Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For great is His love for us.
Let us never forget this truth....the truth HE gave His life to prove to us.
Oh how he loves you and me!
6 "...being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;"
"Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,That
saved a wretch like me....I once was
lost but now am found,Was blind, but now, I see.
T'was Grace that taught...my heart to fear.And Grace, my
fears relieved.How precious did that Grace appear...the hour I first believed.
Through many dangers, toils and snares...we have already come.T'was Grace that brought us safe thus
far...and Grace
will lead us home.
The Lord has promised good to me...His word my
hope secures.He will my
shield and portion be...as long as life endures.
When we've been here ten thousand years...bright shining as the sun.We've no less days to sing God's
praise...then when
we've first begun.
"Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,,That
saved a wretch like me....I once was lost but now am found,Was
blind, but now, I see
"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn written by John Newton an English poet and clergyman (1725–1807), and published in 1779.
With a message that forgiveness and redemption is possible regardless of the sins people commit and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God.
"Amazing Grace" is one of the most recognized songs in the English-speaking world.
(For more information of the author of this song visit this site
I personally, love this song.
It is one of my favorite songs ever written by anyone....ever.
I feel personally attached to it. As though it were written by me or at the very least for me; but then that I am sure is the case for many and thus the reason for it's world wide popularity.
I remember all too well where I was when Jesus found me.
I also remember where I was the next time He found me.....and the next time.....and the next time.....and the next time.......oh and yes the next time....(I think you get my point?)
God's Grace
God's infinite grace....is not a one time deal.
It is our covering.
It is Jesus and I am thankful for Him.
As Papa God sees me through Him.
I am not perfect....I wasn't when He found me....I am still not.
I am closer to looking like the image of Jesus now than I was when He found me.
Still, it is only by the GRACE of God...His Mercy and Love.
Through Jesus....the living and written Word...that I strive daily to reach my goal to become more like Jesus.
As the Apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15:31 , "I die daily."
If you read the preceding chapter Paul is talking about dieing to the fleshly nature of who he is. [who we are]
How can we die daily if we are already dead?
Have we then arrived?
If in fact we have arrived...then do we still need God's amazing grace in our lives?
I would say not! I would say we would be Amazing ourselves!
But we all know (at least I hope we do) this statement is ludicrous!
We ALL need God's Amazing Grace every day of our lives.
2 Corinthians 1:21
"Now it is God who makes us, both us and you stand firm in Christ."
(this is just one of many scriptures saying the same thing)
If any of us think we are any better than ANYone else we need to hit the floor on our faces and ask God to forgive us for our pride and for discounting His Sons Blood shed and suffering on the Cross...then ask Holy Spirit to show us what else we need to work on in our lives!
Remembering always that Romans 8:1 "Thereis therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit." and.... " if we live by the Spirit we will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh." Galatians 5:16
and also....important one here...
"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." 1John 1:9
Lord I thank you for your love and your faithfulness and your Amazing Grace of which I could not live without! I give you my life a fresh and a new this day and this new and up coming year of 2010! Be the light of my life as you have been and more so! Reign in me and live through me!
Please come Holy Spirit and have your way in my life!
Show ME everything that is not pleasing to you....everything in my life that grieves you.
Take me and make into the spitting image of Jesus, the living Son of God!
I love you Papa God....I love you Holy Spirit....I love Jesus!!!!
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In response a "Now Word" in Song from the Lord to us
Well here I am again just typing away on this here keyboard. No particular direction in mind. Just typing what comes to mind. Sad thing is. I have a feeling it is going to be sad. Why you ask? Well I have had a couple of very sad few weeks. Well, it's not like the weeks were any more sad than normal I guess. It's just a culmination of emotion of the last several months and well one can only take so much I guess and the well begins to overflow.
Personally I don't give a stale bean what anyone says or thinks on this matter but I firmly believe woman are much stronger than men when it comes to their emotions. Oh I know women have like 70% more prolactin, (the hormone that is responsible for producing tears in the body) but when it comes to handling emotions men just don't know how. It is my experience that the majority of men would rather not handle their emotions thus do what ever it takes to avoid them at all costs; even at the detriment of others. Including those they care about most.
Mind you....I would like to add here. I don't think that they do this on purpose. (hurt the ones they love) It's just that their need and /or inability to handle/deal with their emotions out weighs their ability to see how their willful act of not dealing with their emotions on any given life situation is at any given time hurting someone they truly do care about.
None the less..They do, do it and it does hurt those they love.
This is where we as the emotionally stronger sex need to step in and understand and hang in there.
Help out and understand. Forgive and pray and even cry out to God.
Because it isn't always just grown adults that throw us for a loop, (I think it might be easier if it was. more frustrating some times, yes, but easier) Sometimes it's our own kids or grand kids. We're not supposed to get tired or frustrated with them, right? Well, it happens. They are only people too. Thank you Lord for your love and grace.
I give up
I just give up
I can’t take the stress anymore - I wasn’t created to bare this kind of load.
I was not created to be - the helpmate - the mom - the friend - the amour bearer - the battle fighter - the liaison - the peacemaker - the fire fighter - the care giver - the nurse the taxi- the lover - the house cleaner - the trash can - the life coach - and - in being all these things to everyone in my life - seemingly - a failure to all who need me.
O dear, precious Lord, a vessel I try to be, for you to live through me, but no one sees anything but what they don’t want me to be. Telling me constantly how I need to be, more than I can seem to be.
Lord, please help me!!!
I give up.
I am who you created me to be.
I love who you created me to be.
Tell me, Lord will I ever just get to be - who you created me to be?
Will anyone ever just let me be me?
All I want is to do what you ask of me.
Lord, please?
Won't you help me?
I give up.
Lord, come and be who you want me to be; in me.
Live in me - move through me - love in me, all around me. Everything I come in contact with.
I want to become a living extension of your Holy Spirit, in the flesh.
If I have to live on earth; I want to be crucified with you, so the the life I live I solely live in you.
So the life I live I live by your faith. So you can have all of me. So you can live in me.
This story was passed on to me from a friend. I liked it well enough to post it on here!
I think it is perfectly appropriate for life today! I think we could probably all take a cloth to our windows now and again!
Dirty Laundry
A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The following morning while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside.
"That laundry is not very clean", she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap."
Her husband looked on, but remained silent.
Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.
About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband,
"Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this."
The husband said, "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows." And so it is with life. What we see when watching others depends on the purityof the window through which we look.
Some days you are the head Some days you are the tail
Some days you the light Some days you are the shadow
and some days
you don't seem to be anything at all ~ to anyone
or at least that's what it may feel like
those are the days it is especially important and exceptionally wonderfully to remember
who you really are
"God's very own".... "Special beyond any description" ...."Safe in the palm of the Father's hand"
Today was one of those days.......so I say..."Thank you Heavenly Father for loving me so much!"
5/7/10
Hi ~ Yeah, well life can be tough I know. I am sorry. I don't have the answers for you.
I can tell you I have been down my own road less traveled....my own rocky path. I have traveled through many lonely, cold dark valley's and climbed up many steep mountain's only to find I had climbed the wrong mountain and had to climb back down and across the dry land and up the correct, much taller, much rockier, steeper mountain. All this time not knowing a thing about mountain climbing feeling totally unprepared for this journey in life.
So much of the time feeling alone during the whole escapade.
Of course not having much choice in the matter. We are so we do.
But is that the way it is supposed to be? The way it was meant to be?
I do not believe so .
For me, I have learned that it is not so. I met Yeshua/Jesus, early in life. This made my journey much easier than it ever would have been had I not known him. IN fact I would not have been able to make it without him. Still, even having given my life to Yeshua/Jesus I faced circumstances in this world that proved to be quite trying. Over the years, 33 years, I have grown in my relationship in and to Yeshua/Jesus and have learned to lean on him and receive from his Holy Spirit the joy and strength I need to carry on and in this life through all the trials and tribulations that we are promised to face in this life as believers of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Through betrayal and persecution; heart ache and abandonment; abuse of various kinds....I stand here in this life on earth victorio0us through the blood of the Lamb. Not a victim but one who prays for all who have once brought sorrow and sadness, shame and slander; praying for mercy, blessing, peace and reconciliation unto the body of Christ. As to the perfect will of our Heavenly Father.
In perfect peace.
If you want this kind of peace ~ in a world which can only afford ~ instability, insanity and revenge ~ for all kinds of pain, no matter what the cause....Come to Yeshua/Jesus.
He will heal from the inside out. He will give you a peace that the world can not take away.
He will love you like no one has ever love you...fill the empty void in your soul...satisfy that longing in your heart.
Come...he is waiting for you....doesn't matter where you have been, what you have done. It's no secret to him. He knows who you are...through and through....and he cares for you.....he cares for you.
:)
Life's Answer
I was lost and alone, dazed and confused,
Looking for something exciting and new;
I had done everything I had known to do,
climbed the highest mountain; I’d searched the world through.
Still I had found I hungered to be fed,
For more than this life of grandeur I lead.
It was as if I were driven to find the way,
to where I am now today.
I couldn’t put my finger on it, what it was I heard.
I don’t know that it was one particular word.
All I know is that one-day,
I heard this man speak the most incredible words and say,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his Only Son;”
That moment, I knew what had to be done.
I didn’t wait another moment. I fell down on my knees.
I asked God to forgive me and set me free.
I’m not lost, alone, dazed or confused any more.
I let Jesus in my heart’s door.
My life is exciting and brand new!
I found life’s answer after searching the world through.
When life brings you places, down roads you never expected - Through valleys and desserts you had no clue were in your future. Only to bring you to the edge of a cliff over looking the world you actually thought you were traveling through to begin with.
"Wow," a silent sigh comes yet again from deep within your soul. Heard only by the one who created you whose attention you have drawn, who now stands next to you at the edge of the world.
Oddly enough, though completely unsure how life got you here, (at the edge of this cliff over looking the world you thought you were so other wise already engaged in), you find yourself completely at peace. This is no surprise to you. You know know why this peace is ruling your heart.
You take a moment, as you think about the chaos in your life and the peace that rules your heart, then you glance over to the man standing next to you. Your creator. Your face just bursts out a smile.
Out of no where a wind, a warm gentle wind blows by you and the one who created you and he smiles. Though he doesn't glance back he just keep looking out over the world. Standing ever so tall, arms crossed over his chest. That's when you notice his eyes are fixed on one thing in particular.
You ask him, "What are you looking at my Lord?"
He doesn't say a word, only points out at the world and as you look intently at where he is pointing the world becomes like a movie. As you focus in on where he is pointing you see the very thing you are going through. The valley, the dessert, all the relationships that need attention (healing and such). Best of all, you see he is there in the valley; he is there in the dessert, he is there with all those you love. No one seems to be aware of his presence as he takes such care to make sure all things work together for their good. But he is there.
Suddenly, again you feel that warm soft wind blow past you and joy fills your heart! Tears run down your face! You reach over to wrap your arms around this wonderful man...your creator....and you feel such love! It is overwhelming!
When you open your eyes...you are no longer on the edge of the cliff....no longer over looking the world....but on the mountain top. The Sonshine is warm upon your face and there is a beautiful, warm, gentle wind blowing against your face.
