Life as a Pastor's Wife

Delight yourself in the Lord and He WILL give you the desires of your heart. Psalms 37:4

How many times have we thought as a woman... "If Only..."

If only I was 10 pounds skinnier... I would be happy.
If only my house would stay clean... things would be perfect.
If only my kids would behave... I would have peace.
If only my husband would appreciate me more... things would be different.

What if we thought... If Only I could show the Lord more, how much I loved him... hmmm interesting thought? What if we thought--If only the world knew how much HE loves us! How would our lives be differnt, if we shifted the focus of off us and on to HIS GLORY

Oh how I am humbled at his goodness! Oh, how HE truly love us! All he wants in return is our love of HIM. Jesus asked Peter, "Do you love me?" The Son of man questioned what God wants to hear from our hearts... that we love and delight in the one who created us! Tell the creator of heavens and earth how much you love HIM today, delight yourself in HIM, and I know... you will never be the same again.

Esther

So I have been MIA for a while... but I'm back. Life has been so awesome and amazing! My babies are growing so fast. I feel a stirring in my spirit that change is in the midst. Not exactly sure in what way? I just feel my heart wanting more of HIM. I can't wait to continue to press into his spirit and continue to ride the GOD journey. The scripture he has placed in my heart is this: "Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called..." I am ready to take hold of the eternal life.

IN CHRIST,

Esther

Our Karate Kid

Man! I just can't seem to stay caught up on our blog here lately--and I have so much to share. I am going to have to blog about one thing at a time. This Saturday Elise tested for her first belt in Karate--her white belt. In order to receive this belt she had to show knowledge of certain skills and then break a board in half!! I thought to myself that was a little crazy to receive her first belt, but... SHE DID IT! Here is proof! We are so proud of our little karate kid!

The Process

My goodness, I can't believe it has been 19 days since my past post! Life has been fast and furious... and sometimes if I am honest I can miss the process. I have a friend who asks me each week, "So Esther How was church? How many people came on Sunday?" And I tell him all about the service. Now he asks me this with a pure heart. He is a business owner and this is how he thinks, by the numbers... So I thought about the numbers... I would like to say... "It's been amazing! We are growing by hundreds at a time." But if you know anything about church planting... you know it's a SLOW process! Up one week down the next, but then I really started thinking about the people... lives changing, soles won for Christ and I was overwhelmed... 92 people have either given their lives or rededicated their lives to Christ and we have served 1,621 hurting people all in the first 4.5 months. God is good! So we are continuing to figure how to do good church... but the emphasis is staying on the hurting... The church will grow one step at a time and just like a baby learns to crawl before she learns to walk... we will continue to take each experience and learn from it...
Lives are changing. Not perfection but changing--but again it's a process. So, my resolution for 2009 is to enjoy the process. Stop and smell the roses if you will. God has ordained each moment, and we never get our moments back. One day, I will look back on this day with great fondness. I encourage you to enjoy your current life experience, in a flash, in a instant it will be over and on to the next experience. Enjoy the process.

Happy New Years everyone. I hope that 2009 will be a joyous one and one that will bring good works for the Lord. I am excited for a new year with HPC El Paso -- and what God has in store for us. As I mentioned in my last post, Buck has ventured off to a new site http://www.buckzengerle.blogspot.com/ . He will be starting daily devotionals for our New Year Prayer and Fasting time. So on a more personal note... a lot of you have been asking for some updated pictures of the kids, so here goes. I took these on New Year's Eve 2008!