Heart Wide Open

  God does have great plans for our life! God's will, first and foremost, is that we have a relationship with Him through His son, Jesus Christ.  God wants us to be Christ's disciples.  The Bible will help us to know God's will.  God promises to give us wisdom if we just ask Him in prayer, believing that He will give it.  We should listen to the advice of godly men and women that God has placed in our lives. God has given each of us gifts and abilities to use in His service. The Bible says that there is a peace that comes when we are pleasing God with our lives.  We should trust God in faith that He will accomplish His will in our lives.

Humm wonder what this blog is about? 

I will not reflect on the past two years.. I was told not to analyze things and just live one day at a time.. We've been doing just that.. How do we find out what God's will for our lives are if  EVERY door we think could be opening is closed.. Not even just closed, but closed with insults. I put a scripture in 7 different places around our house today.

  

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13

I want this prayer to become who the "Dewey's" are. 

We believe God has a plan. He has too, life would be pointless. We are our happiest when we are working within a Church. It is very important to Kelley and I to volunteer, to give our support for God. We even bring it out on the streets! Gods support should not be left in a building! The Bible is the only thing that keeps us going!! We ask for advice from godly men and women! (I have learned godly means being humble as well as faithful)  It is important to us to be taught. God has given both of us great gifts and we know them! Now the last two... The Bible says that there is a peace that comes when we are pleasing God with our lives. We should trust God in faith that He will accomplish His will in our lives. These two bring me to tears.. to think that we do not know what God wants us to do with our lives because we are not pleasing God with our lives... Trust.. humm faith is all we have! Trust.. I am stuck on this one.. It seems that this subject "will for our life" has been stuck.. To hear other say "I believe this is why.... (for our lives)" or "Pray about things". (uhhh hello, prayer is what gives us hope). "Maybe you should..."  "Have you....."  Yes, yes, and yes... We are not perfect people, but we try to better ourselves with all that we feel God shows us. 

It is very discouraging when the world around you is in a better place than you. I held on to "GOD HEARS US" for the past two years.. But I am at the end of the rope starting to wonder.  My most favorite place to be is in God's presence.  I have said before and will say it again.. We need to be very careful how we give advise. Christians hurt others so easily not knowing. We have to be careful of discouraging words.

I posted a blog in January 2012 called "Just Gotta Have Faith" http://dewey-life.blogspot.com/2012/01/just-gotta-have-faith.html

 It is a hard blog for me to read without it taking me back to the feelings I had when I wrote it.  

At this time of our life we had moved to Duncan, Ok and were WAITING on God to open doors for a job in OKC. In that blog I posted "I have to be faithful in order to be joyful and triumphant!" Today I find myself re saying those words. Our bedroom caught on fire in the attic last month..  I could hear this saying over and over.. I was joyful and I wanted to be triumphant. We had to stay in a Hotel for 2 weeks.. Back and fourth we went with all 3 kids, daily.. I was grateful!! Still very much am! I keep saying it is just another dip in the road.. Because it seems we have been in the desert for a while now. 

Today with my heart wide open, I just ask God,  fill us with joy and peace as we TRUST in You, so that You may overflow us with hope! Just as we wrote on the walls behind our sheet rock in our new bedroom, set a fire within US! We are still here God, WAITING! I give you praise for not just handing us the keys, but for the lessons you have sent. For I know it will make us better one day. Amen