Welcome to the world!
Riley came on his due date, August 31, 2012 at 12:28am. I went on a bike ride August 30 at 10am with grandma and Liam and then when Liam took his nap I started having contractions about 3pm. At 7:30pm they got more intense and Steve started to time them. I thought they would just go away but Steve said we needed to go to the hospital. Boy am I glad we left when we did at 9:30pm. I got to the hospital to find that I was 8cm dilated! Everything progressed pretty quickly and I was pushing after midnight (with an epidural, of course!) We are so blessed to have a wonderful healthy baby.
Why we chose the name Riley:
We
simply like the name.
Why we chose his middle name to be Daniel:
New International Version (©1984)
But even if he does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve
your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up." Daniel 3:18
Verse:17 our God whom we serve is able to deliver us
Here's
the first part of their faith.
Lesson:
Overcoming
faith knows God's abilities.
To have the
kind of faith that take you through your trials, you
have to be aware of what God can do!
»Hebrews
11:6-AV But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that
cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him.
You have to
start with knowing who God is and what He can do.
Isaiah
40:12-31
We
serve an awesome God!
»Jeremiah
32:17-AV Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the
heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, [and] there is
nothing too hard for thee:
When we get our
eyes off of God's abilities, and start looking at our own circumstances, we get
things out of perspective.
We
tend to "zoom-in" on our circumstances, and they look HUGE!
But
if we would just step back, and put things into correct perspective, we'd
realize that God was much, much bigger than our problems.
Verse:18 but if not ... we will not serve thy gods
Here's
the second part of their faith, just as important as the first.
Lesson:
Overcoming
faith trusts God's decisions.
It's not just knowing what God can do, but it's
learning to step back and let God do what He wants, and acknowledge it as
right.
Real
faith is willing to trust God, no matter what the outcome it
» Job
13:15-AV Though he slay me, yet will I trust in
him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Sometimes God
answers our prayer the way we want Him to.
But
sometimes He doesn't.
It's
not always just a lack of faith or sin in our lives that keeps Him from doing
things our way.
Sometimes
it's because He knows best, and He needs to do it His way.
We
need to grow up and mature as believers and realize that
Father
knows best!
