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

So, I am so excited to promote The 2017 Business and Ministry Expo by Daughter of Promise Women's Club.  It is a wonderful event where ministries all over the North East Ohio come together to celebrate their faith and share their gifts and talents with the rest of the family of God.  To support this event DPW is doing a T-shirt fundraiser!  I love this shirt and you will too.  I intend to run at least 4 marathons this year and I will be wearing this shirt at one of them. Check it out, and if you are interested in participating in this event contact me and I'll get you to the organizer.  I will be there and so should you! Check out the link to see the shirt. https://www.booster.com/organized-by-dpw-daughter-of-promise-womens-club ps. I am seriously thinking about starting my own journey of faith marathon. What do you think?

     Sometimes in my journey of faith I get really tired and a little bit disoriented. I try to wear this world loosely, but every now and then life gets heavy on me.  In those times I tell myself "If this is what God wants then he must be training me, but if this isn't God's will I am not going to take this."  This may sound a bit confrontational, and that's because it is.      What I have come to know is that this journey of faith is right through a war zone, and everyone who takes this journey needs to be vigilant and in full armor ready to fight for their spiritual life.  You see God is not the only one that has a plan for my life.  Just as light can not exist without dark, good can not exist without evil.  When we fail to recognize that we have opposition, we make ourselves easy victims, and set ourselves up for a fall. There is a real enemy of our souls and we need to be ready for him. ...

    One of the amazing things that I heard this past month while serving on the teaching ministry at my church was the idea that we have to come into agreement with Holy Spirit in order to operate in the power of God.  I knew this intellectually, but for some reason there was a freshness on it when I remembered what a fellow member of the ministry had said. This statement about agreement with God coupled with a good look at the Lord's Prayer and I was brought back from the brink this past weekend.      Recently I was feeling overwhelmed with a sense of both urgency and indignation.  I was desperate to accomplish some of the things that I had been talking about for months and even years.  I was angry at how I had been sidetracked, and yesterday I realized that I have gotten so backed up that I didn't know what to do first, second, or third.  As tears welled up in my eyes and my husband tried his best to put out the proverbial...