Saturday, July 22, 2023
Help Is On The Way
Thursday, July 13, 2023
May Your Path Be Filled With Blessings
About a week ago I went walking at a park that I like to walk at and I found a painted rock ( For those that don't know people decorate rocks and leave them behind for people to find). So I found a rock, and then another and as I kept walking I found another. When I found the third rock I began to feel guilty and thought about leaving it for someone else. As I considered it more I thought to myself what if they are all meant for me? and then I began to purposely scan the area for more rocks as I walked and found two more. How many times do we back up from blessings that God has for us? When God talks about blessings he often talks about abundance and overflow yet for some reason some of his children (me included in that number at times) put limitations on the blessings he wants to release in our lives. The experience made me think of I dream I had. In the dream I was on an island of some sort and at first I was by myself. Then I noticed that giant snow crabs in (which I love) were abundant in the water. A man appeared next to me as I was wondering if it was okay for me to get the snow crab. Next I wondered if I did get the snow crab, how many I could get?
I reached down and they were easy for me to get. Since I had self-imposed a limitation on how much I could get I only took a little. I have to admit that the guy being present influenced my feeling guilty for getting the snow crab and his presence also influenced how much I got. I have thought about that dream from time to time and a I did I came to the conclusion that I could have freely gathered....there was no sign that said "No Crab Fishing" or rules or regulations that I knew of that prohibited crabbing or set limitations on how much you fished. I set those limitations myself and it limited what was there for the me in other words it limited my receiving of the blessing before me. Later, when I recalled that dream I told myself that I should have gotten as much snow crab as I wanted and took a little extra to give away. Yet when I found the rocks (in real life) while walking I almost put a self-imposed restriction on how many I could get. Last night I dreamed I was walking with someone and began to find old coins; in this dream I gathered all that I could; everyone that I saw and could get to...that was more like it! I want to be able to hear God and if he says do not gather or partake then I will be obedient, but if the blessing is laid before me I want to have the mind-frame to ask him if it is okay, and if he says yes, gather as much as I can; and
if I don't hear, to decree Lord, I am considering this as a blessing from you. I plead the blood of Jesus over it and decree it is sanctified and for me...AMEN! God Bless you. There is an Old Irish Blessing that says...
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand
And my blessing to you is... May the blessings of God be on your path today and everyday, may you see them and gather them to the full.
Psalm 119:
105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Luke 6:38
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Ephesians 3:20
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Proverbs 3 6-10
6.Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
67.In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
78.Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
89.It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
910.Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
1011.So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Psalm 23:5
You prepare a table before in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows.
Sunday, July 9, 2023
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Thursday, February 16, 2023
Thank you Jesus!
I have been thinking of this song all this morning. I found it online and hearing it felt really good. I hope you enjoy it as well.
Saturday, February 11, 2023
Timeless
Today while I was getting ready to read the bible and I heard Hebrews 3:17. I had heard and read it before more than once recently so today I asked why am I reading this again? and I believe I have the answer.
Hebrews 3:17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
At first I was like Lord are you saying I am like the children of Israel? and what I got was that I was going to be separated from the sins of my father...Amen! and then I got more.
Numbers 11:32
Surely nome of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac and unto Jacob because they have not wholly followed me
Numbers 11:33 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite and Joshua the son of Nun: For they have wholly followed the Lord.
According to Joshua 14:7 Caleb was 40 when he went to spy out the land so we can guess that he was around 80 when he entered into the promise land and the oldest of the other children of Israel was 60 and the youngest was at least 40.
This realization caused me to bubble up with Joy. It was as if God was saying you are worried that you are getting older but the youngest of the children of Israel to enter into the promise was 40 years old!
In the 40th chapter of Isaiah in verse 31 God says he will renew our strength. In Joel Chapter 2 verse 25 God says he will restore our years. In Deuteronomy 29:5 God says that for the forty years that the children of Israel wandered in the desert their clothes and shoes did not wear out.
God is a God of Miracles and he is a God of Restoration and Preservation; he is more than able to supernaturally keep us. Most of us have met someone who causes heads to turn and mouths to open when they say how old they are; God is able to do the same for us. Fear not, there is still time to enter into and enjoy the promises of God.