"Lord make us Courageous" Casting Crowns.
There is a song called Courageous by Casting Crowns that says Lord Make us Courageous. Courage is defined as having characteristics of Bravery. There are people that God puts in our lives that exemplifies courage. For me at the moment it is my 12 year old son.
My son has a Chairi Malformation and suffers with headaches daily. Very debilitating headaches that cause him to shake and be dizzy and miss a lot of school. Through it all he stays positive and always has a smile on his face. There are times in my life that the pain from my artritis gets to be so bad and I will think of David and think that if he can get through what he is facing then I can too.
God calls us to be Courageous in all that we do, wither we are dealing with physical or mental pain. Sometimes we may never understand why we are going through a particular season in our life's, but through it we need to give God the glory and honor. His ways are not our ways.
In Psalms 40:12 -13 it says, "For troubles without number have surrounded me; my sins have overtaken me; I am unable to see.
They are more than the hairs of my head,and my courage leaves me. LORD, be pleased to deliver me; hurry to help me, LORD."
When Courage leaves us we know that God will never leave or abandon us, he is faithful and constant and we can always count on Him.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Grief
Rev 21:4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will no longer exist; grief, crying, and pain will exist no longer,
because the previous things have passed away.
Grief as defined by Merriam Webster is defined as deep and poignant distress caused by or as if by bereavement.
People grieve in many different ways and form and there are many types of grief. You can grief over a loss of a parent or a spouse. You can grieve over the child that you have not yet been able to conceive. You can grieve over a job that you lost or over a job that you wanted but was not the right timing.
God knows about our grief. When we grieve God will grieve with us. In Matthew it says blessed are those who mourn because they will be comforted. God is our comforter and deliver. It is in Him that we need to put our trust.
My heart grieves at times over my son, who suffers from a Chari Malformation and has headaches everyday, several times a day. As a mother my heart is in distress and wants to take all his pain away from him. As a follower of our Loving God I know that when I grieve my Lord grieves too, because David is not only my child but is a child of our Lord.
When you are grieving, give it to the Lord and you will find peace in Him.
because the previous things have passed away.
Grief as defined by Merriam Webster is defined as deep and poignant distress caused by or as if by bereavement.
People grieve in many different ways and form and there are many types of grief. You can grief over a loss of a parent or a spouse. You can grieve over the child that you have not yet been able to conceive. You can grieve over a job that you lost or over a job that you wanted but was not the right timing.
God knows about our grief. When we grieve God will grieve with us. In Matthew it says blessed are those who mourn because they will be comforted. God is our comforter and deliver. It is in Him that we need to put our trust.
My heart grieves at times over my son, who suffers from a Chari Malformation and has headaches everyday, several times a day. As a mother my heart is in distress and wants to take all his pain away from him. As a follower of our Loving God I know that when I grieve my Lord grieves too, because David is not only my child but is a child of our Lord.
When you are grieving, give it to the Lord and you will find peace in Him.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
The Crucifiction
"Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them,because they do not know what they are doing.” and they divided His clothes and cast lots." Luke 23:34
What Love Jesus showed on the cross. People were persecuting Him and beating Him and they nailed Him to a cross and He asked for the Lord to forgive them.
There have been times in my life where I have struggled with forgiveness. When I was 2 months old my parents divorced because my father told my mother if she did not abort me he would divorce her. My entire life I struggled with forgiving Him because of never being there, he signed away custody and I never saw him until I was seventeen and by then I had so much anger in my heart for him, I could not even look at him.
As I grew closer to the Lord, this passage came to me in Luke that His own people Jews, beat Him and hung Him on a cross and He said Father forgive them. What love Jesus showed to the people who were persecuting Him.
It made me think that if Jesus could forgive these people who were beating Him, how could I not forgive my father for abandoning me. When I finally forgave I felt a big weight come off my shoulders.
Lord, I thank You for dying on the cross for Me!!
What Love Jesus showed on the cross. People were persecuting Him and beating Him and they nailed Him to a cross and He asked for the Lord to forgive them.
There have been times in my life where I have struggled with forgiveness. When I was 2 months old my parents divorced because my father told my mother if she did not abort me he would divorce her. My entire life I struggled with forgiving Him because of never being there, he signed away custody and I never saw him until I was seventeen and by then I had so much anger in my heart for him, I could not even look at him.
As I grew closer to the Lord, this passage came to me in Luke that His own people Jews, beat Him and hung Him on a cross and He said Father forgive them. What love Jesus showed to the people who were persecuting Him.
It made me think that if Jesus could forgive these people who were beating Him, how could I not forgive my father for abandoning me. When I finally forgave I felt a big weight come off my shoulders.
Lord, I thank You for dying on the cross for Me!!
Thursday, April 14, 2011
God's Faithfulness
"Now to Him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen" Eph 3:20-21
This past week I has surgery on my back, I had a spinal cord stimulator that was put in and the Dr's think that I may have ruptured another disk and they had to remove the stimulator in order to do a MRI. This has been a hard recovery for me. I have been dealing with a great amount of pain, but as I was laying in bed the other day I was listening to my praise music and the song came on Everything by Tim Hughes and some of the lyrics are:
"God in my hoping, there in my dreaming
God in my watching, God in my waiting
God in my laughing, there in my weeping
God in my hurting, God in my healing
Be my everything, be my everything."
God is our everything as I was in pain I was thinking that God is there in my hurting and God is there in my healing. As I was reading through Ephesians, I ran across this verse in chapter 3 that I listed above that talks about He is able to do above and beyond our greatest imagination. He is able to heal and hold us in our greatest time of need. Lord we thank you for this and we love You!
This past week I has surgery on my back, I had a spinal cord stimulator that was put in and the Dr's think that I may have ruptured another disk and they had to remove the stimulator in order to do a MRI. This has been a hard recovery for me. I have been dealing with a great amount of pain, but as I was laying in bed the other day I was listening to my praise music and the song came on Everything by Tim Hughes and some of the lyrics are:
"God in my hoping, there in my dreaming
God in my watching, God in my waiting
God in my laughing, there in my weeping
God in my hurting, God in my healing
Be my everything, be my everything."
God is our everything as I was in pain I was thinking that God is there in my hurting and God is there in my healing. As I was reading through Ephesians, I ran across this verse in chapter 3 that I listed above that talks about He is able to do above and beyond our greatest imagination. He is able to heal and hold us in our greatest time of need. Lord we thank you for this and we love You!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
God's Grace
"For the LORD God is a sun and shield. The LORD gives grace and glory; He does not withhold the good from those who live with integrity." Ps 84:11
Last night I could not sleep and I pondered on God's Grace. God's grace is so abounding. I could not think of a time in my life that I have not encountered His grace. Whenever we mess up, His loving arms is always there for us to come back to.
When I looked up the word grace in the dictionary this is the definition that I found:
mercy; clemency; pardon: an act of grace according to http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Grace
I was listening to the radio the other day, as you can tell by my other posts I love music, and this song came on called What love really means and at the end of the song there is a man who is in jail. He calls out to the Lord and says I know I have murdered and Lied and basically cried out for his grace and mercy to save him. The Lord then answered back I will Love you for you, not for what you have done or what you've become.
Two semesters ago when I was in College I got to interview a man for one of my classes who had gone to jail for vehicular manslaughter. While he was in jail he reached out to our Loving savior and was in Awe of his Grace and love to save him after what he had done. This man talked about God like no other that I have heard. The peace and love that this man had was awe inspiring. If God can take the heart of a man who had to live with an accidental killing and change it. Think of all God's grace and mercy can do for us.
God's grace is for all who seek it. God is there, all we need to do is reach out and claim it.
Last night I could not sleep and I pondered on God's Grace. God's grace is so abounding. I could not think of a time in my life that I have not encountered His grace. Whenever we mess up, His loving arms is always there for us to come back to.
When I looked up the word grace in the dictionary this is the definition that I found:
mercy; clemency; pardon: an act of grace according to http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Grace
I was listening to the radio the other day, as you can tell by my other posts I love music, and this song came on called What love really means and at the end of the song there is a man who is in jail. He calls out to the Lord and says I know I have murdered and Lied and basically cried out for his grace and mercy to save him. The Lord then answered back I will Love you for you, not for what you have done or what you've become.
Two semesters ago when I was in College I got to interview a man for one of my classes who had gone to jail for vehicular manslaughter. While he was in jail he reached out to our Loving savior and was in Awe of his Grace and love to save him after what he had done. This man talked about God like no other that I have heard. The peace and love that this man had was awe inspiring. If God can take the heart of a man who had to live with an accidental killing and change it. Think of all God's grace and mercy can do for us.
God's grace is for all who seek it. God is there, all we need to do is reach out and claim it.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Love
"The LORD will send His faithful love by day; His song will be with me in the night—
a prayer to the God of my life." Ps 42:8
The other night I got a sweet tooth and we were listening to the radio on our way to Dairy Queen and a song came on the radio, and the lyrics really touched my heart. The song was What love really means by JJ Heller.
Part of the lyrics of the song are:
"Who will love me for me
Not for what I have done or what I will become
Who will love me for me
'Cause nobody has shown me what love
What love really means"
This song got me thinking about God's love and how abundant and unconditional it is. He is the only one who will love us for us. There are times in our lives where love will seem conditional. We might have a friend who will get mad at us and not speak to us because of something that we have said or done. We might have a spouse who loves us only if we make supper or clean the house.
When I was in high school I had a best friend that I thought hung the moon, I loved this person so much and told him all of my hopes and dreams and my secrets. Then one day out of the blue, he stopped talking to me and would never tell me why. I was devastated, I was so hurt that I never wanted to have a friend again, because I was so afraid of the hurt.
The good news is that God will never hurt us that way, God's love is not conditional and is never ending.
Praise God for His love!!
a prayer to the God of my life." Ps 42:8
The other night I got a sweet tooth and we were listening to the radio on our way to Dairy Queen and a song came on the radio, and the lyrics really touched my heart. The song was What love really means by JJ Heller.
Part of the lyrics of the song are:
"Who will love me for me
Not for what I have done or what I will become
Who will love me for me
'Cause nobody has shown me what love
What love really means"
This song got me thinking about God's love and how abundant and unconditional it is. He is the only one who will love us for us. There are times in our lives where love will seem conditional. We might have a friend who will get mad at us and not speak to us because of something that we have said or done. We might have a spouse who loves us only if we make supper or clean the house.
When I was in high school I had a best friend that I thought hung the moon, I loved this person so much and told him all of my hopes and dreams and my secrets. Then one day out of the blue, he stopped talking to me and would never tell me why. I was devastated, I was so hurt that I never wanted to have a friend again, because I was so afraid of the hurt.
The good news is that God will never hurt us that way, God's love is not conditional and is never ending.
Praise God for His love!!
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
How He Loves
This morning I was listening to i tunes and the song How He Loves came on by the David Crowder Band. Part of the lyrics of the song are:
He is jealous for me,
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realize just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.
I was pondering on these lyrics, thinking about us being like a tree bending beneath His mercy. Oh what Mercy he shows us. We are all sinners saved by His grace, what Mercy and compassion he showed us by allowing His one and only Son to die for us.
"His mercy is from generation to generation on those who fear Him."Luke 1:50
I marvel at His mercy and grace. God is so wonderful.
Dear Lord,
Help us as we go throughout our day, help us Lord to always seek You first and remember that your mercies are new every day Lord. Lord we love You!
He is jealous for me,
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realize just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.
I was pondering on these lyrics, thinking about us being like a tree bending beneath His mercy. Oh what Mercy he shows us. We are all sinners saved by His grace, what Mercy and compassion he showed us by allowing His one and only Son to die for us.
"His mercy is from generation to generation on those who fear Him."Luke 1:50
I marvel at His mercy and grace. God is so wonderful.
Dear Lord,
Help us as we go throughout our day, help us Lord to always seek You first and remember that your mercies are new every day Lord. Lord we love You!
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Faith
I think that there are some area's in our life that we like to hold on to and not hand over to God and when we do hand them over, we have the tendency to play tug o war with God and take them back and give them again.
For me the one area that I struggle with is our Finances. God tells us in His word,
"You provided bread from heaven for their hunger; You brought them water from the rock for their thirst. You told them to go in and possess the land You had sworn to give them". Neh 9:15
When Tim and I were first married we lived in the upper part of a Woman's house and we struggled financially. We got to a point one month that we were eating beans and sometimes canned little sausages for supper. It was 5 days before Tim got paid and we were last to 1 can of beans. We had a check for the church for $20, and $2 cash. Tim said we needed to be faithful, I was scared and did not know what to do. We ended up giving the check to the church and had our bean supper that night. The next morning we woke up and there were 2 full bags of groceries at our front door. No one but God knew out financial situation and He provided for all of our needs.
God taught me that day to always put my trust in Him.
For me the one area that I struggle with is our Finances. God tells us in His word,
"You provided bread from heaven for their hunger; You brought them water from the rock for their thirst. You told them to go in and possess the land You had sworn to give them". Neh 9:15
When Tim and I were first married we lived in the upper part of a Woman's house and we struggled financially. We got to a point one month that we were eating beans and sometimes canned little sausages for supper. It was 5 days before Tim got paid and we were last to 1 can of beans. We had a check for the church for $20, and $2 cash. Tim said we needed to be faithful, I was scared and did not know what to do. We ended up giving the check to the church and had our bean supper that night. The next morning we woke up and there were 2 full bags of groceries at our front door. No one but God knew out financial situation and He provided for all of our needs.
God taught me that day to always put my trust in Him.
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