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Heal me, O Lord , and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise.' Jeremiah 17:14 (NKJV) There are none healed that the Lord does not heal. There are none saved that the Lord does not save. Because of His mercy and grace He does not fail me, He is the reason for my praise.  My prayer to You O Lord, in my hour of need, is that You heal me of all my diseases and that you save me from all my sins. Because of Your great love for me, I know that You hear me and my soul can boast in You. With my heart wide open I plead my case and You alone shall... You shall because You can. You shall heal me. You shall because You can. You shall save me. You never let me down. You are my praise. What a natural progression. I pray to You because You can. I pray and You move. Because I need you and my heart is broken, You do not despise me. My Heavenly Father, how can you do anything else? Because You cannot lie and I know that all of Your promises are true ...

'So always be ready , because you don’t know the day your Lord will come.' Matthew 24:42 (NCV)   What must I do to be ready? Is a prayer every week on Sunday enough to secure myself and my family a place in God's Kingdom?  How can I neglect the spiritual things of life for the majority of my day and then have the hope that my flesh won't take me into something that might destroy me? It is written, 'So always be ready...' I need to always be ready for the unknown and for the certain things that are going to happen. I must prepare for both the good and the bad things that will happen in my life that I don't know about and have no control over. Those inevitable moments that might just make or break me. Since I don't know the future. I don't know the day and I cannot know the hour in which the Lord will return. I can know this much. I can be prepared for it. I can know that life is short and then the judgment. I can know that the Lord...

Trust in the Lord with all your heart;   do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.' Proverbs 3:5-6 (NLT) I am taught to place my trust in God. Not in man. Not in government. 'In God we trust' is more than a slogan or just a phrase, it is what we believe. It's a law. It's the way we act on what we believe. It's a lifestyle that leads the people of those great nations that follow their Lord. To the ones that place Him at the center of their homes, He alone makes everything turn out right. To the ones that place Him at the center of their lives, He alone justifies them through faith in Him. It is by faith that I find my happiness in Him when I seek with all diligence and sincerity His Will. When I seek Him I find Him and everything that is good and anything that is great comes from Him. Out of my fears for the future, can arise faith and boldness in me to do His Will when...

' The ear that hears,      the eye that sees—          the Lord made them both.' Proverbs 20:12 (GW) The eye and studying the many parts that make up the eye brings me to wonder in amazement about all of God's creation. I don't understand it. How could something so complicated and so very complex ever be taken for granted? Yet, I do. God blessed me with two of them!  Master Designer God the omnipotent Creator has made the eyes and no person has ever been able to duplicate them or even come close. I am so grateful to You God for giving me eyes that see. Let them see only the good things of your creation and let me use them to worship You and to bring You Glory. The ear and studying the many parts that make up the ear brings me to wonder in amazement about all of God's creation. I don't understand it. How could something so complicated and so very complex ever be taken for granted? Yet, I do. God ble...

'Jesus answered, “You don’t really know what I am doing, but later you will understand.”' John 13:7 (CEV)   Today I take another leap of faith. Looking first, then leaping, even if into the clouds of the unknown. I do this thing with full faith and knowledge in God, that He doesn't ask me to figure everything out. No, not even His own disciples always knew everything that He was doing. They were only asked to have faith and to believe in the One that sent them. I have faith in Him and know that He never leaves me to the tasks He sets before me without weapons nor does He make me go through them alone. He is always with me. He only asks me to trust Him. I do trust Him. It's a requirement. There are so many lessons that He wants me to learn. He is the Great Teacher. I look to Jesus for lessons in humility and in kindness. He shows me how He lived His own life as an example of how I am to treat others and to be kind and to live my own. I am to live like Ch...

' Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” Nehemiah 8:10 (NIV)   The direction went out to all. Go and enjoy. Everyone was included in the instruction to go. He was not pointing to a certain group but even included those that had nothing prepared. Send some choice food and sweet drinks to them. No fasting. No grieving. This is a holy day unto the Lord! To the rich and to the poor, to the widows and to the orphans, to the young and to the old, he said, do not grieve.  The wall was completed. The work was finished. The first great revival and preaching and understanding of the Word had taken place! It was time to celebrate with good food and drink. Find the joy in that. The strength is right there. Find the Lord in that. The joy is right there. Joy. Joy. Joy.   Some may have legitimate reasons to griev...

“Who do you think you are—      recklessly grabbing and looting, Living it up, acting like king of the mountain,      acting above it all, above trials and troubles? You’ve engineered the ruin of your own house.      In ruining others you’ve ruined yourself. You’ve undermined your foundations,      rotted out your own soul. The bricks of your house will speak up and accuse you.      The woodwork will step forward with evidence.' Habakkuk 2:9-11 (MSG) Who do you think you are? Pride. Did you think that you could escape its snare? The pride of life that led to the addiction that destroyed your family will also lead to the fall.  The grabbing and the looting, you lived it up all the while you took advantage of it all. You took what did not belong to you. You engineered your own demise. You wrecked your own house. You hurt them all. You thought you'd never get caught. You ...