Blessed Beyond Words (Part II): Matters of the Heart

I can’t believe how MUCH God is being gracious in answering my prayer!

I found one of my best friends writing a blog:

http://thegirlhewants.wordpress.com/

For those of you who’ve been following my posts, I keep saying that I hope to achieve a sense of fellowship and community with this blog — and He just keeps pouring in more people! He’s allowed me to reach people I would never have met without His leading; and, He’s re-connecting me with the people who mean a lot to me!

One of my best friends, whom I haven’t heard from in like — FOREVER — have recently started blogging again. And it’s just so overwhelming to hear how people very dear to you are doing, especially in their walk with God.

I can’t believe I actually went through ALL (well, there were just 4, but still, ALL) her posts and couldn’t stop myself from giggling and sighing all through the time I was reading! I was not only reading about how she’s been lately, but I’m reading about how SWEET God has been to her! IT’S JUTS EXHILARATING! I WAS STOKED — so of course, the only logical thing to do was WRITE ABOUT IT!

Check her blog out! I’ll be posting a link to her blog (along with her blogger profile) on the “The Communion of Saints” drop-down page. Her blog is mainly about her relationship with God, and how God has been teaching her the truth in RELATIONSHIPS. Yup, it’s a blog about love, heart-aches, Mr. Right, among other things a girl walking with God has to deal with. But NOPE, it’s not exclusively for girls —  as brothers and sisters, co-saints, we learn from the way God speaks to each of us — so I encourage you to check it out. Here’s the link again: http://thegirlhewants.wordpress.com/

Blessed Beyond Words

Last time I posted about one of my dearest friends writing about God’s Unfailing Love, and I even added a page so you guys can check out how she encounters God.

At that time, I was so happy to finally be able to start having more people write about His love, His grace, and HIM! I’ve always said that I want to keep blogging to 1) share what God has been revealing to me, and 2) to create a community where people could feel connected to one another as a united body in Christ.

Guess what? God has, AGAIN, been too gracious!

Just this morning God showed me how He was granting me my desires of having a community. Turns out, a couple of my friends are actually blogging too — blogging about Him! So, of course, the only logical thing to do… is to tell you guys about it!

Here are some of their posts that really struck me:

1) Denice Daily: My Constant Struggle to Glorify God

The best encouragement one can get, is definitely from someone going through the same thing. It’s like having someone say “I know how you feel.” — and they ACTUALLY DO! Glory is something we HAVE to always give back to Him, but with our humanity, it’s SO tempting (and a lot easier) to just embrace it all. We’ve all been given special “glorifying gifts,” and the temptation is always there to STEAL the glory from the One Who Actually Deserves It.

2) Believing the Unbelievable: What Should I Do When God Seems Far Away?

A good friend of mine shared with me her post after reading mine. It’s really amazing how God’s truths are REALLY alive. When I wrote the post Salt and Light: FOCUS! I wrote it as a reminder for me to always focus. When I was writing that, I was struggling to keep myself from making foolish choices. Then I got to read how she read my post, for her, it became a reminder of how God is so faithful. The reminder and caution God gave me to keep me walking forward, God used to reassure her that He is always there and would always be there. Same God, same Love, spoken differently. God knows us way better than we’ll ever be able to understand; and He’ll talk to us in the way He knows would be best for US. With God? Everything is personalized. 🙂

3) Dianne-amic Duo:Written for the Lord

Again, God used friends to remind me of why I’m writing: for Him and HIM ALONE. It’s so surreal to read about how someone actually shared the same struggles in writing. As I’ve written in More than blessed!, I have trouble with over thinking about everything I would be posting. And for the most part, it turns out to be my pride taking over. I want to take note of everything I write, and I want to make sure everything I write sounds really great and profound — all these were because I wanted it for myself. I had fears that what I wrote would offend others, would not be good enough, or would be “wrong.” God rebuked me. Now, He’s reminding me again. I am writing for Him and through Him! Read their post to make more sense of what I’m saying.

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It really is such a blessing to read about how God has been working in others, especially when you see similarities in how God’s been dealing with them and you.

I would really love for you guys to be able to read their blogs. We’re no bible scholars; we’re just saints talking about how we are BELOVED of the God of Love Himself. Read about how their relationship with Christ has been going, how He has been changing them, and how He shows his Love to them. It sure inspired me, I bet it would you too.

I am so in love with Love right now, He’s just too much! 🙂

I’ll be adding pages you can access through the drop down menus on top of the page under “The Communion of Saints.” I’ll be including their blogger profiles and links to their sites too.

God is working in so many ways, to even be allowed to see one is just AWESOME. 🙂 Pure bliss! 

More than blessed!

So today I stumbled upon this:

http://unfailinglovee.blogspot.com/2012/02/i-witnessed-love-of-christ-for-his.html

It’s a blog by a really special person.

I’m used to calling her “my daughter,” and I remember the times when I would have to constantly remind her to pray and seek God above all else. But look now? She’s basking in His unfailing LOVE and even sharing it out!

It’s really encouraging to see other saints commune with the Father, and more so to see the courage to just be true and out there.

Because of  her, I realized an error I’ve been neglecting for the longest time:

I haven’t been as true as I can be. I haven’t been able to post for quite some time because I keep re-thinking about the things I would be posting. Trying to make sure it’s “good enough” to be posted for the world to see. I totally forgot about the “good enough criteria” that I should be using — HIS criteria. Whatever He would want me to say, whatever He has revealed to me to share, THAT is what’s GOOD ENOUGH.

So with your prayers and by His grace. I’ll try to do what this blog was supposed to do in the first place — to just write about what He convicts me to write.

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It would really mean a lot if you guys could follow her blog too, and I’ll do my best to keep you guys updated about her updates too. There’s no such thing as “too many believers communing together in His name” so let’s spread the love:

HIS UNFAILING LOVE.

WordPress

So this saint has found a new domain that seems a bit more promising, HOWEVER, he still hasn’t decided on whether to move completely or not.

In the mean time, here’s where the saint currently posts:

http://theprodigalsaint.blogspot.com/

Hopefully after some more prayers this saint could finally make a decision.

God bless,

theProdigalSaint