Praising Him Completes my Joy in Him

Awesome day yesterday. Everywhere i turned Blessings from God Showered me! Praise Him for He is Good All the Time. Where are we?

1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

Reflection

O but the power of grace in the New Covenant is great! Under the Mosaic Covenant, God's people had to cut themselves off from the unbelieving and the foreign wife made the Israelite husband unclean (Ezra 10:2-3). Yet now, the grace of God works so powerfully through the Christian covenant that the Lord ordains his grace will actually work through the believing spouse to the sanctification of the unbelieving!


Okay, there is a lesson here for me. I am not sure i want to see it, as i am almost blank when i read it. Didn't want to post it. Then i thought my plan is not for this page. Its all about HIM. so He always Blesses His Plan, I want His Will in my life, therefore i will want what i get because He is Almighty and Powerful, All knowing and Loves me! His Grace is sufficient. I Praise the Lord for My Children are Blessed and He Covers them with Protection and Blesses me by watching over them!

I lift up those woman and men who's spouses are not on the same spiritual page. I pray Lord for YOU to waken the hearts of those who need to be drawn closer to you!
Bless the spouses' that walk honestly with you and continue to bless them so abundantly that they have the strength to carry on in You and for their Marriage to stay Strong and Alive; Full of Loving Actions to one another and a Hedge of Protection to keep them IN LOVE with each other. AMEN

David Crowder
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Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
The love in this place
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
The grace in this place
Can you feel it?
Yeah

Life makes it so hard sometimes
To know what's real
When I can't feel You there
When I can't see You there
When I can't comprehend that
You are there
You are there
You're everywhere
You are everywhere

Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
The hope in this place
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Yeah

When we can't feel You there
When we can't see You there
When we can't comprehend that
You are there
You're everywhere
You are everywhere

Our God is here

We believe You're here
We can feel You here
We can see You here
We believe You're here
You are here
You are here

TOO much going on in one head

I have had many thoughts that i need to be journalling again, more importantly daily devotionals with my GOD!
But many thoughts are rambling and not sure which ONE i am to focus on; So being me i don't do anything for fear of choosing the wrong one.

Let's list some things:

Mr. L moved back to CA~ good thing? better for girls? too many thoughts already.

Work! I love it but above what did i say? "But many thoughts are rambling and not sure which ONE i am to focus on; So being me i don't do anything for fear of choosing the wrong one."
scary

Compassion~ im not, and need to be?

Lonely but not alone??

Family, sister, brother, mom, sibling rivalry why?

Friends? where?

GOALS! to many where to start.

so much more and then GOD in His all knowing ways sends people into my life and tells me to make Goals. Don't you have to know what you want first~ I feel like a kid still in Kindergarten. Equals my writing and spelling capabilities anyway. Oh i'm just a bad typest that's it. LOL I still crack myself up though!

Live and let live?

So give me a verse oh Lord! Fill me with Your Spirit and Let Your Joy and Peace Reign in my life again!

So i go to a devoitonal page and it's JOB, Why is it always Job? Another million thoughts. (A.D.D. i think) well lets see what the commentator says....

"I know that my Redeemer liveth." — Job 19:25


The marrow of Job's comfort lies in that little word "My"--"My Redeemer," and in the fact that the Redeemer lives. Oh! to get hold of a living Christ. We must get a property in Him before we can enjoy Him. What is gold in the mine to me? Men are beggars in Peru, and beg their bread in California. It is gold in my purse which will satisfy my necessities, by purchasing the bread I need. So a Redeemer who does not redeem me, an avenger who will never stand up for my blood, of what avail were such? Rest not content until by faith you can say "Yes, I cast myself upon my living Lord; and He is mine." It may be you hold Him with a feeble hand; you half think it presumption to say, "He lives as my Redeemer;" yet, remember if you have but faith as a grain of mustard seed, that little faith entitles you to say it. But there is also another word here, expressive of Job's strong confidence, "I know." To say, "I hope so, I trust so" is comfortable; and there are thousands in the fold of Jesus who hardly ever get much further. But to reach the essence of consolation you must say, "I know." Ifs, buts, and perhapses, are sure murderers of peace and comfort. Doubts are dreary things in times of sorrow. Like wasps they sting the soul! If I have any suspicion that Christ is not mine, then there is vinegar mingled with the gall of death; but if I know that Jesus lives for me, then darkness is not dark: even the night is light about me. Surely if Job, in those ages before the coming and advent of Christ, could say, "I know," we should not speak less positively. God forbid that our positiveness should be presumption. Let us see that our evidences are right, lest we build upon an ungrounded hope; and then let us not be satisfied with the mere foundation, for it is from the upper rooms that we get the widest prospect. A living Redeemer, truly mine, is joy unspeakable.

Okay a few things hit. but i got stuck for a moment on the mustard seed.

I am a Woman of Faith, No doubt until i doubt of course.
But the whole Mustard Seed Faith, to me, is more about the tiniest of seeds grows without thought, blooms without worry, provides without care of being "Mine", and doesn't it grow to a large tree(?). That is BIG Faith not little faith. So am I a woman of Faith? Yes! But i must remember to put my faith in HIM as i have been lately focusing on ME which doesn't allow HIS Faith to Bloom/Blossom, grow.....u know

Another soul has told me multiple times lately that they look at me and see HIS FAITHFULNESS in me. Yes i am blessed many times over! and i Pray to turn every blessing back to Praise; But the key word again is HIS Faithfullness and my ability to be Faithful not just to Him in return but to HAVE Complete Faith in HIM and to Stand in HIM. I keep telling myself that i do stand in Him and haven't stopped. Why then do i have so many questions? Why am i not moving? O the song just came to me .....

Casting Crowns


If We Are The Body Lyrics
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It's crowded in worship today
As she slips in
Trying to fade into the faces
The girls' teasing laughter is carrying farther than they know
Farther than they know

CHORUS
But if we are the Body
Why aren't His arms reaching
Why aren't His hands healing
Why aren't His words teaching
And if we are the Body
Why aren't His feet going
Why is His love not showing them there is a way
There is a way

A traveler is far away from home
He sheds his coat
And quietly sinks into the back row
The weight of their judgmental glances tells him that his chances
Are better out on the road

CHORUS
But if we are the Body
Why aren't His arms reaching
Why aren't His hands healing
Why aren't His words teaching
And if we are the Body
Why aren't His feet going
Why is His love not showing them there is a way

Jesus paid much too high a price
For us to pick and choose who should come
And we are the Body of Christ

Chorus (2x)
If we are the body
Why aren't His arms reaching
Why aren't His hands healing
Why aren't His words teaching
And if we are the body
Why aren't His feet going
Why is His love not showing them there is a way

Jesus is the way


Wow Did i not just say that He is sending people to me? He is teaching but am I learning?

LET ME FADE AND ALLOW YOU TO TAKE OVER ~ AGAIN

Jeremy Camp Sings "Let it Fade" Let this be my prayer, and all who read it as well.

Have you been walking on a surface that's uncertain?
Have you helped yourself to everything that's empty? yeah!
You can't live this way too long.
There's more than this, more than this.
Have you been standing on your own feet too long?
Have you been looking for a place where you belong?
You can rest, you will find rest.
You can rest, you will find rest.

Let this old life crumble, let it fade.
Let this new life offer be your saving grace.
Let this old life crumble, let it fade, let it fade.

Have you been holding on to what this world has offered?
Have you been giving in to all these masquerades?
It will be gone, forever gone.
It will be gone, it will be gone

Let this old life crumble, let it fade.
Let this new life offer be your saving grace.
Let this old life crumble, let it fade, let it fade.

Let it fade.

Are you carrying the weight too much?, are you running from the call?
Let it fade, Oh yeah.

You can rest, you will find rest.
You can rest you will find rest.

Let this old life crumble, let it fade.
Let this new life offered be your saving grace.
Let this old life crumble, let it fade, let it fade.

Let this old life crumble, let it fade.
Have you been standing on your own feet too long?
Have you been looking for a place where you belong?

I was recently blessed with the opportunity to see Jeremy Camp (and 4 other groups for only $10)
His smile was so true and honest, his eyes sparkled with love. He has grown so much in the Lord since the first time i saw him and he was still morning over the death of his young bride. I thought of how true is Love for the Lord was and it shined through him and how i had lost the glow lately, or so it would seem. Falling back into old ways and forgetting to give my devotion to HIM and He will Turn All thing for His Glory. I have had to ask others to pray for me and I thank those who are faithful in that! as i look back i have much harder times in the last year than i have had in the past couple of weeks and i could smile and praise HIM and Trust HIM, THOROUGHLY Trust Him and feel His Joy and Peace. So what is the difference? I believe SELF. I am trying to do it on my own instead of Leaning or STANDING in HIM. My eyes were drawn up and focused directly on the line that asks "Have you been standing on your own feet too long?" there is that Spirit again. Again i am thankful for those faithful prayer warriors, BUT i am reminded that I need to be the Prayer Warrior He has taught me to be. Enough said? So many thoughts have been racing through my head and yet i guess they are just for me and not to be shared, yet i yearn to let it out. PRAYER oh the Word of Course!

John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Reflection
How wonderful the assurance that God will in nowise spurn our manifest love and affection! With human lovers, we always risk rejection, but with God, we who believe are given the certainty that all who adore Him will be adored in return. And of course we must be so adored! We only come to love God as we do because he first loved us. Praise be to our compassionate Father that there is no unrequited affection in His kingdom!
Jesus Christ, Our Great High Priest
Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. (Hebrews 4:14-16)
Jesus as our High Priest is one of the magnificent truths that matures us in the faith and draws us more intimately to Him. When we see the greatness of Jesus in this role, our steadfastness is strengthened. "Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession." Jesus was completely successful in His mission of redemption. He came and died as the sacrifice for our sins. He rose victorious over sin and death. He ascended to heaven, seated in authority at the right hand of the Father. Knowing this, we have great cause to remain steadfast in our confession of hope in Him.

Furthermore, our great High Priest is able to understand our needs and express compassion toward our frailties. "For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses." The enemy of our souls threw all of his tempting devices at Jesus. Our Lord faced what we face (and more), so He understands our battles in a very personal manner. Another matter of even greater significance is that He never yielded to the tempter's attacks: "yet without sin." Thus, He not only understands our plight, but He can also provide us victory.

We are hereby given reason to approach God through our great High Priest. We can come without hesitation or apprehension to find the help we need. "Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need." Our God rules this universe from a throne characterized by grace. This grace can only be properly known by those who live under His new covenant of grace. This grace is sufficient to justify and to sanctify all who humbly trust in the Lord. The grace offered here is not for initial salvation. Rather, it is for rescuing the redeemed when they humbly acknowledge their inadequacy. We are invited to draw near, approach our God in an intimate fashion, and partake of His fullness in light of our emptiness.

Dear Jesus, my great High Priest, I extol You for Your greatness. You are great in understanding, compassion, victory, and grace. Lord, I have so many great needs in my life. So I draw near to You, anticipating that Your grace is fully sufficient to meet my lack, Amen.
AND AMEN! ENOUGH SAID I LOVE YOU LORD THANK YOU NOT JUST FOR DYING ON THE CROSS BUT FOR YOUR RESURRECTION SO THAT I MAY FELLOWSHIP WITH YOU AND THE FATHER THRU THE SPIRIT