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Posted on 08/01/2013 8:08:20 AM PDT by Mama_Bear
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Thank You to Everyone for the Wonderful Sunday Pics, Links, and Pings.
Prayers for your Daughter's Safety, Dear Yorkie, and Prayers for your Daughter-in-Law's Surgery, Dear Gail.
(((((Goodnight, Dear FRiends; Love you All!)))))
We’re often looking for God’s will—especially when we’re in a difficult situation. We wonder, What will happen to me here? Should I stay or does God want me somewhere else? The only way to know for sure is to do what He asks you to do right now—the duty of the present moment—and wait for God to reveal the next step.
As you obey what you know, you will be strengthened to take the next step and the next. Step by step, one step at a time. That’s how we learn to walk with God.
But you say, “Suppose I take the first step. What will happen next?” That’s God’s business. Your task and mine is to obey this day and leave the future to Him. The psalmist says our steps are “ordered by the Lord” (37:23). This day’s direction is all we need. Tomorrow’s instruction is of no use to us at all. George MacDonald said, “We do not understand the next page of God’s lesson book; we see only the one before us. Nor shall we be allowed to turn the leaf until we have learned its lesson.”
If we concern ourselves with God’s will and obey each day the directions and warnings He gives, if we walk by faith and step out in the path of obedience, we will find that God will lead us through this day. As Jesus put it, “Tomorrow will worry about its own things” (Matt. 6:34).
Read: Psalm 37:23-40
LOVE God
Trust GOD
Walk with God
Follow His statutes/commands
Tell everyone,
I ask, “Do you know Jesus?”
It opens the door a bit.
God bless America and all seeking to know Him and do His Will, in Jesus name, amen.
Oh I love that song. On the Billy Graham show, his singer....George Beverly Shea, always sang that song. It will always bring tears to your eyes. I miss the wonderful shows like Billy Graham. I imagine Rev. Graham is getting pretty far up in age now. All the good guys are slowly fading out of view. I remember how we all loved when he had a show on. In the world we’re living in today, it probably wouldn’t draw an audience. It would sure make me tune in though.
Thank you for posting all the words as I’ve never heard them all. Its sure a beautiful song for touching the heart.
This is the first time I’ve had my computer on today....just haven’t been feeling up to par today.
Because of where I live, I’m treated to spectacular displays of the magnificent, creative glory of God. Recently, on a drive through the woods, I was struck with a breath-taking display of deep rich reds and a variety of yellows that decorated the trees of autumn—all artfully arranged against the backdrop of a brilliant blue sky.
And soon, as the temperatures plummet and winter blows in, I’ll be reminded that no two snowflakes are ever the same as they pile on top of one another to create a rolling landscape of pristine white drifts. After that will come the miracle of spring, when that which seemed hopelessly dead bursts into life with buds and blossoms that will grace the meadows with a multiplicity of colors.
Wherever we look in the world around us, we see evidence that “the whole earth is full of His glory!” (Isa. 6:3). What is amazing is that the creation that surrounds us is damaged by sin (see Rom. 8:18-22), yet God has seen fit to grace our fallen landscape with these loving brushstrokes of His creative hand. It serves as a daily reminder that the beauty of His grace covers our sin and that His love for that which is fallen is always available to us.
Read: Isaiah 6:1-6
Thank you for posting this verse...
meditate on these few words again ... Wonderful!!!
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“Lord, may we be ever mindful of Your grace
and love in all that surrounds us.
Thank You for making Yourself
visible through the beauty of Your creation.
Teach us to look beyond the beauty
to see Your hand at work.
Never pass up an opportunity to enjoy nature’s beauty—
it’s the handwriting of God.”
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God bless America! Praise the LORD in all things this day!
Goodnight, and God Bless.
I love Tuesday’s message..Thank you, Rus..Amen
My friend Linda grew up planning to become a medical missionary. She loves the Lord and wanted to serve Him as a doctor by taking the gospel to sick people in parts of the world where medical care is hard to find. But God had other plans. Linda has indeed become a medical missionary, but not the way she expected.
At age 14, Linda developed a chronic health problem that required her to be hospitalized for major surgery several times a year. She survived bacterial meningitis that left her in a coma for 2 weeks and blind for 6 months. She once celebrated two birthdays in a row in the hospital—without going home in between. She has had several experiences when she was not expected to live. But yet Linda is the most vibrant, grateful, and cheerful person you will ever meet. She once told me that her mission field, as she hoped and planned, is the hospital. But instead of serving God as a doctor, she serves Him as a patient. No matter how sick she is, the light of the Lord radiates from her.
Linda exemplifies the teaching of the apostle Peter. Despite her trials, she rejoices, and the genuineness of her faith brings “praise, honor, and glory” to Jesus Christ (1 Peter 1:6-7).
Read: 1 Peter 1:1-9
AMEN! Another wonderful, inspirational message..Thank you for starting our day off right every day.
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Good morning Meg!
Happy Warm & Fuzzy Wednesday, Jaidyn!
((((HUGS))))
That picture defines the term “Long-Suffering”. :-)
((((HUGS))))
I LOVE that! :-)
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