Month: February 2025

Feeling Blessed

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Today, I woke easily and made it to Bible study where we talked about spreading the Joy of The LORD.

After Bible study I drive to a larger grocery store close to church. I have been out of Aloe Vera Juice and can not find it at my local store. It helps my intestines work. Thankful to find it, I pick up two gallons and realize a cart would be handy.

I walk past a lady on the way to the carts. I am not sure if she is working as I carry two gallons of Aloe Vera towards the doors, hoping no one will think I am stealing it. After grabbing a cart, I decide to stop and explain what I am doing.

The woman turns out to be a customer resting on her walker. I start to explain what Aloe Vera Juice does to keep me healthy and then she tells me about her health issues.

She is interested when I offer the idea of believing God to keep her healthy instead of waiting for the problem to return. We talk for a good 15 minutes and she allows me to pray for her healing.

Noticing people and stopping to give an encouraging word can change a person’s day and even make our day better.

I am actually still smiling and feeling joyful a full 24 hours after this conversation.

GOD IS SO VERY GOOD!

Jesus Already Paid

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We survive Y2K, now we are set to move!

We are selling the house in Florida and buying a couple acres in Kentucky.

Surprise, all of a suddenly a pain in my tailbone shows up. Sitting and standing both become difficult!

“God, You have to do something, I need to be able to take care of this house and yard we are buying!”

“Justine, When you take your daughter to the radio station to give her offering, ask them to pray for your healing.”

Arriving at the radio station, we enter the building unsure where to go. Finding our way to the announcer we wait until she is done announcing the next song.

Getting  past the awkward moment she assumes my daughter wants to empty her purse, I mention.

 “God told me to ask you to pray for healing.”

We stand in a circle and she prays over me. Nothing happens we offer thanks and leave the building. Opening the door to the outside I question God!

“What’s up God? You told me to come here and have them pray for me, and I did! Nothing happened! What’s up?”

“Jesus already paid! You don’t have to pay!”

By the time I reach my vehicle the pain is gone!

Fifteen years earlier a thought enters my mind.

I deserve to hurt because I didn’t listen!

God doesn’t make us pay!

JESUS ALREADY PAID!

John 3:17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

JOHN 19:30b Jesus said, “IT IS FINISHED!” And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.

Healing Exposes Creativity

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Walking in the fresh snow Bart is walking faster then I am able. This gives me the ability to see the foot patterns in the fresh 4 inches of snow left by Bart and Charlie.

Later we switch to walking in the street’s tire tracks making it easier to walk.

This cross tire tracks catch my attention and I stop to take a picture.

Checking to see if cropping  the picture improves it or not? What do you think?

 

 

The screenshots at the bottom looked better on my phone. The colors pop and just look beautiful.

This game has shown me how I think color and pattern and my husband thinks numbers. Every once and a while they will have the exact same pattern only flipped and I will wonder why being upside down would be so much harder.

The answer came from Bart. He sees they increased the numbers explaining the reason it is harder.

What does all this have to do with healing? Spending most of my life protecting myself from life, all my creativity was shut down. As I am being set free from protecting myself my brain is opening up to the creativity I was born with.

GOD IS SO VERY GOOD!

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The Power of Scripture

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Being Washed and Renewed in The Water of The Word

Yesterday we were listening to a sermon talking about The Power of Scripture in our lives when I turn to Bart and say,

“You wouldn’t want to be around me if I haven’t spend time with God, would you?”

Laughing he replies, “No way!”

I start to really learn this years ago about 1995, when we leave a small town and move to a big city. We do find a church to join. They ask me to teach music for Vacation Bible School.  The only way I know how is with a tape recorder and Amy Grant music. I am very nervous helping out for my very first time.

During a break I grab my Bible, walk outside, and sit on the steps to read a chapter in the Old Testament. I read about kings and don’t understand much but it is time with God.

When I go back inside and start to work with kids, everyone is able to tell something has changed! They want to know,

“What happened? You are so calm and peaceful?”

I said, “All I did was open my Bible and read a chapter out of the Old Testament!”

That was the first time I knew other people could see a difference in me by just reading my Bible.

Around the same time I ask Bart to watch Michelle who was one or maybe two. I NEED to spend time with God, I don’t want to be around me.

After an hour, Bart calls down the stairs, “Are you done yet? I want to watch sports.”

“No! I need more time!”

“OK, don’t worry.”

A few years ago in the 2020’s, my troubled soul wakes me and doesn’t allow me return to sleep.  So I drag myself out of bed on a cold night to spend time with God until I am at Peace!

I quickly learn it’s better to spend time with God before bed.

Does anyone have any thoughts?

Does anyone think I’m crazy?

Does anyone else know the calming peace of spending time in God’s Word?

What I Know is,

When I write  all my worries and cares in my journal

and spend time in His Word,

Peace fills my soul and Joy Bubbles up inside me.

God Bless you.

GOD IS SO VERY GOOD!

 

Exposing My Greed

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Today, God is explaining what went on two years ago!

Sitting in church paralyzed by fear of what others might think if I dig in my purse for an offering.

Sunday, January 1, 2023, God covers me in His Glory asking, “Do you realize the power of giving on the first day of the year?”

“Yes, I do!”

“Give the $100 bill you received as a Christmas gift.”

I am looking in my journal where I put it and cannot find it!

Then God suggests, “You have a $1oo in your wallet for food, use that!”

Sitting there frozen. I cannot move.

Why can’t I grab it? I’ve done this before?

Too fast the offering plate arrives and I put in my normal $1 and The Glory of God lifts off of me and I want to scramble to obey, but the moment is gone and I know it!

I don’t understand why I didn’t obey?

What difference does it make giving the one in my wallet for food or the one set aside as a gift?

God is exposing my greed, my need to protect MY food money. I am not trusting Him to provide for the food I need.

I know it comes from the choices my biological dad made which cause us to live in deep poverty.

LORD JESUS only You can set me free from my fear of not having enough!

Do What You Only You Can Do! Set me free!

It is interesting how we can Trust God with everything but keep one little area we don’t really know if we can trust Him with it yet?

Has anyone had a similar experience with God?

Have you ever asked God for answers about a situation and expected an answer?

God has answered some of my questions immediately and one question took 40 years for Him to give me a “Yes!” as I was eating breakfast in 2020. I knew exactly what the question was He was answering.

God Bless each and everyone who reads my stories. I hope and pray they help people realize God wants to be involved in every part of our lives to grow us into Christlike people!

GOD IS GOOD!