When asking for God's help.....

My Best Friend is a Carpenter...

©Kerrie O'Hearn Marquart

 Music and Lyrics Written in Autumn 1997

My best friend is a Carpenter,

Your best friend is a Carpenter

Our best Friend is a Carpenter

Let that hammer ring!

The Best things in life are made with Love

Good hard work and the Lord above,

So come on and let's build His world

And let that hammer ring!

Chorus:

'Cause My best friend is a Carpenter,

Your best friend is a Carpenter

Our best Friend is a Carpenter

Let that hammer ring!

For the Good Lord ~ He gave us all the tools

And the Good Lord ~ He gave us all the rules

And the Good Lord ~ He didn't make no fools!

So let that hammer ring!

'Cause my best friend is a Carpenter

Your best friend is a Carpenter

Our best friend is a Carpenter

Let that hammer ring!

Let  that  ham - mer ri -i- ing  !!♫♫

   I wrote this particular song for the praise of God but also for my husband as he is my best friend and a carpenter, too!  The music is in an A minor key and since I do not write music but rather sing and play my guitar by ear, I have never written down the notes.  I could do a single note staff painfully if I tried-ha!  But God has already given me the ability to create and play several instruments by ear, I do not question why I do not have the sight reading ability  or writing notes-ha!  It can be sung Acupello with snapping of the fingers to a one, two beat.  I have performed it publicly that way. 

   I love the Lord so much and am inspired to write poetry in His praise very frequently.  When I had just written this praise song, we were staying at a bed and breakfast in the country between McClellansville and Charleston, SC with our eldest daughter and her husband.  There were 2 other couples there, also.  I was sitting on the steps looking out over the beautiful marshes playing my guitar and singing with my hubby beside me.  One of the ladies was a lawyer from NYC.  She and the others fell right into the rhythm and sang along with me.  It was great fun and a blessing.

 

   The next summer, my daughter saw her in Myrtle Beach while shopping.  She asked how I was and said for my daughter to tell her Mom that she was still singing, My Best Friend is a Carpenter!  I loved sharing God's word!  Perhaps I will figure out how to record for the blog so you can hear the song.

   When we are asking God for help or blessings, how do we pray?  What do we ask for?  How do we petition the Lord for blessings?  I would never even think of asking the Lord to help me write music.  I am already inspired by Him, what more could I ask?  I have an old friend who begins to pray with his palms down on a table.  After he prays, he then turns his palms upward to receive God's blessing.  I love this concept!  I have knelt by my bed as a child would do and pray to God quietly...  I have prayed while driving in my car.  Pray wherever you are able.  For the Bible tells us that God can hear us when we pray even if it is in our closet!  My Grandma Rachael also quoted this.  The important thing is God DOES HEAR YOU!  And you must accept that sometimes, just sometimes, the answer is "NO".  God knows what is best for his children and what you may ask of Him, may not be what HE wants for you, it may not be in His plan for your Christian life.  The Lord's answering with a "NO" is not a dead end however, it is a beginning orchestrated by Him.  TRUST!

   Most of the time, God guides believers to an answer through His Word. (Ps. 119:105). Our reading can take us to the very passage that deals with our situation or reveals a principle that applies. Sometimes God speaks a clear message to one person’s heart that nobody else would understand from that particular passage. The secret is to believe that the Lord is going to guide you, and never lose that faith (Mk. 11:24).

If our Lord will help even the smallest of creatures, he  will care for you, also.  Believe that he will take care of you with all of your heart and your very faith will be a testimony to all.  If you have sinned, confess.  If you have not yet invited Jesus and God into your heart, do so!  Do you know that when you confess your sins that God never thinks of them again?  It is written in the Bible.  I will ask you to go back through my earlier posts to see the Bible reference because you might find another of my posts beneficial and also a blessing.

Thank you so much for coming to visit today!  I hope you will come again soon and that you take away a blessing when you leave today.  Feel refreshed in the Lord, do something nice for someone else, even if they are a stranger.  Your reward will be great!

♥KERRIE♥

My Christian heart to yours...

God's Wondrous Works...

WE CANNOT DOUBT that God made everything and that all is divinely designed!  Our very bodies are a miracle work that could never happen by chance!  When I studied to be a Cardiac Care Technician, I was totally amazed that the heart has a fail-safe design in place to pump our blood.  The beat is begun by a single electrical charge.  YES, we have electricity in our bodies.  Our very own spark plug-ha!
   If this initial spark in the sinus node of the heart fails, the junction takes over and if the junction fails, the ventricle takes over.  Do you really think this just was happenstance??  God created man IN HIS LIKENESS, He is truly amazing! 

Genesis 1:26-27 "Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."
               
                     Joy Abounding
                             by Kerrie O'Hearn Marquart

Every morn I wake with Joy Abounding
To see all the works of God astounding
The bluest sky, the reddest Rose
The Mockingbird, the squirrel's nose!
The flowers asleep in my flower beds
Waiting for Spring to show their heads.

The Bluebird's call, the Robin's wing
The tree buds are fat, it is almost Spring
The Mallards swimming in the lake
They've come again, as for life they mate.

All the wonders of this earth
Were made by God, our life, our worth
And I thank Him now as well I should
For creating this day with all its good!
                 February 15, 2011

Thank you for visiting, please come back soon!  And if your life was touched today, do leave a comment for me ♥  May you all have a pleasant, blessed day!

♥KERRIE♥

My Christian Heart to yours...

Deuteronomy 28 Obedience

"God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame."
         -Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above."
        James 1:17 KJV

Deuteronomy 28:11-14 "The Lord will give you an abundance of good things in the land , just as he promised: many children, many cattle, and abundant crops.  He will open to you his wonderful treasure of rain in the heavens, to give you fine crops every season.  He will bless everything you do; and you shall lend to many every season, but shall not borrow from them.  If you will only listen and OBEY the commandments of the Lord your God that I am giving you today, he will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall always have the upper hand.  But each of these blessings depends on your not turning aside in any way from the laws which I have given you: and you must never worship other gods."

  As humans, we find it difficult to obey God's word because we have so many things of the world to distract us.  But if you pray and read God's word often, you will find it easier and easier to obey.  When I worked every day in a difficult environment, I prayed on the way to work, "Lord, let me not compromise my faith at work today."  If you laugh when you know it is wrong, if you let someone's cursing prevail though it offends you and keep silent, you will know no peace even though you pray for that person.  He or she is lost but by setting a good example and speaking up when someone is offending your faith or your morals, God is with you in your effort and will be there beside you in difficult situations.  Know that obedience brings abundance...

God bless you on this the Lord's day.  Come again soon and please leave a comment, I treasure them!

♥KERRIE♥
My Christian heart to yours...

GIVING THANKS...




Thanksgiving 2010

 

 

































GIVING THANKS...
      ©Kerrie O'Hearn Marquart

When first I fold my hands in prayer,
All those far away, are present here.
If not in sight but in my heart,
God unites us in every part~
   Together on this day.

Another Thanksgiving memory
With family, a gift from God to me.
I will look back on this day
And smile at what was your way
   To make me laugh as in time's past.

The warmth of candles, oven and love

Filling the kitchen, my heart and some

Left over to spill on days ahead

I'll remember all as I break bread~

   On ordinary days.

All God's love shining down

As the Egret flies and Mallards come

Visiting the bank in Autumn sun

Gracing my world by the Holy One.

Thanking you for every tiny thing

You have ever given to me

Without you Lord,

Where would I be?

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Here's hoping you are all having a wonderfully blessed Thanksgiving!

Come back soon....

♥KERRIE♥
My heart to yours...