O R E O

Hi Friends!

I want to say that I am so very excited about this New opportunity to communicate with many friends! I hope to hear from you as you leave comments with me and share your thoughts back! I love being inspired by all your thoughts!

I was so excited to speak last friday march 21st at the first Mother/Daughter Lock-In! I shared my O R E O devotion with the many moms and daughters!
I handed everyone an OREO and asked them what was the Best part of an OREO? Most all agreed it was the yummy cream filled center. I think its fun to carefully scrape it out with your teeth without breaking the wafer while watching a good flick.

Think about the yummy center part of an OREO representing the Plans and purposes God has for each of us! Jeremiah 29:11 states "For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." This is the center of the OREO! Now to get to the center you have to peel past two wafers! What do these wafers represent? Lets look at the word O R E O................

OPPORTUNITY God is always working around us desiring to draw us to himself. He positions many opportunities around us so we can join Him.

RESPOND Everyday we make choices. We respond to opportunities good and bad. The devil is ALWAYS distracting you from God given direction with "his" dazzling opportunities. Pay close attention to your surroundings, the Lord is always at work around us and so is that sneaky devil.

EXPERIENCE God wants us to Experience Him personally in our lives. God wants you to have excitement, adventure, thrill and more. remember, this is the yummy part of the oreo that we referred to as the purposes and plans of God! Have you personally tasted and seen that the Lord is so good? This is relationship and not a religion.

OBEDIENCE This is key. We need to choose Christ Daily and then he begins to bring us into the blueprint he has already written for us! That is the best place to be. Any other place equals STRESS! so remember this great verse...... Deuteronomy 30:19 "I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses, therefore CHOOSE life, that both you and your family may LIVE!

Now may you always remember how God is at work around you when you eat an OREO! He wants us to experience the yummiest stuff in our life. God bless you and don't eat to many oreo's!

Blessings,
Heather Baxter

hbaxter@hiswow.net

Set Free

As SPRING gets closer and closer each day I find myself working outside cleaning up from the LONG winter months. I love the beginning days of spring. As I was raking yesterday in the great 64 degree weather I could see the new GREEN grass under the dead. The winter season seemed much longer this year with much colder temperatures and the many obstacles laid before us with our economy. I know for some friends and family it has been so very tough and trying.

As I finished raking I began to clean out and refill all my bird feeders! I always look forward to the lovely songs the birds bring to my home on spring mornings. As I looked inside our LARGE bird feeder I noticed one of my feather friends had got his head STUCK up inside the feeder and suffocated and died. I could only imagine how he was struggling to get out, I wish I could have set him free. But this little bird reminded me of how the things in our winter seasons can really suffocate us unto death. We can really get our minds stuck on the problems and struggle so much in the pain, hurts, fear, worry and anxiety. In one of my small groups this week a women stated "It is so hard to keep moving when the day seems so COLD and LIFES issues seem to suffocate me" ...... So when I saw that little bird STUCK and all LIFE TAKEN FROM HIM it reminded me again of how can get trapped like this bird.

But as I continued to observe the spring and little bit of NEW growth behind the dead of the cold winter months I was reminded of a favorite bible verse of mine. Isaiah 43:19 "Behold, I WILL do a new thing: NOW it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness." This promise from God reminds us that know matter how cold and suffocating your winter months may be, nothing is impossible with God. He wants to make a "NEW" way in your cold times. He would never want us to suffocate in the pain and confusion of life. He will SPRING FORTH something new. John 8:32 states " and ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free!"

I am so glad that I desired to get to know truth. Truth has set me free from sin and lifes pain. We cannot break free by our own strength. Thats is why he is called SAVIOR! Do you know him? Because he wants to bring SPRING TIME to your winter months! I challenge you to get to know Him more this spring and watch what he is desiring to spring forth in your life! God bless you friends and family and may the coming of spring remind you of the LIFE you find in Jesus Christ!

Blessings
Heather Baxter
email me my friends any time if I can be a blessing I will try
hbaxter@hiswow.net