Psalm 42:8

The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, And in the night His song shall be with me— A prayer to the God of my life.

Dear Prayer Warrior's,

His lovingkindness is always with us and at night He puts a song in our hearts. Sometimes, its hard to understand that our God is always with us. He never sleeps nor slumbers. He's always there.There are times when it doesn't seem like it, life gets to be too hard. And if I'm honest, I want to check out mentally. I'll go watch TV for hours. I'll sulk, cry and play the "it's not fair game with myself". Believe me when I tell you life can hurt deeply at times and I don't understand God's ways a lot of the times. What I'm learning in this walk with my Lord is TRUST and FAITH go hand and hand.

 My little mind can't understand what a infinite God is doing all around me.We see through a glass dimly. He holds it all together. Rest in Him tonight and let Him put a new song in you.

So as we lay our heads down to sleep tonight, our God won't!

Blessing and Love,
Christina

FAITH

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1

Dear Prayer Warrior's,

The Lord and I are still working on this "FAITH" thing. Lol
All I can do sometimes is laugh because it just never seems to end, on my part. He still wanting to grow me in this area. It's not believing for others, oh I have great faith for everybody else's problems but mine. Doubts enter mind, fear of the future. Will he ever answer that prayer? Is this your will? How about a persons free will, Lord! So many thoughts and question enter the mind.

Then the Lord and I began to have our conversations. He reminds me of His word about His promises. When I worship him, I'm in His presence and he tells me"You don't need much, just a mustard seed ."  "I'll never leave you nor forsake you". "Trust in me". I'm realizing that the christian walk is all about faith, believing when I cannot see. The Hope I have is in Christ, It's a choice I have to make daily. To believe, even when I cannot see that he's working it ALL out for good. My dependence is on Him and that's what he wants from His children. 

Why not? He's a good, good Father! 

Blessings,
Christina 

I Am Willing

12 And it happened when He was in a certain city, that behold, a man who was full of leprosy saw Jesus; and he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” 13 Then He put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately the leprosy left him. Luke 5:12-13

Dear Prayer Warriors, 


This morning as I opened His word and began my daily reading, came to this passage in Luke and the tears began to roll down my checks, even as I'm writing to you now. I was thinking about my son's, friends, and our Adult Children. The man full of leprosy, full of desperation just wanted to be healed. Falling to his face, knew the Lord could but would He, because he knew he wasn't worthy of it. What do we need to be cleanse from, set free from. 

What's my leprosy?
Our Son's and Daughter's?
Our Friends?
My neighbor's?

We are not worthy to stand in The Presence of God, that's why the man fell to his face. But because of the Cross of Calvary. Jesus Christ took our place and paid a penalty we could not pay. We are cleansed by precious Blood of Jesus Christ. He has the power to save, change and transform lives.

Ladies, now we can fall on our knees before The Throne Room of Grace and say........

"Lord are you willing, can you make them, me clean."Yes, my child " I'm willing."

Blessing Ladies,
Christina

The Giver

11For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. Psalm 84:11

 Dear Prayer Warriors,

 This week feeling discourage and feeding into the lies of the enemy, I started to think about the future and fear stared to enter my heart. Why was  I feeling this way? That morning the Lord answered, "Do you love the Giver more then the gifts?" You see, I realized that I was discourage because I so wanted my prayers to be answered by now. You see as a believer I know all things are possible with Him and when I didn't see them answered or things I had desired come to pass. I wonder" Why is God withholding this from me?" Then the Lord ask a question of me "Would you still love me with all your heart, if I never answered another prayer?" Loving the Giver is more important than gifts or prayers we want answered from Him. He's our Joy in hard times. Yes, He wants to bless us because He's a good,good father, but when all I can see is the mess and not Potter himself making something beautiful out of my mess, then I'm missing it. It's about the Giver and not on the gifts.

"Then Moses said to him, "If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up here."
Exodus 33:15

Moses was a great example of not wanting anything else but God's Presence in life. God had promised, a mighty angel would go with them and fight for them and they would win the battle. Moses didn't want an angel, he wanted God with them. Moses knew what it was to be in the Presence of God. He even glowed when he came down from the mountain being with his Savior.

Lord, I praise you and thank you for all your doing and all your going to do. Father, you withhold nothing good from me and the ones I love, so if it's not in my life it's not good for me. You know best for my family and for me. I'ts in your timing and you will do it  your way. You are my shield and lamp unto my feet, who shines the way of my path. Forgive me when I look forward more to the blessing than spending time with you. I need to feel your Presence in my life. Knowing your holding my family in your hands and you won't let go. Father, your faithfulness to your children is amazing. Amen

Blessings,
Christina

Let's Talk

Mark 1:35 (NKJV) 
³⁵  Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.

Dear Prayers Warriors,

I can picture Jesus getting up early to go talk to His father. He finds a little mountain top, as He sits, He looks to the heavens and talks to His Father. The intimacy between the two was amazing..... 

I think when the disciples saw

that, Thy asked ," Lord teach us how to pray". The love between the father and the son; they must have desired it. Your Father in heaven wants that with you and me. In this busy world of ours, we must take time and sit and talk to our Lord. The God who breathe the universe into existence wants to have a relationship with us. He has no need for nothing but yet pursues us everyday to come and talk to Him. He wants to hear about our fears,wants and desires. To Magnify His Name, to give Him Praise and Glory for all He's done and all He is going to do. Prayers for the people we love, friends and neighbors.Our plans for the future, and do they a line with His will. The deep things that we carry that only we know about. The struggles and heartaches that bring tears to our eyes. The things that we can't let go from our past. How about the Joy and Peace we fill because we know Hes here. You see, there's is a longing in our soul that only can be filled by Him and everyday that goes by and we don't get some alone time with Him, we miss out on the best part of the day. That's why the enemy created business, it keeps away from the one who loves us the most.      

Blessing,
Christina

IN AWE OF YOU

Psalm 33:6-8 (NKJV)
⁶  By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.
⁷  He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deep in storehouses.
⁸  Let all the earth fear the LORD; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.




Dear Prayer Warriors,


What a sight that must have been to see our all Mighty God breath out the stars, planets and the universe.He didn't have to wave a wand, use His hands. That day all three were there, God, Jesus and The Holy Spirit creating the heavens and earth. Better then any firework show, ever!

It's been awhile since I've written in my blog. Heavy trails tend to do that, ones that can shake the core of your faith. When we go through long and heavy trails, whether we caused it or by another person.We know that it had to go through our father first before it gets to us. Then He has to allow it in our lives. If we're honest with ourselves it's hard to imagine our Lord would allow us to go through some of the hard trails of life.

Through this trial, I lost the wow factor in my God. My problem seem so much bigger then my God. I forgot truly who my God was. My fears, doubts had taken over my heart and mind. I felt a little like Job, lots of questions but no answers. Then my Lord started to speak and I was listening. God is always speaking truth into our lives but are we listening.

I remember one night He said, "You've forgotten who I am" and He was so right. I forgotten how MIGHTY and GREAT our God is, who created the heavens with one single breath. I have to put my fears, doubts and unbelief and the foot of the cross,daily and He replaces it with HOPE, FAITH and JOY. I may not know the future but aren't you glad He holds it all together.
May we always be in AWE of our AMAZING GOD!

                                   

Love and Blessings,
Christina
                                       

Worthy, Fulfilled and Powerful

2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 (NKJV)
¹¹  Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power,
¹²  that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Prayer Warriors,

We can learn a lot from the Apostle Paul prayer to the Church of Thessalonians. I know in my prayer life, I’m needing more direction in how I should prayer for myself and the people around me. Especially, my children. My prayers feel repetitive at times. Then the Lord spoke to me about these verses, I felt refreshed in how to pray differently for the people around me. There are three things I want us to see…..

The first is (God would count you worthy of this calling) when he uses the word calling here, it is talking about salvation. When He called us into the kingdom. We have been called to Christ. That we may be worthy of this calling, He makes the unworthy, worthy. We become worthy because of the grace of Jesus Christ. Pray, that we and our love ones and the Church of Jesus Christ would walk in a manner that is pleasing to our Lord.

Ephesians 4:1 (NKJV)
¹  I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

Philippians 1:27 (NKJV)
²⁷  Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel,

Colossians 1:10 (NKJV)
¹⁰  that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

1 Thessalonians 2:10-12 (NKJV)
¹⁰  You are witnesses, and God also, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe;
¹¹  as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his own children,
¹²  that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

The second thing is (fulfill all good pleasure of His goodness) that every good thing would be fulfilled in our lives and people around us. His goodness, not ours, not what we think is good but what He says is good. That the Lord desires would be our desires. Pray, we would long for the things that God longs for. What is on the heart of our Lord! What good pleasures does He want to fulfill in the lives of our children. Pray,  we would listen and know the heart and mind of God.

Psalm 21:2 (NKJV)
²  You have given him his heart's desire, And have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah

Psalm 145:16 (NKJV)
¹⁶  You open Your hand And satisfy the desire of every living thing.

And third (the work of faith with power) we would in power in our service to Him. How do we live out our faith, what He has called us to do but with power of the Holy Spirit! Pray, we would walk in Spirit of God. Our Children would be filled with the power Holy Spirit to fulfill His purpose.

Ephesians 2:10 (NKJV)
¹⁰  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 3:16-17 (NKJV)
¹⁶  that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,
¹⁷  that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Paul wanted the people to be worthy, fulfilled, and powerful so that the Lord Jesus Christ would be glorified. That the God of the universe would want to be gloried in me, in you and our love ones. That we would bring glory to His name. Amazing!!!