Take your cross

7/11/08

S-Matthew 10:38 "Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."

O- If we are not willing to stand in persecutions over Jesus and the Word then we are not worthy of Jesus. We will be put down, condemned and made fun of because of our belief in Jesus and the Word. We have to remember that id we hold our "Cross" (STAND) that we are worthy of Jesus.

A- I will gladly hold my cross for all the world to see. So Jesus can see I am worthy of Him.

P-Lord,

Help me to remember to be worthy of you. If I stand strong during persecutions. You will find me worthy. I will hold my cross for all the world to see. Amen!

Your faith has healed you.

7/10/08

S-Matthew 9:22 "Jesus turned and saw her. "Take heart, daughter," he said, "your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed from that moment."

O- This woman had been bleeding and "unclean" for 12 years. She could not have done anything. She had faith enough to believe id she just touched the hem of Jesus cloak she would be healed.

A- In my life I have had struggles where my faith was strong enough to have me healed (infertility). I believe this is true in every area of your life. God can change things that seem impossible and make them possible.

P- Lord,

There are things that seem unchangeable. I have faith enough to believe that these can be healed thur you! You can change them!

Amen!

Sleep Well

7/4/08 "Sleep Well"
S-Psalm 3:5 "I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the LORD sustains me."
O- David was running for his life. He was always looking over his shoulder. He gave his fears to God and he got sleep.
A- When I am in a crisis and I feel like I can not sleep for worrying. I will give my worries to the Lord and he will take them and I can sleep.
P- Lord,
Help me to realize that during crisis situations to give you my worries and fears. When I do that I will sleep and be rested to take the next day on. Amen!

Dewell in the Safety

7/5/08 "Dwell in the Safety"

S- Psalm 4:8 "I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety."

O- We can sleep in peace knowing that God has our protection. We pray for his protection and even when we do not he is still there to protect us.

A- I will continue to pray for God's protection. I know that he has me covered.

P- Lord,

I pray for your protection over all areas of my life. I know you have your child covered and I Thank You for that.

Amen!

Life Journals

I am doing a Life Journal. I got the idea from a sermon I heard from one Prayer. What I do it take a scripture that I read that day and write what God has spoken to me. It goes S for the scripture, O for the Observation, A for the action I am going to do and P for my prayer to the Lord. Here they go...

Update on what is going on with the Dusek's and their move..

Hello all,
Ok so here is the scoop... John got into the Army. He is shipping out on July 9th. He will be going to school in Fort Leonardwood Missouri. He will be in school for 7-8 weeks.
The Lord has closed all doors here in Havelock for us, with the exception of our church. I know he would NEVER close that door.
Well here are our plans....Friday my parents are coming to get Hannah-Grace. John and I are going to pack the house up Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Monday we are getting out Uhaul truck. We will be putting out stuff in Storage till we have out new duty station.
While John is in school Hannah-Grace and I are going to be living in Clayton with my parents. We are excited about this transistion. We know that the Lord has great things a head for us.
For our Liberty Family we are going to be prayed out July 6th. We are going to help out with VBS till Tuesday afternoon. Then we have to go back to Clayton for John to ship out on Wednesday.
I will be back to Havelock to close things out for the house to the end of July. We are going to miss so many friends and "family" here in Eastern NC. God has blessed us with so many great people in our lives. With the help of the internet I will keep in touch! I PROMISE!!!
God Bless you all and we Love you and will NEVER forget you!!!!
Meredith!!

There's something wrong with the world today.....

As I am sitting here blogging I have the Aerosmith's song "Living on the Edge" running thru my mind. I like this song. It came out when I was in High school. I never saw this song thru "Christian" eyes before.

I do think as a society that we are Living on the Edge and that there is something wrong with the world today. The first part of the song talks about this and not seeing things thru the eye's of God. I am sure his are a little watery if you think about it. America in general is in trouble. This is ALL of us, Christian and Non-Christian. I know that God wants the Non-Christians to believe in Him and that his Son Jesus died for their sins and we as Christians need to get out there and help them realize this.

Another part to this song is. "If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin, then mister your a better man than I." I use to be that mister. I am so sorry that I use to be that way. I was mislead and not educated in the way that the Lord wanted me to go. I can say that learning the Lord's way has changed me inside and out. I am very proud of what I have changed as my views on race. I do know that the way to change other's is to show them scripture about being prejudice. Like Genesis 5: 3-5 we are ALL related going back to Adam and Eve. My favorite is Galatians 3:28, this show that we are ALL ONE in Christ!!! In showing passages this educates those that are prejudice.

Also in this song is talks about the situations, aggravations, complications getting to you. We ALL have these. We need to turn to the Lord and he will take them and help us to accept them and walk thru them or he will clear them up for us.

Also it says "if Chicken Little tells that the sky is falling would your come crawling back again? I bet you would my friend." OHHH this is so 9-11! When the sky our world as Americans knew it came crashing down around us, we all RAN back to GOD!!!! Well now that it has been 6 almost 7 years we are not running to God we are running back to that EDGE again!!!

In 2 Chronicles 7: 13-16 and 21-23 says;
"When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locust to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name will HUMBLE themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from there wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Now my eyes are open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place."
This is after Solomon had built the temple of the Lord. The Lord spoke this. I know that America has not HUMBLED themselves and turned from wickedness. So why would the Lord heal our land?

Now 21-23 says;
"And though this temple is now so imposing all who pass by will be appalled and say, "why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple? People will answer 'Because they have forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshipping and serving them- that is why he brought all this disaster on them."

A few things here.... Well as we know other countries look down on us they see us as aggarant, disobedient, crude, Living on the Edge and a God-less society. Why would they not? When it walks like a duck and talks like a duck it is a duck.

I know that this is not the heart of America. I am proud to be an American. I am proud of my forefathers who fought to give us our Liberties and Freedoms. I do not want the world to look at us like this. We can only change it one person at a time. Let it start with ME!!!

I am praying for American and now in the time of Celebration with the 4th of July we ALL need to pray for America, America needs to turn her eyes back to the Lord, walk away from the Edge and run to the Lord and He will heal our Land!!!