Just a quick hello for our Monday time.

I think I have only a quick word for our Friday time together. And I confess a major factor in that is it is 8:59 PM Thursday night as i begin to write. I’m way off my schedule but as I say to my Girls: ‘It’ll be okay’.  In fact I said it to Little Girl just yesterday. Some years ago when I said it to her, she in a loving, yet exasperated tone said, “I’m gonna have that written on your head stone!” To which I replied ‘That’ll be okay’.  It’s a sweet memory.  But on to other matters.

Luke 17:14 When He saw them, He said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they were going, they were cleansed.

This is the account of the healing of the ten lepers. JESUS was on His way to Jerusalem passing between Samaria and Galilee and as He entered a village ten leprous men stood at a distance from Him and they cried out to Him, “JESUS, Master, have mercy on us!” (Luke 17:11-13).  And of course He did.

At some other time reading this Text I made a note in the margin of my Bible: ‘If they had refused to go they would not have been healed.’ 

I believe that. 

And I believe this: Some healings, particularly spiritual ones, like the breaking free of strongholds, requires that we walk an obedient path for some time (perhaps a long some time) before we see our healing.

Perhaps this is not a word that each of you need today, but to the one that it is — take heart, keep walking that obedient path He has laid out before you and as you go and keep on going those open wounds and sores will heal.

Praying for These

Thank You, LORD, that as we go with You and keep on going with You, we are healed. We bring our list of names, our IDOK Troops and all cares, our concerns, even our complaints and entrust them to You. We in faith proclaim and thank You for tending us so tenderly and faithfully. For taking care of us, watching and guiding and leading us. You are our Good Shepherd and we are the sheep of Your Pasture and we are grateful and pleased to be so. ABBA, thank You for each Dear One who gathers with us here to read and pray.  Thank You for inspecting us and healing us. As the weekend is before us I pray for our respective Pastors to minister Your Word faithfully and for we in our respective congregations to fail not to gather and worship You. I speak peace and a spirit of obedience over us in Your Holy and Blessed Name, LORD JESUS. Amen and amen.

Until Then + + +
Kathie

There’s no place like home.

I Kings 18:43 He said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” So he went up and looked and said, “There is nothing.” And he said, “Go back” seven times. 44. It came about at the seventh time, that he said, “Behold, a cloud as small as a man’s hand is coming up from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, Prepare your chariot and go down, so that the heavy shower does not stop you.” 45. In a little while the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy shower. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel. 46 Then the hand of the LORD was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins and outran Ahab to Jezreel.  source

Quickly a few points.

Elijah had a promise. It’s gonna rain.

Elijah prayed, believed and waited. And waited. And waited some more. Finally on the seventh time he sent his servant to look, the servant reported there’s a small cloud about the size of man’s hands.

My Translation of the servant’s message: Elijah, it’s been seven times now you have asked me to look and finally there is a cloud but it ain’t big enough to water a toad much less the rain storm you’ve been talking about.

But he did as he was told. He went and told Ahab.

We don’t have to understand the hows or the whens — we just have to obey when GOD speaks.

And when GOD brings on a small, size of a man’s hand cloud, put your running shoes on because it’s about to rain!  And be ready to cover more ground that you ever dreamed possible.

Don’t you love that about ABBA? He takes the weak, the little, the seemingly insignificant and does GREAT things?

1 Corinthians 1 (The Message)^26-31Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best” among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That’s why we have the saying, “If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God.” source

ABBA. I think You have a lot to work with with us — weak, little and often feeling really insignificant. We are looking forwarded to seeing what You are doing with this little band of believers. Thank You, ABBA, in JESUS name.  Amen and Amen.

Until Tuesday. . .

Kathie

Psalm 104.

I am uncertain as I begin just how much I will write today because I would rather you invest your time reading it (Psalm 104) than reading anything I might write. I wrote a bit in the margins of my Bible and I prayed I would be  able to share the right portion of it with you.

I’ve been learning some things, I’ve been admitting out loud some things about me today. One of those is I live in a fear. A fear that if I don’t rush to write, rush to share, I’ll forget.  We have begun the process of changing that today.  So I finished 104 and even began 105 before coming to write. AND I am trusting that what appears on this page will be what should appear on this page. God has a perfect memory … mine does not have to be to serve Him. If that is not freeing to some of us, I don’t know what is!!

This could work for me! :)

And all that has nothing to do with Psalm 104.

What does have to do with Psalm 104 is that it is a brand new chapter that ABBA just added today.  Of course, I am joking! It’s just that today it is as alive as I have ever known it to be to me.  And it’s about CREATION. His Creation. Which He did! However He did it; He did it! And I am glad.

And I am glad He has command of the elements. All of them.  Clouds, wind, water — all of them. HE is in charge.  (1 – 4)

Of course, I knew that before today but I am immensely enjoying seeing it highlighted on the page of MY Bible.

5. He established the earth upon its foundations, So that it will not totter forever and ever. Will not totter! Secure. Stationed. Man cannot/will not destroy HIS CREATION.

9. You set a boundary . . . . And I stopped right there for a few minutes.  Did you know, of course you do, that our GOD is the GOD of order and boundaries? GOD is the Original Boundary Setter. The ocean can only go so far.  It has boundaries. He set boundaries in His World.  And from that I have concluded that  it  would be a very good idea for us to set boundaries in ‘our world’. Based firmly and completely upon what He tells us from His Word, we can, we must, set boundaries for our world – what we think, what we say, what we do AND what we let others say and do in our presence.

It is alright, It’s a GOD thing for us to set boundaries of conduct for ourselves, for our children, our grandchildren and, yes, even our friends and other family members.  It’s okay to say this is my limit and this is your limit in relationship with me.  As I said, though, ALL based upon what He has shown us in HIS WORD.

Okay. There’ s a whole lot more. But I’m done for today. A boundary. :)

LORD FATHER, You are awesome! I have no words sufficient enough to praise You; but You know my heart. And I am so glad about that. I am glad about today and what You have done today. Thank You. And I pray that as our Readers come to their screens and they read these words that they will be glad too. Glad at You. Glad about You.

As we remember our Praying for These. How precious they are. And how Good You are to allow us this privilege of praying for them. We are not privy to all their needs, all the details and even the guarded things of their hearts  – but You are. And that is so good. So, ABBA, considering all You know and all You are, we pray Your Will be done for each of them. Our IDOK Troops included.  And, ABBA, thank You for this ministry. Let the boundaries of it be YOURS, not mine.

Psalm 103: 17 – 19 But the lovingkindness of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children’s children, To those who keep His covenant and remember His precepts to do them. The LORD has established His throne in the heavens, and His sovereignty rules over all.

Holy hugs,

Kathie