Am i really back??!! ~ Pictures....Thanksgiving @Prayers.....~

Hi Friends

I'm not in "the swing " of blogging yet.
I can't find my "old ritme" also in daily life...
I'm going trough the day  and do what needs to be done and i must say my thoughts are frequently "wandering" to pictures in my mind from the short visit on an other continent than Europe....
Africa to be specific Nigeria in the city of Lagos.....

A city with a lot of noise......
People are surviving.....,struggling....A huge difference between the poor and the wealthy


Hard working woman

Children who have dreams and a lot of smiles and are happy with the smallest things

A country blessed with a lot of natural riches....

A lot of Sunlight and high temps

.I enjoyed the tropical weather ,the beautiful skies...., flowers and delicious fruits..........

Last thursday was THANKFUL THURSDAY

with Iris @ Grace Alone

And

Today

Is ( or for me was.....LOL)

FEARLESS FRIDAY 

You can see i can't keep-up with the days and 'get in the swing" as i said......

But I am so THANKFUL  for what God did for me and my family to be able to visit meet my in-laws make new bounds and relationship between us......

My kids can't get over that they met there cousins...nieces and aunts and uncles the 1st time......

We are so thankful for this visit and what we learned most profoundly is TO BE THANKFUL for especially the basic things in life....What we so take for granted everyday.......

*WATER

*ELECTRICITY

* " LAW @ ORDER"

* SAFETY

*STABILITY

* BEING ABLE TO GO TO SCHOOL

*CHOICE in different things ....what to eat...,where to sleep.......

My prayers go up for 

*THE COUNTRY OF NIGERIA.....to develop....to prosper......to share there wealth wisely and equally....To invest wisely in the citizens and in the country itself......

* For the strong NIGERIAN WOMAN........That they will experience The Living God in there daily life....who will strenghten..sustain and bless them and who is able to turn bad in good and there mourning in rejoicing....Who can heal there wounds and give them HOPE for there tomorrows.....

* For the CHILDREN that God will protect and guide them Keep them safe when they are on there own on the streets of Lagos or at home with there siblings when the parents struggle to earn some money.

It's WEEKEND...Yes indeed

I pray that i will be an blessing at my workplace for the elderly.......That my "hands and feet" are willing to be the hands and feet of The Lord......That not my will and my wants but His will and desires for my Life will prevail.....

I pray for "WOW" Weekends Of Worship that it will be an blessing to everyone who will join.

"...Let all that I am praise the Lord."--Psalm 146:1 NLT

More on Weekends of Worship and how it started at WOW

Be blessed my friends and I pray that all of you have an special encounter with the Lord this weekend.!

In CHRIST

"GODSOWN"

WOW ~Weekends Of Worship!! ~

Starting today is a new meme called Weekends of Worship (WOW) and is hosted by One Heart. Click on her site to get the details, do a post of worship, then go back to One Heart and sign in on Mr. Linky to read other posts of Worship. 

 Psalm 100:2 

 ² Worship the LORD with gladness;
       come before him with joyful songs.

 ^{PSALM 36}

⁵ Your unfailing love, O Lord, is as vast as the heavens;
      your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds.
  Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,
      your justice like the ocean depths.
   You care for people and animals alike, O Lord.
     How precious is your unfailing love, O God!
   All humanity finds shelter
      in the shadow of your wings.
  You feed them from the abundance of your own house,
      letting them drink from your river of delights.
  For you are the fountain of life,
      the light by which we see.   Pour out your unfailing love on those who love you;
      give justice to those with honest hearts.

Yes Lord i am in awe of your unfailing love

Your righteousness and Your justice.

You keep always the promises you give to us as your children.

You give me the word not to worry that you will take care of us and provide

each and everyday all our needs and more than we ask......

Thank You Lord for doing that each and everyday on our stay with my in-laws in Nigeria and that You will keep on doing it each and every day.

I praise You Lord Jesus for your Power  Strenght and Protection and Guidance and all You want to be for me and to all who worship you in spirit and in truth.

You are who You are The beginning and the end " Alpha and Omega'

El Shadai (Lord God Almighty) 

El Elyon (The Most High God) 

Adonai(Lord, Master) 

Yaweh(Lord, Jehovah)  

Jehovah Nissi(The Lord My Banner)  

Jehovah Raah(The Lord My Shepherd)  

Jehovah Rapha (The Lord That Heals) 

Jehovah Shammah(The Lord Is There)  

Jehovah Tsidkenu (The Lord Our Righteousness)  

Jehovah Mekoddishkem(The Lord Who Sanctifies You)  

Olam(The Everlasting God)  

Elohim (God)  

Qanna(Jealous)  

Jehovah Jireh(The Lord Will Provide)  

Jehovah Shalom(The Lord Is Peace) 

Jehova Sabaoth(The Lord of Hosts)

Yes Lord I worship you my King....You are THE KING of KINGS and the LORD of LORDS!!

AMEN AMEN.

 

Thank You One Heart. for this opportunity to bring out this meme to gather us to experience the POWER when we worship the FATHER, SON and HOLY SPIRIT.
In the weekends I always joined the meme's " TSMSS" and "SPIRITUAL SUNDAYS"
Both to praise honour and worship the Lord with word and/or with songs
I will link-up my "WOW" post also at those meme's to join us all together......!


Have an blessed and God filled weekend everyone!

Fearless Friday ~ "Back home" Gods LOVE and LIGHT.....~

 GODS LIGHT and LOVE was constantly on our minds in the days we where in the "heart of Lagoscity of Nigeria " where my in-laws live. I thank God for all oppurtunities He gave us to share with others about our faith in Jesus Christ and all the prayers we could do with family,friends and even strangers on the streets when we where on the road.....My husband had great oppurtunities to pray and teach about the lord....
I am so thankful!!


Today is FEARLESS FRIDAY

Join in prayer together for and with eachother.Head over to the home of "FF" at Free SpiritHaven and post your prayer requests  in the comments  or make an blogpost and link-up.

My prayers went up today and where flooded with names and pictures from my Nigerian in-laws and the people i met.....That the seeds we sow about God's Love and Light and about salvation through Jesus Christ will prospour and grow in there hearts and mind...
That we left an testimony while we where there as an family and share daily living with them......!
Prayer for the country of Nigeria and the leaders who are responsible to lead the country.....
hat basic needs will be met for everyone NO MATTER the size of there pockets......
That the Lord will keep on shining HIS LIGHT in every corner......
That Christians will find there way to the people who are in bondage and thinking that that is there destiny......

I want to post an praise today for an in-law ( due to privacy i can't post names) who came out of bondage just before our leaving...........God is so good to show us month's ago this will happen and we did not know this was an mission for our visit to Nigeria...
And we can say mission accomplished and prayers will keep on going up and i ask all of you to help me keep on praying for full recovery and staying on-the straight ways of the Lord!
So one day God willing i can post the whole testemony story of my in-law......
I think you can tell i am beyond happy and can go on.......

This psalm touched me this morning.  and also the song what sings about the words in PSALM 36
The last 2 and an half week was this my experience in the heart of Lagos city in Nigeria!!

PSALM 36
¹ Sin whispers to the wicked, deep within their hearts.
      They have no fear of God at all.
 ² In their blind conceit,
      they cannot see how wicked they really are.
 ³ Everything they say is crooked and deceitful.
      They refuse to act wisely or do good.
 ⁴ They lie awake at night, hatching sinful plots.
      Their actions are never good.
      They make no attempt to turn from evil.
 ⁵ Your unfailing love, O Lord, is as vast as the heavens;
      your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds.
 ⁶ Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,
      your justice like the ocean depths.
   You care for people and animals alike, O Lord.
    ⁷ How precious is your unfailing love, O God!
   All humanity finds shelter
      in the shadow of your wings.
 ⁸ You feed them from the abundance of your own house,
      letting them drink from your river of delights.
 ⁹ For you are the fountain of life,
      the light by which we see.
 ¹⁰ Pour out your unfailing love on those who love you;
      give justice to those with honest hearts.
 ¹¹ Don’t let the proud trample me
      or the wicked push me around.
 ¹² Look! Those who do evil have fallen!
      They are thrown down, never to rise again.

Fearless Friday

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 THURSDAY ~TRAVELING.....with an mission.....!! ~

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"

Fearless Friday ~ KEEP ON.....~

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 112:7-8 NLT

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

Take Care my friends

Blessings!

I am the Alpha and the Omega

 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:

THANKFUL THURSDAY ~ The LOVE of our Father......~

1 John 3:1
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

This week i am THANKFULL to see , feel and draw strenght from THE LOVE OF GOD that He has lavished on me by giving His Son Jesus Christ for "little ole me..." Jesus overcame LIFE and Death...I can over come........with Him this "Dance of Life..........God's Love Jesus must give the rhythm in my Life in your life and i am You are the music......!!


I am Thankful for the tangible blessings we got for taking over allot of furniture and different stuff we can use in our home from an neighbour .


I am thankfull God spoke to our spirit to go together as an family to Nigeria for my MIL's "celebration of her life" in some weeks time.....And He is providing ALL the neccesities to travel....like he had planned all before hand already.....


I am thankful for the strenght i mentioned above what i draw these week out of His Word.....
The beautiful Nigerian worship songs i found and other praise and worship songs ......The "Aaronic blessing verse " in word and music......


I am thankful for the high temps no coats.....no boots.......Thank You Lord for this vibrant and beautiful spring season echoing ...New Life...New Hope.......

Joining Greg and Lynn with thisThankful Thursday post.

In case i am not able to make another "TT" post due to juggling next week work and packing to travel..I meet you all back in the 1st week of June

Blessings!

WFW ~ Numbers 6:25 ~

( Picture credit)
The LORD bless you and keep you;
the LORD make his face shine
upon you and be gracious to you;
the LORD turn his face toward you
and give you peace.

Numbers 6:25

You can find McLinky at our hostess  Susan @  http://susan2956.blogspot.com/
next week our hostess will be Penny’ @  pennyraine.com/blog

MORNING WORSHIP (NIGERIAN)