Dear Friends and Family, I have an urgent prayer request.
Our friend, Wayne Brady, went in for a stress test today — thought to be routine.
He is in Mobile Infirmary as I type and is scheduled for open heart surgery in the morning.
I covet your prayers for him and Carolyn, the whole family, the doctors, just everything you are led to pray about concerning this.
I will post more as I have more to report.
Thank you.
Kathie
It’s been a busy, blessed weekend. Music and messages at Satsuma First were so worth being there!
Supper at a local eating establishment was yummy and our waitress was a sweetheart – Victoria. We will look for her when we visit again and as the HOLY SPIRIT leads remember her in prayer.
This is how the week is shaping up: two days this week pitching in to help with some meal preparations, at least one Easter dress to start working on, one day of GRANDS pick up, a field trip on Thursday, Pasty Clairmont Thursday night, Friday night and Saturday – Priscilla Shirer simulcast. What a week! And that’s just the stuff I know about.
Did I say busy and blessed?!
Two verses to ponder today. No doubt I’ve shared them here before as they are my life verses – verses that have saved my life many times. In times of trauma that I thought I could not bear and certainly did not understand, I kept these verses close. Written on index cards and posted at my kitchen sink, bathroom mirror, in my pocket — wherever I needed to be reminded:
Psalm 145: (New American Standard Bible)
17The LORD is righteous in all His ways And kind in all His deeds.
18The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth.
via Ps 145:17 -18 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.
And He still is!
Thank You for songs, thank You for music, ABBA. Thank You for the song that I hear playing in my head even now — Our God Reigns. And You do. Thank You. Thank You for recording Psalm 145: 17 and 18 for me and for every other dear One who has and will be comforted and strengthened by it. I know it’s true. I know because You said it and because for me You have never been wrong and You have never been unkind in every thing You have done or allowed. You are right and You are kind in all You do. You are near to help, save, rescue and deliver every soul, not just some but every soul who calls upon You in truth. I have said it before and I believe it still, You can work with honesty. It may be ugly and it may be ‘bloody’ but You come and bare You Holy Arm to lift up those that will just be honest with You. Thank You, ABBA. In JESUS Name, thank You. Amen and amen.
Blessed to bless,
Kathie
I’m taking a chance this Friday morning — a chance that I will totally miss the target — that’s bittersweet to me. Sweet perhaps, that all readers at this screen are Believers. That being true, what good are my what ifs? Bitter, that my circle is so small I sit here not reaching the unbeliever with the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST.
What if you are right and The Bible is a fraud?
What if you are right and there is no heaven and no hell?
What if you are right and JESUS is just a man in history and not the God of Life?
What if you’re wrong?
What if I have believed the Bible in vain?
What if I have counted on Heaven and it is not?
What if I have confessed JESUS as LORD and He isn’t?
Even so, in this life I’ve slept peacefully and seen happy days.
When we are both dead will I be any more dead than you?
How is it that your hangover headache and unsteady gait gets you a life of the party badge but a glad countenance giving praise to her Creator nets a Christian a dunce cap?
Why is that you are lauded for pushing and shoving your religion of no religion and I am demonized for offering life and hope and peace that never ends?
How is that your sniffing and snorting, flaunting and carousing, lusting and leaving and more deviate things than I will say, why is that exalted while my opposite choices are ridiculed and argued in the courts?
How does my living by His Commands, harm you?
And do you really not see your refusal to so live, harms you and those around you?
And if you are killing yourself with riotous living, why is it bad that I care?
Would you rather I say go ahead live like hell before you get there?
Does it offend you that I assert there is a hell?
Why?
If it’s a myth as you say, what harm have I caused you?
But what if it’s not a myth? What if it is, and it really is a burning toxic sulphur surrounded by a dark that is darker than the darkest dark you’ve ever experienced and more lonely than your loneliest loneliness, and it’s forever? What then?
What do I lose in this life believing there’s a heaven, if what you say is true – that when you’re dead you’re just dead?
What do you lose in eternity, continuing here to believe like you say you do?
What if I’m right and The Bible is true?
What if both heaven and hell really are?
What if JESUS is the God and Savior of Life?
What if JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY TO GET TO HEAVEN?
AND THE ONLY WAY TO MISS HELL?
What if when you die you are not really dead?
What then?
Blessed to bless,
Kathie
I know whom I have believed — You Tube
ABBA, I haven’t a clue what You can do with this but I invite You to do as You will in JESUS Name. Amen and amen.
This portion of Psalm 119 just seems right for our Thursday time together.
Psalm 119: (Amplified Bible)
161Princes pursue and persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of Your words [dreading violation of them far more than the force of prince or potentate].
162I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great spoil.
163I hate and abhor falsehood, but Your law do I love.
164Seven times a day and all day long do I praise You because of Your righteous decrees.
165Great peace have they who love Your law; nothing shall offend them or make them stumble.
166I am hoping and waiting [eagerly] for Your salvation, O Lord, and I do Your commandments.
167Your testimonies have I kept [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them]; I love them exceedingly!
168I have observed Your precepts and Your testimonies, for all my ways are [fully known] before You.
169Let my mournful cry and supplication come [near] before You, O Lord; give me understanding (discernment and comprehension) according to Your word [of assurance and promise].
170Let my supplication come before You; deliver me according to Your word!
171My lips shall pour forth praise [with thanksgiving and renewed trust] when You teach me Your statutes.
172My tongue shall sing [praise for the fulfillment] of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteous.
173Let Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts. 174I have longed for Your salvation, O Lord, and Your law is my delight. 175Let me live that I may praise You, and let Your decrees help me.
176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek, inquire for, and demand Your servant, for I do not forget Your commandments.
via Ps 119:161-176 – Passage Lookup – Amplified Bible – BibleGateway.com.
I see His part, our part in this. Some things God just does with or without our faithfulness; but most often it’s a two party deal; our radical obedience brings on His radical blessings.
Free Dictionary dot com defines radical this way:Departing markedly from the usual or customary; extreme via radical – definition of radical by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
Anybody for Radical? It beats mediocre, don’t you think?
Mediocre: Moderate to inferior in quality; ordinary.via mediocre – definition of mediocre by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia..
Help us to pray, help us to obey, especially when we are tired and worn. I commend to You now, ABBA, Jenny, Karen, Sonny and Cameron, Elaine, Beth C., JP and family, Julee and Bridgett and others — only Your Best, ABBA. Only Your best in JESUS Name.
Blessed to Bless,
Kathie
