Thank you everybody who has prayed for me. I truly appreciate your kind thoughts and prayers.
There are moments when my smallness
comes hammering home,
when I bash my head upon the eye of the needle,
when I know that in true wealth, God's measure,
I am but a pauper, standing here, hat in hand.
O Lord, let not my hardheadedness
get in the way of your mercy.
Help me to remember who is Master,
who is servant,
who is Giver,
who controls.
Today, confronted with the reality
that the tissues of strength I hide behind
are but paper walls,
and without your strength,
they crumble in the wind.
Help me, Lord to remember
that it is not my strong hand,
but your hand holding mine,
that it is not my strong back,
but your support,
it is not my wisdom,
but the light that comes from you that matters.
Open my heart, Lord,
and let your light in,
and may I,
in the frailty of my life
thank you for your touch,
this day, and always.
Amen.
BTTT
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/m/y/myhopeis.htm
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus’ Name.
Refrain
On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
When darkness seems to hide His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace.
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
Refrain
His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood.
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my Hope and Stay.
Refrain
When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh may I then in Him be found.
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.
1Co 13:12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
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1Jo 3:2 Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
1Jo 3:3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
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Rev 22:4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
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Rev 3:12 The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.
Rev 3:13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'
LORD, you take us from glory to glory.
Even in our weakness, we have learned that you are surely there.
We know this because we know your Word is Truth, we know there is no good thing in us, and our Hope is in nothing less than Jesus and His Righteousness.
We know we have believed and what we believe is TRUE.
We have been delivered by your Hand, in Joy, over and over.
Though pain close over us now, and will do so in the future, yet we remember with all the saints, that you are with us and have heard our cry.
You have brought us into green pastures in peace.
Hold us up while we are yet in tribulation for we are weak and wait only for your help.
Deliver those in need.
Comfort those in Trouble.
Extinguish pain, please LORD in the mighty Name of Jesus,
and let the Redeemed of the LORD Say So!
AMEN