rainy weather, my friends faith story and again, believing God

Our weather is crazy warm here.  It is has been 35-40 degrees for the past few days and it is a mess.  I would rather have colder weather and it least the snow would stay frozen.  My car is trashed with dirt from the streets, and a lot of snow is melting which creates horrible ice situations.  Last night, I was carrying Emma outside because I did not want her walking through the huge puddles, and I slipped and fell while holding her.  It scared both of us pretty bad.  I hit really hard my elbow and side.  I didn't break anything but I was in pain last night. Asprin helped last night.  I am still sore today and I think that is why I have a headache. ha!  Emma is fine.  She just cried when we hit. I think because she was scared.   I am fine if she is fine.  I am just older so hitting the ground with full force kind of hurts! ha.  This is why I don't snowboard and I ski.   Snowboarders fall the time.  I don't like doing that! :)

Our Bible Study was stinkin awesome today.  One of our ladies from Chapel shared her testimony of when she went through the Believeing God study.  Her son was going through what they thought was just a rebellious stage.  She kept praying for him, and that God would reveal what the source of the problem was.  They found out a few months later that he actually was addicted to heroine.  This was a boy from a christian home.  My friend is a great Godly lady, but somehow the son was led down this destructive path.   They were advised by a lot of people to send him to secular programs that would help him to recover from this addiction, but she said she knew in her heart that the answer for him was a relationship with Jesus.  One evening they were watching the movie Facing the Giants, she was crying her eyes because movie was so good. :) She looks over and her son is crying too and said, "I think I get what you are telling about this Jesus".   He wanted to start a relationship with God.  He is now in Teen Challenge and still trying to recover from such a horrible addiction. But, my friend is still believing God for complete transformation.  Of course, the whole room full of women were all bawling our eyes out! :)  

Our homework this week was so much about this very subject of believing God even when you don't see immediate results.  I love so much the hall of faith in Hebrews 11 that talks about these great men AND women of God had faith that God would do what He promised even though some of them died without seeing the results.  So awesome.   I love Rahab even more this week after my study.  I do not ever remember reading that she was Boaz's mother until this week.  How cool is that? I am sure I read that before, but I have too much information in my head and a lot of it ends up leaving my memory. :) 

Amazing story. God used a prostitute woman who later became the mother to Boaz, and in the lineage of Jesus himself.    God will always use who ever HE pleases. I get sick to death of people putting God in a box, and saying God can not use women or whatever else.  God will use who ever He choses despite what we think or say.  He is God.  We can stand and say God can't do this or He won't use some people, but He is God.  If He wants to use someone, He will.   Get over yourself people!!!!    He uses the weak, most unlikely to succeed people.  He doesn't have to have to do things our way.  Again, He is God.  The ultimate Commander in Chief.   That was my little soap box for the day.  :) sorry to throw that up on everyone. ha.