Hi my most Wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. I am so excited to write to all of you. I have been praying for you. I am sitting in one of my favorite coffee shops. I just finished doing my Bible study and writing to the LORD…. That is how I journal.
I figure that since God is the Only One Who knows everything because He is Omniscient {and I do not because I definitely am not}; then it behooves me to include Him in every aspect of my life. I love life this way. Life with God. It works for me! It will work for you too.
I purchase many spiral notebooks during the ‘back to school sales’ when they are very inexpensive. I also purchase colorful pens, since I like to write in multi-colors. Then I write my heart out to the LORD each day. (Sometimes I miss of course–Life happens), but I love to write to the LORD. I tell Him everything.
I write my prayers to Him. I talk to Him about my failures and fears, my hurts and heartaches, my wishes and woes, my desires for my family and all of my generations, as well as the things that I am rebuking off of their lives and mine. He knows every single thing about me, my family, my life and my heart’s desires any way. He gives me the desires of my heart.
PSALM 37:4 DELIGHT YOURSELF IN THE LORD AND HE WILL GIVE YOU THE DESIRES OF YOUR HEART. (esv)
I used to love that verse because I thought it meant that God would give me what I wanted, what my heart desired. God does do that sometimes when He thinks this is in our best interest. I actually love that Scripture even more now that I have learned that God, the Creator of the Universe and everything and everyone in it, and me; will Give Me The Desires Of My Heart–meaning He will put the desires into my heart that need to be there. Glory to God! This is awesome to me. (I guess we can still understand the verse to mean the first thought that I mentioned; I prefer the second interpretation now.)
Dear LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth, God Almighty Maker of Heaven and earth, Holy Spirit, we come to you with our knees bowed and our hearts prostrate before You. We come to You as Your beloved children. We bask in Your Holy Presence. Thank You LORD that You love us and all of our generations. Thank You that You protect us and give Your angels assignments to carry out regarding us.
Thank You mostly that You gave Your Only Beloved, Begotten Son Jesus Christ our LORD to die for us and take away our sins as far away as the East is from the West. Thank You that You want to do this life with us right here on earth and then for all eternity in Heaven for those of us who have repented from our sins and accepted Your Son Jesus Christ as Our LORD and Savior. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Him.
Thank You Jesus that You gave us Your Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us into all wisdom while we are here on this earth as sojourners. Our real, eternal home is with You in Heaven. This life here on earth is just a vapor. Thank You that You have called us to co-labor with You to bring You precious souls and to carry out Your Will on earth as it is in Heaven.
Call us LORD, call all of Your people, all of Your precious children to You in a mighty way. Remove their blinders, take out their hearts of stone and replace them with a heart of flesh, a heart after Your Own Heart LORD. Teach us to love as You love. Not only our loved ones but also our ‘enemies’, or those who choose to be our enemies. Send us Revival, send us Restoration and Regeneration, send Your Spirit to sweep the nation, to sweep the entire world with Your Dunamis Power now LORD, we need You! We cry out to You! We thank You in advance. We worship and praise You LORD. In Jesus’ Precious Name we pray. Amen. Glory to God!
I had my Bible study last night at the mission. I love that so very much. I get to be God’s oracle to share Jesus with other people who are currently hurting, down trodden, devastated, and broken. But again I say only ‘currently’. This is not who they are. They are children of the Most High God, just like you and I are. They are Victorious in Christ Jesus, just like we are. We all just need to believe this. We all need to speak forth God’s All Powerful WORD of Life, the Bible. His instruction book for us for all generations, and for all of humanity. This is Truth that Supersedes fact!
Our study was about “What do we do when we are so very broken and overwhelmed?”
What we do is look to our God Who has our names inscribed on the Palm of His Hand. The LORD Who is the Author and Finisher of our lives. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the One Who knit us together in our mother’s wombs and watched over us as we grew there. God prepared gifts for us to carry out before we were even born here on earth.
ISAIAH 49:16 SEE I HAVE WRITTEN YOU NAME ON THE PALM OF MY HAND. (nlt)
EPHESIANS 2;10 FOR WE ARE GOD’S HANDIWORK, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS TO DO GOOD WORKS, WHICH GOD PREPARED IN ADVANCE FOR US TO DO.
God tells us that He has a plan for us. A plan to prosper us and not to harm us. A plan to give us a hope and a future. God wants to do this life with us. He never wants us to feel like we are on our own down here on earth. God never leaves us nor forsakes us. He is an Ever Present Help in times of trouble. (I know I have had a lot of times of trouble, perhaps you have also,)
JEREMIAH 29:11 “FOR I KNOW THE PLANS THAT I HAVE FOR YOU DECLARES THE LORD, PLANS TO PROSPER YOU AND NOT TO HARM YOU, PLANS TO GIVE YOU A HOPE AND A FUTURE.”
Did you get that? This is God talking to us. He, God Himself, has plans for you, for me, for us, and His plans for us are GOOD! GOD IS GOOD! Glory to God!
Jesus told us that in this world we will have troubles, difficulties, heartbreaks, devastations. Jesus also told us that we can be confident and courageous in Him because HE HAS OVER COME THE WORLD! And JESUS GIVES US HIS PEACE! Not our own peace which would be flawed or insufficient. He gives us HIS PEACE! HE IS PEACE…HE IS JEHOVAH SHALOM! The key is that we have to have faith and we have to believe this. This is the TRUTH because Jesus says it is. We need to take this TRUTH from the LORD and plant it deep into our hearts and souls and minds.
JOHN 16:33 “I HAVE TOLD YOU THESE THINGS SO THAT IN ME (JESUS) YOU WILL HAVE PEACE. IN THE WORLD YOU WILL HAVE TROUBLE. BUT TAKE HEART, I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD! (niv)
HEBREWS 12:2 LOOKING UNTO JESUS, THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH, WHO FOR THE JOY THAT WAS SET BEFORE HIM, ENDURED THE CROSS, DESPISING THE SHAME AND HAS SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE THRONE OF GOD. (nkjv)
HEBREWS 13:5,6 I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU! SO WE CAN SAY IN CONFIDENCE, “THE LORD IS MY HELPER; I WILL NOT BE AFRAID, WHAT CAN MERE MORTALS DO TO ME?”
I think that is a very powerful Scripture to end this with! Glory to God! Until we get to talk again, please remember that I love you so much and I am praying for you and all of your generations. Most importantly, Jesus loves you!