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Thursday, April 21, 2016

New Morning Thoughts

Your mercies are new every morning...Your grace is sufficient for me...You are my Shepherd...The Lord of my life.  O, Lord...wash over me with Your love and mercy...Your truth and grace this morning.  Make me new...make me clean...make me whole.  I need You more and more...right now...today.  Please forgive me...make me clean.  Wash me clean in the rivers of Your love.  Let me dip in the streams of Your mercy.  Drown me in Your living water and cleanse me...help me to feel Your love.  I will praise You...I will praise You...Praise the LAMB for sinners slain...O Lord.  Keep me safe in You today.  Thank You Lord for saving me.  Thank You Lord for keeping me.  Thank You Lord for saving my soul...Thank You Lord for making me whole...Thank you Lord for giving to me...Thy great salvation so rich and free.  In Jesus name...In Jesus name...amen...amen.


Thursday, December 10, 2015

The Prayer Of My Heart Today

Lord Jesus I come before You with heart bowed and head hung low...in reverence.
I praise You Jesus for making yourself real to me once again.
For taking me back one more time.
I don't deserve Your grace and mercy but I am so grateful that You chose to give them to me.
Thank You...Thank You.
I truly do love You Lord even though at times I stray.
Thank You for Your forgiveness...for mercy one more time.
Oh Lord I ask that you be my strength today...the never failing strength of my heart.
Heal the wounds that I carry in my soul...in my mind...in my body.
Draw me ever closer to You Lord.
You be the One to quench my thirst...to fill my hunger...to satisfy my every need.
Draw me in.  Fill me up.  Soothe my soul.
Forgive any sins that I have committed...in thought or in deed.
Lord help me to be the person you want me to be...the child of God I long to be.
Search my heart Lord...clear my thoughts of any thing that isn't of You.
Help me Lord to be more like You everyday in this life You have given me.
Help me to be a blessing to others.
I long to be what You want me to be.
I long to be more like You.
More of You and less of me is what I want people to see in me.
Thank You Lord for putting people in my life that are ever close to You.
Ones that help me in this journey called life when I can't seem to make it on my own.
To help me right my feet on Your path once again.
To steady me so I can find my way with and in You once again.
Let me be a help to them.
Help me to be able to show Your love.
To be a help to them in their storms like they are in mine.
Lord I praise You...I thank You...for being my Savior.
For never turning Your back on me even though I seem to turn from You at times.
Thank You...Thank You...Thank You for my life in You.
In Your precious holy name Jesus I pray all of this.
Amen

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Everything

Oh Lord
We want more of You
We long for more of You
We need more of You
Fill us with your presence Lord
Fill us to the top
Overflowing with You
Overflowing with Your grace
Overflowing with Your mercy
Overflowing with Your love

Oh Lord
You are all that really matters in this life
You are all that we can really cling too
You are all that fills us with the sustenance we need to live
You are that sustenance
The nourishment for our soul
You are that food
You are that air
You Lord
Our everything

Oh Lord

Without You
We are nothing

Nothing
Yet with You Lord
We have all that we need
We are filled to overflowing
We are full
Satisfied
Content with You
Content in You

Oh Lord
Though the storms swirl
In You
We know peace
We know strength
We know joy
Your love abounds in us
Through us
You Lord

Our everything

Thank You Lord
We love You

"until we see JESUS...face to face"





Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Tonight I'm just sitting having a cup of peppermint tea and listening to some great music.
Just A Closer Walk With Thee is one of my favorite songs.  I always say how I want that more than anything...and I do.  This song just reminds me how much.  And like the song says...daily walking close to Thee...that is exactly what I/we have to do.  It's a choice like everything else in life.  I fall...I get up.  How?  Jesus reaches out His hand...takes mine...takes yours...and helps me up...helps me to take one more step...by faith in Him. 

Tonight sitting in my room...surrounded by music...I feel Him close. Too many times I wander yet He always...always...always...reaches out and pulls me back to Him.  But God.  Without Him...I don't know what I would do.  He constantly shows me...gives to me...His amazing grace.  What would I/we do without His grace?  Tonight I. Am.Thankful.

Colossians 2:6-7 NLT

And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow Him.
Let your roots grow down into Him, and let your lives be built on Him.
Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.

"until we see JESUS...face to face"




Sunday, November 29, 2015

I just heard a song that tells what the answer is...the answer to what troubles us...

Where could I go
Oh where could I go
Seeking a refuge for my soul
Needing a friend to help me in the end
Where could I go but to the Lord

The answer lies here...within these words...to all of our worries...our problems...even our discontent.
Discontent defined as: a restless desire or craving for something one does not have.

At times we don't know why we are so stirred up inside...why we feel a lack of something...or even what that something is.  Yet even the answer for that is in the words of the song.  If we go to the Lord our soul will find refuge...stillness...peace...

Psalm 46:1 NLT

GOD is our refuge and strength,
always ready to help in times of trouble. 

"until we see JESUS...face to face" 

Saturday, November 21, 2015

While most of us were sleeping last night God was making sure the early morning hours were going to be beautiful for us.  When I went outside I saw where HE had sprinkled glitter all over the ground...actually little ice crystals...where I live. It was only about 28 outside but still...Wow...so beautiful!

God does so many awesome things for us to see if we will just open our eyes and look!  It can be hard to notice with all that's going on in the world right now.  Yet we have to remember that God is still with us and we are "tucked" in Him...protected in Him...we just need to press in and stay close knowing He won't leave us.  Don't let yourself be shaken.  Place your hope in Him.

God is the answer for our life.  Have faith...and if you fall down or fail...reach up and take His hand.  He will help you to get back to where you need to be.

Psalm 62:5-8

 Let all that I am wait quietly before God,
    for my hope is in him.
He alone is my rock and my salvation,
    my fortress where I will not be shaken.
My victory and honor come from God alone.
    He is my refuge, a rock where no enemy can reach me.
O my people, trust in him at all times.
    Pour out your heart to him,
    for God is our refuge. 

"until we see JESUS...face to face"






Friday, November 13, 2015

All He Really Wants

Sometimes it takes something big to get us out of our sluggishness and make us realize that the only way we can survive is to totally rely on the LORD. We need to draw close to HIM like we never have before.

As I watched the attacks in Paris unfold today it woke me up. Sometimes...as of late...I can go about life ignoring the fact that...plainly...I'm just not as close to the LORD as I once was. I have...in effect...become numb to HIM talking to me to the point that He is having to nudge me...almost knocking me over at times...yet I still continue to push HIM aside. The funny thing is it's not because I want HIM to leave me...in fact it's the opposite...I want more and more of HIM. Yet somehow I keep doing all the wrong things. I think too much and dwell on unimportant things...failures...disappointments. Thinking about it...putting it all into perspective this comes to mind...

All HE...JESUS...really wants is me...all of me...my undivided attention...undivided soul.heart.mind. All HE wants is me...just the way I am because HE can work with that...however I may be.

That's how JESUS is...all HE really wants is you as well...just as you are.
All HE wants is to be our everything...all we will ever need. He wants us to fall on our face and call out to HIM...seek HIM...find HIM...live for HIM.

Isaiah 55:6
Seek the Lord while you can find him.
Call on him now while he is near.

Isaiah 54:10
"Though the mountains be shaken
and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed,”
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

"until we see JESUS...face to face"