Day 34 - Faith, Foolishness or Presumption

           No chance of falling asleep before I write my post for today.  I drank a Pepsi trying to stay awake and study.  I thought about it before I did it, and I thought, "oh, it'll be OK, you can drink poison and no harm will come to you." I did that before once when I was out of hot chocolate mix and all I had was cappuccino, and it worked out OK.   EXCEPT THIS TIME I FORGOT TO PRAY OVER IT!!!!  DUH!!!!!  So here I am it is 1:20 in the morning and it feels like 1:20 in the afternoon I am so wide awake.
           I wonder how many times a day I do that?  I just ASSUME that God is going to do something for me without even asking for it. Pastor Sandy would always say there is Faith, Foolishness and Presumption, which one are you operating in?  I am not going with Faith on this one!  This seems to be a pattern, instead of relying on God sometimes and asking for His help, I try and do it the best way I can.  With all my good intentions I will still fall short, every time.  His way is so much better and higher than my way.
           Last week I was in a similar situation, I had had a really long arduous day and was really drained.  I came home and put on the worship music and just started worshipping the Lord. However, I didn't feel any better.  I was irritable and unreasonable and just plain crabby.  The next day was not much better.  I struggled all of the way through it.  Sunday morning I woke up and was still exhausted and cranky.  My second mom, Deb, called that morning and I talked to her about what was going on.  She said, "Baby Doll, you forgot to ASK Jesus to restore and strengthen you! You have not cause you asked not!" It was like someone turned on a light bulb inside my head.  I told the Lord I was sorry for trying to get refilled and refueled on my own, and I asked Him to refill me.  You know what happened, He did.  It was awesome!  I am so blessed to have such awesome mentors in my life to point out when I miss it!  I don't know what I would do with out them.
          So I guess that makes today's story about what happens when you forget to ask God! :O)
          I did get the opportunity to pray with Deb today.  She and her friend Pastor Crystal left on a 3-4 week mission trip to ALASKA!  I prayed and ASKED God to bless their trip and to draw those people closer to Him, to heal them, to save them and to deliver them in the Name of His Son Jesus.  I know they are going to have an awesome trip!