“God is far less interested in our activities and accomplishments as He is in knowing the character of our being,” -TLV
“For the Lord sees not as man sees… the Lord looks on the heart.”
-1 Samuel 16:7
Tag Archives: Yeshua
“Moment By Moment”
“Moment by moment I’m kept in His love… Moment by moment I’ve life from above.”
-Andrew Murray, “Absolute Surrender”
“Our God, Maker of Heaven and Earth”
“O God, Our Help in ages past,
Our Hope for years to come.
Our Shelter from the stormy blast,
And our Eternal Home!
Under the shadow of Thy throne
Still may we dwell secure
Sufficient is Thine arm alone,
And our defense is sure.
Before the hills in order stood
Or earth received its frame,
From everlasting Thou art God,
To endless years the same.
O God, our Help in ages past,
Our Hope for years to come,
Be Thou our Guide while life shall last,
And our Eternal Home.”
From Hymn – “O God Our Help In Ages Past” – By Isaac Watts
The Peace of God
“God, who loves peace, makes peace, and breathes peace, will be with us.”
“If the God of peace be with us, we shall enjoy the peace of God, which passes all understanding, even though outward circumstances should threaten to disturb.”
– Charles Spurgeon, “Faith’s Checkbook”
“You will keep in perfect peace one whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.”
-Isaiah 26:3 TLV
“Wait on the Lord…”
“Wait! Wait!
Let your waiting be on the Lord! He is worth waiting for.
He never disappoints the waiting soul.
While waiting, keep up your spirits.
Expect a great deliverance, and be ready to praise God for it.
“He shall strengthen your heart”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Wait on the LORD; and be of good courage, and He will strengthen your heart;
wait, I say, on the LORD.”
– Psalm 27:14
“If You Love Me”
Jesus said: “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”
– John 14:15 TLV
“There will be no peace in any soul until it is willing to obey the voice of God.”
– D.L. Moody
The Heart of Worship
I’m coming back to the heart of worship,
and it’s all about You
It’s all about You, Jesus.
I’m sorry Lord for the thing I’ve made it,
’cause it’s all about You
It’s all about You Jesus.
-Lyrics from “The Heart of Worship” by Matt Redman
Humility
“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon Him; for He cares for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, like a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace, Who has called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.”
“To Him be Glory and Dominion Forever and Ever. Amen.”
I Peter 5:6-11
The Hat Rack
Here’s a “post from the past” at my daughter’s request. Blessings! – Faith
Once, many years ago, when visiting a new church for the first time, an elderly lady invited us to her house for dinner. We gladly accepted, and followed her home after service. As we sat in her living room, we had a very pleasant conversation, and got to know a little more about each other. She was a long-standing member of her church, and well-loved by the congregation. Although she was elderly, she was vibrant and enthusiastic, and very happy to talk about how much she loved the Lord, and all that He had done for her. She enthusiastically shared some of her many testimonies, and we talked a little about our faith experiences. I mentioned how our two children, a son and a daughter, toddlers at the time, had been miracle babies, because I was told that I would never conceive, and even so, I was still praying and believing God for another baby.
She looked at me, with a smile in her eyes, and said, “You see that hat rack over there on the wall?” I answered, “Yes.” she said, “Whenever the Lord does something for me, I imagine that I’m hanging a hat on a hat rack…and every time he answers I just keep adding a new hat. And the next time I find myself frustrated about something that I’m praying for, I just take a look at that hat rack, and see all those hats hanging there, and I’m reminded of all the prayers that God has answered, (some that I may have even forgotten), and I am encouraged that He did it before and He’ll do it again.”
I really appreciated this example and made an effort to apply it in my own life. In fact the Lord did answer my prayer and blessed me miraculously with another sweet baby girl!
When I think back on this example, it reminds me of what young David said to King Saul, when he volunteered to fight Goliath…
“David said… The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, He will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine…” I Samuel 17:37
You see, the lion and the bear were hanging on David’s hat rack!!! He just took a look back, and was fully persuaded, that God would do it again. :)
“Has it been awhile since you took a look at your own hat rack?”
Surely God has blessed you and answered your prayers in the past, and hey, there’s always room for another hat, so
Just take a look back, have faith, and, like David, be fully persuaded that God will do it again!
Fixed on Jesus
“My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed…” – Psalm 57:7
“Fixed” by definition means, fastened securely in position, predetermined and not subject to or able to be changed…
“Locked-in”
“Fix your faith on Jesus and He’ll fix everything else.”
“A New Thing”
“Do not remember the former things,
nor consider things of the past.
Here I am,
doing a new thing;
Now it is springing up…”
– Isaiah 43:18 TLV
Because of Who You Are
Who am I
That the Lord of all the earth
Would care to know my name
Would care to feel my hurt?
Who am I
That the Bright and Morning Star
Would choose to light the way
For my ever wandering heart?
Who am I
That the eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love
and watch me rise again?
Who am I
The the voice that calmed the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me?
Not because of who I am,
But because of what You’ve done.
Not because of what I’ve done,
But because of Who You are.
“I am a flower quickly fading.
Here today and gone tomorrow.
A wave tossed in the ocean.
A vapor in the wind.
Still You
Hear me when I’m calling
Lord, You catch me when I’m falling
And You’ve told me who I am
I am Yours… I am Yours.”
“Who Am I?”- lyrics by Mark Hall; song by Casting Crowns
“Thanksgiving and Praise”
“Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
Serve the LORD with gladness: come before His presence with singing.
Know ye that the LORD He is God: it is He that has made us, and not we ourselves;
we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise:
be thankful unto Him, and bless His name.
For the LORD is good; His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endures to all generations.”
-Psalm 100
“His Love Endures Forever”
“Praise the God of gods for His lovingkindness endures forever.”
Psalm 136:2
“Dancing”
” You have turned for me my mourning into dancing:
You have put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness.
To the end that my glory may sing praise to You, and not be silent.
O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.”
Psalm 30:11-12
“In Everything Give Thanks”
“In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”
– Thessalonians 5:18
Thanks Be To God!
” …Thanks be to God who keeps giving us the victory through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah!”
– 1 Corinthians 15:57
“Eternal Life, Eternal Joy!”
“Look, He is coming in the clouds and every eye shall see Him…” -Revelation 1:7
“Jesus is all the world to me;
I want no better friend.
I trust Him now; I’ll trust Him when
Life’s fleeting days shall end.
Beautiful life with such a Friend;
Beautiful life that has no end!
Eternal life, eternal joy,
He’s my Friend.”
Hymn – “Jesus Is All The World To Me” by Will Lamartine Thompson
“True To Him I’ll Be”
“Jesus is all the world to me;
And true to Him I”ll be.
Oh, how could I this Friend deny
When He’s so true to me?
Following Him I know I’m right;
He watches o’er me day and night.
Following Him by day and night,
He’s my Friend.”
Hymn – “Jesus Is All The World To Me” by Will Lamartine Thompson
“He’s My Friend”
“Jesus is all the world to me;
My friend in trials sore.
I go to Him for blessings, and
He gives them o’er and o’er.
He sends the sunshine and the rain;
He sends the harvest’s golden grain:
Sunshine and rain, harvest of grain–
He’s my Friend.”
Hymn- “Jesus Is All The Word To Me” by Will Lamartine Thompson
“Jesus Is All The World To Me”
“Jesus is all the world to me;
My life, my joy, my all.
He is my strength from day to day;
Without Him I would fall.
When I am sad, to Him I go;
No other one can cheer me so.
When I am sad, He makes me glad;
He’s my Friend.”
-Hymn -“Jesus is All The World to Me” by Will Lamartine Thompson
Total Makeover
“The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Arise, and go down to the potter’s house,…
there I will cause thee to hear my words.
Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD.”
“Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand...”
Jeremiah 18:1-6
Jesus Paid It All
“Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.”
Elvina M. Hall
“Sins Washed Away, Once For All”
“For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.”
“By His will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Messiah Yeshua
once for all.”
Hebrews 10:4,10 TLV
Happiness!
“Prayer is a privilege, and praise is a holiday.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“I Am In Awe”
“I am now, and will forever and eternally be, in awe of God, “Blessed be His Name”, who has been so personally close and near to me, while at the same time being the GREAT GOD of all creation; greater than anyone, anything, anytime, anywhere… in and outside of time, forever and ever… Only God is Awesome”
Trouble In The World
“Yeshua answered…”
“These things have I spoken to you,
so that in Me you may have shalom.
In the world you will have trouble,
but take heart!
I have overcome the world!”
-John 16:33 TLV
“He Stills The Storm”
“So they cried out to ADONAI in their distress,
and He brought them out of their troubles.
He stilled the storm to a whisper —
the waves were hushed.
They were glad when it became calm
And He led them to their desired haven.”
-Psalm 107:28-30 TLV
The Trumpet Shall Sound
“O, Happy Thought!”
“For the Lord Himself shall come down from heaven with a commanding shout,
with the voice of the archangel and with the blast of God’s shofar
and the dead in Messiah shall rise first.
Then we who are alive, who are left behind, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air —
and so shall we always be with the Lord.”
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 TLV
“All The Days of My Life”
“And even to your old age I am He; and even to gray hairs will I carry you: I have made and I will bear; even I will carry, and deliver you.”
“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life…”
Isaiah 46:4 and Psalm 23:6
All The Way, Everyday
All the way my Savior leads me;
What have I to ask beside?
Can I doubt His tender mercy
Who through life has been my Guide
Heavenly peace, divinest comfort,
Here by faith in Him to dwell
For I know whate’er befall me
Jesus doeth all things well.
Yes, I know whate’er befall me
Jesus doeth all things well.
Hymn- “All The Way My Savior Leads Me” by Fanny Crosby
“Day by Day” — A Lamp & A Light
Isn’t This Beautiful!
Blessed be my Lord! Day by day He bears our burdens- the God of our salvation! Selah -Psalm 68:20
via Day by Day — A Lamp & A Light
“Love So Amazing, So Divine”
“When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died
My richest gain I count but loss And pour contempt on all my pride
Were every realm of nature mine My gift would still be far too small
Love so amazing, so divine
Demands my soul, my life, my all.
Hymn- “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” by Isaac Watts
“By Trusting”
“By trusting you are being protected by God’s power for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
You rejoice in this greatly, even though for now for a little while… you have been distressed by various trials.
These trials are so that the “true metal” of your faith… may come to light in praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Yeshua Messiah.
Though you have not seen Him, you love Him.
And even though you don’t see Him now, you trust Him…”
– 1 Peter 1:5-8 TLV
Christ The Lord is Risen Indeed
Jesus said… “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.”– John 11:25
Sweep Over My Spirit
Peace! Peace! Wonderful peace,
Coming down from the Father above,
Sweep over my spirit
Forever I pray
In fathomless billows of love.
I am resting tonight
In this wonderful peace,
Resting sweetly in Jesus’ control
For I’m kept from all danger
By night and by day,
And His glory is flooding my soul.
Peace! Peace! Wonderful Peace,
Coming down from the Father above,
Sweep over my spirit
Forever I pray
In fathomless billows of love.
Hymn- “Wonderful Peace”
W. Cooper and W. Cornell
Rear View Mirror
“This one thing I do,
Forgetting what is behind,
I look forward
To what lies
Ahead.”
Philippians 3:13
Quiet Rest
There is a place of quiet rest,
Near to the heart of God,
A place where sin cannot molest,
Near to the heart of God.
There is a place of comfort sweet,
Near to the heart of God,
A place where we our Savior meet,
Near to the heart of God.
There is a place of full release,
Near to the heart of God,
A place where all is joy and peace,
Near to the heart of God.
O Jesus, blest redeemer,
Sent from the heart of God,
Hold us who wait before Thee,
Near to the heart God.
Hymn- “Near to the Heart of God”
By Cleland B. McAfee
A Clean Heart
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from Your presence; and take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of Your salvation; and sustain me with a willing spirit.”
Psalm 51:1-12
Faithrises 