tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528345693706381003.post1659730321517232723..comments2023-06-10T10:53:34.313-04:00Comments on Deny Yourself Daily: It's Been a While...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501767544505949810noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528345693706381003.post-71411379491730834952009-06-06T23:49:09.836-04:002009-06-06T23:49:09.836-04:00Aimee! Praise God that the Lord used basketball to...Aimee! Praise God that the Lord used basketball to draw you closer to Himself! Amazing how he will take the things that we hold the closest to get our attention with, huh? First of all, thank you so much for taking the time to comment on my blog. You have no idea how much your words encouraged me. Sorry I am just now responding...I have been traveling non stop to try and squeeze in visits with all the people I want to see during my one month off :) Seriously sis, it really does sound like you and I can relate a lot. Please let me know if there is anything I can do for you...or if you ever just need someone to talk to about all this. Keep your eyes fixed on Christ, the author and finisher of our faith. <br /><br />SusanAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09501767544505949810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528345693706381003.post-77751613909229820542009-05-27T22:33:16.002-04:002009-05-27T22:33:16.002-04:00Hey Susan,
I just wanted to let you know that you...Hey Susan,<br /><br />I just wanted to let you know that you have an awesome testimoney. God has been using your story to help me look at my own life. And just identify my heart in some areas. I listened to your story on youtube I think it was at an FCA event. I can relate to you in a way. God has really been teaching me that he is alot bigger and better than basketball will ever be. Basketball is a gift. And all our talents come from him. He is Soverign over our lives. I can almost realte to how you had to sit out your college year cause of transfer. Right befor my senior year I injured my ankle pretty bad. God really just used this time to draw me closer to him. Before this time I was really spending all my time on basketball. It was like my idol. I knew it but i didn't want to believe it and surrender basketball to god Even though I knew it was really and idol in my life. I almost wan't able to play my senior year in highschool. And I realized that I could live my life without basketball. He gives me the strength. Through Gods grace He enabled me to surrender the idol of basketball over to him.<br />I just wanted to let you know that God is using you and your story to affect my life in a way. I know I dont know you personaly but I just wanted to let you know that God has used you and your testimony in my life. In just listening to what god has done in your life has really just affected my heart. He is a great and Glorious God!! Thanks for posting. Keep pursuing chirst! I was able to watch one of your games during the season and on Tv, and just wanted to let you know that it was really fun watching you play, God has gifted you with some great talent. <br />Go Gators!! <br />Thanks againg for posting this is really encouraging. <br />God Bless!!!<br /><br />1 Timothy 4:12<br /><br />Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the belivers an example in Speech, in Conduct, in Love, in Faith, in PurityAimee D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14929040968533480969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528345693706381003.post-85939661040363889682009-05-20T05:35:14.547-04:002009-05-20T05:35:14.547-04:00Having to be breif, I trust you will not take this...Having to be breif, I trust you will not take this as a flying pot shot, but I just wanted to suggest that the whole thing of women's sports is a contradiction of most of what you seem to believe.... the agressiveness required on a basketball court is irreconcilable to the spirit of femininity, and that is why you don't see women, especially Christian women, doing any such thing until modern times. Rereading this it could be so easily misconstrued as attacking... don't know what else to do but say I appreciate your blog, and thought I would just challenge you in an area that you may not have thought about. I hope you are blessed in all you do.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06983893897846783205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528345693706381003.post-24315328357457402912009-04-08T13:12:00.000-04:002009-04-08T13:12:00.000-04:00Hello my love. Lol I have YET to read this whole e...Hello my love. Lol I have YET to read this whole entire post, but I will one day lol. Check out my blog too, sis :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528345693706381003.post-87114529906744576542009-03-19T20:28:00.000-04:002009-03-19T20:28:00.000-04:00Sue sue wot a lesson! my goodness the Lord is one ...Sue sue wot a lesson! my goodness the Lord is one crafty God...funny how I seem to be learning the same things right after you..Praise the Lord!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528345693706381003.post-50434531950011335122009-03-17T14:33:00.000-04:002009-03-17T14:33:00.000-04:00Hi Susan!Longtime lurker here, but never a poster....Hi Susan!<BR/><BR/>Longtime lurker here, but never a poster. Anyway, I am always uplifted, encouraged and convicted by your posts. Please don't stop...unless, of course, the Lord should lead you to quit writing.<BR/><BR/>I, too, have struggled most of my adult life with the "why can't I have that?" 'that' usually being a husband and a house with a porch and a yard. I will take walks in the neighborhood where I live and fantasize that this or that house is mine and how it would look on the inside AND if I'm honest, what will all my friends think? The Lord has convicted me of covetousness and it's a great struggle with me. I had to confess it to Him and begin to really thank Him for the house He did give me(I rent). I try to remember daily that many, many people are without a home at all. Oh! how I struggle. And another thing, too? I am a manpleaser. I've always had a severe problem with wanting others to like me and when they don't it freaks me out. This desire(pride) has often lead to some sinful and disastrous choices. Instead of desiring to be pleasing to my Lord, I've let what others think of me become an idol. God is so good to show us the real state of our hearts, but the process, as you've said before, can be a painful one. <BR/><BR/>Thank you for being so transparent.<BR/><BR/>Libby in New OrleansAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528345693706381003.post-14490702241954166492009-03-17T13:34:00.000-04:002009-03-17T13:34:00.000-04:00Sue Great post, and glad you have written another ...Sue Great post, and glad you have written another post. I look back on my years in college football and what similar situations we were in! I would have had no desire to finish my 5 years without my relationship with jesus Christ! My first two years at West Ga. were my peak in college sports! I knew this before my 4th of 5 seasons! It was all a blessing to me! The lord gave me the strength through the pressures of being a QB, and then through the next chapter of my career, he gave me a peace in a less stressful position! I was Humbled! I look at those 5 years and would not have it any other way! I got to score a handful of TD's! I was on the top as a starting QB, and then I had to come to grips as a rotating TE in a spread offense! To this day I give thanks for this! I have never been a "superstar" and have gone through so many tears in sports, but I know that Christ is in controll and that is all that matters. <BR/><BR/>Thanks Sis for the post! Love ya!Bretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12933986781848210722noreply@blogger.com