Random Thursday

Plan B arrived at my house on Saturday!! It just so happened that I was having a hard day so it was really just perfect timing. I have been reading it slowly so that I can take in as much as I can. But after these last few days, I can tell that it's already changing my outlook. I can't wait to read the rest and I will let you know how it effects me once I am done! If you haven't gotten the book yet, be sure to head over to Amazon and get it! 

Plan B: What Do You Do When God Doesn't Show Up the Way You Thought He Would?

On the same note, I just wanted to give a quick shout out to my brother who recently started a blog. I have always said that my brother could be a preacher and his new blog almost proves my case. He is such a strong and gifted writer who loves the Lord. He wrote a really neat post yesterday using Twitter and its followers as an analogy to followers of Christ.

 Check out his blog... http://soninthefaith.blogspot.com

My mom and dad are coming up to visit us this weekend and I am EXCITED! We are planning to do a lot of shopping and eating! :) We are going to celebrate Mother's day since I didn't get to go home last weekend. And we may go see Back-up Plan... Has anyone seen this? Mom and I love Jennifer Lopez so I hope that it's cute! 

What are your weekend plans? 

P.S.---I spent most of last night going back through every post on this blog and adding labels! I blog about such random stuff that I thought this would make it easier to find certain topics! So make sure you see the new addition on the left and check out some of the old post that you might be interested in! :) 

Plan B

What do you do when God doesn't show up the way you thought he would?

I SERIOUSLY need this book right now more than I ever have in my life!! My friend, Kelly at KellysKorner is giving away 3 copies of Plan B by Pete Wilson!! Pete is a pastor at Cross Point Church in Nashville, TN. I read about this book last week, but after watching this video, I couldn't wait for her giveaway... I ordered it immediately! It was only $10.19 on Amazon.com!

I can't wait for it to be delivered next week so I can dive right into it. I know that lots of you will relate to this book once you watch this video. So... go enter Kelly's giveaway before Thursday evening or just hop over to amazon.com and buy it now like I did! :)

PlanB Promo from Cross Point Church on Vimeo.

Happy New Year!

I pray that this new year brings many good thing to each of your lives as well as my own! 2009 hasn't been the easiest year of my life. We have been through many things that can only make us stronger and that makes me have high hopes for 2010. I am honestly looking forward to this year more than any others in the past. As I read this poem, it inspired me and I wanted to share this with you!

A New Year With The Lord

A new year is about to unfold

With new opportunities to explore

Doors will open for new experiences

New adventures with the Lord

Remember not the former things

The things of this past year

The Lord will do new things in us

Much more than we are aware

For He will make a way for us

As we put our trust in Him

And He will guide our every step

By His presence we have within

What God has placed within our hearts

We find we’ll be able to do

If we look for the opportunities

We’ll see the door to go through

We mustn’t let anything hold us back

But rise up and take our place

And be all that God wants us to be

With a fresh touch of His grace

© By M.S.Lowndes

HAPPY NEW YEAR Y'ALL!!!!!!

Turner Family and Beth Moore weekend!

This weekend Matt's mom, brother and brother's girlfriend came up to our house! We had such a fun weekend. We ATE so much, had a birthday party for Lisa, saw Halloween 2 at the drive-in (SCARY!), attended church, ate some more and did a little shopping! Here are a few pics from the great weekend!

Romeo really loves when people come to see "him"!

Lisa's birthday cake and presents! I got her new bedding!! I can't wait to see it on her bed at her new house!

Cute cake from Ricks, of course! (She is called Sissy by her family!)

Rick's is doing such a good job on all the doggie cakes! I am jealous that Romeo hasn't been on one yet! :)

She loved her Sam cake!

We had perfect fall-like weather this weekend! I am really so ready for fall! I have been dying to get out my fall decorations. I even went to Hobby Lobby this weekend and got a really cute fall plate to put up in my kitchen. I don't like turkeys or jack-o-lanterns but I love fall leaves and pumpkins!! As you may have noticed I really like modern furniture and decor so it's challenging to decorate for the holidays and keep it contemporary. Stay tuned to see what I come up with this year! I am having more company in 3 weeks so I am going to wait a couple more weeks to put it all out but the temperatures cooling down sure does make me excited for fall!

Also this weekend my church hosted a Beth Moore simulcast. We were one of 516 churches around the world to host this live event and there were over 90,000 women and maybe a few men that were in attendance in all! WOW! The simulcast was Friday night and Saturday morning and broken into 3 sessions. The message from Beth was about your heart's desires. It was so good that I thought I would share a few things that she spoke about.

Psalms 37: 4 Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Beth spoke from this verse all weekend. She had 7 points that she walked us through. She explained that a true heart's desire is a sustained longing. It is something that we have wanted for a very long time and is not affected by our mood or the moment. Without typing out all of my notes here are the 7 points...

• Nothing dictates our lives like our desires
• Beneath the desires of our heart is the heart of our desires
• Delighting in God adapts our desires into inevitabilities
• Nothing external can steal our right to delight! ( ex. jealousy, anger and worry can steal delight)
• Commit to make room for delight
• Nothing is passive about patiently waiting for desire to turn into delight
• Until faith becomes sight, trust God and do good.

I think the biggest thing that I was reminded of this weekend was that God hasn't forgotten me! Beth said these words, "God will trump our desires if glory or destiny is at stake." I know that He hears all of my prayers and already knows my heart's desires so I was encouraged that I need to continue to wait on the Lord!

Precious Words!

Tomorrow morning, Matt will have a ct scan to determine if he has t-cell lymphoma. We got a call last week that this could be a possibility and we have really been struggling with the thought of cancer. We were also told that he has Wilsons disease. It is a disease that has to do with your body not getting rid of copper and it builds up in your organs. We don't know much about it other than it is rare. I know Matt is strong and that we can beat this but it just doesn't seem right that we are having to go through this.

For Christmas, my mother in law framed a hand written sermon note from Matt's dad who passed away in 2005. He was a long time Southern Baptist preacher in Arkadelphia. His words could make anyone feel better. When she gave us this, I was very moved by his words but it wasn't until this week that his words really meant something to me. In church on Sunday Lisa passed the actual copy to me and I felt an instant peace. We now have this framed sermon note hanging in our bathroom so that we can read it everyday! I am so thankful I grew up learning the words of God from Gary Turner. I just wanted to share these precious words with all of you!! Hopefully they will help someone as much as they have helped me!


There is NOTHING - no circumstance - no trouble - no testing - that can ever touch me, until first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through me.

If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose - which I may not understand at the moment, but as I refuse to become panicky - as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the Throne Of God - for some great purpose of Blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me.

No trial will ever disarm me, no circumstance will cause me to fret, for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is. That is “The Rest of Victory”.

Also there are many of Matt's dad's sermons on his website available to download. garyturnerministries.net Go check it out!