What Does It Take To Be A Credible Witness?

God's beautiful creations constantly make me smile! :)
That is what I call a tender mercy.
There is always beauty among the ugly
which makes the beauty more beautiful!
Everything in God is indescribable beauty!!!

Have you ever heard the statement, "that's just not fair"? I wonder where we get the idea that life is supposed to be fair? All we have to do is look at the life Jesus lived while He was on the earth. There is nothing fair about God, our Creator, who never committed a single sin, taking the punishment we deserve so we could live and not die.

 I think sometimes as Christians we like to paint a picture that life with Christ is a life free from problems. And then some of us think there is something wrong with us if we don't have the life  that Jesus died for us to have. The fact is, stated right in the Word of God, "a righteous man may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers Him from them all." There's the good news! He will deliver us! We have divine help to get us through our problems! 

Lord continues to shower me with His tender mercies. I just LOVE those!  He puts a smile on my face every day. My Church attendance has been spuratic at best. I miss way more meetings than I attend. A few of the members know that I have been struggling with a physical illness and I know they are praying for me.

 At New Hope Community Church, we have a prayer chain that is managed by my beautiful spiritual Momma, Nona Petersen. A lot of prayer requests come up on the chain so one day I felt like throwing in a Praise Report of supernatural increase for the glory of the Lord. Our very expensive furnace oil has lasted twice as long as it naturally should! I thought that was worth giving God glory for!!! Thank You Jesus You are such a wonderful provider!!!

So my question to God one day was, Lord if people see that I am sick in body and not getting well year after year, how can I be a credible witness for You?

And God replied,


"Your Love for Jesus  overshadows you and that is what all can see."

So if you ever feel like your testimony wont count on account some things in your life aren't neatly arranged in a picture perfect way, then remember, not even Jesus lived a picture perfect life, in fact it was far from the way we would want our lives to be. It's your love for God that needs to be seen by all, so please don't hold it back, testify of ALL that The Lord has done for you!!! He will bless you for it, I promise!!

Dance through the pain

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also ~Matthew 6:21

I spend most of my days alone with God. Since I have been sick in my body for the past 4  years, I don't get out much. During this time He has become my very best friend in the whole world! If you were a fly on my wall you would conclude that I am crazy! Talking all day long to my King. Laughing, singing, talking, crying, you name it, that's what we do together. We even dance together when I am feeling strong enough. Did you know the Lord dances? "He's the Lord of the dance, He's the dancing Lord!" Yes, He even wants to dance with you!! The more I get to know Him the more delighted and amazed I am at who He is, how precious He really is. He really is delightful! I had no idea before now just how awesome our God is!

Did You Know God Has Feelings Too?

So many prayers for our needs, so many prayers for our wants, so many prayers for this and for that.  Please bless our finances God, please bless our children, please give us an easy day at work, please keep us safe Lord.

Did you know that Jesus prays for us? Who prays for Him? Just because He is in Heaven seated next to  our Heavenly Father doesn't mean that He doesn't still need our prayers.

 We couldn't possibly comprehend the amount of rejection and pain and sorrow our Lord goes through every single day. I find it so hard to understand why He created us knowing full well how much He would suffer because of us. But He created us anyway and says His children are worth everything! What an awesome God!

Gift of Salvation

Praise the Lord oh my soul, praise the Lord! He gave it all away when He could have chose to stay. No longer sitting on the throne as a King should be all for the Love of you and me. All of heaven had to say goodbye, for that brief moment, to the Apple of their eye.

I can't imagine such a Love as this, that the Creator would become the created for those He created. He who was and is truly greatest became the least while He dwelt among us. How profound! In His great Love and compassion for His children He became one of us, to be tested and tried just as we are but even more so I think because He is God and could've called heavens army to come rescue Him at any given moment. But He didn't. He stayed the coarse, suffering great persecution and humiliation, betrayal, and inconceivable abuse at the hands of Roman soldiers.

It was His plan from the very beginning before we were ever created,  to reach out His own Hand from heaven and save us from our depravity. "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, not by works lest anyone should boast." If we would just humble ourselves and admit our need for His help and repent, turn away from doing what is wrong in the sight of the Lord and seek His beautiful Face instead. The gift is already there, your passport to heaven, bought and paid for, all you have to do is reach out and receive it, say yes to Jesus, tell Him you want His great gift of Salvation and  ask Him to be Lord of your life if you haven't already.  God paid a price way to high for us to pick and choose who we think is worthy of this great gift. Salvation is for everyone who believes!

Thank You my dear sweet Jesus for saving a wretch like me!!! I love you forever and can't wait to be married to You for ALL eternity long!!!