Awake after short hours of sleep, and a bad dream...

I awoke from short hours of sleep after having a bad dream, which maybe i've had something similar to it before. makes me thankful I have Jesus in my life.

There is a song, by Pocket Full of Rocks, that just is good. In it, it says, and this is from a website I'm copying this,

"Like the woman on her hands and knees
Crawling through the crowd
Reaching up to touch You
Knowing in You hope is found
Oh, let me crawl up near to You
And love and long and plead."

Wow. Something beautiful to think of after a bad dream, God is good, tells me to trust Him.

God is amazing!God rules!

Jesus loves you.

Romans 8:28; Phillipians 4:13.

A Few Thoughts

"always giving thanks for all things."

"not to hang our head in condemnation, but to ask for forgiveness and freedom."
Wow. There was this excercise that Pastor had his congregation do, which was to hold up our ten fingers, and thank God out loud saying, "God I thank you for____" and we had to say that for every ten thing. The beginning could be easier and then the fingers close to ten would be harder. Thanking for some things currently in my life that are hard, was hard, and easier things, and after I did this, I felt relieved. Wow. So now I am hoping to visit soon, and God really helped me and taught something new that I could do, and wow it also was praying out loud to God, which makes a difference too. It was just amazing, God can meet you anywhere, whether in your home, online, or at Church. Jesus is amazing. He loves us. "Trust Him, His love, and trust His love for us!" Amen. <><
from Jesus.
and from a local church. =)

the wind..

The wind today. Has anyone noticed it? Could it be from hurricane hermine? Could it be the "trees bending beneath His wind and mercy?"

Here's what I'm learning. In a devotion by Oswald Chambers, here's a paraphrased line from memory, "Never let anything between you and Jesus."

Isn' God cool? His love wraps us up, He watches us, can't wait for us to wake up to talk to us, for us to talk to Him. Isn't it awesome to just LOVE? Or to remind ourselves that we need love, live in love, pray for and in love, and not to have condemnation for ourselves? Don't we feel so much better?

Free?

Hmm..think about God's love for a moment, and how it has changed and affected you, changes and affects us daily, what He did for us, and continues, and pursues us, desires us, adores us, pleasure to see us, hear us, hug us, worship Him, live for Him, share Him, fellowship, pray, wear a smile, help someone out, and among other things.

Hm..He's good. What He wants, versus what we want.

I just think the wind is apart of God's power, it comes from Him, and it is also seeming like His love today, big, powerful, all around us. Amen.

Romans 8:1. "There is now therefore no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus."

"Behold the Father, behold the Father."

His love is forgiving, His love is fierce, He is jealous, and strong, He is patient, and wise. He is the everlasting God, and will never falter, will never fail, stands strong, disciplines us, helps us, picks us up, dusts off our shoes, and turns us around, and sets us free. He died on the cross for our sins, rose again, and set us free. because He loves us. We're important enough and saw who we could be, saw goodness in us and died, all because of the love of God! Breaks those chains of sin, captivity, addiction, stomps on them, throws them away, and He runs torward us! Pursues us! Captivates us! Saves, redeems, renews, reborn, and makes us brand new!

"But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him."

Luke 15

(Prodigal Son)

This is Jesus, when we stray or just have messed up, Jesus sees us from a long way off, and runs! He runs torward us! He forgives when we ask, "He is filled with grace and truth" and loves on us!

AMEN!