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Belle's spaceJuly 31 HEY CHAROLETTEHey Charolette... are you still out there? If so leave me a comment. I think of you often, and wonder how my little sister in Christ is doing???? I miss you. Hope your walk with Christ is great... Take Care my friend... Sure hope I hear from you. God bless...
Bella March 27 Mercy of my GodLord, You are the maker of my heart - The framer and reshaper of my soul - Master and creator - Healer and sustainer - I will put my trust in You alone * Teach me to be faithful to confess - In this way, my spirit will be blessed - Though my sins are daily _ You have loved me greatly - Removing them as far as the east from the west * Let me be open - Let me be humble - Let me find the joy of my salvation in Your cross - Let me be broken - Whenever I stumble - Let me remember the great mercy of my God * Give me the full measure of Your grace - As it is reflected in the Word - Faith and reassurance - Mercy and endurance - I'll carry these to those who haven't heard * All I have needed is laid at Your table - All my achievements, I lay at Your feet - Alive in Your spirit, I am willing and able - You make my joy complete - You make my joy complete..... Amen March 21 The CrossI was thinking of the cross the last couple days as Easter approaches us. Easter is my favorite Holiday. I just love the meaning behind it. How He died on the cross for me, and washed my sins away, that I might have everlasting life. Then He Rose 3 days later. How powerful is that? I think about as He hung up on that cross, He could have called 10,000 angels to come get Him off it, but He didn't. Thank you Jesus.
Every year the churches join together, and have a cross walk, and they start at one church, and walk to each church in town, as each church gathers together as one body of Christ and walk the cross to it's final destination. I will never forget my first time walking the cross, and as they walked the cross, they would go so far then the next group of people would step up to carry the cross. Now mind you this cross was a big cross and it was heavy, and I will never forget the feeling that come over me as they placed that cross on my shoulder, I just started sobbing, I was just flooded with emotion. It was like I was there the day Jesus died, and the weight of that cross on my shoulder opened my eyes as to the heavy burdens He carried for us. My friend asked if I was ok and what was wrong, but I couldn't speak, but I knew she would know what went through me, cause when it was her turn and they placed that cross on her shoulder the tears just started pouring down her face, and I knew she knew the emotion of carrying that cross and what Jesus had done for us. He wasn't selfish at all, not one bit.
I think of our walk with Christ and think of how at times in life our cross is heavy, and I think of how the song goes:
So many times I've questioned certain circumstances
Or things I could not understand Many times in trials, weakness blurs my vision And my frustration gets so out of hand Its then I am reminded I've never been forsaken I've never had to stand the test alone As I look at all the victories The spirit rises up in me And its through the fire my weakness is made strong Chorus: He never promised that the cross would not get heavy And the hill would not be hard to climb He never offered our victories without fighting But He said help would always come in time Just remember when your standing in the valley of decision And the adversary says give in Just hold on, our Lord will show up And He will take you through the fire again Bridge: I know within myself that I would surely perish But if I trust the hand of God, He'll shield the flames again, again Thank you Lord for carrying our cross. Lord words could never tell you how much I love you. March 16 What have you thought of today?Hi Friends, I was just sitting here thinking, and I had some thoughts I wanted to share with you all, and as I was trying to type these thoughts out my whole computer froze up, and I lost everything, so I know the enemy surely don't want me send my thoughts out, but that only makes me more determined to share them with you. My thoughts were directed toward my Lord and Savior and how much He is in my thoughts and with me. I thought..................
Did you just hear Jesus in that breeze that just went pass?
Do you hear His voice in the little bird chirping in the tree?
Do you see Jesus smiling back at you in the twinkling of a child's eyes?
It's all about His love, it's so much richer then any amount of money, and deeper then we could ever fathom.
Have you ever thought when you see a leaf fall off a tree, that it fell just at God's perfect timing? Not a second before, or a second after.
Have you felt something tickle your cheek, and realize that God could be brushing your check with His finger tips just to reach down and nurture you?
When you step outside at night and see the stars, and hear the crickets singing, and hear the stillness in the air....... Do you feel His presence?
Have you ever been in such a hurry to get some where, and had every slow person pull out in front of you, and instead of getting mad said Thank you Jesus, I hear you.....And truly sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride, and take in His beauty of His creation?
Have you ever just had His love sweep you off your feet out of nowhere, and you just openly said out loud "Oh I love you so much Lord?" And it don't matter who's around?
Have you taken a moment today to just think of Him and spend a few minutes with Him?
It doesn't matter what kind of house we have, or car we drive, or how many awards we've won, or what we have in the bank, or how many diamonds we have. It's all about Jesus Christ, and How He died that we may have ever lasting life with Him. Have we told anyone about Jesus lately? Jesus died in public for our sins. Can we step out in public and tell the world He loves them? Just some things to think about....
Thank you Lord.... I LOVE YOU!!!!
September 08 Here I go againHere I Go Again May 26 A woman's virtueThe Lord has really laid a few things on my heart the last week or so and maybe even longer to write about... but I always seemed to come up with some excuse why not to. So as I sat down here to write this blog. I was like Oh where do I start there is so much to say, so I got up and thought well I will have dinner first and the Lord said Start with your dream you had about your Friend Carrie.... I had a dream about my friend Carrie and we were driving down the road together in a jeep and Oh the road we were traveling was so bumpy and narrow, it was a dirt road. As we were traveling down this road we were almost hanging on to keep from falling to get down this road, it was a rough road. We come to a fork in the road and there were two roads to choose from. I honestly don't remember the name of the one road, but the other road was 1 Peter 3. My friend wanted to take the other road and I said NO NO, that is the wrong road you must take 1 Peter 3. We had even got out of the jeep and I almost had to struggle with her to convince her that God wanted her to Take the road 1 Peter 3. So finally she said ok and I woke up. Well when I woke up I grabbed the phone, not even out of bed yet to call my friend Carrie and tell her the dream I had about her, well when I preceeded to tell her my dream, she busted out crying, of course I grabbed my bible instantly to see what 1 Peter 3 was, cause in all honesty I had no clue. It said: 1 Peter 3:1 - Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives. I had no idea that my friend was struggling with this and was trying to bring her husband to a closer walk to Jesus and was trying to hand things that should have been her husbands over to him. I had no idea that she had told the Lord that she felt she could do a better job at this perticular thing. So after she had prayed to God about it then I called her up and tell her what my dream was. Needless to say, I felt bad, cause she cried so hard, but she said she knew What God was saying to her. The Lord recently brought that scripture back to me and while I was sitting in the Dr's office talking with some woman I had never met before. She was talking about men and we started talking about 1 Corinthians 11:3 - Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. I said how some of the guys at work use to tease me about believing a woman should be submissive to their husbands and I told her my responce was, well I have no problem with that at all, but Christ better be the head of him. Well on my way home from the Dr's The Lord told me Read 1 Peter 3 again and finish the sentence. So of course I was thinking about it the whole way home and I come in and grabbed my bible. 1. Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, 2. when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. I realized that it meant even if they did not believe that the woman was still to be submissive. First thing I did was asked the Lord to forgive me for saying what I had said. That made me think about being a Godly woman and what a Godly woman is to be how she is to look. It says in 1 Peter 3 3. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. 4. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight. I thought wow isn't that beautiful. That is how I want God to see me, that is how I want people to see me. When I was young I use to worry about what the outside of me looked like, yet I was a Christian at a young age. Don't get me wrong I like being a lady. God made me to be a lady and a lady I am. But I don't long for jewelry and all that added fancy stuff. I want only my inter beauty and love for Christ to shine through. That is what I want people to see when they look at me. When we walk out the door of our house and even in our house we are presenting ourselves for Christ. Do we look of the world or is our beauty of something else... inward beauty? If you want to read something great on a Godly woman read Proverb 10-31. Proverbs 31:30 - Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. When we look at the whole picture we need to look at every detail.. Just like scripture we need to sometimes finish the whole sentence or paragraph. God doesn't want us to be bits and pieces of the picture. HE wants the whole painting for He is the artist, He knows every small detail of his painting. HE see's everything in the picture. Most of the time people think of the submissive part in Peter, but do they know the rest? Do they know about the inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, Do they go on down the list where it speaks of the husbands rolel? It says right in God's word that woman are the weaker of the two. 1 Peter 3:7 - Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. As heir with you. The key thing here it says WITH YOU! It says if we do this NOTHING WILL HINDER YOUR PRAYERS! WOW how amazing! What a big statement. 1 Peter 3: 8-12 Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble. 9. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. 10. For, "Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech. 11. He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it. 12. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil." It says to keep these things we shall inherit a blessing. A beautiful woman in the eyes of God is a Godly woman. Who more would we want to please then our Master? Proverbs 11:16 - A kindhearted woman gains respect, but ruthless men gain only wealth. Proverbs 11:22 - Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion. Proverbs 14:1 - The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down. Proverbs 30: 25 She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. 26. She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue. Gracious Heavenly Father, Oh how I love thee Master. Oh Most High, Beautiful Savior I want to be beautiful in your sight! Lord I am yours. I surrender everything to you Lord. I humbly bow at your feet. I want to be completely submissive to you. I want to be that beautiful ruby in your eyes Lord. Lord I pray I am all these things you would desire in a Godly woman. You are the Love of my life Lord, for there is no greater Love then your Love Lord! OH Thank you Lord for thinking of me that day on the cross! Thank you for knowing me even before I was in my mothers womb. Thank you for making who I am Lord Jesus, for I would be nothing without you. Lord you are the potter and I am the clay, create in me what you would have me to be. For I am Yours Forever and ever... I love you! Amen If you desire a good Godly relationship with your spouse, your father, your mother, friends, or anyone for matter of that fact. You need to have a good relationship with the one who loves you the most! For he is the one who will show you the truth and the way. He will teach you a kind of love like no other. There is no greater love then the Love of Jesus! My question for you is are you a beautiful woman in Gods eyes? May 25 Step up out of the pit....I have so many things I want to write about....So many things the Lord has laid on my heart lately. Lukewarm Christians.... The Virtuous Women/Wife.... But while looking up scripture and studying these things. The Lord laid something else on me.... It is about a story of a donkey and his Master.... This Donkey loved his Master. This Master treated this Donkey wonderful. So in return the donkey always wanted to do the best he could for his Master. One day while plowing a field with his Master holding the reins behind him. The donkey was so happy to serve his Master and loved him so, he turned around and looked behind him to look at his loving Master and as his eyes were off the path the Donkey didn't see the huge pit infront of him and fell in. The Master come running to try and help his faithful and loyal servant, but the well was too deep to reach him. The Donkey cried Oh no, I don't believe this... this is the story of my life, nothing ever goes right for me. The Master ran for help. He ran into the village to seek all the help he could get. All the towns people come to try and get the Donkey out of the deep pit, but nobody could reach him. OH the Donkey cried out, Oh I just don't believe this, it just figures this would be something to happen to me, nothing ever goes right. When the Master seen he couldn't reach the Donkey no matter how hard they tried. He said I love this donkey, he has been faithful and loyal to me and he deserves a proper burial. Oh the Donkey really started complaining how could this be happening to him and just figures this is how I would die... So, All the towns people got their shovels and started to fill in the pit. But when that first shovel full of dirt hit the donkeys back he shook it off his back and said OH my Oh my... then the 2nd shovel full, again the donkey shook it off his back and step on top of the dirt, the 3rd and the 4th shovel fulls of dirt hit his back, he shook off the shovel full of dirt and stepped up on top of the dirt. At this point he realize he had started calling out to God, Oh Lord forgive me, Lord I love you and need you, as each pile of dirt hit his back he kept praying and shaking the dirt off his back each time it hit him and stepping up on the pile of dirt, until that donkey stepped up and walked out of that pit....because each time the dirt hit him he shook it off and stepped up, until he walked out of that pit. Have we as Christians ever done this? Something big comes at us and instantly we start whining and complaining... Oh just great, figures this is the story of my life, nothing ever goes right? Do we instantly complain or is our first thought to cry out to our Master, Jesus Christ? When life throws things our way and it hits up squarely in the back, we need to shake it off and step up. Don't lay down and give up. Stand up and step up...The more we step up the faster we will come up out of that pit. We serve a Mighty and powerful God and nothing is impossible with him... but where is our heart set? Our heart needs to be set on him at all times. If God has allowed something to reach us then he knows we can handle it, for his word says he will never give us more then we can handle...So if you have things on your back today shake it off and step up.... Father God in Heaven, Lord forgive us when we taken our eyes off you and doubt and fall into self pity. Oh Lord forgive us. Help us Lord to be strong in you and to always keep our eyes on you. Help us Lord to not be our own worse enemy and beat ourselves up when we do fail and doubt, help us to realize we are human and do fail, but Lord Thank you that you are always right there to turn back to. Lord you are always right there where we left you, for we know you would never leave us nor forsake us. We Thank you Lord for Your love, and for Your faithfullness. We even Thank You Lord for the dirt thrown onto our backs.. We Thank You for the strength to shake the dirt off and to step up and learn from all things... For Lord we know it is in the Valleys we grow. Father we give you all the Glory in all things. In your precious name we pray... Amen May 18 Hope....Have you ever felt like how could I ever show God how my heart truly burst for him? I often think there are no words to say how much I love him and sometimes feel frustrated that I can't express myself any more deeper then I do....and long to explode with my love for him. If you know me, you know I love Jesus.... but there has to be more... What all can I do to show him?? I have never wanted to please someone more then I do my Savior.... Have you ever had someone you love truly ill, on their death bed? A parent? A child? A friend? When we watch them lay helplessly and we stand there and we truly feel like our hands are tied behind our backs... Sometimes we feel so helpless and hopeless.... but We aren't. We have the Lord! I believe when we see a loved one or any one for matter of fact at a point that they are just in a state of not being able to call out or whatever. We as Brothers and Sisters need to step in. I think of Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire cometh, it's a tree of life. We need to believe for them... believe for our family member or friend. In times of their deep need... I think of Mark 2...And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house. 2. And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them. 3. And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four. 4. And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. 5. When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. The part that stands out to me is When Jesus saw THEIR faith. It was those 4 men's faith to carry that man to Jesus... They believe that all they had to do is get him to Jesus. So I believe we are to never give up when someone we love has given up... We are to carry our brothers and sisters..... May 16 You Raised me up....You Raise me up When I am down and, Oh my soul, so weary When troubles come and my heart burdened be Then, I am still and wait here in the silence Until you come and sit a while with me
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas I am strong, when I am on your shoulders You raise me up.... to more then I can be. Isn't it awesome to know when we sit in wonder, or seek answers from our Heavenly Father we just need to sometimes sit and be silent? When his presence comes to us...The serene peace....The love....The comfort....The knowing.. Our Heavenly Fathers presence... his voice....his touch. Do we take for granted all these things? Do we get up and just jump into our day or do we say Morning Jesus, What is it you'd have me do for you today Jesus? Do we ask Him to be with us through out the day? Do we remember him Daily with Thankgiving and Praise? Or do we just call out when we need something? A personal relationship with Christ, is talking to him daily, confiding, sharing, and also listening. Do we call our friends and pour all our problems out on them? Why not talk to our Father? The one who loves us more then anything, he loved us so much he sent his son to die on a cross for you and me. Have you ever given birth to a Child? Or Fathered a Child? Do you know the love you feel for your Child? Could you sacrifice your child and say I will let my one and only Child be killed to show you just how much I love you.... Have you ever really thought about this? Could you watch your Child being tortured and beaten to death? I think about these things. Do we really know how much Jesus loves us? He carries us through the stormy waters... He never lets go of us. I believe at times we let go of him, but he never lets go of us, he is always right there right where you left Him.... Do we ever step back and look at the whole picture? Do we look for Jesus in all things? He is in the eyes of a Child, a sunset, a tree, the soil, all of it... He is in all of it... even in a tear drop. Gracious Heavenly Father.... I thank You in all things. I Thank You for each time You have raise me up so I can stand on mountains. Lord I am strong when I am on your shoulders. Father I pray your words fill my heart. I pray You are with me always and in every situation. Lord guide me when I am witnessing to the Lost. Father open the doors for me to go out and Tell the World about you... I am yours. Lord I also want to Thank you for your answered prayers. Lord touch my friend who is so sick...Gracious Savior touch him, breathe new life in him and make him whole. Lord may everything in his body line up according to your word, for your word says by your stripes he is healed... Glory Hallelujah...Thank you Jesus. I love you you and stand in awe of your awesomeness... In Your most precious Name I pray... Amen and Amen
May 04 His eye is on the sparrowI was awaken this morning singing His eye is on the sparrow!!!! Amen! And I know he watches me!!!! Well praise the Lord. I had a friend heavy on my heart and I know the Lord was telling me His eyes are on the sparrow and that he was watching over my friend. Thank you Gracious Savior! Also Thank you Charlotte, you felt led to say what you said, you will never know how much that was a confirmation from the Lord to me.....more then you will ever know. Thank you for being obedient to the Lords speaking... God Bless you my precious little sister in Christ! His eye is on the sparrow Why should I feel discouraged? What a wonderful God we serve.. He is always there right beside us, leading us, helping us, speaking to us and always no mater what loving us. There is not a more beautiful relationship then a relationship with the Lord. Can you imagine the day we meet the love of our life? Will we be able to withstand it? Will we fall at his feet and wash his feet with our tears? OH heavenly Father how we love you! Lord, I pray that you always know my love for you. I pray everyone will come to know you and have the Love of a life time in you Lord. Oh Gracious Savior, you are so faithful! May your hand always be upon me and may I always hear your gentle voice, may I always know your leading. Oh Thank you precious Savior. May your out stretched arms always be on my mind and how when you were on the cross I was on your mind.... I will serve you all my days and sing Praises to your name. Thank you Father for being with those who are burdened on my heart. Lord I know your hand is upon them and your will will be done! Glory! Hallelujah! In you most precious name I pray....Amen |
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