So, there is some great discussion/questions being posted in the facebook page this week!  It's awesome!  So sorry that I haven't posted this week...yet, but these posts were so good I wanted to make sure that our non-facebook friends could read them & comment.  Can't wait to see you all tomorrow night & hear about how GOD is working in your lives.  :)

Paula Blair:  Hey Girls, Hope you are having a great week. Beth's teaching on what I can ask for vs. what I can claim is changing my prayer life and changing me. I am sad to admit that I am still so stinkin' carnal. I catch myself asking for things and for circumstances to go my way. In the last week, I have purposefully begun to ask for internal things, i.e. new levels insight of who God is, the hope to which he has called me/us, and revelation as to the power at work in me/us. What about you? What's God speaking to you?

Jennifer Perron:   I agree with you, Paula....I ask for things to go my way, as well. And if we are walking with God and communicating with Him all the time, hopefully, we are looking to please God in what we do, so it works. When I think about it - are we just supposed to ask "God's Will" on everything and leave it at that? I mean, that's should be ultimately what we are striving for anyway, right? Is that ultimate faith then? - Believing without knowing or seeing? Or should we pray about things specifically and then ask that those requests are the will of God? Anyone else? Thoughts?

Lisa Heaton:  Ask specifically for sure!  The closer we get to Him, the more what we ask for is His will.  Once He tinkers around in your heart, your will comes more in line with His.  As I said in my post above, I ask very specifically.  With that prayer though, I know I am a smaller part of a bigger whole.  So what I ask for may not be in line with the big picture, and it also may not be in line with what He wants for me or even what I am ready for.  That is my faith...that He alone knows. Remind me to tell you my Blaze story.  I will tomorrow night.  One more thought as I re-read Paula's post. Where she says, " I have purposefully begun to ask for internal things," that is God's will. That's just a given. What she asked for this week is God's will, so she can believe with absolute certainty that He will answer.

Jennifer Perron:

Me (in a tizzy) : God, can I ask you something?

GOD: Sure.

Me: Promise you won't get mad?
... ... ...
GOD: I promise.

Me (frustrated): Why did you let so much stuff happen to me today?

... GOD: What do you mean?

Me: Well I woke up late,

GOD: Yes

Me: My car took forever to start,

GOD: Okay....

Me (growling): At lunch, they made my sandwich wrong and I had to wait

GOD: Hmmmm..

Me: On the way home, my phone went dead, just as I picked up a call

GOD: All right

Me (loudly): And to top it all off, when I got home, I just wanted to
soak my feet in my foot massager and relax, but it wouldn't work.
Nothing went right today! Why did you do that?

GOD: Well let me see..... the death angel was at your bed this morning
and I had to send one of the other angels to battle him for your life.
I let you sleep through that.

Me (humbled): Oh...

GOD: I didn't let your car start because there was a drunk driver on
your route that might have hit you if you were on the road

Me (ashamed): ............

GOD: The first person who made your sandwich today was sick and I didn't
want you to catch what they have, I knew you couldn't afford to miss
work

Me (embarrassed): Oh.....

GOD: Your phone went dead because the person that was calling was going
to give a false witness about what you said on that call, I didn't even
let you talk to them so you would be covered

Me (softly): I see God

GOD: Oh and that foot massager, it had a short that was going to throw
out all of the power in your house tonight. I didn't think you wanted to
be in the dark.

Me: I'm sorry God.

GOD: Don't be sorry, just learn to trust me.........in all things, the
good and the bad

Me: I WILL trust you God

GOD: And don't doubt that my plan for your day is always better than
your plan

Me: I won't God. And let me just tell you God, thank you for everything
today.

GOD: You're welcome child. It was just another day being your God and I
love looking after my children..

Lisa Heaton:  Currently, I am believing God for something big. For the first time ever, I am simply asking without doubt. What I know is this, if He says yes, then woo hoo. If he says no, I firmly believe then that it is not what is best for me right now. For me, the deepest faith is faith in Him even if I don't get my way. I love you all tremendously and am so glad to be on this journey together. I have done this study before, and as today lesson made me recall, then there was still that "later" ahead of me. I was waiting. This time, I believe the time may be now.