~Life Lessons from God~

Well... I'm back at HQ. I got here somewhere around 5:30 this morning and I'm super tired! And I have to be up by 5:30ish tomorrow morning. But God is good and I will survive. ;) I'll be going back home Wednesday night and then I'll come back here the following Monday. I kind of feel like I've had a lot of moving around and such lately but honestly, I don't really mind. That much. And besides, God's teaching me to be flexible! ;)

It's been really good for me here though. As much as I really, really want to be home, I know that God wants me here for a little while. I'm not really sure how long, but I trust Him with those details. ;) He's in control and He knows exactly what's going on and why it is. My job's not to plan, my job is to trust and follow His leading. It's extremely hard sometimes....okay, a lot of times..... but God is faithful, just, kind and loving. All I need to do is rely on Him completely. Which is easier said than done, but He's teaching me!! Actually, He's been teaching me a lot while I've been here. For example, a few weeks ago I was taking an order for a homeschooling mom over the phone and she was in her "nice phone voice". Ya know those voices mothers get when they're on the phone with someone outside of the family? ;) Well, she was in her super nice voice. And if there's one thing that sort of annoys me, it's a "nice phone voice"!
So, the whole time she's telling me which books she'd like to order I was thinking to myself how she should just talk in her "normal" voice. Well, right when we were exchanging our "have a nice day"s, she asked how to spell my name. I thought it was kind of awkward, but just thought she was taking it down just in case she'd call back asking questions about her order. Wrong. She was writing my name in her prayer book so she could pray for me! She then asked how she could pray for me. No, you can't even imagine the horrible feeling I had inside of me. That stunned silence for a minute made her ask if I was still there. I almost started crying right there on the phone! But I didn't. She then left me with a verse of encouragement and blessed me with joy and peace and then hung up. Wow.

God knows exactly how to get us. He knows exactly where it's going to hurt and exactly where it's going to help. He is always faithful in teaching me these "little" lessons. Daily.

God is amazing. He's becoming more and more real to me everyday. I love how He teaches me HUGE lessons in little things. I love the small things He does to show me that He loves me. Like the time I was sitting at my desk and it was the day God had "officially" told me He wanted me there (that's another story in itself!) for a little while longer. I had said a quick prayer in my heart saying, "Lord, I will follow You where you lead me. Just please help me to do so and be with me." Immediately after I was done saying that, my eye caught something in my Journal.... it was the verse at the end of the page that said, "Surely I am with you always, even to the very end of the age." I mean, if that doesn't say "I love you", then I don't know what does!!!!

I love even the smallest of things to others is a huge mountain top experience for me! And personally, I like small, effective lessons. :) I like the little things.
For example, big, huge, hour long testimonies aren't as heart moving to me as the smaller ones on how people conquered the little "thorn". Now don't get me wrong, big, huge testimonies have their place and praise God for all that He has done in your life, but I just enjoy the testimonies that are about the one thing that meant so much to you personally.

Well, anyway.... yes, God has been amazing to me as of late, and I pray that He will continue to teach me His "little lessons of the day", and that I will stay faithful and not stray!



Many Blessings to anyone who reads this!!! :)


In Christ Alone,
~Gianna

Lately, God has been showing me that there are certain areas of my life that I had not fully surrendered to Him; trusted Him with. I was not willing to give up my will for His. I wasn't giving Him my everything. I was leaning on my own understanding and not His--"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths." ~Prov. 3:5-6
Sometimes it's so hard to trust Him. Sometimes it's easier to just do it ourselves-(or think we can, anyway) And so the Lord has just been working on my heart, showing me and teaching me these things.... asking me to trust Him. Someone recently told me, "The closer we walk with Him the more we learn to trust Him." My prayer is that I will cling to Him as He reveals His will to me, that I may fully surrender my will, and follow HIS leading.... joyfully! Whatever He has in store for my future, wherever He is leading me, may I always be trusting Him and looking upward as I move onward!

Many Blessings,


Gianna