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Your FAITHFULLNESS by Brian Doerksen

I don't know what this day will bring

Will it be disappointing, filled with longed for things?

I don't know what tomorrow holds

Still I know I can trust Your faithfulness

I don't know if these clouds mean rain

If they do, will they pour down blessing or pain?

I don't know what the future holds

Still I know I can trust Your faithfulness

Certain as the rivers reach the sea

Certain as the sunrise in the east

I can rest in your faithfulness

Surer than a mother's tender love

Surer than the stars still shine above

I can rest in your faithfulness

I don't know how or when I'll die

Will it be a thief, or will I have a chance to say goodbye?

No, I don't know how much time is left

But in the end, I will know your faithfulness

When darkness overwhelms my soul

When thoughts and storms of doubt

Still I trust You are always faithful, always faithful

Certain as the rivers reach the sea

Certain as the sunrise in the east

I can rest in your faithfulness

Surer than a mother's tender love

Surer than the stars still shine above

I can rest in your faithfulness

I don't know what this day will bring

Will it be disappointing, filled with longed for things?

I don't know what tomorrow holds

Still I know I can trust Your faithfulness

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 Saturday, January 16


Psalm 11 Genesis 19:1-29; Matthew 7:1-12

We will say no more, "Our God," to the work of our hands. Hosea 14:3

Gods made with hands are not gods. Acts 19:26

All which we create on our own is vanity, but everything you create is
good! We shall not continue to trust in our own creation, but rather
praise you in your good works to the ends of the earth. Amen.

( Moravian Dailytexts) 

Living Fearlessly – Part 1...Biggest step(s) @ Gods FAITHFULLNESS !

“Fear not, for I am with you;
be not dismayed, for I am your God;
I will strengthen you, I will help you,
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
~ Isaiah 41:10 (ESV)

“And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” ~ Romans 8:28 (ESV)

  Aquote by Max Lucado you may want to ponder:

“When fear shapes our live, safety becomes our god. When safety becomes our god, we worship the risk-free life. Can the safety-lover do anything great?…For God? For others?” ~ Source: Fearless

At "Grace Alone" you can join bi-weekly in the conversation about how to life FEARLESSLY.........
I pondered on the questions Iris asks us this week....

Over the next week, I would like you to look back at your past. What was the biggest step you have taken? What was your greatest fear about taken this particular step? Failure, insecurity, rejection? I would love to hear about your past fear(s) and how you have overcome it. What brought you through?

My biggest steps ??

1 Leaving my parents and my birth country at age of 18
I do not remember to be FEARFULL initially......I was excited....i wanted to discover the World....I felt i would achieve at last Freedom!....LOL......I believe it had to do with my age....
BUT along the way.....Fear started creeping in...........
All the above Iris mentioned.........I encountered.......I wanted to prove myself that i can stand on my own.....build up an life etc......I felt insecure in making choices.......I felt rejected when especially my parents and family started questioning why i choose to stay in Holland...Why i choose to do another  study ...etc......
Well i am praising God that He was and stayed with me all the way....AND that i remembered the wise words from my "Grandmother..."Always take your bible and pray.......and know I always pray for you"!.....
I remember me taking this to heart and i surged to join at the church i was baptized in and start socializing....and being active in the youth group..........


2nd major step was was falling in love "head over heels" and deciding to join our lives in marriage!!


I remember not withstanding i was living in a very "pink bubble" I was fearfull to be married........
My fear was to give up my freedom in an way.......Like i have now to negotiate and choose etc........
I was fearfull if our differences in background...language would matter in our relationship...I feared rejection of my husband by friends and family....... I knew my choices didn't fit the picture people had of me.......

Well to make it short God knew that nudging me to get married...was to bring me closer to Him....To learn to look at things marriage...my husband children...marriage values not with my eyes but with His eyes........And not withstanding all those mixed feelings I felt safe and loved and seen as who i am...by my husband........I could be at my ugliest and my loveliest i KNOW i was loved!!
Now i know that is the best thing what can happen to you!



3th Major step was  beside my own parttime job ...beginning an beauty-business together with my husband............
All fear to start it melted away because we believed in the concept and we saw the opportunities as an gift of God to us.............
But to handle and manage and work together and staying foccused on the leading of God in the directions he wanted us to go...went in different twists and turns but.........God stayed FAITHFULL...I give Him and Him alone all the glory....
For where i am now in my relationship with Him...And where i am now with my husband and children.......
We still have the business.......I'm not working anymore in it..........
Our marriage went to different seasons but His love kept us together and we share His love with eachoter as an family........No matter we can fight and have times of feeling insecure....He is in the middle and is the head of our family and will always be.........


I wrote an testimony last year along some questions sister Laura -Lee asked. You can read it as some more inside to those 'big steps"

God is so FAITHFULL and i putted my TRUST in Him especially and more so when storms started to blow in my Life! I know there will be more big steps in my future, but i may know to take them Trust and Rest in Him.........

This song spoke to me this week and i find it fitting to bring Him Praise and Glory for all He did for me untill this day!

Fearless Friday

Good " Fearless Friday" morning my friends!


It's for me already afternoon Half of this friday has past already i realized.....
This morningwent in an "blur"........Kids to school.....need to do an errand in the local shopping centre....came back home looked around.....Need to do  a lot of cleaning-up and de-cluttering.......
A plan need to come on paper....A "chore-list".....I'm not good in this planning and making an list....and keeping to the list.......
Why i am writing this as my intro to this FEARLESS FRIDAY...because this is how i rushed in this day....without an goal and plan......I see what comes and i see what i do especially when it is not an workday for me........At the end of the day or in the middle ........FEAR or STRESS creeps in .....concerning house keeping....disciplining the kids.....or i ask myself if i am an good mum and spouse ...blah...blah.......


The reason mostly when my day goes in an "blur' and when i wonder in the midle or the end what happenend,is when i forgot or extended to......



TAKE MY BIBLE AND PRAY!!
Ask him directions for the day and give Him all my worries ,stress and insecurities........
Take my day devotionaland read the day texts and see how it speaks to me.......


ALWAYS God speaks really we only need to listen and hear....
My verses for today are.....

Friday, January 15

Psalm 10:12-18

Genesis 18; Matthew 6:19-34

I will not fail you or forsake you. Joshua 1:5

We who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly

encouraged. Hebrews 6:18 (NIV)

God of the promise, may we cling tightly to the hope which can only be

found in you. Your promises endure from generation to generation and in

them we find meaning and joy. Thank you, eternal One. Amen.

When i stopped an hour ago to stay in this state of  an "blur"....
Those verses came to me and the thought that IT IS FEARLESS FRIDAY........
A day we gather together and put time aside to pray for eachother....
For what we have on our heart....
Make more time.........for prayer........re-focus on to be and stay prayerfull.
Yes i need to pray more and start my day consciousely to focus on Him and His leading...


This morning comes to my mind when i look at the news.......HAITIE.....what an disaster so much loss tears and devastation.......Father help and comfort the people who are victims in need and suffer.....The helpers who are there and on there way lead them and guide them..let the victims see You in those helpers Lord.this i pray in Jesus name......


I'm thinking of my blogfriend Denise and her husband......Praying for healing and strenght for Edie and also for Denise and to stay strong in this storm in there life.



Just read an blog from an sister in christ "Vickki"  She wants to get "out of an pit" She brought an book from Beth Moore under our attention......



Pray for Melanie from Bella -Mella and her family for extra strenght in there time of grieve over the loss of there son and brother Andrew nearly one month ago. Her latest post is worth reading "Strenght In The Strain"


In my side bar are more prayer buttons and sites with request...


Don't forget the homeless people who suffer in this winter weather a lot.


Let's pray for ourselfse to be stremghtened by the lord and be open for guidens where he lwant us to go..
Pray for protection of our body soul and mind and falso for our family and loved-ones....


Pray for the Christian blog community to fulfill what He intend us to do in blogworld.


These are my prayers and request lifted up to you Lord...
Hear them O Lord in Jesus Name Amen.