Wait upon the LORD.
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Hah! That’s a really cool typo! (Live Him rather than “love Him.”)
@Pearl Well, you know the saying: "Great minds think alike...."
@L3astAm0ngManyB13ss3d Reminds me of Acts 17.28: "For in him we live, and move, and have our being".
@Pearl It's a grace to be able to pray from the heart: "Thy will be done..."
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He obviously isn't through with me yet here on earth.
If it's just to stand in the gap and make up a hedge around my loved ones ,so be it.
Or should it be to correct,rebuke,or tell the TRUTH to this wicked unbelieving dying world, I'll stay !
But my soul longs for peace and the joy of being in his presence! I have been sharing my tears with him all this day, literally ; praying and loving him,showing him my heart ❤ and devotion ( must be my way of deep contact).
I'm thankful they are bottled in heaven as well as our prayers . Rev.5:6-9 golden vials full of the prayers of saints. Ps.56:8
Ps.126:5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
He obviously isn't through with me yet here on earth.
If it's just to stand in the gap and make up a hedge around my loved ones ,so be it.
Or should it be to correct,rebuke,or tell the TRUTH to this wicked unbelieving dying world, I'll stay !
But my soul longs for peace and the joy of being in his presence! I have been sharing my tears with him all this day, literally ; praying and loving him,showing him my heart ❤ and devotion ( must be my way of deep contact).
I'm thankful they are bottled in heaven as well as our prayers . Rev.5:6-9 golden vials full of the prayers of saints. Ps.56:8
Ps.126:5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
I saw it and laughed. I almost posted a declaration that it was close but that Nancy won by a nose. Lol.
dhh712
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I'm sorry to hear of your troubles, David. I pray that you will find comfort and mercy from our Heavenly Father and that he will give you peace in your days here in this foreign land. "Wait on the Lord" reminds me of one of my favorite psalms, the 25th. (v5-6) "Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me. For you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long".
I had most of this psalm printed on the funeral card for my husband (instead of Psalm 23, the one that's commonly there). When you don't get answers from the Lord and he leaves you in a place where you're wondering what happened to your life and what you're doing here still, it is very difficult. The love of my life was taken from me unexpectedly a few Christmas Eves ago and it's been such a difficult time ever since. Every day I have been waiting on the Lord. It's all I can do.
Personally I don't feel like I'll ever be married again; the relationship I had was just too perfect. Those shoes are just too big to be filled. For a couple of months I dated a neighbor with whom I felt a spark and is he really an amazing person. I mean definitely not to say he doesn't have flaws but wow does he know how to treat a lady. Would do anything for me if I asked him to. His two adult daughters (I think I'm closer in age to them than to him so they very well could have been like, "Uh, Dad---uh no." But the one was like, "My dad is a grown-a** man and he can do what he likes". ), his mother and grandchildren liked me too.
I just had to break it off though. Right before I ended it I had a absolutely crushing bout of depression. And I realized it was just how extremely different I felt dating him and when I met my husband. I just couldn't take it. I started getting like excessively annoyed by some things about my neighbor. Things I could deal with in a friend, but I just couldn't go on any longer in a romantic relationship. I was really hoping it would work out, but unfortunately, it didn't. At least we're still friends. But I'm like, if that wouldn't work out where things were like really just right--and his religious beliefs are very similar; we differ a little but my husband and I did too--then I don't think anything will.
But God can do all things. The most important words ever spoken by the Holy Spirit: "But God..." Man is sinful beyond all hope. But God... With man it is impossible. But God... It is truly such an amazing thing to have been blessed with the gift of faith. To know the power of the Living God. To have hope in a desperately hopeless world. God may give us a hard providence as he had given me. But God has spoken in his word. He will bring us into a new heaven and a new earth where we will dwell with him in bliss forever. His word promises us this. And that is a sure thing to stand on. The promises of God are worth every hardship in this life. These momentary afflictions cannot be compared to the glory that awaits. I can never remember the verse. Actually a friend and I looked it up and I think it's a conflation of two verses from Romans and one of the Corinthians. Do we accept good from the Lord but not affliction? The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord. And my favorite one from Job, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust him." Our lives are so very brief. Our Heavenly Father has promised us eternal happiness in dwelling with Him. This is the Living Hope which makes difficulties in life bearable.
So true! waiting upon the Lord can be difficult for many of us. I for one have noted this in my own walk with God. Sometimes I think that it would be easier if God just said "No!" so that we can move on but patience is the fruit that bears when we need to trust God and have faith that he will open or close doors accordingly. :)
The great blessing of waiting upon the LORD is Knowing we are walking and living according to His will. That Job he places us in, that partner he places us with, that Task he gives us to do are what He wants for us and there is an assurance of knowing this is true.
Just over the past couple of days he has given me the title for the book I am to write. I now have to live that book before I can begin to write it. I Know this is his will not me forcing my will. BTW don't ask for the title because I cannot share it yet.
My Morning reading just had these verses which were relevant to this post. I need to hear them too...
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. Psalm 37:7-9
That last Part of the verses reminds me of the Beatitudes Jesus spoke on the sermon on the mount. (Matthew 5:1-12)
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. Psalm 37:7-9
That last Part of the verses reminds me of the Beatitudes Jesus spoke on the sermon on the mount. (Matthew 5:1-12)
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. (Romans 5:1-5)
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. (Romans 5:1-5)
Hah! I was just talking with someone about this. I said I had actually come to like the testing of my trust. How could you not come to like what makes your feet more sure and steady?
There was a time I asked God to send me tests to grow my faith. When some things would come up, I would fail and fail again...then remember when I asked Him to send these things my way. I kind of pray for that a bit less now
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