Wow, God is good and I am a sinner. How undeserving am I to have a woman who is so in love with Jesus and 3 beautiful children? I deserve nothing. An yet, My Gracious King has allowed me the chance to have a family, a true love, 3 little people that resemble me and my actions(scary), and the desire to chase Him, my Maker. When i'm in fear I turn my eyes to Him and He answers. When I am lost He lights the path, when I doubt, he reveals himself to me. When I turn my back on Him because everything is going my way at that time, He pokes me in the heart and says"I am still with you". When I deny Him, he turns the other cheek and still holds my hand. My Abba Father, Daddy, Lord & Savior is always with me. When I am weary, He supplies more strength than I need, when I'm am scared He gives me intestinal fortitude to rush against the fear and squash it.
I am a sinner and God stands by me. As I age I love Him more and more. I've wasted so many years away from My Deliverer. I desire to be close to Him for the rest of my days, however many they will be.
Thank you Brianna for encouraging me and standing by me when I was a ding dong for so many years. Your trust in God is what kept you sane enough to stay next to me. Thank you for your support, dedication, and undying love. I love you more than I can describe in words. I am thankful, happy, excited, motivated, and in love with you. I thank God for giving us hearts toward one another. I thank God for the day we met on the dock, you 14 and me 21(scary). I'll never forget those days, God spoke to me the second I saw you. He told me that you were the one. And you always have been the one ever since. Nothing can change that because God made it that way. I thank God for your desire to cling to Him and be the Godly woman you are. I'm thankful that you love our children so much and when your exhausted you still help mother them until late night hours. I'm thankful that you are beautiful, gorgeous, stunning, amazing, mistifying, exotic, gentle, true, youthful , exhuberant, encouraging, fit, and my wife. We've been married 12 years and it's taken many of those years to grow what we have today. Imagine this: Look at what God has equipped us with these past few years, imagine how incredible our marriage is gonna be in 12 more years, WOW, if are bodies are stuck together I won't be surprised. How do you get so close to another human being? How do we fall so madly inlove with one another any more than we are now? I'm excited to see because I know we'll experience that.
Thank you for being you Brianna Hosch.
Hoschy
Friday, February 13, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
This summer and last year
Well it all starts with dreams that God lays on your heart. At first you get excited, and think it has to happen today. Then you realize that just because he has given you the dream doesn't mean that it is supposed to happen at this moment, and it could be for future use.
Well Chad and I both have had dreams of doing our passions. This last summer God said its time to leap and we did. Chad was leaving construction, financial security, and a guaranteed promtion to pursue what he is called to do. Lead, and help others. Myself, to leave a job with worldly security and start a personal training business.
Well as you know we both lept. Scared fearful and unsure what the future would look like we did. Everyday praying to God "how is this going to work financially, it doesn't make sense"
At this point I can only speak for myself, I am sure Chad will add more later.
It is funny that when God gives you a plan He doesn't show you the big picture. There are many unknowns as we all know. For some reason I took it upon myself to fill in the blanks. What do "I" want this business to look like? How much money do"I" want to make? What does the world say this should look like? I spent a summer worrying about how my buisness should look and the fact that I wasn't making the amount of money I needed to make, or so I thought. Funny thing, our needs were being met, yet I couldn't let well enough alone. I found myself worrying about this buisness day and night. I would be at the beach with my kids spending the time I had always wanted to spend with them, and not being able to concentrate on them, but worry about our future.
I even got so worried that I applied to be a sherriffs dispatcher. I was thinking the economy is going down hill, this job has security. I again was trying to take things in my own hands. In my head I saw myself investing the next 20 years as a sherriffs dispatcher and not worrying about income or insurance. Ha Ha Ha. I knew in my heart that God did not call me to leave a place and do his work with women, to only have me back in a box. I would try and sugar coat the sherrifs position. Tell myself, I am an encourager, this is perfect for me. Yeah I would have done fine, but would I have thrived? Probaly not. I started praying for God's intervention, as I started in on the fifth step of the hiring process. I started to believe I may actually get this position. I prayed God would close the door before me if I wasn't suppose to walk through it. That the door would be closed so tight that there would not be a doubt in my mind of his will for me. The day before Thanksgiving I received a letter in the mail stating that I had not been selected for the position. I was a little upset, EXUSE ME? The next morning I went for a run and God showed me how this was not his purpose for me, and to trust him. I felt free. I knew without a doubt God wanted me right where I was. After that I was able to breathe and just trust him. He was going to take care of all our needs. As soon as that door shut five more opened all pertaining to personal training.
God was waiting for me to let go, so that he could begin to open the doors he had ready for me. I was standing in his way, by not trusting him, and trying to "control" the outcome.
Currently God is continuly opening up opportunities and blessings that you would have never saw coming. My encouragement to you, is Get Out The Way.
How you ask:
Read the Word, memorize scripture
Everyday I am saying Gods word from memory, it helps to remind me its his plan
Be ready to step into every opportunity that God gives you. Try not to rationlize it and see how it benefits you. Just do, and let God do the coordinating. You will never know how God can use that experience in the future or that connection.
Be true to what God tells You. He is in charge. Other peoples advice is wonderful, but ultimately the don't know what tomorrow holds any better than you do. Having accountability partners and a prayer network is different, they want what Gods wants for you. At the end of the day Go Gods Way.
I would love to hear your lessons you learned and how God is shaping you daily. Share the miracles that God is doing in your life. You never know how God can use it.
Obvisously I don't have a problem sharing, don't feel that you need to be as detailed or long.
Bri
Well Chad and I both have had dreams of doing our passions. This last summer God said its time to leap and we did. Chad was leaving construction, financial security, and a guaranteed promtion to pursue what he is called to do. Lead, and help others. Myself, to leave a job with worldly security and start a personal training business.
Well as you know we both lept. Scared fearful and unsure what the future would look like we did. Everyday praying to God "how is this going to work financially, it doesn't make sense"
At this point I can only speak for myself, I am sure Chad will add more later.
It is funny that when God gives you a plan He doesn't show you the big picture. There are many unknowns as we all know. For some reason I took it upon myself to fill in the blanks. What do "I" want this business to look like? How much money do"I" want to make? What does the world say this should look like? I spent a summer worrying about how my buisness should look and the fact that I wasn't making the amount of money I needed to make, or so I thought. Funny thing, our needs were being met, yet I couldn't let well enough alone. I found myself worrying about this buisness day and night. I would be at the beach with my kids spending the time I had always wanted to spend with them, and not being able to concentrate on them, but worry about our future.
I even got so worried that I applied to be a sherriffs dispatcher. I was thinking the economy is going down hill, this job has security. I again was trying to take things in my own hands. In my head I saw myself investing the next 20 years as a sherriffs dispatcher and not worrying about income or insurance. Ha Ha Ha. I knew in my heart that God did not call me to leave a place and do his work with women, to only have me back in a box. I would try and sugar coat the sherrifs position. Tell myself, I am an encourager, this is perfect for me. Yeah I would have done fine, but would I have thrived? Probaly not. I started praying for God's intervention, as I started in on the fifth step of the hiring process. I started to believe I may actually get this position. I prayed God would close the door before me if I wasn't suppose to walk through it. That the door would be closed so tight that there would not be a doubt in my mind of his will for me. The day before Thanksgiving I received a letter in the mail stating that I had not been selected for the position. I was a little upset, EXUSE ME? The next morning I went for a run and God showed me how this was not his purpose for me, and to trust him. I felt free. I knew without a doubt God wanted me right where I was. After that I was able to breathe and just trust him. He was going to take care of all our needs. As soon as that door shut five more opened all pertaining to personal training.
God was waiting for me to let go, so that he could begin to open the doors he had ready for me. I was standing in his way, by not trusting him, and trying to "control" the outcome.
Currently God is continuly opening up opportunities and blessings that you would have never saw coming. My encouragement to you, is Get Out The Way.
How you ask:
Read the Word, memorize scripture
Everyday I am saying Gods word from memory, it helps to remind me its his plan
Be ready to step into every opportunity that God gives you. Try not to rationlize it and see how it benefits you. Just do, and let God do the coordinating. You will never know how God can use that experience in the future or that connection.
Be true to what God tells You. He is in charge. Other peoples advice is wonderful, but ultimately the don't know what tomorrow holds any better than you do. Having accountability partners and a prayer network is different, they want what Gods wants for you. At the end of the day Go Gods Way.
I would love to hear your lessons you learned and how God is shaping you daily. Share the miracles that God is doing in your life. You never know how God can use it.
Obvisously I don't have a problem sharing, don't feel that you need to be as detailed or long.
Bri
What's this about
Hi there,
Last sunday God gave me a vision of a forum for sharing his amazing works and things he is doing in our lives. God Working Blog.
This last summer Chad and I experienced God in amazing ways and have seen his faithfulness first hand. My heart is overwhelmed with how good God is and how he knows all the details all the time. I wanted to share with all of you what God has done and what he is doing daily. Then God said its not just about you MO. "I work in alot of peoples lives." This space has been created with the intention of sharing Gods amazing works , and what you have learned in that process. This forum will be a way for us to encourage eachother, share and learn. When you feel that your day is low and need to be reminded of what God is doing, log on and read. Add your stories, and let us know what God is teaching you. Your testimony could save someone else a lot of greif or mis steps.
I am so excited to see this grow, my prayer is that you are blessed and encouraged!
Bri
Last sunday God gave me a vision of a forum for sharing his amazing works and things he is doing in our lives. God Working Blog.
This last summer Chad and I experienced God in amazing ways and have seen his faithfulness first hand. My heart is overwhelmed with how good God is and how he knows all the details all the time. I wanted to share with all of you what God has done and what he is doing daily. Then God said its not just about you MO. "I work in alot of peoples lives." This space has been created with the intention of sharing Gods amazing works , and what you have learned in that process. This forum will be a way for us to encourage eachother, share and learn. When you feel that your day is low and need to be reminded of what God is doing, log on and read. Add your stories, and let us know what God is teaching you. Your testimony could save someone else a lot of greif or mis steps.
I am so excited to see this grow, my prayer is that you are blessed and encouraged!
Bri
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