I can not begin to describe how my life has changed since I cried out to Jesus. I realized that my life was spiraling out of control and I was helpless to stop it. I consider myself a strong person and have always felt that I could handle any situation. Boy was I wrong. As God's creation, we are all fallible and broken and it is only through His help that we can be the people we were intended to be. Sure people cry out all the time but it's not until you actually resign the fact that you are not in control and allow Him to take over that your life can actually change.

I have found that being a Christian is much harder than living for the self-serving flesh but the benefits and blessings that God gives far outweigh the confusion and frustration of life without Him. I encourage you to realistically search your heart and you too will see that somewhere, somehow, something is missing. At that point if you will do the following, your life - and by life I mean your whole waking outlook - will improve. I am by no means a perfect Christian but I continue to struggle and try. This is all He asks for.
I no longer worry or fret or concern myself with the hassles of the day and you can live like this as well.

I want to know Jesus

God WILL bless you if you ask and let Him.

On July 27th the company I was working for demanded that I put in more hours than I already was, which would have been more than 55, and there would have been no increase in salary.  One of their desires was that I work from home on the weekends including Sunday and this was more than I was willing to do.  Everyone that I worked with knew of my faith and I had always spoke of how there was more to life than what we did for a living. .  I was convinced that I needed to move on and that God was going to provide for me so I quit.

I really felt good about my decision and my prayer was, “Okay God.  Show how You care for Your children and open the door You want me to go through!”  It didn’t happen and I spent the next ten weeks begging and pleading for rescue.  I had interviews and discussions with employers for positions that were perfect for me and they all fell through.  I even applied for general labor jobs and was overlooked for every one of them. 

It wasn’t until Thursday October 15th when I awoke that I realized the true consequences of what I had done.  In my own arrogance and piety I had made God out to be my own personal Santa Claus and because I was a “good little Christian” He was to work to my benefit.  It left me with a horrible feeling of how I had treated my God but I also felt great joy that He would lead me to this conclusion so that I could see my error.  By quitting my job I removed the opportunity for Him to show His glory when He could have given me something different and all would have seen that it was He who made the moves and not me.  I had violated Deuteronomy 6:16 “You shall not test the Lord your God” and whereas Jesus quoted this when Satan took Him to the high point of the temple and told Him to jump, I didn’t pay attention and instead said, “You’re right!” and jumped.  Had God given me a new opportunity without my learning what I had done wrong, it would have been all about me and that is sooooo wrong.

Through His grace He opened a door for me last week and did not let it close.  I start a new job on November 9th and it’s only because He wants me to have it and not because I deserve it.

“Therefore we do not lose heart.  Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.  For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory”
                                                                                    -- 2 Corinthians 4:16-17

            Each morning I try and make sure to read a daily devotional from the bible and as I was flipping to the passages to read I came across something else I had highlighted.  I just wanted to share this with you and would hope that you can get something out of it.
            Psalm 103:12 says, “As far as east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.”
            I find this passage fascinating for several reasons and one of them is for what it says about the time it was written. King David lived around 1000 BC and when he wrote this everyone  was under the belief that the earth was flat.  Remember that it wasn’t until the great sailors of Columbus’ era and the astronomers like Copernicus in the 1400 & 1500’s AD made the realization that the earth was round.
            Now consider this; we know that if you travel north long enough you will reach a pole and then you will be traveling south until you reach another pole and start travelling north again.  This means that there is an absolute distance between north and south – 12,436 miles (20,014 km).  When it comes to the distance from east to west however, if you head off in one direction you will always  be heading in that direction so it’s pretty safe to say that the distance from east to west is limitless.
            With this in mind how is it that a guy knew to use east/west instead of north/south in his writing?  Did he flip a shekel?  I highly doubt it.  To me this points to divine inspiration since we can read it now and actually see that this phrase can be used to mean “infinite” or “never ending.”
            Isn’t it even the slightest bit amazing that there could be (actually is) a God that loves us so much that He is willing to forgive us infinitely when we believe and trust in Him?