This is sometimes how I lived
Most days now I wake up and feel like this.
There are so many battles we face each day, sometimes moment to moment. We really need to know who is fighting the good fight for us and be like Joshua who was first a servant and became a leader and a servant.
Currently reading about Joshua in my study "Believing God" (Beth Moore).
I started the beginning of the Summer and I am on my second to last week of study. I have enjoyed the study very much and it has been an intense study of scripture and took a lot of time to take in and remember certain things as we were to recall different times in our lives where we saw God in various ways. It was good for me, because it reminded me even though I felt like such an outcast growing up and didn't know where I belonged, God always brought friendships to me that were valuable for the time. I didn't even have a lot of hope during my childhood/teenage years, but God was still faithful to me.
These past 5 years in particular have been so hard and I'm not done with hardships, no ma'am/sir. But, I can pray and believe to and in a victorious God who is on my side, who has his hand on me and the grip is not a loose one. He is holding me tight and now I am holding on to Him for my dear life and others. I'm praying for miracles and transformation and redemption and steadfastness and endurance and to be Strong and Courageous. Not to be discouraged in any way.
Joshua 1:9 "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."
John 16:33"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."
John 14:27 "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.
It is Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week and some earlier entries in this blog included a great deal of my brother-in-law Keith who has had this disease for more than 10 years and is in pain a lot these days.
I pray 2 prayer cards for him and I pray for my sister who is beside him and witnesses the daily struggle. God has really helped me understand prayer and my part of loving them deeply. I can love them deeply by praying for them daily. By listening and asking the Holy Spirit how I can love them each day. We don't know what will happen with Keith, there is no cure. But I lay the burden at my Lord's feet and I pray the scriptures for him. To not lean on my own understanding, and to not give up
-Luke 18:1 "Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart".
I am leading a new woman's bible study tonight in my home. I had titled the group "Love Deeply", because that was the impression I had been feeling on my heart over the Summer. We will be doing a Priscilla Shirer study called "Discerning the Voice of God" and I am looking forward to it. So far there are 3 ladies coming and I have been asking God to bring who needed to be there. He is faithful!
Pero su amor es lo que me mantiene en esta tierra salvaje. Translation- but your love sustains me in this savage land. (a line I heard from the series, "Wives and Daughters") at 31:35 is the line.
But for me, His words sustain me, and I am grateful. Jeremiah 15:16 "Your words are what sustain me. They bring me great joy and are my heart's delight, for I bear your name, O LORD God Almighty."
Most days now I wake up and feel like this.
There are so many battles we face each day, sometimes moment to moment. We really need to know who is fighting the good fight for us and be like Joshua who was first a servant and became a leader and a servant.
Currently reading about Joshua in my study "Believing God" (Beth Moore).
I started the beginning of the Summer and I am on my second to last week of study. I have enjoyed the study very much and it has been an intense study of scripture and took a lot of time to take in and remember certain things as we were to recall different times in our lives where we saw God in various ways. It was good for me, because it reminded me even though I felt like such an outcast growing up and didn't know where I belonged, God always brought friendships to me that were valuable for the time. I didn't even have a lot of hope during my childhood/teenage years, but God was still faithful to me.
These past 5 years in particular have been so hard and I'm not done with hardships, no ma'am/sir. But, I can pray and believe to and in a victorious God who is on my side, who has his hand on me and the grip is not a loose one. He is holding me tight and now I am holding on to Him for my dear life and others. I'm praying for miracles and transformation and redemption and steadfastness and endurance and to be Strong and Courageous. Not to be discouraged in any way.
Joshua 1:9 "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."
John 16:33"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."
John 14:27 "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.
It is Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week and some earlier entries in this blog included a great deal of my brother-in-law Keith who has had this disease for more than 10 years and is in pain a lot these days.
I pray 2 prayer cards for him and I pray for my sister who is beside him and witnesses the daily struggle. God has really helped me understand prayer and my part of loving them deeply. I can love them deeply by praying for them daily. By listening and asking the Holy Spirit how I can love them each day. We don't know what will happen with Keith, there is no cure. But I lay the burden at my Lord's feet and I pray the scriptures for him. To not lean on my own understanding, and to not give up
-Luke 18:1 "Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart".
I am leading a new woman's bible study tonight in my home. I had titled the group "Love Deeply", because that was the impression I had been feeling on my heart over the Summer. We will be doing a Priscilla Shirer study called "Discerning the Voice of God" and I am looking forward to it. So far there are 3 ladies coming and I have been asking God to bring who needed to be there. He is faithful!
Pero su amor es lo que me mantiene en esta tierra salvaje. Translation- but your love sustains me in this savage land. (a line I heard from the series, "Wives and Daughters") at 31:35 is the line.
But for me, His words sustain me, and I am grateful. Jeremiah 15:16 "Your words are what sustain me. They bring me great joy and are my heart's delight, for I bear your name, O LORD God Almighty."
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