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Accountability List

I love these questions given to us in Sunday School.  It is a great list to use during quiet time.  Hopefully we have christian friends holding us accountable, but this list helps me to be accountable to myself,also.

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ACCOUNTABILITY QUESTIONS:

• Are you spending time alone with God?
• Is your thought life pure?
• What are you reading these days?
• Are you misusing your power?
• Are you walking in total obedience to God?
• How much time did you spend in prayer this week?
• Did you pray for others in this group?
• Did you put yourself in an awkward situation with a woman?
• At any time did you compromise your integrity?
• What one sin plagued your walk with God this week?
• Did you accomplish your spiritual goals this week?
• Are you giving to the Lord’s work financially?
• How have you demonstrated a servant’s heart?
• Do you treat your peers and coworkers as people loved by God?
• What significant thing did you do for your wife and/or family?
• What was your biggest disappointment? How did you decide to handle it?
• What was your biggest joy? Did you thank God?
• What do you see as your number one need for next week?
• Are you satisfied with the time you spent with the Lord this week?
• Did you take time to show compassion for others in need?
• Did you control your tongue?
• What did you do this week to enhance your relationship with your spouse?
• Did you pray and read God’s Word this week? What did you derive from
this time?
• In what ways have you launched out in faith since we last met?
• In what ways has God blessed you this week? And what disappointments
consumed your thoughts this week?
• Did you look at a woman or man in the wrong way?
• How have you been tempted this week? How did you respond?
• How has your relationship with Christ been changing?
• Did you worship in church this week?
• Have you shared your faith this week? How?
• What are you wrestling with in your thought life?
• What have you done for someone else this week?
• Are the “visible“ you and the “real“ you consistent in this
relationship?
• Have you lied about any of the previous questions?

God’s Garden at the Carter’s

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You’ve heard the cute proverbs like “bloom where you’re planted”, and “you reap what you sow.” My favorite one is on a sign at St. James Plantation, near Southport, NC.  It says,”Don’t be afraid of change, without change a seed would never be a flower, but remain a seed in the ground.”

With a lot of moving due to job transfers, I tried to bloom where I was planted. I believe God honors our efforts to do good wherever he puts us. When we got the call out of the blue to take a job in Hendersonville, where Tony and I met and started our family, I knew it was from the Lord. Tony and I had just discussed a few months earlier if we thought we would ever move back home and he said let’s pray together that if it is God’s will then He will make it so clear that it cannot be denied. So you can’t get much clearer than getting a job you didn’t apply for or even know existed.  So we sold our business and closed the Georgia chapter of our life. It was bittersweet because I love Georgia very much.

When I saw this quote at St. James Plantation it resonated with me in a special way. As I researched the Oak Island area and experienced the lovely people here in Brunswick County, I kept having thoughts about this quote.

I feel like I’ve never been afraid of change and God has planted us in a lot of wonderful places.  Lastly, being planted back in Hendersonville, we have been blooming there.  I still wanted to take this trip to the coast to see if we would like to live here. The time here has helped me to realize I’ve been planted, I’ve grown, budded, blossomed, and now is the time to just enjoy the many blossoms bestowed to us.  We are so content with our friends, church, home, and neighborhood. I’m not sure it is time to change dirt at this point of my life.

A book I’ve been reading by Kelly Minter called No Other Gods  hit home also to confirm my feelings.  It’s amazing how God has everything we need at the precise time we need it.  As I do my Bible study each day, I feel as if God is telling me to wait.  Sarah didn’t wait on God.  After God promised her a son,  she helped things along by giving her maid servant to Abraham to have Ishmael instead of waiting on God.  What a mess she made!  I hear God saying wait, so I wait. If God gives me Oak Island one day, it will be in his perfect timing and He will make it clear as He did when He planted us in Hendersonville.

I’m grateful for this wonderful experience and I will definitely be back to visit beautiful Oak Island, NC.