Thank God for friends!

I receive a somewhat regular emails from a good Christian friend that is a wonderful  encourager, and I received one such email this morning. She talks about asking God, "Why?", when things hard things happen to us! And I have done this; I have cried out to him on occasion and asked Why?  I was even angry at God for 2 years, after my mother passed away. But because he is the loving, forgiving God (Father) he is, he welcomed me back with open arms, when I came running back to Him. And His arms are always open to me and anyone else that asks for his help. The thing that jumped out at me in this mornings email, and brought tears to my eyes, is when Theresa said, "In my own life I'’ve come to realize that I do not know who I am in Christ." I feel  the same way!" But I do know that I sense a stronger closeness to Him when I am simple, sincere and totally honest with Him. If only I could be this way all the time. But we have to claim who we are in Christ and I hope I make a habit of reminding my self who I am in Christ. Theresa had a piece attached to study and I found a similar piece. Here is a link to it:   http://www.christianlifecoaching.co.uk/who-you-are-in-Christ.html I pray that we learn to completely know who we are in Christ!

Acts 15

I was brought to tears this morning as I read Acts Chapter 15. I guess it was hitting a 'little too close to home'. We have been attending a church, on two different occasions, when the church's leadership (not the Pastor`s) made decisions that we felt were not done in the proper manner. We have left both of those church`s. As I read Acts 15 it reminds me of these situations and how there are churches out there that are in a spiritual state of disrepair. I say spiritual, because I feel that in the circumstances we were in, that if they had been totally focused on God, that the decisions that were made, may still have been made but not in the manner in which they were made. Too many people got hurt in the process and it damaged the church and possibly some peoples relationship with God. In verse 16 it says,  "After this I will return and rebuild David`s fallen tent.  Its ruins and I will rebuild, and I will restore it.`` That is my prayer for all churches that are in a state of disrepair`."  That the Holy Spirit come in, in a strong an powerful way and rebuild these churches!

Thank you Lord, for faithful friends!

April 10, 2012 

I’ve been neglectful of the Word as of late. This morning I read an email from a good friend and in the end she states, quote: If that sounds to complicated, he says, read the Word,
do the Word, accept the Word, trust in the Word and everything you ever need
will be provided. So if you
really want to be successful, wealthy, healthy get into THE WORD

All her emails are encouraging and the first thing I did was read from the Word. I have been reading through Acts and I was at Chapter 12. Here it tells of James being executed by order of King Herod and of Peter being put in prison to be executed after the Passover. However Gods plans were different and he sent an angel to rescue Peter from prison. I guess after reading the above mentioned email and then reading this chapter the thing that struck me is how God will look after us. We only need to depend on Him; not ourselves or anyone else! 

This also gave me a great idea for a poem. Write about how we struggle through things sometimes, and all we have to do is put our trust in God and put it before Him and he will rescue us; keep us safe and give us peace.