Jesus Is Our Steady In This Life

 

 

 

While I held my sick 5 year old's head at 5 a.m. this morning as he attempted to vomit, he moaned with such anguish, but in the midst of his pain and sickness, I heard him ask me to PRAY. So we prayed as he moaned and tried to throw up. As I spoke to the Lord, I was internally thanking Him that Preston, while suffering, thought to call on the Lord. When Preston suffers in this life (and he will), I pray his instinct will always be to pray and to keep his eyes on the Lord. The Lord is our steady in this life. Oh, how I praise the Lord!

Pure as GOLD

"But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold." Job 23:10 KJV

Yesterday, I heard two separate preachers use this verse in their messages. I find such peace in knowing that the Lord has great plans for His children. Even when we are called to undergo a great trial, He has plans -- HE has plans. Even when we do not understand why we must encounter such an

guish, such sadness, such devastation, HE has plans for GOLD. The blemishes are being washed away - even scrubbed sometimes - if I am being honest. Sometimes, I have sat in utter darkness wondering why and how the Lord could allow this pain to exist, but at His appointed time, He shows me that HE has plans for GOLD.

Wash away my imperfections, Lord -- that is my heart's cry to Him. Show me where I fall short and help me to stand. What a model Jesus was to us in so many ways. What courageous words He spoke before His crucifixion: "Not my will, but thine, be done" (Luke 22:42). Are we not to follow in His footsteps? Hasn't He called us to forsake all and follow Him?

The journey won't be easy; otherwise, He wouldn't have said "Strait is the gate and narrow is the way" (Matthew 7: 14 KJV). There will be anguish; there will be suffering, but remember friends, HE HAS PLANS FOR GOLD.

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He Has A Work For ALL Believers!

I feel a stirring in my spirit tonight- The Lord is present in my home, and it makes me want to shout His praises! Glory to Him - He is worthy.

I was upstairs feeding Jack his bedtime bottle and thinking about doing a particular work for the Lord that came to mind on my drive home tonight. I thought, "I can't do it unless God very specifically reveals to me that I am to do it." I don't ever want to step out on what Joy thinks is right - without it being what He says is right. I flipped my Bible open while holding Jack in my other arm and looked at the underlined passage in Deuteronomy, and do you know that passage was absolutely precisely what entered my mind on my drive home!

This past Saturday I was also feeding Jack on the couch and praying to the Lord at the same time - pouring out the desires of my heart to Him -- all pertaining to the type of servant I want to be for Him, and the Lord moved my eyes to the wall on the opposite side of the room, and do you know there was a perfect, distinct cross on the wall made by the sun shining through my window pane! I praise His Holy name!

I don't type this to have attention drawn to me, but for attention drawn to HIM! He's alive and has work for all believers! Let us humble ourselves in His presence. Let us step outside of ourselves and do the work He has called us to do!

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