Lamentations 3:22-23

Lamentations 3:22-23

²² The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
    his mercies never come to an end;
²³ they are new every morning;
    great is your faithfulness.

One thing that I find amazing about the Bible is the stories. These verses which has so much hope and so much optimism comes out of a very dark time for God's people. Their city had been conquered. The temple had been violated and destroyed and the people sold as slaves. Yet out of this we receive a truth about God. 

God's mercies never come to an end. 
His mercies are new every morning.

God help us to understand your love
God help us to trust you
God help us to through out the lies
God help us to listen to you!

Trust God

James1:5-8 NIV
⁵ If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. ⁶ But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. ⁷ That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. ⁸ Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.

This I find to be one of the hardest things. Not to doubt. God makes it clear we should not doubt him. God is not a liar.  

We had a speaker yesterday who emphasized the point that we need to believe by faith what God says. Satan tries every day to make us believe lies and sometimes he makes us believe/feel they are true. He emphasized that God loves us and has a plan for us, and we truly need to believe this. If we don't we find ourselves lacking strength, power ... because we try to do things ourselves.

We need to trust God and his word that he is not a liar, and trust him that he has a plan for us. Otherwise we will doubt and be like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. And maybe by being tossed by the wind we lose part of God's plan for us (so let us try to trust more and more each day). But let us remember God always takes us back if we ask for forgivness and will reinstate a new plan for us.

Lamentations3:22-23

²² The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
    his mercies never come to an end;
²³ they are new every morning;
    great is your faithfulness.

God help us have faith,
God help us trust you,
God help us trust your promises to us
God help us to understand your truth
God lead us
God speak to us

Mag's the Singer

Please take a look at this upcoming artist. She has an amazing story of God's providing.

http://www.catholicregister.org/youth/ysn-news/item/16948-singer-turns-escape-from-dark-days-into-song

Radio

Something I heard on the radio this morning.

http://www.chvnradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4396&Itemid=248
http://demoss.com/newsrooms/aclj/background/backgrounder-pastor-saeed-abedini

God I pray for you helping hand, and your miracles
God I pray for your power to be known
God I pray for your peace
God lead us and guide us!

Titus 1:7

The Pastor at my church is retiring and so the elders were reading a church what the bible says about picking a new Pastor and one of the verses struck me.

Titus 1:7
Since an overseer manages God’s household, he must be blameless—not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain.

Some versions translate the overbearing as "self willed" or "pushy"

Also It seems to me that God has been teaching me about his care and love for me. I used to pray that I would not forget how God has been there in my life ... thinking that at some future point God would not provide or that I would no longer need God's help. But I find as I should have that God is always providing, always helping even though I forget when and how.

Thank you God for your help
Thank you God for your provision
Thank you God for your amazing love
Help me to remember your amazingness
Help me to trust you
Help us to hear you
Help us to see you
Help us to follow you! 

God First

God help us trust you first, listen to you first, follow you first.
God help us remember you when we forget
God help us to leave everything at your feet

God give us wisdom when we are willingly selfish
God show us the areas where we are selfish
God teach us to surrender when we don't know how
God lead us in your ways even when we are lacking

God help us
God lead us
God speak to us

Purpose Driven Life???

There are many books that try to help us find our purpose and they are valuable.

 But I have to remeber that there is also a book in the bible that does the same thing. And the conclusion found is

Ecclesiastes 12

¹³ Now all has been heard;
    here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
    for this is the duty of all mankind.
¹⁴ For God will bring every deed into judgment,
    including every hidden thing,
    whether it is good or evil.

"I am"

John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was with God in the beginning. ³ Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. ⁴ In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. ⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome^[a] it.

1. John 1:5 Or understood

In my interpretation of C.S. Lewis he states that either good or evil has to win in the end. No parcel of evil can survive at the end because it would enslave everything that is good.

John 3:36
³⁶ Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.

And so we find in the bible Jesus the restorer.  Jesus the helper. Jesus the helper who calls to us to change or we face the inevitable.

Jesus's love for us is not in acceptance of sin (is this a gross misunderstanding of love that our culture has accepted?), but for his efforts trying to right the wrongs we have done. He can't make us accept his efforts, we can only accept his efforts and let him lead our lives other wise we face the inevitable.

God help us truly understand,
God lead us to your truth,
God bless us,
God speak to us,

Thoughts of Recent

Three thoughts are going through my mind lately.

The book "A grief Observed" by C.S. Lewis. C.S. Lewis keep records of his thoughts after his wife passed away.

When we are desperate/and frantic does that inhibit our ability to hear God? Allot like a drowning person who is most likely to drown him and the rescuer because of his panicked state.

I have been reading the book "Out of the Crisis" by W. Edwards Deming

In his book to American companies he is stating that companies (and individuals as well?) should look for suppliers who focus on quality (and not on the lowest price).  I am not convinced yet but I am changing the way I think.

The third thought is on the power of prayer. It's blown me away lately and I have realized that I really need to pray more.

God bless us,
God lead us,
God teach us to pray and teach us to pray more often
God speak to us.

God burn in us!

I am again struck by how we are always in God's hands no matter where we are. I'm struck by the power of God. I'm stuck by his love in hard situations.

God burn in us
God pull us out of the desert and into your life
God help us throw away the power of darkeness
God help us to see you light
God help us to trust you
God speak to us
God lead us