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I can't even begin to tell you what is going on, the week started off bad on Monday and just went down hill from there. Events include a horrible rift at work (partly caused by me, tho I did not intend to cause it) and my cell phone was stolen on Tuesday. There are other concerns but those are the highlights.

Here is what gets me: I had not been giving to the church as much as I think I'm being led to. So, last Sunday, I wrote the biggest check to my church I ever have, and prayed over it as I offered it.

Sadly, I talked myself into expecting a GOOD week, not a BAD one due to my good intentions. I hurt inside right now....
 
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Dear Brother Pizza, prayers have been sent, and our Father can make all things to work together for our good in Jesus' name. :wave2
 
I'm in agreement with both Eugene's prayer for you and with Reba's statement.
I'll pray for you. May God bless you.
 
I can't even begin to tell you what is going on, the week started off bad on Monday and just went down hill from there. Events include a horrible rift at work (partly caused by me, tho I did not intend to cause it) and my cell phone was stolen on Tuesday. There are other concerns but those are the highlights.

Here is what gets me: I had not been giving to the church as much as I think I'm being led to. So, last Sunday, I wrote the biggest check to my church I ever have, and prayed over it as I offered it.

Sadly, I talked myself into expecting a GOOD week, not a BAD one due to my good intentions. I hurt inside right now....
It seems like a different world, yet it was only 8 days ago that I wrote that. I won't go into deep detail, but I do feel compelled to update you all. As I look back on the events of that week, I see where I goofed twice. But others tell me that the first goof was not a goof, it was that I was a victim of a crime.

The second goof WAS my goof, but it was not a mistake. I THOUGHT it was a mistake, but I see it now as a goof, an accident but not a mistake. (And we are talking about the "rift at work, caused by me and not PARTLY caused by me but totally caused by me - I just did not want to accept or admit that.) My goof upset me, and it stirred someone else. But what it really did, was to cause a conversation to happen that really needed to happen. Enough details.

One could say, "God causes all to work together for good......" And, on a basic level, that is what happened. But more clear analysis would be NOT that He "made it all work", but that my prayer of the previous weeks was actually answered - not in the way I wanted, but in the only (?) way it COULD be answered.

You see, last week was absolutely one of the best ever weeks in my five years on my job. It started off good, got better as the week went on, and ended on the highest note it could. I just can't go into details.

My message? My update? My lesson? Simple: try not to doubt or question as you are going thru something, just remember
Ecclesiastes 7:8 "The end of a matter is better than its beginning,and patience is better than pride."

Perhaps there is one more lesson: If you pray, your prayer will bring about results, but your mental picture of how the results will come, what they will be, even if He gives you what you want, won't match what is coming - and the Lord's timing wont line up with what you think it should be. So, the answers to your prayer won't always look (perhaps until the end, or ever) like the answer you were looking for.
 
Of course, in this case, I think I did get the answer or outcome I was looking for. I think so, not sure -not sure when I will know - not sure what I really wanted, in fact.
 
I can't even begin to tell you what is going on, the week started off bad on Monday and just went down hill from there. Events include a horrible rift at work (partly caused by me, tho I did not intend to cause it) and my cell phone was stolen on Tuesday. There are other concerns but those are the highlights.

Here is what gets me: I had not been giving to the church as much as I think I'm being led to. So, last Sunday, I wrote the biggest check to my church I ever have, and prayed over it as I offered it.

Sadly, I talked myself into expecting a GOOD week, not a BAD one due to my good intentions. I hurt inside right now....
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Maybe God's blessing needs time grow from your seed?
On the other hand, the reason God will help you, is because that is His Nature.
Isn't it a marvelous thing to realize that the very ONE who LIT and hung the stars and put the melody in the bird's song..
is the very one who created and installed the Sun just far enough away so that we dont burn up, yet just close enough so that we dont freeze..
OUR GOD is The very one who has the whole world in His hands, and is the very same one who would have died on a Cross if you were the only one on the earth he was dying for........= just you.
So, THAT is why He will help you.
God is good all the time.
His "thing" is to repair and restore and change, and redeem.
God never has to do anything over, as He creates it PERFECT the very first time.
All of us have to go to God on occasion for repair, and his "shop" is never closed.
 
Ok, things are better, as I indicated before. However, last night I applied for a new job - in the same company I now work, but it's a new job. I'm asking for God's "comfort, guidance and direction" in this - I THINK the job I am looking at would be good for me. And I truly do believe that I want it. HR has deemed me "eligible for consideration" and my application has been passed to the manager of that department.

I ask also for your prayers. And while you are at it, my sister (who is in advanced M.S.) can use your prayers as well.
 
Prayers continue for you Brother Pizza, and I'm so glad to pray for your sister. I had wanted to ask about her and was afraid she was already with our Lord. I remember back when you would take her for a ride in your Crossfire with the top down. You're a good brother. :)
 
Thanks again, everyone.

You know, I was thinking just the other day that I've got to take her out for a ride. She's having an issue that means she cannot ride with me, but I THINK that will be resolved in another week or so. And, cooler temps are on the way.

Oh, and I have given to the church the past two paydays - and I can see the difference in my finances already. To obey IS better than sacrifice! :)
 
There is something deeply spiritual about putting a check in the offering at church. It is odd, my paycheck is exactly the same every pay day - I get no bonus, overtime, etc. And yet, in two pay periods (four weeks) things are different. Its funny, I've been smarter with my money.

I've been in the office for four weeks now. I had an AMEX balance of almost $8000 four weeks ago, but the company has paid me for all outstanding expense reports and check requests - last time I checked a month ago, I owed about $260 more than the company owed me (caused by tipping too much, charging shampoo, etc. to my AMEX in trips - things that I can't get reimbursed for.)

Well, I paid AMEX yesterday with my last reimbursement check. I had $355 more than I owed AMEX. I went over my spreadsheets - I've not been paid too much, I have not turned in anything illegitimate - I guess I used my VISA or Debit card more than I thought. :screwloose2 Well, whatever.... It's just that the TIMING of this is kinda funny.

He has His hand on me even when I don't realize it.
 
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