wrap my head around someone loving me so much and being so patient with me and loving me this way.

I actually can explain how I fell:
You see, my music came on and all of a sudden something I prayed about crossed my mind for the 1,001 time.  God had already told me no 1,000 times and when the thought crossed my mind I fell.  I could only laugh and say, “Ok…still a no?”.  But, for real.  I didn’t even look around to see if anyone was outside.  I sprang up so fast like nothing happened and just ran straight home.  There was a man sitting in his truck in his driveway, but I think he was oblivious to what happened.  I thought about it later and I really could’ve hurt myself so I figured God said, “This is a warning and protection”.

“Are you sure it’s still a no??”  Too funny.

I still have some nice bruises on my legs and my elbow is still pretty banged up a week later.

This morning I had to deliver an order at 9 AM.  Last night I had a plan.  I would wake up and ice them, get to the gym at 7, run 4 miles (about 40 minutes), come home to shower, and then deliver my cakes.

There’s always a lesson, right?

I woke up early enough, but didn’t get to the gym until 7:30.  I know you are concerned, but clearly have lived through the end of the world that occurred.  My goal was to run 4 miles.  I was listening to a sermon and hit 3.47 on the treadmill.  You realize I was over halfway done and only had .53 miles to go.  Just over a half mile.  I was even doing great on time.  But, mentally my thoughts were going, “You can’t finish this.  You will run out of time.”

I had to make a decision.  Quitting wasn’t one of them.  So, I turned the sermon off and said Uh UH… and blasted “Not Today” by Hillsong.

“Let the devil know NOT TODAY!… Fear is just a liar running out of breath…”

You know what?  I finished my 4 miles at 40:01 and mentally laughed.  Had I not had a mental breakdown I could’ve done better, but I am happy with my time as that was my original plan and of course was completed.

It may sound silly to yell at the devil during a run, but if you can’t cut off lies in the small things how will you be able to turn off the lies in the big things in your life?  My God says I can.  He is my defender and redeemer.  I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength and that means finishing my morning run in time.

I also tested out a Keto king cake recipe for no reason.

I am on variation 5…

“I am testing another Keto King cake recipe when I thought to make a public disclaimer for people who were interested:1. It is not King cake.
2. It is not King cake.
3. Possibly “essence of King cake”
4. Possibly named “King cake flavor”
5. It is not King cake.