It's a New Year - Look Up!

Wait on the Lord - Renew Your Strength

The Evidence of things not seen.

"Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room"

He's the Reason for the Season

"I will never leave you or forsake you."

The Widow Maker, a Dishwasher and Jehovah-Jireh

"The Widow Maker, a Dishwasher and Jehovah-Jireh"

"This I recall to my mind, therefore have I HOPE. It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: Great is Thy  faithfulness!"

Lamentations 3:21-23

(Emphasis added)

Have you ever been kicked while you were down? Felt like you just couldn't take one more thing?  I have! And I have to say that the devil has mastered the art of kicking me in the stomach while I'm down this year!

What frustrates me with him is that whether I'm at my strongest or at my weakest, he's unrelenting with the mud-slinging. Never lets up!  That's why I don't think I'd make it if I didn't seek a daily walk with my Heavenly Father. It's easy to get blinded when the enemy is constantly slinging mud.....my Father lovingly wipes it off my eyes.

Most of my readers know that I had 2 massive heart attacks in March of this year....I rolled on the floor in the middle of the night with the first one thinking it was the mother of all neck spasms.  It was not.....I had 2 attacks in 3 days, 2 100% blockages in my Widow Maker and severe shock and damage to my left chamber....my heart was too weak to deal with my right chamber...2 90% and 1 70%  there. Moving into a cardiac event in April made the decision for my cardiologist!

Did I mention the microwave died? Then the oven started a horrible screaming sound whenever it was on 250* or higher for more than 10 minutes.  Then 8 hospitalizations and 6 caths in 9 months time...Then the fridge sprung a leak and ruined the kitchen floor....the 2 stents in my Widow Maker are 50% blocked again....our cooktop now will only cool on high

the only working burner is the little one at the back...Open heart surgery is on the table....we come home from hospital visit #8 and the kitchen floods... The dishwasher died!

I'm not having a pity party, but do you get the point I'm trying to make?  Whether big or small, the devil kicks at us constantly to achieve his primary goal.....to destroy our faith and cause us to take our eyes off of Jesus!! 

This I recall to my mind m, therefore have I HOPE! My Redeemer is faithful and true! 

Our enemy is interested in destroying you just like he's tried to destroy us this year! Is he slinging mud at you today? The mud is coming if it hasn't already. Snuggle up to Abba Father today....He restores what the enemy breaks and loves us so much!

I remember the night the dishwasher died a month ago or so, staying up after everyone had gone to bed and just standing in the kitchen and crying.  This was not a year that we could go out and replace a kitchen full of broken appliances. That's a hard pill for a husband to swallow, not being able to provide for my family what they need. My enemy used that to try to defeat me too.

But...... What a promise that when we are weak, He proves Himself strongest! When are resources are depleted, HE is Jehovah-Jireh our provider. He answers prayer and takes care of His children... ALWAYS!

God is using a wonderful family to be His hands and feet this week.... They delivered a refrigerator yesterday and are bringing a new dishwasher today, a new cooktop next week and a new oven/microwave combo!  

Are you having a "mud in your eyes" kind of day? At the end of your rope?  Well, God replaces damaged appliances and we are believing He does the same for damaged widow makers!

Therefore have I hope!

Seek His face before you face any other today!

Carols & Communion

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Everything!

Weakness

Weakness

..for My strength is made perfect in weakness.

.. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

2 Cor. 12:9-10

"This is God's way. We advance by going backward, we become strong by becoming weak, we become wise by being fools"

~Whitfield~

God's ways are so polar opposite of the ways of the world. We are told that strength is the mark of a successful man and woman in today's society.  There are so very many times that I fail by today's standards.

Life weighs me down with financial burdens, health worries, career struggles, and finding new direction after a life-altering year.  

You have your own worries, and even if you're hiding them behind a wall of perceived strength... They're there!

I take such comfort in the fact that I can come before my Heavenly Father and pour it all out to Him. I can be frail and even a weak man... I can fail in front of Him. I can tell Him I'm too weak to carry it all....to achieve....even to go on! It doesn't matter, when we come to Him, and lay all at His feet, He exchanges our weaknesses with His strength.  Total reliance on His perfect strength - that's true success in Heavens eyes!

His strength made perfect in my weakness!

May you seek His face before you face any other today!