GET OUT of that PIT: DAY ONE

SO I'm ready for a new thing! This summer has been not what I expected it to be at all. I decided I could work 2 ministry jobs, and still take care of my two year old son, my apartment, and myself. The end result...I ended the summer feeling like I did a bad job at both jobs, I have a horribly messy and chaotic apartment, and a still crazy 2yr old(which is expected...i guess). I was depressed because I hate that feeling, you know getting the job done but not getting it done with the fullness of your gifts and talents...that feeling of dang if I could re-do that I'd do it so much better. I found myself deep in a pit, one I think I've been in before...
As I prayed and cried, and sought forgiveness from people I put off or hurt while I was so chaotically busy this summer, or from doing a lame job at my places of employment, I looked on my bookshelves and found a devotional journal from my wonderful father that he gave me for mothers day this year entitled "Get out of that Pit" by Beth Moore. Beth Moore is an awesome bible study teacher and preacher. I've done one of her bible studies before and it was amazing!

Well now that August is here, and I know I'm ready to re-gain all that I allowed the enemy to steal from me. I'm ready to get out of this pit that I've been in for only God knows how long. It is hard for me to admit that Ive been in a pit, but now that Ive realized it, it feels good to know there is an answer and a way out!
This devotional journal goes a long with a book that Beth Moore wrote also entitled Get out of that Pit, (which I amazingly realized I had bought for myself for Easter and didn't realize the journal and book went together until God opened my eyes to see them...) the journal is a 40 day process of assessing your pit, learning how to get out of it, and learning how to not re-enter that same pit or a different one. I am ready to read this book, and do the journal activities and ready to live a life pit free! I will journal on here everyday an insight or something Ive gained in my 40 days.

Today is Day 1: I learned I am in a pit. I learned what a pit is, I am paraphrasing what Beth Moore said in Chpt 1: A pit is when you feel stuck, trapped, you can't get out, it is an early grave Satan has dug for you in hopes to bury you alive, but he cannot make you stay. A pit is when you have lost your vision and you cannot stand up to your enemy. In her description of a pit she doesn't say that it is a pit of sin, she says that sinful people and saints can find themselves in a pit. I learned that through prayer, scripture, and journaling I can only through God's grace and help can I get out of this pit.

39 days left! I hope you'll join me on this journey and I hope that through this journey God might speak to you as well.