Hello special ones,
We had our 6:00 am prayer meeting this morning. As Suzi and I prayed a picture came into my mind. It was a person hanging on the side of a swimming pool about up to their chest, and the water was a bit cold. I felt the Lord say to me "will you trust me and get all the way into the swimming pool of trust?" I really want to do that, how about you? Talk about real freedom. It is the Lord who holds us up. We are making a more concerted effort to do that at our home and each day when things happen that would have caused anxiety or whatever, I am choosing to trust and Lord and not rely on my own understanding.
My husband is doing some repairs on the house and it began to rain finally this week. But this morning he needed it to be sunny, and again we are blessed with rain. So we prayed, after we got something to eat, he asked me if he should wait a while or go out into the rain. "Why don't you take a step of faith," I said. So he did. I came up to write the daily devotional and this bright sunshine came beaming through the window. I let out a shout for joy, and ran to the window to rejoice with my husband. He asked me why I was praising the Lord and I told him. And when I sat down to type, on the hill behind our house was the largest squirrel I have ever seen. He sat up and looked at me, ran around and then scurried away. I think it is so cool! The Lord does care about the little things. I guess that is why I love him so much. He is so full of wonderful surprises.
After Hebrews 12::1–3 I have been munching on I Peter 4:14–19. It is very cool. But as I was getting to go to pray before 6:00 am I felt the Lord nudge my heart with a portion of verse 19: "Comment the keeping of your soul to a faithful Creator." The verse says "Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to Him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator." The cross reference is to "I Timothy 1:12, 'And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has enabled me, for that He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry.'"
O precious Lord, how we love and adore You. Only You give us such confidence and hope. Only You give joy in the midst of pain. Help us to keep our eyes on You as we run the designated race the assigned race You have set before. Help us to put off those things, any sin that would slow us down. Help us to run in Your love. Help us to be clean vessels so Your light of the liberating Gospel can be seen in us. We so love and appreciate all the wonderful, caring little thoughtful things You do for us. And we appreciate the big things too. Thank You for the cannonball of joy for You in our hearts. We exalt Your holy name. In Jesus mighty name. A-men! Have a great day in the Lord special ones. You are truly loved.
The most cool thing happened this morning. I was having my devotions and the scripture I highlighted from another time was "Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you" and then my eyes hit "And to you who are troubled, rest with us." I felt this is a rhema not trying to take it out of context: "and to you who are troubled, rest.....rest..... rest... with us." O Papa, how truly awesome you are, how caring, how loving. Help us to follow You faithfully all the days of our lives. In Jesus mighty name, a-men. Have a great day in the Lord special ones. You are truly loved.
