Well, Our First Glory Miracle has arrived!!!

Introducing Miss Shelby Grace Snuggs
Courtney Snuggs one of our precious glory girls gave birth to a healthy beautiful baby girl yesterday, December 22, 2008, I had the honor of holding her and talking to her for a while yesterday!! She was 5 pounds and 14 ounces a couple of weeks early, just in time for Christmas~ God's timing is so right on time!! It was an amazing moment to experience~ just talking to her little face yesterday, it was a full circle experience, I had prayed for her before her conception,and of course I had been praying alone and with Courtney about Shelby, but to see her, it was simply God's tangible evidence that He is still in charge of Miracles!!! I could not be more thirlled for Courtney and Brad!! Praise God and thank you for Shelby!!! There are many other miraculous updates to come for each of you, and I cannot wait to be able to post them!! For those of you that are waiting, know that God has the perfect moment created just for you~ your miracle will come in God's perfect timing~ He is never late nor early, He is precise, exact and detailed, He is right on time~ HIS time~ I continue to pray for each of you several times each day!!! We will start our Wed. night study again in Feb.~ more updates to come! !

Moment by moment and Happy Christmas~
Kimberly
Phil 1:3

Let's talk about Faith....

I remember when my now five year old was almost two, and I was getting her dressed for sunday school, I was explaining that we were going to God's house, and that she was going to be talking to Jesus,giving her dollar to Jesus, etc... I was explaining all of the good manner rules. Little did I know that she was so excited to go to God's house and talk to Jesus, we get to her class, she goes right in, well, I went on my way, and then went back to pick her up and she was furious, she teared up, I asked what was wrong, and in the sweetest little two year old voice she said, "but Momma, I didn't get to see Jesus today!" So I ask, what is Faith? Hebrews 11:1 tells us that Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we cannot see. We can't physically see Jesus, therefore many doubt Him, that is where our Faith comes in, there is no logic in Christianity, many things and ideas and beliefs cannot be explained, they are simply verified through Faith. I find it interesting though, that when Jesus, was in human form and walked the earth,and he could be visibly seen and physically touched, that people still doubted Him, His very on disciples wrestled with Him, and when He walked on water, He was thought to be a ghost, and He was feared. Today, we cannot visibly see God with our own two eyes like we might see another human, but when we seek Him, He will be found, I challenge each of you today, to seek Him in everything that you do today and everyday, and He will be as real to you as anything that you can see visibly, hear audibly, and touch physically. In our Christian Faith, we have to remain focused, and certain of what we do not see! Don't miss the many ways that God is making Himself known ,and the many ways that he reveals and "verifies" Himself on a moment by moment basis!
Faithfully His,
Kimberly
Hebrews 11:1

What is prayer and why do you pray?!?!?

Now , I know a fabulous answer to the above question is that we, as Christians pray because Jesus did!! That is correct, however, let's make this question real and personal in your life today~ put your name in the blank "Why does____ pray?" There are so many Christians that pray at night before bed, and at mealtimes, maybe they squeeze in a morning time prayer~ not that these are bad times to pray at all; however, you will have a life changing occurance when your prayer becomes constant and continual~God tells us in His word to pray without ceasing, how many of us really do that? My favorite thing is when God wakes me up in the middle of the night and puts one of you on my heart and I wake up and sometimes, just like last night between the hours of 3 and 5~ I had a wonderful conversation with Jesus~ If you placed yourself in a car for 24 hours with your spouse or friend, and you never said a word ~ at the end of that long road trip, you would know nothing more about them than when your journey began! Without prayer, we cannot seek God, without 2 way communication, we cannot know Him more, we cannot know more about who HE is and who HE wants to be in our lives~ As I continue to grow, I am learning to pray in different ways, sometimes, I pray with petition for others, sometimes I just have prayer full of praise and thanksgiving, and adoration. Lately though, I am learning that prayer is also when I am still and quiet, and when I am listening to what God wants to say. For those of you who know me know that this is difficult, I am a motor mouth!! I've had many of you ask me how do we hear God ,how do we know that it is Him, God's word will not return void, simply ask Him, He will give you evidence that the "I am" is speaking to you!! Over the next 6 weeks on Wed. nights we will be talking about prayer, the different kinds of prayer, and how amazing it is that we serve a God who desires that direct communication with us~ when praying this week~ don't remain so focused in frusteration of trying to understand or know God's exact plan on your life that you miss the journey that you are travelling to ultimately see His face. He promises to fullfill His purpose in your life, simply ask Him in your prayer time, seek His word through the Bible, and He will speak to you this week, HE WILL SPEAK, the answer might be yes, no, or wait~ BUT THERE WILL DEFINITELY BE AN ANSWER, just make sure that you are ready to accept the answer that He chooses to give. He wants to be EVERYTHING in your life! This week my prayer for each of you is this~ that you will know Jesus more today than you did yesterday, that you will seek Him in different ways than you have before, and that He will become real to you and in your life! I pray that you absolutely crave two way communication with your Father today and always~ when times are good and when times are difficult~ HE REMAINS~ the "Alpha and Omega!"

Moment by moment~
Kimberly
Ephesians 1:17-18

Ignorant Impatience

Well, this blog is about how Jesus loves us enough in our ignorant impatience that He keeps holding on to us and providing us with ultimate protection! This weekend a couple of the glory girls and I took a beach trip~ we had a great time, last night we were on the way home and I was exhausted and sunburned!! We stopped at this gas station and I prepaid $80~ I go back out to the pump and it is pumping at the slowest speed I have ever experienced (to give you an idea it took like 20 minutes or more to pump the gas)I had decided that at $40 I was going to stop, and just go to another gas station~ well I looked across the street and the only other gas station was closed, so I lean over and start a conversation with the man pumping gas on the other side of me, I asked how many miles I was from B'ham, he said 150, I began calculating and I knew $60 would definitely get me there, we got to $50 something and I was throwing a fit, and one of the girls in the car got out and said "Remember the verse be still and know that I am God" Well, I calmed down, but kept complaining as I prepared to go in and get the refund, the man said,"wait I miscalcualted it's about 170 miles to B'ham, so I kept pumping, when I got to $70 the pump started pumping fast and I continued on to my full tank,we drove and drove and I saw a sign on 65N~ we were like 42 miles from B'ham and I was thanking Jesus~ all of a sudden, I see red lights everywhere ~ traffic halted~ I began to pray~ I knew whatever was taking place at the moment was bad, I didn't realize at the time just how horrific~ police cars came behind us, so I knew that we were there just right after the accident took place, two and a half hours passed as we sat still on that interstate~ we saw tow trucks remove cars that were indescribable, one of the girls, saw the officials that announce death~ I got out of my car and like many others, I paced and I prayed, paced and prayed~ it was as if God spoke so clearly~ "remember that gas pump"~ this morning I woke to find out that a 17 year old boy David House, and a 68 year old man R.L. Webb, lost their life last night on that interstate, David's mother Marie, was airlifted to UAB~ this was a 4 car collision~ I wept~ I thanked God, for His protection over those sweet girls and those babies and myself in that car last night, and yes, I thanked Him for the man on the otherside of the gas pump that miscalulated the mileage to B'ham~ my friends, God is in every detail that involves the story that He is writing for our lives. He never sleeps, and last night in my ignorant impatience, He still loved me enough to hold me in His all knowing, and all consuming, protective hands~ Please be with these grieving families and Thank you Jesus, I love you, and I am sorry for my ignorant impatience! Jeremiah 29:11

Hope when you feel hopeless!!

This crazy life can sometimes seem hopeless if we allow it to! We watch the news and we see negative stories, about war, death, crime,etc... and we think to ourselves, what has this world become? You hear about the young mother with cancer, the children at St. Jude's, you attend the funeral of a loved one, and again you might find yourself feeling somewhat hopeless. Here's the good news~ we serve a God that not only provides hope, but HE IS HOPE!! Webster's defines hope as desiring with anticipation, to trust. What are you hoping for today? Who are you placing your hope in today? Job 8:13 tells us that we become hopless only when we forget God.Hopelessness equals Godlessness. In Jeremiah 31:17 the Lord makes a promise to us, as Christians, there is hope in our future. I encourage you today to cling to this. Jesus has His children in His protection, and if today, you find yourself feeling a bit hopeless in looking at the world around you, Cling to God's promise, that He does have hope in your future, He is the holder of the future, and He has your every need met today and for eternal tomorrows!! God is hope, not just the provider of hope, but He is HOPE!!
Moment by moment~
Kimberly
Isaiah 40:31

Why, God, Why?

I think that I have spent far too much of my Christian life asking myself and God why. Why God are those babies at St. Jude's~ Why God does that young mother have cancer, why God do women lose precious babies? Why does my heart have to feel broken?
Last week in my prayer time~ God spoke~ although this might seem simple to some of you, for me I guess I had never really thought about my "whys" quite like this. I know God as my savior,my Father, my friend, my provider, my protector, the God who loves my very soul right where I am, my creator, my peace, my shelter, my refuge, and so much more. However, if our lives were never without bumps or hiccups along the way,we would miss a hugely important part of who God is~ God, our comforter. When we ask why, and we struggle with life's heartaches, we should really feel blessed that God has chosen to reveal yet another realm of who He is~ when He reveals Himself as our comforter, we can then learn another aspect of our amazing God, and we can strive to be like Him in yet another way. He comforts us,so that as we are comforted by Him, we learn then how to comfort others. So, the next time you want to ask why, stop for a moment and try to catch a glimpse of God revealing Himself in all of His magnificent ways, but also as your comforter who knows what soothes your soul, that is the really neat thing, He can be our perfect comforter, because He is our perfect creator!! I hope that you have a great weekend!! Anyone reading this that would like to post about how God reveals Himself to you is more than welcome ~ if you are reading this and you feel that you are missing God revealing Himself to you~ STOP where you are~ Be still~ cry out and then simply listen~ allow Him to work~ Ask Him to use you~ tell Him you are open and want to be used~ HE WILL SPEAK BACK!!

Moment by Moment~
Kimberly
2Corinthians 1:3-4
John 14:16

CLOTHED????

Well, I have been thinking~ as Christians, are we really clothed in Jesus Christ? Before you answer so quickly, let's think for a moment what that really means.

When we sin and repent~ do we really let go of that sin as Jesus does~ He throws it as far as the east is from the west~ ARE WE CLOTHED IN HIS FORGIVENESS?

When we have worldly thoughts and do things of the world, ARE WE CLOTHED IN HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS?

When really hard times occur~ when we can't have babies, when a loved one receives news of cancer, when we lose a loved one~ DO WE CLOTHE OURSELVES WITH HIS PEACE?

When we've had a really horrible day and the train is delaying your getting home from work, or you get behind that school bus when you are already late~What about when we have prayed and need an answer~ ARE WE CLOTHED IN HIS PATIENCE?

When that dirty homeless man asks for a dollar, or when a "lazy" relative asks you for money~ ARE WE CLOTHED IN HIS GENEROUSITY?

When we are trying to be obedient, but the road seems uncertain~ ARE WE CLOTHED IN FAITH?

Think for a minute~ what if we were as generous,as faithful, as forgiving, as patient, and as peaceful as Jesus, wouldn't that be amazing ~ to live a life of pure glory for the Father~ It is my deepest prayer that we as Christians join together and "get it" that we keep our focus on being clothed and completely enveloped and engulfed in the love that Christ has for us, and that we remain focused on being completely and utterly sold out to bringing glory to Jesus Christ~ that really should be our one and only desire and concern. I continue to pray for each of you, and if you have specific prayer requests, please continue to email me at kimstarkville@yahoo.com

Desiring to be clothed in Jesus Christ always~
Kimberly
Isaiah 61:3