We pray that God’s glory will rest upon you each day.
Numbers 6:24-27
Ancient Hebrew: Yahweh (he who exists) will kneel before you presenting gifts and will guard you with a hedge of protection, Yahweh (he who exists) will illuminate the wholeness of his being toward you bringing order and he will provide you with love, sustenance and friendship, Yahweh (he who exists) will lift up his wholeness of being and look upon you and he will set in place all you need to be whole and complete.
Desperately wanting to just find a way
Searching and seeking for someone to say
That its alright and its ok
Like I know you can
That its alright and its ok
Like I know you can
(Chorus)
You alone are God
I am yours and you are mine
And I know the heavens will call out your name
If I don’t
I close my eyes
And I drift away
To a place I remember
To a place I feel safe
Where its alright and its ok
Cause I’m there in your arms
Where its alright and its ok
Cause I’m there in your arms
You alone are God
I am yours and you are mine
And I know the heavens will call out your name (repeat)
(Bridge)
You forgive me
You accept me
Just as I am
And you love me
And you want me
To understand
Personally I find dry seasons as the best and worst of times in my walk with God.
It is the best time because I keep pressing and pressing to draw closer to Him.
It is the worst of times because God appears to be distant from me. ..
My prayer life during these times appears to be dry, parched, and cracked. Just like the ground weeks after rainy season in Africa. The earth cries out for healing rain that will restore the richness of the earth.
My soul cries out for the Holy Spirit to come in and heal the dry, parched and cracked areas of my soul. There are places in my soul that I didn’t think needed healing.
My soul cries our for God to forgive me, to heal the pain.
My soul cries out for the ever present richness of God as the restorer of my soul. The Holy Spirit raining down on my soul will bring the rich healing I can’t find that healing anywhere else.
I’ve learned that by trying to hold onto people, places or things from my past–I hinder God from doing a work in me.
I’ve learned that God’s Will for my life right now is all that matters.
Colossians 3: 1-3
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
I want my life to be hidden in Christ. I want my mind set on things above.
As the writer of the song, “You Alone” sings:
“And I know the heavens will call out your name If I don’t”
*smile*
I’m going to continue calling out His Name in praise.
Where God began to speak to me, and I was no longer caged.
To the fear.
Of the unknown.
Because God is known.
He is my source.
It’s been a long time since David or I wrote anything on the site. We’ve missed you all! So much has happened in our lives over the past few months. We’ve just been plain busy growing in our walks with God, enjoying our family and friends, working hard and living life. Check out our updated prayer list, ministry and finance needs.
This evening, David asked me to write something inspirational.
The first thing that comes to my mind is:
2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is [fn] inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for [fn] training in righteousness; so that every man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
Over the years, people have told him that he can’t carry a tune. That he’s tone deaf.
The first time I heard him sing it was music to my ears. He was praising God. He began with a whistle, then broke into a quiet melody. He forgot himself and got louder. When he realized I was listening he stopped…
He made some comments laughing at himself that he knows he can’t carry a tune. He wasn’t going to sing in front of me any longer.
I didn’t want him to stop. His singing was music to my ears. I told him so.
To this day I still love to hear him sing.
My friend sings a different tune than me. We view life from different angles. I love when we allow our differences to compliment each other. It hurts deeply when we allow our differences to place a wedge between us.
When we sin we place a wedge in our relationship with God.
It hurts God and our relationship with Him when we sin.
Guess what–God has feelings. He hurts when we sin. He doesn’t want our relationship to have a wedge.
The beginning of this cartoon is significant. The baby owls are born and one is very different. His outlandish difference causes his Papa to speak negative names over him and his Mama to faint. The are horrified that he is so different.
The Papa says: “Don’t worry Mama, we will teach him to sing like we want him to.”
That statement has a LOT of meaning. It could possibly be understood that they will raise him with Godly wisdom and understanding–or allow man’s fleshly ignorance and regimented conformity to stop him from experiencing a personal relationship with God.
We can see where the latter has gotten our world. There’s not many people who believe in God let alone know what it is to experience a personal relationship with God.
I’m going to stop here for now and go to bed… more to come tomorrow.
I love to laugh. I love to laugh with my best friend.
My best friend is one of the funniest people I know.
Today’s video and post is for my best friend.
“Always reach for the stars. Don’t ever let anyone tell you your ideas are foolish or crazy. One day you will see the fruit of your God-inspired ideas.”
John 15:15 “No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
I had the most interesting conversation today with a wonderful man of God.
Our conversation began with “how was your weekend?” and flowed to Canada trouncing the US to take the gold in men’s ice hockey.
I shared how I was personally disappointed with the behavior of several athletes before, during and after the medal competitions.
This Winter Olympics provided the athletes and fans the ability to text, tweet, and post real time happenings through mobile device media sources. The world shared in real time victories, hero and heroine stories, the agony of defeat, and sadly in some cases not so wisely made comments, questionable celebration photos posted on facebook, twitter and et al that is available through the web.
We shared our thoughts concerning Benny and Sue Hinn and the divorce they are facing.
We talked about examples and those held to higher standards.
Luke 12:48 “But people who are not aware that they are doing wrong will be punished only lightly. Much is required from those to whom much is given, and much more is required from those to whom much more is given.”
He then shared with me a testimony, he gave a few weeks ago at a Christian business men’s breakfast. This particular time, instead of placing the glory on the sin and how he is saved by God from the sin–he spoke about what could have happened to him had it not been for God’s grace on his life.
His testimony made me think.
I thought long and hard, and am still thinking.
Where would I be right now, if it weren’t for God’s hand of grace on my life?
What he shared was true repentance, a genuine love for God. He doesn’t follow man. He doesn’t place man on a pedestal.
He places God first and foremost in his life.
His understanding of God’s grace on his life changed him forever.
I began to think some more.
I asked myself have I really changed.
Does my own life glorify God?
Do I really understand the meaning of grace, God’s unmerited favor and how He provides it to me in my life.
I could be burning in hell at this moment–but because of God’s grace, He allows me the opportunity to change my ways and commit my ways to Him.
What areas of my life do I take advantage of God’s grace? What are the areas I know I have to change–yet don’t make the effort to begin change.
What people, places and things do I continue to surround my life around that take me away from placing God first in my life?
If God stripped away everyone and everything from me, and I had nothing in this physical world–would I still seek to follow Him?
Would I still praise God?
Would I still fully understand that His grace is sufficient in every situation?
Would I be able to say: whatever my lot, thou has taught me to say, it is well, it is well in my soul!
Psalm 103
Our prayer for you today is that God will open your heart to learn and understand His grace over your life. That He will provide a never ending well of His love to bring healing and comfort where it is needed. That He will give you a peace that surpasses all understanding and that no matter what your lot, it will be well in your soul.
In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight.
This post is for someone very special and near to my heart.
To all of you it is a time of deep healing and reconciliation in a part of my soul that has been hurt for a very long time. Only only God can heal this hurt.
I want you all to know that God IS healing me because I am allowing God to take this open wound and finally let it be healed by Him.
The person who is very special and near to my heart knows that God is healing me, and has been praying for me to heal for a very long time.
So I say to this person, God is answering your prayers…
Thank you for being obedient to God and never giving up praying that this deep wound in me would be healed.
You are the best…
2 Corinthians 5:17-21Therefore if anyone is in Christ, {he is} a new creature; the old things passed away;behold, new things have come. Now all {these} things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin {to be} sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Enjoy the our trip pics while listening to the video!
We love you with the love of Christ,
David and Ann Marie
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David or I wrote anything on the site. We’ve missed you all! So much has happened in our lives over the past few months. We’ve just been plain busy growing in our walks with God, enjoying our family and friends, working hard and living life. Check out our updated prayer list, ministry and finance needs.
