Patience

Today I want to share some verses on patience. Patience is the key on waiting for God to open another door in our lives. Right now I am in that season of patiently waiting for my Heavenly Father to fulfill His glorious promise to me. While I am waiting though, I need to trust God and focus on deepening my relationship with Him. And when He gives His promise in His time, I will be rewarded for my patience. Let's not jump ahead and ruin what God has for us. Let's be patient and wait with a happy heart and God will fulfill His promises to us in His time.

"A man's wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense." Proverbs 19:11

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self - control. Against such things there is no law." Galatians 5:22-23

"Being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience." Colossians 1:11

"Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience." Colossians 3:12

Being Thankful

Since this week is Thanksgiving, I wanted to share a few verses on thankfulness.



- "Let us come before Him with thanksgiving and extol Him with music and song." Psalms 95:2

- "Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name." Psalms 100:4

- "Give thanks to the Lord, call on His name; make known among the nations what He has done." 1Chronicles 16:8

- "But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians 15:57

- "But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him." 2 Corinthians 2:14

- "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." Philippians 4:6

- "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." 1 Thessalonians 5:18

- "Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe." Hebrews 12:28

This Thanksgiving, let's thank God for the many blessings He has given to us this year.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Whatever You're Doing by Sanctus Real

It's time for healing time to move on

It's time to fix what's been broken for too long

Time to make right what has been wrong

It's time to find my way to where I belong

There's is a wave that's is crashing over me

All I can do is surrender

 (Chorus)

Whatever You're doing inside of me

It feels like chaos somehow there's peace

It's hard to surrender to what I can't see

but I'm into something heavenly

Time for a millstone 

Time to begin again

Revaluate who I really am

Am I doing everything to follow your will

or just climbing aimlessly over these hills

So show me what it is you want from me

I give everything I surrender

To....

(Chorus)

Whatever you're doing inside of me

It feels like chaos somehow there's is peace

It's hard to surrender to what I can't see

But I'm giving into something heavenly

Time to face up

Clean this old house

Time to breathe in and let everything out

That I've wanted to say for so many years

Time to release all my held back tears

(Chorus)

Whatever you're doing inside of me

It feels like chaos but I believe

You're up to something bigger than me

Larger than life something heavenly

Whatever you're doing inside of me

It feels like chaos but I believe

You're up to something bigger than me

Larger than life something heavenly

It's time to face up

Clean this old house

Time to breathe in and let everything out

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Matthew 6:33

"But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you." Matthew 6:33

I think we as Christians tend to misunderstand this verse often. I know I have many times. When we seek His kingdom for something we want for example a good job, we can't just seek Him only to give us a good job, but seek Him everyday with everything in our lives. Then all these "things will be given to us." God rewards us when we seek Him. Hebrews 11:6 says, "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him." 

Now when God doesn't want this certain thing for you, don't give up and stop seeking our Heavenly Father because He didn't give you what you wanted. He has a different plan for you and wants you to find it. He will began to open the doors that He wants you to go through when you ask. I have done this many times and feel bad for giving up on God because He wouldn't give me what I wanted. But now I look back and I am glad God never opened the door for me because I would not be seeing the wonderful things He is doing in my life right now. The doors He has and still is opening for me. So today, seek God in everything circumstance and ask Him what He wants in your life. And He will reveal His wonderful plan for you.

The Power of the Cross

Once in darkness, now in light

Once blind, now you see

Once a sinner, now a saint

Once bound, now free

That's the power of the cross

See the chains fall

That's the power of the Cross

See the chains fall

Once a stranger, now a child

Empty, now filled

Once condemned, now reconciled

Broken, now healed

That's the power of the cross

See the chains fall

That's the power of the cross

See the chains fall

Yeah, the chains fall

Once a prodigal, now home

Once lost, now found

Once an enemy, now a friend

Once poor, now crowned

That's the power of the cross

See the chains fall

That's the power of the cross

See the chains fall

That's the power of the cross

See the chains fall

That's the power of the cross

See the chains fall

See the chains, your chains fall

Wow, I really like this song. The words are absolutely amazing! God touches my heart every time I listen or sing the words to this song. When we lay down anything such as pain, hurt, suffering, guilt or sin at the cross, we can see God removing the chains from us. What a wonderful Father we have for Him to willingly take everything that is in our hearts or mind and take it away from us. He takes our burdens upon Himself to free us from our chains that have held us back for so long. I pray that anyone who reads this post will praise God for His awesome work in our lives. If it wasn't for our Heavenly Father, we would be lost in sin with no way out.  But thanks to God, we are free from all of it.

1 Samuel 12:16

"Now then, stand still and see this great thing the Lord is about to do before your eyes!" 1 Samuel 12:16 NIV

I came across this verse the other day. It truly has a powerful message in its own little way. If you think about it, when we sit still and wait for God, we can see the great things He is doing or about to do in our lives. But when we want to take things into our own hands, we can't see God work. It takes us on a path of destruction. The path that we want to take might seem great at first, but in the end, it only hurts. I have been there many times. I took paths that I wanted to take knowing it wasn't what God wanted for me. I felt Him speaking to me, but of course I ignored Him. I was practically telling God that I wanted this, and He needed to follow me. Wrong answer. In the end, I got my heart broken.

So what I am trying to get with this is, stand still and wait on the Lord. He is about ready to do great things in each of our lives. We just have to be willing to take the paths God wants us to take. We have to surrender all of our dreams to Him, and then the best part is watching Him do great things.

Romans 4:16

"So people receive God's promise by having faith. This happens so the promise can be a free gift." Romans 4:16 NCV

If you can't tell, the book of Romans is my favorite book in the Bible. I had to ponder this verse for awhile asking God to reveal to me what He is trying to tell me. How can you get the promise from God for free? I mean going through all these test and trials, how can you get God's wonderful promise for free? It seems to me that I practically have to work to get the promise from God. But that isn't what He is doing to me or you.God takes us through these test and trials to make our faith stronger. So in turn, it builds our faith to receive the promise from God for free.


"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." Hebrews 11:1

"We live by faith, not by sight." 2 Corinthians 5:7

"Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves." 2 Corinthians 13:5

"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exist and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him." Hebrews 11:6

Romans 4:18

"Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed." Romans 4:18

I read this verse the other day and God truly spoke to me. Against all hope, I need to believe in what God says. No matter what the world, circumstances, emotions, or people might say or do, I need to put all my trust in God. Even if He has told you to be still and wait before Him doesn't mean that He is done with His promise. At that moment, He wants all your focus to be on Him until He tells you to move again. But He will still want your full attention to be on Him as you move ahead too.

I can say God wants me "to be still and know that He is God." There must be something that He wants me to strengthen in my daily walk with Him. So to find out, I need to spend everyday in His word and ask Him to speak to me. He will. Either through His word, speaking to my heart, or in a vision or dream. 

Whatever promise He has made to you, don't give up hope when life seems to take you in a different direction. God knows what He is doing. He may lead you somewhere far away from His promise. But don't worry, He obviously wants something done first before His promise happens.

I read this phrase somewhere and would like to share it. "Replace worry with faith." How powerful is that. I ask God to help me live like that daily. For when you worry, it doesn't make things any better. Replace your worry with faith while you sit back and watch God work.

 

 

 

"God always keeps His word. When He makes a promise, He fulfills it in His timing and in His way." Taken from the book: In Step With God by: Charles F. Stanley.

Mark 11:22

"Have faith in God," Jesus answered.

Isn't that so true? In order to receive anything from God, we must have faith in Him. Like it says in Hebrews 11:6a, "And without faith it is impossible to please God." We must have faith with everything we ask for. Whether you are wanting to get married, you need a job, or you need healing spiritually and physically, just have faith in Him. He will answer your prayers in His time. It could be a week or it could be many, many weeks, but never give up. Have faith always!

Hebrews 4:7b

"Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts." Hebrews 4:7b

This verse spoke to me the moment I laid my eyes on it. There have been many, many times when I hardened my heart to God because I wanted this or that. I didn't want to listen to what God wanted. Only me. I learned it made me feel worse about what I was doing, not any better. I had no pleasure in the things He told me no to. I began to feel farther away from God. As if He was in the other room and wouldn't let me in. But the whole time it was me who locked God out and made Him distant by disobeying Him. 

God wants us to soften our hearts when He speaks to us. Not harden our hearts and not listen. By doing that, we can start seeing the wonders He wants to show us. And eventually He will reveal to us why He lead us to this certain path. God doesn't take you where He can't protect you. Let Him guide you with His gentle voice and you will sure be glad you listened!