COUNTING BLESSINGS

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Comment by Grace by the Lake on June 23, 2010 at 9:26am

Today’s devotional is a testimony, praise report and a devotional all rolled into one. Last year as I sat upon the rocks on Lake Huron the day before I left to come back home from my vacation and visiting my mother, I prayed!! I prayed and asked our Father “how many more times will I have to leave this place that I do not want to leave?” It was getting harder and harder for me to do so with every passing year of visiting there. I asked Him, would I ever be able to just stay there? He answered me with these five words “within two years, my child!” I knew it was His voice with the peace that flooded over me as I sat there! The peace that passes all understanding was unmistakable. Last night He opened the door just when I thought I was at the end of myself, when all was looking impossible. I never forgot that prayer and His answer although lately I was beginning to feel it was a hopeless situation, temporarily forgetting that He IS our hope. Forgive me Father for my faltering faith in Your Word! YOU ARE EVER FAITHFUL!! Last night I received a job offer there; God works in very mysterious ways and answered this prayer after a spontaneous comment sent to a restaurant rating website and not so much as a resume was sent. it has been 14 months since that day God spoke to me. Even though this child was getting impatient He stayed true to that promise. Father God, thank You for all You have done for me. Thank You for loving me, for Your patience with me and Your faithfulness. Thank You for Your strength that carried me even when I was losing hope. Thank You Lord for not allowing me to wander for forty years in the wilderness to reach the land of milk and honey!! In Jesus most precious Name, AMEN!!

Psalm 95(KJV)

1O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
3For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
5The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
6O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
7For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
11Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest

Comment by Grace by the Lake on June 22, 2010 at 8:22am

BLESSED BE HIS NAME!!!! WHOO WHOO!! HALLEJUYAH JESUS!!!

Comment by Grace by the Lake on June 22, 2010 at 8:22am

Comment by Grace by the Lake on June 21, 2010 at 9:43am

PSALM 92 DEVOTIONAL
So often in the rush of our daily lives we forget to praise our Lord and thank Him for all that is in our lives and for life itself. How deeply is Jesus in our hearts? Just for an example, do we remember what it is like to be in love with someone? How we cannot get that person out of our minds all day no matter what we are doing and it is even difficult to concentrate on anything else? All day long we anticipate getting back to that person to be with them again but we carry them around in our minds and in our hearts all the while. Do we carry that same love for Jesus with us throughout the day, anticipating our alone time with Him when we get back home? Do we stop and thank Him for even just a moment in that daily rush for all He has given us, especially through the tough moments when troubles come our way? That love will sustain us through those times and for that alone we have plenty to be thankful to God for. He is most certainly our ROCK!!! THANKYOU LORD FOR YOUR STRENGTH, YOUR MERCY, YOUR FAITHFULLNESS AND FOR YOUR UNFAILING LOVE!! AMEN!!
Psalm 92
1IT IS A GOOD THING TO GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, AND TO SING PRAISES UNTO THY NAME, O MOST HIGH:
2To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
3Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
4For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
5O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
8But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
9For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
10But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
11Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
12The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
14They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
15To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Comment by Grace by the Lake on June 20, 2010 at 8:26am

I am thankful to God for "happy faces". I am thankful to God for the family He has placed in my life.AMEN!!

Comment by robin bird on June 19, 2010 at 12:46pm

WoW !! you being back is something to be thankful for !!

Comment by Grace by the Lake on June 19, 2010 at 8:24am

HEY!!! missed ya'll . now did your really think I would be gone forever!! nope! God and I had some work to do together. PRAISE THE LORD!!!

Comment by robin bird on June 11, 2010 at 8:48am

Thank you Lord for the freedom to post this site--thank you for Nancy the originator of this site--anyone heard from her ?-thank you for her new position.

Comment by Sandra Marie Taleff on June 9, 2010 at 4:58pm

Lord, I want to first and foremost thank You for such blessings:
Your Grace
Your Love
Your compassion
Your forgiveness
Your direction
My family
Finances to take care of bills
Food for our bellies
Clean water
The rain
clothes on our backs
and...waking up today!

Comment by Rebecca Ann Chadwick on June 8, 2010 at 6:04am

I thank the Lord for He is faithful. In struggles that seem bigger than I can stand I know that everything works together for the good for those that love God and are called for His purpose. To stand still is hard ... sometimes to lean not on my own understanding is harder BUT I thank God for He is always faithful. I sense His presence holding me ... He is my refuge ... my strong tower ... He gives me strength as He covers me ... as He protects me. The devil would have already taken me out BUT GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN ME THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD. Jesus is my blessing and His Holy Spirit is my comfort. I thank my Lord for His grace and mercy.

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