I found this tonight in my works from long ago.....still so true...

I'm Thirsty Lord 
a song


A white tailed deer drinks from the creek
Lord I want to drink deep droughts of you
I'm thirsty Lord - for God alive
I wonder Lord will I ever arrive - to drink with you?


It seems all I do is cry for you
First in the morning - then at noon
Then at night before I sleep  -  my cry becomes more than a weep
I'm thirsty Lord - for God alive - I'm thirsty Lord


Listen Yawhweh - please pay attention
Do you understand my groans and my cries?
I know you are up there in the heavens
Send your spirit - send God alive!



A white tailed deer drinks from the creek
Lord I want to drink deep droughts of you
I'm thirsty Lord - for God alive
Nothing else will satisfy this longing Lord deep down inside
I'm so thirsty Lord


Lord when my soul is ailing within
I will remember your love now and then
From my mountain tops to valleys low
How your living waters never failed to flow
Come once again - restore my soul - I'm thirsty Lord


Give me your lantern Lord -give me your map
So I might find my way to your Holy Hill
To the place Lord of your presence
That I might meet with you and drink my fill



A white tailed deer drinks from the creek
Lord I want to drink deep droughts of you
I'm thirsty Lord - for God alive
I need a drink Lord to survive 
Don't turn your ear Lord from my cry
I'm thirsty Lord - so thirsty Lord

Copyright 2001 All rights reserved

By: Amy Colleen Klapp (song)

Psalm 42

New International Version (NIV)

 As the deer pants for streams of water, 

   so my soul pants for you, my God. 

 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. 

   When can I go and meet with God? 

 My tears have been my food 

   day and night, 

while people say to me all day long, 

   “Where is your God?” 

 These things I remember 

   as I pour out my soul: 

how I used to go to the house of God 

   under the protection of the Mighty One 

with shouts of joy and praise 

   among the festive throng.

  Why, my soul, are you downcast? 

   Why so disturbed within me? 

Put your hope in God, 

   for I will yet praise him, 

   my Savior and my God.

  My soul is downcast within me; 

   therefore I will remember you 

from the land of the Jordan, 

   the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar. 

 Deep calls to deep 

   in the roar of your waterfalls; 

all your waves and breakers 

   have swept over me.

  By day the LORD directs his love, 

   at night his song is with me— 

   a prayer to the God of my life.

  I say to God my Rock, 

   “Why have you forgotten me? 

Why must I go about mourning, 

   oppressed by the enemy?” 

 My bones suffer mortal agony 

   as my foes taunt me, 

saying to me all day long, 

   “Where is your God?”

  Why, my soul, are you downcast? 

   Why so disturbed within me? 

Put your hope in God, 

   for I will yet praise him, 

   my Savior and my God.

The longer I live, I find that I only desire even more to know Yeshua better, love him more passionately and serve him more perfectly. This song I wrote more than 10 years ago and the Psalm David wrote 1000+ years ago just becomes more and more of a prayer in my life!

The closer I seem to get to my precious Lord.....the more I realize I have to get to know of him still! Thank goodness for eternity!

You have every right.............

And Jesus


has every right

not to forgive you.


But He Has.






Honestly.


Come on now.
Are we all so deceived? So Proud? Seriously, do we think that we are better than each other? Or that we can actually make others think we are something we are not?


It is so sad. I suppose it is truth for many. Sad part is that no matter who we are we will never fool G_D. For He knows who we are despite our feeble attempt to mask it. Also so sad to think that so many of us spend so much time trying to "mask" who we are, (i.e. what we are made up of our joys, sorrows, hurts disappointments betrayls .....etc) for various reasons and to no avail. In the end we are who we are inside and that is who G_D will judge.
That person, the inside person, is also the person G_D loves and sent His son  to die for. The Lord is not interested in all the outside stuff. It's the inside stuff. (1Sam 16:7)


So...anyway....
I know life is difficult. Everyone has hard days....weeks....months maybe even years. 
Goodness knows I have lived through my fair share. Maybe that is why I have such a difficult time understanding, compassionately, (yes I am working on this) why people can't just get up and go....just let it go.


I have heard story upon story, as I am sure we all have, about how beyond all measure someone has over come some insurmountable tragedy in their life; or how someone has forgiven someone who has wronged them in some tremendously unbelievable way.


So why then, is it then  proving to be harder and harder to find  an average person like you or me that can walk in victory over every day trials and tribulations,or simple relational, family dysfunctions? THIS is sheer craziness! WE are supposed to be the children of G_D!
 "Known for our love for each other!"(John 13:35, Col. 3:13, Eph 4:32) 


My question for today is,
"Why does it always seem to have to be someone else s life story ?
Why not make it personal?"


I mean seriously....next time you hear of someone over coming something in their life and it really speaks to your heart...STOP...and think about it for a moment. Think about the obstacles you need to over come in your life. Then remember - G_d is not a respecter of persons ( Acts 10:34-35) ...then seek the Lord for your break through!


And the next time you hear that heart wrenching story of forgiveness between a long lost mother and child or father and son and it brings tears to your eyes - you know the one that moves you deep down in your gutt? Take a look in the mirror. Better yet; take a look in the family photo album and give the hurt to G_d and let the healer do his job so forgiveness can have it's full affect. ( Matthew 6:15)


Running away never really works for anyone...I think we all know that deep down inside. Especially when  we are running away from matters of the heart.


I have found that even my most insurmountable life challenges become less than a difficult to live with when I learn to face them. When I place them appropriately at the foot of my Master Yeshua HaMashiach, who then files them in the appropriate place in my heart.
It is however absolutely imperative that I stand before the Lord, forgiving and willing to be corrected and disciplined with regards to the very circumstance I have brought before His throne. With one objective in mind. Restoration.



Shalom






"But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins." Matthew 6:15
"Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism ³⁵ but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right."   Acts 10:34-35
 "But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart." 1Sam 16:7

3 Minute Scripture Lift

✽   It's a CHOICE ✽

“I will extol the Lord at all times;

His praise will always be on my lips.

My soul will boast in the Lord;

Let the afflicted hear and rejoice.”

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Promises

“The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them;

he delivers them from all their troubles.

♥The Lord is close to the broken hearted ♥

And saves those who are crushed in spirit.

A righteous man may have many troubles,

But the Lord delivers him from them all;”

“Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.

Delight yourself in the Lord

And he will give you the desires of your heart.”

♥

“Better the little that the righteous have

than the wealth of many wicked.”

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“I desire to do your will, O my God;

your law is within my heart.

I proclaim your righteousness in the great assembly;

I do not seal my lips,

As you know O Lord.

I do not hide your righteousness in my heart;

I speak of your faithfulness and salvation.

I do not conceal your love and your truth from the great assembly.”

“I do not trust in my bow,

my sword does not bring my victory;

but you give me victory over my enemies,

you put my adversaries to shame.

In God I make my boast all day long,

And I will praise your name forever.”

♪ ♫ ♩ ♬ ♭

“I waited patiently for the Lord;

he turned to me and heard my cry.

He lifted me out of the slimy pit,

Out of the mud and the mire;

He set my feet on a rock

And gave me a firm place to stand.

He put a new song in my mouth,

A hymn of praise to our God.”

♪ ♫ ♩ ♬ ♭

“If the Lord delights in a man’s way,

he makes his steps firm;

though he stumble, he will not fall,

for the Lord upholds him with his hand.”

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“Cast your cares on the Lord

and he will sustain you;

he will never let the righteous fall.”

Be Blessed with every good blessing in our Precious Savior and Lord Jesus!

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Scriptures, in order in which they were written, taken from the book of Psalms:

Psalms  34: 1,2,17,18,19 -  37: 3,4,16 -  40:8,9,10, -  44:8,9,10  - 40:1,2,3, -  37:23,24  -  55:22

Meeting Him in the Clouds

A Dream

I was walking down the beach in Santa Barbara and suddenly I heard a voice. It sounded like a trumpet, it said, “It is time!” 

Instantly ~ I began to ascend into the sky. (This was the most incredible feeling!) 

Even though I was walking alone. When I began to go~up toward Heaven ~ I was no longer alone, everyone I ever knew was all of a sudden around me. 


Those that I knew believed on the Lord Yeshua....had asked him to be their Lord and Savior, they were there next to me. 


Everyone else, family members and loved ones that I had been praying for and believing for their salvation; they were on the beach. I was reaching out to them, calling out to them, desperately; but only for a brief moment, a very brief moment. As I ascended quickly. very quickly and in an instant I was in HIS presence! I had forgotten everything else but Him.... Jesus.



Wow…