I am pregnant with a seed of God

Was reading 'Battlefield of the Mind' again this morning and was totally struck by a paragraph. So I'm gonna paraphrase it....

In each of us God plants a seed, a dream and this is like a woman becoming pregnant. During the pregnancy as our dream grows, the devil does his beast to try and abort this dream, this pregnancy.

What an awesome illustration and what an obvious thing that just needs to be recognised. The chapter I read this morning really rang true with me and was such a help and encouragement :-)

Yoyo

I was really struck yesterday... a guy was speaking about making life work and he used the illustration of a 'yoyo'....
Life is very up and down, sometimes it feels as though your head is spinning and sometimes it's as if you're going round and round and are never going to stop. But the fantastic thing is this; through the centre of your life, Jesus is running like a cord, holding everything together.

My Mind

I've been reading 'Battlefield of the Mind' by Joyce Meyer and what a mighty great book it is.... I know what my problem is - it's my mind.

I've been struck recently by this verse, which she uses a lot "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he" Prov 23:7 KJV.

If only my thought life was positive and good "whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things." Phil 4:8 NIV, then life would be amazing.

So my verse for life at the moment is this... "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will." Rom 12:2 NIV

or in The Message..."Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you."

But my fave is J.B. Phillips' version "Don't let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good, meets all his demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity."

The end is near!

So I'm really excited that I finished all my course material yesterday! Wooooo!!! But it does mean I'm now supposed to be revising for my exam and I just can't be bothered!! So maybe I'll take it easy today and not freak out about it!!!

Why God?

I often wonder what on earth God is doing. I know he's God and I know he's got my best interests at heart, but I often wonder why he's doing what he's doing!!!
My pet hang up at the moment is taking people outta my life.... I totally understand and appreciate that not everyone is in your life forever, but I just wonder why its the people you really really click with that get whisked away to some place else.... Auntie Kathy, Leona, the Powleys, Stuart.... and I can anticipate the next bunch... the Shuttleworths, Rach, Pippa....
Why God, what are you doing?!