Unfailing Love

The last time I came here to write on my blog I was writing in a state of despair and confusion. I was desperately gripping onto my hope in Yahweh even though I couldn't see an answer to my struggles. I honestly felt at that time that I couldn't go on. I felt as if I was about to fall off the edge, that I wouldn't be able to finish my degree. I was feeling the weight of problems that weren't entirely my own but could find no way to shake them. Little by little I was being crushed and more and more I had been locking myself away from the world. When my friends asked me to hang out I made excuses in order to keep alone. The pressure of being okay and happy around them was often too great. Of course, during this time there were moments when I showed my weakness and each time my friends were there to pick me up. I am eternally grateful to them for standing by me. Despite that, however, I continued to feel alone. It was at this time that God showed his Love in my life and rescued me again. He never fails me.

The Devil Cannot Steal you From God; Go Help Those Over Whom the Devil Actually has a Grip.

It has been a while since I have posted anything with me just talking and sharing my heart with y'all. A lot has been going on lately and I feel like there are some things I need to say.

First of all I must confess that my prayer life is anything but stellar and I feel distant from God at the moment. Formerly I would have interpreted this lost kind of feeling as me being altogether separated from God; Apart from His Grace and unworthy of His Forgiveness. It is a blessing for me to KNOW without a doubt that will never happen. When God brings you into His family there is no way you can ever fall away. There may be times when I feel alone or sometimes when I actually put up a barrier between myself and my Father but just because I have thrown up a short little wall doesn't mean that God can’t see down in and isn't watching over me and protecting me. I need His love more than anything.

Despite my weariness there has been some things my Father has been teaching me lately and I'd like to share that with you. Actually I think it is because of my weariness that I have been able to hear what He has to say. It's about forgiveness and grace.

We need a whole lot of it.

We need to give others even more of it.

Psalm 18

The other day I was drifting in and out of sleep in the morning. I heard the house wake up, I was behind time but then I was thouroughly awakened by an explosive peal of thunder. My first cohearant thought besides "Wow!" I must admit, was of the computer. I got up and un-plugged it then it flahed upon me, "Wow isn't God amazing? I fealt it shake!" So then I wanted to find a Bible passage that expressed that, so here it is.

Philemon

 

Philemon 1

Greeting

 ¹ Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,

To Philemon our beloved friend and fellow laborer, ² to the beloved^[a] Apphia, Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:

³ Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Proverbs 3:27, 30

Proverbs 3:27
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
When it is in the power of your hand to do so.

Proverbs 3:30
Do not strive with a man without cause,
If he has done you no harm.

This just struck me as talking about our family's. It really got me thinking; perhaps it might stir you up too.

Isaiah 58:9a-14

                                                     "you shall be like a watetered garden"

“ If you take away the yoke from your midst,

      The pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,
       ¹⁰ If you extend your soul to the hungry
      And satisfy the afflicted soul,
      Then your light shall dawn in the darkness,

      And your darkness shall be as the noonday.

1 Kings 17:8-15

1 Kings 17:8-15

⁸ Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, ⁹ “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” ¹⁰ So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, indeed a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, that I may drink.” ¹¹ And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”

Matthew 6:25, 34

25 Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life what you will eat or what you will drink; nor your body what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is it own trouble.

Proverbs 31:10-31

 ¹⁰ Who can find a virtuous wife?

      For her worth is far above rubies.

       ¹¹ The heart of her husband safely trusts her;

      So he will have no lack of gain.

       ¹² She does him good and not evil

      All the days of her life.

Matthew 6:25,34

25 Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?... 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about it's own things. Sufficient for the day is it's own trouble.

            If you were to look towards the front of my journal you would see that I definitely was not listening to what Jesus said. It is filled with pages and pages of worrying and discontent. But, the further on you go the less you will find worrying. Little by little God is teaching me not to worry and to put my full trust in him.

Ezekiel 28:9-10

9 "Will you still say before him who slays you,
'I am a god'?
But you shall be a man, and not a god,
In the hand of who slays you.
10 You shall die the death of the
uncircumcised
By the hand of the aliens;
For I have spoken," says the Lord God.'"

Zechariah 7:9-10

9 "Thus says the LORD of hosts:
'Execute true justice,
Show mercy and compassion
Everyone to his brother
10 Do not opress the widow or the fatherless,
The alien or the poor
Let none of you plan evil in his heart against his brother,'

Proverbs

Proverbs 24:30-34
30 I went by the field of the lay man,
And by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding;
31 And there it was, all overgrown with thorns;
Its surface was covered with nettles;
Its stone wall was broken down.
32 When I saw it, I considered it well;
I looked on it and received instruction:
33 A little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to rest;
34 So shall poverty come like a prowler,
And your need like an armed man.

Proverbs 26:13-16
13 The lazy man says "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion is in the streets!"
14 As a door turns on its hinges,
So the lazy man on his bed.
15 The lazy man buries his hand in his bowl;
It wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.
16 The lazy man is wiser in his own eyes
Than seven men who can answer sensibly.

Proverbs 28:19
He who tills his land will have plenty of bread,
But he who follows frivolity will have poverty enough!