To Stand Strong is to have a Strong House

As I was reading today, God impressed this passage to me: Proverbs 24:3-4. When a house is built, we lay a foundation, a strong foundation that will ensure a strong house...so as I read this passage, the message I receive from it is as God is building my spiritual body and mind with his good and faithful words, so to should my household be built strong by my devotion to God's words and filling my soul on HIS word. As HIS word is filled my attitude, my actions, my speaking to my family, not to just my children, it "shows" how God is influencing the Holy Spirit to "mold" my family into what God wants for them and me.

I have felt very "influenced" by what God has been accomplishing in my life here lately...well I guess I really need to say is that ever since I "enrolled" myself into the study "Experiencing GOD" lead by Andy, I have experienced GOD! In fact, I just have to share the following email I sent to the Kevin...
(I'm writing this to Kevin) ...got selfish with my time instead of being on God's time...listening to the ole devil just fill my ears full of things to do OTHER than what I should be doing with God's word...I have been having a hard time with this devotional, every time I get going and really HOT ON TRACK with God, praying, reading, feeling good praising his name, thanking him for my blessing I don't deserve....then BANG!! Stupid devil! I had a moment last week were I was really feeling down, then finally the great and forever Holy Spirit took over me and NAILED the devil in his tracks! WOOOHOO!! I felt like I was laying on the ground with all these arrows stuck in me and there was the Holy Spirit standing in front of me pointing his fingers at the devil telling him to BACK OFF! This is one of ours! If you think you can even remotely think that you can steal him from us, then you’re WRONG! I'm telling you Kevin, I have never felt ANYTHING like that before! So there the Holy Spirit was, just kicking the devil right in front of me! (Here I was driving down the road; I could barely keep my eyes dry for the love I was feeling from the Trinity!) I just can't get over that feeling every time I talk about it…

So as you can see, and I will say it again, "I have never felt something like this in my life, THIS STRONG!" I hope that you can see, GOD LOVES US IMMENSELY! HE PROTECTS US AND GUIDES US! Don't forget that when you fall, because we all fall, Romans 3:23 and I fall, but God renews our soul, washes us clean and sets everything back anew...so if you’re wondering, I have been doing some serious foundation repair work…see you Sunday!