Love and Faith

  Good evening all,
      I know that it's kind of late, but I feel led to share with you all what God spoke to me through His Word last night while I was reading my Joyce Meyer Devotional.  It's based off of Philemon 1:4-7.  This is what it says: "I thank my God, making mention of you always in my prayers, hearing of your love and faith which you have toward The Lord Jesus and toward all the saints, that the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledgement of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.  For we have great joy and consolation in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother." ~Philemon 1: 4-7.

    When I read these verses last night, I said to myself, wow, amazing!  Thank you, Lord!  They spoke to me loud and clear last night.  Here I go into my rant about how I've been feeling lately and how these verses had spoken to me.  Recently, I've been feeling all stressed out, overwhelmed, anxious, and like I just can't keep doing what I'm doing anymore, it gets to be quite exhausting.  I need a vacation away from everything going on in my life currently.  It's been quite a struggle actually and I just can't deal with it anymore.  All of this pressure has been placed on my shoulders and I don't like the way I'm feeling because of it.  I just keep hoping and praying that something brand new, big, and good will happen to all of us sooner rather than later; I'm sure that you all can relate to this specific topic.

  I'm way in over my head here, and that needs to stop immediately.  "God, I need you, please help! Amen"  I have so many prayer requests coming my way and I try to pray for all of them in one day, and it takes a lot out of me.  I know that the power of prayer will always work.  It is just way too much for me to deal with at this time, but I will try my best and do what I can to pray for others.  I have some unspoken prayer requests of my own and I'm just so busy trying to pray for everyone else, that I just forget about myself.  I wouldn't consider it a mid-life crisis, but it is just getting to be too complicated to deal with at this time.  I'm beginning to wonder if my prayers are actually working and if He hears them all.  Will he ever answer me or will I be stuck like this forever?  It's taking quite a long time, and I'm not a very patient person when it comes to something that I really need and want.  I know that it is all on God's timing, and not my own.  But I'm really starting to get sick of waiting.  I want these things done with yesterday, I'm sorry but that's just our human nature.  I'm not perfect by any means, I still have a lot of work to do and God already knows that.  So, I'm desperately seeking His help and hoping He will do a new thing soon in all of our lives, mine especially.  

    I've been so busy with working that I barely have enough time to do anything anymore.  I just need a break, and God is the one who will either give me this break or not.  All of this is up to Him, not me.  It is His Will, not mine.  The biggest dream that I have for my life is to get published and to become a Christian writer.  I recently received an offer to get published by a friend of mine, and it may take a while, because this friend of mine has her own things to deal with right now, so I'm asking you all to please pray for my friend to get the miracle that she needs and also that she deserves, because she's had a rough life and she deserves the world.  She is such a great person and she is doing such great things to help all of those kitties in need.  Please, God, bless her and give her the miracle that she's been waiting for.  If you're interested this is the link to her page, please go and "Like" the page and help her to raise the money that she needs to find a good forever home that she can take her cats with her, because she's dealing with a very dishonest and disrespectful person, so please go and help her out, she desperately needs it, thank you: https://www.facebook.com/JakieTheCat
   God Bless and I hope that you all have a good night!
~Emily P.