Tag: God’s Plan

I Think I Might Know

I think I might know

But probably not with 

This flawed and fleshly mind

Just a little bit

How my Father must truly feel

When He gives His heart

To His lost and broken children

Yet, they ignore His tender call

I have cried out to my children

And the ones that I love

To please get right with God

Don’t make the same awful mistakes

That I have made in my life

Going down plenty of sin-filled roads

Trails of disobedience covering me

With the dust of my own shame

Some they know about and some they don’t

None of which I am the least bit proud

So point your fingers at me if you must

And declare to the world my sins

Call me a hypocrite or a holier-than-thou

I really do not care what you think

Even though you remember my wrongs

My Father has forgiven every one of them

I have been covered by the precious blood

That flowed from redemption’s cleansing cross

You will not make me ashamed or afraid to say

That Jesus Christ is my Lord, my Savior, and my King

So I think I might know

In this imperfect mama’s heart

Just a little bit

Of how my Father must truly feel

For the hurt in my heart is caused today

 By the family that I love so very much

Yet the ones who ignore me the most!

That is why Jesus would say so long ago 

“Father forgive them; for they know not what they do!”

 

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Hand in Hand

Wedding bells chime in your hearts today

You have said ‘I Do’ in the most precious way

Two hearts become one in sweet accord

Blessed of God and so much adored.

The trials of life are sure to come

But you will stand together to face each one

With laughter and joy, and thoughts so true

Hand in hand, you will see them through.

As days become years and time passes by

Let goodness and mercy stay by your side

Keeping you always in the Lord’s embrace

Kissed by the dew of His eternal grace.

We honor you now with hearts full of love

Praying down blessings from our Father above

With sincere wishes we would all like to say

May everyday be as wonderful as your wedding day.

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Did You?

Did you help when someone needed you?

Go that extra mile?

Did you do what you should do

To turn their tears into smiles?

Did you lighten someone’s heavy load?

Chase their blues away?

Did you smooth out their bumpy road?

Bring sunshine to their day?

Did you love someone’s hurts away?

Erase their trouubled minds?

Did you heal their broken heart someway?

Or was compassion hard to find?

Did you do what was asked of you?

No matter what the cost?

Did you save a soul from hell today?

Search for the one that was lost?

Did you do what Christ would do?

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We Will See

Will everything be all right?

Silence cries into the night

Weeping for what used to be

Now no more than a memory

Will everything be all right?

We will see says the night.

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Into the Light

the paths we take

may not always be right

sometimes they take us

into the dark night

We stumble-we fall

trying to find

our way

back to the light

we search-we seek

for someone to lead

some one to take us

into the light

we tremble-we cry

and don’t know why

life won’t help us

back to the light

we reaped-we sowed

by taking the wrong path

so we humble ourselves

we repent-we get right

for only God knows the way

out of the dark night

He has the eternal sign

that simply says

 “Just follow the Light.”

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Bible Study I

I first started a Bible study group because the preacher who had been coming to the senior citizen housing decided there was not enough participation from the tenants to keep coming. Now I have a real problem with this because what if that last Gentile soul lived there and would possibly have gotten saved which would have ushered in the coming back of Jesus?  Just my opinion! I moved into the senior housing after my husband of 34 years had went on to glory.  There were so many nice people who lived there but now they didn’t have anyone to teach the Bible studies. My dear friend and angel which God had sent into my life after I had lived there about six months thought it would be a great idea if I taught the Bible study. I had taught God’s Word before and throughly loved the thought of doing this again. Since I lived in the building, I was always on sight so to speak. I was so excited to be teaching again because I love the Word of God and teaching what revelation I gleaned by the Holy Spirit from the Word  so others could understand and love Him too.

I began the Bible Study with prayer and praise music. We then read Psalm 119:1-8, 1. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. 2. Blessed are they who keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. 3. They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. 4. Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. 5. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! 6. Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. 7. I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgements. 8. I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly. (King James Version). God’s Word is the very life of God because it proceeds from His very Heart. This is so vital for people to understand.  When God speaks something it will happen! It has happened! It will continue to happen! His Word is living truth, alive with promise and is still creating what He has spoken. How amazing is this revelation! Yet, we in our tiny finite minds limit Him with our thinking and lack of faith in His Word. Jesus Christ is His Spoken Word. God speaks only the truth and we can stand on that firm foundation as told to us in the Scriptires. We can believe His Word totally! This Truth is verified in John 1: 1-5, 14, 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2. The same was in the beginning with God. 3. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. 4. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 14. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (KJV). Jesus was and is and will always be the Spoken Word of God filled with the heart, soul, mind, and Spirit of the Living God.

In the beginning as God was saying, “Let there be light! His precious Word (His Son, the Light) was birthed, being issued out by the eternal voice of His Father into the darkness of this world and dispelling it to the outer reaches of the universe. Genesis 1: 1-5; 1.In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.(KJV) Today the scientific greats have discovered ‘darkness’ in the universe that they can’t explain. It is I believe this darkness that had to back away and make room for the Light of Day! Just like the darkness of the earth had to recede when the created light came so does the darkness in our souls when the revelation of the Light of Jesus (The Word), along with the moving of the Holy Spirit upon the spoken Word of God, comes into our minds to reside in our hearts..  Romans 12:12 says, And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and perfect will of God. (KJV))Our minds must be renewed from the old ways of thinking (in some if not most cases,todays ways of thinking) that were created in our thought processes over the course of our lives. I believe it is called, ‘set in our ways’. The Father wants us to open up our hearts and minds to receive His Son by understanding His Word and accepting Him as Lord and Savior of our lives. II Timothy 2:7- Consider what I say, and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.(KJV) He wants us to have the very best He has for us yet we shun the leading of the Holt Spirit Who would lead us into the knowledge of The Word. Why? I don’t know! But I want too. So we will travel down this road together if you want to stick around. What started out as a small Bible study will continue on in some variations as we glean insights from God’s Word and guidance from the Holy Spirit.

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Beloved Friends

When time takes us down

The trail of life

It does not ask

For directions

God chooses the path

We meet eternal blessings

And earthly hardships

Along the way

See many a beautiful thing

Encounter the saddness

Of broken hearts

As we travel on

Beholding the miracles

That only faith an bring

We see that within

The mountain’s height

And the valley’s depth

Are the precious wonders

That we call our

Beloved friends.

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Slow-moving Storms

Never has there been

Such a time as this

With quarreling, strife,

And bickering

Fading light as evil calls

Darkness creeping in

Like slow-moving storms

Howling winds of turmoil

The blowing dust of change

Thunder and lightning crash

Within the soul of doubt

Haunting voices wooing

The internal choices

Choose wisely my friend

For eternity is the prize

What will it be lost soul?

Heaven with it’s glory

Or hell with it’s torment?

There is no in-between!

 

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Darkness is No More

When dawn wakes the morning skies

And darkness is no more

We will face whatever is in our lives

With faith we cannot ignore

Knowing that sad tears will not fill our eyes

Just joy and true happiness galore

When dawn wakes the morning skies

And darkness is no more.

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A Kick in the Face

When I was a little girl around the age of four I walked up behind our old Jersey cow who had just had a calf. I guess I thought she needed to be milked. She didn’t agree. She immediately kick me in the face. To this day I can still see the hoof coming at me. When I came out of  the coma or unconsciousness I was in my mama’s arms. She was sitting on our old couch in the living room. She couldn’t take me to the doctor or hospital because we lived at the dead end road as far back in the woods as you could go. There was absolutely no way she could have gotten me any help. She couldn’t drive but that wouldn’t of been an option anyways because my Daddy had taken the car on one of his little forays but that is another story. As a mother I can know exactly what was going on in her mind and heart. She was crying out for me. Begging, praying, beseeching, hoping, yet fearing the worse. Then God answered her prayers, I woke up. I can only remember being in her arms and the light coming in the window of the old shack of a house we called home. I have no memory of the pain nor did I ever see my face. I still carry the scars on my chin and tongue where the hoof had almost cut it in half. For most of my life this was the reason I had to live with protruding teeth. Bucky beaver and Rebecca rabbit were the most popular of the taunts. I survived the kick from the cow with no memory of the pain, yet, I remember the cruelty of the people and their barb-wire tongues which cut my heart and self-esteem to pieces. Just like having no car to get help for me there wasn’t any way to ease the hurt caused by others.

Then healing came when I received Jesus as my Lord and Savior.  I had committed so many sins in my life that I didn’t deserve His forgiveness let alone His dieing for me. He kept on telling me just how much He loved me until finally I listened with my heart and not my head. I had always known there was someone with me, looking out for me, helping me. I especially knew this when I was in places I should not have been and doing things I should not have been doing. This is called conviction. God did not want me in these places and was warning me to get out! Sometimes I would obey but other times I would ignore Him and suffer the consequences of my choices. (that’s another story, also.)  He has plans for me for my good and if I had of listened sooner I could have avoided a lot of heartache and strife and regret. The Holy Spirit was watching out for me just like when the cow kicked me. When I received His forgiveness I let go of my unforgiveness towards the cruel people who had hurt me because of my teeth or other reasons to numerous to mention. Unforgiveness is the heaviest burden anyone can carry and sometimes when the hurt goes to deep we have to just turn it over to God for Him to handle. The Holy Spirit can then come in an heal the wounded spirit.  So when you get kicked in the face by life, look to Him. He is the only One Who stretched out His arms and died for us. He is Truth! The song that the choir was singing when I received Jesus as my Lord and Savior was ‘Just as I Am” and that is how I came! I love you Lord and I say “Thank You!” from a little girl’s grateful heart.

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