A Vessel God Can Use

PLease pray

I have a job interview this Friday for a new eye doctor and I am very excited and scared at the same time. I have been with my current eye doctors office for almost 12 years but I have to work alot of Saturdays and 1 sometimes 2 Sundays a month. Last week he informed me that starting in August I would have to stay one night a week until 9:00 and I live an hour away from my job.If I get this new job I will be home every evening by 6:00 amd will have every weekend off. It is still an hour away from home and I would love to find something closer but to be home in the early evening and to have every weekend off would be a blessing. I want Gods will to be done so please pray for me...

Thanks ,

Rebekah

Vacation Coming

New pictures of the garden

My life seems so crazy right now. I feel like the Lord is wanting something out of me and I am failing Him. I love the Lord with all my heart . I know that without Him in my life I would have lost it awhile back. I have faith in the Lord but not as strong of faith as I should and I am not real good at dealing with bad and stressful situations. I have always had a very vivid imaganation and when something bad happens my mind runs crazy with me and I always think up all the worse case senaros( not sure if that is how it is spelled). As some of you have read me and my family found out recently that my younger brother and his wife have had a drug problem. Both have went thru rehab and at the moment both are as far as we know clean. I try to give each day to the Lord and put them both in the hands of the Lord. But as I said my crazy imaganations runs wild and I can not get the thoughts out of my head. I truly believe that God is using this to make me a stronger christain. I read the Bible more because I get most if not all of my comfort from it and I pray harder than I have ever prayed. I still get scared and I still worry everytime they leave the house. My sister in law got into alot of trouble with her addiction. She had alot of run ins with the law. She is out on bond right now and is facing 4 different counts in 4 different counties. ( See what I mean by how crazy it has been). One of her cases  is done and she is on 5 years felony probation. The good thing about this is she has to go in for random drug test and they can call her up at anytime out of the blue to come in and take a test and if she is found with drugs in her system it is automatic 5 years in prison. The crazy thing is when I read this it blows my mind because of the home we were raised in. For the most part it has always been a christian home. Our parents raised us with christian vaules. morals and beliefs. I always prayed that none of  us kids would ever deal with substance abuse of any kind. I have always disliked, hated really everything about drugs and I feel now that it is at my doorsteps. Then my job that I am not crazy about is getting worse. Don't get me wrong I am ever so grateful that I still have a job. God has blessed me there. But I have been on my job for 14 years and have only had 2 raises. My boss promised me 6 years ago when I took over filing the insurance that if I did a good job with it for 1 year, he would give me a 1.00 more an hour. Well about 1 to 2 months ago I went to him and asked him about it. He gave me every reason why I deserved one but told me he could not afford to give me one at this time. Then I found out the since then he has given 2 other girls in our office a raise and told them not to say anything. I feel  like this man just slapped me in my face. Thru this all I  feel like I wanted to lay down and take a nap for a year, I sat down and did my Bible study and what did it say,

in the actual study guide it was talking about praying for those who use you and are your enemy, then it goes on to talk about how we should pray for those wayward memebers of our family, it even spoke of a mother who prayed for 9 years that God would save her son (which He did). I also read that part in Matthew were the man hires people to work in his field for 1 penny and how the men who worked the longest got mad because they received the same amount as those who worked a shorter time , then I ran into this verse :

Matthew 21:22- And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

So I thought ok Lord I get it . I know He wants all of my faith not part of it. I have to get to the point where I just give it all to Him , my brother and sister in law, my job , my vivid imaganation, and my poor lacking faith. I prayed for my brother that day . I told the Lord that I wanted Him to save my brother and his wife and keep them of the drugs. That I wanted them to live out the rest of their lives in service to Him, and then I told Him I was going to believe Him to do it and I know He will. I still get a little scared when they leave to go out to eat or just leave period but I know as well that I have to trust the Lord to take care of it.

Please remember me and my family, and please pray for my brother and his wife.

Hope everyone has a good night,

Rebekah

Updates on the garden

Vegetable Garden

Our vegetable garden is starting to show signs of life. I took pictures when we first planted and here is what it looked liked :

Need strength

My family has been going thru alot lately. It is one of the hardest things we have had to go thru. I  will not say it is the hardest but it is tough. I have a younger brother (he is 32) and we found out recently that he and his wife have had a drug problem for almost 3 years. The last year has been the worst . Last week we found out just how bad it has gotten. His wife is in jail now because she started stealing to support her habit. My brother said he would never allow it to get that far for him. He willing went to rehab and was there for almost 9 days. He was saved at a young age but started hanging around the wrong people in his mid to late 20's. He has been seeking the Lord alot lately. Since he has came home from rehab he looks like a new person. He gives the glory for 9 days sober to the Lord and wants his life back. Please pray for him to have the strength to face each day. Please pray for his wife for she has never been saved and has been reading the Bible and asking questions about forgiveness. They each have a long road ahead of them and with the help of the Lord , they will make it. Me and my parents need prayer as well because there is always the fear of what if he or she goes back but I do not want to fear I want to trust that God will help them and us.

Romans 8 :28

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

2 Timothy 1:7

 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Greeeeeaaaaaaatttttttt News

 I went online today and I  got my final grade and I AM A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE. PRAISE THE LORD IT IS OVER...............................................................

I ended up with a 3.75 GPA

12 A'S

4 B'S

PRAISE THE LORD

I was getting ready for work this morning and my mom was telling me what happened to my 5 year old nephew the other day. My older brother and his wife have 3 kids. They have a 15 year old daughter, 12 year old boy, and a 5 year old boy. They have been raised in church and homeschooled pretty much their whole life. This year their church decided to have a school and they wanted my sister in law as a teacher. She went ahead and said yes( she is going back to homeschooling). These kids have always heared Bible , so much so that when my sister in law starts saying a verse the 5 year old finishes. Well for the last few days he has been acting funny. My niece kept him while their mom and other brother went to practice and my niece said she saw him laying on the floor with his face to the floor. When she asked him what he was doing he told her "he was praying". The next day he came over to my house and when my niece told him to tell nana what happened to him my mom said with tears running down his face he told my mom he got saved. Now some might say he is to young to understand.  As a matter of fact my 32 year old brother said he was to young to understand . Well after I heard my 5 year old nephew tell his grandmother how and why he got saved the only thing I have to say is HE UNDERSTOOD BETTER THAN A 32 YEAR OLD AND PRAISE THE LORD, PRAISE THE LORD, PRAISE THE LORD..................................................................

Sickness and graphics

I am really getting into the graphics. There is sooo many beautiful graphics to choose from. I love the 2 collections I got from pollyanna graphics. She has many wonderful things on her web page and she is pretty reasonable. I love this because I am very much a girly girl and this very much speaks of me. I hope everyone is doing well. I am fighting sickness. It seems like everyone is having sinus problems. Last  Sunday my pastor was sick and my Sunday school teacher was getting over it. I have been coughing and blowing my nose for almost a week now and I stayed home from church today because this stuff makes me tired. Lords will I am on the mend .

So Glad it is spring

Well it is that time of year again. The time of year that I take  a  3 day weekend for planting flowers and our vegetable garden. Me and my parents have planted a vegetable garden now for 2 years in a row and each year the Lord has blessed us with lots of stuff even thru a horrible drought. My dad is very thrifty when it comes to conserveing water. Well in a couple of weeks we will be planting and we are going to plant tomatoes, squash, green beans, corn, okra, and a new apple tree( we already have one but need another to cross pollanate).  So Lord's will I am going to post pictures of our labour.

Starting over

I wanted to start over. Start over with a new page and new entries. There is so much going on in mine and my families life right now and I will need to talk about it over time. One thing I am most grateful for right now is that I am finally done with school. It has taken me just over a year but by the grace of God, He saw me through. I am waiting on my final paper for my last english class to be graded but once it is I have finally at the age of 37 years old graduated high school. The school told me that it would most likely be this week that I would get my final grade. I am so glad because this will now free me up to spend alot more time in the Bible. I try and read every day before I go to work but I want to spend more time in it than just a few minutes. We are going thru some battles in my family right now and the only peace and solace that I find is on my knees and in Gods word. PLease, please, please remember my family in your prayers. My younger brother is married to a young lady who is practically tearing him apart physically, mentally, and spiritually. I fear that if my brother stays with this young lady, we will lose him. As a christian who was raised by 2 Godly parents that have been married now for  over 41 years we have never really believed in divorce and have always believed that with the Lord as the foundation you can work thru most any problem. With this young lady  the problems are on the dangerous ground.

Please help us to pray that God will deal with my brother and open his eyes to the truth of the young lady and that the Lord will lead my brother to do what is right. Also pray for my family that He gives us the strength to get thru it.