And He will raise you up

Those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not be weary, they will walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31


We need not become discouraged thinking God is unwilling or unable to help us. He has not forgotten us, nor has He lost his power. Through Him the weak can be made strong. Those who trust in their own strength will fail, no matter how capable they may appear to be. But those who trust in the LORD will be constantly strengthened by his power, which will lead them on victoriously.

Faithfulness

 Whatever your gift, talent or trade He promises to train you step by step.
We are blessed when we keep His statues and seek Him with all our hearts. We have been called to walk before Him and be blameless. It is required that stewards be found faithful. An overseer must be above reproach!
He who is faithful in a little is also faithful in much. We are called to worship the LORD in holiness. The Father seeks those who will do so in spirit and in truth. All Nations will come before Him to worship!
 He is made to us sanctification by the Spirit. Presenting our limbs as slaves to righteousness produces sanctification. The one who called you is faithful!
God made man upright; the fruit of the Spirit is faithfulness.

Trusting God's Plan for our lives

"God's way may be harder for you, but it will be easier on you." H. Hanson


Salam! Shalom! 
Have peace of heart and mind.
We may have many trials and sorrows here on earth but cheer up for He has overcome the world!


In trusting and in confidence will be our strength. Sometimes we forget to walk by faith and not by sight or we find it hard to keep still and to simply know that He is God.


It always helps me to remember Joseph and his brothers. How he must have felt in the pit, probably hurt, soiled and very thirsty but it was the time to look up and wait on God to save Him!


Then he was sold by his brothers to the Egyptian Caravan! He must have yelled his lungs out pleading and sobbing that they would stop!


Judah heard and never forgave himself. The cries of his young brother tormented him for years waking him up in the night. If only he could make things right. But it seems he went from bad to worse marrying outside his people; later his sons were not brought up in the Covenant fear of God and turned to be evil men. But finally he had his chance when he married Tamar and did justice to her! Maybe he finally made his peace with God then and was able to return to his Father's household.


Many years later Joseph was reunited with his brothers and told them that all that they had meant for harm God had meant for good to save his whole family and to save many Nations!


I love this about our God! He has overcome our limitations! He can turn what was meant for evil into good! How amazing! I cannot help trusting Him!


Do rejoice with me, in His love and perfect plans for us!

Waiting on Him

We had come a long way on this beautiful sunny day
I had started early with mates and intimate prayer
There was so much to thank Him for...

Through the window I could see the Port,
beautiful Ushuaia surrounded by snowy mountains
We had taken these days to celebrate and rest.

I had waited expectantly for He had promised
I longed for Him more than sentinels long for the dawn
and He had come!

The eternal God has been our refuge
His arms have sustained us
His words have nourished our hungry souls!

Because the LORD determines your steps!

In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps. Proverbs 16:9
Maybe, just maybe, we are planning in one direction and God's will is in another direction. God might say, "Hold everything! Turn around and go this way".
Other times He might say "Wait and pray!"

He is able to do immerasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us. Ephesians 3:20

Commit your way to the LORD and He will straighten your path. Proverbs 3:6

I love these verses.

Remember queen Esther. How she prayed and fasted with all her people when she waited even a onther day, and still another, until God's intervention was perfect and timely and they were all saved from being slaughtered!

Lets spend some time thanking God for his guidance and perfect timing in our lives as we commit this New Year to Him.

Because the LORD your God carries you...

Even to your old age, I am He, 

and even to gray hairs I will carry you!

I have made and I will bear,

 even I will carry you and deliver you.

Isaiah 46:4

The LORD your God carried you,

 as a man carries his son, 

in all the way you went 

until you came to this place.

Deuteronomy 1:31

As I reflect on the Year that is ending today I can only be thankful for the LORD'S love and mercy as He literally carried me and my family and helped us all along!!!

In August he saved our 14 year old son from dying in an accident as his bike crashed into a bus. His skull was fractured from the top of his head up to his right ear 

yet God kept it all in place and after four days in therapy he was sent home!

In September my husband and I celebrated our Silver Wedding Anniversary with a trip to Ushuaia and to Santa Cruz to see and meet the Glaciars!

In December our youngest son graduated

 from his Primary School Years!

There was also a wedding in the family that I was able to attend. 

So my heart is full of thanks as I look back, celebrating each person as unique and special, thanking God for each moment we have shared as His love enfolds and holds us together.

Happy New Year beloved friends!

Merry Christmas!

We were all baptized by one Spirit into one body-whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free-and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
1 Corinthians 12:13

Wherever you are dear and beloved one, no matter how far, God is able to reach down and live with you in your heart if you humbly turn to Him!

He has called us to the obedience that comes through faith. It is a new life that is born in us when we accept Jesus Christ as the Messiah sent by God, born from a Virgin, who lived a Holy life, then died to cleanse us from our sins. On the third day he rose again and is now sitting at the right hand of God.
Turn to God wherever you are and confess your heart to Him. He promises to come and make His dwelling place with you!

This is what we celebrate during this Christmas Season that Jesus was born in Bethlehem to each one of us and that we were born again in Him to live a sinless life!

Jesus is our righteousness and our Kinsman Redeemer!