The house is quiet, kids are at school and its just me and Mittens and Lola....my dreams of being a research assistant are coming true today! I've taken the week off work to heal from my eyelid surgery, let me tell you, I have some strong purples, blues and pinks going on right now,,,,enough to get some papers taken out on assault and battery charges..haha, therefore that's why I took the week off to save my husband's reputation, haha!
I have several books going right now....I'm reading Andrew Murray "Teach Me to Pray". Here is the secret...."God cannot be glorified when His glory is not our object""He who would pray the prayer of faith must live so that the Father is glorified in him in all things...This must be our aim...without this there can be no prayer of faith".
My goodness I'm so busy giving him a list of what I think he should do, Lord, I'm sorry, this book has really opened my eyes. I feel so weak when it comes to prayer in my life. Give me a book, I can read it, get knowledge from it and apply it but some things has to be worked out. Prayer is a hard work for me, I must admit. I finally ordered the Hannah Whitall Smith book " A Christians Secret to a Happy Life" not that I'm seeking Happiness but I've saw this book referenced so much in many different books I've read I knew it had to be a staple I'd need to read one day. 1 Chapter down and yes, I can tell its going to be one of those....hope I can get a lot of it digested this week....also James McDonald "Always True...God's 5 promises when life is hard". Isn't it always hard??? looking to store some concrete promises in my heart from this study. I heard him teach this on the radio broadcast and knew I just had to have it. Taylor and I are starting a study called Biblical Leadership by Ken Collier and Matt Williams. I hope to go over some of it today before she and I begin. Bonfire is this week during the School's release program, praying for them as they reach today's youth in our school system. Its sad that many Christians work against other Christians during this time just because of different tastes and styles in music and approaches to the gospel and reaching the youth of today!
In much prayer today as the services are ongoing during the school day and services each night.
Before moving on to my new scripture verse I have to tell you how my previous one helped me so much Friday while I was in surgery. I was nervous being prepped and all getting ready to go in and my mind was in a whirl,,,I couldn't really grasp any tangible thing in my mind for thinking on so many things. They were preparing me for the procedure and telling me different things....like shields over my eye balls to protect them from the laser and the length of how long and how I wouldn't be able to see very well but to try and do exactly as he instructed to do. As they continued to talk and tell me all this stuff, you have to understand that my vision is so bad that its like 20/400 basically I'm legally blind without my glasses or my contacts so it was very hard for me to focus on what they were telling me because I couldn't see what they were telling me either...Well I finally settled my mind on my scripture memory verse and started saying it over and over!
When I finally came to after the numbing procedure, they had the shields over my eyes and began working on me. There was this great big light above me shining down and I could feel its warmth and my mind began to work.....The Lord God is a sun and a shield....I began to praise Him for being that right there with me in the operating room holding up the shield of faith and feeling the sun of His love shining down on me....as the procedure continued....the Lord will give grace and glory..... the Lord is enabling me to endure and continue with all the effects of this procedure....no good thing will He withhold from them who walk uprightly.... the Lord was gracious and held me the entire time my life and vision was in the hands of the doctor and nurses all around me and I could focus in my mind how the Lord was sustaining them and me and all His goodness being given to all of us whether we acknowledged it or not! Little did I understand when I chose that verse all that it would entail for me that Friday April the 1st. God's word is a strong tower and fortress and all who run to it shall be safe. Many prayers are being lifted up for many friends and family members and I'm asking God to bless them with this same promise and that His glory is the object of all the trials they are enduring at this time. Which this leads to my new verse....it keeps coming up in my path so I have chosen it for the new verse for the 1st of April.
Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. 2 Corinthians 2:14.
The NIV reads that we are to spread the aroma of His knowledge everywhere. Sow, sow, sow, the seed of the Lord and He will bring the harvest. How will this verse work itself out....I'm praying for the triumph that only comes in Christ and that in every place I go His glory is the object and obedience is my part and He'll take care of the rest.
Wow, I think this is my first post ever.....wahoo !!!!
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