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Away We Go!
Oh, how I hate waiting! BUT, the best things in my life have come after periods of waiting and praying!
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
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You Just Wait!
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I confess....I'm not always a patient man! If you can relate, read my new Devotional, "You Just Wait".
Monday, May 30, 2016
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Mountains
"God brings down mountains and uses them as highways to get us to where HE wants us to be!"
- Jim Cymbala
It's not by might, not by power, but by My Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts
Zechariah 4:6
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Monday, March 14, 2016
Sunday, February 28, 2016
A Page a Day
A Page a Day
I haven't written much in the past few months. Too sick at times, too tired at others. Just when we had hoped months of illness and hospitalizations were behind us, things began to spiral downhill with me in December and I just knew things weren't right. January and February were worse! More hospitalizations and more procedures and more down than up.
These are the times when I begin to have the nagging in the back of my mind .... "Am I being punished for something?".
I'm at peace, I know 11 months of forceful putting one foot in front of the other have each been designed as part of the " when He has tried me, I shall Come forth as gold" "He knows the way that I take" Job 23:10.
One of the the big lessons I've learned from my Father in the last few months is a lesson of how He wants to commune with me.
I grew up and have spent much of my life basing my Christian walk on my own personal trinity: Wednesday night prayer meeting, Sunday morning service and a little bitty dose of daily "quiet time". A page a day keeps the Devil
Away!
In fact the little "quiet time" seems to be the theme for many. Don't get me wrong! I'm not putting down your daily page of "Jesus Calling". I'm just saying that maybe one of the lessons my Father has for me in my furnace time is for me to get away from my list of 3 and walk daily, hour by hour, moment by moment with him!
He wants fellowship with me!! He doesn't want my focus to be on my little read in the morn, while well and good. He wants my focus and dependence to be on Him.
That's why He had to strip it all away from me, why I still struggle from this eternal year of crisis after crisis. But.....through all the storms,
He beckons me to come to the calm. He wants the same from you!
He's shown me that on the outside things may be falling apart, health, future and finances may be tenuous, but inside I can maintain constant fellowship with the King over the Flood!
May you seek His face today
before you face any other!
The Refiner
We serve The Great Refiner. He causes us to undergo more beatings and refinings so that we can become more valuable to Him.
Saturday, February 27, 2016
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Monday, February 15, 2016
President's Day
"Let us with caution indulge supposition that morality can be maintained without religion" George Washington
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Are We There Yet?
Are We There Yet?
Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
Psalm 25:6
Do you remember traveling as a child and asking "Are we there yet?" every other mile?
Sometimes life's journeys are like one of those endless childhood trips.....when are we gonna get there?
As I approach my 9th hospitalization and 7th heart procedure in just 11 months time, I'm often tempted to question the One Who sits in the heavens and does ALL things well. How long Lord? Surely He's forgotten me! He's going to fail us!
But then I remember He has carried us this far, He's protected and preserved my life, He loves me, and He's ever faithful.
Take heart if your journey drones on! He won't fail you either! Don't give up. I would have fainted already on this journey unless I believed!!
Trust Him! Believe!
May you seek His Face before you face any other today!
Monday, February 8, 2016
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Thursday, January 28, 2016
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Effectiveness
"Not by discussion nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ, shall we draw men unto Him."
-J. Hudson Taylor-
Sunday, January 24, 2016
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Thursday, January 21, 2016
Jesus Never Fails!
The Lord, He it is that doth go before thee. He will be with thee, He will not fail thee neither forsake thee. Fear not, neither be dismayed.
Deuteronomy 31:8
Jesus Never Fails!
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
The Help
The Help
"Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation."
Psalm 68:19
Thank you, Father for lifting our heads.... Propping us up on days when it's not in us to do it ourselves. You are a gentle and merciful Savior!
May we seek Your face before we face any other today.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Monday, January 18, 2016
Waiting.....
Waiting.....
"My soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken."
Psalm 62:5-6
Waiting is hard work! You really could lump it into 2 categories: 1. expectant.......waiting with the hope of a promised end..... And 2. Despondent.......waiting that seems to be eternal and drains the hope from your soul.
I confess that in the past 2 months, I've sorta given in to the 2nd one. I've been hanging on by a very tenuous thread and allowed my hope to be shaken. I've had health setbacks, I haven't been able to look ahead to plan and hope, I haven't been able to shake the despondency, haven't felt up to posting on this blog. Ten months into our life-shattering circumstances and once again, I've stumbled!
What a wonderful reminder the Holy Spirit gave me this morning in these verses....wait.....EXPECT..... He's my rock..... My fortress..... I can hide in Him.
Are you prone to ups and downs like me??? Prone to give in to despair? If so, then you're fallible just like me! Thank God for the reminder that there's nothing in me to rest on! I can give my fears, anxieties and failures to Him. I can turn to Him in my despair and trust that HE will pick me up and set me on the right path again..... And He will let me know it's ok..... It's all going to be ok..... He goes before us! Hope in Him! I can press on knowing that my inconsistency is swallowed up in His faithfulness when I come to Him!
May you seek His face before you face any other today!
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Fishers of men
Fishers of men
"In order to catch men for the Lord Jesus Christ, you must love Jesus absolutely, beyond all others. You must have a consuming passion of love, then He will flow through you in a passion of love and learning and draw men to Himself."
Oswald Chambers
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Monday, January 4, 2016
The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit
"For some reason, we don't think we need the Holy Spirit. We don't expect the Holy Spirit to act. Or if we do, our expectations are often misguided or self-serving. Given our talent set, experience, and education, many of us are fairly capable of living rather successfully without any strength from the Holy Spirit.
Even our church growth can happen without Him. If you combine a charismatic speaker, a talented worship band, and some hip, creative events, people will attend your church. Yet this does not mean that the Holy Spirit of God is actively working and moving in the lives of the people who are coming. It simply means that you have created a space that is appealing enough to draw people in for an hour or two on Sunday."
- Francis Chan -
Oh Father, help us to feel our deep need for you. Convict us of our self-sufficiency and purge it from our lives.
We walk in vain when we walk without You!
May we put You in Your rightful place - Be our All in All.
Sunday, January 3, 2016
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