How It Began

Today I would like to explain how I began writing this Blog titled, “Mommaw’s Journey”. Obviously, as I shared with you in my first post, I am somewhat aged. However, my spiritual growth has been rather slow. I just want to tell you , never give up and feel it is too late to surrender to The Lord, to allow Him to use you however He wills. Trust me, my age is one of many excuses I have told myself many times!

I recently began fervently seeking what The LORD would have me to do. I have been reading a book about discerning the voice of God. Along with that, I have also been in God’s Word searching the scriptures for what that may be. I have always been one who would jot down thoughts here and there as they would come to me. But I have never really done anything with those thoughts. Recently as I was doing my morning Bible reading, I felt a strong urge that I needed to write. It was so clear to me, that ironically, I wrote that down in a journal that I have been keeping along with the date. As I continued pondering on that thought, I just didn’t know “HOW” I would go about writing, or “WHAT” I should even write! That weekend, while camping with my brother and sister-in-law, my brother was telling me how he needed someone to start writing a Women’s Blog for His church website. That was the “HOW” and the “WHAT” that I needed from The LORD!

I just want to say to you, whenever you feel a pull to do something, if that something will glorify God, then it must be coming from God. When circumstances point you in the direction of the pull you are feeling, I feel that is God’s way of confirming that for you. I would always tell myself that I couldn’t do what I felt God may want me to do. I have fought this off and on for years now. Finally I realized that it is NOT about me, and what I feel I can Not do! It’s all about Him, and what He can do through me! If I trusted in myself, this page would be blank!

So today, I am going to leave you with some scriptures about Who you are in your flesh vs. Who you are in Christ:

WHO AM I IN THE FLESH? Let’s see what GOD’S WORD tell us:

Philippians 3:3 “For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. “
1 Corinthians 15:50″ Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.”
Romans 7:18 “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.”
Romans 8:7-8 “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.”

WHO AM I IN CHRIST? The Bible Tells Us In:

Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
Psalms 139:14 “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.”
Psalms 73:26 “My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.”
Philippians 1:6 “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:”
Philemon 1:6 “That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.”
1 Corinthians 3:16 ” Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
1 Corinthians 6:19 “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not Your own?”
John 14:26 “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”

So let us try to be who Christ wants us to be, by relying on Him, rather than on our flesh.