We are never alone

This is the most wonderful promise in all of Scripture after we have been saved. We are not alone! Jesus is always with us. He is there to provide comfort, support, love when we feel all alone; instruction, direction, finances, when we need direction.
As a single person it is hard sometimes when I feel alone in my struggles. But I am not alone. Jesus is with me. Sometimes it is easier to believe when I see friends around me, but He wants me to turn to Him.

It is an easy thing to say, to look to the things unseen, but it is hard to work out, especially when I see married couples say these things. But He has promised to be my sufficency. He has promised never to leave me nor forsake me. Some ways to get firmer faith in this promise is to meditate on the Sciptures, pray, practice the Presence of God, pray... Prayer that is honest and open, calling out to Him, is so important.

People need to realize that Jesus has come to forgive our sins SO THAT we could have a relationship with Him and He promises never to leave us. The God of the universe wants created us so that He could walk with us, be with us. When we sin, it hurts Him, it puts a block between us, but He sent Jesus to die and raise again so that we might have restored fellowship with Him when we repent and ask forgiveness.

I know that when I feel this veil between or disconnected from Him, it is my lack of faith, and it hurts me too. I know that I must come back to that relationship with repentance. And when I still feel bad about my lack of faith, I must realize that if I have repented then there is no veil and be thankful.

All He wants is true repentence and turning from my sin. He has forgiven and I must forgive myself. And sweet fellowship is reestablished as I seek Him.

A Defining Moment

A Defining Moment

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding” Prov 3:5 “Thou will keep Him in perfect peace who has his mind stayed on Thee because He trusts in Thee.” Is 26:3


Sometimes there comes a special time when you have to make a definite choice. This is it, either one way or the other. You have to take a stand. God puts a challenge before you that you can’t ignore.

As some of you know my daughter travels a lot to different places and some are safer than others. And in those less safe places we also cannot get in touch with each other very well except by email when she gets to a place where she can email- an internet café or something like that.

Well, I got an email from her saying she was having some problems that needed to be cleared up quickly, she needed a miracle. And so here I was- not able to contact her really- only something she would get the next day. God put me in a place where all I could really do was get others to pray for her, pray myself, and trust God with her. I could either trust Him or go crazy.

So, this was my challenge. I had to completely trust God that He would protect her and work things out that she needed. I had to say that she is under His care and I only needed to trust Him as well as keep her in my prayers. I had to decide whether God was really listening to me and caring about her and that I could trust her with Him. That is not too easy when it is your child. So, after prayer, I put her in His Hands. (I do have another child but either one in this place, I would have to trust Him.)

I would have to pray mostly and say to myself when doubts came up, that God was going to take care of everything. And somehow my faith in all the things I have heard and have said began to really become deeper rooted in me. I was actually able to sleep and went to work with peace.

And what do you know, I got another email later saying that things were working out! That was a tremendous miracle and I thank God for it. But I believe my breakthrough with trust was really amazing for me also. God does know the state of our faith, but sometimes He allows trials to help us grow and let us see our own faith. I believe that God put me in this place to make a decision to believe the things I say I do and rest on His care.

When trials come

When trials come

We are singing my non- favorite song again tomorrow," Blessed Be Your Name". And again I am having difficuty with it. The pastor that gave a flip answer to me when I explained it was hard to sing before because I had had so many people taken away or left, has since lost his father and our dear Senior pastor lost his wife in a tragic accident. Now the song means something different to that pastor, I believe.

I still have to accept that God is in control and He is The only constant in our lives. Only He knows what He is doing. He is trying to draw us to Him through any way to bring us closer and more like His Son. To make us shine and show forth the face of His Son. (See Rom.8:29) He is coforming us into the image of His Son.

I have had different internal sins, thoughts that He has been cleaning up as I give them to Him- like resentment, unforgiveness, bitterness... I feel that weights are being lifted from me as I confess and give them to God. And many ways these things come up is through dealing with different trials as well as standing on the facts of His love for me.

We need to focus not on the trials or circumstances around us but on God and believe that somehow He will bring good out of the problems and heartaches. And since He is God, He knows so much more than us. We need to trust Him for His plans.

I do believe that God is with us always, especially in trials but I need to remind myself of that a lot, to focus on that fact of Him always being there and not to worry or despair.

He is there as He is working to see Himself reflected in us more completely. He is right there loving us close enough for us to feel His Presence with us. Even in the trials, we have comfort with Him there, cheering us on. As we have accepted Him, He is in us and working through us. So, even when people that are really important are taken away through death or through their walking away He is still there. That IS the most important thing.

...Just so you know: Things I write are always for my growth and for me to understand also. And trusting God has always been hard for me too. I write for my learning to trust always.