Not Ready to Let Satan In!!!!

Ryan and I have been in a season of "lessons" and I have to admit it hasn't been easy. But our God is an awesome God and I praise him. A month ago both Ryan and I both found ourselves in a awesome growing stage of our relationship with the Lord...we both found ourselves so hungry and wanting to give so much more of ourselves to our Lord. I've seen Ryan taking his roll as spiritual leader seriously and seeing him disciple his family made me eager for that same fire. It's been an awesome adventure and I've learned so much about my God, His desires for my life, His Love for me, His desire for my prayer life.. and a few very interesting lessons on obedience and the blessing that come from that obedience.
So here we are now a few weeks later amazed and in awe the Lord... We've made a few changes in our life that we know are important and we know were called to do them and we ready, and Satan has taken notice.......Dang it!!! I'm putting this down in a blog so I can out it out there, it's in the acknowledged....I'm not about to let Satan sneak in here noticed. Ryan and I are finally on the same page and growing together and taking steps forward together as a married couple who love the Lord and ready to give EVERY part of our life to the Lord not holding any part back!! And if Satan thinks he can walk right in here and distract us from what an awesome God we have....boy is he mistaken!!!!! So I'm going to confess my frustrations Lord and ask you take these doubts away.
Has anyone noticed that it seems like everyone was doing really good a few months ago...people were growing, relationships were blossoming, marriages were strong.... but this is life people no were in the Bible does it say ..."As soon as you become a Christian life is going to get easier." In fact it quit the opposite. We live in a crappy world.....cars break down, people fail you, money gets tight, people get sick and suffer, BUT we don't have to stay here forever!!!! Our Lord is coming for us, He's prepared a perfect home for us...and He's given us a Helper and Comforter. We have to have faith and know that His will for our life is perfectly planned out, but we can't hear His will if we're sitting around feeling sorry for ourselves.....seek Him and He will sustain you, comfort you and heal you. It wasn't any accident we all felt a need to seek Him so strongly, God is an all knowing God and he LOVES us so much, and I feel so comforted that He knew we'd be coming on a time of trial and we'd need Him close by. Thank you Lord for loving me, caring for me, and for pulling me close for this rough patch.
I also want you all to know I've felt a very strong conviction to pray not for myself and my struggles (Ryan does that for me) but to pray for you. My relationship with Him is not only for my self but for others... I want to pray for you, but I also need to pray for you....God's changed my heart from myself and turned it outward.....I don't want to lose that.
If you read this and have prayer needs please please e-mail me.....ryanandrachael@hotmail.com.

Friends you are not alone...were all right there with you....we're all hurting, being discouraged and tested....but I know and trust our heavenly Father. He IS an awesome, lovely Father and He has not abandoned me or you...... don't let Satan in unnoticed!

2 Timothy 1:7

⁷For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

Psalm 55:22

²² Cast your cares on the LORD
and he will sustain you;
he will never let the righteous fall.

Philippians 4:6

⁶Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Psalm 27:14

¹⁴ Wait for the LORD;
be strong and take heart
and wait for the LORD.

Isaiah 40:31

³¹ but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.

Psalm 56:11

¹¹ in God I trust; I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?

Proverbs 3:5-6

⁵ Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;

⁶ in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.

2 Corinthians 1:3-7

³Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, ⁴who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. ⁵For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. ⁶If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comfort ed, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. ⁷And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.

My Table....(sad face)

My table broke......very sad. I loved sitting out side...reading my Bible and sipping coffee. Last weekend Ryan and I went to the coast for our 6 year anniversary (very fun), but when we came home our patio table was shattered and in a million pieces. Took me forever to clean up but I knew it had to be a very thorough job...too many kiddies playing back there.
Soooooo if any one has an old patio table they wanna see go...call me...i need one.