Lifted Up

Praises go up to my Heavenly Father for placing so many wonderful sweet friends in my life.  Thanks to several beautiful "sisters in faith" that gave us "practical" gifts, we have been able to begin digging ourselves out of the financial pit we are in.  We still have so far to go, however, we are not as deep as we were.

So many of the financial institutions have been making an effort to work with us by either deferring a payment or lowering the amount due for a payment.

God has been faithful and just to put people in our lives to help us get out of the pit that we dug ourselves into. 

God amazes me every single day by His blessings, love and faithfulness to provide me with comfort, love and help. 

Praise God from whom all blessings flow!!

Acrostic Prayer

This is my attempt at a acrostic prayer based on the bible study by Wendy Blight where our assignment this week was to read Psalm and then write our own acrostic prayer using part or all of our alphabet:

A Amazing Grace you freely gave to me.

B Blood of the Lamb purchased my freedom.
C Cross of Calvary is where He was sacrificed.
D Death could not hold Him.
E Everlasting love He gives me.
F Fear not, the Lord is Risen!
G Gone is the stone from the tomb!
H Hallelujah, Jesus lives!
I I am Redeemed by Grace Divine.
J Just As I Am, I come to you Father.
K King Jesus, worthy of my Praise and Worship!
L Love & Praise, I want to sing and shout to my Father!
M My heart yearns to be at home with Jesus.
N Nothing but the Blood of Jesus saves!
O Oh how I love Jesus!
P Pardoned from my sin by My Savior.
Q Quicken my heart to repent of my transgressions.
R Risen!! My Lord and Savior is Risen!
S Sweetest name I know, Christ Jesus.
T Thy Will I want to obey.
U Understanding will be mine by and by.
V Victory from deaths sting I claim.
W Washed white as snow with crimson red blood!
X X-Ray my heart, my soul and blot out any corruption.

Y Your loving hand I cling to Father.

Z Zealously will I live my life Praising You Father!

The End

I am literally so low today that I can not even pray!!  Ever been like that?

I have tried so hard to remain upbeat during this time, but, today I just could not manage it. 

My husband has been so worried as I have been, however, I was the one that kept saying...God will see us through this, stay positive.....not very good at heeding my own advice..... am I??

When someone else has problems I am always the "miss fix it" with such words of wisdom as ....give it to God.....depend on God.....He is faithful and just....He will see you through the hard times.....WELL, I know He is all those things, but, it is evident that He doesn't apparently want those things for me right now.

God, my heart is heavy, my burdens are many.....where are you???

Blessed

Blessed!!  What a wonderful word.  I am not blessed in the same ways others may be blessed, matter of fact, most people would say that I am anything BUT blessed. 

They just do not know how richly God has blessed me.  I have a wonderful, fairly healthy husband, 2 wonderful healthy children, 2 beautiful healthy stepdaughters (both like my own) 6 grandchildren 1 great grandaughter & 1 (soon to be) great grandaughter.

I am saved, I was redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ.  His blood washed me clean from so much sin.  He forgave me, set me free from the bondage of sin.  He has promised me that I will live with Him eternally in the New Jerusalem.

You see my blessings are not material blessings, of those, I have almost none.  My blessings are the important blessings.  Death can not steal my blessings because actually death will usher me into the greatest of these blessings....my eternal life with my Lord and Savior.  No, death will have no sting for me.

You probably say I am confident and I am, after all, my confidence comes from God, He told me that if I submit my life to Him that all these promises would be mine.  Have you submited your life to God yet?  What ever are you waiting for?

“The LORD says, ‘I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you’” (Psalm 32:8, NLT).

The Crabb Family - My Redeemer Lives

Another beautiful song by The Crabb Family, My Redeemer Lives and because He lives I live, you live, we all live as children of God. Washed white as snow because He Lives.

Through The Fire - Crabb Family

Absolutely beautiful! Thank you sweet Jesus for words like these!! "Just hold on and He will show up and He will take us through the fire again, our help will always come in time". Praise God Almighty

Jesus - Bring The Rain - MercyMe

This video is awesome even without the pictures, however, the pictures really add to it.  Mercy Me has some of the best praise and worship songs out there today.

MercyMe- "You Reign" Music Video

Another great song by MercyMe.