MY GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD ♫♫

Good Saturday afternoon to you!!  I am a Christian, A certified Bible Bethel Bible Teacher, and a Christian Counselor who is often asked about how God forgives sins and does one have to keep on confessing the same sin to be forgiven.  This Daily Bread article is an excellent source for understanding how God forgives our sins and that he actually thinks of them no more once confessed!  I hope this will be a blessing to you.

Our Daily Bread

I had the opportunity to counsel a teen a few weeks ago who was only in our area for the summer.  She was very troubled in many areas of her young life and it is painful to hear the sadness and see the tears of someone who should be having the best years of her life in pain.

God is so amazing in His works and I ended up being the one that was totally blessed by this encounter as well as the lovely young woman.  Number one and most important for parents, friends and counselors:  LISTEN!!  you will never realize how healing just lending your ear can be to someone who really needs some one to actually LISTEN.

I have a saying I put on my desk blotter.  I write it anew in permanent marker whenever I change the year, "Shhh, God is talking...."  God speaks to us all the time but we are so full of self and noise of the world to HEAR.  Retreat from the crowd as Jesus did so that you can hear your heavenly Father speaking to you.  It is amazing what you will hear when you shut off the TV/IPAD/Headphones/cell phones, ad infinitum!  

The other day, I woke and could not get the praise song out of my head, "Our God is an Awesome God".  So I pulled it up on YouTube and as I LISTENED TO THE WORDS, my chest filled with joy and I reached to the ceiling with my hands and thanked God.  He touched me.  So God can reach you or use any instrument to communicate with you but think how much more you could hear Him say if it were q u i e t ?

Thank you for your visits which I treasure very much and if you have a question or need a prayer, please comment or e-mail.  Praying you are having a good day and will have a blessed Sunday tomorrow.

My Christian Heart to Yours....
Kerrie

HOW GREAT THOU ART

Pondering the magnitude, greatness and glory of our Lord is overwhelming to say the least.  But how wonderful that he communicates with you and with me.  His presence is with us every day as promised in the Resurrection   "I will never leave you" promised the Son of God.

Do you rush through your days failing to remember that God is with you, that he can solve any problem, that he is a constant reinforcement, if you only ...Listen.  As I have mentioned before, I wrote a note a few years ago on my desk blotter that says, "Shhh, God is speaking..."  Just to remind myself that if I be still, I will hear or "feel" the Lord and His Son speaking to my heart.  When you are so full of the Lord, there is no room for sorrow or trouble.  Remember just how great He is.

Below is a picture of the cross at Belin Church in Murrells Inlet, SC that my daughter took at the Blessing of the Inlet, an annual May event.  Beyond are the ocean marshes so beautiful to see.

 My husband passed in January of this year of cancer and one of his requests was for a friend to play the bagpipes at his memorial service.  Well, the friend was out of town and could not play and I felt sad about it even though they played a CD of Pipers at the Service.

Well, when we went to the Blessing of the Inlet, there were pipers leading the minister on the walk aside the church to the back where he would give the blessing.  They stopped right in front of where I was standing and played Amazing Grace!  I felt so blessed!  My daughter  took these photos.  Thank you Barbie for this wonderful memory.


MY GOD, HOW GREAT THOU ART!


Thank you for coming this beautiful Sunday and may God reach down and touch your head with a blessing for today.  Be still so you may hear and feel...

My Christian heart to yours....

When you are feeling you cannot even pray....

Sometimes, as Christians, we can actually hit a dry spot where we feel out of sync with the world and God and cannot even find the words to pray.  This is not unique and happens to all of us now and again.  Sometimes, we do question the ways of the Lord, even knowing that he has all the wisdom and the power and we have none but through Him.
  But we CAN have a personal relationship with Jesus and His father even at these times.  I can remember the first time I prayed really hard, "My Jesus, I need thee, My Jesus come to me".  It was when I was walking home from my sister's house in 1963.  We had been watching John F. Kennedy in Texas on television.  I had bundled my first daughter up in her Boodle Buggy and was pushing the carriage home.  A lady ran out of her house yelling, "the president has been shot!"  JFK was our hope for the nation's future at the time and everyone was devastated.  As soon as I got home, I began praying for him and asking Jesus to come to me.  Little did I know that God had already claimed him.  But it did comfort me to pray and ask the Lord to be with me. 
  It is at times of stress or unhappiness that we can climb into the Father's lap and tell him our troubles.  We can ask Him into our hearts and to sit beside us to comfort us.  I also pray that He will send the Holy Spirit to comfort us.  God is so good and compassionate and answers prayers in His own way and timing in the manner that is best for us.  If you feel he is not answering your prayers, perhaps he did answer with a "no" or a "not right now" but you were not listening.  Sometimes, our own thoughts are so "loud" we cannot hear when God is speaking to our hearts......shh! God is speaking.  When you are alone, that is when you are closest to God.

Isaiah 40:29-31
   He gives power to the faint,
      And to him who has no might he increases strength.
   Even youths shall faint and be weary and
      young men shall fall exhausted;
   But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength,
      They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
   They shall run and not be weary
      They shall walk and not be faint.

Thank you for visiting today.  I hope you will take away a blessing and will come back again soon.  God Bless you each day as you journey through life. God is so Good!

♥KERRIE♥
My Christian heart to yours...