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God Always Provides…

God always provides. Remember that. He sees. He hears. He knows. Most important, He answers prayers.

So keep going. Don’t stop.

Blessings overflow.

Pondering What To Do While Waiting On God? Here Are 5 Things…

Pondering what to do while waiting on God? Finding out the Lord’s will? We all have. When we examine the past we know that some grew impatient and did their own thing while others trusted and waited patiently. Here I share thoughts on both types while meandering into 5 things to do while waiting.

People Who Couldn’t Wait

Abraham and Sarah thought they were too old to achieve God’s promises. They ended up outside his will after doing their own thing. To their surprise when Abraham was almost a century (in his 90s) Sarah gave birth to a son accomplishing God’s promises.

Mary and Martha gave up on the Lord’s intervention to save their brother. He was too late. Lazarus had already died. But still the promise was achieved showcasing one of the greatest miracles of all time.

The Disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane fell asleep. Their bodies too tired to stay awake as instructed. Later they were to partake in one of history’s legendary fate. The death of Christ.

Then there were the People who couldn’t wait on Moses to return, and built a tower going against God’s plan. They succumbed to a life of misery.

People Who Waited

All is not lost as we have the people who waited. David‘s rise to the throne. Despite his many turmoils, he wrote many psalms while he waited. Dive in. Read. Be encouraged during your own periods of waiting, depression and delays.

Joseph suffered betrayal, harm, hurt, pain. He was even innocently thrown in prison. Yet was later elevated to lead a time of severe famine in Egypt.

Noah through turmoils, Mocking and embarrassment, stayed true to the divine instructions. He built an ark and participated in an historical feat so we could have a second chance.

Oh let’s not forget Job who lost his kids and his riches. If that wasn’t enough, he became increasingly sick. Yet in the midst of it all, he refused to curse God and die. He recovered and was blessed with abundance more than before.

Remember God’s timing is always right. Simply wait.

5 Things To Do While Waiting

1. Pray

Are you waiting on:

A job, Career change, or promotion?
Desire for a relationship, to get married?
Start a family?
Health improvement for yourself or loved one?

Then Pray. Talk to him about your needs, desires, and goals. Ask for guidance in accomplishing his will for your life

2. Listen

Listen for his response. Often we pray then walk away and when he responds in a different way, we even miss it because we’re either looking for a straight forward response or are too busy feeling sad, down and depressed.

Don’t be afraid of Silence. Listen. Just listen.

3. Stay Close

Stay close to the lord so you can hear his answer.

Dr. Tony Evans shared the analogy of when you are driving long distances and you move out of an area, you have to change the channel.

In the same way when you move away from the Lord because you may be Worried, afraid, or impatient, then you will find it difficult to hear his response.

4. Read the Word

Read the word because that is one way you will hear him speak. If you do not read then you will not hear and may miss his response. We hear his response through the bible, circumstances and in some cases through what seems like ‘coincidences‘. Personally I just love those!

5. Get Your Praise On

Praise Him in advance. That’s what David did. He praised God during times of waiting. He lamented …but in all he praised. Build in praise while you wait. It works wonders for your heart, your spirit, and your soul.

Let’s together Wait.

Blessings overflow.

In The Midst Of Life’s Busyness…

In the midst of life’s busyness, let’s not forget to pray. To have time with the lord. Sometimes I feel far from Him and that’s when He nudges me quietly. Then I return to him in quiet rest.

Thank you Lord for not giving up on me.

Peace

How Can You Hear If You’re Not Listening?

We are not reading the word. So how are we going to hear what He’s saying to us? How are we going to get His guidance? His direction? How are we going to follow his leading?

We pray. We plead. We’re sad. Our dreams, goals and aspirations seem stalled. We complain. We ask questions.

Why?

Why isn’t our prayers being answered?

Why the delay?

Why do we need to wait?

Why? Why? Why?

The Answer

Why worry when we can pray? Seek His word. Read it. Chew on it. You will glean His direction…in time. Don’t give up. Stay the course. He’s got you.

Blessings overflow.

God Has A 360 Degree View Of Your Life…

The Lord has a 360 degree view of your life. He can see the past. He can see the present and he can see the future.

So when he gives you the quiet nudge to go… obey. Follow him. Hard as it may be, you won’t regret it.

My Safe Place…

My safe place is with you Lord

My safe place is with you

When I’m with you I know all will be well

But though my human heart cries out in pain

Showering the agony and pangs of defeat

I’ll cry out to you because you are the God that brings comfort

You bring peace

You bring solace

My safe place is with you lord

My safe place is with you

We Thank You…

All things are working for our good

We give you thanks for all you’ve done

Lord, thank you for all that is happening in our lives right now.

All things are working for our Good

And for that we thank you.

For making us strong when weakness is all we have, we thank you.
For Green Lights, we thank you

For mortgage and car payments, we thank you.

For the satisfactory purpose and the immediate job and/or contract placement that you will provide, we thank you.

For the bills it will pay, we thank you.
For being able to give back to you and to help others, we thank you
For the peace that only you can give and will continue to provide, we thank you.
For resilience, we thank.
For sustenance when all We want to do is to give up, we thank you
For manipulators and the conniving schemes that they try to use to break us but we are made stronger, we thank you.
For being our stronghold in times of trouble, we thank you.
For tears we shed as we hold on to you, we thank you.
For shelter, food, and clothing that you provide and we so often take for granted, we thank you
For learning your purpose in all situations we thank you.
For you never giving up on us we thank you
For taking care of our family and children as only you can when we are not around physically and you’re the only one there, we thank you.
For spiritual growth, we thank you
For the pillow that we lay our heads on at nights, we thank you
For not giving up on us when we falter and go astray, we thank you
For using us to take care of the sick we thank you
For your never ending love we thank you

In all things we thank you. We thank you. We thank you. We forever thank you.

Take Five…

Take 5 minutes to pray each day. Commit your thoughts and dreams to the one most high. He’ll see you through your doubts and fears.

Pray. It works.

Blessings overflow.

GranShell, Prayer Doesn’t Work…

Prayer doesn’t work. This statement came from my 7-year grandson who had asked his mom and dad for a dog before his 7th birthday. He did not believe he would get it so I told him to pray. He did. Eight months later after receiving many other gifts that he loved but no puppy, he apparently gave up.

While driving home one day, he almost knocked me off my feet when he said “GranShell, Prayer Doesn’t Work”. Indeed his statement surprised me. It got me thinking. How many times we as adults become disappointed in the Lord’s seemingly unresponsiveness to our pleas for something we consider important to us? What my grandson did not know was that his parents were contemplating his request… but of course a dog comes with major responsibilities. These include considering the actual type of dog to get (one that was hypoallergenic); the cost to care for a dog including health insurance and such; whether he is ready to take care of the puppy, among others.

Doesn’t the Lord do the same? He is answering …but often He wants to give us the right things at the right time–when we are ready for it. We can think of examples like Moses. The delay was to prepare him so he took him away from pharaoh’s palace and sent him to become a shepherd. Later when he was ready, he used him to lead the children of Israel out of oppression. Joseph too was innocently sent to prison for a crime he had not committed. Joseph’s trials were divine in order to prepare him for bigger things. He later had the responsibility for the land during a major famine.

Today, may we have hope that the Lord is coming through for us some way, some how. Be patient …wait. He’s got you.

Blessings overflow,

Joy Comes In The Morning…

Sunrise

My daughter’s 5-year-old son, ran into the kitchen where I was and shouted “its morning! Thank you, God, it’s finally morning!!” He was awake most of the night unable to fall back asleep after a weird dream. When he finally fell back asleep, he didn’t realize that the sun had finally come out 2 hours before. He was overjoyed!

How often our lives feel like the night will never end. Things feel gloomy, and no matter what we do, life never seems to change. But the bible teaches that joy comes in the morning. The morning will come. Let’s Take our nightly concerns to the only one who can change things.