Must be important...

So I read the final Harry Potter book in less than a week. It was 759 pages long. I started reading the Bible 3 months and 20 days ago. I have read only 469 pages. I just finished 2ND Kings, I am very excited about Chronicles!!! I think the amount of time it takes to read the Bible just goes to show how important it is that we do in fact read it. Although Harry Potter was an awesome book that I thoroughly enjoyed, it was in no way important --so it was not opposed. In fact, it distracted me from things that were important. The devil loves to distract us. I have found that when I allow distractions of any sort to keep me from reading the Bible every day I open myself up for his lies. I'm thinking that is the point. God speaks to us through the Bible, through His written, unchanging truth. As we read it and store His truth in our hearts we become stronger in HIM. The devil certainly doesn't want that. What keeps you from reading the Bible every single day? Is it hard to understand?--it's supposed to be--we are supposed to read it anyway. God will explain in the time and to the degree that we are meant to understand. What could possibly be more important than learning the truth that God specifically wrote for you? A TV show? I have never seen a show (not even " Lost " ) more exciting than the old testament! I challenge you, pick up your Bible and read it every day. Read it with expectation! You wont be disappointed. Be blessed my friends, I love you, Warrior Princes Jen

Ahh, sweet conformation...

So if you have ever asked me how my job is going I have probably told you how blessed and grateful I am to be employed at all. I have probably told you about the day when my boss (an out of work pediatric oncologist) sadly told me that she believed very soon she would have to give me notice. She just couldn't afford to keep a nanny that she didn't need. This was about two months after she hired me, and two months ago. That day, I looked her in the eye and told her not to fear, that I knew she was going to get a job. I knew that she was going to keep me because I knew that God put me in her house, in this exact job at this exact time for a very important reason. That reason being my church, my journey, and my adventure from Genesis to Revelation (I'm on 1st Kings). She was like uh, ok thanks. She smiled, stayed unemployed and never mentioned firing me again. Since then I have thanked God (nearly) every day at least once for keeping me joyfully employed. Every day I work has been conformation that I am doing what God wants me to be doing. It has been so much fun!! Then last week one or two of Satan's nasty lies crept into my head and left big ugly footprints in my joy. I believe it happened because I let my expectations block my view of Gods instructions. I forgot for a moment (just long enough) that I should be depending on God and not on people. Yes, I certainly need people BUT I do not need people to validate or complete me, God has that under control. Nevertheless, I spent a few terrible days lost in sorrow, lie-arrows flying everywhere. I asked God for a sign that I really was on the right track. The first thing I got (heard in my head) was "the devil attacks that which he fears" then I got "hello, don't you read your own blog? you know what to do" and THEN seemingly out of nowhere, like it -UM dropped from the sky-MY BOSS GETS A JOB, she had given up, this job came after her! That was the one that really did it. That is God telling me that I was right all along--I was right when I was focused, listening to Him, searching for and finding Him in everything. I was right that this job is part of His plan and I do have it so I can focus all my energy on my pursuit of HIM. I was right, the lie arrows were wrong. It was Him telling me that I am who He says I am no matter how I feel. That I CAN do what He asked me to do because His word-the Truth says I can. That's it, He says I can. That means I can. And so I will-joyfully. I am excited again. P.S. Those footprints in my joy, God went and filled them with peace. I am so grateful!!! Be blessed my friends, I love you, Warrior Princess Jen