A STONE IN THE HEART

I would like to dedicate this blog to a someone that I was introduced to in the Lord today....It is a re-post of the same blog I wrote much earlier...His love and mine to you dear Jacqueline.....

THIS MORNING AS I WAS TAKING MY MORNING WALK...THE LORD, IN HIS USUAL WAY, HAS TO GET THROUGH TO ME BY COMPARING SOMETHING IN THE NATURAL TO THE SPIRITUAL.
I HAD A SMALL PEBBLE IN MY SHOE THAT WAS MAKING IT VERY PAINFUL TO WALK. I STOPPED SEVERAL TIMES TO TAP MY FOOT, TRYING TO SHAKE IT DOWN OUT OF THE WAY, UNTIL I COULD GET HOME AND DISPOSE OF IT.
BECAUSE I WAS WALKING THE DOG, AND THERE WASN'T ANYWHERE THAT I COULD STOP AND REMOVE MY SHOE, (AT LEAST THAT WAS MY EXCUSE) I CONTINUED ON TRYING TO IGNORE THE OBVIOUS IRRITATION.
I'VE BEEN ASKING THE LORD TO GIVE ME HIS INTERCEDING HEART...WHEN YOU ARE NEARLY SHUT AWAY WITH HIM...AND NOT OUT IN THE WORLD, YOU FEEL YOU ARE NOT IN TOUCH WITH IT'S PAIN AS YOU COULD BE...AND GOD FORGIVE ME...YOU GET INSENSITIVE TO THE NEEDS OF OTHERS.
THIS IS WHAT I THOUGHT WAS KEEPING ME FROM RECEIVING AN ANSWER TO THIS PRAYER...
THIS IS THE PICTURE THAT HOLY SPIRIT REVEALED IN MY MIND CONCERNING THIS...
"JOY...LISTEN! YOU PREPARED FOR THIS WALK, BY PUTTING ON YOUR SHOES...YOU DID NOT LOOK INSIDE TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANYTHING THAT COULD HINDER YOUR WALK. THE SMALLEST STONE CAN HINDER YOUR WALK WITH ME. LOOK INSIDE! LOOK INSIDE!
YES, I SAID THAT YOU COULD COME BOLDLY BEFORE MY THRONE...IN THIS I WILL COMMAND YOU TO REMOVE YOUR SHOES, FOR YOU WILL WALK ON HOLY GROUND...EVEN SO...TO WALK WITH ME, TO INTERCEDE WITH ME...YOU MUST LOOK FOR AND REMOVE THE STONES THAT MAY BE HIDING IN YOUR HEART.
YOU HAVE IGNORED THE STONE IN YOUR HEART, THINKING TO REMOVE IT LATER...
REMOVE IT NOW!....REMOVE IT NOW....STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING, AND REMOVE IT NOW!
THEN COME AND FEEL THE PAIN OF A BROKEN AND CONTRITE HEART...THAT WHICH IS MY OWN HEART THAT INTERCEDES IN YOUR BEHALF...AND THAT FOR THE WHOLE WORLD...

Swallowed Up

Lord, these two pictures struck my heart in a strange way this evening...the first one made me feel lost and swallowed up...like I feel in this world most of the time...I see people full of life and comfortable in their skin...they communicate well with others and are very knowledgeable...some aren't even Christians...and here I am some particle of dust in the unimaginable and measure-less expanses of human life...an empty brain...no purpose...no aspirations...just the endless longing of the your green pastures, your quiet waters of peace.

Today, we stopped for a quick burger...and I could hardly stand the noise and chatter...it was garbled and irritating...getting on the internet and seeing the endless and numberless attempts at sharing testimonies (and my own) personal relationship with you...their convictions, their interpretations...on and on...works, works, works...

"Restore my soul Lord"...hear my cry...Break me, crush me in your hand and make me into that vessel that once received Your Holy Word, that was filled with Your Holy Spirit Word...that Word that was poured out and running over...bring me to that secret place, in the deeps of my heart...come sanctuary in me, be my dwelling place...I have nothing else to say...Let my only words, be your very own...words of Life and Love and Grace...

I cannot live, if you do not Come my Lord...I am worthless without you...I love you, with such pitiful love...but it is all that I have...I give you all that I have...Be my vision, my revelation, my one desire....Bless everyone and anyone who hears what I am saying and is crying out to you for the answer to this same prayer, in Your Holy Name......jOY

LORD...GIVE US EARS THAT HEAR...AND HEARTS TO RECIEVE

"ARISE, AWAKE!...AWAKE!...COME AWAY MY BELOVED, NOW IS THE TIME TO COME AWAY...COME NEAR TO ME, EVEN INTO MY ARMS. LISTEN, LISTEN, AND YOU WILL HEAR MY VERY HEART BEAT. DO YOU FEEL MY TEARS FALLING UPON YOUR FLESH...UPON YOUR FLESH?...I HAVE TOLD YOU THAT FLESH AND BLOOD WILL NOT INHERIT MY KINGDOM... I WANT YOU TO BE FLESH OF MY FLESH AND BONE OF MY BONE...I WANT YOU TO FEEL MY TEARS UPON YOUR SPIRIT...MY SPIRIT AS FALLING RAIN UPON A THIRSTY GROUND...I DESIRE TO GIVE YOU OF MY INCREASE...BE PREPARED, BE READY, BE STILL

I HAVE SEEN YOUR DEVOTION, YOUR HEART ON FIRE...

MY BELOVED...I WOULD HAVE YOU LIFT YOUR HEAD AND BEHOLD MY BROKEN BODY..THE WOUNDS IN MY HAND, THE WOUNDS IN MY FEET, THE WOUND IN MY SIDE..

MY PRECIOUS ONE, LOOK, LOOK, LOOK AGAIN...MY WORK ON THE CROSS WAS FINISHED...WHAT YOU SEE IS THE BROKEN LIVES OF MY CHILDREN...THEIR HANDS, THEIR FEET, THEIR SIDES PIERCED FOR MY SAKE...THEIR SUFFERINGS ARE BUT THE FEAR THAT COMES FROM WALKING IN DARKNESS. THEIR ENEMIES ARE DEAF AND BLIND...TWICE DEAD. MY CHILDREN HAVE TAKEN THE HAND OF THEIR ENEMIES TO LEAD THEM...AND BOTH WALK ABOUT IN THE DARKNESS, THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND...

BUT I TELL YOU THIS...MY LIGHT IS COME, AND THE BRANCHES OF THE VINE WILL BURN AND NOT BE CONSUMED...

BELOVED BRANCH OF THE VINE, THE FIRE YOU FEEL IN YOUR HEART IS MY CONSUMING FIRE...SEE,.... YOU ARE NOT CONSUMED...THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I HAVE MADE WITH MY BELOVED WHO WILL TURN ASIDE AND APPROACH ME...

NOW TAKE OFF YOUR FLESHLY SHOES, SO THAT YOU MAY WALK ON HOLY GROUND...YES, YOUR WORKS YOUR IMAGININGS, YOUR FEARS...

FEAR NOT...DOUBT NOT...

COME BOLDLY BEFORE ME...

LEAN NOT TO YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING

TRUST ME, AS I PREPARE YOU FOR THE WORK

THAT I AM ABOUT TO DO

BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD.

EPHISIANS 3:16-21

Dear God:I want to thank You for what you have already done.I am not going to wait until I see results or receive rewards, I am thanking you right now.

I am not going to wait until I feel better or things look better, I am thanking you right now.

I am not going to wait until people say they are sorry or until they stop talking about me, I am thanking you right now.

I am not going to wait until the pain in my body disappears, I am thanking you right now.

I am not going to wait until my financial situation improves, I am going to thank you right now.

I am not going to wait until the children are asleep and the house is quiet, I am going to thank you right now.

I am not going to wait until I get promoted at work or until I get the job,I am going to thank you right now.

I am not going to wait until I understand every experience in my life that has caused me pain or grief, I am going to thank you right now.

I am not going to wait until the journey gets easier or the challenges are removed. I am thanking you right now.

I am thanking you because I am alive. I am thanking you because I made it through the day's difficulties. I am thanking you because I have walked around the obstacles. I am thanking you because I have the ability and the opportunity to do more and do better. I'm thanking you because Father, you haven't given up on me.........Author Unknown

LORD BE THE GATE KEEPER OF OUR MOUTHS

Understand this: No prophecy of Scripture is to be interpreted by an individual on his own; for never has a prophecy come as a result of human willing - on the contrary, people moved by the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) spoke a message from God. (2 Peter 1:20-21)

** But the person who has the Spirit can evaluate everything, while no one is in a position to evaluate Him. For who has known the mind of ADONAI? Who will counsel Him? But we have the mind of the Messiah! (1 Corinthians 2:15)

LORD, STRENGTHEN US IN OUR WAITING...WE HALT IN BEING QUICK IN THE LAYING ON OF HANDS...IN SPEAKING A WORD OUT OF SEASON...

GIVE US YOUR DISCERNMENT LORD...THE GIFT OF KNOWLEDGE THAT SURPASSES OUR OWN AND IS ABOVE OUR OWN THINKING AND WAY...MAY WE SURRENDER IN OBEDIENCE.... FOLLOWING AFTER YOU BLESSED SHEPHERD AND KING...LET YOUR ROD AND STAFF GUIDE US IN THE WAY...LET OUR LIPS BE FILLED WITH HIGH PRAISES AND JOY EVER MORE...AMEN

THE ONLY WAY OUT OF DARKNESS

The Secret Place...a place where only my thoughts and inspiration is a galaxy unto itself before the Light of God's fellowship.
Where do my thoughts come from?
What is it that inspires me...
Somehow a word gives power to create...
and for me it creates Light...
and the Light frees me from the darkness...
I am no longer alone...
The Light goes before me...and I will not turn and go back into the darkness...
There is peace in the Light...there is Hope in the Light...There is Rest in the Light...
Not the light of knowledge...not the light of man's wisdom...not the light that turns to darkness...
But that Day Star that rises in the soul...
Where the Creator commands, "LET THERE BE LIGHT"
A Knowing...
It is the Spirit Word...the very Breath of God...
He alone can bring your broken heart, your broken spirit ...perhaps broken in mind and body... helpless and hopeless...
just reach out and ask Him to lift you into His Light...
Your life may be void and seem to have no purpose...
I'm not going to try to convince you that you've believed a lie...but you have...
or prove to you that what I'm saying is the Truth...
But I have told you of the Truth...He is the Truth...He is the Way...the Light and Life Eternal...
It's His work to draw you to Himself...and just now, I ask that He do that...
Are you willing to turn and walk into His Light...Are you willing to accept the fact that He has paid the price for you to be set you free from the powers of sin in your life?..
He does not blackmail you with condemnation of your sin...to get you to become a proselyte...
He only stands before you in the Holiness of who He is and offers you the only way out of Darkness...To free you from the penalty of death...because of the sin of disobedience that required a blood sacrifice to be free of the penalty...
Not the sacrifice of animals, or human life, or payment of any kind...
it would not change your heart...or deliver you from the BONDAGE OF THE HUMAN NATURE...
Only HIS SACRIFICIAL BLOOD which He shed on the cross of Calvary was sufficient to deliver us from this bondage...
IT WAS LOVE THAT PAID THE PRICE!
All you have to do is SURRENDER...
All you have to do is Confess...that He is Lord, that He is King, that You are His, as unworthy as you may feel, as filthy as you may feel, as numb as you may feel...as hopeless as you may feel...
Call out to Him..."Jesus, Jesus, Jesus."
Then wait...believing that He wants to take you as His own...to make you brand new, and give you the power of His Holy Spirit Word, that you may become a son or daughter of His...
Your works won't do anything for you...what you think you know, won't do anything for you...begging, pleading, crying, cursing,
Just let go...He sees your heart, He knows your mind, your motives, your ego, your emotions, your excuses...
All He wants, is you...to Love and be a part of the Life that has always been in Him from the beginning...
A Life He wants you to want...
A Life He wants you to choose.............................jOY

WHEN HEALING COMES

Apr 26, '10 7:30 PM for everyone

LORD, I WANT TO BRING BEFORE YOU THOSE WHO ARE REACHING OUT FOR HEALING IN THEIR LIVES...
THOSE ON BEDS OF SICKNESS, THAT FIND IT HARD EVEN TO PRAY, THEY HAVE BECOME SICK EVEN IN THEIR HEART AND MIND, THE SOUL AND SPIRIT...FEELING NUMB, DISHEARTENED, AND IN SOME CASES, JUST DON'T CARE ANYMORE.

I COME AGAINST THE ENEMY OF THEIR SOULS WHO DESIRES TO DESTROY THEM...WHO BEATS THEM DOWN WITH LIES AND PAIN AND HOPELESSNESS...
COME TO THEM..."NOW"...EVEN NOW LORD...REACH DOWN IN YOUR MERCY AND GRACE...IN THIS THEY WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE GOD...BECAUSE THEY ARE HEALED, YES...BUT MORE TO THE POINT...THAT THEY ARE LOVED AND NOT FORSAKEN...
FOR THOSE WHO MUST SUFFER AFFLICTION...BE THEIR COMFORT, LET YOUR FAITH REMAIN IN THEM TO STRENGTHEN AND SUSTAIN THEM...
SURROUND THEM WITH ANGELS OF MERCY, AND TRUE COMPASSION...
LORD SURROUND THEM WITH YOUR EVERLASTING ARMS...AND THE JOY OF YOUR PRESENCE THAT WILL INFUSE THEM WITH THE STRENGTH OF EAGLES, THAT THEY MAY WALK AND NOT BE WEARY, RUN AND NOT FAINT...
YOU ARE OUR HEALING LORD...AND THOUGH YOU SLAY US, YET WILL WE SERVE YOU...FOR YOU ARE THE GOD OF LIFE! HERE IN ME, AND FOREVER MORE...AMEN

IF YOU COULD SEE WHERE I CAME FROM

LORD, THANK YOU FOR THIS MORNING...THANK YOU FOR PREPARING MY HEART AND MIND TO FACE THIS DAY...I AM AT YOUR MERCY TO RECEIVE YOUR GRACE...

EVEN IN MY WEAKNESS, YOU CALLED ME TO LAY BEFORE YOU MY HEART

YOU ENCAMPED ABOUT MY SOUL AND SPOKE IN A STILL SMALL VOICE

YOU ALONE HAVE RENT THE VEIL OF MY HEART AND MIND

THE WIND OF YOUR SPIRIT BLOWS THERE FREELY

COMING AND GOING AS YOU WILL

YOU SHOW ME THE PATH OF LIFE

AND IN YOUR PRESENCE IS FULLNESS OF JOY

AT YOUR RIGHT HAND ARE PLEASURES EVERMORE

YOU FEED ME THE BREAD THAT THE WORLD KNOWS NOT OF

YOU, MY LORD ARE THAT LIVING BREAD

ALL GIFTS AND PROPHESYING WILL CEASE

AND THOUGH I UNDERSTAND ALL MYSTERIES

IF I DO NOT HAVE MY BEING IN YOU

I AM NOTHING

EVEN IF I HAD ALL FAITH AND COULD MOVE MOUNTAINS

WITHOUT YOU, I AM NOTHING

FOR IN YOU ALONE I CAN BEAR ALL THINGS

BELIEVE ALL THINGS

HOPE ALL THINGS

ENDURE ALL THINGS

ALL ELSE WILL CEASE AND FADE AWAY

BUT YOU, MY LORD, REMAIN

YOUR WORD REMAINS FOREVER

YOU ARE THAT LIVING WORD

YOU DWELL IN MY HEART

I LONG TO KNOW YOU

EVEN AS I AM KNOWN

TO PUT AWAY ALL CHILDISH THINGS

AND STAND PLEASING IN YOUR SIGHT

THANK YOU LORD FOR WALKING WITH ME THIS MORNING

FOR CAUSING ME TO MEASURE HOW FAR YOU'VE BROUGHT ME

IN THIS JOURNEY OF FAITH, THIS JOURNEY OF LIFE

FOR REJOICING TOGETHER OVER SAINTS MADE PERFECT

FOR THE CLOUD OF WITNESSES WHO REJOICE AND GIVE

PRAISE BEFORE YOUR THRONE

THANK YOU FOR THE BEAUTY OF YOUR FINISHED WORK

FOR APPOINTING TO US BEAUTY FOR ASHES

THE OIL OF GLADNESS FOR MOURNING

A GARMENT OF PRAISE FOR THE SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS;

THAT WE MIGHT BE CALLED THE TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

THE PLANTING OF THE LORD

THAT YOU MIGHT BE GLORIFIED MY LORD

YOU ARE THE VINE

I AM BUT AN EXTENDED BRANCH OF YOU

FROM AGE TO AGE THE SAME

THAT I MIGHT BEAR FRUIT UNTO SALVATION

FOR AS THE EARTH BRINGS FORTH HER BUD

AND AS THE GARDEN CAUSES THE THINGS THAT ARE GROWN

IN IT TO SPRING FORTH; SO YOU MY LORD GOD, WILL CAUSE

RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PRAISE TO SPRING FORTH BEFORE

THE NATIONS.

I AM "NOW" CENTERED IN YOU

RELYING ON YOU

LISTENING TO YOU

WAITING ON YOU

SPEAK LORD, EVEN AS YOU WALKED WITH ME IN YESTERDAY'S GARDEN

YESTERDAY'S GARDEN....

I WALKED THROUGH YESTERDAY'S GARDEN

I'VE WALKED THERE MANY A TIME

NOW IT'S LIFELESS AND EMPTY

WHERE WEEDS AND POISON IVY CLIMB

YET THE ECHOS OF SONGS THROUGH THE AGES PAST

THOSE SWEET HALLOWED HYMNS OF PRAISE

REVERBERATE STILL ALL AROUND ME

IN SO MANY CHERISHED WAYS

"PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW"

STILL RESTS UPON MY TONGUE

I HEAR IT STILL WITHIN MY HEART

IT NEEDS BE EVER SUNG

SUNG WITH HALLELUJAHS

SUNG WITH GREAT AMENS

SUNG WITH GLORIOUS LONGING

WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS

SO I'LL LISTEN ER SO CLOSELY

TO LOVE'S SWEET, FAMILIAR REFRAINS

AND THANK THE GOD OF HEAVEN

AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN

AS I WALKED IN YESTERDAY'S GARDEN

I WALKED AND TALKED WITH HIM

AND REMEMBERED YESTERDAY'S BLOSSOMS

THAT BLOOMED THERE JUST FOR HIM

THEY TOLD OF THE OLD, OLD STORY

OF JESUS AND HIS LOVE

THEIR PRAISES, STILL TRIUMPHANT

NOW IN HEAVENLY REALMS ABOVE

THOUGH FLOWERS FADE BEFORE ME

THEIR FRAGRANCE FILLS MY DAY

EVEN THROUGH DESERT WASTE LAND

THOSE GARDENS OF YESTERDAY

I'LL LISTEN EVER SO CLOSELY

FOR LOVE'S SWEET MELODIOUS REFRAIN

AND THANK THE GOD OF HEAVEN

AGAIN, AND AGAIN AND AGAIN

LORD YOU ARE THE JOY OF MY SALVATION

LORD; LET YOUR JOY REMAIN IN ME__THAT MY JOY MIGHT BE FULL.

NOT THE JOY OF HAPPINESS AS WE KNOW IT. BUT THE JOY THAT WAS YOUR OWN__

THE ABSOLUTE SURRENDER TO YOUR FATHER, THE GIVING OF YOURSELF TO DO ALL THAT HE HAD CALLED YOU TO DO. EVEN IN WAITING, EVEN IN NOT KNOWING, BUT IN TRUST AND FAITH.

TEACH ME THE MEANING OF THIS JOY MY LORD. LET MY HEART REJOICE IN YOUR WORD, THOUGHT AND THE WAY OF YOUR PERFECT WILL__WITHOUT LEANING TO MY OWN UNDERSTANDING AND REASONING OF THINGS.

IN HEALTH, RELATIONSHIPS, FINANCES, OR SUCCESS__LET ME NOT MEASURE MY JOY IN THESE EXTERNAL HAPPENINGS, BUT IN COMMUNION AND RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU MY LORD.

I AM SO EASILY SELF-CONCIOUS__AND AS ONE HAS SAID, "A SANCTIFIED PRIG. OH LORD, EVEN MY GOD LET IT NOT EVER BE SO.

LET MY LIFE BE LIVED JOYOUSLY HID IN YOU. NATURALLY BREATHING IN YOUR SPIRIT, WALKING IN THAT SPIRIT, AND BREATHING IT BACK OUT IN UNCONSCIOUS JOY UPON OTHERS.

"PEACE BE STILL"

Lord, I'm as still as I know how to be.
Open my eyes that I might truly see,
that knowing you is not how I feel.
Feeling will never make you real.
When I am empty there echos in me,
sighing and groanings my feelings
can't see...
Goanings that press to be ever heard.
But no human language has a word.
So look my Lord on this yearning heart,
who has come to be quiet
and set apart...
"Be still", you've commanded,
Now I obey.
Make me still like the storm
you commanded one day.
That I might know truly
on bended knee,
That Faith is the substance
of what I can't see.....JEL

How often I have had great hunger or desire to do something and to be absolutely incapable of action upon that set thing, either by being physically, emotionally, or spiritually bound in such a way, that would render me helpless.

Lord, only in your fullness will I ever be able to fully appreciate and experience with confidence and grace, the faith that comes from your love and mercy.....It is your Holy Spirit revealing you in my heart that stirs the hunger, that brings forth the desire, even when I may feel spiritually bound......it is the call to worship, not to confess defeat...It is the time for rejoicing...as You soften my heart in the "Secret Place.".....

Lord, I believe that there are sounds that fill the heavens, that the human ears cannot hear....and it is the sounds of myriads of angels and heavenly hosts....the sounds of countless saints made perfect, along with those whose hearts ever sing the praises of your Majesty, power and grace...

Change us Lord, from glory to glory, even to your image....Transport us Lord, as we learn to walk in your Spirit into heavenly places....Heal us and restore us....conciliate us as your "New Creation"... we long to walk, worthy of you Lord....at one with you....glorifying you...ministering unto you....Teach us by Holy Spirit, the deep worship of you that satisfies your own longing.....even as the Bride longs to satisfy her Groom.......................

Let Your Word Lord dwell in us richly, in all wisdom; as we teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in our hearts to you Lord.
Colossians 3:16 / KJV

SENIOR VERSION OF "JESUS LOVES ME"

Here is a new version just for us who have white hair or no hair at all. For us over middle age (or even those almost there) and all you others, check out this newest version of Jesus Loves Me.

JESUS LOVES ME Jesus loves me, this I know,

Though my hair is white as snow

Though my sight is growing dim,

Still He bids me trust in Him.

(CHORUS)

YES, JESUS LOVES ME..

YES, JESUS LOVES ME..

YES, JESUS LOVES ME,

FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO.

Though my steps are oh, so slow,

With my hand in His I'll go

On through life, let come what may,

He'll be there to lead the way.

(CHORUS)

When the nights are dark and long,

In my heart He puts a song..

Telling me in words so clear,

"Have no fear, for I am near."

(CHORUS)

When my work on earth is done,

And life's victories have been won.

He will take me home above,

Then I'll understand His love.

(CHORUS)

I love Jesus, does He know?

Have I ever told Him so?

Jesus loves to hear me say,

That I love Him every day.

(CHORUS)

BEHOLDING YOUR SPIRIT, LORD

Lord, this is the view I see with my spirit eyes...Your Word, the song of it, the Life of it is ever before me...to meditate, to study, to listen to, from the flesh's aspect, it never satisfies this perpetual longing in my heart for You. My heart cries, "Oh that I might know You and the power of Your resurrection!....Fill me Lord, even to overflowing...let Your Living Waters flow up to the banks for those thirsting after You, even as I....

"Let not your longing bring you to a halt...you could not see what you see unless you saw it through my own eyes...the eyes of my Spirit who reveals me and moves your heart to longing after me...

And it is so...to draw water out of the well...even springs of Living Water, welling up from within you....Behold My Spirit revealing Me...My Word, My Song, My Praise..........Now! launch out into the deep and let down your net for a draught!"

Quote; from a sister in the Lord......... "Now, more than ever, we must learn to step into Him and pull away from the chaos and confusion of this world. In Him is where we find our peace and all the answers we need to face every situation in our lives. We must learn to linger in His presence and breathe the aroma of His love. Then we will be able to exhale His love into the lives of other’s. In the safety of His everlasting arms, we are fully equipped with the ability to become the very nature of Him and exude the aroma of His love."Ephesians 5:2, “And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling aroma.”Lingering in His presence...God bless you and yours,In His service,Terri

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Happy Mother's Day to

each of you mothers.

***********************

"Who can find a virtuous

woman? for her price is

far above rubies.....The heart of her husband safely trusts in her, so that he fears no spoil....She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life....She seeks the materials needed to produce what's needed for the family, working willingly with her hands...She also seeks out what's needed to feed her family...rising early, even while it is yet night, preparing and feeding the family and her servants....

Did I just read that right?....she fed the servants?....Wow!...that's a revelation....sounds like something my Lord would do....

She considers a piece of property, and buys it, and with the fruit of her hands she plants it....

Sounds like she manages the purse strings...do you think?She girds her loins with strength and strengthens her arms...she is confident in her gifts and abilities and that what she does is good for her family...she stays up all hours to finish her work for them....In all that she does she does not forget the poor and extends her hands forth to the needy...In the Winter months she sees to it that her family has warm garments to wear...and she presents herself in gracious and godly apparel...her husband being known among the elders of the community...she rules her house well with provision and through the merchandising of her labors...and she is clothed with the strength and honor of it...knowing it will make her rejoice in the coming days....She opens her mouth with wisdom; and to her tongue is the law of kindness....she looks well to the ways of her household, and is never lazy....Her children rise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he gives her praise......There are many other women who are good wives....But a godly woman excels them all.....Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that fears the Lord, she shall be praised........Give her of the fruit of her labors; and let her own works praise her in the community....

Proverbs 31:10-31

Deep calls to deep in the sound of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life. Psalms 42:7-8

Lord; Someone who completely broke my heart and my trust has contacted me again...

I couldn't even open their e-mail. I remember how painful it was, for so long, in trying to forgive and forget.

And now I'm wondering if I've done either one....I know I have to forgive completely...to release the fear of what was said and done happening again...I know I probably will never forget...their may always be the scars...the thorn in the flesh, as it were, to remind me that You are the only one that can deliver me from the bondage of my spirit to unforgiving and resentment of any kind.

What great Love has delivered me from the bondage and power of sin in my own life....You want me to know the freedom of what complete forgiveness means...and I won't until I am made conformable to your death.

I can sit here at this computer and mouth off about how I should do this thing...what you expect from me...BUT...I must be truly WILLING...and...WANTING TO.

I will never have peace...with myself, with you or the person who hurt me until I do.

Help me Lord...help me to see the futility of carrying grudges...of wanting revenge...to be validated or the one in the right...to prove anything...What ever my reasons or excuses may be to continue in this state of unrest of my soul and spirit...None of these things will bring me justice or peace...and it actually inhibits the one that I am not forgiving.

I have head knowledge of your Word concerning what I should do....

Ephesians 4:32 says, "to be kind and compassionate toward those who have wronged us...forgiving each other, just as you forgave us."

You have told me that if I forgive the one who has sinned against me, that you will forgive me. Matthew 6:14

I remember when Peter came to you asking, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother (or sister) who has sinned against me? Up to seven times? And then you Lord answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times." Matthew 18:21-22

You said that LOVE....COVERS....a MULTITUDE OF SINS...that if I forgive, then you will forgive......Lord have I kept this one who has been seeking forgiveness, from be forgiven, because I thought I had, and had not....and now you are making a way for them and me...because of your great love for us both?

FORGIVE ME LORD!

for keeping them in a state of wanting forgiveness and not being able to find it, and for any pain that I may have caused them...

I release them of all wrong doing Lord...I forgive them...for their sake, for my sake...and for your names sake...that Love might reign in our lives, even according to your Word.

Lord I ask...that this thing that I do, be sincere, and done in YOUR LOVE.

I remember....and not so long ago...that you asked me this question, when another hurt me...."jOY....are you willing to let this person be right even when you know they are wrong?.....

My answer was....Lord, I cannot do this until you show me the same lesson of Calvary's Love........."Father, forgive them...for they know not what they do."