What's your 'ONE' thing?

I believe what moved me the most, when I read this passage, was when the psalmist said, "One thing I desired of the Lord, that I will dwell in the house if the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty  the Lord..." - so often my 'one' thing is not what it should be. I wept this morning at that sad truth. I prayed for this to be my desire too, to serve Him daily, for Him to teach me and keep me focused on Him, "For in the midst of trouble, He shall hide me in His pavilion..." waiting on Him, "he shall strengthen my heart." (v. 5a, 14)

Blessins in the Lessons

I loved this devotion from Sarah Young's Jesus Calling in which I saw this,

"I shower blessings on you daily,  but sometimes you don't perceive them.  When your mind is stuck on negative focus,  you neither see me or my gifts. "

Oh how like Eve I can be sometimes (and satan knows it too.)  I end up not focusing on all the trees I can eat from, instead I find myself longing for the fruit off the one tree I can't have. Goodness how guilty I am of often being so overwhelmed with what's NOT going right,  that I miss the blessing of being joyful over all that IS going well! He showers me with lessons (I actually typed 'blessings' and my phone changed it) upon me everyday. Even in the negative there are lessons to be found therefore making them blessings. Help me keep my eyes on you Lord, always!


I will praise thee, O Lord , with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.  I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.   
                  -Psalms 9:1-2

He has a plan, hold on...

Anyone who knows me well will tell you I am NOT a loner, I am blessed to give my heart to those I love, so, being single at 43 is not where I had planned on being; however, God had a different thought process. And, His ways are much higher and better than mine. Today's devotional words, and scriptures, reminded me that trying to find peace and contentment in anything or anyone other than Him is not where a joyful life is found. Everyday I pray for strength and wisdom as I walk this journey with Him, and when it gets so lonesome I am tempted to make unwise choices, I will squeeze His hand a little tighter and trust He has a plan.

Jeremiah 29

11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

King James Version (KJV

Bowing Out Gracefully

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? 
Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you.
 (Is. 43:19a; 2 Chronicles 20:17a)

Sometimes, no matter how hard it is, a girl just has to bow out gracefully, cut her losses, let the Lord heal her wounds and bring her peace.  Her passion and determination are admirable qualities when wisely spent, but weaknesses when foolishly spent on a battle God never intended her to fight.

Psalm for you soul...

What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. 

(He has a plan no matter what - His will is for my good and I must trust it, it is always for my good.. )

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? 

(My tears- worthless to anyone else - so precious to my Father that He keeps them.) 

In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me. 

(Enough said.)

For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living? 

(Calvary covers it all...)

Psalms 56:3-4, 8, 11, 13 KJV)

Old sinners like me...

No one (not even my own worrisome nature) can ever tell me that God doesn't use old sinners like me...  There are too many women in the bible who the Lord redeemed out of wicked lives, and set them on beautiful paths of righteous grace, in order to glorify His name. I love that He loves me so much, and that because of the Cross, I am a trophy of grace...perfection rests in His work on Calvary and not on feeble flesh. I fail him and make bad choices, but so did so many others.  We have to reap what we sow and move on, seeking to daily serve the one who delivers us and keeps us no matter what.

This was awesome...

Excerpt from
https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/all-women-bible/Rahab

The threefold reference to Rahab in the New Testament reveals how she became a faithful follower of the Lord. She had been taken from the dunghill and placed among the saints in the genealogy of the Saviour (Matthew 1:5 where Rachab [kjv] and Rahab [asv], are to be identified as the same person). Her remarkable faith was a sanctifying faith leading her to a pure life and honorable career. As the result of her marriage to Salmon, one of the two spies whom she had saved, who “paid back the life he owed her by a love that was honourable and true,” Rahab became an ancestress in the royal line from which Jesus came as the Saviour of lost souls. “Poor Rahab, the muddy, the defiled, became the fountainhead of the River of the Water of Life which floweth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.” Her name became sanctified and ennobled, and is worthy of inclusion among many saints.

Paul highly commends Rahab for her energetic faith and gives her a place on the illustrious roll of the Old Testament of those who triumphed by faith. “By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she received the spies with peace” (Hebrews 11:31). What a suggestive touch that is, “with peace.” There was not only faith in her heart that God would be victorious, but also an assured peace when she hid the spies that her deliverance from destruction would be taken care of. She knew the rest of faith. In fact, Rahab is the only woman besides Sarah who is designated as an example of faith in the great cloud of witnesses. What a manifestation of divine grace it is to find the one-time harlot ranked along with saints like Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses and David

Resolute Two, He's in the Details

Looking for answers in tough situations is often a difficult task, yet,  here it is quite obvious to me that there are two resolute truths that should always remain our stay in any matter:

1. Fear God, reverence Him, the same maker who created and maintains the stars, is the same one who holds you in the palm of His nail-scarred hands. He will search the matter out,  He knows the secrets of the heart. (Psalms 44:21)

2.  Keep His commandments. His word will never lead us astray. Search for peace and wisdom through your circumstances by abiding in His truths, let them guide your every step, be obedient in them, even when it doesn't make sense to your heart. Remember that our hearts are wicked and deceitful, but God can never lie, His word will stand when nothing else will. "Obedience to the Holy Spirit is spiritual dynamite" - Oswald Chambers.

I find myself talking to the Lord all the time saying, "Aahhh, I just don't know God, I just don't know what to do."    This morning,  He reminded me  that being obedient and having reverence of His Word are what I always need to be doing, especially when I don't know what to do. Jesus died for me, not just that I may life, but that I may have it more abundantly. (John 10:10) The details of what that abundance will be, well, I need to leave those up to Him.