Many small blessings

In the past 2 months, God have given my family many small blessings since we started attending a local church more faithfully. We found a new "home" church that we felt like we are part of the family. Over the weekend, we became members of this local church. God even gave us more small blessings when we submitted to Him and faithfully put Him first in our lives. Our finances have improved and we are able to pay the bills on time while having enough cash flow to "save" for future expenses. My wife found a simple "part-time" job that she only will work while the kids are in school. She will be working for the school district, which therefore, she will not work when the kids do not have school. There are many other smaller blessings we have received from God that I could list but they are too long. One thing we have learned is that, joining a local church does not mean we are consciously loyal to a denomination and following the denomination's traditions. Because if we do, we lose the complete understanding of a true meaning of "Church" and "Worship". We have to worship in spirit (John 4:23-24). We are motivated to serve God by being part of this local Church ministries. We have started attending Sunday School classes, my wife started attending Women's Bible Study on Tuesdays and we are joining a "bible study group" within our age group this Sunday. I have been more motivated to read the scriptures more often and even pray more often (in many ways). I am having a personal relationship with God. Just because of my relationship with God every day, I am not willing to sin (my "problem sins" I was experiencing in the past when I was away from God during my "prodigal" period). In fact, I am repenting more frequent. I have a strong desire to be like David because he was a man after God's own heart (1 Samuel 13:14). For two reasons why David was a man after God's own heart: 1. David loved God with all of his heart and always tried to put God first. David honored God above all, including himself. 2. When confronted with sin, David habitually confessed his fault, turned from offense, and sought forgiveness (1 Sam. 25:32-35; 2 Sam. 11:27-12:23; 2 Sam. 24:10-14). David humbled himself and could say to God, "Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight." (Psalm 51:4) What made David a special man of God was a humble heart that freely admitted faults and continually sought after God. Read: Matthew 5:3-5 and 2 Corinthians 1:3-11