In the still of the night, as you lay quite and sleeping. When the waters of your mind and the voices of your own understanding of what's going on around you have ceased to flow.
THE LORD WORKS.
In the still of the night, that is the Lord's daytime. Where he works to bring to pass the things that you have left at His feet, when you met him in prayer before you closed your eyes to give them rest.
This is where He by his spirit goes to work to accomplish for you those things that caused you grief and strife durning your daytime. Those things that you just douldn't find a way to make them come out right to save your life; the ones you wrestled with till they brought tears to your eyes, but you just couldn't fiqure out what to do, to cause things to work out according to the will of God for all concerned.
But!
In the still of the night while you lay sleeping, you got out of God's way;
NOW HE WORKS!
So when you wake up in the morning, you can know without a doubt, the fresh mercy and grace He has left behind for you to begin again. (ever opened your eyes and to your surprise the solution to the problem that caused you grief was now clear, and you felt relieved, as if why hadn't I thought of that before).
That's because in the still of the night, the Lord worketh to bring to pass those things that could not be accomplished by him while you were awake!
My tongue is the pen of a ready writter. Ready to tell somebody about the wonderful works of the Lord.
Ready to tell somebody about His mighty acts toward the childern of men; ready to tell the world about His goodness, his mercy that does endure forever. About his faithfulness, his Lovingkindness to his childern as well as this forward generation who knows not of his grace.
Yes, my tongue is the pen of a ready writter; ready to pour out my soul to the hungry, and to sastify the afflicited soul that is suffering from sin and shame, ready to loose the bands of wickedness, undo the heavy burdens, let the oppressed go free. Ready to break every yoke, ready to pour out of the wellspring of living water that is within me, telling this dieing world about the love of the mighty God that we serve.
For He is worthy, mighty worthy to be praised, not just for what he's done in the past, but what he's done for me right now in the present.
Ready to shout it from the rufftops, telling this world how he saved me, rasied me, kept me, shielded me from hurt harm and danger, how he loved me like no other has or ever will, how he feed me clothed me, not just with natural food, but with food and drink that would heal my spirit, and cleanse my soul, so that I would be thirsty for nothing more than Him concerning my salvation. Telling them how when I thought I had no hope, he let me know I could hope in him, how he taught me how to trust, lean and depend on him, when I thought I would never be able to trust anyone or anything ever again.
My tongue is the pen, of a ready writer, God gave me the tools just like he did the same for Jesus. Ready to tell this world about the goodness of God in the land of the living, ready to tell all that he has done for me and for others as well, and how He is willing, ready and more than well able to do the same things for you!
I'm saved, not by the blood of Goat's; Calves; or Bulls; nor by the ashes of an Hefier sprinkled on this unclean body to try to sancity and purify this sinful body of flesh in which I am caused to live.
But, I'm saved by grace through the blood of the cruicifed one, I am saved by the blood of Jesus the Holy Lamb ofGod that gave his life a living sacrifice, the one who was slain both for you and for me.
When Jesus came unto this world he said "Sacrifice and offering thou would not, but a body hast thou prepared for me. In burnt offering and sacrifice for sin, thou hast no pleasure; then Jesus said "Lo, I come in the volume of the book, it is written of me to do thy will O , God!
"Lo, I come in the volume of the book, to do thy will O, God" He took away the first to establish the second, He through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, to purge our conscience from the dead works of sin to serve a LIVING GOD!
But God! who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, and has raised us up together, and made us to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
That's the power of His love by which I am saved through the blood of Jesus Christ, that he would lay down His life for such a one as you and me; for it is by grace we are saved through faith, and that not of yourself; it is THE GIFT OF GOD: not of works, lest any man should boast for we are his workmanship; created in Christ Jesus unto good works; God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
That's how I'm saved, Praise God and bless his holy Name:
Lord I just want to thank you and give you all the praise for loving me and careing for me as you do.
There is no one on this earth either dead or alive that has ever loved me like you do. With all my faults, with evrything that I have done wrong even since i've been saved and called by your most holy name, YOU have loved me with an everlasting love, you have humbled me by your so great unconditional love, I am amazed and awe struck that some one as Mighty, as you would look down upon a sinner like me and choose to give youself for the likes of me, before I was even born.
Lord I will never forget how you came and saved me from myself, when I thought there was no one to help me break free of the chains that have held me captive for so very long, that I beleived the lie that the devil kept telling me that the person I was back then is the same person I am today and would always be that way.
I just want to thank you Lord for proving him worng, for coming after me even in all my mess and making a message out of the mess I had made that I once called my life.
Thank you for delivering me from all the pain and heartache that I suffered from, even though some of it yet remains, I know with you beside me, living inside of me, to lead and forever guide me, it won't remain there for long, because you who are strong and Mighty will see to it, that deliverance comes in the way that you alone will choose.
Thank you for teaching me to trust you, and lean on you, how to give every part of me to you, to place my heart, my mind and my soul in your loving hands. There is no one like you Lord, no one.
Thank you for being ever so patient with me, because I know that I have given you a ruff time, not that you didn't know better who I was before I even knew, but thank you for loving me so much that you looked beyond my faluts and saw my deepest needs and decided that I was worth the blood that you shed for us all on Calvary.
Oh precious and Holy Spirit help me to say the words that my heart wants to say that I myself don't know yet just how to put into words. Help me oh precious one, to let you know just how much you have come to mean to me, help me to be able to tell you how much I know I need you in my life, and that I am ever so grateful that Jesus sent you back to me, to be with me, to lead me, guide me, protect me, to be to me what I can't be to myself, and no one else can either, for there is none other like you, no not one.
Thank you for keeping your word to me, thank you for your faithfulness, thank you for drawing me close to you, in times of distress when I could not find no peace and no rest, thank you for helping me to look unto you, and to stop looking to others for the things that only you can give. thank you for waiting on me, to come back, and n ot nly that but showing me how to come back home to your loving arms when I had strayed away, and thought there was no way that you would ever receive me back after the things that I had done.
But you dear kind and merciful Father, Lord, Savior and my King were right there to give me words of repentance, and to forgive me and help me to forgive myself. thank you for your mercy and your grace that gave me space and time to get it right again.
Thank you my Beloved for being my EVERYTHING!
MY HEART OVERFLOWS WITH LOVE AND GRATUTIDE FOR ALL THAT YOU HAVE BROUGHT ME THROUGH, , TAUGHT ME TO DO, FOR HOW YOU HAVE CHANGED MY LIFE AND MADE IT BRAND NEW.
THANK YOU FOR TRUELLY BEING MY BELOVED, even though I am yet a work in progress,
Thank you for allowing me the privilege of knowing who I am in YOU, MY BELOVED!
THANK YOU FOR NOT JUST CALLING ME YOUR OWN, BUT MAKING IT TO BE SO!
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Isaiah 40:28-31
June 09, 2006
Sorry, I don't know how to put a singing ant on this. Hello, anyway.
d bless y