No One the Same

Wow. Just wow.

I have been deep in thought, again. All week, more than usual my thoughts have traveled to the inner most depths of my soul.

This has been a glorious week for sure. New life has sprung forth. The miracle of birth! 
As I gaze upon this precious little life, created in the very image of He who created him, I am reminded that each and every one of us is also created in the image of our great and most awesome creator.
Each and everyone.
Yet, we are all, every one of us, different. Not one single person the exact same as the other.

Wow. Just wow.

So this is why I find myself at all hours of the day and night sharing emotions contrary to one another.
Instead of just relishing in the glorious joy filled moment of new life which the Creator of All, ADONAI,  has blessed us with, I find myself  being filled with joy over flowing and simultaneously in the deep of my spirit, being reminded of a sorrow so deep it pierces my heart, takes my breath away and moves me to tears.

Why, you may wonder?  No. I am not double minded. Nor do I suffer from a personality disorder. I am simply one of many awaiting the promises of God. *Doing so with thanksgiving, faithful in prayer, remembering those that have fallen asleep in Messiah and those who still need to turn to Messiah. Knowing that when they do the veil that covers their hearts will be taken away and truth be revealed, freedom will reign in the hearts and lives.
The promise of God will be fulfilled to His glory. Amen.*

So it is that one life does not cancel out another.
(Put in another very simple way -I miss my sons)

Any parent will tell you, you can not replace the life of a lost child with the new life of another.
Though the JoY of a new life is absolutely, incredible and should not be dismissed or belittled in anyway because of the grief of the loss of another. No amount of children will ever replace the loss of even one child. That child is unique, special and one of kind. Created by God in His image.
Always holding a very special place in heart of his/her parents.

I know this is a sensitive subject.

This is also a very personal subject for me. 
Those of you who have read my blog from the beginning have more of a clue about what I am talking about. I have not suffered the physical death of any of my children. However, I have had to endure the great loss of relationship with my first three children for many, many, years. It has been a painful experience I would wish on no one. 
Through it all, the LORD has been faithful to me and I to Him. 
The LORD has given me promises, both personally and in His Word (the Bible). I have been and will continue to stand on them.

He has also blessed me with an incredible husband and daughters and extended family.

This is where the feelings of both JoY and sadness together come in. 
I feel so very, very blessed right now in my life I can't even describe it. Yet at times the sadness of not ever meeting my 6 grand children or seeing or speaking to any of my 3 sons is overwhelming.

Still, I have *peace*. I have peace, because I know, that my God hears me and my God keeps all His promises. I know that one day we will be together again.

I also know there are others of you out there that suffer through similar situations. I want to encourage you! There is *JoY* through it all! We will reap a just reward if we do not grow weary! The Lord always keep His promises! (*2 Peter 3:9*)

Keep fighting the good fight of faith to which we've been called and let us remember also - when we get tired that it is not us and it is not our strength that keeps us stand firm in Messiah! It is Messiah Himself!   So let's have faith in Him and His promises. Which are always YES and Amen! 

 Praising the LORD in New Life

Praising Him in His Promises.

I have not

Forgotten!

Thank you 

for your Peace!

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Matthew 10:29-31 What is the price of two sparrows–one copper coin? But not a single sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it. And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows.

Billy Graham Tribute - Still Touching Lives in the After Life

The Lord Doesn't Play Hide and Seek

"When you seek me, you will find me, provided you seek for me wholeheartedly."

Jeremiah 29:13

"Keep asking, and it will be given to you; keep seeking, and you will find; keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who keeps asking receives; he who keeps seeking finds; and to him who keeps knocking, the door will be opened."

Matthew 7:7-8

Be Encouraged

“Simon, Simon, Satan 
has asked to sift all of you as wheat.”

              Luke 22:31

Have you ever felt like you might be the recipient of some of Satan’s sifting?

I have.

In fact, just this last week in my prayer time with the Lord, I was questioning the Lord, on this very subject. 

Not just on my behalf, but as I was thinking about and praying for many other dear, faithful, brothers and sisters in the faith, I began to talk to the Lord about all the suffering that was going on in the body of  Messiah.

I honestly do not like to use this next word in my prayer time much.
However, if I am being open and honest as I say, it came up more than once this sorrowful prayer session with the Great I AM.

"Why."

I mean without going too far off on a bunny trail. I am one to give God as much leeway as He takes without question. 
As He IS and I am not. (Isaiah 55:8-9)
However from time to time grief has a way of taking over and that nasty word comes out. I am after all human. But that too is understandable and forgivable. (Psalm 104:13) 😊 Baruch Hashem! 

Okay back on track here!

So, in all of His graciousness and mercy what the Lord revealed to me through His Holy Spirit was that -

Truly, here lately it has been a season of testing, refining and straight out sifting for the Children of God. No exceptions! 
If you are moving forward in the Lord’s will and producing fruit, you will experience one of these in your life!

And this leads me to the encouraging part of my blog 😊

As I was in my prayer room the other day, deep in prayer, talking to the Lord about,

 “ Satan asking permission to sift me like wheat.”

(As in the book of Job and in Luke 22:31 where Yeshua himself says, “Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat.)

As previously mentioned, I had some concern in my heart. 

Following is the Lord's most beautiful and touching response to me.

I found it to be very encouraging. So I wanted to share it with all of you.

I replaced my name with "Child".

So as you read these following words, let the Lord speak directly to you through his Holy Spirit and be encouraged.

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As I waited expectantly in silence before he Lord. 

He spoke,

“My precious Child, if Satan did ask to sift you like wheat and I were to tell him, 'yes go ahead'.  Do you think that you would not be able to stand?

Where is your faith? 

Have I not told you and do you not know -  if you walk through the waters they will not overtake you, you will not drown?   

If the fire is all around you, it will not consume you? 

Even still,  I have spoken directly to you, if there be any storms ahead brewing and they should sweep past you with raging winds, they will not take you away.

So in answer to your question let me show you…”

((Thats when I saw in an open vision))

A HUGE sifter and I stood right in the middle of it. 
It was calm at first. Then it began to (((shake))). 
It was difficult, at first to stand. But I tried, and I did, stand.  

Then the shaking grew harder and stronger - and longer. 

I tried on my own to stand. 
The Standing grew more and more difficult. 
Still I kept trying to stand on my own. 
I was exhausted. 
I was...to the point.....of almost giving up. 

I was in tears thinking I had been abandoned. 

That’s when I noticed, when I looked up...... 
A very large hand… Translucent hand… 
It was holding on to me, from the nap of my shirt the entire time. 

It wasn’t my own strength that was keeping me from falling. 
It was the Lord’s all along.

(At this point. The vision left me.

And I broke out into weeping.)

The Lord spoke again in such sweet comfort.

"My Child - I will NEVER leave you. I am always true to my WORD.  I AM."

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Isn't that sooooo comforting? 

I mean I always knew the Lord said He would never leave or forsake us.....but I never actually pictured Him holding on to us as we were being sifted like wheat 😊

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Isaiah 43:2  
Matthew 28:20

Deuteronomy 31:6

John 8:58 

1Corinthians 10:13