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What About Food For Next Week, Lord!

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 11:36:28 +0100

    This was written over a year ago.
    I was looking forward to meeting some former co-workers at a restaurant last Saturday. We have been keeping a promise that we would start meeting once a month at a wonderful restaurant. This started occurring after my former supervisor's sister passed. She mentioned that she wanted to keep in touch with everyone. So we decided to just go ahead and just meet. Every time we meet, the number of those in attendance increases.

    It was planned for Saturday. As the time came to attend the breakfast, I just knew that I didn't have the money to attend. When Saturday morning came, I was sure that I wouldn't go. How could I go to breakfast and not have enough to get some food here? We were really operating off of a very small budget. I am now retired and I am a single mom.

   I called the girl who was supposed to pick me up. She always picks me up to attend these breakfasts. She also has her mom with her who is 91 years old. When I called to cancel, she was disappointed because I know the way and she needed for me to help her get there. I told her that when she was ready to go to call me and I will guide her to the place by phone. She wanted to know if I needed finances and if that was the reason for me not going. She said that that wouldn't be a problem. But, I didn't want to expose to her my financial situation. I told her that I would discuss it with her later. Not long after that call to cancel, she called me back and said that her mother wouldn't go because I wasn't going. Her mom didn't know the others well and felt comfortable with me there as well.

   I am now in between still saying no because my teen son is very observant. He would wonder why I went and spent money on a breakfasts and we needed money ourselves for food.

The Lord led me in a lightning- split decision to go. I told her to please tell her mom that I would go so she wouldn't miss out on this monthly meeting. She really waned to go.

    She arrived to pick me up. As I got into the car, she slipped $25 to me without her mother seeing it. I just melted. But, then I also knew that maybe she was paying me early for some work that I do for her that she picks up every Monday morning. She teaches and I type out her lesson plan, class newsletter, activities, etc.

    I am now sitting in the back seat just thanking God while we were on our way.

   But what about money that I needed for food for the next week?

   You see, God knew what blessings I would receive by just going on to the breakfast. I didn't want this 91 year old woman to miss out so I just went on by faith knowing that the next week would be taken care of.

It turned out on Monday that when she picked up her work, I thought that she had already paid me on Saturday. She handed me another $25. I told her that she already paid me Saturday. She said, "No, this is for the times that you wouldn't charge me anything for some sopies of the work that she had already had made. I told her that I wouldn't charge her for that because they
were just copies and she had already bought the ink and I had mounds of paper that she had given me. Why charge?

     Not only did she give me money for Monday, she called early yesterday morning wanting something else and slipped a $10 to me. Now last night while I was watching my favorite Fox News program, she called again. She said that she just woke up from a a nap and wanted me to do something else. Today, she handed me $10.

   I am just rejoicing at what God has already knew would happen to supply all that I need from day to day. I think about the verse that says, "Give us this day, our daily bread."

   I am taking it one day at a time ladies knowing that God will keep His promises to take care of me and my son.

I can rejoice to believe His report about me, that He sings and rejoices over me. His thoughts of me are more than the grains of sand on the earth. What concerns me concerns Him!!

In this I am thankful and grateful and in all things giving thanks!

**My son never said a word to me about going out for breakfast!! (SMILE)

I believe that the Lord is preparing my son to believe His report that He will take care of us. Because of this economy system that is dire, Spencer will know that it is the LORD Who will take care of him day by day!

Blessed be the name of the Lord!

What Is Holding You Here

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 11:29:06 +0100

   What is holding you here? Can we say time? Time is the small space that has you bound to where you are now. Time has placed us in an arena of many things. Many include extremely important decisions that will effect you when you are suddenly jutted outside of time. A house won't matter. Your car won't matter. All of those things that you worry about from day to day won't matter. The only thing that will matter will be your decision to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, believing that He died for your sins, was buried and now has resurrected from the dead.Right now, He is sitting on the right side of God, His Father.

    The moment you step out of bounds in time, you step into eternity, that has no bounds. The decision you make right now in time's boundaries will affect what will happen to you in eternity. You will be forever with our Lord or forever without Him.

    You only have time (right now) to make that decision.

AUTHORITY

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 11:25:39 +0100

Authority
How things change so quickly in our lives at times. They can happen in the twinkling of an eye; so fast.
    I know that it won't be long for Jesus to come back for us. I am praying that I will still be alive to be changed in a twinking of an eye. I am looking forward to seeing Him face to face, forever.
    It was back in the month of February, that I was rejoicing over God's provision for me and my son. What praise and thanksgiving to God for all that He has done, is doing and will continue to do in our lives.
   Then it happened! Accident! On February 16th, it happened! Spencer and I were on our way back home to drop off some groceries and then off to a lesson that my dad wanted to teach him about the use of a snow blower. My dad's dear friend's driveway and sidewalk was to be the
classroom. However, we never made the lesson. For this day, another lesson was to be learned!
   For years and years I had continued in a driving act that had never been corrected. It was the act of turning left on a yellow light. I never experienced an accident that had proved me wrong or had ever been pulled over by a policeman to contradict what I was doing. So, I continued thinking that what I was doing was just fine. It wasn't just me, but I found out that a
majority of people were actually doing the same thing that I was doing. It just looked normal. All during my late teen years and adult life up to about when I was 33, I was living on doctrinal teachings that I thought were correct. You couldn't persuade me to believe otherwise. I spent that whole time in my life hanging and believing onto those beliefs. I was steep in it! If I had my son during that time, he would have been thrust into this same belief system because he, at that age, would simply believe because I had believed it. Then, he would have perpetuated this belief system with his own children. Oh, where would it have stopped?
Because of the accident on February 16th, my belief in what I had done in driving and think it to be right was shattered. It was the authority of the policeman that was involved that charged me to know the truth. My eyes were opened. I received the truth. My faults were opened right in the presence of my son. What he was learning from me would stop abruptly at that moment.
By the time I was about 33, The Holy Spirit began to teach me the truth about God's Word. I opened up to God and asked Him to help me, to teach me. It was by God's authority, His Word that changed my life. Up until that time, I was primarily listening to what man was teaching me and not studying God's Word. This time, the Word washed me, cleansed me, corrected me. No more looking back now! I had the truth.
     As I continue to praise God about what happened several weekends ago about dinner, I praise Him for His protection. When both cars spun into the opposite lanes, there were no cars there to collide with. They were coming but they had not arrived yet where we were. There were no pedestrians that may have been hurt or killed while we had spun across the road.
What protection for us, the woman in the other car and for those who were not at that point yet. All of this time and no accident. But, this was the day for correction. It could no longer be perpetuated.    Who was going to tell us otherwise? Authority! It took all of these years for me to understand this truth and because it was authority that spoke it, my son now knows not to do what I had done for years!
    I took a 360 degree change in my life concerning the accident. After the accident, my son, who was driving, was also given that opportunity to stop perpetuating what I had done for years and what I was also showing him by my actions in driving. Why? Because he heard it from authority. There are times that when we go down this road that we continue to do the same thing over again because we believe it to be true and we pretty much validate what we are doing because it seems like since the crowd is doing it, it must be alright!
It was Jesus Who said "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
In 2008 on April 6th, I had a dream about how we can think something to be true because of the vast majority of the people are doing it. Once again, through this accident, the Lord is showing us to make sure that we get our authority from the Word of God; His own Words.
And His Word will stand forever.
May we always stand on His Word! His authority~

Psalm 119:89

"For ever, O LORD, Thy Word is settled in heaven."

Isaiah 40:8

"The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the Word

of our God shall stand forever."

2 Peter 1: 21

"For the prophecy came not in old time by the will

of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved

by the Holy Ghost."

Psalm 119: 105

"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and

a light unto my path."

Hebrews 4:12

"For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and

sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to

the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the

joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts

and intents of the heart."

John 17:17

"Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy Word is truth."

John 20:31

"But these are written that ye might believe that Jesus

is the Christ, the Son of God: and that believing ye might

have life through His name."

Luke 21: 33

"Heaven and earth shall pass away: but My Words

shall not pass away. "

THE GIFT

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:38:55 +0100

THE GIFT

(This was written about 3 years ago while I was homeschooling my son.

My son and I were sitting at the table eating breakfast. We were not in a hurry! I had prepared oatmeal and 3 strips of bacon for myself. I had not eaten my bacon yet when my son wanted to know if I would share my bacon with him. I took the whole plate and handed all of the bacon to him. At first, he hesitated; actually feeling a bit guilty that I was going to give him all 3 of my slices. Then, he freely accepted my bacon. I told my son after he received the bacon that he could have refused. He would have missed out on such a blessing as having three extra strips of bacon.

When this happened, I couldn’t help but think about God’s gift. He sent His Son, Jesus, freely for us because of His love for us to save us from our sins and the wrath to come. He presented His Son to us as a gift. All we have to do is by faith except what He did for us. It is a gift. Our sins have been placed on Jesus, Who died in our place. He took the wrath that we were supposed to receive. Sometimes we hesitate to receive His gift. There was nothing that my son had to do but accept the bacon. He didn’t have to work for it or think that I was going to take it back. Once given, I could not retrieve it back. He accepted it as a gift! We accept God’s Son, Jesus, as a gift. There is nothing we can ever do that will say that we had any part of the presentation of this gift. We just have to receive it!

A few months ago, I decided to make a will. I am a single mom and my mom encouraged me to get one set up. I have aging parents and to think of what they would have to do to settle my estate would burden them. I made out my will and included all of my wishes. My son will have a home if anything happens to me. I have a trusted friend who has consented to be my executor to settle everything for me. The home, right now, has already been transferred over to my son. There are days that I had thought about changing that decision based off of some of the things he does that may try to upset me from time to time. I mean things to really irk me. However, I know that I couldn’t do that. It is already in writing. He is my son and will receive what I have written that he should receive. The lesson I got is that God is never going to take His gift back. It IS written. According to Him,

IT IS DONE!

AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!