My GodStop

Today, I've thought about all day what to post. I guess my biggest GodStop this week has to have been when i couldn't sleep Sat @ 2a.m. As some of you know I am a middle school teacher. My principal told me that a class that I dearly love may not be allowed to continue next year. I help 15 14 year olds produce a school news program. I gave up my planning period this year for this class to continue.(The teacher who started this program left our school for a better paying job, imagine that. Anyhow, I was shocked and didn't know how to respond. So God and I talked for quite some time Sat. morning. Monday afternoon I had the opportunity to share with my principal that I would love for this program to continue. I told him that God and I talked and came up with some solutions. He allowed me to share those and he said he'd think and pray about it.

Now, I think my GodStop is that God cares even about the little things in my life that I am passionate about. Also, to be able to have a boss that I can openly say God & I were talking and he jokingly say well that's why he was busy when I was trying to talk to him at the same time. I'm very fortunate and blessed.

The last thing that I would like to share as another GodStop is that while I was studying my SS lesson the other night and it was talking about Timothy's mother and grandmother teaching him about God. It made me very proud that my own mother and grandmother made sure that I knew who God was. One of my fondest memories of my granny(whose in heaven now), we would all go to bed and she would sit in the living room and read a chapter from the big family Bible every night aloud to all of us. What a legacy she left.

Praise God for Godly men and women who brought me up to love the LORD.

Understanding From God

As I was studying my SS lesson last night, the LORD really helped me understand a few things that I thought might help someone else. We read 2 Timothy 4:1-4In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage-with great patience and careful instruction, for the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine, Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

A church that I used to attend some things happened and it was like the leaders turned their ears away from the truth or didn't care to hear it. I felt like they were surrounding themselves with people who would think like them instead of listening to scripture and reasoning. This incident has deeply hurt my family. My boys don't want to go to SS at our new church.

I pray that God will use this verse to help me teach my family that we are to (as the authors of my SS lesson put it) "declare the truths of God's Word even when it is not convenient, & we must endure long suffering, for God's enemies constantly will test our resolve and try to keep us from sharing the gospel."

Leslie

A Word from God

This past weekend I had been praying for a friend who is having a rough time right now. Her husband is being witnessed to and being persuaded to attend a different kind of church. We believe in the virgin birth, Jesus died and rose again, etc. God has used her once to fend off the spirit of these people. As the elders were at her home trying to get her to join their church, saying that we were in heaven with Jesus before we came to Earth...... God spoke to her and told her to open your mouth and I'll give you the words. She began asking questions, the elders couldn't answer.
Long story short, I felt God wanted me to tell her that she has to be the spiritual leader of her family now. Apparently, he's grasping for something ( I think it is because he's surrendered his call to preach and he's not doing that). She said she didn't like being the leader of anything. I told her she owes this to her 11 year old daughter. She deserves to be around Godly people other that her parents, she needs mature christian influences in her life.
Please join me in praying that God will make her want to be the leader for her family. Also, that she and her daughter can be used of God to show the man of the house where his focus should be " ON GOD"


Leslie

God Stop

I'm so excited to post my God Stop for this week. For about 2 years I've prayed for God to move people out of my life who are such a hindrance to me. Thursday, God revealed to be that this might be coming true. I praise God in advance for what he's doing in my life.

My GOD Stop
This past Saturday, my sons had a wreck on their 4 wheeler. My oldest broke his arm. This has crushed him. As he plays baseball year round. It's killing him. Praise God it was only a broken arm.
On the way to the local ER I called my sister, she works for the local 911, to ask how do i get him into the ER quickly he's in a lot of pain. She called the ER, there was no Orthopedic on call. She said go to Children's. We got there about 5:40, after good medication and several x-rays, they confirmed his radius was broken in his growth plate. However, the doctor said you're in luck, the doctor that is coming in at 7:00 has the certification to set his broken bone. Luck I think not. God directed us to that hospital.
Thank you LORD