God's Kingdom. A vast and powerful God knows of what He is speaking. God is God.
I've heard a Sermon on using the brain Father God has gifted us with. Seeing great Holy Spirit works with practicality to understand at the level we can see with our physical eyes. And I had a conversation with a loved on on reaching faith through practicality. We can look at this verse with the brain and eyes God has given us to see a practical level yet still part of our lives - daily.
Seeing this passage as: The situations in our life troubling us.
We can allow ourselves to fall into the fire of being overwhelmed with life. Or we can ignore our real difficulties and drown them with water like selfishness, alcohol or substance, video games and emotions. Allowing ourselves to be the victim and love our troubles for defining us. Not allowing ourselves to see real oppression and not grasping God to hold us to His path.
The task it to be like Joshua centered on Jesus to be our Savior.
My New Year Resolution is to acknowledge my difficulties. To express them. To gather Pray in myself and from trusted Christians. To cast my opportunities for a solution UP to Jesus, Who Cares for me. And to see with expectation what God will do. And release my worries knowing that He will not shun a worrier. Our Father God is Love.
Joshua 1:7
Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the instructions Moses gave you. Do not deviate from them, turning either to the right or to the left.
Psalm 28:7
The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
1 Peter 5:7
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of the temple.
I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up
4 Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints,
6 As for me, I said in my prosperity,
8 To you, O Lord, I cry,
11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
Abba, Father God,
For the Eye Exam and probable upcoming Surgery, February 6th, we pray all better circumstances than the last eye vertigo. Growing up with 20/20 vision has this change being still an adjustment. Thank You for the clean bill of health for my eyes last time. I hope this set of surgeries bring this back. Healing the injury Cataract and the other eye adjusting.
For our Prayer Group to pray Jesus to bring His Heaven to earth to end suffering. The Joy of Jesus. A Jesus Miracle.
To find the Joy of the Comforter in our Neighbors asking and letting us know this is what they have recovered from. Thanking God for the Comforter found in our sons. Finding us standing united to hope in God for the place and time for Family Love. Rejoicing in the Love and comfort. Rejoicing in the Love and comfort. Rejoicing in Jesus bringing us together and finding Love and comfort.
Our God of Love and Encouragement is Alive. We know You hear our Prayers and Help.
Thank you for people praying together for our family. We pray to live in Love, Peace, Joy and find God's Heaven and His Righteousness upholding us everyday. Thank You for Your Mercies Renewing.
In Jesus Christ. The Highest Name. Given to us - Jesus. Amen.
Psalm 30
A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of the temple.
I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up
and have not let my foes rejoice over me.
2 O Lord my God, I cried to you for help,
and you have healed me.
3 O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol;
you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.
4 Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints,
and give thanks to his holy name.
5 For his anger is but for a moment,
and his favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may tarry for the night,
but joy comes with the morning.
6 As for me, I said in my prosperity,
“I shall never be moved.”
7 By your favor, O Lord,
you made my mountain stand strong;
you hid your face;
I was dismayed.
8 To you, O Lord, I cry,
and to the Lord I plead for mercy:
9 “What profit is there in my death,
if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise you?
Will it tell of your faithfulness?
10 Hear, O Lord, and be merciful to me!
O Lord, be my helper!”
11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
you have loosed my sackcloth
and clothed me with gladness,
12 that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent.
O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
Yesterday was an incredible news day. Sars coronavirus, fires, earthquakes, political wrangling. It was amazing the news could fit in all the news. Psalm 30 covers this pretty well. Life does what the stock market does - reassess and reevaluate and continue.
Psalm 30 covers this - Stand strong, avoid dismay and tell of God's faithfulness.
We have no idea what decade of life will bring what situation. We are in our 50's and my husband has a terminal disabling brain illness of 3 lobes. He is doing well. No one expects to be in a doctor's office and finding this out at this age. One of our sons is on the other side of America, in law school, and we didn't anticipate the need to have these trips to see one another. Our son's dog is our dog - a rescue - who spent 10 years of his 14 or 15 years of life with us and we spent a year in physical dog therapy trying to help him walk and live. Spring Break found us with our first Bald Eagle on our pond and an appointment to put the dear and wonderful dog into Heaven, as he was in tremendous pain and not all there. He was unable to sleep at night. I'd say the experience brought us together as a family to pull together for the dog.
One doesn't always know what to say to each other as human beings in the face of life and death. Do you say, "Are you safe?" And add, "Today?" There isn't an easy escape to these type of events.
We are facing one family member in Alzheimer's, my mom, and we are having talks about her mortality as the physician has said it's time to face the end of life changes are happening. A day of silence. A day of flashbacks that don't make sense. A telephone call where the phone isn't recognized as a phone. The call is ended because the phone is put down. The lack of clarity in the phone call.
My husband's family is suddenly calling more and more medical discussions are held in grave earnestness.
My mother's change in life status is bringing about questions to my son. His help. Actually the both willing help of both sons is a blessing to see young men barely hitting 30 giving lots of thought to important questions. Important papers arrive in the mail. Trips to take to meet people of our past, even decades ago.
$4,000 nuclear brain scans. Trips across the Continent for family visits to our son. $4,000 eye surgeries taking a year to heal from. Finding out more eye surgery is needed again from a Youth Ministry Tennis Ball Horrible accident. Suddenly finding out I'm the Executor of my mom's Will. Receiving Medical Power of Attorney documents in the mail. This decade is not for sissies. It's been an odd year. One week the family trembles together. The next week a new semi-crisis. God Helps.
Foundation repair and flooding at a family member's house. Foundation meeting timing. Different ideas. Missed appointments. Hollering.
What's Astonishing to me is - we aren't Grandparents. We don't have have married children. This has not progressed as I always assumed life progresses. Our other son has his first adult job. I doubt he intended to find suddenly old people everywhere. Finding the people we grew up with as our parents friends are now gone to Heaven when their name is mentioned. And then my mother's foundation needed work and I find some of the people are still here and old memories are found!
One of the prayer groups we have known for about half of our life, discussed praying for the end of suffering. And find more Jesus. And relief and help was truly found. Faithful prayer. We have an idea for relief - Prayer.
We have seen answered prayer - our sons have really pulled for us as you hope your children will. Even when you never hoped for this to happen to them in their young adult years.
Our neighbors, even on blocks even far away, ask us and let us know we are cared for. Prayer of Living Water flowing with God's Love return to us. Comfort is comforting.
If this post was a downer - don't let this be a downer. We are encouraged to have you pray for us. We seek to find the Joy in God's Mercies every day. And this is found. We are requesting prayer for more Joy and less pain. For more Hope and less suffering. For God's Love to bloom everywhere and in the desert days.
Abba, Father God,
For the Eye Exam and probable upcoming Surgery, February 6th, we pray all better circumstances than the last eye vertigo. Growing up with 20/20 vision has this change being still an adjustment. Thank You for the clean bill of health for my eyes last time. I hope this set of surgeries bring this back. Healing the injury Cataract and the other eye adjusting.
For our Prayer Group to pray Jesus to bring His Heaven to earth to end suffering. The Joy of Jesus. A Jesus Miracle.
To find the Joy of the Comforter in our Neighbors asking and letting us know this is what they have recovered from. Thanking God for the Comforter found in our sons. Finding us standing united to hope in God for the place and time for Family Love. Rejoicing in the Love and comfort. Rejoicing in the Love and comfort. Rejoicing in Jesus bringing us together and finding Love and comfort.
Our God of Love and Encouragement is Alive. We know You hear our Prayers and Help.
Thank you for people praying together for our family. We pray to live in Love, Peace, Joy and find God's Heaven and His Righteousness upholding us everyday. Thank You for Your Mercies Renewing.
In Jesus Christ. The Highest Name. Given to us - Jesus. Amen.
♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †
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