Call upon the Lord!

Psalm 116

Thanksgiving for Deliverance from Death

 ¹ I love the LORD, because He has heard
         My voice and my supplications.
 ² Because He has inclined His ear to me,
         Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.
        
 ³ The pains of death surrounded me,
         And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me;
         I found trouble and sorrow.
 ⁴ Then I called upon the name of the LORD:
         “O LORD, I implore You, deliver my soul!”
        
 ⁵ Gracious is the LORD, and righteous;
         Yes, our God is merciful.
 ⁶ The LORD preserves the simple;
         I was brought low, and He saved me.
 ⁷ Return to your rest, O my soul,
         For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
        
 ⁸ For You have delivered my soul from death,
         My eyes from tears,
         And my feet from falling.
 ⁹ I will walk before the LORD
         In the land of the living.
 ¹⁰ I believed, therefore I spoke,
         “I am greatly afflicted.”
 ¹¹ I said in my haste,
         “All men are liars.”
        
 ¹² What shall I render to the LORD
         For all His benefits toward me?
 ¹³ I will take up the cup of salvation,
         And call upon the name of the LORD.
 ¹⁴ I will pay my vows to the LORD
         Now in the presence of all His people.
        
 ¹⁵ Precious in the sight of the LORD
         Is the death of His saints.
        
 ¹⁶ O LORD, truly I am Your servant;
         I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant;
         You have loosed my bonds.
 ¹⁷ I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving,
         And will call upon the name of the LORD.
        
 ¹⁸ I will pay my vows to the LORD
         Now in the presence of all His people,
 ¹⁹ In the courts of the LORD’s house,
         In the midst of you, O Jerusalem.
        
         Praise the LORD!

Gods Word for us TODAY!

Psalm 34

 ¹ I will bless the LORD at all times;
         His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
 ² My soul shall make its boast in the LORD;
         The humble shall hear of it and be glad.
 ³ Oh, magnify the LORD with me,
         And let us exalt His name together.
       
 ⁴ I sought the LORD, and He heard me,
         And delivered me from all my fears.
 ⁵ They looked to Him and were radiant,
         And their faces were not ashamed.
 ⁶ This poor man cried out, and the LORD heard him,
         And saved him out of all his troubles.
 ⁷ The angel^[a] of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him,
         And delivers them.
       
 ⁸ Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good;
         Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!
 ⁹ Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints!
         There is no want to those who fear Him.
 ¹⁰ The young lions lack and suffer hunger;
         But those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.
       
 ¹¹ Come, you children, listen to me;
         I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
 ¹² Who is the man who desires life,
         And loves many days, that he may see good?
 ¹³ Keep your tongue from evil,
         And your lips from speaking deceit.
 ¹⁴ Depart from evil and do good;
         Seek peace and pursue it.
       
 ¹⁵ The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous,
         And His ears are open to their cry.
 ¹⁶ The face of the LORD is against those who do evil,
         To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
       
 ¹⁷ The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears,
         And delivers them out of all their troubles.
 ¹⁸ The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart,
         And saves such as have a contrite spirit.
       
 ¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
         But the LORD delivers him out of them all.
 ²⁰ He guards all his bones;
         Not one of them is broken.
 ²¹ Evil shall slay the wicked,
         And those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.
 ²² The LORD redeems the soul of His servants,
         And none of those who trust in Him shall be condemned.

You are placed .....for such a time as this!

 God puts each of us in positions where we can serve Him, even though that’s often not clear until the moment we’re called upon to act.

Read this about Esters Call. 

You are placed exactly where God wants you...for such a time as this!

During our waiting period it may be a bit frustrating.  We know there is something greater, something more meaningful that we are called to do other than these mundane tasks that seem to rule our days, but what these daily tasks do is prepare us for the greater work we are called to do.  Are we using our days to grow and mature, to learn and to expand our thinking or are we being overwhelmed by our responsibilities and not focused on eternity and our part to play in it? 

I pray that reading Esters Call  would encourage you to remember
You are placed exactly where God wants you...for such a time as this!

Who Do You Spend Your Time With?

                     Its not what you know its who you know! 

We are said to live in the information age..right?  Well it's true, our minds are overloaded with TONS of information on a daily basis. Sunday a.m. through Saturday and 11:59 p.m, we are bogged down with the good & inspirational, the bad  and the ugliness of this planet we call home.
    I mean how can we accurately remember every little instruction on "how to", the sermon we heard on Sunday, or the name of a new business partner, a family members birthday, stop at the grocery store for french bread on the way home, send an email off that you promised days ago to someone, the fantastic idea for a new gadget to make peoples lives easier,  finish up on a project that's over due and not to mention the homework of the kids, give them lots of love and attention and oh yes, get 8 hours of sleep every night, do unto others as you would have done to you, set goals, plan for the future, be kind and courteous to others around you, pay your bills, And that's just part of our day. 

Well here's the good news. We were not put here alone to just "deal" with life and try to remember all our stuff.  We have a faithful Father just waiting to talk with us and help us. 

   When we spend time with our Father, the Lord on a daily basis the things that are "known" but often forgotten an locked away in  storage some place if not used often and refreshed, the Holy Spirit will refresh those things in our life and "bring to our remembrance all things....
 Because truly its not how much you know or how educated you are or where you've been, a good list maker or the most courteous person on the planet; The knowledge gained in the past will NOT help you now unless its applied to the present. 

When we spend regular time with our Father in heaven and get the refreshing we need, we open our selves up to divine understanding and the ability to use whats in us.  When circumstances arise throughout our days we have the knowledge and the information that is  needed, that is necessary for that time.  God will enable you to remember the important things and even the little things. 

Those emails, birthdays and thoughtful ways are all important to Him and He knows they are  important to those around you as well, that's why He will remind you of your 100's of thing swirling around in you brain. 

Maybe you don't have such a busy life but you have a hard time "getting with it".   God is in that.  He wants you to do and be all that He has created you to for.  With our daily time in His presence reading His word, He will reveal what it is we are to do and how we are to be. He will help up remember & prioritize.   

See friends I think that most Christians don't need as much NEW knowledge as they need the APPLICATION of the knowledge that's already in them.  Throughout our week we get little nuggets if you will, of information and if we just apply those we would be a whole lot better off! Not off in overwhelmed land not knowing where to even begin. 

It's about who you know, and who you spend your time with that will help you.   Are they bringing you UP or tearing your DOWN? 

 God our Father who wants nothing more than to build us UP, has placed inside each one of us His Spirit to help stir up what He has place in us, but in order to get the stirring we need to take some time with Him...

Las (Forest)

Attaining Wisdom

 ^{1Corinthians 1:30}  But it is from Him that you have your life in Christ Jesus, Whom God made our Wisdom from God, [revealed to us a knowledge of the divine plan of salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as] our Righteousness [thus making us upright and putting us in right standing with God], and our Consecration [making us pure and holy], and our Redemption [providing our ransom from eternal penalty for sin].

God made our Wisdom from Him (God) attainable to us through Jesus Christ

and revealed by the Holy Spirit.

SO How important is it we listen to the Holy Spirit in our daily lives? 

 I think extremely important and valuable . 

Blessings to you this Glorious January day!

FAVOR

Favor is the greatest harvest that you could ever receive from God

Favor will determine the level of your income

Favor will show up in your life when you associate with the right people

favor will cause you to regain in one day what the enemy had stolen for years

Favor must be a seed before it becomes a harvest

Favor will become a shield of protection around your life

Favor comes when you concentrate on the success of others

Favor will cause you to rise to the top in whatever you do

Favor will accelerate your destiny

A day of favor will change your life forever!!

quotes for "The Force of Favor" by Dave Martin

The Meeting

I want to share a little personal story, I know you'll be blessed.  


On Wednesday mornings I go to a study on the book of James, it is filled with Amazing women of all ages & walks of life, who look at things from many different perspectives and always speak love and encouragement over each other.  It has been such a blessing to me.  Well, Yesterday we went through the study as usual and instead of breaking  up into groups at the end of our time together to pray for prayer requests we all stayed gathered around the table to pray corporately.


As these beautiful women went around and prayed one women whom I had only seen come to the group twice (so I really didn't know her) prayed for her daughter and mentioned her name.  My heart started pounding out of my chest I wasn't sure if I had heard the name correctly so I wanted to be sure to talk with her after we were done.

So after the group finished up praying and ladies started going their own way I made my way across the room to approach  this woman who had prayed for her daughter.  I asked her about her daughter and she told me all about her and  repeated her name, even spelling it out for me ( even thought I didn't ask her to) It is an unusual name one I had only heard ONE time before and that is when the Lord spoke it to me to pray for this person months earlier.  That is why when I thought I had heard her speak the girls name in her prayer my heart started pounding out of my chest, I had never met anyone in my life with this name nor have I ever heard it spoken, yet it was a familiar name to me told to me only from the Lord.

  See in the latter part of 2010 I had some names of people on a list I was praying for, mainly for salvation but the Lord told me to get a pen and write this name out on my list.   He said it and as I started to write the first letter, He told me each letter just as I wrote it, HE spelled it out for me.  So when this woman  SPELLED out her daughters name just as the Lord had done for me months earlier I KNEW it was confirmation that this is the girls mother, the girl I had been praying for, the girl the Lord put on my heart!!

I proceed to tell the mother this story and she was in tears just knowing that someone, a stranger, had been praying for her daughter all this time too!!

Isn't it WONDERFUL how our GOD works!  He knows everyone on the planet, he knows their name and HE knows when they need prayer and if WE will just listen to HIM and follow HIS leading we will see miracles happen, lives change.  We many not see or meet them here in this life but surely in Heaven!!!

I hope this blesses you and encourages you today dear ones, WE DO HEAR FROM OUR GOD!!

Be Blessed!