I would like to invite you on a journey

Not sure what is with 100 day seasons in my life over the past year…but Here I go again on my third 100 day Journey…this one I challenge you to come along. 

the first 100 day season started in July of 2012.  I felt this urgency to be more purposeful in how I seek the Lord…Little did I know at the beginning of that season that I would have such an impactful time in Kansas City at Circuit Riders, that I would drive the Al- Can 3 times and the God would redirect me from the ministry in Alaska back to Wyoming.

My Second 100 days Journey started in March of this year and ended June 8th.  This time the goal was a fast for health reason….I had been plagued with intense headache and migraines several times a week for months.  The first 50 days alternated between a 10 day Daniel Fast, 30 day Juice Fast and back to a ten day Daniel Fast….the last 50 days I started easing back into foods….I had headaches throughout most of the fasting detoxing stage…but am happy to say that Today is 51 days headache free. 

During each 100 day season I also set out to Spend time with God, and allow Him to teach me to see myself through His eyes.   Every Day I would ask my Heavenly Dad, “Papa, how do you see me?”  Sometimes a scripture verse would immediately come to mind, other times a compliment from a friend would be spoken or come to my remembrance.  Other days it was a song or a phrase that would catch my attention and I would know that God wanted me to know that statement was true about me.  I think it is important that we see ourselves through our Fathers eyes and think of ourselves the way He thinks of us.  However in my two 100 day seasons I only wrote out 70 phrases….guess I was not as diligent in asking God how He saw me as I intended. 

                                                So Last night buying Groceries in Wal-Mart I stumbled across this Journal and knew immediately that I wanted to start a new journal.  I have journaled for years now and each Journal seems to mark a season in my life.  Usually on the first page or two I write out what I suspect God has for me in the next few months to few years that I intend to  use that Journal.  Usually I am right about the things God wants to teach me and shape in me…but it almost never comes as I had expected.  Seems every journal I am just a little hopeful that by the time It comes to a close the Mr. Right will have finally made his entrance into my life story.

For me a Journal is not so much for recording daily activities , thought I sometimes do, but it is a record of things that stood out to me in my morning Quiet times or God moments that caught my attention through out the day. 

I have been pretty pleased with the results of my last 100 days, I am eating healthier, lost a little weight, started working out again…though not as regularly as I intend…So I had been thinking in the next few weeks between now and the start of the September Discipleship Training School I was going to work on developing the habit of working out every day!!  continuing to eat right and making it my Goal to remain HEADACHE FREE and to loose weight, get in shape etc.  I figured I had a little over 70 days between now and the Sept School.

Then Last night when I found this Journal…and began the 30 mile drive home I began to dream about this next season…what might it look like?  I had this desire to focus on two Bible Studies….One I wrote for the girls I taught in Turkey it is a 34 week study I loosely titled Princess lessons, based on Proverbs 31.  The second one I would like to do is to dig into the Song of Solomon in more depth….If I don’t miss a week it will take me 50 weeks to complete these two studies, that is nearly a Year!!!  Not sure if the Journal is thick enough…but we will see. 

Starting this New Journal and hoping to use the next two months of a relaxed Summer to be diligent in working out daily not just on the mornings I feel like it…I began to think what if I started another 100 day season.   I want to finish my list of a 100 things God says about me.    I really felt like the theme of my life for the next 100 days  as well as for the duration of this journal which will outlast the 100 day window and hopefully cover the next 50 weeks of Bible Study will be tending the Garden. 

Spiritually it is always my goal to spend more time in the Word, more time in Prayer, to be more free in Worship and praying in the Spirit.  I want to Know my Lord more and Share His heartbeat for the people around me…I want my life and my Character to honor, glorify and please Him.  I want to be a light to those around me. 

Physically, I am gaining control of my health, but I now I want to focus on working out more consistently…I want to see the fruit of pounds being shed and I want to continue to live with out being bothered and slowed down by the pain and weariness that had plagued me this past fall and winter.

Emotionally I want to be more confident in who I am a a Daughter of the King.  Like anyone else I get down on myself and feel I have nothing to offer…but that is not How God see’s me, I am His Masterpiece.  His Beloved Child, His favorite….I once heard a Preacher – Andy Taylor out of OK say that  WE ARE WHO OUR FATHER SAYS WE ARE.  I need to not believe or speak anything else out about myself but what God says.

For me the next 100 days will be days I hope to spend with Jesus.  I am already pretty consistent with having a morning Quiet time…but this time my focus will also be on starting the “Princess Lessons Bible Study” 

The next 100 days will be days I intend to take care of the outside of me…get out and exercise, drink plenty of water and continue eating healthy….during the last 100 days I ate mostly veggies, fruit and nuts….towards the later half I added some meat, some dairy and some grains back in….I plan to continue that plan (at least until Sept 4th when our next DTS begins) 

and the part of the Journey I am inviting you on is for the next 100 days I am going to review  and build upon that list of Statements God says about me.  Every day I am going to ask God to show me How He sees me…I'm going to share the list I already started and I encourage you to take the next 100 days to ask Your Heavenly Dad to reveal to you how He sees you…cause that is who you are. 

And well recoding the next 100 days here…will hopefully get me in the habit of keeping up this silly blog better…instead of the periodic every 6-10 month posts I have done for the last few years.