Lena Thomas's Blog (5)

In troubling times, God is stretching my faith. My trust and faith in God's grace and love grows in the icy, trying times when those cold winds come to chill the soul.

I wish that I could always have something to say or do that would make every thing all right right now, but I don't. I do know one thing though: whatever comes to me, is sen't or allowed by God. As I face the real world,…

I must steer away from the pat answer and the hollow formula. Avoid the instant solution, the microwave maturity, the quick fix, the heavenly band-aid without surgery. That's not the way God works. As Jesus said in John 15:2 I need to be pruned, and prunning can be painful.

Being known as a woman of character starts with a change of heart, a desire to be controlled by God's Spirit, and the guidance of God's Word to practice the deeds of virtue forever.

God is the only one who knows the answers to my problems or anyones problems. The only one who can help you us, is God Himself. God is the only One who can give us the ability to accept, adapt, understand and above all, to love unconditionally.

Ya know, God loves for us to go to him ALWAYS. He loves when we are dependant upon him. He loves when we praise and thank him.…

I must compare suffering to making a cake. No one sits down, gets out a box of baking powder, eats a big spoonful, and says, "hmm, that's good" and you dont do that with a spoonful of baking powder of shortening. By themselves those things are distasteful and they turn your stomach. But God takes all of those ingredients, stirs them up, and puts them in His own oven. We get impatient and want to open the oven, thinking, surely the cake must be done by…