This past Sunday I took the morning to just spend alone with Him! It was the sweetest time of honest confession and sincere surrender and His response was to draw me close and show Himself to me!! He helped me to see things I have not been able to see and He helped me to refocus my eyes on His perspective. I just love how personal and intimate our God is with us and how He leads us along His Best pathway. I love that He doesn’t leave us out there wondering and wandering on our own…He beckons to us, calls to us, and draws us and at just the right moment He reveals Himself to us!! He shows us where we are going astray in our thinking, our actions, and our attitudes. He changes our perspective and suddenly His peace, His love, His joy flood in and the load of this life is lighter.
Give Thanks
I want to first thank you all for your prayers and your personal involvement in my life and ministry!! You have been an encouragement to me in so many ways…many of you have taken the time to email, encourage, and cheer me on in the fight of f@ith and the struggles we all face in this world!! I am happy to say and to tell you that our G0d, our Father and our L0rd has heard all of our prayers and He has made Himself known is so many personal ways!!
I want to thank you for pr@ying for me and for those with whom I am working. The enemy is in retreat mode…I know this may be for only a moment…but for this moment we give pr@ise to our G0d. He has been victorious and He has overcome the battles. Our G0d has used these struggles and battles to teach us and to show us how to fight the enemy.
Give thanks to Him today for the opportunities He has given us to grow and understand Him in greater ways. Thank Him for continuing to use songs to teach the women on the street. Monday morning as O and I were driving downtown we heard 2 new songs on the radio…songs that spoke to her heart. She began teaching me what they were saying. One was about Peter’s words to beggar outside the temple…”Silver and gold I do not have, but what I have I give to you. In the name of Jss get up and walk.” The song simply talked about all the situations we may face…no money, no food, no clothing, no this or no that… Jss has come so get up and walk. Later in the day we were listening to the mp3 player while we were working. A new song she had not heard before came on. It was about the women of the Bible (Deborah, Ruth, Esther, Abigail, Hannah, Lydia, and others) who gave their best and their lives honored and glorified G0d. Needless to say, we listened only to that song all the way to the market and home. I watched as she processed that song and the reality that her life and her work could honor and glorify G0d. She is searching and seeking to understand this new walk of f@ith and life. Please continue to pr@y for her as she discovers the realness and personal intimacy that G0d desires with each of us. Give thanks to G0d for the ways in which He Himself is teaching and leading O to walk with Him. Please pr@y for O as she teaches what she learns with others on the street.
Thank you again for holding us up in the challenges and the struggles of this life!