HAVE YOU MET YOUR ANGEL?

HEBREWS 13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained Angels unawares

for a few years now I have been doing the same two day Christmas show and every year it seems the Lord puts someone new in my path, whether it be a customer or a fellow vender, this dear sweet lady has been doing the same show way longer than me but with the show being so big I just met her personally three years ago,  a friend who also does this show is always set up on the other side just a few tables down from her, this sweet lady began to share with my friend about her grandson & asking for prayer, my friend came over to the other side of the building & got me saying I need you to meet someone,as we shared with her the goodness of the power of prayer, well you could say we had church right there around her booth, with tears she hugged & kissed me thanking me, I took  a deep breath thanking the lord for being there to be a blessing that day  & returned to my booth,it was  also that same year when we had such a blow here in Ala with the tornado,as the show was ending that night at 9:00PM, all the venders were tidying up exchanging be careful's, see you in the morning & so on

Things were so different in the dark, with street lights gone, neighborhoods gone it was hard to get my baring even though I’d been this way many times before, thus turning onto a wrong road, I suddenly realized I had went the wrong way, there was nothing but total darkness ,I can hear friends voices echoing how many times I gotta tell you take your cell phone! take your GPS!my only defense was I didn’t need them so much as I’ve been this way before many times but I did need something, I needed help

cell phones , the GPS’s are all good things to have as I recalled thinking if I’d had mine all I’d have to do would be click home & it’s take me home, how easy it is to depend on modern technology, as I began to cry out to the Lord  it seemed I’d be driving forever as I watched the clock ticking away another hour, there was still darkness all around me but now there was an eeriness, I knew I was not in a good place, I remember crying & telling the Lord this is it, you’ve got to help me or beam me up for I cannot bear the terror that is coming

then off in the distance I saw a gas station light except it was unusually high up , I was drawn to it, as I drove towards it, a peace began to fill my car, down to my very soul, it seemed an hour before I reached that sign & when I did I realized where I was, I now could head home

The next morning as I drove back towards the show, I thanked the Lord once again for keeping a hedge of protection around me, as I shared with my friend the ordeal, the show coordinator  came over & said I know where you were & I’ll tell you this, that was God  that got you outta there for you were in a bad place & anything could of happened to you

As I go across the room to check on  the sweet lady whom I’d met the day before, the sweet little thing grabbed me with tears in her eyes saying, when she’d got home & went to bed , the lord woke her up & told her to pray for me, she said after she prayed, got back into bed , he woke her again & said pray again, she said she brought down the heavens praying for me for about 30 minutes then there was a peace & went back to bed, I told her that was the moment when I begged the Lord to help me or beam me up, now the three of us are crying, hugging, customers, venders not understanding but we understood it for we knew God had showed up & showed himself mightily!

Never take for granted the people you meet, had I not met my sweet Angel that day I may not be here today ,we ran to each other this year hugging, laughing, sharing,we exchanged address’s, emails etc. excited for what's’ to come!

Never take for granted the people you meet for the next stranger you meet may just be your Angel unaware!

COMPUTER OR CABLE PROBLEMS?

 

well it has to be one or the other, hopefully it’s in the cable , it takes hours of fighting to stay on, virus protection says everything's ok in that area, so please bare with me , it has taken a long time just to get in here & say bare with me lol! hubby has offered to buy me  a lap top, what a a sweetie! hopefully it’s just a kink in the cable, if not it may have to wait till after Christmas

PSALMS 115

When you read the word, do you just read it? do you absorb it? do you let it speak to you? This past week there has been something laying heavy on my mind, troubling my soul and as I was reading through the Psalms, around the twelfth verse of chapter  115 began to stand out to me and this is what I saw

THE LORD HAS BEEN MINDFUL OF ME

HE HAS BLESSED ME

HE HAS BLESSED MY HOUSE

HE HAS INCRESSED MY BLESSINGS

AND BECAUSE HE HAS INCRESED ME

EVEN MY CHILDREN ARE BLESSED

I AM BLESSED OF THE LORD

HE MADE THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH

AND HE BLESSES ME

I encourage you today to find a quite place and take a moment to hear what he has to say to you

YOU DESERVE THE GLORY

YOU DESERVE THE GLORY

AND THE HONOR ,LORD WE LIFT OUR HANDS IN WORSHIP

AS WE LIFT YOUR HOLY NAME

FOR YOU ARE GREAT, YOU DO MIRACLES SO GREAT

THERE IS NO ONE ELSE LIKE YOU……..

I awoke this morning singing this song & it has stayed on my heart all day ,God is great & I would not be where I am today had it not been for him,I truly believe God is about to do something great in our lives

 

KEEP ON BLOOMING

 

(image from Southern Living )

This past Sunday as we pulled into the church parking lot, I noticed a spider lily standing all alone ,my mind swept to sweet memories of my Husbands grandmother who always had rows of these old thyme flowers edging her front yard ,as I began to ponder on how interesting it was that no matter how many times you cut them down, they always pop back up, their roots seem to run deep

Did you know that’s how we are to be? we are to be rooted in the word so deep that when the enemy cuts us down ,physically, spiritually, mentally, we come back strong, as I looked at this one little spider lily,knowing that it’d be cut down next grass cutting day , that it’d be back because it was created to bloom

You were created to bloom, don’t let anything hinder you from shining your light so that those who walk in darkness may see the light

Isaiah 35:2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.

HAPPY FALL!

 

GOD IS NO STRANGER

 

God is no stranger in a faraway place

He’s as close as the wind that blows on my face

It’s true I can’t see the wind as it blows

But I feel it all around me & my heart surely knows

That God’s mighty hand can be felt every minute

For there is nothing on earth that God isn’t in it

The sky and the stars, the waves and the sea

The dew on the grass, the leaves on a tree

Are constant reminders of God and his nearness

Proclaiming his presence with crystal-like clearness

So how could I think God was far far away

When I feel him beside me every hour of the day

And I’ve plenty of reasons to know God’s my friend

And that his is one friendship that time cannot end

(poems of faith by Helen Steiner Rice)

I’ve always loved poems, I’m not sure where it began , I just know I’ve always been drawn to poems, this poem talks about how God is always near & nothing can separate us from him

ROMANS 8:38-39

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life,nor angels,nor principalities,nor powers, nor things present,nor things to come,nor height,nor depth,nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord

Do you have  a made-up mind today that nothing shall separate you from God?