Can I hear an AMEN!!!!!

 
     Hello and happy Sunday.."OH HAPPY DAY" when Jesus washed, he washed my sins away~~~ I love this song, it gives me joy in heart. I love Sunday's, I love to fill my spiritual tank so that my spirit is renewed and I can be ready for a new week! I love partaking of the sacrament, the renewal of the covenants I made with God and Jesus Christ when I accepted them in to my heart. I so love the fact that I can repent of my sins and know that I am forgiven. "Ain't it amazin'?"
     In prayer this morning as I sat in quiet meditation, I could feel the holy ghost all around me, the chills that engulfed my body were so immense that I began to cry. I love our Heavenly Father so much, just thinking of the pain he felt when he offered his son for me is overwhelming. I asked in prayer, what can I do today Father to honor you, what can I do to allow you to feel the love I have in my being for you! As always my heart was filled with a word, it was as if he was sitting right there beside me, holding my hand, the great words of wisdom flowing between us, I felt as if he were holding my hand giving me knowledge of his plan for me today. I felt the prompting that we must "share" today, we must lay down our fear of embarrassment, we must lift up our heads, hold straight our shoulders and strip ourselves clean of wondering what others will "think" about us. Have you ever been made fun of or ridiculed because you were a "JESUS FREAK" have you ever neglected a prompting to offer to pray for someone, or to tell someone you have been praying for them? Have you ever kept quiet and not made loud when God was urging you to say, AMEN or HALLELUJA or GOD BLESS YOU...because it might make people look at you in an odd way? Today is the day that you let those feelings of embarrassment go, today is the day that you follow the prompting of your heart and allow the spirit of our Lord and Savior, ooooooooozzzzzzzzzeeeeeeeeee out of you. Share the gospel, let people know that God and Jesus Christ reside in your heart, share it with everyone!

I am amazed by an AMAZING GOD today. He never ceases to amaze me...
So today, this beautiful Sunday morning I pay tribute to this amazing God, by just lifting up my hands and surrendering my entire being to Him today asking Him to teach me to do His will.

Once we surrender our mind to GOD completely, HE will take care of us in every way.

"If you have really handed yourself over to Him it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you."
C.S. Lewis,

"Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God;
may your good Spirit
lead me on level ground."
Psalm 143:10


    I love you Lord, I come on bended knees this morning to honor you! I give my heart and soul to you and trust in your word. Father I ask you today, to touch the hearts of those who struggle with faith, with believing, impress upon their hearts the power of "you" allow them an answer to a question that they have been asking so that they no longer "ponder" the validity of you, replace any doubt they might have with truth..replace weakness with strength, replace nay,nay, nay with yea, yea, yea Father. I know the truths and I am living witness to miracles given through prayer, I know that through Christ each believer can return to stand beside you in the eternities, I stand up in honor of you Father, I raise my hands to the heavens in the knowledge that you are there and that you embrace me each day when I speak your name. Never let me go, hold tight to me and please continue to show me the way! I thank you Father for the blessings in my life, the simple "life" blessings, I thank you for the good and the bad for I know that if I hold fast to my faith, plant my feet firmly and stand my ground....satan can never touch me, he can try...but I refuse to allow him to move even one of my hairs in his direction. Hold tight to me this day Father and know that I am holding tight to you! In Jesus name I ask these mercies, amen.
     

what of what will she say next! So thankful she loves God:)

 

  Ahhhh, Friday night, it is so nice to see you! Many of you are excited for "Friday night lights" my nephew is playing in Wisconsin where they (good luck Ethan)  lives and my sister said she would have to dig out her jacket as it is pretty chilly there! It will be cool and damp for our high school boys here in Utah and I read on several facebook posts that it will still be muggy and warm in Texas! It would be nice to hear something different out of my home state! I am still praying for a good ground soaking, garden nourishing rain;)
     My little g-baby, Dakota, has been on a temper brigade the last couple of weeks, she is just into everything with no regard to who it belongs to, she has been having screaming fits, has stopped listening to anyone but me her MIMI. Yesterday she once again ruined something of her mothers and then threw a fit because her dad would not take her for play time and ice cream at McDonald's. I was called in, and when I am called in she gets all wide eyed and ducks her head not wanting me to know what she is doing! I got her up into my lap and asked her why she was doing the things she is doing, she ducked her head and said she did not want to tell me "cause" I might be mad at her. I explained that I would not be mad if she told me the truth...she went on to say " my actions tell me what to do, they tell me to get into things and make messes...I don't know what to do with my actions...they get inside of me and make me get in trouble..." I told her that she was in control of her body and that if she continued to let her actions tell her what to do she would continue to take the fall for them. we talked a bit more and I told her that evidently her actions were really mean, that she needed to tell her actions to get away from her when they wanted her to do bad things...I then told her that if she had God in her body there would be no room for the impish "actions" to go in and have her do things. I told her that God only does good things and that he would help her to do good things as well! It was as if a light went on somewhere in the little devious head of hers and she said "MIMI, can I ask God to come into my body?" I told her of course she could...she then walked away from me, looked up to the sky and said..."God, could I ask you a favor? Would you come into my body so that there is no room for the impish actions to fit? In Jesus name I ask you this special favor, just for me...amen" I felt so very touched that she had no question as to if God could do it, only wanted to know if he would grant her this favor! I love her so much, she is so trusting and she love, love, loves God. A while back we had to ask God to put his nighttime shield around her so that she would be able to sleep in her room by herself as she now is a schoolgirl! It has worked wonderfully and she has slept in her room each and every night! After she asked God to come into her so there was not room for the impish actions, her behaviors were spot on! She was so well mannered yesterday and the report I get today is that she has not gotten in to anything and has been very very well behaved. Praise God for answering her "favor"
    We could all take a lesson or twenty from children, there is no question as to whether God is real or not, there is no question as to his intentions with us, they trust him without condition and they never question him! I ask that this night we all might be like children, let our nagging questions go and just believe!!!! Love in Christ to each of you, in name of Christ I ask God to hold and heal those in need, to financially assit those in loss, comfort those in greif and to love us as always!

Do you really believe...see the rain, smell the rain, feel the rain and know it shall come!

      Good morning and happy Friday, it is 69 degrees out this morning and the wind is howling like a rapid dog, the skies are a hazy blue, not clouds at all and the sun is shine, shine, shining! I once again slept later than usual, I don't know if it is 50 year old thing or not, but seems since I hit the big 50 my sleep patterns have been in disarray! So I apologize for getting my blog up and running so late but I pray that the message that it contains will have been worth the wait for the one who's heart will be comforted by it this day!
       I was made aware of the high pressure cell that has come in and moved the chance of rain out of Texas this morning, in the posts that have been written I could feel a sense of "give up" of "lack of faith" and "gloom and doom" I see that the areas so affected by the fires have no forecast for rain in sight! In looking at the weather channel I see where you might be becoming discouraged! We must not lay down, we must not give up, we must not relent! We must have more faith now than we ever have, we must stand in unity and pray, we must envision the rains falling and the fires being put out, we must BELIEVE! This is a huge time for all of us right now, this is a great test of faith! I know it is difficult as you sit hour after hour watching the fires march as if going to war your lands being the emeny....but....you can't just lay down, you have to hold fast to your faith and you have to know that God is right there with you, that he is going to open the heavens and he is going to let it rain! Let us stand together, let us pray fervently and then let God take over! Psalm 91:4-6 He will cover you with his wings; you will be safe in his care; his faithfulness will protect and defend you. You need not fear any dangers at night or sudden attacks during the day or the plagues that strike in the dark or the evils that kill in daylight. (GNT)
     Now is the time for us to have ultimate faith, with our nation's capital being threatened with more terroristic threats for the weekend, with the weather having such devastating effects upon our lands, with the government in such disarray, WE MUST PRAY, WE MUST PRAY, WE MUST PRAY! Don't sit and think that so many are praying that you do not need to! He wants to hear from each and every one of us, he is calling for faith, true unconditional faith! If you know someone who is not praying, if you know someone who is uncomfortable in prayer, call upon them and ask them to pray with you, you lead the words that come with difficulty to others and have them pray with you!
     Join me now if you will and let us pray many times today for a MIRACLE! We have all seen miracles, we have personal testimonies of the great and wonderful things God has done...let us BELIEVE that he has a miracle in store for the lands of Texas!

 praying, praying, praying for all of my Texas friends, I know it seems hopeless and that the "calm" seems so far away! I know that God has a plan and soon the rains will fall upon the lands and the rebuild will begin! One thing I am seeing in this tragedy is the vast amount of people that are coming together in unity to pray, the vast amount of people who otherwise would never have opened their hearts, their homes and their pocketbooks to give to those who are in need! There is a silver lining in even the most ugly of storms...9-11 brought us so much closer as a country, so much compassion and love developed, we as a nation began to get back what was important and realize what was our country needs! When hurricane Katrina hit, the entire country came together in support of those in need, the same with all of the other tragedies that have happened, tornado ridden states, the east coast...etc.!!! We are no doubt pleasing him in laying down our greedy ways and giving...I know that he will bless each and every one abundantly, many times in life only good things come when the storm has waned! Keep your faith, keep on praying and never let the adversary be victorious! Better days are coming and it will be glorious!

Father God we stand with our arms outstretched asking you to show us the way, we stand erect, our heads tilted to the "son" waiting and watching to see the glorious and wonderful blessings you have in store for us, we are tired God, so weary of the battle but we shall never lay down our faith, we shall never surrender our beliefs and we shall never look another direction! We have seen the miracles you allow and we look to you for a resolve to the fires in Texas. Father please open the heavens to us and allow the rains to fall in abundance, allow our lands to be once again nourished and a renewal begin! We love you God and we know that your will be done! In Jesus name I ask these blessings, amen and amen again!

    

I apologize!

     Good morning and happy Thursday, I am suffering a tooth ache this morning and hope to be able to get in to see a dentist as soon as possible, toothaches are, in my pain arena, one of the biggest pains one can encounter! Please say a prayer that I might find a dentist quickly!
     In prayer this morning as I sat out in all of his beauty, I realized that since my vacation my heart has been lacking a bit in my blog and I have been rushing through and not quiet getting his message across in a manner that it will do what I hope for it to! I felt urgency to apologize for being so late getting his word on here in the morning and for posting so late at night, I seem to be, by posting my call to prayer so late, missing many who would pray with us! I promise to do better, my internal clock must have gotten way off track some how! God is so very good to me, he allows me thoughts of things to chat about that people are in need of at particular times, he allows me to type words that touch those who are in need! I have abused his blessings by allowing satan to deter me!
      So many times in life I have made plans to do good things for others, only to have something deter me....I am a very responsible person, I am a person that is always on time, a person who does what I say I am going to do! I know that satan does not want us to do good, he does not want us to help others, he does not want us to pray, to read the bible, to go to church, to do anything that is pleasing to our Father in heaven. I struggle daily with this, he is constantly trying to throw roadblocks in my way, he constantly makes me have to take detours in the hopes that I will just give up! It is funny though, the more he tries, the more I am determined to do the good! When I am on bended knees, is when he tries really hard, he tries everything in his power to distract me, to block me from chatting with God....nay, nay, nay I say...How many times on Sunday have you been thrown roadblocks to deter you from church, you seem to have no panty hose, you did not sleep well the night before, you cannot find something to wear, your kids are being naughty, you over sleep...etc. How many times have you picked up your bible to read and the phone rings, someone stops by to visit, your spouse or your children need you, the animals are acting out, you fall asleep, you cannot seem to retain what you just read....etc. How many times have you thought, I am going to surprise someone by doing something out of the blue just for them today, only to have that plan changed before it can come to fruition? All of these things are satan's way of blocking us from doing good. Many times I will begin to fall in to his trap, but thank the Holy Ghost for tapping me on the shoulder and letting me know what is really happening. Today my prayer for you is to not allow satan to deter your plans, don't allow him to distract you from doing the Lord's work! God bless you all with the power of discernment, may each of you realize when satan is trying to throw a monkey wrench in there to keep you from doing good. I pray this prayer with love in my heart. In Jesus' beautiful name, amen!