In Search of Me: Driving with Anna

By Anna K Payne

Can’t find your purpose? Stand strong and reach for your dreams.

After my children were in their teen years, I reviewed my life goals. I had no idea who I was or what I wanted to be. Battered by life choices I had made I couldn’t find myself anymore.

I spent years praying and searching for my purpose in life. What was it God wanted me to do with my time? Join me and rediscover:

• The joy in knowing God.

• The sure knowledge God knows you.

• Strength and courage to follow your dreams.

In Search of Me is a devotional about the struggle to find passion again. Anna K Payne found the strength to stand strong. You can too!

Find your calling. Read In Search of Me today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: AP Creations Publishing
• Release date: Sep 24, 2017
• ISBN: 9781540196606

Anna K Payne

Anna K Payne loves a mystery. Her favorite movies include one-liners and things that explode. Her relationship with her Savior is her number one priority and her family come second.  But her passion and vision is to inspire hope, encourage others, love richly, and listen well through the strength of Jesus Christ. She seeks to inspire and encourage through her devotionals and cozy mysteries as well as aiding her family of writers publish their own books. https://www.instafreebie.com/author/AnnaKPayne

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In Search of Me

A Driving with Anna Devotional

by

Anna K Payne

AP Creations

I hope you enjoy reading these entries and they bless your heart.

To Brent, I love you more today than when we got married. Thank you for over 35 years of married life.

Thanks to God for the words He gives me to express my heart.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is the Father who is full of mercy and all comfort. He comforts us every time we have trouble, so when others have trouble, we can comfort them with the same comfort God gives us.

Published by AP Creations

Copyright © 2010 by Anna K Payne

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Be Strong and Courageous! Who, Me?

So many places in the Bible it mentions being strong and courageous. I’m thinking that’s fine for those involved in actual warfare, but I’m not fighting in any battles, right? I’m not doing anything dangerous, right?

Right – but what is it God has asked me to do? And am I doing it?

God has asked me to pray for my family, my children and my husband. He’s asked me to pray for our finances, our home life, the future in-laws I haven’t met, and those I have met. He’s asked me to pray for future decisions, for spiritual guidance, for every step of my way. Have I?

Well, sure, at one time or another. But do I do it continually? Do I bring my worries, fears, and anxieties to Him every moment of every day? Maybe, I need to be stronger willed in setting my heart and my mind to God for everything in life, all the time. Maybe it's too easy to worry or fret or complain, than it is to take it to God and leave it there. Maybe, I’m not strong enough to trust in God for everything in my life. Maybe, I’m not courageous enough.

What else has God called me to do? I can feel things or know things that could encourage someone. This is a gift from God. If I’m paying attention to God and His timing, His purpose and His voice, then I can actually make a difference in someone’s life.

That sounds really cool, but it also means I know exactly what to say to really hurt someone, too. That’s not as cool.

It also means that I’m a bit prone to depression. I have problems expressing myself or asking for help, and I spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself. This leads to depression. Basically, it means I am spending all my time not listening to God, not asking for God’s help, nor am I thinking of other people and the other things I could be doing. Why? I do it because I lack strength and courage.

I write down verses in my Remembrance Book I keep in my car. Everyday when I get in my car, I read yesterday's verses and today's verses. Today I read:

Deuteronomy 20:3-4 He shall say: Hear, O Israel, today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be terrified or give way to panic before them. For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.

Joshua 1:9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.

2 Corinthians 10:4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

So, I'm thinking about these things and checking my notebook at church and find this scripture drawing my attention:

2 Corinthians. 4:8-9 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.

The sermon was about strength and superheroes, Samson and weakness. I go to work the high school service and get these verses:

Hebrews 11:34 whose weakness was turned to strength

Hebrews 12: 1-3 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin