Family Fun

Had dinner with mom and dad the other night and I actually cooked! Shocker I know...its not that I do not like to cook, but most of the time we are too busy and its just easier to whip up something fast...fake cooking I call it. I am actually a pretty good cook when I put my mind to it (is that bragging?) or at least Zac thinks so ;) We had a blast with mom and dad eating and playing games and of course I pulled out the camera! Me and mom were having fun with the camera while the men talked about manly things...sort of.

His Name and His Renown

Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws,

we wait for You;

Your name and Your renown

are the desires of our hearts.

Isaiah 26:8

You know alot of times in church we sing songs like "All I need is You Lord", "Your all I want", or "This is my desire..to honor You", but then we leave and other things start to invade that desire that we just so passionately sang about. It's not that we don't love God or that we really don't want to make Him first in our lives, it's that life just has a way of stepping in and getting in the way. Life... Im talking obligations, work, family, friends, social gatherings, entertainment and the like. When I read Isaiah 26:8 I am humbled by my weak attempt to make His name and His renown the desire of my heart. When I read this verse I see a person so full of passion for God that they live and move and breath Him. Let me ask you this...Why would people want what we (christians) say we have if what we really have looks exactly like what they got? In other words if our lives are as passionless and empty as the nonbelievers why in the world would they come running after a life such as that? Quite frankly I believe that people have had enough of a watered down gospel message that is void of the anointing and void of the power of the Holy Spirit. Do you think thousands of people would have gotten saved if the disciples hadn't come preaching with demonstration and power accompanying the gospel of Jesus Christ. So many churches and so many Christians are trying to share a "relevant" Jesus leaving out major pieces of who He really was. Jesus came to save, He came to deliever, He came to heal, He came to set the captives free, He came to wash away sin by the power of His blood. That's the Jesus that people will respond too, that's the Jesus that the discples shared with many getting healed and set free. I am believing that as Zac and I make a commitment to share the full Gospel nothing held back we will begin to see the signs that follow by the power of the Holy Spirit (Mark 16:15-18) Not by our might and definitely not by our power, but by HIS SPIRIT!

Those who are wise shall shine

like the brightness of the firmament

And those who turn many to righteousness

like the stars for ever and ever

Daniel 12:3

A Reflection of who He is

Though one may be overpowerd, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not easily broken. Ecc 4:12

Zac and I have been married for almost two years, and still I am amazed at the man God has given me. You know when you first get married people always say "oh you are still in your honeymoon stage" if your husband does something nice for you, giving you the impression that they will stop doing those things after you have been married for a while. Zac hates that statement, it gets him so fired up when people say it, making him more determined to be the man God has called him to be. And I have to say that I reap the benefits :) In all seriousness I too wondered when we first got married if this would last. I remember one of my earliest memories of Zac and I as husband and wife after we had returned from our honeymoon. I had woken up one morning to find Zac not in the bed and I wandered around the house looking for him, when I finally found him he was in the spare bedroom sprawled out on the floor on his face seeking God. I was so blessed by what I saw and I knew that I had married the right man. Not a night goes by that he doesn't pray over me and our family and not a morning passes where he is not on his knees in prayer. I also am never allowed to leave for work without waking him up so he can pray for me before I leave. And he doesn't just lay in bed and say a quick prayer, he gets up comes to the door and really covers his wife. I am also so blessed that he inconviences himself to come and eat with me at work even driving over the mountain on his days off. I often tell people that he is a much better husband than I am a wife although we are both a work in progress. The bible says that our husbands are to be as Christ is to the Church and my husband is truly a reflection of this scripture. It is our continual prayer that God uses our marriage to be a testimony of His great love, and that He uses us to pour out a blessing to others.