Blessings Through The Lens

Sometimes life seems wrecked and out of place.

But light alwasy shines in dark places.

Even when it appears to be impossible

Sometimes blessings seem at a distance or  far away.

They are there the blessings.  Sometimes we just need to

slow down and be quiet in order to see them.

What I'm Currently Reading.

I have come across two really good books that I would like to mention.  One is called Depression A Stubborn Darnkness by  Edward T Welch.  If you suffer at all from any forms of depression read this book you will learn a lot and realize a lot. 
The other book is called How To Forgive Ourselves Totally by R.T Kendall.  Aslo a really good book.  Many of us find it hard to forgive others but often times it's even harder for us to forgive ourselves.  It could be past mistakes recent mistakes whatever the case may be if you fall in this catagory get the book.  If you decide to read these books you will realize it's time to let yourself off the hook.  God intends for us to be free.  Sometimes it's no always easy but he never said it would be.   God bless and happy reading.

Talking With God By Andrew Murray.

A very wonderful friend of mine sent me a book called 199 Treasures of Wisdom on Talking with God by Andrew Murray.  I would like to share some of the wisdom in this book with you.  I hope you are as blessed as I have been.  I will try to include more each week.

1.  I must take time to come into God's presence, to feel my weakness and my need, and to renew my fellowship with Him.

2.  Time alone with the Lord Jesus each day is the indispensable condition of growth and power

3.  Even as a father and his child enjoy being together, so I must have this intimate fellowship with God each day.

4.  Let this be my chief object in prayer, to realize the presence of my heavenly Father.  Let my goal be: "Alone with God."

5.  If I seek fellowship with the Father, I will find Him in His word.

6.  May every sight of those in need help urge me to cry to God who alone can help.

7.  My source of power in prayer is the Vine.  If I am the branches a biding in Christ, He will supply the power.

8.  Am I spending time in His presence?  everything depends on this.

9.  The greatest happiness of my life is that I am loved by the Lord Jesus and can fellowship with Him everyday.

     O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek You.  ( Psalm 63:1)

10.  O that I would take time daily in His presence to drink in His love.

11.   It is only when I am wholly surrenderred to the Spirit that I will be able to live according to God's will.

12.  Unless I am on my knees I cannot live in His love.

13.  A life of prayer will make a life of love to Christ, to other Christians, and to those without Christ.

14.  I must ask myself if my prayer is really in accordance with the will of God and the Word of God.

15.  My hidden prayer life is inseparably bound up with united prayer.

16.  Time I spend in prayer is an offering pleasing to God.

17.  The real practice of prayer is when I take hold of God and have communion and fellowship with Him.

18.  To experience real prayer I must sacrifice my selfish desires.

     "Lord teach us to pray"  ( Luke 11:1)

I Sit Beside the Fire and Think…

I Sit Beside the Fire and Think…

Much Needed Prayer And So Much To Be Thankful For!!

Every sence the earthquake hit in Haiti I have been thinking about all of those over there that need our prayers.  There are so many that  are lost and hurting.  Little babies and children are now without  parents.  Orphanges have been so damaged many of the children are now on the streets at the mercy of other's.  I saw today on CNN how they pulled a little three year old girl named Winnie out of debre of a building that had collasped.  She had been laying beside her dead parents for three days before someone heard her crying and they dug her out.  It's the faces of these precious children that breaks your heart.  They  said on CNN that  little Winnie was a miracle. 
 Our God is a miracle working God He continues to work miracles everyday in spite of what we hear on a daily basis.  Unless you are plugged into  a Spirit filled church you don't hear too much about what God is doing.  One thing about our Lord, no matter what catastrophe may hit and it does not matter where it may be in the world, our Lord knows and He is there willing and able to preform miracles.  One thing that we can be doing as children of God is pray for  more miracle's like Winnie's.  So many there do not know  Jesus Christ they believe in other God's.  The Lord wants us to reach out to help those in Haiti financially and also in prayer.  Prayer, prayed in faith moves the hand of God.  He expects us to be praying for those that are lost and for those that are in need.

There was a camp that was set up in one area for those that are homeless.  Woman were doing what they could to provide food for their babies.  Some were able to savage some things from their homes after the earthquake had hit.  Some of these woman  told one news reporter they were willing to walk three hours so that they could find water.  The other's  were sharing what they had.  CNN  showed one of the Military helicopters hovering over the camp that was full of tents, woman, children, men and families.  Hundreds were running towards this helicopter as it was dropping rasions from the air and bottles of stuff to drink.  As I watched this I thought how sad.  So many of us complain everyday about having to go  work, or  having to take care of children, or what our children are doing, or what they are not doing.  We complain about our husbands, our wives, our friends and family.  I hear many talking about this financial crisis that our country has been in for quit some time now.  So many have lost jobs, and money and investments.   We  all are very very blessed compaired to those in Haiti.  Some will say that the Haitician  people have brought this on themselves because of their beliefs and the things that they do.  I personally don't look at it that way. 

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness, but is long suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance (2 Peter 3:8-9)

So many people are donating millions of dollars and their time to help these people in need and through all of this Haiti is going to be changed because the Word of God

says that,  You intended  to harm me, but God intended  it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. ( Genesis 50:20)

For years many of the Haitician  people have been lied to by the enemy but the Lord is going to turn all of this out in a different way than the enemy expects.  What the enemey met for harm,  the lies he has told these people, the confussion he has kept them in, and the poverty the he  has kept them in the Lord Almighty is going to turn it around,  God intended this for their good, praise God. 

I continue to remember Haiti  and all of those suffering in prayer daily.  I also continue to praise and thank my Lord for all that I have been given.  I praise him for how fortunate I am. I have my salvation,  I have food,  clean and running water,  a home, clothes, a  job, money,  and all that I need for my family and I to survive and it has all come from the hand of God.  We all have so much to be thankful for.  Every day we wake up and have breath it's a miracle from God.  Everyday we that we get to hug our children it's a miracle from God.  Everyday that we get to get up and go to work it's a miracle from God.   Everyday that we get to come home to a warm place, running water, and food it's a miracle from God  lets praise His holy name, and give Him  thanks for He is worthy.  Lets praise Him for the  miracle's  that He is performing in the thousands of lives in Haiti. 

Let everthing that hath breath Praise the Lord (Psalm 150:6)

As I was looking up Scripture I came across Matthew Henery's concise commentary  about this Scripture and I found it to be worth reading.

 Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 150:1-6 A psalm of praise. - We are here stirred up to praise God. Praise God for his sanctuary, and the privileges we enjoy by having it among us; praise him because of his power and glory in the firmament. Those who praise the Lord in heaven, behold displays of his power and glory which we cannot now conceive. But the greatest of all his mighty acts is known in his earthly sanctuary. The holiness and the love of our God are more displayed in man's redemption, than in all his other works. Let us praise our God and Saviour for it. We need not care to know what instruments of music are mentioned. Hereby is meant that in serving God we should spare no cost or pains. Praise God with strong faith; praise him with holy love and delight; praise him with entire confidence in Christ; praise him with believing triumph over the powers of darkness; praise him by universal respect to all his commands; praise him by cheerful submission to all his disposals; praise him by rejoicing in his love, and comforting ourselves in his goodness; praise him by promoting the interests of the kingdom of his grace; praise him by lively hope and expectation of the kingdom of his glory. Since we must shortly breathe our last, while we have breath let us praise the Lord; then we shall breathe our last with comfort. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Such is the very suitable end of a book inspired by the Spirit of God, written for the work of praise; a book which has supplied the songs of the church for more than three thousand years; a book which is quoted more frequently than any other by Christ and his apostles; a book which presents the loftiest ideas of God and his government, which is fitted to every state of human life, which sets forth every state of religious experience, and which bears simple and clear marks of its Divine origin.

Praise God today for all that you have. Praise Him and thank Him for what He is doing in Haiti and remember to keep the Haitician  people before Him for they are His children too and He loves them as much as He loves us even the ones that are lost.

Scriptures And Quotes

     When God thinks of His children, He only thinks in terms of what can be used  toward our good, toward His plan for us, and toward the future.

Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.  ( 2 Corinthians 2:14)

God still has a vision for you.  No matter where you've been, God's full intent is for you to live effectively (John 15:8)  and abundantly (John 10:10)  He loves you dearly, and the fact that you've been foolish doesn't  diminish His love one single ounce.  Talk to God.  Echo the words of the Psalmist when he cried.

If I should say, "My foot has slipped," your loving  kindness, O Lord, will hold me up when my anxious thoughts multiply within me, your consolations delight my soul.  ( Psalm 94:18-19 nasb)

If you don't soak your brain in the truth that you are absolutely secure in the unchanging  love of God, you will never feel worthy of getting out of the mess your in.  Satan will keep your feet on slippery ground.  When you want out of your mess that you are in you've got a golden opportunity to see the grace of God as you've never encountered it.  Let God's loving kindness hold you up and ask Him to make His consolations your delight.

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the furture nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  ( Romans 8:38-39)

Kids And The Funny Things They Say

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Need a little lift today check out these cute sayings by kids.  It will sure put a smile on your face.