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!

 

Have you ever had the desire to hold a memory?

One day in my fifties, I have desire to find a set of jacks, the old metal kind that I used when I was 8 years old.

It is just a thought in the back of my mind until I am asked to lead a Bible Study group.

For some reason I speak up at our first meeting.

“I am on the lookout for a set of metal jacks, could you let me know if you find some?”

The next week one of the women arrives with a pack of Jacks, just as I remember! She  just gives them to me.

Her story consists of a trip to a gift shop in an airport in the 1980’s. She sees the Jacks, thinks of a niece, and picks them up.

Little does she know, it is God guiding her to pick up Jacks and hold on to them for 35 years, knowing one day, years in the future, we will meet, and I will ask a very random question!

I did take them out of the package and play jacks on the ground. Surprised by the rules on the package that I have never heard of.

Isn’t it just like Jesus,

to know,

 I need to know

He is thinking of me and

I am LOVED!

 

 

 

Today, I achieved 100 days of 10,000 steps, a miracle!

It is amazing how God helps me accomplish this.

Today, during choir practice, just holding  sheet-music sends my upper back muscles into crippling pain!

Yesterday, I run 3 miles, do lunges, log lifts, plank, and push-ups with no problem.

Today I can’t hold sheet music!

But God Provides!

My life changing lesson: In the year 2000 a new pain in my tailbone develops just as we are about to move.

I tell God, “You need to heal this because we are moving to a home with 2 acres of land and I need to work it.”

God replies, “Go to the radio station and ask them to pray for you.”

I obey!

They pray.

I leave saying, “God, What’s up? I do what You say and nothing happens!”

God answers, “JESUS ALREADY PAID! YOU DON’T HAVE TO!”

As this fills my soul, I remember a lie!

Age 25 a thought, “I suffer pain to pay for not listening to God!”

God takes the tailbone pain away as I received His message,

“Jesus Already Paid!”

 

While I was making breakfast today, God dropped a new beginning to the book I need to write.

While Bart and I were walking, I pulled up my app to tell him how many days in a row I have been posting. Today is day 3o. It is a God thing!

Eighteen months ago God helped me get 10,000 steps for 30 days. My normal body has always shut down at least once a week. Stringing together days is a miracle.

The first 30 turned into 103 days of 10,000 steps. Many of those days I couldn’t move until about 8 P.M.. This has become the time when my body becomes alive making a run for the goal possible.

Last year on my first 30 day mark, I started running at least a mile every day. It continued for 73 days, ending with the string of 10,000 steps.

The second 30 day mark is when I started sitting at my computer and typing something every day. This trained me to get comfortable typing.

My speed has tripled and I am clicking on things with no fear of breaking something. The only time I missed typing was for Dad’s funeral.

I am at another 30 days mark. I Believe I need to keep daily posting, Making time to write the book is important.

My house and gardens still have much work needed and my raspberries are ripening already. HELP JESUS! HELP!

LORD I NEED GUIDANCE! Less pain would be good LORD! Amen!

GOD IS GOOD!

This strange body that I have is starting to confuse my husband.

For our almost 40 years of marriage my body has run hot, especially while sleeping. I would wake in the night and throw off the covers but keeping my legs covered.

One night I touched my back and found hot skin down to this line across my buttocks. It was amazing how cold skin below the line was in comparison .

That line appeared after back surgery the summer of my freshman year of high school. After turning 50 that line started to change when my nerves began reconnecting. (IT is all a miracle from God!)

The change is much like ink on a piece of paper and the attempt to erase it. As the eraser is rubbing, the ink line smears. This explains the sensation of my nerves.

I asked my doctor  about the heat and she compared it to quadriplegic not able to control their core temperature. I  have always thought the perfect coat would be one that had arms and no vest, especially when walking.

One day I asked a women what hot flashes were like. She described heat building from inside the core.

From that definition I have had hot flashes for 40 years and now that I am 60 they are almost gone. How weird is that?

God Is So Good!

Driving West to visit the parents, we met my nephew before heading to the homestead. My nephew told me that my mom sat everyone down separately to tell each person, “I have lung cancer and will die by the summer.”

The words that came out of my mouth were, “SHE WILL LIVE AND NOT DIE!”

When we arrived at the parents house the same spirit rose up in me.

I WOULD NOT ALLOW ANY TALK OF DEATH!

I told my mom, “YOU WILL LIVE AND NOT DIE!”

I had communion with her telling her that Jesus body was broken for her healing, and His Blood was shed for you to have His righteousness.

The other thing I did was write out Psalm 103:5 and asked her what it meant to her when she read it. Then I suggested she confess it out loud daily and believe it.

After returning home I called daily to put LIFE into her thoughts.

Instead of dying by the summer she was free of cancer from her brain, lung and next to her aorta.

How did I have the Strength and Boldness to speak life  everyone this way?

The answer came this week when I heard a preacher use Psalm 118:17 which says, “I shall not die, but live and tell the works of the LORD.”

Years ago, I read out loud five Psalms and one Proverb every day.  This covers all the Psalms and Proverbs each month. I read so long I wrote days of the month in my Bible to tell me where to start each day.

Joshua 1:8 says to meditate on the Word day and night so you might do all that is written so your life may be prosperous and have success.

When the Word is stored up in our soul then Holy Spirit is able to BRING IT TO REMEMBRANCE  when we need it!  He did it for me and He will do it for you!

PUT THE WORD IN YOUR SOUL!