Fearless Friday ~ An scrambling of thoughts....but very important prayer request!!~

Indeed today is ( was for me it is already after midnight so early sat morning...) Fearless Friday.
I always join other bloggers on this day to pray for eachother and others.....
Yesterday and today i struggled to get through an normal earlyshift( after my midnight shifts last weekend)
So blogging was not on my mind or i extended it to the evenings but it never happenend.....


For prayer requests headover to "Freespirit Haven" the home of "Fearless Friday"
In my side-bar are prayerbuttons
And for today i re-post an prayer request for an dear online friend and and fairly new blogging sister.......
This post i set-up this week to bring her under your attention........

Help me lift-up in prayer a dear friend of mine.....

Dear friends a dear sister is in need of much prayer and help right the moment.
Last week came the news after some surging she is hospitalized....Her kids live not close by and are working.
Her daughter send out an message to an mutual friend of both of us that her mother is not capable to go online. Because she can hardly sit straight...so she will keep us updated and try to bring an laptop to her as soon as possible......


My request is to gather together and pray for her and in case you live close to or know somebody who is around  Hickory : NC : United States
and feel lead to visit her or extend help please send her an message over at her blog.
I hope her daughter will see those emails....
Thank You !

Mountain Tops and Valleys: My Growing Walk

 

Pray for her as you feel lead and let's fload her blog prayers in our comments...

The last up-date some days ago is that her daughter took her home with her but she is in a lot of pain and uncertainty about the cause.....

Also problems with health insurance.

I hope to hear soon some new updates.......

Thanks all and have an blessed weekend.

Sorry if this post is a little scambling of my thoughts.... ( and i think full of writing mistakes......)I'm exhausted and tired and it looks like an "mountain' the idea that my alarm will go already around 7.00 am due to an soccergame my son need to play.....I hope and pray for stormy weather lol so it will be canceled...!!

 

Take Care

Blessings

WFW ~ ARISE.......Isaiah 60:1 ~

YOU RAISE ME UP ( Don't miss this video)

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WORD FILLED WEDNESDAY

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and our hostess this week:

Penny @ pennyraine.com/blog

Pictures from my birthcountry "Surinam"

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Help me lift-up in prayer a dear friend of mine.....

Dear friends a dear sister is in need of much prayer and help right the moment.
Last week came the news after some surging she is hospitalized....Her kids live not close by and are working.
Her daughter send out an message to an mutual friend of both of us that her mother is not capable to go online. Because she can hardly sit straight...so she will keep us updated and try to bring an laptop to her as soon as possible......


My request is to gather together and pray for her and in case you live close to or know somebody who is around  Hickory : NC : United States
and feel lead to visit her or extend help please send her an message over at her blog.
I hope her daughter will see those emails....
Thank You !

Mountain Tops and Valleys: My Growing Walk

Not about me ~ Joining in BLESSING THE NAME of The LORD~

Good tuesday morning my friends.

Over the weekend i had midnightshift "duty" with the elderly...
So i'm coming out of that ritme. I remember in the weekend..It was sunday Angela of "Free Spirithaven" asked to link-up with her "To Bless the Name of The Lord"
It's not sunday anymore but it feels to me i "skipped" the sunday and i woke-up this morning feeling getting energized by God spirit and wanted to praise and dance and really "Bless His Name"
So here is this song @ my todays verses... what is stirring us up and make you sing and shout!


Blessings to all of you and have an great day in the Lord.

Tuesday, March 2


Psalm 31:21-24
Exodus 8; Matthew 20:17-28

From your lofty abode you water the mountains; the earth is satisfied
with the fruit of your work. Psalm 104:13

Everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected,
provided it is received with thanksgiving. 1 Timothy 4:4

Creator God, thank you for the gift of this day and for our place in
your creation! Search our hearts, settle our minds, and lead us to
experience gratitude for your continuous providence, so that we may
joyfully provide for others. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

THAN SING MY SOUL SATURDAY ~ Week revieuw @ Selah....~

This week i came accross so much beautiful songs of praise ad worship.And also songs who encourages and give comfort.
In my upper-bar i put this week another playlist with songs from Selah The song what made me go and discover there music was  "Unredeemed" 
The lyrics touched me and the passionate singing voices of the artists

The cruelest world

The coldest heart

The deepest wound

The endless dark

The lonely ache

The burning tears

The bitter nights

The wasted years

Life breaks and falls apart

But we know these are

Places where grace is soon to be so amazing

It may be unfulfilled

It may be unrestored

But when anything that's shattered is laid before the lord

Just watch and see

It will not be unredeemed

For every choice that led to shame

And all the love that never came

For every vow that someone broke

And every lie that gave up hope

We live in the shadow of the fall

But the cross says these are all

Places where grace is soon to be so amazing

It may be unfulfilled

It may be unrestored

But when anything that's shattered is laid before the lord

Just watch and see

It will not be unredeemed

Places where grace is soon to be so amazing

It may be unfulfilled

It may be unrestored

But you never know the miracle the father has in store

Just watch and see

It will not be

Just watch and see

It will not be unredeemed

The cruelest world

The coldest heart

The deepest wound

The endless dark

The lonely ache

The burning tears

The bitter nights

The wasted years

Life breaks and falls apart

But we know these are

Places where grace is soon to be so amazing

It may be unfulfilled

It may be unrestored

But when anything that's shattered is laid before the lord

Just watch and see

It will not be unredeemed

For every choice that led to shame

And all the love that never came

For every vow that someone broke

And every lie that gave up hope

We live in the shadow of the fall

But the cross says these are all

Places where grace is soon to be so amazing

It may be unfulfilled

It may be unrestored

But when anything that's shattered is laid before the lord

Just watch and see

It will not be unredeemed

Places where grace is soon to be so amazing

It may be unfulfilled

It may be unrestored

But you never know the miracle the father has in store

Just watch and see

It will not be

Just watch and see

It will not be unredeemed

In case you love to sing and hear more music what came my way this week
Is "God Speaking" Mandisa, "Thank You Lord" Don Moen en i sang along with Hillsong "Yahweh" when God prompted me to understand Him more to study about His different names ( in my side bar is the song and an intro speech.....So if you have still some time listen to it it will stirred you spirit)

For more THEN SINGS MY SOUL SATURDAY participants

TO ENJOY MORE MUSIC

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Living Intentionally in 2010 ~ accountability time....~

Accountability ... eLisa asks us to refocus upon our original post of goals, Scriptures, etc. from January, 2010, being accountable to one another.  I need this. Thank you, eLisa.

These are my intentions ,prayer and year scripture.....

Lord my hope is in You ( ps 39:7) for You are my hope ( ps 71:5) Work in me that i put my hope in your Word ( ps 119: 147).I commit myself to seek You daily. To let Your words be my strenght.


I have a lot of Dreams Lord let me dream the dreams YOU have in mind for me and for my family.


As i know You said " For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are my ways " ( isiah55:8)


This is what You made me realize so let my thoughts and my dreams align with Yours

Lord this year.

My Goals Lord......I want to lay aside every weight, and the sin what so easily stand in the way. I want to run the race that is set before me with endurance......., looking unto JESUS the author and finisher of my faith ( Hebr 12:1-2)

Practicly i will make DAILY time to spend with the Lord.

Online bible study and studying on the ning page of www.proverbs31.org woman of the bible......

I will commit myself to be aware that I am the hands and the feet of the finisher of my faith in this world Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior!

Amen

John 14
The Road
1 "Don't let this throw you. You trust God, don't you? Trust me. (MSG)

Jesus Comforts His Disciples
1"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God(NIV)

The month of January and February went fast and looking back and reflecting i see...


I will start with the POSITIVES....
The WORD to TRUST came frequently in my mind when i want to give into 
Worry about finances.....When my mind wanted to make negative scenario's of the future...
I remember God's WORD that we are save in HIS HANDS.......


NEGATIVES
Making not enough.... quiet-time to spend with the Lord.......I feel like the Lord is saying" I want more of you not in-between the hustle and bustle or thinking only of me when you read Christian blogs......No I want FULL attention"


But i know God is close and speaking.........to me alot about...HIS LOVE for me....
He wants me to be more confident and not insecure........in the different area's of my life daily....In raising the kids...at my workplace or while normal socializing....
Not being afraid because I must TRUST and speak-out that i give and know God is in control!


God is learning me to work on understanding who He is and wants to be for me...
He wanted me to understand the different names of Him....( I put them up in my sidebar and found this week an video and song.....Also an bible-study online....)

Thank You Lord for being my heavenly dad and accepting me for who I am.....for loving me for redeeming back what is yours....
For learning and disciplining me........
Lord forgive me my known and unknown sins.....forgive me my weaknesses and strenghten me to overcome all of them
To become who you want me to be in Jesus Name i pray Amen


Music is the very tool God uses  to reach me and It is frequently the way how my prayers go up to the Lord...


These where the songs that touched me this week









Thanks eLisa for this time and i press on together with you in theis "Living Intentionally in 2010"
In case you want to join us headover to here and link-up at her place

Fearless Friday ~ Yahweh.............~

Are you like me now in total worship and in awe about GOD?

There is no space in my mind and emotion for FEAR and WORRY.......

Do you remember those verses

“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
"Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14 NLT

YES those are the verses who sustain FEARLESS FRIDAY

A day where I commit to pray for you. Other precious prayer warriors have also committed to pray for you. To participate in Fearless Fridays please leave a comment sharing your prayer request overhere or at "Free Spirit Haven" who initiated this day.... I hope you will join Fearless Fridays and see the power of prayer in your life and others.

If the Lord so leads you, grab the Fearless Friday button and bring it to your blog, letting others know you too will stand in the gap for others through prayer.
Stand in prayer than also for the requests in my left side bar! 

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Today's verses out of my "Moravian devotional" from Carmel ministries

Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.
Jeremiah 4:3

 

Be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.Ephesians 4:23–24

Today's Prayer

Lord, thank you for this new day and a new way to live in you. Break up my apathy and free me from the ways that I get entangled or cause pain.Good and gracious Gardener, tear out the weeds of selfishness, envy, and strife from my lives by renewing me to flourish in your calling as you nourish me with your gifts,and plant faith, love, and hope in my mind and
heart. Clothe me in compassionate care for all that you have created.  Amen.

We look towards YAHWEH  call and pray unto Him and

Fight the good fight
The enemy can't stand our roaring and telling him  to BACK OFF!



Blessings to you my friends !

THANK FULL THURSDAY ~ Simply "THANK YOU LORD" ~

To find words to express can be difficult.....or it looks/feels like you find words but they are not expressing what you want to say.........


Frequently i am like that when i come overhere to blog
Just like today and i believe last week also and than i "declined" and did not make an TT post.....
I was wondering....? Am i not thankfull?
On the contaray but it seems like i can't make an post or find my post coming short....??
" Who says so.......'?
"Why are you making yourself  INsecure?
Well i guess someone is not happy that we are putting purposefully our praise up every THURSDAY!!
Is my conclusion to this 'inner voice battle"


So here i am posting an beautiful song from Don Moen.........
MUSIC that is so important to me and my spirit in my spiritual growth God uses that mightely to SPEAK to my spirit ,to lift me up to turn my eyes to the things what He find important.....To bring me in another realm of hearing His voice clearly and to speak out words of praise,thankfullness and worship Him for who he is.......


I am thankful for music ( btw you can find ALOT on my blog as you can see...)
And all what this singer is singing about......


Have an blessed TT and let us not relent to keep our praise up purposefully
God is delighted when we praise Him and THANK HIM......


DO WE NOT LOVE OUR KIDS TO BE KIND PRAISING AND THANKING US??


THANKFUL THURSDAY with Iris @ Grace Alone 

Thursday, February 25


Psalm 30:6-12 Exodus 2:11-3:22; Matthew 19:1-12

The Lord will send his angel with you and make your way successful.
Genesis 24:40

The angel said to Peter, 'Fasten your belt and put on your sandals.' He
did so. Then he said to him, 'Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.'
Acts 12:8

Loving Leader, guide our hands, hearts, and feet in the ways of peace in
our world and help us to always be faithful followers of you.Thank you, Lord, that even though I may get it wrong and miss the joy that you’ve planned, you won’t give up on me. Thank you for sending help and showing me the way out of prison, free to boldly show your love for all. Help me to live with more simplicity so that I can simply follow you.  Amen.  Amen, be
it so.

Moravian daytexts

Info 

WFW ~ REMEMBER THE LORD IN AN DISTANT LAND @ Dayverses ~

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Ricky Maynard
‘The Spit’ from the series ‘Portrait of a Distant Land’
2007

Wednesday, February 24


Psalm 30:1-5
Exodus 1:1-2:10; Matthew 18:15-35

Remember the Lord in a distant land, and let Jerusalem come into your
mind. Jeremiah 51:50

Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and
sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he
comes. Mark 8:38

Lord, thank you for your love that stretches to every land. Draw me close to you when I become distant. Calm my fears when I become ashamed of my weaknesses and I’m afraid to let you come near. Jesus, help me not to adulterate the life of forgiveness that you have given for all people.

Son of man, we confess we sometimes feel we are living in a distant land
and need your help. Let us remember to look for your light that
surrounds and lives in us. Fill us, O Lord, this day. Amen.

WORD FILLED WEDNESDAY

Amydeanne @ the160acrewoods.com

and our hostess this week:

Susan @ Forever Hi

Living Fearlessly in 2010 – Part 3 or “Do I Matter?”

“Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.” ~ Matthew 10:29-31 (ESV ~ emphasis mine)

“I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful 
  are your works; my soul knows it very well.” ~ Psalm 139:14 (ESV)

Max Lucado writes in his book “Fearless“:

“Ah, There it is. There is the question. The Amazon River out of which a thousand fears flow: do we matter? We fear we don’t. We fear nothingness, insignificance. We fear evaporation. We fear that in the last tabulation we make no contribution to the final sum. We fear coming and going and non one knowing” and “Connect to someone special and become someone special, right?

Iris from "Grace Alone" is posting every 2 weeks  about the book " FEARLESS" of M.Lucado and her thoughts about an part and make us think some questions over.

The question for the last 2 weeks were
Where there times when you linked up so you could catch a lime-light ray? Please do share – it does not have to be connected with blogging; maybe in your immediate surroundings? Did you ever wish you could be like ________?
Over the next week I would like you to ponder the Cross. What does the Cross say about how much you matter to God?
Well....I am a little  late in making an post but the questions i asked myself for some minutes....hours..days..(LOL)
Initially i wanted to say "I do not love lime-lights and try to get out of there ways....I rather stay as anonymous as possible as long as i can remember"
As a child i believe i went un-noticed.......
But when i started thinking about it more deeper........I looked up at people who matter....I was dreaming of becoming like them......started imitating.......
I remember as an kid to love all those TV programs and soaps.....Dreaming of an life like that...talking like such and so...Dancing like.....LOL....
WELL so i conclude i was dreaming of this "Lime-light" thing......
I did not link -up consiousely but it is possible that ALOT of my behavior ( thoughts etc ...) was formed by those...idea's...persons....


The second question.....When i look at the cross "What does that say how much i matter to God"??!!


I want to be honest and open about my thoughts in this post....
When i look at my Christian walk most of it i was only aware of one aspect of God TO BE MY FATHER!!
The BEST PLACE to hide...THE BEST PERSON to talk to was GOD for me as an child as adult......!!
Wanted to know my heavenly father...wanted to be an GOOD CHILD.........
I see now that most part of my christian walk i was religious
In the last decade i started to be more aware that it is not about HAVING AN FATHER solely what it is all about....but about.....HAVING AN RELATIONSHIP WIT JESUS..........TO KNOW THE FATHER .......!!
It is not only an "head thing".......learning the bible...socializing with Christians......!!
But looking at the CROSS, internalizing and praising  JESUS for what He has done and ACCEPTING ( seeing the need putting away proudness...) THAT IT IS DONE FOR ME!!
GOD GAVE HIS SON FOR ME!!
I remember my commitment day...( 20 years ago or so...) The realization made me cry that i needed an SAVIOR.........I accepted ...I wanted to follow and stay and be an child of God.
But it took long to sink in the dept and wide meaning of what GOD DID FOR ME ....
TO GIVE HIS ONE AND ONLY SON.........TO make the way free to Him........To change me to become what He wants me to become....HE WANTS THE BEST FOR ME....!!
HE LOVES and ACCEPTS me for who I Am BUT HE has/have an bigger plan and that part was the part what my eyes where not yet open for..........

God IS THE BEST PARENT who gave everything for HIS CHILDREN...
And I am so Thannkful He accepts me as His child!

" I LOVE YOU"....GOD IS SPEAKING!!

From Extravagat Grace by eLisa @ my intentions for 2010 focus......

from Extravagant Grace by eLisa

Sweet friends, the Lord has laid it on my heart that we need a bit of accountability on this Living Intentionally Together journey. Our first month of 2010 is over, like a vapor, it vanished before our eyes. If we don't pause and take note of where we've been, what we've learned, and where we're heading, we'll find ourselves facing 2011 right where we started 2010 -- hopeful and determined, but potentially disappointed and discourage for having the past year whip by without our intentional participation in the Kingdom of God.

Let's live differently this year!!!

Instead of starting off like gang-busters only to repent at year end, let's pause before the Lord and hear from Him now. Let's invest a little extra time in our Living Intentionally journey by doing the following between now and March 1st...

1. Spend time reviewing our original Living Intentionally Together post and/or commitments.
   
2. Spend time in prayer:
   

   • Confess before the Lord anything He brings to mind.
     
   • Praise God for who He is, as we consider His abounding love and extravagant grace.
     
   • Ask the Lord to be the focus of our heart, mind, and soul as we seek to live intentionally for His glory.

   
   
3. Write a post about what we have learned as a result of spending this time with the Lord and then come back to leave a link below.
   

If you are just joining in now, please go to this first post about Living Intentionally Together. Feel free to use the resources provided to help you join in now, and be sure to share your commitment post with us at the linky provided here.

I joined in at E-lisa to "Life Intentionally Together....and will reflect the coming week on my inttentions...


I took my prayer from dec 2008 over for this year of 2010

Lord my hope is in You ( ps 39:7) for You are my hope ( ps 71:5) Work in me that i put my hope in your Word ( ps 119: 147).I commit myself to seek You daily. To let Your words be my strenght.



I have a lot of Dreams Lord let me dream the dreams YOU have in mind for me and for my family.

As i know You said " For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are my ways " ( isiah55:8)

This is what You made me realize so let my thoughts and my dreams align with Yours

Lord this year.



My Goals Lord......I want to lay aside every weight, and the sin what so easily stand in the way. I want to run the race that is set before me with endurance......., looking unto JESUS the author and finisher of my faith ( Hebr 12:1-2)



Practicly i will make DAILY time to spend with the Lord.

Online bible study  and studying on the ning page of www.proverbs31.org woman of the bible......

I will commit myself to be aware that I am the hands and the feet of the finisher of my faith in this world Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior!

Amen


I got an YEAR WORD for 2010 in my Moravian Dailytext Devotion

John 14
The Road
1 "Don't let this throw you. You trust God, don't you? Trust me. (MSG)

Jesus Comforts His Disciples
1"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God(NIV)

Jezus Christus zegt: Wees niet ongerust, geloof in God en geloof in Mij

I know TRUST and RESTING in HIM must be the basis in my striving to live and handle all the different calls in my life...
This is the basis of living intentionally in His power and strenght to bring out all ..The Hopes- Dreams and Goals He has for me and my family!

Join me in following intentioally through this year of 2010 and the coming week untill march 1 to

1. Spend time reviewing your original intentions and commitments at the beginning of this year
   
2. Spend time in prayer:
3. Write a post about what you have learned as a result of spending this time with the Lord

To join more info and linking-up go to this post of ELisa at "Extravagant Grace"

THAN SING MY SOUL SATURDAY ~ ONE WAY @ Dayverses.....~

From: gospeloneministries

 
Saturday, February 20

Psalm 27:7-14 Genesis 48; Matthew 17:1-13

Today's Old Testament Verse

You are my God.
Psalm 118:28

Today's New Testament Verse

No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:6

Today's Prayer

Jesus, I praise you that I don’t have to find God on my own! Thank you for finding me and claiming me as your own. As if on eagles’ wings, you uplift and sustain me, especially when I fall. Help me trust you to lead me today to share your faithful love with others. Thanks be to God!

 The Great I Am, guide our feet in the way, truth, and life. Make us
examples of your love for others that they may see you through us. As
your servants we pray. Amen, may it be so
(Moravian Daily Texts)

VISIT Amy @ Signs, Miracles and Wonders

For more THEN SINGS MY SOUL SATURDAY participants

BUTTERFLY @ My daily readings......

Todays i read my commitment psalm again out of the Message version of the bible...

Psalm 27

A David Psalm

 ¹ Light, space, zest— that's God!
   So, with him on my side I'm fearless,
      afraid of no one and nothing.

 ² When vandal hordes ride down
      ready to eat me alive,
   Those bullies and toughs
      fall flat on their faces.

 ³ When besieged,
      I'm calm as a baby.
   When all hell breaks loose,
      I'm collected and cool.

 ⁴ I'm asking God for one thing,
      only one thing:
   To live with him in his house
      my whole life long.
   I'll contemplate his beauty;
      I'll study at his feet.

 ⁵ That's the only quiet, secure place
      in a noisy world,
   The perfect getaway,
      far from the buzz of traffic.

 ⁶ God holds me head and shoulders
      above all who try to pull me down.
   I'm headed for his place to offer anthems
      that will raise the roof!
   Already I'm singing God-songs;
      I'm making music to God.

I read this after i came across this video of an "Butterfly Story"

Picturing my spiritual growth as the birth of an butterfly.........

Being thankful for the struggles and the breakthroughs in my walk with the Lord.....

Every time i read psalm 27 it boosts my heart and today this translation made it speak new and  afresh to my heart again

Vers 4-5 so true

 ⁴ I'm asking God for one thing,
      only one thing:
   To live with him in his house
      my whole life long.
   I'll contemplate his beauty;
      I'll study at his feet.

 ⁵ That's the only quiet, secure place
      in a noisy world,
   The perfect getaway,
      far from the buzz of traffic.  

Friday, February 19


Psalm 27:1-6 Genesis 46:28-47:31; Matthew 16:21-28

Today's Old Testament Verse

Your people say, “The way of the Lord is not just,” when it is their own way that is not just.
Ezekiel 33:17

Today's New Testament Verse

If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9

Today's Prayer

Lord, I am thankful that you are faithful and just! When I fail and want to walk away, you draw me near. Remind me that, even when I may not understand and may lose the will to stand, you will never let go of me. You have sealed me to you by your Water and Word forever.

Giver of life, we confess that we do not always live up to your teaching
and example. Forgive us and help us to live so that we always share your
love and goodness with others. In Jesus' name. Amen.

Moravian Daily Texts

Fearles Friday ~ PRAYING>>>>>>>The Kitchen: God's Abundant Table~

Good morning my friends It's Fearless Friday and our host is at "Free Spirit Haven"
Last week i missed making an blogpost due to bussyness and not blogging last week so much
I pray that all is well in your world
let's pray together and lift up all the request up to the lord and join hands together in prayer.
Let's hold on to the promises God gave to us.
We look forward to healing,restoration.
We have only God to cling to.


This morning i read an good post "Up Words from Max Lucado" and want to leave you with this 
Have an good day in the Lord and an blessed weekend.


Week of February 19
The Kitchen: God's Abundant Table
by Max Lucado

"Give us this day our daily bread..."

Your first step into the house of God was not to the kitchen but to the living room, where you were reminded of your adoption. "OurFather who is in heaven." You then studied the foundation of the house, where you pondered his permanence. "Our Father who is in heaven." Next you entered the observatory and marveled at his handiwork: "Our Father who is in heaven." In the chapel, you worshiped his holiness: "Hallowed be thy name." In the throne room, you touched the lowered scepter and prayed the greatest prayer, "Thy kingdom come." In the study, you submitted your desires to his and prayed, "Thy will be done." And all of heaven was silent as you placed your prayer in the furnace, saying, "on earth as it is in heaven."
Proper prayer follows such a path, revealing God to us before revealing our needs to God. (You might reread that one.) The purpose of prayer is not to change God, but to change us, and by the time we reach God's kitchen, we are changed people. Wasn't our heart warmed when we called him Father? Weren't our fears stilled when we contemplated his constancy? Weren't we amazed as we stared at the heavens?
Seeing his holiness caused us to confess our sin. Inviting his kingdom to come reminded us to stop building our own. Asking God for his will to be done placed our will in second place to his. And realizing that heaven pauses when we pray left us breathless in his presence.
By the time we step into the kitchen, we're renewed people! We've been comforted by our father, conformed by his nature, consumed by our creator, convicted by his character, constrained by his power, commissioned by our teacher, and compelled by his attention to our prayers.
The prayer's next three petitions encompass all of the concerns of our life. "This daily bread" addresses the present. "Forgive our sins" addresses the past. "Lead us not into temptation" speaks to the future. (The wonder of God's wisdom: how he can reduce all our needs to three simple statements.)
First he addresses our need for bread. The term means all of a person's physical needs. Martin Luther defined bread as "Everything necessary for the preservation of this life, including food, a healthy body, house, home, wife and children." This verse urges us to talk to God about the necessities of life. He may also give us the luxuries of life, but he certainly will grant the necessities.
Any fear that God wouldn't meet our needs was left in the observatory. Would he give the stars their glitter and not give us our food? Of course not. He has committed to care for us. We aren't wrestling crumbs out of a reluctant hand, but rather confessing the bounty of a generous hand. The essence of the prayer is really an affirmation of the Father's care. Our provision is his priority.
From The Great House of God
Copyright (Thomas Nelson, 1997) Max Lucado

Blessings on this VALENTINE'S DAY

I love You, Lord, And I lift my voice.

To worship You, Oh my soul, rejoice!

Take joy, my King, In what you hear.

May it be a sweet, Sweet sound in Your ear.

I love You, Lord, And I lift my voice.

To worship You, Oh my soul, rejoice!

Take joy, my King, In what you hear.

May it be a sweet, Sweet sound in Your ear.

I love You, Lord, And I lift my voice.

To worship You, Oh my soul, rejoice!

Take joy, my King, In what you hear.

May it be a sweet, Sweet sound in Your ear.

"The Story of St. Valentine"

St. Valentine was a Christian back when it was against the  Roman law.There was a law that  everyone had to worship the  emperor. Christians worshiped only Jesus.  That seemed strange to the people in  Rome.And any time something went wrong  back then, folks needed someone to blame.

The emperor had  Valentine beaten with  sticks because he would not worship the emperor. Valentine didn't fight  back because that's not  the way of Jesus. So Valentine was thrown  in jail.

Valentine's jailer was  called Asterius. He worshipped the emperor like everyone else.  But Valentine wouldn't  stop talking to him about Jesus. He sang about Jesus; he prayed to Jesus. Asterius started to get interested. Now Asterius had a blind daughter. "If your Jesus can heal my little girl, " said Asterius,"then I'll believe in Him."

Valentine prayed and the child got her sight. And Asterius was so  happy  that he and his whole  family became Christians.

"MY TRUE VALENTINE"

Jesus is my true  Valentine. His heart was  pierced for me. I cannot tell why He loved me so well, But He proved it on Calvary