Learning to live for HIS glory

I planned on leaving for a dear friend's wedding this evening.  Plans change.  Some sickness has set in at my house, and we aren't able to make the trip.  Sadness and disappointment resulted. This morning though, as I sat with the Lord, He reminded me that the most glorious of weddings is yet to come . . . and no sickness can change the fact that I will be there!  Oh . . . words fail me to describe the GLORY of that thought!  I am so thankful for my Jesus.  There was a time when I was sick--dead, actually--He brought healing and life.  Through His death, I live, and one day will be a part of the most glorious and beautiful wedding of all time. =) =) I'm beyond thankful.  Missing this wedding is sad, but missing that wedding would be devastating.  I rejoice that I can be confident I won't!  And my heart breaks for those who will realize they are sick too late.  Do you know this, friends?  Have you accepted Jesus' gift of hea...

Musings from August of this past year... 3~That You spoke and this world came to be just boggles my mind! Walking as a child of light does not mean that I’m doing it perfect all the time, but that I am trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord! 5~Do I see this world as a playground or a battlefield?  “Today men think…we are not here to fight, we are here to frolic.  We are not in a foreign land, we are at home.  We are not getting ready to live, we are already living.” ~A.W. Tozer 11~Lord, You are just as much my God as You are Pastor Keith’s God, as You are Eric and Leslie Ludy’s God, as You are Amy Carmichael and Corrie TenBoom’s God!  I pray, Lord, that You would reveal Your power in my life in mighty ways! 12~Lord, may Your life in me spring up as a wellspring of refreshing water. 16~ “Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months...

7~ “We channel God’s grace in disagreements—not primarily by being nice, but by making much of Jesus Christ who freely Bought us with His own blood (Rev 1:7).   If Jesus, or the advance of His gospel is at stake, that’s worth disagreeing about.   Not much else is.” –Pastor Keith Make these pages a catalyst to remembering and standing on who my God is and how He works! (In the beginning of a new journal) 10~Your creation is beautiful, and yet I know it must be just a little glimpse at Your beauty!  Wow, Lord!  I can’t wait to see Your face.  And yet, I fear it at the same time…will I be found worthy?  I praise You, Lord, that it is not dependent on my worthiness, this living in Your presence. Lord Jesus, my beloved friend, Oh!  You know me so well.  Sometimes when You open my eyes to something in my life I didn’t really see before, its overwhelming.  But You knew…even before I did.  Lord soak these verses deep down in my soul...

A few thoughts from June . . .  5~Lord, I’ve thought my way is the best way, and I’m sorry.  It really isn’t!  Yours is!  Thank You for always having a plan and bringing the work You begin to completion, Lord!  Thank You for Your grace extended to me! 6~ “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ .” ~Philippians 3:20 One day my Savior, my perfect Prince will come. . . . 7~Enable me, I pray, to live a life saturated in trust and free of worry.  8~3 questions Amy Carmichael would ask before she spoke: ·          Is it kind? ·          Is it true? ·          Is it necessary? 16~Christ in me…the hope of glory…what an awesome, mind-boggling thought that is, Lord! 25~Immortal, invisible, only wise God, Your name be praised forever!  You spoke t...

May: 5~Lord, Does it break Your heart when people use Your name in vain? Does it break Your heart when a cold shoulder is turned? Does it break Your heart when Your people don’t live in unity? Does it break Your heart when a child doesn’t have a loving home?  Lord, I want to be a woman after Your own heart!  Give me eyes, I pray, to see what You see in this world.  Break my heart with what breaks Yours. 7~When we think of asking in another’s name, what does that mean? We are asking for them, not ourselves (asking for a paycheck written to another person) They have trusted us to represent them. 8~Enable me to love You wholeheartedly, to love others supernaturally, and to daily die to self. 10~Mold and shape me into a Spirit led individual. 17~Find rest oh my soul, in God alone… 19~Make me a woman, Lord, who is so steeped and saturated in Your Words, that only You flow out of me! 20~Who is my God? He is . . . ·   ...

I'm loving the reminders of neat opportunities God gave me to be involved in, pray for, and speak truth into random people's lives last year as I read back over it! April's writing tidbits . . . 2~It’s so easy to forget, but You are with me…teach me to remember.  4~Believe Truth!       Remember Jesus…         Trust His Word.           Recount His faithfulness!             Rejoice in God’s presence.               Reckon yourself dead~                 Alive in Christ!                   Delight in the Lord…             ...

Scribblings, prayers, and music from March of the year just past . . . 1~May every moment of my days be saturated with You. 2~You are enough, Lord!  I choose to believe that’s true, because it is, even when it doesn’t feel like it.  Truth over emotion! 3~On my own I would respond with impatience and frustration . . .  I need Your grace to flow through me.  To think through me. 5~It’s hard, Lord, my eyes are filled with tears and I don’t really know how to extend grace.  I love her, but I don’t really know how to love.  Teach me, please! . . .  Lord, when it seems impossible to love, love through me…when it seems impossible to forgive, forgive through me…when it seems like the only option is bitterness, show me the higher way. 7~Fill me with Yourself and make me a gracious woman. 8~Lord, what does it mean to desire nothing but You on this earth?  Could You help me understand that? 10~You know, Lord, that if I try to do th...