How INTENTIONAL are we?

Do we spend time through out our day being INTENTIONAL looking for God? I'm not sure that we are looking with our Spiritual EYES due to the hustle & bustle of day to day life. I want to challenge myself to become more intentional for I have found myself lacking.

My husband and I are enjoying several days of down time, with that I have become so much more aware of the magnificence of God because my life has slowed down for several days. For those of us having been in Beth Moore's "Believing God" study, these moments are called "GOD STOPS".

I had several God Stops yesterday and thought it was time, once again, to BRAG ON GOD!

Lying in the shade in the late afternoon reading the latest Karen Kingsbury book, a delightful family stopped to chat. Their teenage son had noticed that his Mother and I were reading the same book. This lovely woman was keeping her eyes on a narrow path due to her husband being blind. She is HIS EYES! Now how intentional is that? She paused their journey to comment on our reading material which transpired into a delightful long conversation with them. They were headed home in the morning for New Zealand. But even more importantly for me was the fact that she was the most beautiful servant to her husband. Something that God had just spoken to my heart earlier that morning in my own quiet time. To invest in Bill much more than I invest in my friends. God, Bill, family, then my friends, this is God's design Girlfriends. THANK YOU LORD FOR THIS LOVELY VISUAL GOD STOP!

But God didn't just stop there because we were so blessed to enjoy a special birthday celebration. If any of you know me very well, you know my love for children. What a joy it was to be in the presence of LIFE! The one on the right was the birthday girl, isn't this a GOD STOP? Matthew 19:14 NIV "Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

One more thought was that we enjoyed a gorgeous sunset....the magnificence of God. A GOD STOP! Genesis 1:9 NIV "9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good."


The creator of the world, wants you and I to SLOW DOWN and enjoy His presence. Have you?

Father, Thank You for the delight that You alone bring into my life. Pure joy, pure love, pure GOD. Father, when I get back into my normal day to day routine, I want to be more aware of You and so I thank You right now for each one of the God Stops that cause me to bend my knee and say, ONLY GOD. I love You Lord like crazy, Amen.

**Do you have your own GOD STOP to share with me?