Sunday, January 20, 2019

Trust in Your Unfailing Love

Psalm 143:8 New International Version (NIV)

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,
    for I have put my trust in you.
Show me the way I should go,
    for to you I entrust my life.
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           I thought since there are a lot of churches that are closed today that I would have time to do a little devo myself. It is neat because my church put this verse on their Facebook page and when I saw it I thought, "Hmmm, a lot can be said about this verse". I am going to tell you what it means to me. It has been awhile since I have had time to write a devo in my blog and I miss that. Hopefully, this will be read by a lot of people and they will like it enough to share it.
            I love to think of the first sentence in this way. It says, "Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love". That could be taken two ways.
           First, it could be talking about a person getting up and doing their Bible study in the morning before the day gets started and you just feel His Love surround you from His Word.
           Second, if you are outdoor lover like me, it could be that the sunrise reminds you of God's unfailing Love for you. That sunrise reminds you of all the good things that He has done for you because how can anyone but God paint a sunrise that beautiful. He loves you enough to make each sunrise different then the last one so you would have something new to wake up to every morning.
          With those two things being said, we go onto the next line where it says, "for I have put my trust in You". That means that we trust God in whatever we are going to be doing that day whether it is something we got from His Word that will remind us or just the beautiful of the sunrise. We can trust that He knows our needs and wants and that He will provide for us each and every day for He knows what is ahead of us.
          And because of that trust we put in Him, He will show us the way in which we need to go. We can entrust on life in and to Him. That is really what trusting Him is all about. Trusting that He will guide our life to the best that it can be for Him and His Glory because isn't that what it is all about in the first place. God gave us our life so no matter what we are going through, we know that it can be used for the ministry of God.
         As I am writing this, I am thinking about how I would paint the verse out on a canvas. It would look something like this: It would have a sunrise up top. then a country looking road going away from or towards the sunrise, don't have that part figured out yet. Then there would be green as the grass all around the road and a person sitting on the grass reading a book (aka the Bible). I might even paint an angel in the sunrise somewhere as a sign of God's Love is there or I could put a heart of some sort. I could even put a road that is split in two and have signs on each one. Signs that say, "God's Way" and "The Other Way".
          It is a thought in process for sure. Maybe that picture helps some people see what the verse is about too in an artistic way. I know some people are visual learners so that is why I wrote my painting idea out. Anyways, I hope that you got something from this little devo of mine on this cold, little (when I say little, I mean very little) snowy Sunday. :)

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Major Car Problems

          This past weekend my car just decides to quit on me. I was hanging out with my boyfriend after church because we had somewhere to go at 4:00 in town and oddly enough it was to a church class. The devil got us there but that is the only place he got us and espically me. It was funny because my pastor was talking about how we should give our blessings back to God instead of giving to other earthly things. Well, I was thinking how I was doing pretty good now with things settled and better then it had been in the past year.
              Thinking about how I should use my money for God. Should I give to my church or sponsor another child from Compassion? Right as I was thinking it my car stopped. Found out yesterday it was a costly repair. In a way, the devil won there too because my extra money is going to pay for that in payments probably. I did get my car battery free though. That's a whole other story. The devil didn't win at what was the most important thing to me. If you know me at all, you know when things happen with my car or something I cannot fix, I go into my anxiety attack and just cry and yell non stop. Well, I didn't on Sunday, which is a surprise for me!
               Yet it wasn't. Some of you might be reading this and are like what she didn't cry or yell and no I didn't. Thank you very much. I wasn't by myself. Like I said my boyfriend was with me, I had to be calm. Lol! Ok, not really but I wanted to be calm plus I had someone to talk to and work it out with. I was amazed at myself. I didn't let the devil get to me or us. What is more amazing is my boyfriend knew exactly what to do to calm me down and we have only been going out for 3 months.
                I write about the experience because it was a really different feeling. It was the feeling that I needed someone by my side all along and I have that. Someone who understands and understood me. I pray and hope we keep this experience in mind and go back to it if we ever need too. That's also another reason that I am writing it on my blog. As I think back too, this is our 2nd biggest thing in this relationship. We have each had one thing wrong and we saw how the other acted through it all.
               I would say we are doing pretty good especially when we are still learning about each other. Yet both of these situations have helped me better understand what a true relationship really is. It really is a friendship that builds over time, not something that will happen really fast and be over just like that. It really does take time. You never will understand the other person fully. It is an adventure everyday. Might I also say I am writing this on the date we become offical in our 3rd month if you look at it that way.

Friday, January 4, 2019

Love Doesn't Have to Be Perfect-A Poem

Love Doesn't Have to Be
Perfect


Love doesn't have to
Be perfect. When I
Was younger, I actually had
That thought but now I am
Thinking differently after
Being in a relationship. Love
Is never perfect but that's
Because it is always true
Or that's the way it should be.
That's the way I want it for sure
Too.

Love is perfect is a lesson that
Has been taught to me and what
We teach kids most of the time but
That's so wrong. Love is anything
But perfect. That's the lesson we
Should be teaching kids these days.
Yet it might feel and be
Perfect but it doesn't happen the
Way you thought it should. That's
Okay.

Love just has to be real and true.
It has to be honest. It also has to 
Be able to talk to each
Other. It doesn't have be these pretty,
Romantic, or cost a lot of money. It
Doesn't have to be a dinner and movie 
type date every single time. It doesn't
Have to be eating at an costly
Restaurant every time you eat out.
Who cares about presents or flowers?

Yes, those things would be nice.
They do add points for the guy every
Now and then but it isn't needed. It is the 
true feeling that is needed. That feeling
Of being anywhere with the one you love
And not care where it is. That feeling
That you don't need them to prove their
Love for you. A place where you feel
Comfortable and love being.

Dare, I say it. That feeling where you
Don't need presents. Where you feel
Comfortable talking about and doing 
Anything. That moment where you find
Out that your hands fit perfectly
Together and you never want to let go. 
Where you can just be laying
With them and watching a movie and
That brings you peace and helps you
Sleep at night.

That first kiss that feels so right. On the forehead 
and then after some time the lips. That is what True
 Love is. Love doesn't have
 to be perfect. It just needs to be true.



Written By: Tiffney Wilson


Written On: January 4th, 2019

Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Hello, 2019!

"I want to say, the coolest thing about 2018......is watching you grow as a young adult....from Class 101 to now.....total change ….you are the beautiful butterfly."
Tiffney




"You project happiness and contentment....God has been working in your life and he’s showing you and rewarding you for being faithful and trusting him."



A friend of mine told me all this in January. All these things really mean a lot to me. If you know me, you would know why too. I only took the Class 101 during February and March of last year. Sorry for just getting it officially posted as a blog now.

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