Attacks...

It's so amazing how everything can be going along just fine and then BAM! The enemy ( satan ) jumps up and attacks! It's no secret that in these days money is tight with most everyone. Now, I learned long ago not to worry over things because well, worrying doesn't change anything except for the amount of sleep you can get and the color of your hair, so why worry? So, in the midst of the financial woes, I have simply trusted God. He has always provided and I know that He will continue to provide. Well, this thinking and this faith has brought me to a very wonderful place of being caught up on regular house-hold bills and gave me the money to file bankruptcy so I can get a new start. I even saw where I could start giving more to christian charities and to my church. That's when the enemy decided that he wanted to try and change my mind. There have been what seems like a million things go wrong over the past 7 days and each one of them has dealt with finances! of course, I started to panic, but quickly recognized it for what it was. I told God that I didn't care what the enemy did, I was going to follow through with my word. Then satan twisted and turned things so that I physically did not have the money to do what I needed to do for anything. I told God, that's okay. Next week I'll double up. Well now he has hit again ( all really a continuation of one problem that has caused a train-wreck of financial problems ) and I am still telling God that I WILL follow through and be good on my word.
The enemy thinks that he can discourage me and make me think that I really don't have the money that I need to pay bills let alone tithe and present offerings, but he forgets one thing.... I know who I am.
I am the child of the Most High King, The Lord of the Universe, The Great I AM, The King of Kings, The Prince of Peace, The Alpha and the Omega.... I am a child of God and I live in HIS kingdom, with HIS finances and under HIS rulership. Therefore, this economy, and the wiley ways of the devil have no effect on me or my life. "All things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose." ... And all things DO work together for good for me. This means that even the negative things that happen to us, turn around and are used for good purposes and bring a good outcome. Although I am struggling this moment with money, this struggle will do a number of things such as:
- Bring me closer to God as I rely on Him
- Build my Faith up even more
- Break the bond that money has on my life ( I have been known to seriously over shop! )
- Teach my children that no matter how down we may get, God will always hold out His hand and pick us up again!

So watch out, satan! What you do to me today, will bring you down tomorrow!! Hallelujah!

Passover/ Good Friday/ Easter

I am just so excited and happy! This season is a wonderful one for believers in Jesus! Last night we had a "Passover" Sedar at home. Although I am not Jewish, but Christian, I still want to observe the feasts of the Old Testament because God tells us we should and He never said we should stop. Jesus did tell us that we are not bound by tradition anymore, but even He observed the feasts. Therefore, I rewrote the traditional Jewish Haggadah for our family and made it reflect our celebration of deliverance from sin and Satan instead of the traditional celebration of remembering how God brought the Jews out of thier slavery in Egypt. It wasn't nearly as long as the original Haggadah, but I think it was quite nice and reflective of our freedom in Christ. I wanted to have some of the traditional foods as well. Luckily, my ex-husband is Jewish and he and I are still friends. I got the basic Latka ( potatoe pankcakes ) recipe from him. I made many things that I had not made before: Roasted Lamb, Latkas and Matzah Ball soup. We also had roasted asparagus, which I had only made once before. And it all came out very yummy! I am so thankful that God has given me the gift of knowing how to cook well. I'm hoping still to be able to use that gift to open my own restaruant one day!

Now today is Good Friday, the day that Jesus was crucified. We are having a very special communion tonight at church and I am very excited. It will be set up like the Last Supper, complete with period-style clothing and even "Jesus" will lead us in communion! My sister, Daphne will be there with her daughter; my daughter and my youngest son are going with me and hopefully my husband will get off work in time to join us! My mom is going to be serving and I'm sure that will be a lot of fun for her too. I hope she is very blessed!

Since I will have to take Tristian back to Orlando on Sunday and Aylanna wants to go to her dads at some point on Sunday, I am making a big dinner tomorrow ( Sat ) night instead of Sunday. It'll be really nice.

Ok, well I need to get some work done. I leave work today around noon so I can go to the grocery store and head to Orlando to pick up Tristian. YAY!!!