Comments on: What, Exactly, Was I Looking For? http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/ Fri, 25 May 2012 22:47:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Christy http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/comment-page-1/#comment-22075 Christy Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:32:42 +0000 http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/#comment-22075 Love this. I was just commenting to my SIL that I really appreciate her and my husband (her brother). They are simply content ... just living, watching, waiting. When God asks them to do something, they do it. Very little agonizing or freaking out when they want an answer or things aren't going their way. When I read your post, I thought ... Yeah! That's what I'm talking about. They aren't constantly chasing after God's will and agonizing over whether they are missing it or what it might be or whether it's something they're going to like. It's more along the lines of, "Well, God. You know best. So here I am. If you'd like me to do this, let me know." ... Or, "I'm going to do this particular thing, God, because it seems like the wisest thing to do. If you don't want me to, please let me know." And by golly, He does let them know one way or another sometimes. Other times, life just rides on and everyone wonders why things just seem to fall into their laps at just the right time. I used to call it luck ... not anymore. :-) Love this. I was just commenting to my SIL that I really appreciate her and my husband (her brother). They are simply content … just living, watching, waiting. When God asks them to do something, they do it. Very little agonizing or freaking out when they want an answer or things aren’t going their way. When I read your post, I thought … Yeah! That’s what I’m talking about. They aren’t constantly chasing after God’s will and agonizing over whether they are missing it or what it might be or whether it’s something they’re going to like. It’s more along the lines of, “Well, God. You know best. So here I am. If you’d like me to do this, let me know.” … Or, “I’m going to do this particular thing, God, because it seems like the wisest thing to do. If you don’t want me to, please let me know.” And by golly, He does let them know one way or another sometimes. Other times, life just rides on and everyone wonders why things just seem to fall into their laps at just the right time. I used to call it luck … not anymore. :-)

]]> By: melody is slurping life http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/comment-page-1/#comment-22033 melody is slurping life Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:58:58 +0000 http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/#comment-22033 I love the pound on the bathroom door, are you listening analogy! Yep, we too often search for God's will, when in reality, we are trying to make His will our will. I love the pound on the bathroom door, are you listening analogy! Yep, we too often search for God’s will, when in reality, we are trying to make His will our will.

]]> By: Jennifer, Snapshot http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/comment-page-1/#comment-22027 Jennifer, Snapshot Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:49:10 +0000 http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/#comment-22027 Really great thoughts here. Thanks for posting today, Carol! Really great thoughts here. Thanks for posting today, Carol!

]]> By: Janna Rust http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/comment-page-1/#comment-22023 Janna Rust Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:21:57 +0000 http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/#comment-22023 You said: "I don’t need to constantly chase after God’s will; I just need to constantly chase after God! The closer I am to Him through prayer and through the study of His word, the closer I am to Him and the easier it will be for me to hear His voice as He leads me and guides me in His will for me." I say...Amen, amen, and amen. Thanks Carol for this post. I'm glad I stopped by here today! I always like your "take" on the Bible too. I wish I could get more of it. Hint, hint. :) You said: “I don’t need to constantly chase after God’s will; I just need to constantly chase after God! The closer I am to Him through prayer and through the study of His word, the closer I am to Him and the easier it will be for me to hear His voice as He leads me and guides me in His will for me.”

I say…Amen, amen, and amen. Thanks Carol for this post. I’m glad I stopped by here today! I always like your “take” on the Bible too. I wish I could get more of it. Hint, hint. :)

]]> By: Carol is at Faith Lifts this weekend… | 5 Minutes For Mom http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/comment-page-1/#comment-22005 Carol is at Faith Lifts this weekend… | 5 Minutes For Mom Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:22:19 +0000 http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/#comment-22005 [...] Carol, the fabulous blogger from She Lives, is filling in for Janice this weekend at Faith Lifts. [...] [...] Carol, the fabulous blogger from She Lives, is filling in for Janice this weekend at Faith Lifts. [...]

]]> By: Sarah http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/comment-page-1/#comment-21984 Sarah Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:29:12 +0000 http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/#comment-21984 "Freeing" is definitely the perfect word for this post. I am always complaining to God about how He is just so hard to catch. I feel like I'm chasing and chasing. Maybe this is why--maybe I'm chasing after His will instead of Him. Hmmm... “Freeing” is definitely the perfect word for this post. I am always complaining to God about how He is just so hard to catch. I feel like I’m chasing and chasing. Maybe this is why–maybe I’m chasing after His will instead of Him. Hmmm…

]]> By: Pam Rudolph http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/comment-page-1/#comment-21983 Pam Rudolph Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:26:31 +0000 http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/#comment-21983 Carol, Thank you for sharing that with us! Whoa! I agree with Susanne. It's a very freeing thought. Now I won't have to worry or fret whether I am doing His will for my life. If I stay close to Him, He wants me to know His will, and His Spirit will let me know. This reminds me that recently I had another freeing thought. I've alway been impatient, and I know God has tons of verses in the Bible for patience - and still I was like a kid with a tantrum, "I want what I want NOW!" Well, recently the Holy Spirit impressed on me (on a day my computer kept freezing up and I had lots of work to do) that if it doesn't work, it wasn't meant to happen right then. So, now I just go on and do housework or something until the computer behaves itself! It's done wonders for my blood pressure, and my husband was always chiding me for my impatience, which was not a good testimony for Christ. In traffic was another bad time to test my patience. Now, I just trust that God needed me to have some quiet time with Him - and I use it to pray! Wow! I can't believe how He's changed my life! Thanks again, Carol for your wonderful article! Carol, Thank you for sharing that with us! Whoa! I agree with Susanne. It’s a very freeing thought. Now I won’t have to worry or fret whether I am doing His will for my life. If I stay close to Him, He wants me to know His will, and His Spirit will let me know.

This reminds me that recently I had another freeing thought. I’ve alway been impatient, and I know God has tons of verses in the Bible for patience - and still I was like a kid with a tantrum, “I want what I want NOW!” Well, recently the Holy Spirit impressed on me (on a day my computer kept freezing up and I had lots of work to do) that if it doesn’t work, it wasn’t meant to happen right then. So, now I just go on and do housework or something until the computer behaves itself! It’s done wonders for my blood pressure, and my husband was always chiding me for my impatience, which was not a good testimony for Christ. In traffic was another bad time to test my patience. Now, I just trust that God needed me to have some quiet time with Him - and I use it to pray! Wow! I can’t believe how He’s changed my life! Thanks again, Carol for your wonderful article!

]]> By: e-Mom http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/comment-page-1/#comment-21979 e-Mom Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:40:19 +0000 http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/#comment-21979 What a great word, Carol. I so agree with your thoughts. I especially like I John 2:27 "As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and <i><b>you do not need anyone to teach you.</b></i> But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him." God is sovereign, and He is active, but as you've pointed out, according to Phil 2:12-13 He requires our participation. We are to "work out our salvation with fear and trembling." Your question is poignant: "If He lives in us, He will lead us and guide us and instruct us in God’s will. The question is, are we listening for it?" We are co-laborers with Christ... and we must diligently pay attention to the Spirit's leading. The more we seek Him for himself, the more we will know where He is guiding us. Amen! What a great word, Carol. I so agree with your thoughts. I especially like I John 2:27 “As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.”

God is sovereign, and He is active, but as you’ve pointed out, according to Phil 2:12-13 He requires our participation. We are to “work out our salvation with fear and trembling.” Your question is poignant: “If He lives in us, He will lead us and guide us and instruct us in God’s will. The question is, are we listening for it?”

We are co-laborers with Christ… and we must diligently pay attention to the Spirit’s leading. The more we seek Him for himself, the more we will know where He is guiding us. Amen!

]]> By: Susanne http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/comment-page-1/#comment-21970 Susanne Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:54:39 +0000 http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2007/07/14/what-exactly-was-i-looking-for/#comment-21970 Wow, Carol. You just totally shook up my perspective. It's very freeing though, to know, that I don't have to be frustrated trying to figure out God's will. I just need to get closer and closer to God. And then He will do the work to show me. Very freeing. Thanks for this post! Wow, Carol. You just totally shook up my perspective. It’s very freeing though, to know, that I don’t have to be frustrated trying to figure out God’s will. I just need to get closer and closer to God. And then He will do the work to show me. Very freeing. Thanks for this post!

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