godgirl's blog » Joyce Meyer http://www.godgirl.net Spreading the good news Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:36:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Weariness http://www.godgirl.net/weariness.html http://www.godgirl.net/weariness.html#comments Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:30:39 +0000 Cindy http://www.godgirl.net/?p=194 Continue reading →]]> Lately, God has been telling me to tune into Joyce Meyer’s Enjoying Everyday Life broadcasts and I must say He’s right again.  This week Joyce has been hitting on a subject close to home, weariness.  She has been providing her audience with practical steps on how not to sink down into the heaviness of this weight by turning it all over to God to lighten the load.  She’s even gone as far to say that once you give it all to Him, your soul will feel like its on vacation.

I get this idea and am glad that it’s possible to live that way when you feel that all your waking hours are spent walking through thick mud.  That each step is so hard to take and that you feel like you’re going nowhere.  I’m living at that place now and I know that Satan loves putting me there.  You just get weary.

Here’s how Dictionary.com defines “weary” in adjective form:

1.physically or mentally exhausted by hard work, exertion, strain, etc.; fatigued; tired: weary eyes; a weary brain.
2.characterized by or causing fatigue: a weary journey.
3.impatient or dissatisfied with something (often fol. by of): weary of excuse
4.characterized by or causing impatience or dissatisfaction; tedious; irksome: a weary wait.
The second point is me – I’m having a weary journey. And I’m okay with it, because God knew that we’d experience such times. In fact, the word “weary” is mentioned in the Bible 30 times.  And God being God- He does provide us with a way out.  Here’s His recipe for weariness.  I’m sure you know it by heart.

Isaiah 40:29-31 (New International Version)

29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.

30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;

31 but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.

So yeah, my feet are tired. My body is tired.  There also seems to be a lack of joy presently in my life.  I’m obeying, praying, serving, thanking, praising, crying, studying, walking, and more importantly, trusting.  I am hoping that someday soon, things won’t be as hard. God recently whispered that to me in prayer and I’m holding on to that.

My soul does need a vacation and I guess this post is self-reminder again of my need to give my burdens on over to the Lord.  How are you doing carrying your load?

Trusting in Him,

Cindy

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]]> http://www.godgirl.net/weariness.html/feed 0 Upload New Version Automatically http://www.godgirl.net/upload-new-version-automatically.html http://www.godgirl.net/upload-new-version-automatically.html#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:17:35 +0000 Cindy http://www.godgirl.net/?p=148 Continue reading →]]> I’ve been watching Joyce Meyer: Enjoying Everyday Life weekdays and she has a saying that I love. She describes her gifting as she’s called to ‘clean the fish.” Meaning – after we become Christians, there’s a whole new transformation that has to come for us to grow more like Him everyday.

I understand that cleaning process right now, as like never before. I mean it’s not enough that we’re entering a new technological age, but we are in the midst of digging ourselves out of a meltdown with our business infrastructure. The Internet was one of the best advances ever, however, with it came the problem that it was offered for free. That free part has hurt businesses like none other in the sense of open platforms. Software, resources, applications that we once paid for – now can be found free, etc. etc. etc.

But, needless to say, this did not in anyway affect Toyota’s problems. The Internet did not cause that. Negligence did.

Anyway…what I am meaning to say is that just about everything we were once comfortable with is changing. Change is now the new constant. And with that comes growth. New acceptance. And Trust.

Which leads to me to the title of this post. A common blog function is upgrades. As new bells and whistles are added or as bugs are fixed to your blog templates, a new upgrade notice appears on your control panel.  When a notice notifies the blogger of an upgrade,  they can either choose to hit button that says “Upgrade Automatically” or “Manual.” The Manual operation allows you to control the upgrade…it doesn’t completely override the system in case you had implemented custom codes. But, I like the auto function. And the last time I upgraded I thought wouldn’t that nice  to have an auto upgrade button in our lives that we could hit to grow more like Christ.  If so, then just like that we would have grown without experiencing much pain and it would be fast. We’d be on to the next level, waiting for a new upgrade to get that set of bugs out.

I want an life auto upgrader!

But, maybe it’s God who has the upgrade buttons. He hits them and to Him we changed automatically. Could it be that it’s just that we don’t see this happening in our timing, but God’s. He’s the master auto upgrader or as Joyce says – “Cleaner of fish.”

Growing in Christ,

Cindy

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