My Lord,
Good morning to you and thank you for your faithfulness.
I love that over and over again, YOU are faithful, even when we are not.
I am not always energized and ready to live this Christian walk, but my heart adores You and I live for YOU. I am willing as long as You are by my side. I can get sluggish, lazy and even complain about the little things at times, BUT I am obedient to your voice and I am listening my Lord.
I love when a sermon speaks to me exactly where I am in my season of life and I especially love it when I can pay it forward.
Someone very special to me was in need of encouragement last night and I was sound asleep. After this morning's (radio sermon) I pray that what I was able to share with her will be the fuel she needs to begin a brand new day. I pray that no matter what happened yesterday, she will trust and believe that she can #still return to your loving arms.
We are never without Christ. Those who belong to you have the extreme privilege to come back again and again with a heart of repentance and you hear and you care. Father, I pray that she will feel an out pouring of love on her today and that she will burst into tears knowing that You have set your affection on her insecurities, fears and vulnerabilities.
Lord, you have done that very thing for me in the past and I know that YOU are a God who does not leave us alone in the midst of our pain and suffering. I know that You are a God who sticks closer than a brother and You are close to the broken hearted and the downcast. YOU are eagerly awaiting to rescue those who call on the name of the Lord and those who have a pure heart that seeks You and You alone.
Thank you for being there for her and thank you for hearing her heart's cry.
#Jeremiah 33:3 (WEB) Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.
Father, thank you for a wonderful weekend. Thank you for yesterday's fun filled day with Tessah and Summer. I love, love, love those girls and the Dolbry and Good family. Their church and their hearts simply worship YOU and I'm so reminded of Your unending grace whenever I'm in their presence. YOU not only love on us collectively but each time that I visit them, I see a beautiful butterfly. There was one fluttering yesterday the entire time that I was there.
Thank you for the errands and the way you faithfully and continually provide for me and my family. Thank you for the conversations with my baby sister and my daughter. I love it when we get to talk about you. I love it even more so when you reveal something brand new to us.
Thank you for giving my dad another birthday and thank you for giving my nephew a new job. Thank you for the work that you're continuing to do in my family; immediate and extended. We will not always see your hand at work BUT I know that you are there and so I trust you.
Thank you for my lunch date with Alex. He gives my heart such joy. I just love our car-dates and even though he never pays (lol) I'm still over-joyed to spend time with him. He is such a hard worker and he is so responsible and trustworthy. He is still trying to find his way when it comes to Your prefect and timely will for His life. My Lord, I know that as much as I love him, YOU LOVE HIM SO MUCH MORE! Please continue the work that You have planned for Him and please, if there is anything that hinders that or stands between YOU and him, please remove it. This is my heartfelt prayer as his mom and as your daughter. My Lord, please extend that prayer to my precious daughter as well. I am so grateful that you chose me to be their mom but even more #grateful that YOU are their GOD! <3
Thank you for my #GBC family and that the doors of my church are always open and always welcoming. I love to just walk in the start hugging the saints! Thank you that they allow me to. :-)
Thank you for Dr. Stanley's sermon on how to handle "Crisis." In his message he said the word #believe 20 times and he said the word #listen 13 times. FATHER, because of Your death on the Cross and because of YOUR unconditional love for #me, I believe and I am listening.
Father I thank you that I am not the kind of [person] that needs for you to explain yourself or to provide me a complete understanding of why things happen. I am so grateful that I have chosedn to place my complete trust in YOU and Your ways just because YOU are God. Your word tells me in Psalm 139 that all of my days were ordained before any one of them came to be. That alone tells me that You have set a path before me and that I am to hold onto your #unchanging hand along the way. Without You, I will get lost and I will #surely mess things up, but that will be my fault and not Yours. I will not understand many, many things along this journey and there will be much suffering in our lives, but I will not lose sight of the fact that YOU are a loving God who gives blessings and judgment accordingly. I will rest in that all the days of my life.
I love you!
Eternally yours
