My One Word....I Completely Blew it!

Yep...last week I COMPLETELY blew it! Seems appropriate since completely is my one word for 2012.

Last Wednesday I wrote this paragraph...

As I go through 2012, there are bound to be storms and times of stress. When that happens I want to turn to Jesus to calm my storm. I want to completely trust Him, completely surrender to Him, be completely sold out for Him. I need to stop living for me and live completely for Him!

Last Wednesday after I wrote that I had a melt down! Didn't take long for me to forget that in times of stress I will completely trust Him! So what was the cause of this melt down? Was is some great offense done to me? Was it devastating news? Was it illness? Finances? None of those...plain and simple it was shoes, yes I really said that...shoes (mixed with just a bit of PMS). Without going into too much detail, I ordered what I thought were going to the perfect shoes for my daughter's wedding and when they arrived...well...they caused a melt down. 

Just so you know I'm ok now. The shoes are sitting out for me to see everyday. They are beside another pair I found last week. Each time I walk by I think hmmmm...which shoes will be the ones I wear? They also remind me of my one word...completely. They remind me that just because I chose a word doesn't automatically make me able to completely trust and be completely surrendered and at complete peace!


I need daily, hourly and minute by minute (depending on the day) to Stop, Drop and Pray! When I feel that stress bubble up inside of me, I need to stop myself before I allow a mole hill to become a mountain. I need to drop my grip on the problem, and I need to drop to my knees! Then I need to pray, I need to release the trouble to God and ask Him to calm my anxious heart.


Thankfully, God showed me the error of my ways with a problem as simple as shoes, I know much greater stresses will pop up in my life. But if I remember that in order to COMPLETELY rely on Him I have to COMPLETELY give Him my problems, then I should be ok. It's still only January, I've got the whole year (and beyond) to learn this lesson!


Cast all your anxiety on him because He cares for you. 
1 Peter 5:7

So how's your week? How is your focus on your word doing for you?

Linking up with:

One Word Wednesday
Walk With Him Wednesday

5 Minute Friday...Awake

Today is 5 Minute Friday. I love today. The rules simple...one word...5 minutes...write!
 Today's word....AWAKE.

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I hear it faintly, that annoying music. It won't stop until I roll over and do my favorite thing...hit the snooze button! Sleep, I must have more sleep! This goes on for sometimes an hour, waking up is not my favorite thing to do.

But finally...I am awake. Awake with a mind racing of things to do today, worries that I forgot I had, awake to the reality that today my body decided to have a flare of my illness. Oh why did I wake up?

I reach for my Bible, I read a Psalm and then dive deeper into His word. I soak in His encouragement for me today. Nothing in my circumstances have changed, but I have started my day with Him. And now I realize I can do my list, my worries aren't such a big mountain any more. My icky body, still there but, for this I have Jesus!

My One Word...

For the year 2012 I have chosen to focus on one word. Instead of starting the year with a bunch of resolutions that will be broken in a matter of weeks, I want to focus on one word and let God change me. The word I have chosen for myself is completely.

The verse I will focus on is:
  He got up. rebuked the wind and said to the waves, "Quiet! Be still!" Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. Mark 4:39

As I go through 2012, there are bound to be storms and times of stress. When that happens I want to turn to Jesus to calm my storm. I want to completely trust Him, completely surrender to Him, be completely sold out for Him. I need to stop living for me and live completely for Him!

I have a song that sums up my word for me. 


The Stand 
by Hillsong


You stood before creation
Eternity within Your hand
You spoke the earth into motion
My soul now to stand

You stood before my failure
Carried the Cross for my shame
My sin weighed upon Your shoulders
My soul now to stand

So what can I say
What can I do
But offer this heart O God
Completely to You

So I'll walk upon salvation
Your Spirit alive in me
This life to declare Your promise
My soul now to stand

So what can I say
What can I do
But offer this heart O God
Completely to You

So I'll stand
With arms high and heart abandoned
In awe of the One who gave it all

So I'll stand
My soul Lord to You surrendered
All I am is Yours

How about you? Do you have one word? If so what is it? If not, prayerfully consider finding one!

Linking up today with:

One Word Wednesday
Walk with Him Wednesdays

5 minute Friday...Roar

Today is 5 minute Friday.
The day when I link up with Gyspy Mama and write for 5 minutes whatever comes to mind.

Today's word is ROAR.

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The first thing that comes to mind with the word roar is a Bible verse:

 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.  1 Peter 5:8

I think sometimes we forget that there is an enemy out to destroy us. He prowls around looking for ways to destroy us, to ruin our testimony, to give us doubt, to make us ineffective Christians.

He has worked in such undercover ways that we don't even realize he is lurking, waiting to destroy us.

-He didn't want prayer in schools...its gone.

-He doesn't want Christian marriages to be strong...divorce is rampant in the church.

-He doesn't want us to be witnesses for Jesus...we have allowed ourselves to be so busy we don't have time to even get to know our neighbors.

-He doesn't want us to believe the Bible...he makes us doubt the Genesis account of creation, and therefore the rest of the Bible as well.

We need to wake up and fight the battle. We can't let our enemy go around devouring us! We need to remember how the Bible ends...the good guys win!! So let's live our lives victoriously. Let's let our roar drown out his!

Happy New Year!

I read this verse today and thought it was fitting for the new year.

Philippians 3:13-14

But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.