Hidden Blessings

^"9 His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die.”
 ¹⁰ But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong." -Job 2:9-10

"I need you Jesus to come to my rescue. Where else can I go? There's no other name by which I am saved. Won't you capture me with grace?" -Rescue Newsong

I don't know how to start the explanation of today. To summarize it I can say that God has put people in both my life and Arielle's life to help and he has put people in our lives to help. I might go on a random adventure so please be patient, this blog will definitely have a point.

This morning I was hoping that my brother would say yes to picking Arielle up so we could register for classes. He agreed. Thank you Jesus! Please bless him. We picked up Arielle who had a lot of bags because she was about to stay with her auntie. I saw that as a problem, but I just asked God that he would take care of things. Ms.Cat kept passing by and I asked her if we could store our stuff in the MPA building and she said that was fine. Thank you Jesus! May God bless all of the GCC tutors and Ms.Lila. After we stored our stuff we went to the nurse's office. When they saw me they said I would have to bring another shot card in order to get cleared. So again I left it in God's hands. I called my mom and though she was busy she dropped off my shot card and signed my documents. I forgot one more page, so my mom drove back to sign it. Praise God Hallelujah! May God bless her too. We ventured to the nurse's office where I finally got cleared. May God bless everyone who helped us out at the nurses office. I thank God that while I was hot and my slippers were killing my feet he blessed me with Arielle who had clothes and shoes for me to change into. He blessed me with hair ties and bobby pins to fix my hair. He also blessed me with Arielle who fed me all day long. May his blessings and protection be upon her. I thank the workers at winchelle's for having us there. I thank the counselors for being so kind to us and truly helping us. I thank them for making sure that everything would be taken care of. Thank you to the random people who showed us acts of kindness. Most importantly thank you Father God for making everything fall into place today. Thank you for taking care of us every step of the way. Please bless every person you put in our lives that helped us today.

Okay now to the point I have to make. It is so easy for me to be grateful when things are cherry. When things are going by so smoothly. It's easy for me to pray and truly seek God and give him praises. What about when it gets hard? What am I going to do when I come across a trial? I will pray. I know by experience that God never ever puts a trial in my life without a purpose. Yes it may be hard and I might feel like giving up, but I refuse to. I will find hope in his living word. I will talk to him and ask for his strength and guidance. I will ask him to reveal to me his purpose. I thank him for the trials that have happened in my life. Though they were difficult, they have helped me to be 110 times more dependent on God. They have instilled in my heart a stronger faith and endurance. Every trial is an opportunity for a testimony. Every trial has a hidden blessing. I understand now that sometimes when God closes doors he either wants you to stay where you're at because he needs you there or he keeps one door closed to open many other doors that will be better for me. "If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart." -Oswald Chambers. I thank God for breaking my heart, if he didn't I would have never come this far in my walk. I wouldn't be the same person. So when life brings battles and I am running out of ammunition and I want to cry, I will instead sing praises to God for I know he will fight my battles for me and conquer.

^"9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. ¹⁰ That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." 2 Corinthians 12:9-10