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!

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

Early will I seek Thee...

"And they overcame him by The Blood of The Lamb..."Rev 12.11

"Set your mind on things above...." Col.3:2

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.

"Through God we shall do valiantly..." Ps 108:13