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Lately I have been so thankful for many things. I mean, I am always grateful for the blessings the Lord has given to me and my family, but lately they have overwhelming. His goodness never ends!

I have been praying a prayer for many years, knowing the Lord would answer. Sometimes He answers slow, sometimes He answers no. I had to be patient with this one. Which has been difficult at times but it has been very worth the wait! It's one of those prayers that is very personal but I needed to share the praise.

Answered prayer is amazing especially when it is something so close and dear to my heart. It really gives me the perspective I have been lacking. It has pointed me to all of the wonderful people that the Lord has brought into my life, all of the Truths I have learned along the way in my walk with Him.

I was getting some things ready for next weeks youth Sabbath study, and I realized how blessed I am to be a part of that ministry. There are several amazing sisters that I get to work with to put together the studies and pictures. 7 years ago I never would have thought I would be where I am today! I am so thankful for the transformation in my life. Everyday I get a little bit less selfish. I have a long way to go though! Even though I have so many more things to work on in my life, In know that with His help I can become the person that HE wants me to be, not the person that I think I should be.

Before coming to the Truth, I thought all I needed was to except Jesus as Saviour. All I had to do was believe, to have faith. While that is true, it is not all I need. Faith without works is dead. 

 In my first few years of being a 'Christian' I did feel changed. I had a new look on life. I attended church every Sunday morning. But I always felt like something was missing. There was still a big void in my heart. I would cry after many services, and just sit there in my chair, often alone because the hubs was at work. Not because he didn't love the Lord, because he did, he brought me to Christ, he just had to work (more on that later). I knew there was something missing in my spiritual life. I just couldn't pin point it.

That same year, hubby was studying Noah's Ark and how people were much taller than people are today. He came across a picture of a femur bone that would have belonged to a 14 ft man. Everything was bigger before the flood. He browsed that website and came across some Biblical information he had never heard of before. It's in my husbands nature to research.Here he was researching how tall men used to be, and he came across this whole website full of information about the Bible he had never heard of before. He was intrigued and started searching the Scriptures to see if there was any Truth in what was being shared.

Let me tell you, his coming upon that website was NO accident. The Lord brought Him to that site, to study that information. He studied for months. He prayed for months about the information given. He brought the information to me and then I had to study and pray for months as he had done. That was the turning point on my spiritual life. That was when I could call my self a Christian, not a 'Christian'. It took me a long time to come to that point but the struggle was well worth it.

I went from having a lost, troubled, and confused heart at a Sunday keeping, to having a full, untroubled, unconfused, searching heart at a Sabbath/Commandment keeping home church. I found JOY. The joy that only comes from the Lord. What was missing in my heart was now filled. I started to grow in my walk, something I hadn't really done before. There were no more happy-go-lucky motivational sermons. The ones that keep you complacent.The ones that most preachers share to keep the people coming in. I now heard Bible Truth being preached from the pulpit. God's Word being taught straight from the Bible itself, with no extra opinions being added in.

It was God's Truth that completed me. None of the watered down sermons could do it. I find myself, 7 years later, still searching the Scriptures as to what they have to say. I continue to find His Truth in those sacred pages. His Truth never changes, it just grows stronger and more apparent the more His Word is read. "For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:" (Isaiah 28:10), that is how you find good, solid doctrine. Not by taking a line and misconstruing it to fit what you want.

His Truth is the BEST Truth! It saves the soul. Never stop studying. Never stop letting the Holy Spirit guide you. Never say it is too hard to understand. Never let someone else force their opinions on you. Never tell yourself that you don't FEEL convicted about something. People rely way too much on their "feelings". Christians are to rely on God, His Son, and the Holy Spirit for conviction, not self. Let Gods Word explain itself. Don't let this world get in the way of Truth, "Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." (Matthew 7:14)