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Heads up! I have a declaration to make! We serve Amazing God! Wonderful God! And my family’s life is living proof of His faithfulness and His glory. Let me tell you about Amazing God in my life yesterday. Doesn’t start well..doesn’t roll off the tongue with pride to say, I lost it with my kids yesterday. Not just a little. Completely dissolved into raging bull. I could give you my excuses, how terrible they were..etc. I ran upstairs and wept. Wept. And I cried out for His forgiveness, wondering aloud how He could make anything of me, glorious. Then I went downstairs and asked for their forgiveness and we began up again. One of my children having a very difficult time still. Yet, I had been brought to my knees.
As I entered our co-op, I didn’t even get to the front door before the Spirit began prompting me to go and minister. And in my mind, (being real here), I thought how could my God use a sinner like me? Oh what a wretched man I am! And words from the sermon this past weekend flooded into my mind, that exact quote!
23But I discern in my bodily members [[a]in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh] a different law (rule of action) at war against the law of my mind (my reason) and making me a prisoner to the law of sin that dwells in my bodily organs [[b]in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh].
24O unhappy and pitiable and wretched man that I am! Who will release and deliver me from [the shackles of] this body of death?
25O thank God! [He will!] through Jesus Christ (the Anointed One) our Lord! So then indeed I, of myself with the mind and heart, serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. 1THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit.(A)
2For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death.
I realized I was a dead man walking! Christ was in me and the power of hell had no hold on me! So the Lord began to show me where He needed me. And I prayed. And I loved. Then he said to me, This [addition of the bowl to the candlestick, causing it to yield a ceaseless supply of oil from the olive trees] is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit [of Whom the oil is a symbol], says the Lord of hosts.
Now, I walked to the prayer room and a precious woman walked up to me and said, “I have something for you!”. Proceeded to tell me of her gift given to her over the weekend, amazing gift and she said, the Lord told me to give you 800 dollars of the gift. Very specific amount. Very. And I dropped to the ground and wept. That was exactly how much money we were in non-sufficient funds in our account. I cried out in praise and told her and she fell to the ground with me and wept. And we praised and wept! And the Lord is working miracle in her life and the Lord is amazing God to her!
Now I’ve hinted in my blog to you all how we have been struggling, maybe I’ve mentioned our needs..yet God knew majestically and another word from the Pastor this past weekend hit me. We went up for prayer.
Psalm 50:9-11
10For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills or upon the mountains where thousands are.
11I know and am acquainted with all the birds of the mountains, and the wild animals of the field are Mine and are with Me, in My mind.
When I declared this to my family and handed the money to Joshua, Noah started singing this:
Tis So Sweet to Trust In Jesus
He knows! And we are the recipients! So, when I received the call later that day, that the tests on Joshua’s heart showed an irregularity, a deformity..I know my Savior. I know He’ll take good care of my husband. I can trust Him. How I’ve proved Him over and over!! Doesn’t He know me well? What if I had received that call during my meltdown? He times everything so beautifully.
I declare to you, God is with you. God longs for you! My life is living proof of a life blessed by God, not by my merit. TRUST ME on this. But His…
33[Dear] little children, I am to be with you only a little longer. You will look for Me and, as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: you are not able to come where I am going.
34I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another.
35By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves].
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Pray on…pray on!
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