Jor has been looking for a job since January. It can be hard to be the wife of a person looking for a new job! :-) It never works to mettle in his affairs and yet sometimes I can feel so powerless.

This has thrown me back on the Lord. God is my provider, not my husband. So HE is to one to speak to when I get fearful or have my own idea about how Jor should look for a job. I've been doing a LOT of praying about the job and God keeps saying good is coming. I felt he said this is a year of abundance for us. Even though abundance has not manifested yet, I am pressing in, by faith.

Faith is SO important to God. And faith is ALL about the unseen. This is hard for us fleshly minded creatures. We want evidence NOW. We don't want to wait. But God is interested in our character. He wants to grow us into the people we are created to be. This comes through trials. During the trials we hope in the unseen. What is seen is temporary but what is unseen is eternal.

+Lord give us a real sense of your abiding presence as we go through trials.+

Positive confessions

I am really into Joyce Meyer lately, and am starting to apply some of her teaching to my life. Her tape series It Is Finished is amazing. I've listened to it several times, and there is so much there. I also am reading her book Me and My Big Mouth and that has been great too.

I am working on a list of proclamations about who I am in Christ, and what he has called me and my family to. Joyce suggests we make the list and proclaim it daily. She show us her list in the book and it is amazing.

One of the things she tell herself is "I'm dead to sin." I've tried this when I'm tempted and it helps. Joyce is big on speaking positively. I can be a negative person, so this is really good for me.

Here is her web site http://www.joycemeyer.org/

Anyway, I am chosen by God, holy and dearly loved, I am the righteouness of God in Jesus Christ. I am a new creation. I am seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. How about you?