God & me day

Fall has arrived and along with beautiful colors and cooler temperatures, it brings back our crazy schedule. Doug is gone more than he's home and this year I'm almost as bad. As I write this, I'm in a hotel room yet again. Thursday I was home and had carved out the day to spend with God, my Bible, journal and study guide by Anne Graham Lotz http://www.annegrahamlotz.com called "I Saw the Lord". It's her newest out and focuses on some Bible characters and their quest for what she calls personal revival. Great stuff! I chose Nehemiah to look at in depth. I've been using Anne's study questions for all my Bible study lately. They are: What are the facts of the passage? What are the lessons to be learned? What is God saying to me? What am I going to do about it? Anyhow, back to Nehemiah....here's a few stand out things I was reminded of again.

1. Burden is the first step to vision.
2. Prayer for us is to learn God's burden for the situation. The greater the challenge the greater the prayer.
3. "Just do it" from the old Nike ad - even when the way is full of hard things.

It was great to revisit and recommit to my own personal vision/purpose of coming alongside women's ministry leaders and pastor's wives to love them, listen to them, encourage them, equip them and empower them to be and do all God wants for them. It's been a tough number of months in one of my roles, so this recommitment to my vision was good.

I also commited to carving out regular "God & me" days and wrote them on my calendar - even in the middle of our crazy schedule.

And like Nehemiah, I'm going to "just do it" - no matter the cost!

These "God & me" times are always great for realignment with Him.