In the " hustle and bustle" of last packing and doing errands i remember this special day that bloggers are praying for eachother... if you have prayer requests you can put it in your comments overhere aor at the "Home of Fearless Friday" by pressing on the button or link up with your own "FF blogpost" Leaving you with some Nigerian Gospel music....My mind is already totally going to those 'Nigerian vibes"..... Thank You all for praying also for us for safe travels.......... Blessings and we meet with God's Grace in June!
THANKFUL that God made an way to travel with my complete family coming weekend to Nigeria for the burial of my MIL Pentecostal weekend...... THANKFUL for Gods PEACE...LOVE...and PROTECTION........ For giving us the opportunity to bring HIS MESSAGE to whome that don't know Him THANKFUL for ...............................i can't even bring it into words because i am getting more speecheless to see how all puzzles fall into place with this traveling......Like HE PREPARED the WAY already we only need to BELIEVE..TRUST , FOLLOW and see Him doing wonder,miracles and bringing HOPE and LIGHT through us....... Thank You Lord for everything.........; The GOOD......the BAD...The BIG and THE SMALL BLESSINGS today and everyday!!
What are you Thankful for? You can link-up your post over at our host for the Month of May Laurie from 'Woman Taking A Stand"
YES THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED in exaxctly the last 2 and an half hour and even now in the making of this blog post!
I came home from work after an day of work with the elderly fulfilled but physically "gearing" in over-load Pain from an pinched-nerve and muscles who are hard like an stone..LOL..probably due from stress to arrange everything to travel and coping with the normal stresses of daily life..... I did some quick shoppings....coming to an "empthy "house ( not seeing this yet as an blessing that the kids are not home...). Looking around...and wanting to jump in bed when i think about what needs to be done in the house.... Well coming to this screen is good to take an break ....... Not knowing God would use this "break" to teach me an lesson........
My attention was caught by an email from an "online sister in Christ".....from "My Growing Walk" FEAR and WORRY tried to creep in.....and i shared that with another "online sister in Christ'.... We started to pray and encourage eachother........ I said goodbye and not even conscousely i went to the her blog My spirit started to sing the songs on her playlist....I felt to say thank you and share the effect on me to hear the songs...... Like God was saying to me PRAISE and PRAY and "STAND STRONG" through all you have to go trough......... Right that minute the sister who we where worrying about came online..........That is God to me in daily life...... Giving opportunities to pray and be there for eachother praise Him and get strenghtened by Him the same time..... When i went further to read the blogs in my "google reader" I read sisters Denise from Shorthy Bears Blog and than the "Home " blog from "Fearless Friday" Free Spirit Haven . I said Yes Lord i see how we get eguiped by you .....TO STAND.......By PRAISING and PRAYING together.YOU take our eyes of ourselfse our own trials.......And we still go on and STAND FEARLESSLY and Confidently !!
“They do not fear bad news; they confidently trust the Lord to care for them. They are confident and fearless and can face their foes triumphantly.” ~ Psalm 112:7-8NLT
I could not resist to share with you and encourage you to not relent to pray for others.....and keep praising God in and through everything!
My prayers today go up for those sisters i mention above for all there needs and to stay strong and standand bring out God's message in there daily Life
I found this sermon when i "googled" my verse for the week ( Moravian daily texts)
And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. 7 The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son. 8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” Revelation 21:6-8 Dr. John Piper: In Revelation 21:6 God identifies himself as “Alpha and Omega.” Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, and omega is the last letter of the alphabet. In other words God is “the beginning and the end.” But God isn’t speaking about alphabets. He is speaking of reality. God is absolutely the beginning and absolutely the end. Everything that is originates ultimately in him. And everything will somehow end with him. Isaiah puts it like this: “Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god” (44:6). In other words, since everything comes from God and nothing will outlast God, therefore God has no final competitors. “Besides me there is no god!” God has the first word and the last word in history. All other attempts to have the last word will fail. The pottery has no beginning apart from the Potter, and in the end it will all serve the purposes of the Potter.
Alpha
I can’t urge you too often to meditate on the staggering truth that God is the absolute Alpha. Find some serene moment of your life and let the truth take hold of you that God is the FIRST—the BEGINNING. Before him there was nothing. There was no “before him.” Just think of it! For millions and billions and trillions of unending years God existed and never had a beginning. He is the beginning. From everlasting to everlasting, he is God (Psalm 90:2). There never was a time when he was not. We might marvel that God is infinite, eternal, and unchanging in his justice, wisdom, power, goodness, and truth. But when you pause to think that he never chose to be this way, nor did anyone else choose to make him this way, it staggers the mind. The justice and wisdom and power and goodness and truth of God areis reality. God did not emerge out of many possibilities. Everything emerged out of him. He determines all possibilities. God is not a piece of reality that you try to fit in with other pieces. He is the first and the last and the all-encompassing reality: “In him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). eternal reality. The character of God is not what reality brought forth. It
Omega
But the truth that I want us to focus on this morning is that God is Omega. I think that is the focus of our text in Revelation 21:6. The statement, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end,” comes in a passage dealing with the end of history. So the special focus in this text is on God as the omega of all things. What does it mean that God is Omega, or the end? Let’s read verses 5–8. “And he who sat upon the throne said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.’ Also he said, ‘Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true,’ And he said to me, ‘It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water without price from the fountain of the water of life. He who conquers shall have this heritage, and I will be his God and he shall be my son. But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.’”
How God Is the End for those Thirsty for Him
This text makes plain that God is the Omega, or the end, in two different senses. For the thirsty (it says in verse 6) he is the end in the sense that he will be the source of their life forever. He will be their God and they will be his children enjoying his inheritance forever and ever. He was the fountain of their life in creation, and he will be the fountain of their life in the consummation. For those who conquer, for the thirsty, God is not the beginning and the end the way a river begins with a spring and ends in an ocean. An ocean is supplied and filled up with the rivers that flow into it. God is not supplied or filled up by the thirsty saints that come to him in the end. No, for the thirsty, God is the beginning and the end the way a desert caravan begins at an oasis and ends at an oasis. God is a fountain of life at the beginning, and he is a fountain of life at the end—forever.
How God Is the End for Those Not Thirsty for Him
But there is another group of people mentioned in verse 8. These are the people who were not thirsty for God. For these, too, God is the Omega, but not in the same way. God is their end in the sense that they will finally meet God as Judge. They have their beginning in God’s oasis of life. Then they take the forbidden southern route by the shallow streams of faithlessness, far from the narrow path of God. But the end of every road is God. And in the end they come to the other side of the desert. And they meet God. But instead of an oasis of eternal life, they find a lake that burns with fire. To read or listen to the rest of the sermon, click here:
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QUOTE from LYSA TERKEUST!!(from " A MESS") I'm convinced there's a reason the first four letters of Messiah spell mess. We need Him. Only the Messiah can take our mess and turn it into a untangled message of hope, forgiveness, and ultimately love.
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Romans 12!