Saturday, July 18, 2009
A Good Day
I am having a very good day today. Started new herbs on Thursday and seeing a big difference today. Praise God!
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Changes Reinforced With Hugs
Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives, is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see. ~Corrie Ten Boom
Today was a good day--not that it should be otherwise. I woke up with this in my spirit: There are always two ways to look at any situation--with an unthankful or a thankful attitude.
I am thankful for my best friend Jesus. We met for the first time thirteen years ago today. It was 10 days after my husband, Rich, and I were married. It happened at a three day motivational business seminar at the Sunday morning meeting. At this time I would like to publicly thank some very dear friends God placed in our paths--Ralph and Carrie Roeger--for inviting us to that meeting. It changed our lives for eternity. We are thankful and eternally grateful. We haven't seen them in years but they remain in our prayers. Their footprints are imbedded in our hearts. Their hugs are eternal.
My daughter and family just bought a house not far from us and moved my mother down from Virginia to live with them. They came to see me today. The woman who held me under her heart before I entered the world got to wrap her arms around me and hug me for the first time in almost three years. Priceless moments are easy to be thankful for. Being closer now they will not be so far between. I am thankful for that closeness once again. I had three generations of hugs today-my mother, daughter, and granddaughters. These times are so easy to be thankful.
When my husband and I are lying in bed tonight, I know our evening prayers will be extra special. We are thankful for our relationship with our LORD everyday but today marks the day I realized He had always loved me. I found out He first loved me. I didn't choose Him; He chose me first. Through all the mud of sin in my first thirty-seven and a half years of life, He loved me and showed me mercy. He had plans for me and the beauty of it all is everyday He enfolds a new page in the God story He is writing me into. Physically, the story is daunting. Spiritually it is beyond imagination. But He holds me in His hands. Gently, He hugs me and whispers (as I did to my granddaughter this morning) you are my precious princess and I love you with all my heart for all eternity. It doesn't get any better than that! Or at least not on this earth anyway.
Today was a good day--not that it should be otherwise. I woke up with this in my spirit: There are always two ways to look at any situation--with an unthankful or a thankful attitude.
I am thankful for my best friend Jesus. We met for the first time thirteen years ago today. It was 10 days after my husband, Rich, and I were married. It happened at a three day motivational business seminar at the Sunday morning meeting. At this time I would like to publicly thank some very dear friends God placed in our paths--Ralph and Carrie Roeger--for inviting us to that meeting. It changed our lives for eternity. We are thankful and eternally grateful. We haven't seen them in years but they remain in our prayers. Their footprints are imbedded in our hearts. Their hugs are eternal.
My daughter and family just bought a house not far from us and moved my mother down from Virginia to live with them. They came to see me today. The woman who held me under her heart before I entered the world got to wrap her arms around me and hug me for the first time in almost three years. Priceless moments are easy to be thankful for. Being closer now they will not be so far between. I am thankful for that closeness once again. I had three generations of hugs today-my mother, daughter, and granddaughters. These times are so easy to be thankful.
When my husband and I are lying in bed tonight, I know our evening prayers will be extra special. We are thankful for our relationship with our LORD everyday but today marks the day I realized He had always loved me. I found out He first loved me. I didn't choose Him; He chose me first. Through all the mud of sin in my first thirty-seven and a half years of life, He loved me and showed me mercy. He had plans for me and the beauty of it all is everyday He enfolds a new page in the God story He is writing me into. Physically, the story is daunting. Spiritually it is beyond imagination. But He holds me in His hands. Gently, He hugs me and whispers (as I did to my granddaughter this morning) you are my precious princess and I love you with all my heart for all eternity. It doesn't get any better than that! Or at least not on this earth anyway.
Monday, July 6, 2009
The Grave Clothes Are Coming Off
The man who had died came forth, (BC)bound hand and foot with wrappings, and (BD)his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go." John 11:44 (New American Standard Bible)
(BC) John 19:40 (New American Standard Bible) So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews
(BD) John 20:7 (New American Standard Bible)and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself.
Remember all the times God brought you out of a past situation. Don't let your anxiousness over present situations rule your thankfulness for all that God has rescued you from in the past. Don't listen to the lies that whisper in your ear, "He may have done it then but will He do it now?" He will not break His covenant with you. He can't. It will not be how you imagine that He brings you out. Your thoughts are not higher than His. Your ways are not like His. Why try to figure it out? Just praise Him for doing it. Praise Him for what He has done, is doing and will do for you. Trust Him. No don't think about the storm raging around you. Forget it. Just thank and praise Him for everything He has done for you.
Once He brings you out-the moment you pray and receive, tear off those grave clothes and burn them. You no longer have the affliction. It may look like it in the natural but in the spirit it is settled, finished, complete and no longer binding you. Like Lazarus was resurrected but still bound in the wrappings. Some thing like people still saying you don't look so well. Your test results say this. But in the spirit you know you are healed. Everything happens in the spirit first. Before you can see it with your eyes it must be birthed in the spirit. So if it is born of the spirit it will grow int he natural. The Lord is trying to get us from "I am sick" to "I am healed." We limit His works by our believing. Do I believe that what I prayed for was heard and answered? Do I believe that I was healed by the stripes of Jesus on the cross or don't I? Do I believe the curse has been broken and I am healed? How long do I stand on this waiting to see the evidence? How long is that gestation period for it to manifest? It has been five years now. Actually, next week is the thirteenth anniversary of the day I got saved. It has been a roller coaster ride ever since. So what has taken so long? Disobedience? False teachings? Excuses! Flat out excuses for not believing the word of God that simply says I was healed. I were healed. I am healed. Is that picking out scripture to answer the prayer I fervently pray? If His word is truth, what is to doubt? It is like I have always heard if you believe you can't than you won't. If you believe you can than you will.
John 10:13 "But when He, (A)the Spirit of truth, comes, He will (B)guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
Praise God I'm not going under I'm going over! I am not in the wilderness. I am in the land of mercy!
(BC) John 19:40 (New American Standard Bible) So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews
(BD) John 20:7 (New American Standard Bible)and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself.
Remember all the times God brought you out of a past situation. Don't let your anxiousness over present situations rule your thankfulness for all that God has rescued you from in the past. Don't listen to the lies that whisper in your ear, "He may have done it then but will He do it now?" He will not break His covenant with you. He can't. It will not be how you imagine that He brings you out. Your thoughts are not higher than His. Your ways are not like His. Why try to figure it out? Just praise Him for doing it. Praise Him for what He has done, is doing and will do for you. Trust Him. No don't think about the storm raging around you. Forget it. Just thank and praise Him for everything He has done for you.
Once He brings you out-the moment you pray and receive, tear off those grave clothes and burn them. You no longer have the affliction. It may look like it in the natural but in the spirit it is settled, finished, complete and no longer binding you. Like Lazarus was resurrected but still bound in the wrappings. Some thing like people still saying you don't look so well. Your test results say this. But in the spirit you know you are healed. Everything happens in the spirit first. Before you can see it with your eyes it must be birthed in the spirit. So if it is born of the spirit it will grow int he natural. The Lord is trying to get us from "I am sick" to "I am healed." We limit His works by our believing. Do I believe that what I prayed for was heard and answered? Do I believe that I was healed by the stripes of Jesus on the cross or don't I? Do I believe the curse has been broken and I am healed? How long do I stand on this waiting to see the evidence? How long is that gestation period for it to manifest? It has been five years now. Actually, next week is the thirteenth anniversary of the day I got saved. It has been a roller coaster ride ever since. So what has taken so long? Disobedience? False teachings? Excuses! Flat out excuses for not believing the word of God that simply says I was healed. I were healed. I am healed. Is that picking out scripture to answer the prayer I fervently pray? If His word is truth, what is to doubt? It is like I have always heard if you believe you can't than you won't. If you believe you can than you will.
John 10:13 "But when He, (A)the Spirit of truth, comes, He will (B)guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
Praise God I'm not going under I'm going over! I am not in the wilderness. I am in the land of mercy!
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