WHAT TIME I AM AFRAID - I WILL TRUST IN GOD
PSALM 56.3
AS I JOURNEY IN MY ELDER YEARS I AM QUITE AWARE
THAT THERE IS MUCH TURMOIL, STRESS, AND TROUBLES
HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE I LOOK.
I AM TO TRUST
THE FIRST STEP TO TRUSTING
IS TO HEED WHAT JESUS SAID
WHEN HE DECLARED:
ASK AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN YOU,
SEEK, AND YE SHALL FIND,
KNOCK, AND IT SHALL BE OPENED UNTO YOU
FOR HE THAT ASKETH RECEIVETH,
AND TO HIM THAT SEEKETH, FINDETH;
AND TO HIM THAT KNOCKETH IT SH.ALL BE OPENED.
MATTHEW 7.6 - 7
ASK
When I was 5 years old, my grandmother made me
this little smock, and initialed my J D on it
How proud I was to wear it.
I remember asking lots of questions
when I was little.
And Grandmother
Mother
and
my Aunties
all listened
and would give answer.
Never did they
get upset at me if I asked
about something.
Mother too.
She was always ready to give
a cheerful smile.
Today I am thinking of how much
we need to remember to ask GOD
for His Will in our lives, for we
need Him more than ever.
Jesus said
If we ask
we will receive.
SO I GIVE THOUGHT TO YOU OF THIS -
THAT
WE OUGHT TO ASK
AND KEEP ON ASKING
UNTIL
THE ANSWER COMES.
What a joy it is to discover
the answer to something!
What privilege it is to A S K.
What a blessing to be able to S E E K
and yes,
WHAT WONDROUS THINGS
WE CAN
FIND
IF WE JUST START
KNOCKING
ON
THE DOORS OF OPPORTUNITY.
My mother was the kind to smile,
and give me the opportunity
to ask, to seek, and to find
She knew that I was curious
about the world around me.
She gave me every opportunity
to help me learn how to
answer my own questions
YET
THERE
WAS
ONE
THING
SHE
ADMITTED
She said,
When you grow up, Junie, and you find out
who God is, then I want you to come and
tell me and I will also believe...
She gave me a big job
to do
as a little girl
I wanted to know WHO GOD IS.
So I thank the dear Lord God of
Heaven and Earth that He did indeed
answer my search.
One way that he helped me
was that when I visited Grandmother
and Grandfather in Cheshire Lake of MA,
at his cabin he built there, I would see
the Lake, and got to swim in it.
It was not very many times
I did that, but the few times I did were
so much looked for.
Jesus said "I am the way, the truth,
and the life, no man cometh unto the Father,
but by me" John 14.
This is one of many paintings I did.
You too can find things to do
You can ask, you can seek,
You can knock on the doors of
things you want to see, to do, to be.
most of all, however,
remember that WHEN YOU
KNOW THE GOD WHO CREATED
YOU, YOU CAN ASK, AND HE WILL
HELP YOU, BE AND DO JUST EXACTLY
WHAT HE WANTS YOU TO BE.
IF I COULD, I WOULD
IF I CAN I SHALL
I I MIGHT - I KNOW I WILL
fly high
see the sky
in an ocean of clouds above
where the birds can feel
the wind drafts
pulling them into
The currents of updrafts that
will take them home to rest.
Here along the Bay in Drayton Harbor
I am able to walk and see the Sky with the clouds
overhead and the Birds in the water enjoying
the day.
With every wave and current
whether in the Sky above or in the Water before me,
the currents will flow and set to motion
everything around them.
There is a current of J O Y to take us
along passing through the most
difficult oceans simply by going
with the flow.
WITH EVERY WAVE
THE RHYTHM OF LIFE SETS
TO MOTION
There is no other way to live as Jesus
would have us to live
except by His dear Spirit.
As a branch grows from a
tree, we are to grow from
little sprouts to large trees rooted
in the soil of God's dear Son's
provision - the sacrifice He made
for us - dying upon the Cross that
we might have our DEBT PAID
IT IS FINISHED - He cried.
DONE.
COMPLETED.
FULFILLED.
Yes. Jesus came as the Light into the world
that mankind might find LIGHT.
Yes. Jesus came into the world
as a little Baby so long ago
that we might
have SALVATION
Following Jesus
is made possible
when we come to Him and say,V
"Wash me clean, Lord Jesus,
Forgive me - a sinner, I pray.
Come in to stay."
Jesus said,
"Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
except a man be born again, he cannot
see the Kingdom of God."
John 3.3
Just as we are born as babies
into this world of ours
and grow,
so too
must we have
a second birth
a S P I R I T birth
how is that done?
by believing
that Jesus is
the very One
He said He was -
The Son of God
It was Jesus Himself
that said "For God so loved the world
that He gave his only begotten Son that whosoever
believeth in Him should not perish, but
have everlasting life."
John 3.16
Only after we are born
by faith in Christ Jesus,
can we start LOVING AND LIVING
AS CHILDREN OF THE FATHER.
I JOHN 2.25
AND THIS IS THE PROMISE THAT
HE HATH PROMISED US, EVEN
ETERNAL LIFE.
I JOHN 2.23
WHOSOEVER DENIETH
THE SON HATH NOT
THE FATHER;
BUT HE THAT ACKNOWLEDGETH
THE SON HATH
THE FATHER ALSO.
I JOHN 4.19
WE LOVE HIM
BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US.
COME JOURNEY WITH ME
My coffee cup and doughnut help me through my day, but most of all I pray that I may say words of comfort and hope to you along your pathway.
REMEMBER TO ASK, TO SEEK, AND TO KNOCK.
GOD WILL ANSWER. YOU WILL BE LED ON A SURE
PATH.
THY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET,
AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH.
Psalm 119, 105
THE LIGHT WILL LEAD US TO LIFE ETERNAL
IF YOU ARE IN OUR AREA, I WELCOME YOU TO MY CHURCH.
LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH, BIRCH BAY WA
IT IS MY HOME CHURCH, AND IT IS INDEED A LIGHTHOUSE FOR ME.
WHAT TIME I AM AFRAID
- I WILL TRUST IN GOD
SEE YOU IN MY NEXT POST
LILACLADYJUNEBUG2
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