Trust God

I wish I could say I never have problems, that I never have needs and that all
is perfect for me and my family.  However that is not the way life is.  Our family
has felt the brunt of the economy very much the same as everyone has.  Me,
well I just pray.  We have a house situation and are in real need of a larger home
but getting a mortgage is not easy these days and renting a home is almost as
hard to do.  We have found a home that we would really love to have.  All the
space we need.  So I have prayed and put this in God's hands.  Of course we will
do what we need to but it doesn't look possible right now.  Then I think on it and
recall a scripture:

Matthew 19:26
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all 
things are possible.”

So my hope is within God's hands and written in His word.  He knows what we 
can handle and he will send us in the right direction and to the right people.  The
example of this for me came last night.  My little Grandson has been sick and I 
was not feeling so well yesterday evening.  I had prayed for the baby and the rest
of the family.  Though I was still feeling a little down.  The telephone rang, a young
man from a very powerful ministry, "Breakthrough" thanked me for the small 
donation I had sent for the children's outreach,  but went on to say, "Do you or
your family need prayer today?"   I was so blessed by this.  This young man could have called at any given time over the last 2 months, but on the day that I needed
someone to pray for me and for my family, that is when the call came!  See how
great our God is?  He knows what you need right when you need it!  Praise God!
Trust God today with all you have, He is listening and watching and He is waiting.

I pray God will Bless you abundantly today and always!
 

The Cloud Moved

Philippians 2:11
Every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord

If you are a Christian this scripture should excite you.  If you are not a Christian

know that there will come a time that you will know this scripture was meant for 

you too.  If God said it and it is part of His word it is absolute truth.  I personally

am moved by this scripture.  

I made it through childhood and my teenage years with much prayer from my 

mother and awesome guidance from the word of God.  I strayed, I made mistakes,

yet God was always with me.  I married and had children and I taught them as my

mother taught me about God.  I was in my late twenties when I felt the call of God 

on my life.  Like many I was not quite sure exactly what God wanted from me.  I

belonged to an Assembles of God Church and was asked to teach Sunday School.

It was a blessing for me to teach the little ones.  Though I was not eased in my

spirit that this is what God wanted from me.  I prayed constantly,  hoping that God

would give me another direction if there was something else He wanted me to do.

When I would pray,  the scriptures of God appearing as a cloud over the people 

Moses was leading into Canaan would come to me.  "When the cloud moved, God 

was moving"   Then one night I had a dream, "There was a church service going on,

the people were quibbling among themselves.  The children were running around and climbing over seats and making noise.  I looked up at the Pastor in question only to see him step down from the pulpit and walk away.  I watched him walk all the way to the door and leave.  I stood and took my children by the hands and walked up the aisle to the door.  As I passed a woman in the church she said, "The Spirit of God has left this place!"  and I woke up.  I tried to shake the dream and could not.  I prayed and still

the scriptures of Moses following the cloud, which was God, kept coming to me.

Exodus 13: 21-22 (NIV) 

By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night. Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.

I finally went to the Pastor,  he shared some things with me and also confirmed that

the dream I had was probably a gift of prophesy from God.  It seems little Church I belonged was suffering some underlying issues that I was not aware of.  The conflict among the people was keeping everyone from fully giving God the worship He deserved and the knowledge the people did need to grow.   He also shared with me that the coming Sunday would be his last service in the church.  

I fully believe that God was leading me out of the church and that the dream I shared

with the Pastor was to let him know he was making the right decision.  The "Cloud"

was God and He wanted me to be somewhere that I could grow.  The dream was the

leaving of anarchy behind me.  In all of this I learned to listen and wait for what God wanted for me.  As with me God wants you to be where you grow and are blessed.  
He wants you to serve Him in the fullness of the scriptures.  I pray this is so for all 
who read this.

I pray today that God Blesses You Abundantly!

God and Me 2

I have let a few days pass since my last post.  I needed to do some pondering
and also allow the posts to sit.  Sometimes to much is just that...  to much.  I
have learned that things of God need to be meditated upon and thought through.
In todays world with everything being instantaneous we still need to ponder and
take our time with God.  There is no drive through service, He is a full course, sit 
down dinner and you need to savor every word. 
  
In Psalm 46:10 He says,  “Be still, and know that I am God " 

So take your time when you read His word, when you pray and when you praise.
God is a rewarder of those who seek Him and serve Him.  

When I became a teenager,  I was oh so rebellious.  I look back now and I feel so
sorry for my parents.  However they loved me through the hard times and gave
me the support I needed to become a responsible adult.  God did the same for me.
The one thing I found out as a young adult was that God was not looking at my out
side, He was looking at my inside.  He knew my heart.  I was brought up to think
that women could not wear pants, or make-up, listen to music, watch TV, go to a
movie, bare their arms in public or dance.  A lot of this was misconstrued man made
doctrine.  Like I said, I found out through His word that He loved me right where I 
was, just like I was.  I read in God's word, that David who God said was a man after 
His own heart, danced for the Lord.  That many times in the word when God was celebrated there was dancing.  I read in Solomon that women adorned themselves,
and that this was okay with God.  Essentially I found out how to serve my God,
Your God...  In His Word!  In this Holy Ghost inspired Book are the answers to how
and what God expects you to do.  This book, this manual that God gave us is over
2,000 years old and still applies to us today.  Amen!

I pray that God blesses you abundantly today and always!

   

God and Me 1

There was no tragic incident which led me to God in the beginning.  I was 8 years
old when the Holy Spirit touched my heart.  I prayed the prayer of salvation even
though I may not have fully understood it's magnitude.  I read what I could of the
Bible and listened intently at Sunday School and Church.  I prayed every day and
in my child like way I witnessed to whoever would listen.  I had no idea how long 
the road was  ahead of me and all I would learn over the years.  

My mother was my best teacher and she loved the Lord.  I would kneel beside her 
in church along with my 3 little brothers.  The spirit of God was so close to her you could feel Him.  She would lift her hands in praise and thanksgiving to Him, so I followed her example.  We were not a well to do family, heck we weren't even 
middle class.  But God always supplied what we needed.  She trusted in Him totally 
and sometimes when it seemed there was no way,  God blessed us and made a way.  
Her faith was strong and unwaivering.   My Dad though was not so yielding.  He was not a bad man,  on the contrary my Dad was a good and loving man.  He and my mother just had very different ideas about God.  I sometimes wonder if their 
differences of opinion kept us from receiving the full abundance of God.  In fact I am sure that it did.  My Mom was always praying for my Dad...  Yes, God did answer 
those prayers of hers but not til years later.  God knew when my Dad would be 
ready.  


Why am I writing  this little bit of Biography about myself.  I suppose so that when 
you read my Blogs you will know that I am a person that has followed a road much
like some who will read it.  So that it will be known that I have had to find my way
with God too.  That each scripture I post is because it has been personal and has
enriched my life as I hope it will yours.  I know from experience that there is not one
word of God that you can't apply to your life and know that it is for you...  the same 
as it was for me.  So read if you are interested.  Share if it Blesses you!

2 Corinthians 1:3-4(NIV)

 ³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, ⁴ who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 

 

 

I pray that God will Bless you abundantly today!

 

Prayer 7

I have written of prayer everyday this last week and I know how positive it is

for all that believe.   However to me the most powerful and rewarding prayer

is the prayer of confession to God of our sins and beliefs in Christ.  With this

prayer we are always given the gift of salvation.  Because it is a gift it is some-

thing we always will have.  It is a very emotional and rewarding experience.  

Some say that they can feel the weight of sin lift off of them.  Which is exactly

what happens.  Praying and inviting Christ into your live is an awesome 

experience.  This is when God has the absolute opportunity to move in our 

lives the way He should.  

Here are some scriptures for you to read and ponder on:

Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (KJV)

Romans 10:9-10 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (KJV)

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  (KJV)

John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.  (KJV)

Ephesians 2:7-9 
That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

(KJV)

You see it doesn't matter how good you are unless you ask for forgiveness  and 

confess Christ as Lord,   you are not saved.  

This prayer is what you need:

Father, I ask that you cleanse me from all sin and unrighteousness

I believe that Jesus was born of the virgen Mary and was crucified for us

That he rose from the dead and ascended into the heavens to be at your right hand

I confess this before you God and Man

Thank you Father God

In the Name of Christ Jesus

Amen

I hope you pray this prayer and I pray that God will bless you abundantly today!

 

Prayer 6

Does prayer really work?  If this question in on your mind because you don't
see the answer please read this.  Yes I believe that it does.  In my life I have seen 
many prayers answered.  Some have been almost instantaneous and some 
have been purely in God's timing.  Keep this scripture in mind when you pray:

2 Peter 3:8

8. But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a 

thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Let me share with you a personal experience of a very innocent prayer.  As my
children were growing up, I would sit beside their beds each night and read to 
them.  At the end of our reading sessions we would kneel beside the bed to pray.
We would pray this prayer:

Now I lay me down to sleep

I pray the Lord my soul to keep

If I should die before I wake

I pray the Lord

My soul to take!

In the name of Jesus, Amen

There was not a night that went by that we did not do this.  When my youngest 

son was 27 years old, he went to bed and died of a massive heart attack in his

sleep.  Do I believe that prayer was still there for him.  Yes I do.  That earnest

and innocent prayer of a child was not forgotten.  God used His time to answer 

that prayer.  He knew the minute it was spoken the first time when my son would

need the answer for that prayer. Just as He knows what you need when you ask.

So be patient when you pray.  Lay your prayer at the alter of God and trust that

He will answer when the time is right.  I believe that there is no prayer that goes 

unheard or unanswered.  We serve an awesome God!

I Pray That God Blesses You Abundantly Today And Always!

Prayer 5

Does God hear our prayers?  I believe the answer in yes.  Why would he not 
answer the prayers of His children.  We may not always get the answer we 
seek, but He does answer.  I also believe that "Praise and Prayer"  are of the 
utmost importance.  Letting God know that we worship Him and adore Him.  
That He is the driving force in our live.

How would you define a righteous man or woman?   Well the Synonyms  for 
"Righteous" are...    all right, decent, ethical, honest, honorable, just, moral, nice,
right, good, right minded, straight, true, upright and virtuous.  Though God knows 
we are not perfect.  This is why He sacrificed His only Son, so that we might
have an intercessor.  In His word it is written:
  

2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV)

²¹ God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 

So then we can find joy and peace in knowing that, Christ is our righteousness 
and God does hear our prayers.   Jesus in essence is our attorney who stands 
before God, our judge and pleads our case.   Because Jesus took all our sin 
upon Him our time has already been served...   He took our punishment.  If we 
believe.  

I am not a perfect person,  I do my best,  but I am always aware that I am 
made of flesh and blood and I do make mistakes.  So I ask for God's forgiveness 
daily.  Yes He hears our prayers!  Because when we believe when we pray,  God
will see the righteousness of Christ who takes away the sin of the world.

I Pray That God Will Bless You Abundantly Today And Always!