SUNNY!!!
So I look outside the window, and I'm so lucky God gave me eyes to see!! I love witnessing the sun play on the buildings and the dancing shadows!~
God is so good! I've been asking Him to come and fill my heart so that I might be able to love my neighbors unconditionally. And God just puts this joy in me that makes me just love everything around me! He is faithful when he says in one of my favorite verses:
Isaiah 40:31
"But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength, they will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not grow faint!"
Don't you just love God's optimism! He is ALL we need!!!
I know I've been sad plenty of times, but I look back on it and wonder why I didn't just remember all the MILLIONS of blessings God gives me EACH and EVERY day! I've been disappointed recently, and I'm just mad at myself for letting some little unsubstantial things bother me! God calls us to be hopeful! I have just been praying that God will keep my love for humanity and my passion for others to be renewed and remain a faithful servant and witness for the Lord. I have the most amazing friends a girl could ask for. Not to mention God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit NEVER disappoint us! It's so easy to look at todays society and become disenchanted, but we just have to remember how WONDERFUL heaven will be once we get there! God gives us pain so that we can grow to love all the blessings he gives us that much more! I mean if Jesus' glory was realized in all his sufferings, why won't our pain become something great?
Sometimes we can get so tunnel visioned on the negatives that it completely affects who we are! But we should be stronger than that! One thing God has shown me is that we can't let our standards be compromised! Stand Firm in Him! Do not be moved! Keep your joy! Keep your childlike WONDER at the world!
Here is a little verse I got to enjoy last night during my quiet time with Jesus, the romancer of my soul!
Psalm 84 (New International Version)
1 How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty!
2 My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
3 Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young—a place near your altar, O LORD Almighty, my King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you.
5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.
6 As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools.
7 They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.
8 Hear my prayer, O LORD God Almighty; listen to me, O God of Jacob.
9 Look upon our shield, O God; look with favor on your anointed one.
10 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.
12 O LORD Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in you.
Much love to you all!!!
God is so good! I've been asking Him to come and fill my heart so that I might be able to love my neighbors unconditionally. And God just puts this joy in me that makes me just love everything around me! He is faithful when he says in one of my favorite verses:
Isaiah 40:31
"But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength, they will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not grow faint!"
Don't you just love God's optimism! He is ALL we need!!!
I know I've been sad plenty of times, but I look back on it and wonder why I didn't just remember all the MILLIONS of blessings God gives me EACH and EVERY day! I've been disappointed recently, and I'm just mad at myself for letting some little unsubstantial things bother me! God calls us to be hopeful! I have just been praying that God will keep my love for humanity and my passion for others to be renewed and remain a faithful servant and witness for the Lord. I have the most amazing friends a girl could ask for. Not to mention God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit NEVER disappoint us! It's so easy to look at todays society and become disenchanted, but we just have to remember how WONDERFUL heaven will be once we get there! God gives us pain so that we can grow to love all the blessings he gives us that much more! I mean if Jesus' glory was realized in all his sufferings, why won't our pain become something great?
Sometimes we can get so tunnel visioned on the negatives that it completely affects who we are! But we should be stronger than that! One thing God has shown me is that we can't let our standards be compromised! Stand Firm in Him! Do not be moved! Keep your joy! Keep your childlike WONDER at the world!
Here is a little verse I got to enjoy last night during my quiet time with Jesus, the romancer of my soul!
Psalm 84 (New International Version)
1 How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty!
2 My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
3 Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young—a place near your altar, O LORD Almighty, my King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you.
5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.
6 As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools.
7 They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.
8 Hear my prayer, O LORD God Almighty; listen to me, O God of Jacob.
9 Look upon our shield, O God; look with favor on your anointed one.
10 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.
12 O LORD Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in you.
Much love to you all!!!
posted by Barbara Jo Agnew Brillard at 8:30 AM
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