Royal Wedding

I just love wedding's.  Young love is just so sweet.  I recently attended a large wedding that was just simply beautiful.  The two young people were so in love. This was a fairy tell wedding. I had never been to a wedding like this or as beautiful as this.

Well tomorrow there will be a royal wedding.  A fairy tell wedding. The prince has taken a bride wedding. Don't we all love those cinderella stories, the happy ever after's? I know I will be watching. All the planning and everything that has gone into the preparation for this wedding just amazes me!

But there is another royal wedding that is scheduled. This will be the wedding of all ages. So much preparation and planning have gone into this wedding.  This groom is away preparing the mansion and getting everything ready. He is coming soon!


I am the bride of Christ!

"Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear." (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.) (Rev. 19:6-8)

I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.... One of the seven angels... said to me, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb." And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. It shone with the glory of God. (Rev. 21:2,9-11)

Princess Lee

Another weigh in day

Ok, so today is another weigh in day.  I will admit it has been hard to not let the scales dictate how I feel.  I have had to renew my mind in this area so much lately.

Today's weight is the same as last week, 240. No big loss to report. I have been exercising daily and not having to take a nap just to prepare myself for the afternoon.  I have had so much energy and really feel good about myself.

This journey has been really hard. But I did not expect it to be easy.  I have had a trying week.  I would love to get on here and say that it has been a piece of cake (topped with a cherry). I have struggled in the evenings with wanting to over indulge. I have resisted but I have had days where I gave in.  But God is faithful, He is a God of second, third, fourth and etc. chances.  This is not the end of the world.  I am still in right standing in His eyes. I am still Holy.

So here goes.  I am going to pull up my big (no pun intended) pants and start fresh and new.  Pray for me. Lift me up in much prayer. I love each and everyone of you that have told me you are following my blog.  I have no faith or confidence in myself but I do have faith and confidence in the One who started a work in me will see it to completion.

Princess Lee

POWER!

Awesome service at church this morning! Thanks Pastor Tracy for always feeding us steak and baked potatoes!

This morning when I woke up all I could think were the words IT IS FINISHED and HE'S ALIVE! The most important words at this time of the year. Jesus finished everything that concerns me and pastor Tracy really expounded on that today.

His top 10 list today was:

10 things we have power over.
1. Fear, 2Timothy 1:7; Hebrews 2:14-15
2. Sin, Mark 2:10
3. sickness, Mark 3:15; Luke 9:1
4. satan, Mark 6:7; Luke 9:1
5. My past, Phil. 3:9-14
6. instability, Romans 16:25; Acts 1:8
7. Over my mind, flesh and will, 1Cor 7:37; John 17:2
8. everything that hinder me, 1Cor 6:12
9. to receive all things I need, 2 Peter 1:3-4
10. I have power to become________________, John 1:12

the same power Christ lived by is the same power we can live by. According to Matthew 28, Jesus gave us power of attorney!

Bloom where you are planted

I have some beautiful knock out rose bushes.  I have them planted on one side of my house. I just love to look at them and smell them.  They give me so much pleasure. They have so many blooms this year. But they did not start out that way. I remember when I bought them they were just small branches without anything on them.

I planted them, watered, and fertilized them. They got pleanty of sun and one day there was a small bud.  A few days later they had flowers all over them. These bushes could not nourish themselves.  They depended completely on me (the gardner) for their nourishment. They were so beautiful.

The instructions said that you had to cut them back after a year.  I waited and really hated to cut them back, they were so pretty. But in order for them to have more blooms and flowers and to grow bigger and stronger the instructions said this must take place. So I pruned them.  This year they are so beautiful. They are bigger and have even more flowers on them!

John 15 (paraphrased) says that Jesus is the True Vine and God is the vine-dresser.  If we remain in Him then we will bear much fruit.  Apart from Him we can do NOTHING! When we bear much fruit then our Heavenly Father is honorred and glorified.

Just like the rose bush can do nothing on its own, neither can we.  I cannot live a healthy life style without God's help.  But I can do ALL things through Christ who gives me strength. So today if you feel defeated, just look to Him and let Him lift y ou up and prune y ou so you can bring much glory and honor to Him.

John 15:11 says "I have told you these things, that My joy and My delight may be in you, and that your joy and gladness may be of full measure and complete and overflowing."

Bloom where you are planted!

Princess Lee

Weigh Day

Well this is the weigh day. As I said yesterday I wish I had a way of measuring all that God has brought me thru and to! He truly is an awesome God. No this journey is not easy, but no journey is. The enemy has tried in every way to get my mind off of this journey. I am keeping my eyes on Jesus the Author and Finisher of my Faith!

Well I am down 1 pound this week. I know to some that seems so insignificant. I am not letting the scales be my god. I will not let them dictate how I should feel. I do know that if I am faithful He is faithful. All I have to do is obey Him and lean on Him and He will take care of the rest. There is so much peace in knowing and experiencing that.

If you are going on this journey with me let me know how you are doing. Continue to pray for me and lift me up. I love each and everyone of you and have so enjoyed reading your comments. Until tomorrow,

Princess Lee

Stopped counting days!

As some of you know I was out of town this weekend in Dallas and then Monday morning early I went to Shreveport to visit my mother and father.  We had an awesome visit.  I got to spend good quality time with them. Some of you know my mother has been gravely ill, but thanks be to God she is healed. This is a story that I hope she writes about soon!

Well as you all know when you go out of town the first thing you think about (or I always thought about) is where are we going to eat? I told my accountability partner that I was going out of town and she told me to let the Holy Spirit guide me in what I was to eat. I just want to say I did that and God is the Victor!!

Several places we went I had the oppertunity to realy splurge on food that wasn't acceptable for me at this time. God was very faithful in providing me a way out of EVERY TEMPTATION! One of my biggest problems was always going to mom's and well you know we all have mom's that can cook. Nothing taste like mom's! But God made a way.

I even kept my exercise up. No I did not run any marathon's but I did walk and had some time with God. The verses that I have learned during this journey keep coming back to me. They are found in Romans 12:1-2. "I beseech you therefore brothers to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable and pleasing to God. This is your spiritual act of worship. Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you can prove that acceptable, perfect and pleasing will of God."

It all starts with the renewing of your mind (on a daily, sometimes minute by minute basis). When you speak what God says about you instead of believing what the enemy says about you then everything changes!!

I thank my Father God for going before me, beside me, and behind me on this wonderful journey! I am learning so much about Him! He really is AWESOME!

Tomorrow is my weigh in day. I wish I had a way of weighing what I have learned and what I have lost. In just a little over a week I feel transformed!

Princess Lee

Day 11 & 12 Sanctuary

So I went to Dallas this weekend (actually Allen Texas) to visit my daughter, son-in-law and wonderful grand children.  I really enjoyed my time I got to spend with my daughter. We had so much fun shopping, shopping and shopping.

They have a terrific place to eat there called Souper Salads. Best place to eat if you are wanting fresh vegetables and able to build your own salad. Anyway we had so much fun.

This morning we got up and went to church. They attend First Baptist Dallas. This was a very impressive church. They actually have a Lifeway store in the church which was opened today. They have a cafe that serves Starbucks coffee. It was unbeliveable! As we are taking the baby to the nursery I was overwhelmed at all the people coming and going. I felt like I was in a very busy mall at Christmas time. The baby area was out of this world. The workers were all so friendly and smiling. They actually acted like they wanted to be there.

After leaving the nursery area we took the escalator down to the first floor and headed to the sanctuary. As we came close I noticed that the doors were very old and there was stain-glassed windows. I made a comment to my daughter that they kept the original doors. She said no we are actually entering into the original building.

I couldn't help but marvel at the beauty of this old sanctuary. I even looked up the history and this is what it said: Dallas is the mid-1800's was one wild and reckless burg. Several Baptist churches were run out of town before eight women and three men formed this little determined congregation and put down roots in 1868. The sanctuary that they are in today was actually built in 1890. The campus now covers six city blocks.

As I looked around at all the people dressed in modern attire from pants to really nice dresses I couldn't help wonder at everything this sanctuary had seen. Of course I knew it had to have some renovations and up keep to keep it looking this beautiful.  I thought about the journey God was taking me on in renovating my sanctuary. I knew then that I was prepared for something awesome.

They had a great choir and orchestra that just sounded awesome. They had an old pipe organ that sounded through the sanctuary like none I had ever heard. The worship time was such that I was led to the very throne room of God. Then they had a guest speaker Lee Strobel who authored the bood The Cause for Faith. I was just deeply blessed by everything. But the one thing that spoke to me, that really blest my heart, that brought a tear to my eyes was during offering my little grandaughter Allie opened her purse and took out her money (money she has earned by rubbing people's feet) and placed that money lovingly into the offering plate.  The love she had for God was just evident all over her sweet little face. This was the most beautiful site that I saw in the sanctuary today.

Thank You Father for my family and all they mean to me. What a lovely and precious time.

Princess Lee