Psalm 126:5-6
Those who plant in tears will harvest
with shouts of joy.
They weep as they go to plant their seed,
but they sing as they return with the harvest.
Romans 8:28
And we know that God causes everything to work together
for the good of those who love God
and are called according to his purpose for them.
This blog may be a rambling. I can't help it. My heart is so full of the Holy Spirit! I love Jesus so much! Truly. He has blessed me greatly with my desire to please Him. To seek Him. I want my Daddy to be proud of me! I want to glorify Him. There is a reason Tabitha was dragged to Dalton's by our Father up in heaven. I needed the verse that was on the coffee mug. Psalm 37:4. God would be burning that verse on my heart in the weeks to follow in a way that had yet to happen. I am amazed and awed! Just amazed. Flabbergasted with the intensity of it! I am in love! Jesus was and is and is to come! Whoa! He permeates my every pore. He permeates every heart at Faith Community Church! I am so blessed to have walked through those doors. So blessed that those God instructed to show me the way to Faith obeyed and did just that!
Psalm 126:5-6 and Romans 8:28 come to my mind and my heart because they are two of so many verses that God has used to not pluck me out or completely extinguish bad or hurtful situations but to get me through them. To guide me through them. I know that I need to experience certain things and that God knows I will go through them but He won't always take me out of them but He will give me the strength to persevere. His word is rich with His encouraging loving words. His love is always with me. I am so comforted knowing that no matter what I do His love can never be taken from me. Romans 8:38-39 What a blessing. I don't deserve that but because my Daddy loves me that much He gives it to me! OH my!
I sit here and think of the tears that I have seen shed today. Huge things have graced my ears that are life changing in some people's lives. I ask for prayer for them. God will know who you are talking about. It is in hearing of these things that I realize just how blessed I really am. I am so blessed. I thank God everyday that I no longer am at a point to where I am so hopeless that suicide could be an option. I am blessed that the Lord even as a lost women who was pregnant at the age of 19 was given the chance to have another child a few years later. And to have been forgiven for that heinous sin. I beat myself up for it everyday and every time I looked at my beautiful little girl who lights up my world. I snuffed out the life of an innocent before they ever had a chance to live. I had to forgive myself for it and I finally have but only through the help of Christ. Only through His grace and His love. I am blessed with a roof over my head and a church family who helps me in so many ways. Through prayer, emotional, growth and so much more.
And I am so blessed and so grateful for the work the Lord has done in my life in the past year. (March 15 was one year since I came to Christ). I am blessed to have gone through the extreme heartaches I have gone through because they brought me closer to God and I know deep in my sinful, selfish heart if He had not broken me I would not have gotten so close. Thank you Lord for doing whatever it took! Whatever it took! I am so blessed. In these times when it is so easy to look at what I don't have, it is harder to really see what I do have and I am rich in so much!
We have this view that having money and material things makes us rich but it is not! I can't help but think of Matthew 6:19-21 as I type those words. Don't store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves do not break in and steal. Where ever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be. I am so grateful for this! It is liberating to realize that all this here on earth is temporary. That I don't have to have "stuff". All I have to have is Jesus to be complete!
I have cried so much over the past year. More than I ever did. As I drove home I heard a chicken fried song and cried because it made me realize how much I love Jesus! I cried tears of joy. Don't ask me why the chicken fried song did that to me. It sounded happy and fruitless and much like Ecclesiastes! I'm rambling. I'm bubbling over with my love for Jesus! There is so much He has blessed me with I'd be here all night listing them. But the most important thing I have been blessed with is His unending love and grace!!!
I ask God to bless all those who read this!! I pray you feel the joy He has planted in my heart with the seeds of my tears. Tonight my words are the harvest! I sing with joy!!
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