I am the Samaritan Woman!

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I am the Samaritan woman!  (John 4: 1-26)  Jesus loves me unconditionally!!  He will sit with me and look at me with nothing but love, no matter what I have done in the past or what I am doing now.  He will always love me and always want me to do better.  He lovingly tells me what He wants me to do, to trust Him.  To listen to Him no matter what He is asking me to do.  He will not give me something I cannot do no matter what it is, or how it hurts me right now, if I will just let go of my own thoughts... then He will be there as I walk with Him and do what I need to do!! 

I was listening to The Imperfect Wives radio show from Tuesday today since I missed it and they talked about the Samaritan woman and also mentioned some scripture from 1 John.  It really spoke to me today.

1John 4 is so powerful!  I love it all but this is what has been speaking to me as I was reading through it.  What is touching me in the trials I am dealing with right now. 

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. ~1 John 4:4 (NIV)

 

This is how we know that we live in Him and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.~1 John 4:13 (NIV)

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. ~1 John 4:16 (NIV)

This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. ~1 John 4:17 (NIV)

 

Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.~John 4:36 (NIV)

That last verse... speaking to me about starting this new job, (will explain more later on that) even though I was fighting it, my Father knows what is best for me.  What will bring me to eternal life for listening to Him and obeying Him! 

Listening to God in this situation is bringing my husband and I closer.  My husband knows how hard this will be not seeing my daughter and him in the evenings, but my husband is happier, a weight has been lifted from his shoulders knowing that we have more security with me getting this job. 

I will sacrifice for our family and I know that God will be there for me.  This is the biggest step in submission for me.  Submitting to my husband as to the Lord!!

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. ~Ephesians 5:22

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Submit Yourselves to God-James 4

James 4

Submit Yourselves to God

¹ What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? ² You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. ³ When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

⁴ You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred towards God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. ⁵ Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit He caused to live in us envies intensely? ⁶ But He gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:

   “God opposes the proud
   but shows favor to the humble.”

⁷ Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Come near to God and He will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. ⁹ Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up.

¹¹ Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. ¹² There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?

 

So much in this that I need to work on.  I so want to be able to submit myself to the Lord, but there are times I do find myself saying something bad about someone else… fighting with my husband because I have to be right, wanting a new outfit, ‘just because’

When I pray now, I am doing much better, especially since now I have a personal relationship with Him, at not always just praying for things I need.  Don’t get me wrong I still do that but I don’t pray selfishly like I used too. 

I have also learned that God gives to those that love Him and to those that give back.  If you don’t tithe, or don’t help those in need then you will never get anything or anywhere. 

God is the one that has given us our talents we need to use them for good, not self reasons!

We need to continue to stay away from the bad things in this world, that includes TV shows, music, movies and even the people you hang out with.  That’s the hardest part… not hanging out with people you did before, even if you have been friends for a long time it is hard to be the new you around them and satan works double time to pull you right back into it.  You have to resist the devil, do not leave him an opening to come through.  He is a tricky one and loves to twist things around, loves to see people unhappy.

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