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| I just re-took a love language test, and here are my results:
Physical Touch - 11
Quality Time - 8
Words of Affirmation - 7
Acts of Service - 4
Receiving Gifts - 0
The highest score for any one category is 12. Physical touch, therefore is definitively high on my priorities for receiving love from someone else. It also means that I am most likely to try to show love in this manner. My requests for love or my giving love may "come across as nagging or criticizing" causing my spouse to be driven away rather than brought closer. My secondary love language is quality time, followed closely by words of affirmation. I find myself actually trying to give love in these ways more often while still wanting to receive love physically. Now just because receiving gifts scored a zero doesn't mean I don't like receiving gifts. I just don't place as high a priority on material gifts as others.
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| Thank you, GOD, for answered prayer, continuing to answer prayer, and continued faithfulness, mercy and grace that never ends.
We just had a great weekend with Trichia's family back in Gilmour. It's awesome to see how much God is in control of our lives. He knows what, where, when, why and how to answer our prayers.
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| Selfish ambition, pride, ignorance, bitterness, sin.
I struggle with all of these, but God's grace is sufficient. God's grace is sufficient to take these things away, out of my life completely. Although that is within His power, His grace is also sufficient for me to not have to keep praying for it to be taken away. His Spirit in me is the same Spirit that raised Christ from the grave. I already have the ability through God's grace to overcome these obstacles. I just need to step into the fullness of the covenant I have in Christ as a believer and claim the victory that is already mine.
I know I haven't articulated myself particularly well today, but the truth is there. God's grace is sufficient to cover a multitude of sin. If we proclaim and believe that Jesus is our Saviour, Lord of our lives, then we step into covenant with God as believers. That covenant is everlasting, and although we may periodically step back into sinful actions, thoughts, or words, God's grace is still sufficient. He is the author of life, and he has extended his grace to me and you. All we need to do is accept it, and walk with Him.
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| It's Easter weekend, 2011, and I have not felt so far away from God in a while. I have tried to be faithful, prayerful, humble, thankful and joyful, but right now with everything that's in me I just want to curl up in a ball and cry my heart out.
All weekend I've listened to people, to family, complain about life's unfairness: how other people treat them, what other people are saying, what other people have, what other people do, what other people think. I have sat here listening to all of this, judging them for their behaviour, yet when I reflect on my own thoughts they are the same.
GOD, I know you are with me. I know you care. Please help me to keeping trusting in you.
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| I have wondered as of late about the stage of life we're in
The ups, the downs, the smiles, the frowns.
I have known so before, and confirmed once again,
That despite the waves, we won't drown.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord
And I believe Him when he says,
We will prosper, and we can hope for our future
And this is what tonight I pray
So as you lay asleep I pray this for you too
That you will dream and sleep well,
Because God will see us through.
I just had a good conversation with Dad on the ride back from the wedding. I know that there are a lot of stressors to face, and it seems like we keep getting one after another. But God knows where we are and what we need. If we (if you and I) can turn to God, try to begin to see the character He's building in us, then we can rest assured that He's doing something good, something beneficial that couldn't be done any other way. He is in control, and He is always faithful. | | |
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