People of Purpose!

Good Tuesday all my crafty friends! Well, I FINALLY washed my car on Sunday, so guess what? It rained yesterday!!! LOL It's like clock work! Forget the rain dances, if you want it to rain where you are, just give me a shout out to wash my car and it will be done!! LOL Thank you Lord for the rain, but we need to get together on the timing thing! LOL

I have been sharing with you on how behind I am, so I am truly hoping I catch up this week. Today I will be sharing my Week 5 Journal Page from Take Me Deeper journal project over on His Kingdom Come. This is actually January's last week page and tomorrow I will share last week's journal page and then I will be caught up! Hallelujah! LOL!

January's theme was "Transform," so Week 5 was "Transform Purposefully" based on the scripture out of Philippians 2:12-13. The word that stood out to me with this scripture was "will!" Will is the power of choosing one's own actions, to "purpose", determine to or elect to. On my journal page this week I thought of the flowers of the field and how they submit themselves to the sunlight or "turn to" and position themselves to the sunlight that they may grow! As believers, when we purpose ourselves and submit ourselves to the light, that is the very presence of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we can also grow...grow in His will for our lives. We are to purpose in His will, not ours!

As believers, we are given "free will" and the beauty of "free will" is that you make your own choice. But the freedom in that very choice is when you humble yourself and submit that "free will" to your Father in Heaven, which positions you to transform, but not just transform, but transform with a purpose to endeavor to do His will! You are saying, "yes Lord, I willingly go wherever You may lead me!" Not out of my own selfish desires, but out of complete love and passion based on your sacrifice on the cross for ME! Understand that NOTHING in and of ourselves stirs that kind of desire, it is ONLY the indwelling power of Jesus Christ that moves us beyond "self" and towards gazing upon that very work on the cross! That is freedom, that is victory!

I started this journal page with a botched gelli print effort that I decided to cover up! LOL I know we have all been there! :) LOL It turned out to sort of look like sky and clouds in the background so I just went with it! LOL I simply used cheap acrylic paints and distressed the edges with Dusty Concord and Vintage photo. I then stamped with a script stamp here and there with StazOn Saddle Brown.

I then adhered a piece of hymnal page (the name of the hymn escapes me, sorry) that speaks of yielding to the Father your days and moment and never departing from those ways! I thought that was fitting, so I used it as sort of like the horizon and then stamped some flowers here and there that are from a Unity Stamp Collection from May of 2014. I then took a Tim Holtz stamp that is sun rays and stamped it with VersaMark and then poured Finnabair's glitter over top and then dried it to see what would happen. It didn't emboss, but it did the trick! LOL Then I just simply stamped a border and words that I was focused on for this scripture and did some shading with Faber Castell Big Brush Pen in Nougat. Pretty easy page, but said what I wanted to say. 

Those of you who take the time to read my blog, know who I am and what I am ALL ABOUT! I love my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and if I can lead "one" to Christ through my art or anything that He impresses upon me to write in this blog, well then I have done His will!

In case you still weren't really sure who I am, I encourage you to watch the video below because IT SAYS IT ALL!  May it bless you today! :)