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

 I read one of my previous posts from last year about my desire to see the promises of God working in my life, and I have a report to go along with that previous post.  To see the part 1 of this post go to  growing my little faith seed . In the past month or two I have been really tired and simply holding on to the hope that I would see the results if I didn't faint. Galatians 6:9 says "and let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." (KJV) In the past week I have been sent flowers and a spa kit, given a new stove and refrigerator, and had my summer classes paid for.  Thank you Jesus!  I am a witness that his word is true and his love is strong.  I am moving from faith to faith and from glory to glory.  With God I always win.   The part of the story that it pains me to tell you is that right before all of this happened I almost let go.  I was standing in my room and had a vision of what my life woul...

I have always struggled with making decisions.  I have a fear of bad decisions.  I don't like being wrong, and I dislike disappointing my teachers, trainers, my son, and parents.  As I was painfully analyzing my employment possibilities, and some other areas in my life that are in transition,  I started to stress out to the point of just going to sleep for days.  It was a cop out, but it was better to me than making a choice that was another failure.  Then one day as I was again contemplating my next bad decision, I felt an urgency come over to me to just make a decision. An inner exclamation followed that said, "God can handle your worst decisions, so if your going to fail do it quickly and move on to the lesson." This is a painful and yet freeing  revelation.  I get so caught up in my power of choice that I forget that I've already made the one choice that has guaranteed my success already.  I have chosen to be a Christian.  I have cho...