I have been up since 3am and it has already been a blessed and amazing day and I am less than 4 hours in. I woke up for a minute and checked some emails etc...and looked up some news pages and got an overwhelming feeling of sadness for our circumstances and decided to stay up. I made some coffee and flipped on a lifetime movie. Never slept a wink. My husband knew something must have been wrong and unbeknowst to me he went into a room and prayed for me for half an hour and asked the Lord to restore something very important to me. And asked Him to help us with something we have been praying for. I watched the movie and decided to put on an In Touch lesson by Charles Stanley. It has been saved on my dvr for a month now because I never was able to finish it but it really was because the Lord wanted me to hear His voice THIS exact morning on this EXACT day. I urge you to order the dvd or cd because it was life changing. It turned my mourning into gladness in one short hour. It was called "Obedience Always Brings God's Blessings" and he proceeded to teach me God's blessings are not always material or physical but emotional. When we obey Him, he blesses us with peace, joy, contentment. Our suffering is to draw us closer to Him, to have a greater understanding for Jesus, to demonstrate to others how to handle adversity and suffering. He then showed a beautiful drawing of a tree lined pathway and it illustrated God's path for us. He said that the path chosen by God is perfect and all blessing to the max. For it is the greatest life path of all. I cried so much because it was God's voice speaking to me through CS. It wasn't CS's words...he was merely the vessel God used. I felt His presence in that room, I heard his words, His comforting to me. I then felt all my fear, sadness, emptiness...disappear. It was then my husband knelt at my knees to tell me he prayed for me and my mind. That God would bring restoration to our lives and quiet my mind and restore peace to my heart. And God did at that very moment and I feel restored and renewed. For I know I heard God's voice that day on July 5th and I know that all things will work together for good for me and for my family because we love the Lord. I believe it....I know it.
Romans 8:28
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