What's new with "That's Life By KimmyG"

Wow,didnt realize how long it's been since I last blogged! So I'll take this time now to update you on what's going on with the bible study on www.momtv.com/thats-life . Last week we started a bible study using the book "The Husband Project" by a friend of mine, Kathi Lipp. This book encourages ladies to focus on their husbands. The book reads, "It's about love. It's about respect. It's about letting your husband know you still think he's hot! So that's what were doing! Were on Project Status! A Husband Project!

Come Join Us, Every Thursday Live at 10am (pst) ,

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Join the chat, we always have a giveaway at the end of the study!  

When You're Still

Ever notice when you're still that you hear things that you normally would'nt hear? That you see things that you would not normally see in a busy day? Take a moment right now and silence the tv, put down your phone, lower your radio. (wait just 1 minute, okay 30 seconds)
Just close your eyes and listen...What did you hear?

I heard my water fountain outside, and a few birds passing by.

In today's society it's hard to have a moment of silence, little alone be still. Because if you're anything like me my cell phone is constantly getting texts or notifications, and twitters etc. My house is always full of sounds. Let's face it, it's even hard now a days to have a conversation with someone because they are constantly doing something on their phones. (agree?)

Sometimes we wonder why we don't see God in our situations, why we don't hear God in our lives. Could it be that we are too busy? Too busy making things happen... and not being still?

The word still in the dictionary means the following:

1. remaining in place or at rest; motionless; stationary: to stand still.


2. free from sound or noise, as a place or persons; silent: to keep still about a matter.

3. subdued or low in sound; hushed: a still, small voice.

Think about it, when you are NOT still, you're to busy to listen...
when you are NOT still you are trying to do it on your own..

But when you ARE still you allow God to do His part, you allow God to take over.

Picture yourself still... are you laying on a couch? a lounge chair? are your arms limp? are your feet kicked up? No worries?

That is kind of how God wants us to be when he calls for us to be still. Still enough for Him to do what he needs to do. (Not being lazy, but just still) Waiting on the Lord. Listening to Him!

Psalm 27:14
Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.

Psalm 46:10
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

It is when we are still that we know that He is God... when we allow Him to take on our cares, when we allow Him to go to battle for us and when we allow Him to heal us.

This blog is for me too, I can get really busy and though I try to be guided by him daily, there are situations I sometime just want to take care of right now.

But it's when you know that He is saying "Be Still", that's when you need to just trust in him.

Philippians 1:6 says it best.. "being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."

So today I encourage you to be still.

As a kid we were taught to Stop, Drop and Roll the fire out, today I challenge you to "Stop", Listen, and Let God!" be still and be blessed!

Did You Yawn Today?

By now I know you "yawned". A yawn is a reflex of simultaneous inhalation of air and stretching of the eardrums, followed by exhalation of breath. Yawning is associated with tiredness, stress, overwork, lack of stimulation, and boredom.  In humans, yawning has an infectious quality (i.e., seeing a person yawning, talking to someone on the phone who is yawning, or just thinking of yawning can trigger yawning)

You're probably "yawning" right now!

So what is this blog about? a "YAWN"

The word Yawn dates to c.1300

from Old English 'Ginian' and 'Gionian' meaning to

"Open the mouth wide, gape,"

This morning I was reading and ran across the scripture Psalm 81:10

I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt.

Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.

I thought to myself...WOW! Open your mouth wide, when we open our mouth wide it's like a yawn.

When we yawn we INHALE then EXHALE!

So here goes my visual thinking, the YAWN!

We need to YAWN, acronym: You Allow Words N (the N sounds like IN!)

First of all, we need to allow words, the WORD of God in us, then we can start to exhale them!

After this morning's reading time with the Lord, I know I'll actually think more about "yawning".

You see I yawn everytime I wake up...

I yawn when Im tired...

and I yawn just before going to bed at night.

So from now on when I "yawn",

I'll ask myself and I hope you ask yourself...

As I open my mouth and yawn in bed...

"Did I inhale his words this morning?"

Psalm 119:147 

Mid-day when I yawn, I'll ask myself... 

"Do I need a little something from the Lord right now

because I'm getting tired"

and He says He will be my strength when Iam weak.

Isaiah 40:29

At night before resting my head upon my bed, and I yawn...

I will make sure that my last inhale will be full of Him,

so my sleep will be so peaceful.

Psalm 4:8

This is just my thought today on a "yawn" be blessed and encouraged in all you do and remember to YAWN! Inhale to exhale all for Jesus!

You Allow Words N (IN!)

 

"Okay God, I Get It!" Submissions

As many of you may know, I have a book in development called "Okay God, I Get It". This book is going to be a compilation of stories that people have had where they finally get to the point in their lives where they say,
"Okay God, I Get It".

I'm sure many of you can tell me stories for hours like this and that's why I believe this book needs to be written. The uniqueness of this book is going to show how God speaks or shows up in each persons lives in so many different ways. For one of you it may be a small still voice and to another it may be a bus that passes by and the advertisement says something that makes you click and say "Okay God, I Get it!"

I'm going to ask you to look at the BIG picture with me for a minute, imagine you or someone walking into a tea/coffee house and there sitting on the table is this book, "Okay God, I Get It!" For one it draws curiosity...then the reader picks it up..flips through this book and inside are pages and pages of short stories. This book will not only encourage people but will make their "Okay God, I Get it" moment more real to them.  We all have them, now let's share them!

I'm always looking for new stories and hope you have some for me to consider. If you are interested in participating, you can submit your story by emailing me. PS. If your story gets picked to be in the book, you will get a FREE copy! Let's do this!