Lord. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. that there are so many things I have to be thankful for. Most of all for you. And for the many ways you love me. For bringing me out of the pit and setting me upon a rock - you. You've given me a firm foundation. You've given me yourself. You've given me everything.
I just want to sit in your presence. I'm grateful that I have the opportunity to do just that!
Prayer...
The lord asks: am I willing to risk everything for him?
Am I?
Lord: Am I willing to give up my dreams?
Tears stream down my face...
Lord: I have store houses of surprises for you!
Reminded of the rich young ruler. Bleh...
Lord: Elizabeth Ann. I know you want to GO and DO. I want you to learn to BE.
Lord am I not good enough? To go and do? (burst into tears)
Lord: KNOW THAT THAT IS NOT TRUE!
I want x and y and z...
Lord: I know you do. I know you. YOU ARE THE MOST PRECIOUS ONE TO ME.
Luke 11:9-13
9 And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
11 What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent;
12 or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"
Good gifts are more of the Holy Spirit...
1 Cor 13:
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
-- lord teach me how to LOVE
-- lord you ARE love
-- you are patient and kind etc
-- I see dimly now but in full in heaven or when you return.
Reminded of steady plodding:
Cassie mentioned the phrase "steady plodding" long ago and it has stuck. It is so easy for me to get frustrated that things aren't happening NOW. But i think the reality is we are called to move ahead one day at a time, steadily plodding forth with the lord, and then one day we look back and see all that he's done and are reminded of things that we may have taken for granted at the time.
KEEP trusting and following.
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