A Confirmation from My God

The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing. Zeph 3:17

Isn’t this verse awesome? This tells me that My God loves me so much that He delights in me. He loves me so much that He will quiet me with His love. He loves me so much that He rejoices over me with singing. WOW!

I was trying to encourage some of my friends today with a devotional from Proverbs 31. The Lord placed it upon my heart to include this verse. I wanted them to know that they are special; they are Princesses and He rejoices over them. I felt like on this day of love that those who have felt rejected here on earth, really needed to hear that God is so full of love that He can’t leave us or forsake us. He is so full of love that He sent His one and only Son to be the valentine for the whole world. He said “I love you” written with the blood of Jesus.

After I sent out this message, I opened my e-mail again and there was a message from Kacey, with a note, “God sent me a valentine to give just to you”. The verse above was included. What a confirmation.

Touched by the Master

Have you ever had one of those moments, either painful or delightful, when you knew that you were in the center of God’s will for your life? Have you ever felt the presence of the Lord so strongly, that you wept? If you know me well, you know that crying comes easier to me these days. I cry at the Kleenex commercials. My girls always look at me at the end of Extreme Home Makeover to make sure that it was touching to me (then they laugh, sometimes to themselves, but other times so I have to notice). It is okay with me. I realize after many years of taking on every emotion that could be thought of and instead of dealing with them and expressing them in a healthful way, I internalized. I didn’t cry or yell or take a walk or talk it out, I just shut down. I guess the seemingly excess tears I shed now are from years of not releasing them at all.

I experienced one of those God moments yesterday as I went to church. Kacey was leading worship at Calvary Chapel in Plantation. It was not because she was singing, even though I was so honored to be able to be present. While all of the music was inspirational, one of the songs touched me deeply. One of the songs was sung just for me. The message was presented and even though it dealt with an area of struggle in my life, the message was just for me. It was an appointment with Majesty. It was an appointment that left me wanting to hide under the seats, but at the same time wanted to sing at the top of lungs for my Creator to take notice of me. My Creator is so great that He planned this service with the purpose of ministering to me. All I can say is WOW!

Bring The Rain

A friend of mine shared this video with me. It is powerful. I didn’t really understand about God’s true provisions and His infinite mercy, until the storms of life took me to the brink of myself. You don’t realize how much Jesus you need, until Jesus is all you have. Storms in our lives must first pass through the loving hands of God. His promises are true.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. Isaiah 43:2

I often pray that God will take away whatever circumstance that is detouring me from who God wants me to be. Little do I realize, that since He has allowed the circumstance, then He will be honored and glorified through the storms that I must endure and will use me to be His hands and feet for others. I don’t know that we will ever understand all of God’s plan for our lives, but He will use every minute of your life, if you will surrender it to Him.

My prayer is expressed today in the chorus of this song.

Bring me joy, bring me peace,
Bring the chance to be free,
Bring me anything that brings You glory.

And I know there’ll be days
When this life brings me pain,
But if that’s what it takes to praise You,
Jesus bring the rain