Mikki's Posts

It has not been an easy summer.  There has been lots of fun, great discussions, lots of biblical truth discovered and memorable moments. Trust has been the biggest issue I've dealt with this summer.  Do I live my life exhibiting my trust in God?  When I sin I'm truly saying to God, "I don't trust you with this Lord." There are so many reasons to trust Jesus, I can't imagine putting them all down right now.  I'd never get to bed! In the end I'm learning that I cannot put my trust in me, or things of this world, or even other people.  All the above are tainted with sin; imperfect and fallible. Jesus on the other hand is God.  He is always faithful and perfect.  He will never let us down.  How do I know that?  I believe the Bible when it says as much.  And the Bible says it a lot.  Here's just a few... Psalm 40:4 Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not look to the proud, to those who turn aside to false g...

I have learned much this last week.  I had a great response to my informal survey on devotion and prayer time among my Christian friends.  (See the previous three posts for those details.) So now that I have all this information at my disposal, what am I going to do with it you might ask?  Well I'll tell you.  I have developed a plan for me to start out with. My new devotion plan involves eating within an hour of waking up and doing my daily quiet time before I get to play with my blackberry.  This takes into account my work days when I'll be at work doing my devotion before getting started.  I've started to make a habit of getting to work early anyway so now I can do my devotions in that time.  For days I'm off, there's no computer, TV or blackberry before devotions and some prayer time. The one exception is for now I'm getting the Daily Bread email until the little booklet comes.  I'm allowed to look that up on my blackberry.  But onc...