Saturday, June 30, 2012

A few pic's from the "hang-out" for Dan&Tammy

Most of the youth that were there


Must of been funny =)

Shania & Ashley

Kaity, Angela, and Kelsey

Kelsey and Angela

Kaitlyn and Angela

Had to be there =)


Was so good to see Tammy again. Love this girl!!

Dan and Tammy- This couple sowed a lot of seeds into our life. Love them!!

Shania&Ashley chillaxin =)

Tarod you look so sad.. SMILE buddy!!

Wow how they have grown since the last time they were all together.

Love these kids!!!!

The Leib kids with the Williams kids& Clinton&Tarod

Love these kids..

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Happy Fathers Day

From your three princesses and Queen!!!!  =)

We love you so very much and are so thankful YOU are the man of our lives and hearts!!

I am so thankful Jesus hand picked not only a WONDERFUL Husband, but also a WONDERFUL Father for our children!!!!!

We love you, honor, trust, and respect you.
I know Jesus is honoring you for the life you live not just in public, but here at home where it matters most.
You don't brag on yourself nor seek approval from anyone outside your God given sphere of influence, so I will take this opportunity to do so =}

As God commanded you to lead our home you fulfill that every day, no complaints, going above and beyond, always putting our needs above your own.
God also commanded we ladies of this home to obey, honor, love and respect you.....what a joy&privilege it is!!!!

There are not enough words to adequately portray how much we love you!!!

So will end this post with a heart-felt
Happy Fathers Day!!!!!!


Saturday, June 16, 2012

Glasses!!!

The Girl's are sporting their new glasses we picked up yesterday afternoon.
Think they look cute!!
Shania's are red&very pretty!!
Kelsey's are black&purple, very pretty!!!!
Kaitlyn's are pink with some red blended on top&sides.. hers are very pretty too!!!
All three picked out glasses that "fit" their personalities!!!!
So thankful the good Lord provided a way to get them, they were much needed&now can be taken off
"The-List"  =)


Wednesday, June 13, 2012

The Love of my life!!

With Fathers day coming up, we have a tradition to stretch special days out beyond just the actual day.
So his favorite girls took him out for dinner last night&had a great time!!
We are so thankful and blessed beyond words to have this man in our life!!
My soul mate, leader of this home, father to three beautiful young ladies, faithful friend, trustworthy employee, man of character, integrity, and humble servant for our King Jesus!!

I am honored to travel this journey towards heaven with such a man as my Steve! !

I love you babe, always and forever ever&beyond!!!


Silly girls =)


Friday, June 8, 2012

And another NINE week journey begins!!!

SO excited!!!!
 Starting another personal Bible Study today- it is downloading as I type this. 
 I say this about each one I do... It means something special.... and they do, each one has played a HUGE role in my personal relationship with Jesus!!


This baby, means THE MOST out of them all.... just for the simple fact that... It has been EIGHT
  yes I said EIGHT YEARS in the making!!!!

 It was 2004.. we lived in Maryville TN... A friend and fellow home-school mom invited me to come along with her to her church and take this study. 
We had just started homeschooling in late 2003, MAJOR issues going on in my life AND extended family, I had yet not FULLY surrendered to GOD, and it was TO MUCH for me to process ... 
We had just lost baby # nine, and my health was VERY bad.. Went in for a complete hysterectomy and abdominal surgery due to the spreading of the  Endometriosis.
 To say life was crazy, is putting it mildly. I knew God was with me, yet I did not GET IT. 
I still believed anything GOD did for me was only because of the prayers of my Grandmother.
  But he was faithful to me, good to me, and loved me through that painful process. 
OK enough of that...  

 Had I gotten the memo God had been trying to give me, I would have realized THIS was THE one where the work He has done in our lives now, could of started then. 
And regardless of popular opinion, He had already been working on us.. 
And I suppose I knew that deep down, and that scared me to death.. 
See at that point I did not trust God, let alone BELIEVE God. 
Sad really, looking back.. Oh how I wish this woman sitting here today could of told that one back then... GOD REALLY DID LOVE ME, and so badly wanted ME to not only TRUST but also BELIEVE HIM!!!! 

So with great anticipation to what and how my WONDERFUL, LOVING, TRUST-WORTHY Father is and has been to me... 
Knowing that MANY changes are happening, and especially over the next nine weeks... 
 I am finally starting the Study HE placed in my lap eight years ago!!
 
With a lump of praise, and all manners of emotion in my throat... 
I feel another  wave of HEALING about to take place. 
And a good dose of courage to keep stepping... 

OH how I love me some good 
" get up in ma grill N wax it" kinda  "Mix my kewlade" 
kinda Study!!!

Let's do it Lord, You and me!!! I love you Father!!

In-case you have not figured out which study I am starting... 

Hint#1 
Savoring
The
Observable
Presence

OF MY GOD!!! 

Tired, but Blessed!!!

This week has been a challenge for sure... my heart still doing it's thing, but I know Jesus is in control&working.

Praise His name!!

Claiming His healing, thankful for how close He stays by our side.
God is working, He is opening doors no man could shut,  and shutting no man could open!!

I know my redeemer lives, He amazes me.
Just for who He is alone, is breath taking...
I love Him, my King, Savior,  and Satisfying Comforter!!!

Jesus, I love you!!
I don't want to ask you for anything in this moment, just want to praise...

Nearer Lord to thee,
My soul longes to be.
Your all sufficient grace,
Your marvelous in all your ways.
In the palm of your hand
Father, that's where I am.
You have my name written there,
You know my frame that's made from sand.
Your tender mercies new each day,
Father lead me in all your ways.

    ~Angela~

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

*A HEART 4 GOD*: This is also something that came to my mind at the...

*A HEART 4 GOD*: This is also something that came to my mind at the...: This is also something that came to my mind at the beginning of this month. Jesus made a way through the storms of life, He promised he'd...

May 25th 2012

                   Is anything to hard for God?

  I want to share my heart with you as if it is the last opportunity to do so.
I’m not trained; do not come from a manicured or Bible School back ground.
According to statistics I should be divorced,
 Remarried,
On drugs,
Or in prison!!
I gave the devil lots of ammunition to use on me,
 Some of what you may know of my background is probably true,
The rest I assure you have not a clue to the reality of how far and into what pit I allowed Satan to take me.
 But I no longer live in the pit amongst the swine;
I know who I am,
 Where I am at,
 And where I am going!!
I am a daughter of the most high God,
Blood bought through the saving,
Sanctifying and keeping power of His Son Jesus Christ my Lord.
My past is erased,
 My present redeemed,
 My future secure!!
The potter who is making my clay has made no mistakes,
He took the broken pieces I came to Him with and He melted me down to nothing, and started over again.
Lovingly He has pulled, pushed, scraped, smashed and stretched me,
Put me through the fire over and over again,
And when I thought I could not stand the heat one more moment,
 He pulls me out for a little while to rest and works on polishing the cracks that sin created by my own doing.
 He lovingly shapes me into the design He had for me from before the foundations of the world were formed.
He keeps His hand over me at all times,
The pressure of that can get intense
 But as He applies that pressure to my hemorrhaging heart I can feel healing taking place.
 Once a wound is healed it is stronger yet leaves an ugly scar…
But because of the marvelous works of this Great Physician,
 the ugliness of the scar is overshadowed by the beauty that shines through those cracks.
 It is not me,
 It is HIM!!
 His Holy Spirit shining through,
 His love,
 Peace,
      Joy,
 Contentment,
 Surrendered dreams,
 Changed desires,
And so many blessings to contain they are spilling over the brim of my life.

This is where YOU come in!!!

I want to pour out all of this as a praise offering to Jesus,
 and I need you to bring yours to the same pool of healing waters,
and together we can pour into our families, friends and churches.
I long to empty myself out before the Lord for His glory,
His Kingdom,
 This life is not our own we have been bought with a price no one else could ever match.

My passion, desire and burden are for the ones like me,
That think they are a hopeless case…
 No use, no hope, so broken and ugly, so shattered to ever be put back together again.
“I want to love them like Jesus and carry them to Him” (CC)
The Great Healer!!!
Be willing, humbled, determined, to keep that stake in the ground.
 SATAN, WE ARE NOT FOR SALE, I am claiming this through the power of Jesus!!

I am sick and tired of being a punching bag to the enemy;
 I am tired of not taking God at His word for what it says,
 and allowing the enemy to get a good jab at me. 

 I will not stand by any longer and continue to watch those around me become casualties of this war we are in.
It is time us as God’s people rise up 
and suit up 
and put on the full armor of God.
Realize who our Commander and Chief is!!!
 GOD ALMIGHTY who is sitting on HIS throne!!!
 Who has ALL power to give to us through His Holy Spirit!!! 
We already know who wins this thing why don’t we FIGHT like it???
It is time to put up or shut up, the line is drawn;
There are only two sides to this thing
 PICK one and STAY ON IT.
 It isn’t about if you believe in sprinkling, dipping, or dunking…
 It isn’t about how high the bun is,
 how low the dress is, how high the neck line..
If we are suited up according to God’s word all those things are already in place. 
Are we going to continue to sit and sniffle 
like little school girls on the side lines because
 he said,
 She said,
 No one knows who said,
 And loose your family and friends to the enemy? 
If we got as fired up about the work of the Lord like we do what fox news has to say, 
what on earth would be happening right now in our homes and churches?
 If we got our face off the book and IN the book,
 Got back to living the way we should,
 Where right was right,
 wrong was wrong, 
and there were no middle grounds up for discussion!!
 What would that look like to this generation?
 Look I am not talking at you;
 I am talking to myself,
 I am praying the Lord helps me
 to step up and step in the gap,
 make up the hedge,
 roll up my sleeves and GET TO WORK. 
What happened to “No turning back”?
All bridges burned behind and beside me
 looking only to the narrow one that is straight ahead.
Yes at times it looks dark, at times painful,
But oh the joy and peace that floods my soul 
to know I am on the winning side.
My Savior goes before me, 
beside me, 
behind me, 
and under me
 to give me strength to walk this thing out to the end. 
There is a song that says
 “ Every step I take is a step of faith, 
when I can’t see what’s in front of me I walk on and just believe,
 that He hears my prayers and when I get there, 
the miracles promised by my Father will be waiting in the water” 
Glory to God!! 
  It’s almost morning, 
those Eastern skies are going to burst wide open and it will be worth it all!!! 
I think of Sis. Judy Williams preaching “KEEP THE LIGHT ON” and
 Bro. James Plank “HOLD THE LINES- the little things really DO matter. 
They mean the difference between Heaven and Hell.”

So my sister lets Push on,
Hold on, Walk on,
Pray on,
Stand on His word and His promises.
They will NEVER fail!!!


Please excuse the grammatical errors as I just wrote and left it.
 Maybe I will get a chance to go back over it and correct it. Not to worried about that right now    =)

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Is anything to hard for God?

Another sleepless night.... so much on my mind.... so much to be done.... 
                                                BUT
For some reason it  does not feel as important to me right now. With this new season of life that is slowly setting in, I find myself reflecting, anticipating, meditating, and pondering. 
I guess to some degree I am feeling a bit overwhelmed, as I know most of you are with your own stuff. I am feeling.... STILL... the kind of " Be still and know HE is God" Still... 
Ever feel that way? 
I know HE is God, I just can not put my finger on what is exactly going on, but it is there. Maybe because this new season is bringing COMPLETE change... but change we have known was coming for a  LONG time.. Change that is good, and exciting.... BUT it is here.. and I do not feel prepared, equipped, or ready like I think I should be... 
YET I know, GOD does the equipping to what He calls us too... I love that.

This makes no sense.... but perfect sense at the same time.. 

I hear a really good Bible Study calling my name... I ended one a few weeks ago, and I feel the need, the call, the desire, to get into this next one. 
I love being in the throngs of a good Bible Study. Learning, searching, growing, and working this daily walk thing out with my Father and Savior. 

One thing I am sure of and am so thankful for is... 
NOTHING is to hard for my GOD, and HE is in control, and I do not have to worry about driving............ Just stay in the car and read the map.... 

God is good... 
Trust all has a Blessed week. 

Please pray for our family, several unspoken prayer requests.