Turning over a new leaf...

This phrase always confused me... Turning over a new leaf only reviles the other side of a leaf. It is still the same leaf just the other side. When the phrase is used though it is really saying I am turning a new page in this book. Now that makes scene it is like starting a new chapter but rather just simply turning the page in your book of life to reveal a little more of the story. As a reader and writer. This is a concept I can not only wrap my mind around but also a point from which to launch. I am hoping to post a new blog about the "New Leaf" in my life! God Bless! Alicia

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adjective - satisfied with what one is or has; not wanting more or anything else.

Philippians 4:10-20 (English Standard Version)

God’s Provision

I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity. Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Yet it was kind of you to share my trouble. And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving, except you only. Even in Thessalonica you sent me help for my needs once and again. Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that increases to your credit. I have received full payment, and more. I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God. And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Matthew 6:25-35 (English Standard Version)

Do Not Be Anxious

"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
"Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

The High Calling by Gordon Lindsay

If God has called you to be really like Jesus in all your spirit, He will draw you into a life of crucifixion and humility. He will put on you such demands of obedience that He will not allow you to follow other Christians, and in many ways He will seem to let other good people do things which He will not let you do.

Other Christians and ministers who seem very religious and useful may push themselves, pull wires and work schemes to carry out their plans, but you cannot do it. If you attempt it, you will meet with such failure and rebuke from the Lord as to make you sorely penitent.

Others can brag about themselves, their work, their success, or their writings, but the Holy Spirit will not allow you to do any such thing. If you begin it, He will lead you into such deep mortification that will make you despise yourself and all your good works.

Others will be allowed to succeed in making great sums of money or having a legacy left to them or in having luxuries. But God may supply you daily because He wants you to have something far better than gold and that is a helpless dependence on Him, that He may have the privilege of providing your needs day by day out of the unseen treasury.

The Lord may let others be honored and put forward but keep you hidden away in obscurity because He wants to produce some choice, fragrant fruit for His coming glory, which can only be produced in the shade.

God will let others be great, but keep you small. He will let others do a work for Him and get the credit for it, but He will make you work and toil on without knowing how much you are doing. Then to make your work still more precious, He will let others get the credit for the work which you have done, and this will make your reward ten times greater when Jesus comes.

The Holy Spirit will put a strict watch on you, with a jealous love, and will rebuke you for little words and feelings or for wasting your time, which other Christians never seem distressed over.

So make up your mind that God is an infinite Sovereign, and has a right to do as He pleases with His own. He will not explain to you a thousand things which may puzzle your reason in His dealings with you. God will take you at your word; and if you absolutely will yourself to be His slave, He will wrap you up in a jealous love and let other people say and do many things that you cannot do or say. Settle it forever, that you are to deal directly with the Holy Spirit. Also that He is to have the privilege of tying your tongue or chaining your hand or closing your eyes, in ways that others are not dealt with.

Now when you are so possessed with the loving God that you are, in your secret heart, pleased and delighted over this peculiar personal, private, jealous guardianship and management of the Holy Spirit over your life, you will have found the vestibule of heaven.

Walking in the wilderness...

I am learning to walk in the wilderness... I am in need but my needs are provided for. I feel my life appears to but somewhat of a contradiction. I know where I am but not where I am going! I think a lot of what is happening is the Lord is teaching me to walk the path in faith... Again! There was a time in my life I could say that I completely trusted in the Lord and understood the fact that my faith is the evidence or substance of that which is unseen (Heb 11:1)... Whether it was the Future, God, Provision, Direction, Finances, ECT... the Word tells me that my faith is a gift of God not by my works (Eph 2:8-9) I am learning to let go of me and my desires to prove myself. I am saved by grace! I have been walking in my own strength for some time now... I am letting go of the trying... and choose to move forward in faith not push though in my own strength! I moved to TX knowing that God had a plan for me when I arrived. Not knowing exactly what that plan is... Well... That is a hard place for me to be. I have been here for two months and now and feel I have almost nothing to show for it but a bank account that is running on fumes and the fact that I still can't get an job to pay my bills. I am truly humbled because I am realizing I have been working in my own strength for too long here! It is time for some changes. My plans don't mean anything... Unless they are His also... So far I am not sure I have been checking with Him on that matter. I am learning to ask Him before moving forward and am finding freedom knowing that I am loved without condition and not judged for the mistakes I have made so far. I am holding to His promises! God is faithful even in the Wilderness.

I Love Y'all,
Alicia
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Now playing: Ginny Owens - If You Want Me To
via FoxyTunes

Top 5 People Watching songs...

So someone posted this question to the greater public... What would your top 5 People watching songs?
So I went to my I-pod and created an on-the-go playlist... here are the 5 that hit the list first:
Alive Again - Lanae' Hale
All at Once - The Fray
Invisible Love- JJ Heller
Can't Take it In By - Imogin Heap
Deciphering Me - Brooke Fraser

So what would your top 5 people watching songs be?

Much Love! ~ Alicia

And miles to go before I sleep...

I happen to love this poem its by Robert Frost:

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

"Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."

So I couldn't help but quote the last line as my title because it is quite true in my life. In the midst of all the busyness in my life (moving, Cancer, ECT...) I still find myself "stopping by the woods" to enjoy exactly where I am at versus rushing on into the future or constantly looking back where I came from. It is always a good thing to stop and let the Lord speak to you especially in a time of crisis or a time of busyness. God's voices is still a still small one... He doesn't change Himself even if life gets louder! We are the ones who need to change... God has made it clear that he is constant! He will always be there... So if you can't hear Him try turning life down for a monent and let Him speak to you in the time when life seems loud!
I love y'all!
Alicia Zinn

This is kinda where I am at right now!

The Climb
Miley Cyrus

I can almost see it
That dream I am dreaming
But there's a voice inside my head saying
"You'll never reach it"
Every step I'm taking
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction
My faith is shaking
But I gotta keep trying
Gotta keep my head held high

There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be a uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose
Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

The struggles I'm facing
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes might knock me down
But no, I'm not breaking

I may not know it
But these are the moments that
I'm gonna remember most, yeah
Just gotta keep going
And I, I got to be strong
Just keep pushing on

'Cause there's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be a uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose
Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb, yeah!

There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be an uphill battle
Somebody's gonna have to lose
Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb, yeah!

Keep on moving, keep climbing
Keep the faith, baby
It's all about, it's all about the climb
Keep the faith, keep your faith, whoa