Showing posts with label alive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alive. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Feeling desperate, disappointed or done?

Hello all!

This is a special invite to join me over on a new site I've started. My corner of Faith.

I am not leaving this blog. Don't worry. I am simply trying out some new things. Today I posted about feeling desperate and done ... and how God can bring hope into your despair.

Feel free to mosey on over and read it. It is titled A call out to the disappointed, the desperate and the done. We will dive into a couple scriptures that bring hope amidst the darkness (Lamentations 3:21 and Habakkuk 3:17-19)

And just in case you are in the mood for some encouraging tunes ... I have a link to All Sons and Daughters singing Alive.

Not your cup of tea? No worries. I will be back on here later this week with a new book review, No Other Will Do by Karen Witemeyer.

Blessings!

Friday, April 13, 2012

Wanted dead or alive

I spent my morning writing an email message to a dear friend. She is currently overwhelmed with discouragement. So,  I pray and I try to speak words of encouragement but they all seem to fall short.  Why is that?

Today in my devotional book that I have been working through I received the answer.  Because it is God's job to rebuild, restore and rejuvenate souls ... not mine.

Our great and glorious God is in the business of rebuilding.  It is His finest work afterall.  Look what He did for His own Son.  It is not a difficult work for Him.  It is a great joy to Him.  It is us that have a problem with the whole process.  We want it now.  Or we want it to come in a different format.  Or we forget to even turn to Him for it in the first place.

The hardest part is ours ... trust.  We need to rest in a place of trusting God to finish what he started, bringing  us to completion and perfection.  Only it will take a long time. I know that hurts to hear.  Especially when you are struggling, barely surviving, and overwhelmed beneath the weight our of your circumstances. But may I offer this bit of encouragement to you today.  The Lord is faithful.  The Lord is continuously working on your behalf (and mine).  The Lord will not rest until it is complete.

Do you feel better now?