Journal of Faith: Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling Philippians 2:12

I was in tears last week when I got home from work.  They were tears of joy and praise to God because I made it driving 30 minutes on the highway with less than an 8th of a tank of gas.  I had no choice because I had no cash and I had no other way to get home.  I prayed and said "Lord I have no choice but to roll."  I literally saw my gas tank move up several times throughout the drive.  When I saw my exit I started crying and praising God.  If you were to see me from another car you would have thought I was crazy.  I was yelling thank you Jesus and Halleluiah all the way.  Tears were flowing and I was slapping my steering wheel while trying not to get in an accident from shouting.  I was really scared and I had no one to call but Jesus, but that is no problem because Jesus is enough.  This may seem like a little thing to some of you, but it meant the world to me.  I had no other way to get to my son, and I had no other way to get t...

Check it out folks.  I was at work yesterday and a woman approached me and told me that the devil tried to kill her and her son in a car accident.  They hit a wall three times because each time it hit the car spun around and hit again.  All she said she could think of was what her pastor had just said in the event they were coming from.  He talked about how people were being saved and the enemy didn't like it.  He went on to say that the devil was going to try to take some people out, but that God is faithful.  Scary stuff huh?  Not for me!  Because the only one that can decide who lives and who dies is God.  The only authority to take life is the one who gives it.  This woman told her son to just call on Jesus and they are BOTH alive today even though according to the nature of the accident they should not have survived.  She told me that she remembered her pastor talking about what Satan meant for evil working for the good of God'...

God has blessed me so much this summer.  I was able to get a car, a new job,  growth in my business, and new relationships.  When things like this happen I have to check myself.  I have a tendency to say thank you to God and then to say "I'll take over from here."  That never serves me well.  I don't suffer from ungratefulness, but I do tend to suffer from controlling behavior.  I like to regulate things in my life, but that isn't where God wants me to be.  It get really hard not to trust in my own understanding, but this is what God wants from me.  It is what God has requested of all of us. Pray for me.  The hardest place for me to be is in the blessed place, and I am there now.  Thank God for this blessed place, but it is causing me to check myself every day.  The reality is that I can't do anything without God.  Lord let my ears, heart, mind, and spirit be open to your voice and instruction.  Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust...