i would like to tell you about our God and what he is doing in my life right now..how he hears the smallest cries of our hearts that love him so much. The last month has been a hard one in the family. i am tried on every side as i minister to my cancer ridden unsaved Dad, and live among my saved family. A divorce between my sister and her husband has brought much change and challenge into our lives. Yet in the storm i have been calm, albeit there have been tears of sadness at times.
"But if the unbelieving depart let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases but God hath called us to peace." 1 Corinthians7:15
i have asked God to bless us in the desires of our hearts in all this where our desires are in his perfect will, and He has given us so much, in his perfect time..Praise God. Mom, Laur and Myles have the house they prayed for God to provide. Our cats went to a good home together and not split up which we prayed for God to provide. Mom is getting stronger and the heartbreaking sadness of missing her cats is abating some. And today, as i was crying out to God to let me stay in this area and not have to move across town, God gave me a room identical to mine with a view of the creek, just 3 doors down from where i live now, same complex, same layout, bigger yard!!
"And this is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask anything according to his will he heareth us, and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. 1 John 5;14-15
i have learned that to follow Christ means to crucify the flesh and ALL its desires and to desire with all my heart, mind and soul only what God desires for my life, no matter what that is, where it is or when it is. i have learned that the race is not to the swift but to the ones truly submitted unto Him, obedient, consistent, enduring followers of Christ. The ones that see Christ in ALL the circumstances and trials of their lives. The Holy Spirit led. It must be God's will or nothing, it must be His time or no time. To live a holy and righteous life as a faithful servant means that in all the seasons of our lives, in every day of seemingly menial and mundane goings about, that God is a part of it ALL, and that takes a heart and mind focused entirely on him and on eternity, we must choose God with NO COMPROMISE, EVER.
i am daily amazed at His grace and mercy, at his glory manifest all around me. In all this going on in my life, God still finds the time to send his lost to me so i can open the Bible and introduce His Son, their Salvation, to them.. time for reading my word, praying and fasting, time for a women's Bible study, time for street outreach.. What a blessed life i lead as a daughter of God and bride of Christ, as an obedient servant unto death to Him who died for me. i would not trade my life for anything in this dark and dying world.. i love you Lord, amen.
Praise God!! Thank you Jesus! All Glory and honor be unto Him forever and ever amen. i cannot wait to be kneeling in the throne room of grace praising the King!!!
