Hello! I am so blessed for each one of you who read this word God has put upon my heart. Thank you and please feel free to send any prayer requests to me at lindaweaver047@gmail.com.
I have been trying to get back to writing and sharing what God puts on my heart with you. I love to teach God’s Word and have missed doing that for a while, so this is now how I follow my heart.
Our God is so good!! There just aren’t enough ways to express His goodness. I have fallen so deeply in love with Him that I always feel His nearness – always! And – His availability! YES! He is always, always, always available to you and to me. When you really grasp that, you will sense His nearness, His availability, His presence. What a phenomenon!
PATIENCE AND WAITING – TWO WORDS WE DISLIKE THE MOST
He is our comfort in all things. He can be trusted to the point of peace in all situations. That is difficult to accept and/or understand, but a real fact and a promise from His Word, the Bible. This trust is not something you can just decide to do. It comes with prayer and sometimes hard situations. It is always available to us. Usually, we have to fight doubt and unbelief – even to the point of trying to jump ahead with our own solutions – then an “oops – I should have waited on God.” The good news though is that we can’t mess things up enough that He can’t help us.
This trust does not happen over night. It can come with enduring very hard circumstances. It usually isn’t something we decide to do. It takes all the mental capacity we can work up, a drawing from our spiritual strength, putting our trust in Him, keeping His Scriptures/His Word, relevant – and the thing we dislike t he most the “P” word – PATIENCE! – and the “W” word – WAIT~! Patience in waiting! He won’t fail us. He can see all that we cannot see. It takes time to work all things together – Selah! He wants us to trust Him – trust Him enough to be still and to give Him the time needed to bring about the prayers we have pleaded for.
We like to make things happen – we believe we are able to make things work. We are taught from an early age how to do things for ourselves one way or another and don’t usually want to wait on anyone or anything. When we discover what God says about waiting – we don’t like that so much. We eventually learn that He has a plan for our lives and wants, above all things – that thing called OBEDIENCE! Oh wow!
HE KNEW US BEFORE WE WERE BORN!
Psalms 139 – Oh Lord, you have searched me and know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word if on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where do I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there, if I make my bed in the depths you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me, even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day for darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts God! How vast is the sum of them, they would outnumber the grains of sand — when I wake I am still with you. If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty! …..Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.
This is true – my favorite Scripture is this one – Psalms 139 – It us much more powerful if you read it for yourself. It gives us peace, strength, hope and assurance that He knew us before we were born – yet even when we were in our Mother’s womb! He had a purpose and a plan for our entire lives– Selah – pause and calmly think of that!
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