"Hill Country Thoughts:Walking Daily With The Lord -Thoughts, Hopes,and Living in the Real World" "Without having seen Him, you love Him; though you do not [even] now see Him, you believe in Him and exult {and} thrill with inexpressible and glorious (triumphant, heavenly) joy.
It is an absolutely beautiful night here in the Hill Country!
It is almost to hard to put in words how beautiful it is tonight sitting here on the porch. Oil lamp lit and the biggest and brightest orange moon I have ever seen in a long time, so bright as to almost take your breath away!
I would have to say the place that I love the most at this time in my life is the front porch because it is a place that I can come and sit down and shut off the activities of the day, of the week. A place that I can be still and know that my Father is in control. That He is aware of everything concerning me.
He will lead us in plain path. He will guide us in His ways and He will lead us in the path of life, that we will draw strength from Him! That He will enable us to walk in the fullness of who He is.
It really is a super evening. The men’s Wednesday night Bible study is really something that I look forward to. To have a group of men of various ages coming together because of the their love for the Lord and the Word of God is awesome. I know that it really pleases the Father.
That we can join together in unity, in oneness that draws us close to the Lord. That He blends us together so we can find strength in Him.
This evening has just been a night to reflect, to look back and see all that the Lord has done in my life.
From where I was two years ago, to where I am now. I am getting to a place that I even enjoy being around myself . The Lord has done a lot of work and there is more yet to be done but this time around He has made me aware of who He is in me. To know that I can truly live and walk in His ways, as can you. The Lord is wanting us to appropriate all that He has accomplished on the Cross.
The way has already been prepared. The path has been open. We just have to choose to walk through the door or stay where we are.
As for me, I choose to walk in all that the Lord has for me, to be able to give out of what He has given me. To share out of the reality of what He has done in my life, in my heart and in my spirit.
We all have a call, a purpose that the Lord has given us and there are things that have been written in our hearts, things that have been made real. Things that we can share, that will lift up, exhort and encourage others.
As we give out of what has been given us by the Lord, know that the Lord will fill us even more as we are willing to be pour out for Him.
What a pleasant and beautiful night as I set here on the front porch, relaxing, listening to the sound of the evening and feeling a sense of the presence of the Lord.
It is so amazing to realize how much control we really have in choosing our attitudes, our mind set. That each day is fresh and we choose the path that we will walk. We choose to either walk in the ways of the Lord or we yield to the pull of the world and all that goes with it.
Fear, anxiety, depression, loneliness are not of the Lord. He has not given us a spirit of fear, of anger, of anxiety, or depression. It is part of the tactics of the enemy of our soul to try and convince us that we cannot walk in the ways of the Lord. We have bought into his tactic to often and it is time for us to begin to live in accordance to the word and the promises of the Lord.
God’s word is true! The Lord came to give us life and that more abundantly. That when we accepted the Lord. When we were born again we where given new life, a new beginning and we are in the process, actually a continuing process of being re-created, molded and conformed to the Lord. We have been set free, the chains of the enemy have been broken and now we need to live and walk in the new life that the Lord has given us.
In Christ we have the authority and the power to walk in His ways and we need to begin living like He is indeed Lord. That we can do the things that He has set before us to do.
I am not talking about a name it and claim it theology. I am talking about living in the reality of that which was accomplished upon the Cross. That we serve a risen Lord, who sits at the right hand of the Father. That He is our advocate and He has made a way for us to come into the very presence of our Father.
Yes we go through trials, through battles, through temptations but at the same time we are given choices. We choose to either yield to the Lord or to the tactics of the enemy. There is action on our part. We have to choose to allow Him to be Lord of our life, not just a little bit of it, but to be Lord of our whole being.
We serve a Father who loves us, who cares for us but who also disciplines us because He loves us. He is a Father who cares, and though the dealings of the Lord are hard at times, the end result is that we are made stronger in the Lord so that we can walk in confidence with the Lord, knowing that He will fulfill all that He has spoken to us. His word is Yes and Amen!
He is calling us into intimacy with Him, to a place of hearing and walking with Him. He is restoring us. Bringing us back to that place of intimacy with Him. That He is breathing new life into us, those coals in our heart that were about to go out, the breath of the Lord breathed on them, and the embers were ignited by His spirit and consumed us with His presence and He is drawing us day by day into a closer walk with Him, into a place of knowing Him, not just about Him. To a place that His word becomes alive and real to us.
Being brought to a place of sharing that life changing power of the Lord with others, to be a light in a time of darkness, to share the hope of the Christ within. To let others know, that we have hope, we have peace, that we can rest, that even in the darkness of the days, the Lord is rasing up a standard, a people who are willing to be called by His name, who will walk in unity. Who will walk in the Spirit. Side by side, in rank, taking on the enemy of our soul and declaring that Jesus Christ is Lord.
We are being called each day to choose that path that we want to walk. Let us choose to walk in the ways of the Lord, let us choose to serve Him with our whole being and put the enemy on notice that He is not welcome here anymore.
That we can say, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!
I really like that title for it has really blessed me! Let me tell you why!!
A young woman, by the name of Brooke visited Hill Country Thoughts and left some real words of encouragement, that really ministered to me and also confirmed somethings to my heart.
This evening I went over to her blog, “Writer's Heart Ministries” and I was totally blessed by the things that she shared. Each post was a blessing and an encouragement. I want to encourage you to take time to blog over and spend some time there.
Today’s post, “The Cure for Spiritual Weariness” was truly awesome. She talked about being worn out spiritualy. She shared Psalm 62:1-2 and also verses 5-8 from the NIV. She talked about our need of resting in the Lord, of spending time in His presence.
One of the things that has been happening with me lately is that I have been waking up each morning at around 05:30 and normally I would come up to the front here and begin to check things on Hill Country Thoughts and begin my day.
But what has been happening lately as I wake up is that I felt like the Lord was saying be still, just rest in my presence. Let me spend time with you.
When I first began waking up, I thought I needed to be talking and then listening but I discovered that the Lord just wanted me to be with Him, to allow Him to just have time with me, to enjoy each others presence knowing that the Lord was doing an inner working in me that is hard to put into words and then this evening I read what Brooke wrote and I said, “Yes Lord!! Thank you, now I understand”. Here is what Brooke shared:
“So, in order to find rest for my soul, I need to spend time in God's presence. Not necessarily talking with God, or even listening to Him (although those things are also important). My absolute favorite thing to do is to spend time simply being with God. It seems like so often we refer to spiritual activities as things that we do. Think about it, how many times have you heard someone talk about doing devotions or prayer? Sometimes I simply need to spend some quality time just being with God. I love to simply be still before the Lord and "soak" in His presence, the way some people love to soak in a hot tub, only better, much better. When I take time to do this on a daily basis, I find that the instances of spiritual weariness become fewer and farther in between. One more quote for you, this one from one of my favorite Psalms:
"Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." - Psalm 46:10"
So I want to say thank you Brooke for sharing that which God has written upon your heart to share. For what you shared ministered to me and revealed somethings to my heart. That sometimes, our Father just wants us to be still, to be in His presence and to soak in it and allow Him to do a work within that only He can do, as we are still before Him.
Be blessed my friends and take time to read the posts at Writer's Heart Ministries, you will be blessed!
It is an absolutely beautiful night here in the Hill Country!
Just sitting here on the porch thinking about the events of the day. Of the ways that the Lord has made Himself known. It is so amazing that in the midst of the evening, with the sounds of the crickets and the frogs and occasional noise from the Interstate, that I am able to enjoy the quietness of the Lord.
Learning to be still , to be quiet and hear the voice of the Lord speaking as I ponder His word, as I reflect on the things that I have heard today and as I begin to apply it to my daily life.
That is what this is all about. Learning to walk in the ways of the Lord. That he is our example and He has prepared the way before us so that we can learn to experience who He is in our life.
It is so amazing to realize what the Lord has done. What He accomplished on the cross. That he prepared the way for restoration to our Father. That when our Heavenly Father sees us, like the prodigal son, he runs to meet us, to embrace us, to welcome us home.
He sees us through the eyes of His son who loved and gave himself for us so that we would have the privilege of coming into His presence. That we no longer linger in the outer court but we can enter into the Holy of Holies, for the vail was rent and now we have daily access to our Father.
We need to think about this. To meditate and dwell on it. To realize that when we accepted Christ as our Lord and Savior. Once and for all we have been set free. The bands have been broken and we have been giving the choice of serving Him and walking in the liberty of the Lord.
It will always be a continuing process as we press in but I can tell you as you press in, as you walk in His ways, you will be changed, conformed to the image of the Lord. Reflecting the reality of the Lord to a world that needs hope and we know that hope is in the Lord.
After a very good day and making a trip to Del Rio, Texas, to deliver some clothing and other things to Faith Mission and then getting back to Junction and dropped off here at home.
It seemed like the enemy just decided to go after me with both guns.
I was sitting here, wondering what to write and what to share this evening and it was as if the enemy was saying, "you don’t need to write, you don’t need to share, just go ahead and skip it, it is not a big deal."
Well, that is when my spiritual radar went off, because I felt like the enemy was saying "your not going to write tonight. Your tired, your alone, things are closing in around you, I mean what do you have to write about. If I was you, I think I would just go to bed, pack it in, call it a night."
But you know what? I am not him! I am a new creation. I am a servant of the most high and He has given me the pen of a ready writer, so that is what I am doing. I am writing and letting the enemy know, that it just is not going to work. The battle has already been won by the Lord and I do not have to give into His tactics and neither do you my friends.
The Lord has all ready accomplished on the cross the victory. We need to begin to walk in that victory. To walk in the power and might of the Lord and to put on the full armour of God so that we can resist the fiery darts of the enemy and that we can and will go forward in the things of the Lord, and we can say to the enemy, "Oh, Yes I Will!" I will accomplish that which the Lord has called me to.
The Lord will go before us and prepare the way, if we will but allow Him to rule and reign in our lives. As we learn to yield more and more to the Lord we will find that the enemy has less and less of a grip on us. We will find that each day is a new day, new opportunities, new beginnings, of fresh starts with the Lord. That He is teaching us to listen with the ear of the Spirit.
So I am declaring that Jesus is Lord, that He rules and reigns and that which He has spoken He will fulfill and that which He sets before us to do, we will accomplish because it is He that has prepared the way before us and it is He that tells us, as a body, as believers, as His children, to prepare the way of the Lord, whether it be in writing, singing, blogging, exhorting, encouraging, praying or just being there and willing to listen.
So let us say to the enemy, "Oh, Yes I Will!!" I will do that which the Lord has called me to do!!
Walking and talking with the Lord!! Actually, I think it is called exercise, but I thought it would be a good time to practice walking and talking with God while I work on getting the physical aspect of me back under control and losing the weight and gaining strength back.
I went from 320 pounds to 280 pounds the hard way. It was a result of the colon cancer, two major surgeries and a whole lot of time that was spent in bed healing. But most of the healing that was taken place at that time, was of the spiritual nature, though I did lose some physical weight and it took quiet awhile for the physical wounds to close up.
I am still cancer free and I am getting stronger but in the physical part of my Walk with God, I have a ways to go. My dear friend Diana as well as my youngest daughter, Elise, without talking with each other both shared the same thing with me, that the Lord has been working on the spiritual aspect, now was the time to get working on the physical. So when the time comes I will be able to go and minister and do the things that I know that the Lord wants me to do.
It is important to realize how important the body is both physically and spiritually and that we have to bring both under submission to the Lord because we want to be the best that we can be. We want to walk in the fullness of what He has for us.
It is amazing how things sneak up on us. If you ask me, how did you gain so much weight? I can’t blame anyone else but me, I allowed food to rule in my life and I didn’t even realize it but I also know now, that I am heading in the other direction.
I know, that the Lord is giving me the strength and the willingness to be willing to allow Him to show me how to lose the weight, who to talk to, how much to walk and so forth.
So I think the thing that the Lord is saying this evening to me as I was walking down the road with Him, as I was thinking how good it would be some day to walk and not be so short winded. I cannot blame anyone else because of my weight, I can’t say that it runs in the family, it was something that I allowed to happen but now I am beginning to see myself as the Lord see’s me, a new creation, a new person and with His help, I will bring my physical being into subjection because my desire is to reflect Him in all areas of my life.
Just want to encourage anyone, who like me, is fighting the weight problem, to be encouraged, to know that we have a great physical trainer, the Lord, if we will but allow Him to help us. I know that I have asked the Lord to help me in this area, and I know that He will for me and for you too.
It has been one of those wet, cloudy, overcast days that makes you just want to rest and do nothing, kind of slack off some and it is also a time when the enemy comes in to try an undermine your walk, your relationship, your time with the Lord!!
Except this time it did not work because I thought. "You know, this just might be the enemy of my soul trying to assimilate me, trying to convince me that resistance is futile." But hey, it didn’t work.
I know, I know, there he goes, Star Trekking it but that's ok I did learn some real insights from Jon Luke Picard ever so often :-)
So as I write this while sitting here on the front porch, feeling the autumn breeze and the freshness of the rain I feel like an eagle that the wind of the Lord is catching me under the wings of my heart and causing me to soar and lifting me into His presence, into His Word, that the chains that the enemy tried to wrap around me today just burst asunder.
You know the thing is, that the Lord is trying to get us to realize and recognize that we can be and should be aware of the tactics of the enemy and it is only as we stay close to the Lord, as we meditate on Him, as we allow Him to occupy our heart, our mind and our spirit that we will be aware of the enemies tactics against us.
I have shared this many times I will continue to share it. The Lord wants us to simply realize He is Lord and that He is more than able to lead us each day. We are always in the process of being changed. Being remolded, reshaped as we press into the Lord, that more and more of us falls away and more of the Lord begins to shine forth. That we are slowly being conformed to the image of the Lord, that we are coming to a place of reflecting Him in all that we do. Is that not awesome?
That we can say to the enemy, "Oh, No You Don’t!!" and press on into the Lord and we will not be assimilated by the enemy of our soul!
I thought I would share with you some thoughts today from a book that a group of us are studying with Christian Writers Group, by the title of “Committed But Flawed: Seeking New Ways to Grow Spiritually” by Cecil Murphey which you can find at Living Ink Books. These questions are for Chapter Four: Walking With God.
Question One: Enoch walked with God. What do you think those words mean?
I think it reveals that Enoch had a very intimate relationship with the Lord. That he spent a lot of time in communion with the Lord, walking with the Lord indicates an action, something that He was about. Spending time with God, having a face to face relationship with Him so to speak. I get the feeling that he was one who knew the heartbeat of God, that He was attuned to Him and all God had to do was whisper Enoch, and Enoch would immediately say Yes Lord. That is something to aim for indeed and something I think that we have been sold a bill of goods on by the enemy of our soul. We want to make things to hard for God. [If it is ok to interject a thought here, it was what I posted to Hill Country Thoughts for Monday and Tuesday, of feeling that time of communion with the Lord] so the timing and this chapter just really blessed me.
Question Two: If someone said you walked with God, what would you think that person meant?
I would think that it would mean, hopefully mean that my life is reflecting the Christ within, that others are seeing the reality of the life changing power of the Lord in my life. I know that over the last two years the Lord has done a major overhaul in my life, physically and spiritually, for which I am thankful and I know that which is happening now, is what the Lord is doing. I think others need to see the life changing power of Christ within us. That we indeed are a new creation, constantly being changed, with the emphasis on change.
Question Three: Have you ever met individuals outside a church context that you knew “walked with God?”If, so, can you explain how you felt about them? How did you recognize them?
Rev. Wade Taylor - President of Pinecrest Bible Training Center is a man that I have known for some 30 plus years. I spent seven years at Pinecrest, not all as a student, but he was a man, that when you were around him, his life, his manner, his family reflected Christ. You knew that this was a man, who spent and spends time with God, and hears the heart beat of God. He is one of the most humble men that I have ever met in my whole life. At 80 years of age, He and His wife are still going strong, ministering around the country and in the Washington D.C. Area.
Question Four: Murphey tells how he envisions it would be to walk and live intimately with God. How would you envision your life?
I pretty much feel like Cecil, I really want to be intertwined with the Lord, to be sensitive to His heartbeat, to be in such a relationship with Him, that when He speaks, I would say Yes Lord, without question because I know that He would never have me do anything I couldn't do. I feel after 35 years of being a Christian, that I am just now, learning what it means to be one with Him. Wish I hadn't had to walk the path I did, but if I hadn't, then I would not be were I am now.
Question Five: What more would you like in your relationship with God that you don’t have now?
I want to be in such a relationship with Him, that when He speaks in that still small voice, I will be able to say here I am Lord! I hope that you all found these questions interesting and that you think about them and your Walk With God.
Again, it has been another awesome day with the Lord!
It never ceases to amaze me how simple the Lord really does want to make things. To be able to come into His presence and just to spend time with Him. To fellowship, to commune with Him, to love Him.
I am discovering that it is not the fact that I am kneeling, or standing, or walking, or going about the day. I can have the presence of the Lord with me in all that I am doing.
This morning my friend Lewis, and my Pastor, Scott and I prayed at 06:30. It was such an awesome time. Sitting on the front porch and just sensing the presence of the Lord, again, it was as if the Lord came down an enveloped us with His presence. We just wanted to sit there and soak in that presence. It is such an amazing thing. Our time of prayer was awesome, and we left strengthen, united as one.
To realize that our Father, the creator of heaven and earth, comes and says, "Let us spend time together, let me minister to you, let me touch your heart and let me show you my presence in your life."
It was as if the Lord was saying, “Paul, did you know that you can take my presence with you, that where you are I am, and that it delights me to do so. That I will give you the strength to walk in my ways. I will guide you in my path and as you delight in me, I will delight in you. I will delight in my children, I will delight in those who are called by my name.”
Is that not awesome, that the Lord delights in us, His children. It blesses Him, it really honestly and truly blesses our Father. He is wanting to bring His people back to that one on one relationship with Him. He wants to reveal Himself to us. He wants to show us that He is not as complicated as we make Him to be.
It is so hard for us to believe that the Lord can be so simple in His relationship with us. After 35 years I have come to realize He loves me just as I am, that He is changing me, molding me, making me into the instrument that He intended me to be. Oh yes, I went around the mountain a few times, the road has been bumpy but Oh, to realize that my Father loved me so much, He did not give up and He allowed me to walk this path to get me to the place where I am now.
And you know what place that is? To a place of being passionately in love with my Lord and Savior, who Has open the door for me to come into the presence of my Father and that I can, not maybe, come into His presence because He see’s me through the eyes of His Son, He see’s me, He see's you as a new creation. He does not see what we see when we look into a mirror, He see’s the real us in Christ.
We are ever learning and we are ever growing and the one thing I know, is that which He has begun in you, that which He has begun in me, the promises He has made, He will fulfill.
That is the only words that I can think of today to express how I am feeling!
I woke up with such a presence of the Lord this morning. I had been seeking the Lord and asking Him some things and was hoping that the Lord would make himself known in a special way and as you shall see, He did.
I got up this morning, got ready for the day, meditating on the Lord and the Word and just thought about the Lord and how He has been making Himself more real to me each day, that each day has been different and sometimes hard, but the Lord has been showing me different aspects of my relationship with Him.
And then confirms it through things that others shared, those who make comments, those who have no clue of what is going on in my life, yet the word they shared, the thoughts they express and not even knowing that is what they are doing brings confirmation to my heart and spirit.
I began my day by stopping by and visiting with Scott, my pastor, to just visit, share some things and just have a little time of fellowship. Then I headed off to Isaacks for my coffee, saw some friends, talked some and just had a good time of fellowship there also.
Then I got home and I got online, checked Hill Country Thoughts and e-mail and then I began to listen to a CD, of a concert recorded live in Belfast, Ireland and as I began to listen to it, the presence of the Lord began to fill the house.
In every nook and cranny I could sense the presence of the Lord, it was as if the Lord came down and embraced me, to let me know that everything was all right, that all is in His hands and He just wanted to spend time with me.
I began to sing along with the songs and I began to cry, not tears of sadness, but of joy, that my Father loves me so much, that He made His presence known. I could barely stand and as I was worshipping Him, a boldness came over me that I have not had in a very long time.
A boldness to take a stand and declare those things which the Lord had spoken to me and a release was given to me and that is the only way that I know how to describe it.
Then the Lord told me go and pray for my Pastor, and I thought of a whole lot of reasons not too, will, you know Lord, He is most likely busy, has other things that He is doing and this will be my third trip by the church, but I could not help but respond to the Lord and to be obedient. I learned a long time ago, I would rather be a fool for Christ, then to be disobedient.
I was so glad that the Lord gave me the boldness and that I was able to be obedient. I was able to go and to pray for my pastor, to just lift him before the Lord, to bless him as the Lord told me to do, and because I was obedient, not only was he blessed, I was blessed also.
I think what the Lord is wanting to say this day, is that He delights to come and make himself known to us and that it is not has hard as we make it out to be. It is as simple as saying Yes Lord!
I want to encourage you my friends to rise up in the Lord, to be strong in Him, and to declare that He is indeed Lord of your life and that you can do all things, not some things, through Christ, who strengthens you.
This is a day to come boldly into the presence of the Lord and to declare that He is Lord of Lords, King of Kings, the Creator of Heaven and Earth and that He is Lord of your life.
What a beautiful Saturday morning here in the Hill Country of Texas.
Sitting here on the porch at my desk. It is about 06:30 in the morning, I am watching as dawn begins to break from behind the hills, listening to the roosters crowing, welcoming in the beginning of a new day!
That is the awesome thing about each day that has been given to us. It is a fresh start, a clean slate and a day to make choices of which path we want to walk.
Do we choose to take time to give thanks to the Lord for a new beginning, a fresh start of letting Him know how much we love Him and appreciate Him and want Him to lead us in the journey for this day.
Or do we wake up and kind of nod at the Lord and say good morning, talk to you later, got a lot of things on the agenda and you know I will get with you sometime today but that sometime never comes around and we wonder why things are so hectic and out of order in our life.
Come on now, you know we all are guilty of this at sometime or another. Do I wake up and give the Lord the first fruits of the day, do I focus in on Him? or do I make a mad dash to check my e-mail, read the Blogs, watch the news or any other thing that distracts me from a time of intimacy with my Lord and Savior?
He so wants to teach us what it means to walk with Him. To have communion, to break bread in the spirit with Him daily. Allowing Him to bring our heart, our mind and our spirit to being centered on Him.
The awesome thing about this is that it gives us that single mindedness, that it helps us to be focused and not double minded because we have chosen this day to walk in union with Him.
Slow down and take a breath and say, “Lord here I am, help me this day to be focused on you and bring your calmness to my whole being as I begin this day with you?"
If there is one thing that I am really thankful for today is the friends that the Lord has brought into my life over the last couple of years and especially in the last few months. Lewis and I have been praying daily every morning, Tuesday through Friday when he is not out of town and we also pray on Sunday mornings with the Pastor for the Sunday services.
There is always a sense of the presence of the Lord. That as we pray the day just flows a lot easier and it is a preparation for the day. It is a time that we can lift up our town, our leadership, our community and our pastors. To pray for the spiritual growth of our community, for our schools and the students.
It is really a privilege to be able to go into the presence of the Lord and to be able to pray and to know that the Lord is as thrilled to be with us as we are to be with Him.
Prayer is such a vital part of all that we do as we give the Lord the first fruits of our heart by lifting Him up in praise and worship and letting Him rule and reign in our lives.
I am also thankful for the friends that the Lord has given me through Hill Country Thoughts. For those that encourage me such as Weebie, Tammy, Dishpan Dribble, Kat, Meesh, Lawrence, Bob, Denise, Susan, Geannie, Nancze, Pam, Sparrow and the many, many others who leave comments, or tag me or send e-mails. You my friends have blessed me more than words can express and for that I am so very thankful.
You each are unique and a blessing and there is not a day that I don’t lift you all in prayer.
Thank you also to my friends at Crossmap.com. For giving me the opportunity to be part of what God is doing with Crossmap. A special blessing to Roy, Jessica and to the whole Crossmap Team for I know that they all have a heart for the Lord and the Lord is using them to create a Christian portal on the net that brings honor and glory to the Lord.
So I just want to say blessings to all my fellow bloggers, to my fellow writers on Crossmap. May the Lord richly bless you all as you put your hand to keyboard or pen and as you share that which the Lord has put on your heart for this day!
It sure was an unusual day! I sat down at my kitchen table and I looked up and there hanging from the curtain was one of the biggest spiders that I have seen in a long time.
My first reaction was to do what any normal person would do, smash it!! But it was so beautiful and I thought I would put it in a jar and see what it was rather than assuming it was “deadly”.
I asked Jodie if she knew what kind of spider it was and she told me she thought it was a “Writing Spider” and of course I kind of smiled about that.
That even in small ways the Lord confirms to us. It was His way of letting me know that I am on the right track. I know, I know, some of you are saying, your kind of stretching on that one spiritually but that is ok, it’s my story and I am sticking to it.
Being a writer, I thought it appropriate to have that kind of spider hanging around the house. After checking it out on the net and finding the benefits of a writing spider, I turned him or her loose out on the front porch and watched it crawl to the top, kind of stopping and looking back, as if to say thanks and then it took off.
The second thing that happen was the rain storm that we had mid-afternoon. I mean the sun was shinning bright, no clouds and it was raining cats and dogs, leaves were coming off the trees, wind blowing hard and as I was looking out the windows, the rain drops were huge. I got up and went to the front porch and it was soaked, I looked outside to see if there were storm clouds, and there was none.
I talked to my friend Lewis later and he too, as well as others at work stepped outside and just looked not saying a word. It was really awe inspiring.
It was a very unusual rain storm but it was also very refreshing, cleaning the air, given a freshness to a humid day and a chance to see God’s handiwork.
So Indeed in all of creation we can see the handiwork of God and just like the rainbow, He reminds us that He is still on the throne and He is still in charge and nothing happens that He is not aware of.
You know, one of the things that I promised the Lord and you all when the Lord began Hill Country Thoughts was that I would be honest and real in my walk with the Lord, that I would be real with my thoughts and today is one of those days.
I know that I know that I am where I am suppose to be in the Lord, in my walk, in my relationship and in the center of God’s will but yet I feel like I am on the edge of a precipice, that I need to take a step forward in faith, in spite of the way it looks in the natural, when everything within me says turn, flee, run, go in a different direction.
I also know that I have come off a spiritual high with the three days of Praise that we had at church, so that makes me a target of the enemy. It would be so easy to turn around and walk away from the edge because the enemy is trying to convince me that I will fail, he reminds me of all that has gone on, the lack of being able to “work” a regular job anymore.
I know that the Lord has called me to be a Pen in His Hand and He has called me to trust Him in all areas of my life. In ministry, in provisions and for guidance and I feel like the Lord is telling me to take a stand, to declare that He is Lord and allow Him to show Himself strong and mighty. That it will be a testimony of what God will do if I but trust Him, even when everything in me tells me to flee. I know the fear that I have is not of the Lord because the Lord does not give us a Spirit of fear.
The one thing that I do know is that He is Lord. He is the one that I love and serve and no matter the outcome I will serve Him with all my heart, with all my soul, with my whole being. I know that my God will never leave me nor forsake me.
So I am declaring that He is Lord, He reigns and my life and my being is in His hands!!
Be blessed my friends. Please keep me in your prayers!
Sometimes it is so cotton picking hard for us to let go of things.
Things that we know that are keeping us from going forward and making progress in our walk with the Lord. Things that hinder our relationship with others.
We are content to have a tight grip on those things. You know, it’s my pity party and by golly no one is going to rob me of it!
Now, does that not sound silly? Here the creator of heaven and earth is ready to set us free, to break the bands that the enemy has wrapped around us and all that we have to do is say, "Lord, I need to be set free, I don’t want to be in bondage. I want to walk in freedom, in new life."
And the thing is, when we ask Him, we are set free, the bands are broken and we can breathe again, we can take in a deep breath in the Lord.
I know that each night during the Three Days Of Praise at Church, that the Lord dealt and removed various things in my life and for the first time in a very long time, I was able to take a deep breath spiritually and feel the freedom and release that came when I went to the altar and abandon myself to the Lord and allowed Him to work.
He filled that space with Himself, with His presence and with His Spirit and Oh what a blessing it was. It was as if I was filled to overflowing and I was refreshed and renewed.
So it is important to let go and let God. Whether in a service, at home, in your prayer time we need to let God do what He does best and that is to change us and teach us what it means to walk in the new life that we have in the Lord Jesus Christ and then share with others that which the Lord has done!!
As I set here in the booth at Isaacks having my coffee and typing away on my AphaSmart notebook or writing on a pad of paper, people will ask me what is it that I do and it opens a door for me to share.
I reckon that I would be considered having an unusual ministry as the Lord has given me a real burden for the Internet and those that use it to minister. My desire is to see it used to the fullest for the Lord and to share the reality of the Lord Jesus Christ.
They see me at a keyboard, typing away or at the computer maintaining Hill Country Thoughts. In the natural, to the average person, when we think of ministry, we think of going overseas, or to the mission fields.
Yet that is the very thing that the Lord is allowing me to do. To be able to surf the net and to visit my brothers and sisters in the Lord and to encourage them in their work, their ministry. The opportunities on the net are unlimited.
I have had a lot of people ask me what it is that I do. What is my ministry? What has God called me to and what makes it so important.
What is it about blogging that gets you so excited? So I began to think about this and here is what the Lord has shown me.
It is a tool, a door, an instrument to be used. That I can encourage, exhort, to lift up my friends, my brothers and sisters in the Lord. To let them know that I am standing with them in prayer. It is also an opportunity for me to be encouraged by the things that others share. The comments, the notes, the e-mails. To know that someone across the country and around the world is praying for me and lifting me to the Lord.
To me that is awesome. To realize, that a brother or sister is standing with me in prayer via the Internet. Though we have not met personally there is a bond because of the Lord Jesus Christ. That He is uniting us together. Making us one together in Him.
We are a many member body. United together by the Spirit and by the Internet. The Lord has given us a tool to bring us together.
To think that we are linked with our brothers and sisters in Canada, Britain, Australia, South America and the list goes on.
It is awesome to think that the Lord has open a door of ministry via the net. To think that I can sit here in the Hill Country of Texas and send forth words of encouragement and exhortation to others.
Don’t let the enemy of your soul ever convince you that what you have to share does not mean a thing when it does.
There have been many a times that one of you have left a message, a note, a comment or signed in on the Doddle board and it was a word that I needed, that minister to my heart, that encouraged me to press on and to know that the Body of Christ is a lot bigger than we realize and that the Internet is but one more tool that can be used to encourage the Body of Christ.
Let us draw strength from one another each day. Let us build up the Body of Christ!!
Sitting here at the computer trying to put into words what this day has been like!
It has been a day that the Lord had made Himself known from the time I arose to the time that I laid down to call it a night.
When Lewis, Scott and I prayed this morning on the front porch there was an awareness of the presence of the Lord. That the Lord wanted us to know that it pleased Him that we gathered in His name. There was a sense that the Lord was going to make himself known in the morning service and He did.
There was a freshness and excitement as Scott ministered and that feeling continued through the day into the evening as we began The Three Days of Praise with Pastor J. Paul Bruhn, Pastor of Johnson City United Methodist Church.
Again there was a sense of the presence of the Lord. There were live's being touched. Hearts being changed. Roots of bitterness removed. I know, because I was one of those whom the Lord touched.
He reached deep into my spirit and opened my heart, so that He could removed somethings I could not let go of or didn’t want to let go of but God did what man could not do, He removed that root of bitterness, that root that could have spread spiritually and destroyed me and make me of none effect.
The enemy wanted me to be a casualty of war, no longer useful or fit for battle but God would not allow it and I was released this evening and what a difference, what a weight removed when we allow our Father to bring healing to us as we yield to His skillful hands.
We carry an awful lot of baggage around that we should not be carrying. We cling to it, we don’t want to let go of it for some strange reason. We allow the bitterness, the hatred, the strife to be there, and the only one that it hurts is us, the other person either does not know or does not care.
So if your carrying a lot of baggage don’t you think it is time that you hand it over to the Lord. Allow Him to removed it so that you can grow in the grace and love of the Lord and become what the Lord wants you to be. Release those burdens, release the excess baggage to the Lord and stand straight and strong in the Lord, in the power and might of His Spirit!!
I arose this morning to the sweet presence of the Lord. My first thoughts where of giving praise and glory to the Lord. To be thankful for all that He hath done and getting ready for the day.
It is so refreshing to sit on the front porch. To look about and know that I know the creator of all of this.
Have you really thought about it. You, yes you, have a relationship with the Creator of heaven and earth. That when you accepted the Lord Jesus Christ into your life, that you were reunited with your heavenly Father and like the prodigal son or daughter, He welcomes you back. He rejoices over you. It brings joy to His heart. Our Father desires to have fellowship with His children.
To think that the Creator wants to spend time with us, to just fellowship and have communion together and then share that love of the Lord and that communion with others. To let them know there is hope. That the Lord is linking His people together in so many different ways.
Through the word, through fellowship, through the Internet, through writing and blogging, sharing, encouraging and lifting one another to the Lord.
To be able to join together, to pray one for another, to pray for those who don’t know our Lord. That they would see Christ within and they would know that He is the one that has changed us.
Is that not awesome? Today is the day that we need to declare Christ and let others know not so much by what we say but by what our life reflects. That they see it is a reality and not a theory.
In this day and time when the enemy seems to be coming in like a flood, the Lord is raising up a standard. He is raising up those who are willing to be a standard bearer. Those who in a time such as this, in the midst of everything, He has called us to be light bearers. He has called us to reflect Him. To lift Him up so others can see the reality of Christ in our life!!
Sitting here in the living room still trying to get use to all the space I have now!
Since we moved the Study/Office to the front room it has given me a real sense of openness and freedom and not that cramped filling of being in the small cubby hole that I was in.
I was looking out of the window in the study this morning and was looking at the flowers, they are small and blue, at least they look blue to me and they are bell shaped, that are blooming right up next to one of the windows.
I do not know what they are called but I know that at night they close and in the morning when the sun rises they begin to open up till they are fully blossomed, showing off the beauty of the Creator.
They receive their strength and nourishment from His hands, the sunlight, the water from the ground and then at night they close and rest, to awaken in the morning to a new day!
I think one of the most important things that I am learning is that it is in the simple things that the Lord reveals Himself.
In the flowers, in the smile of a child. In so many things the Lord reveals Himself but we are so busy that we miss it, we walk right by and don’t even know, that the Lord is in our midst.
One of the things that we need too do is slow down, to smell the roses, see with the eyes of the Lord, that even in the midst of all that is going on in the world. He is still Lord and we need to see the beauty of His creation, His work in us. Even in the midst of all that is going on in our lives, He is there, even when we don’t sense it, He is there.
Molding us, shaping us on the potters wheel of life, removing the imperfections, removing those things that hinder our relationship with Him, with others and removing that which keeps us from being what it is that He is calling us to be as we walk with Him.
It is not easy, and it is painful at times, and we have to have faith to know that He is doing what is needful for us and will never give us anymore than we can bear.
He is still there, still caring, still loving and still molding us into vessels that will be used to bring Glory to Him.
We are becoming more like Him, more of the Christ within will come forth as we allow the Potter, the Holy Spirit to work on us so like those flowers, that each morning, each new day we blossom forth and give off a fragrance that will draw others to want to know what it is that gives you that peace, that rest, that comfort and then to be able to share with them what great things the Lord has done.
Then at night, like those flowers we can lay down and rest in the Lord, we can give the day to Him, and wake in the morning to a whole new day, a new beginning and a new sense of His presence in the day.
Slow down, take a breath and say thank you Lord, for indeed this is the day that you have made and I will rejoice and be glad in it. I will rise up in the strength and power of your Holy Spirit and I will choose to allow you Lord to carry me through this day, that the bands of the enemy will be broken off and I will choose this day to follow you!!
The old home is not what it use to be. A lot of changes have taken place, nothing is the same and I almost do not know what to do with all the new space that I have now and there is a sense of amazement.
I mean to tell you that my daughter Elise and her boyfriend, Hunter did an amazing job. The inside of this home has totally changed. I did not realize how much space there was until we got rid of all the stuff, all the clutter.
I have seen a whole lot of spiritual symbolism this week in all that has taken place in my home, to what has and is taken place in my life spiritually.
I tell my friends, you got to come over and see what my daughter Elise and Hunter have done and when they visit, they take a look and say, “Oh Wow” you have space" and I just beam.
There were a lot of things that I could not do, but they jumped in and they got it all done. I could not have been anymore prouder of them then I am now. They have blessed me more than words can tell.
I know that the Lord is going to bless them. They both have a tremendous love for the Lord and they have servants hearts.
Her mother and I are totally proud of Elise and Hunter, as we are of our oldest daughter Gloria and her husband Sheridan and for our son Joshua who is beginning a new venture, with Youth With A Mission in Colorado. That our children love the Lord and have a heart for Him, means a lot to us.
Of course I started thinking, “Wow Lord, this is what you are doing in my life. You are removing, taking away those things that have hinder my walk with you. You are removing all of the blockage from my life and setting me free so that I can say to others, Come and see what the Lord has done, I was blind, but now I see, I could not hear but now I hear, I was crippled but now I walk."
Spiritually, I was a basket case but our Father, reached down, sent His Son and set me free. For so long we have allowed the enemy of our soul convince us, that was then and this is now.
And that is not true, Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. That which He accomplished on the Cross, in His death, burial and resurrection, has set us free, He recreated us and made us into a new creation and some how we forgot that it is a day by day walk with the Lord, each day is a new day, a new beginning and it thrills our Father when we come to Him, as we worship and honor Him.
The Lord reached down in the midst of the battles of life, He lifted me up out of the pit that I had fallen into and He set me free. He broke off the shackles, the things, the clutter, the baggage, the weight that I should have not been carrying and took them upon Himself and breathed new life into me. That He is teaching me to walk day by day with Him, yesterday is gone, tomorrow is not here and today, this day is the day that He has called me, called us to serve Him.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I have a long way to go but I am on the way, I am no longer the way I was two years ago, a year ago, six months ago, not even a week ago. There is a constant change taken place, and we will keep changing as we walk with the Lord.
The difference is that we must choose whom we will serve. Will we serve the Lord or continue to allow the enemy of our spirit to trick us, confuse us, condemn us, the enemy comes to destroy but the Lord came to give life, and that abundantly.
We have a choice to make each day. As for me, I choose to serve the Lord, to pick up a pen and to be a ready writer in the hand of the Lord and say here I am Lord, use me. How about you my friends, are you willing to say Lord, here I am, use me, use the talents you have given me for your glory.
You would not believe how much stuff and I do mean stuff I have accumulated over the last five years that I have lived here. I had magazines, catalogs, newspapers, brochures and tons of other stuff that go way back, even into the eighties.
I mean to tell you, we took bag, after bag, after bag of things to go to the dump. I think if I keep stacking more and more bags, that the garbage man is going to look at my home and at the bags and wonder how did he have all that stuff in there.
What a difference it has made as I have allow my daughter Elise and her boyfriend Hunter to go through everything, with the stipulation that I stay out of the way and trust them to keep that which was only necessary and get rid of all that was occupying space it shouldn’t be occupying any more.
I got to thinking about that as I was writing this. Isn’t it just like the Lord to do the same thing in our lives as we yield to Him, as we allow Him to do the work that is needed within us, to trust Him to remove all that is unnecessary in our lives, to remove the piles of things that have built up.
The old wounds, the hurts, the memories, those things that the enemy wants to use against us. Wanting to burden us down with everything that He can so that we cannot reach the fullest of what the Lord wants to do in our lives.
The Lord is asking us to trust Him. Totally and completely, to utterly be dependent on Him knowing that He will only remove that which keeps us from being one with Him, that hinders our relationship with Him and with others. That He will replace the old with the new, that freedom will come to our spirit as we yield to Him.
Once all the piles, the clutter, the blockage is removed then we can begin to move forward in the Lord. We can begin to grow and move about in the new life that He has given us.
It is time my friends to let go of all that which has held you down, held you back from all that the Lord has for you. Yield this day to the Lord, give Him permission to do spiritual house cleaning in your life!!
It is a beautiful morning! A freshness in the air, a fall breeze, sitting here on the porch relaxing, thinking about the awesomeness of the Lord.
I just got back from blogging to my friend Susan’s Blog, "What A Beautiful Day". What a blessing it was and what a source of encouragement and wonderful way to start the day.
She shared some of her thoughts from a tape that she had listen to by Joyce Meyers by the title of Eagle and Chickens. You ought to take time to visit “What A Beautiful Day” to read all of the post. I know that you will be blessed and want to soar with the eagles.
Susan shared: “If the eagle listens to the chickens, he’ll be told you can’t do this, he can’t do that, don’t ever think about flying, don’t let your dreams take you too far. But, if he listens to His spirit, he knows there space way bigger than the farm yard that belongs to him, and if he chooses to follow that voice inside, he doesn’t have to be bothered and messed up with the chickens any longer.”
To listen to the Spirit, to respond to the still small voice, that is indeed the key. That we will be in the place that the Lord wants us, soaring into new realms in our relationship in Him and to be able to give out of what has been given to us.
Thank you Susan for sharing an encouraging word. I am off to soar with the Lord, to soar with the wings of an eagle. How about you my friends? Do you want to be confined to the farm yard or do you want to soar with the eagles?
I think that is what is going on in my life at the moment. An extreme makeover in the Spirit is taking place in my life as well as in the natural surroundings as far as my home. A lot of rearranging taken place. My daughter Elise and her boyfriend, Hunter, have been working real hard while here and for that I am very blessed.
For a long time I have been using a little cubby hole for my Office/Study. Not a whole lot of room for moving around. Now I am in the biggest room in the front, with three large windows allowing me look out and watch the breeze blowing through the leaves, especially when it gets too cold for the front porch, which is now right out the door of my study, so I can take a break and sit out on the porch and meditate, read and write.
It is amazing what a difference change makes in our lives. It is not always easy but it is worth the results that are taking place. As we are moving things around a lot of clutter, a lot of things that have piled up and taken up space that it should not have taken is now gone. I can now use the house, the porch, the living room, every aspect of my home to the fullest.
Is that not what the Lord does when we yield ourselves to Him, an extreme makeover takes place. The clutter, the pile of things in our life that are bogging us down are being removed and we are being set free, able to move about in the things of the Lord because the excess things, the burdens, the hurts, the wounds, those things that were like weights have been removed.
It is a matter of choice also, as I have been sharing in the last couple of posts. We have to choose the garden of God or the weed patch of the enemy. It is hard to let go of things, especially things that have been part of our life it seems forever, but let go we must, the things that burden us down, that we were afraid to let go of, we must let go.
As we yield to the Lord and we begin to look into the mirror of life, we will begin to see the reflection of the Christ within, the hope of Glory. That we will begin to reflect the reality of Who He is and what He has become in our life.
Allow the Lord to do an extreme makeover in your life knowing that which He has begun in you, He will finish!
Till later,
Paul
Note this is Sundays Post :P
Misery is Optional But It Sure Does Like Company!!
It was one of those days that started out really super. I woke up happy, refreshed, had a song in my heart, was at peace with myself as the day progressed, doing things around the house, enjoying the time with my youngest daughter Elise.
Well, somewhere along the way, I had company! Unwanted company! All because I let just a little, itsy bitsy, tinny bit of anger creep in. Not with my daughter, just something that happen and it only took a split second to put me into a very sour mood and I do mean sour. You know, one of those moods that you thank God, that your not God because there sure would be a lot less people around.
I could not believe how angry I was and how little it took to get me there. Again, the Lord was showing me that there are areas still buried deep within that have to be brought to the surface so that it can be worked on and removed, so He was allowing things to happen to bring it to the surface so that I could give it to Him, to give the Lord that burden, that accusation of the enemy.
The Lord reminded me that I am a new creation. That I do not have to be subject to the old man, to the old nature. That I am, not maybe or could be, but I am a new creation being conformed to the Lord, that each day is a new day, a new beginning. New opportunities to serve Him. Is that not awesome to think about. That we can walk in the newness of the Lord each day, as each day is a new beginning.
Miseries company wanted to bring me to a place of distraught, dispair, anguish, sadness but I chose to go into that garden of God and chose to gather up the flowers of God’s grace, love, abiding presence and joy and the unwanted guest of misery left.
Is it not amazing, the power of choice. That we can make a choice. Choose this day the flowers of God’s garden or the weeds of the enemy!
I went to the library earlier today to pick up a book and I happen to notice a book cart with books for sale. Being the reader that I am, I perused through the books and came across a book by Barbara Johnson by the title of “Pain Is Inevitable But Misery is Optional So Stick A Geranium In Your Hat And Be Happy!”
It just caught my attention and I paid a whole quarter for it and I am about one third of the way through this little book that was written in 1990 that has really touched my heart and made me say Amen!!
In the Preface she makes the following statement: “We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay due to our present situation, or we can gather flowers of God’s grace, unbounding love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers and I hope you will too. SO, FIND YOURSELF A GERANIUM AND STICK IT IN YOUR HAT.”
This book is a worthy read. Barbara Johnson went through lot of things at the writing of this book and in what she has written, she has given hope to many, myself included.
Her comment in the preface really touched me because I know that is what the Lord is doing with me. He is changing me, building character and strength that I did not have before. A confidence that only He can give and a peace that only comes from Him.
Oh yes, there are days I cry, days that I hurt, days that I wonder. But like Barbara, I have chosen to gather the flowers of God’s grace, His unbounding love, His abiding presence and joy, yes even joy in the midst of the battles of life.
I have chosen to hope in the Lord and to use the keyboard as a means to exhort, lift up and encourage others and to give praise to the Lord, and to exalt Him and give Glory that is due Him.
Even as Barbara Johnson encouraged me, so I hope that what I share, what the Lord puts on my heart, will lift your spirits, and draw you closer to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Choose this day to gather the flowers out of God’s garden, His grace, His love, His presence and His unmatched joy!
I was visiting my Pastor this morning at church before heading for my morning coffee at Isaacks. We had a good visit. Always do.
I noticed that the latest edition of the Good News on the table, so I picked it up and began to perused it and I am glad that I did. There was a super article on prayer by Jan Johnson on "Turning Your Thoughts Into Prayer."
Prayer is one of the most important aspects of our walk with the Lord, it is also one of the most neglected. As Jan says "We make the command to pray without ceasing (I Thess 5:17) more difficult and mysterious than it needs to be." (Page 16, Good News, September/ October 2004) This is one of the things that the Lord has been speaking to me for a long time, that of being in an attitude of prayer. That we can be about our day to day activities and be in an attitude of prayer and going about the tasks set before us. Even as I am writing this, I can be praying and lifting up those things that the Lord brings to mind, to my heart and to me that is really awesome.
We also need to follow through with our prayers, especially when people or friends ask us to pray and we nod our head and say yes and straight away after they are gone or hung up the phone, we forget about it. Not intentionally, it is that we have not written it down or ask them if we could go ahead and take it to the Lord right then and there. I have been guilty of this myself.
Prayer is important and it is something that should become part of our daily walk with the Lord, it should be like breathing, a natural part of our life, of being in open communication with our Father on daily basis, of being attuned to His heart, and we too His.
Let us begin to cultivate this relationship with the Lord. Let us ask Him to teach us to communicate with Him and let us not make it so complicated.
Let us ask the Lord to turn our thoughts into prayers as Jan has shared. That it becomes the normal routine of our life.
"Now may the God Who gives the power of patient endurance (steadfastness) and Who supplies encouragement, grant you to live in such mutual harmony {and} such full sympathy with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, That together you may [unanimously] with united hearts {and} one voice, praise and glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah). Welcome {and} receive [to your hearts] one another, then, even as Christ has welcomed {and} received you, for the glory of God." Romans 15:5-7 Amplified Bible
Why Are We So Complicated?
Why is it that we Christians want to make things so complicated?
Our Father gives us the power of patient endurance, He helps us to be steadfast, unshakable in our walk with Him, which is based on obedience. On saying Yes Lord, not my will but your will. Lord help me to live in harmony, in unity, in fellowship with my brothers and sisters in the Lord. Help me to see them as you see them and for them to see me through your eyes.
That you would give us a heart after you, that you would create a hunger in us for your word, for your presence, that we can be focused on you, to see each other with the eyes of Christ, learning to have compassion one for another. That we can truly be a people of one heart, your heart, one mind, your mind, unanimously united together in you Lord. Not divided, but yoked together, walking in rank together with love for you.
That we can be of one voice. A many member body, united together. That we indeed would be known as Christians, followers of Christ, followers of the risen Lord. That we serve an almighty God, the creator of Heaven and Earth and help us to realize the awesomeness of that.
Help us this week to lift one another before you Lord. To pray for the sick, for those that are discouraged, for those who are under attacked, those who are alone, Lord help us to be sensitive to your spirit, that we can reach out in prayer and supplication and lift others before you.
Help us to see with your eyes, hear with your ears and to listen and to speak only when you tell us to speak. Help us to not complicate your word, your presence or your spirit but rather help us to simply allow you to use us in whatever means that you want to reach out and touch someone else, Help us to love with your love.
Help us to truly realize, that the greatest commandment that you have given us, is that we love one another with the love that you have shown us. Unite our hearts Lord!
Till later,
Paul
Note: This is Wednesday's Post
Hill Country Thoughts Paul E. Dawn Jr.
Kennesaw, Georgia
Think on This:
“As we spend that time with the Lord, as we ponder His word, it will bring forth fruit in due season, and it will be life to others as we share those things that the Lord has made real in our lives as we walk with Him, as we go through the trials of life, the dealings, as we mature little by little, we will be able to share with others that which has been made real in our life, not theory but the life changing power of the word" - Paul
Words Aloft
Let my words soar on the
rising currents of your spirit
Let my words be powered by the
heart of your inspiration
Let my words lead others on the
incredible journey to your heart
Let my words reflect the vastness
of your Mercy, new every morning!
