he wants you to be repressed, oppressed, and depressed!!!

Another beautiful morning here in Utah, even though we are forecast for the high 90's today we have blue skies and a nice breeze, the heat does not seem to be affecting the birds, they sang wonderful songs all day yesterday and have decided to entertain again this morning. God is amazing every day, lifting my hands and praising him for the beauty he surrounds me with both in scenery and in the people that are in my life. I love you all!!!

Won't you join me in prayer this morning, I stand witness to seeing literal answers to those lifted and I stand on the promise that the more we pray the more we shall see. Praising God's holy name for allowing a sweet man who has struggled for so long to come through surgery yesterday and now be on the up hill climb to bigger and better things in life. We ask God to continue to bless him with a mighty healing and a long and healthy life. Asking that you continue to pray for the little baby girl born last Sunday at 2.8 pounds, she is getting stronger each day but is still in need of much growth and strength. God bless her with your very breath that her lungs grow and function as they should. I lift each of you in prayer this day asking God to see your needs and to provide for you so that you can make it through. I ask God to feel your fear and worry and take it all from you so that you can concentrate on his love and the miracles of his blessings in your life. I pray for my little grandson Chalmers that he continue to grow strong and that he stay healthy and for my sweet daughter that she continue to share with us her love and abiding faith to God above. I love each of you and am always here to pray for your needs. Father we ask for peace, mercy, grace, healing and an abundance of your love this day, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. 

The devil will stop at nothing!!!

I alway delight in sharing other people's writings on my blog but today I feel as if I am supposed to share something from me with you. I have so many friends that are struggling to find themselves at this time in their lives, so many who are reaching out to God for his hand, so many that are feeling stepped on and forgotten. I am here to tell you that this is exactly where satan wants you to be, he wants you to be repressed, oppressed, and depressed...the more we reach our hands out to God the more he will hurl in your way to ensure that you keep slipping, that you keep falling, that you keep giving in to him. I find that each morning when I kneel to pray that I am riddled with thoughts of everything else but prayer. My list of chores for the day, the bill I cannot forget to pay, the phone calls I need to make, the this.....the that.... I find that when I am getting ready for bible study and for spiritual healing, the phone rings, the dogs need attention, the this....the that...any time I am up to good, providing service, sitting and chatting with someone in need of spiritual uplift is when I am slammed the hardest... I refuse however to allow him to deter me, I have learned that when he is trying the hardest to drag me away is when I am closest to God....I refuse to give in, I refuse to be manipulated and I refuse to ever go back to where I used to be, in the pit of darkness.  I have been to the very door of hell, I have found myself so close that I could feel the heat and could hear the screams from inside wishing me in, I fell on my knees and asked God to show me the way, I had nothing, I had no faith, I had no hope, I had NOTHING...God took my hand, yanked me from satan's grasp and set me upright, he placed me on my feet and I promised him that day that nothing nor no one would ever drag me down there again. I have been tempted, I have been battered and torn, I have been lonely, I have been walked on and I have been misunderstood but none of that comes close to the power I received that day when God took my hand. I will walk the path to righteousness for all the rest of my days here because I want to walk the golden path to stand at the side of our Lord up there. I lift my arms to heaven at this very minute and thank HIM for loving me enough to save me from hell. God is so good!!! praising him, praising him, praising him....

case in point, since I sat down to write this I have had 3 phone calls, my dogs have needed to go out and potty, my cat has thrown up...but never fear I will not let anything stop me...especially the dark one!!!

Have a wonderful day my friends and don't let anything stop you for giving praise to the one who deserves it today! 

I wish you peace!!!