God's Will

"The will of God concerns the present more than the future; it deals with our motives as well as our actions; it focuses on the little decisions we make every day even more than the big decisions we make about the future. The only time we really have both to know and to do God's will is the PRESENT MOMENT. We are to love God with heart, soul, mind and strength, and we are to love our neighbours as we love ourselves. These are the basic responsibilities Jesus challenges us to pay attention to.

It is the daily choices we make to honor and serve God that determine whether we are doing the will of God. We already know the will of God for our daily lives, however cloudy the future appears to be. That we do not know what God wants for tomorrow does not excuse us from doing HIS will today.

The will of God has to do with what we already know, not what we must figure out. It is contained in Jesus' command that we seek first HIS kingdom and HIS righteousness. The will of God, then, consists of one clear mandate - that we make God the absolute center of our lives. Ironically, it is exactly in making this choice that we find true freedom. It is the freedom of obedience. That is the will of God for all of us."

excerpts from The Will of God as a Way of Life by Jerry Sittser pg 34, 59

God of All of Me

I wonder if this is truly our prayer? This song has been a great blessing to me and I hope and pray it is for you too!

GOD OF ALL OF ME

by Sandi Patty

Lord, You are God of the morning light

Master of the shing sun and ruler of the night

God of the earth and God of the sea

Voice that fills creation from the mountains' majesty

Lord, God of all, You know my ways

Giver of breath to my dying day

All Mighty God of all I can see

Build up Your Kingdom in me

Father, take my heart, hold it in Your hand

Be the God of all of me

Father, take my life, everything I am

Keeper of my soul

God of all of me

Lord, in my soul, in secret parts of me

There are places in my heart that only You can reach

Brighter shines my hope than the morning light

Deeper is my stain of sin than any dark of night

Father who rules all of earth and sea

Reighn over dreams that I dare not speak

Lord, God of all be God of these

Rule every Kingdom in me

Father, take my heart, hold it in Your hand
Be the God of all of me
Father, take my life, everything I am
Keeper of my soul
God of all of me

Contentment

"As long as we base our sense of contentment on anything in the world, we will always find some excuse to make ourselves miserable. Our problem is not on the outside--it's on the inside, and therefore it will never be solved by getting more of what we think we want. If we do not learn to be satisfied right now in our present situation--whatever it is--we will never be satisfied at all. .

The truth is that if God wanted us to have more right now, we would have it. . . . If we were supposed to be in a different situation in life, we would be in it. Instead of always saying, "If only this" and "If only that," God calls us to glorify him to the fullest right now. . . . Contentment means wanting what God wants for us rather than what we want for us. The secret to enjoying this kind of contentment is to be so satisfied with God that we are able to accept whatever he has or has not provided."

Philip Graham Ryken Exodus: Saved for God's Glory (Crossway), 673-74.

Queen's View

What a beautiful spot! My favourite place! Awesome!

Bro and Sis havin fun!

Quote

I found this quote printed on another blog (The Purple Cellar http://purplecellar.blogspot.com/) and wanted to put it on mine too! It is lovely and the source might surprise some of us!

"The idea that I shall become used to being without you is really funny. I could speak for a long time on the subject. As I have told you many, many times, the passing of the years does nothing but deepen and intensify my love for you. When I think of those days in London in 1925 and '26, when I thought that no greater love was possible, I could laugh. But honestly, during this last year I had come to believe that it was not possible for a man to love his wife more than I loved you. And yet I see that there is no end to love, and that it is still true that "absence makes the heart grow fonder." I am quite certain that there is no lover, anywhere, writing to his girl who is quite as mad about her as I am. Indeed, I pity those lovers who are not married."

The writer? D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, to his wife Bethan, September 25, 1939, reproduced in D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: Letters 1919-1981, Iain Murray, Ed. (Banner of Truth 1994).

Happy Easter!!

The Lord is risen! Hallelujah!

Trust you have had a blessed Easter.

Hmm and Easter

For some reason I cannot separate the song into verses and chorus! Oh, well never mind!

Every blessing this Easter Weekend! Our Saviour died and rose again for us! What an awesome Lord we have! Praise HIM!

Here I Stand

Here I Stand

Here I stand, covered by grace

Under the blood that was shed for me

Here I kneel, before the King upon His throne

Here I bow, to worship the Lord

Enjoying his favour on my life today

Knowing that we’ll never be apart

I’m a child of God created for my Makers’ pleasure

Chosen to enjoy Him forever

Granted dignity by what He says about me

Made in His image, precious in the eyes of my father

Purchased by the death of my Saviour

I have been given life to the full

Here I stand, covered by grace

Under the blood that was shed for me

Here I kneel, before the King upon His throne

Here I bow, to worship the Lord

Enjoying his favour on my life today

Knowing that we’ll never be apart

In this precious place

I’m basking in the warmth of the sunshine

The whole experienced and the presence

Brings such joy to me and such liberty

Oh I’m standing firm

Holding fast to all you have spoken

Now promises none will be broken

I lift my faith in Jesus Christ

And all will believe all the lives that I heal

And no self-esteem whispers into my ear

That I’m worthless and poor, I’m lost and alone

At moments like that I must look to the throne

Here I stand, covered by grace

Under the blood that was shed for me

Here I kneel, before the King upon His throne

Here I bow, to worship the Lord

Enjoying his favour on my life today

Knowing that we’ll never be apart

(Phatfish)

Change

First blog in a long time.....I have been thinking a lot about change recently. Change is not always bad and can be, and very often is, for our good and benefit. I wonder if we let God change us willingly and let the things in life that may seem to be difficult and not to our liking, mold us and make us more into the people God would have us to be? God is gracious to us and gives us these opportunities to blossom and develop into Godly men and women after HIS own heart. I know that is my prayer and I pray that it is yours too!