A Prayer

Good Morning God!
Thankyou for the Sun that has risen this morning without delay, and Thankyou God for Your Mercy that is new every morning and with out delay Your Faithfulness is longsuffering! Oh, God thankyou for Your Son Jesus, Who willingingly died for me and my sins, so that I could have eternal life with You through my faith in Him. I thankyou that you offer Your Salvation to any and all who believe! Thankyou God for Your Word that is the Truth and a guideline to living a life that is pleasing to YOU. Father, thankYOU for Christian Friends, brothers and sisters in Christ, who pray for each other and lift each up when something tries knock us down. Jesus thankYOU for never leaving us, nor forsaking us, You keep Your Word and Promises and I know that You are near. And Father, I ask that You send Your Angels around all of our military service men and women, protecting them this day with Your Hand and Army of Angels! Camoflouge them from Evil! Father , bless my friends with the things that they need and cover them with Your hand and protect them. Protect our Schools where our children sit innocently and watch over them protecting from EVIL and HARM. Place Your Angels at every school protecting our children. Father, watch over our families, who scatter from here to there throughout the day, place Your hand of protection upon them, may they see YOUR Love cover them today in a special way, and May their hearts always desire to seek you with sincereity! Praise You God for Who You are, Praise You for Your Love You freely give each day. IN Jesus Name, Amen.

Devine Design

It is so important for children to know that God created them, God showed me one day as I was teaching a room of young children, that we are all of a Devine Design, Hand Crafted by a Heavenly Father, that places value on our lives! He began investing into our lives from creation. In Jeremiah 1, He says that He knew me before He formed me in My Mother's womb. That means He had plans for me. Later in Jeremiah, He tells me He does have plans and they are to prosper me (us)! God's investment in each of us from the get go is more valuable than Gold or Silver! When we recognize our Value in God, and what it cost for our Redeemtion and Freedom, we are Free. And our hearts are overwhelmed with Love and Gratitude for Our Heavenly Father. Our lives are changed. Our perspectives are changed. Our self worth becomes more treasured as we see what it cost Christ for us to Live. The children I was teaching that night, hung on to every word as I spoke to them. I really believed as I was speaking to them that this was a message for a very specific child in a very specific situation. And there were a few who came up to me personally and thanked me, no explainations, none needed, God Knew what they needed to hear. It's awesome How God will use us to speak a word for someone else and it ministers to our hearts at the same time! Praise You Lord!

The Master Artist

6:24 am
I look towards the eastern sky and the most beautiful thing I have seen today is Your Sunrise!
Blinding light piercing through my eyes, and I have trouble focusing on anything for awhile, due to my eyes trying to adjust to brightness of the Light, I stand in Awe of how beautiful the Light is, How Majestic, and To Know Father it is Your Master Piece. And the Over Whelming feeling of knowing that tomorrow morning, You'll do it again. Your hand will Rise up the sun, each and everyday, until You call us Home where Your Light Shines Brighter that any other Light we have ever known. For now, I'll enjoy Your Beautiful Art Gallery right outside my Front door, Your sunrise, reminding me daily that Your Son is Risen, and in His power I am forgiven, I am made whole, I am made strong, and I can Enjoy Life to day, in Your Grace and Power!
Written in Awe by;
Angel Smith
Journal 4/1/2006

CUP OF HOT COCOA AND A SCOOP OF TRUTH

Nothing compares to cuddling up with God early in the morning with a cup of Hot cocoa (with mashmellows) and His Word of Truth. God's Holy pesence can make everything in the world seem to fade away and get lost in its own existance. Just as the Cocoa warms my flesh His Word warms my heart and Refreshes my mind, body and soul. When You make God your personal God, Your Daddy, you can go to Him with anything, lay it down before Him verbally and Say Father, Help me. For Me it was this morning, Comfort me, He heals my broken heart in so many ways. Not only does He sooth the pain, He replaces the pain with Hope. Hope in His Mercy, Love and Grace. My destiny is in His hands, I am secure in His Peace, not peace as the world gives me, But as His Living Water refreshes me I am reminded My Salvation is secure in His Hands and I Find my Peace there. Thankyou Lord, for sitting with me this morning, refreshing my heart , cleansing me with You forgiveness and restoring to me the Joy of my salvation! Praise You Jesus! Praise You Jesus!
~angel~

Psalm 51:
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me hear joy and gladness,
That the bones You have broken may rejoice.
9 Hide Your face from my sins,
And blot out all my iniquities.

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me away from Your presence,
And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,
And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.
13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways,
And sinners shall be converted to You.

14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,
The God of my salvation,
And my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.
15 O Lord, open my lips,
And my mouth shall show forth Your praise.
16 For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it;
You do not delight in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,
A broken and a contrite heart—
These, O God, You will not despise

Take Time to Rest

Today is Sunday;We call it the Lord's Day.
We rush, rush rush all week long, to meet
deadlines and get everywhere on time,
Sunday's should be a day of REST -
(WOW what and idea, I wonder Who first thought of that) lol!

A day of reflection of what we need to change within ourselves for next week's challenges. I see more and more in people with the need to have control, instead of just relaxing, smile, pray, SING and Enjoy more out lof life. Everone wans to be number 1.
Constant challenges and competitions. Where did our generations go wrong? Did it start with Adam and Eve, or is a time thing that over the years, we have tried to clutter more and more into our lives. The earth is still revolving at the same speed it did when God placed it here, but here we are, are we trying to out run the earth's rotation! A Day of rest, what constitutes a day of rest?
Is a day of total do nothing all day, is a day of rest in your mind, in away forgetting that the rest of your life exists for one day, and worry about it tomorrow when it all begins again?
When The Psalmnist wrote, Lead me beside still waters,
( say that again softly, LEAD ME BESIDE STILL WATERS)
was he just talking about once! OR a daily occurance! I believe we have that opportunity each day, to take a deep breathe, look at the sunrise and thank the Lord, for His mercies! Sit still with Him, and let Him see your heart as you present yourself in prayer to Him.

So I have come to conslusion, that Sunday is God's day, and a family day, where we wake up and focus on His Glory maybe more than we do all week for some, but we place our weary minds in His capable hands and focus on His throne of Grace, and we sit and refuel ourselves in His Worship and spend the rest of our day resting with our family's and allow our minds and bodies to take refuge in His Beautiful Grace. So why can't we do this everyday? Take a break! Sit in a park and breathe some clean air, Walk through a garden and meditate on a scripture,
Sit in the morning during the sunrise and just think how amazing our God is! Jesus took breaks, He went alone to the Mountain side to talk with the Father. Take a break with Jesus!

Praying for peace and abundance of joy in each of you this day, and that we all learn to accept that we are children of a Heavenly Father, who desires for us to be at peace without worry, who desires for us to have Joy without conditions and to share His love with others through a warm smile, a caring heart and inviting Spirit!

Don't Quit!!

Date: Dec 5 2006 11:40 AM


IF GOD HAS CALLED YOU AND BURDEN YOU TO COMPLETE A MISSION FOR HIM, DON'T BE NAIVE TO THINK THERE WILL BE NO OBSTACLES IN YOUR WAY. IF YOU ARE TRULLY SEEKING GOD'S WILL AND HUMBLY ATTEMPTING TO BRING THE HOPE OF CHRIST TO SOMEONE, satan will try to trip you so you will get discouraged and quit!
I AM TELLING YOU "DON'T QUIT" --
CONTINUE PRESSING ON TOWARD THE HIGH CALLING THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS!
GOD HAS BIGGER PLANS FOR YOU THAN YOU CAN DREAM UP FOR YOURSELF!

TAKE AWAY THE UMBRELLA YOU ARE HIDING UNDER AND OPEN YOUR HEARTS AND MINDS TO THE LIVING GOD WHO HAS A STOREHOUSE OF SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS WAITING TO COME DOWN UPON YOU.
THE SCRIPTURE TELLS US BE FAITHFUL WILL A LITTLE AND HE (GOD) WILL BLESS YOU WITH MORE. MAYBE GOD HAS CALLED YOU TO DO SOMETHING THAT SEEMS MUNDAN AND LITTLE IN YOUR EYES, OR IN OTHERS EYES, DON'T LOOK AT IT,NOR CONSIDE THEIR THOUGHTS, LOOK AT JESUS, FOLLOW HIS STEPS, HIS HEART, HIS VOICE!
HE SAID, "MY SHEEP WILL KNOW MY VOICE."
DONT' QUIT! IF YOU QUIT, YOU WILL MISS OUT ON WHAT GOD CAN DO IN YOU, BE LIKE ISAIAH' "HERE IAM LORD USE ME" - IT MAY BE A SIMPLE TASK HE IS CALLING YOU DO--DO IT WITH GLADNESS AND REJOICE--OPEN YOUR MIND AND HEART TO HIS SPIRIT AND LET HIM LEAD YOU.
THINK OF THE OBSTACLES AS STEPPING STONES OR HUDDLES--YOU ARE STRENGTHENING YOUR HEART, YOUR MIND AND MUSCLES WITH EACH ONE YOU OVERCOME-
BE STRONG IN THE LORD AND THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT!


REJOICE TODAY--FOR OUR GOD HAS CALL YOU TO A HIGHER PURPOSE---

LOVE IN JESUS CHRIST;
YOUR SISTER - ANGEL

Good Times

Ecclesiastes 7:14 (NIV)
14 When times are good, be happy;
but when times are bad, consider:
God has made the one
as well as the other.
Therefore, a man cannot discover
anything about his future.

Most of us from the seventies and the eighties think of the show "Good Times" when we hear that spoken, lol. But that phrase was coined thousands of years ago in God's Word. Today we don't hear people say it much anymore. Good times. In fact if we watch TV most of what is reported is bad news representing Bad Times. Myself, I believe it is a matter of a state of the heart and perception. Paul said for us to think on things that are good! My sisters and I often talk and laugh about our childhood, you know we were fed everyday, we had so much fun pretending and playing outside, we had a clean house and loving family. We didn't have much of a perception of Rich or Poor. We just loved being in the moment everyday and enjoying the blessings that we had. Whether we were selling homemade button jewelry on the side of the road with dreams of the quarters flowing in to start our business! Or if we were making mud cakes on my dads metal boat and the top of his tin barn. We were happy. It was Good times. Running outside through the lines of clothes my mom had hanging outside, I can still smell the fresh laundry smell somedays. I think of the afternoons with the sounds of Tree leaves rustling in the wind, and we sitting beneathe them with something cool to drink or a little snack just laughing and talking. Good times. Could it be that when we were kids we didn't focus on a schedule, an itinerary or even on what was going on around us. WE WERE LIVING IN THE MOMENT! When I was a kid, The Vietnam War was all over the news. BUT, as kids we were happy. The Oil industry was crying GAS SHORTAGE and people were lined up as the gas pumps. But as a child we were happy. We were secure. We knew our parents had our best interest at heart and they were there to protect us.[By Faith we know our Heavenly Father has our Best Interest at heart and He will protect us} Today we look back and think "Good Times" Ahhhh! Baseball and football games in the backyard... Is IT that Good times is really not related to money afterall, but is a state of mind or heart. Our perception. Again, Paul says to think on things which are good! Proverbs says, As a man thinketh in His heart so is he!... So could it be our perspective towards our lives and the world around us is keeping us from recognizing or making good times. With that said Should we incase ourselves in a bubble of Glee and forget the World around us? Not at all. But BALANCE is everything. If we do that we become Ego-centric andnot productive in the Kingdom. However; I do think we should slow down just a bit, take time to sit beneathe a tree of rustling leaves and breathe deep and take in the beauty God has all around us. Time is going to pass by fast. Its how we spend those cherished minutes that make Good Times. What a compliment it will be to our hearts one day to hear our children and grandchildren say, Remember the days when we were young, What Good times. Each day we make and set the mood in our atmosphere, we may not be able to control what is going on around us, but with God's help we can control what is going on inside of us. May God's Peace complete you today and comfort you. Enjoy the little moments creating special memories that will be remembered as Good times!


I love the saying you see on Teacher's Walls, "A hundred years from now it will not matter how much I had in my bank account, or what kind of house I lived in, but it will matter if I made the difference in the life of a child." { or another person}

SHARE GOD'S LOVE AND JOY WITH OTHERS.
CELEBRATE AND CHERISH THE SWEET MOMENTS OF LIFE!

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