I pray today finds you blessed!

I turned thirty yesterday. For some that is a major landmark, for some it can cause severe, deep depression. My friend Mickey told me that I am finally past the annoying twenties and finally an actual adult. A nice way to think about it. But I got to pondering it, and when I did it took me back over my week. My birthday isn't the only thing that has happened this week. I started my Experiencing God class, I've been to church several times and to my Single Factor class, and I've spent time with friends and family. Each instance had a different message, but God is using them all to teach me the same lesson.

WAIT

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. Psalm 27:14

The Lord keeps telling me to wait. I remember as a child, my father, teachers, coaches, band directors and youth leaders saying, "Don't just stand there, DO SOMETHING." And God, through Experiencing God this week said "Do just do something, STAND THERE." God through Single Factor last night said, seek to walk worthy of that which you are called, which sometimes
means, wait for what the Lord has for you. Through a discussion with a friend last night, the Lord told me, to stop trying to make things happen on my or someone else's timeline, to just chill a little and let God do it, whatever He wants to do with it. In service this morning, Bill talked of Moses on the mount, waiting for 6 days to get Word from God. SIX DAYS.

WAIT

Wow, as humans that's not easy for us to wrap our brains around sometimes, but the Lord stills asks it. He wouldn't ask it if we weren't capable. The Word says, " And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee. Psalms 39:7 Do I know what I am waiting for? No. Do I need to know? Praise the Lord, no I don't.

What I do know is that I have grown this last year, I have matured spiritually so that those who truly know me, who know who I was just a year ago, can see the changes He has made in me. My Momma Carolyn told me yesterday, "Now I KNOW He is in you. Now I KNOW you will be ok."

I know that He will be faithful to continue that good work He has started in me and I praise Him for it.

Will you wait on the Lord today? Will you abide in Him and allow Him to mold you, shape you and live through you?

If I can pray for you, please let me know.

In Him,
Kaci M. Boggs
When there is nothing left but God that is when you find out that God is all
you need.

Rescue

I pray today finds you blessed in so many ways.

Those of you who know me and my little hobbies know that one of them is rescue. I rescue mostly Pekingese dogs, but others somehow find their way into my home from time to time. I was joking with some of my rescue friends the other day that the animals just seem to know when someone is a rescuer. I find dogs sitting at my car door at the grocery store, begging me to take them home. Animals just seem to have a sense about these things.

I had finally gotten to a point a short time ago when all my rescues were gone. Once again, it was just me and Caesar, my 12 pound white peke, my first rescue. Then I went to the corner store for a coke. Into my car jumps a skinny, ugly, half starved cat. I really am not a cat person, but after the month I have had, and the loving look in the little guy's eyes, I couldn t resist. He came home with me.

This cat, who remains nameless, is constantly begging for attention. He curls up behind my neck any chance he gets and rubs against my cheek. He meows for attention non-stop and wants to be as near to me as possible all the time.

Sometimes, I wonder, is this how God feels about us? He wants so much for us to come to Him, to run to Him, to just spend time with Him every day. Revelation 3:20 says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. "

I can see the Father, standing at the door, we walk by Him on our way in and out. We complain of the day and wish we could just have a break. And still He stands there saying, "If you would just come and spend time with Me, I will give you peace." Yet we continue to run the race of the lives we've created instead of seeking the joy that awaits if we just die to ourselves and let Him live through us.

Psalms is full of verses promising peace and assurance, if we just ask it, if we just seek it. If we only choose to abide in him.

All we have to do is spend time with Him.

How many times have you passed Him by today? How many times has He asked you to spend some time with Him and you answer, "Not right now, Father, I am just too busy"?

Someone told me not very long ago that busy stands for Being Under Satan's Yoke. Are you too busy for the blessings God has for you? Are you to busy to revel in the peace He can bring to your life?

Don't be.

Spend some time with the Father, today and every day. Let Him bring the peace you seek. Let Him show you how blessed life can be if you only abide.

If I can pray for you, please let me know.

In Him,
Kaci M. Boggs
When there is nothing left but God that is when you find out that God is all
you need.

As I sit down in front of my computer now, I pray that God will speak. I have nothing to offer you but He does. If the idea is mine, then it does you no good, but if it is of the Lord, then maybe you will keep an open mind and allow Him to speak to you.

Monday I lost another grandmother, the second one in less than a month. I have spent so much time alone with the Father, praising Him for their lives, asking Him for what it is I am to learn from Him through this. And what I have gained is this: we are allowed certain people in our lives who will teach us and guide us if we allow ourselves to learn from them . Titus 3:5 says, "The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, and that the word of God not be blasphemed." These women were this to me.

Mary Blackerby taught me forgiveness, mercy, grace, perseverance, and love. She taught me to remember to walk in the Lord every day. She taught me that the Lord has a perfect plan for us and that no matter what we do, no matter how bad we mess up, the blood of Jesus, shed on the cross for our sins, covers it all.

Lena Alvarado taught me how to be a mother, how to grow a family, how to cook, keep a home, and to love the Lord with all my heart, no matter how dark the day seems. That He will light your way and guide your steps.

I know that God has called me to the mission field. I know that God wants to do a great work in my life and that He will use me if I allow Him. I know that the lessons I learned from these wonderful women will live in me forever, and continue to teach me as I grow in the Father. I know that the love they shared with me will continue to be shared as long as I let the Lord use it.

I have made mistakes, big mistakes in my life, but I don't have to dwell on them. The blood of the Lamb covered them when He offered the ultimate sacrifice. When He died on that cross, He had us on His mind. When He died on that cross, Kaci died. 2 Cor. 5:17 says, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are made new." The old me died when I gave my life to Him. My grandmothers taught me that if you allow those old things to pass away, the new things will touch lives, because that new life is Christ's.

I thank them for the forgiveness, love, peace, patience, that they taught me I thank them for being Jesus in my life. I pray that when God puts people in your life that you can learn from, that you will allow Him to work through them in your life. I pray that you will let His light shine through them into your heart. I pray that you will praise Him for them in your life, long after they are gone.

I thank the Father, I praise Your Holy name, for the lives of my beautiful grandmothers, and that I know You now, thanks to Your work through them!

If I can pray for you today, please let me know. Please continue to pray for my family as we get through this time. Also, please pray for my friend and the youth pastor at our church, Chris, as he has lost his grandmother as well.

In Him,
Kaci M. Boggs
When there is nothing left but God that is when you find out that God is all
you need.


~It is only abiding that can really satisfy the thirsty soul. Andrew Murray