Ok forgive me! You totally lost me? But I will tell you this. Read Lamentations Chp. 3:1-26 or just read the whole chapter. I found myself in a similar situation over the past month as described in Lamentations. The Lord is there, the Lord is there whatever the pain, the trial, the circumstance. In silence we learn to trust. It is the same silence that also ripped David from all things but God in the Psalms! What is amazing is that the Lord will do things that we would never think of. I myself have a problem of telling God how he should answer my prayers! God has a sense of humor for sure because He always does the things that I never thought of, like with Ninevah after Jonah preached to the Assyrians. Countless stories of how God answered the cries of his people in a way that is new. I am waiting on prayers that cannot be written for all the world to see because it would ruin the blessing of learning to trust God for the answers! Read Psalms 42 and 43 as your own personal prayers! It is truly amazing what the Lord is doing, just give him time to away the stone! Prayers are headed to heaven be sure that the Lord hears them!
You know strange things can happen! I will doing something totally different that what I was hoping for. The Lord shut one door and opened another that I completly was not expecting. I start my new job in about 6 hours. The guy from the insurance totally changed his mind! So here I am wondering what the Lord is doing, work one Saturday with a friend of mine, meet a woman at the church I was working for who was looking for a driver for their company and wah la, I now work for a company that contracts out copiers and printers for all of WNC. The Lord answered my prayer just the opposite of the way I expected and I am more excited about this job than the other! It is a job that requires constant training which I have to have, and staying busy which is key to any job that I have. Praise the Lord! So what's new in Christ's life in you?
I like to be there for folks in pain, whatever that is. I seem to know alot about pain. But just keep serving God and he will be working even when ya can't see! This week has been one of those weeks of walking blind for me. God is right there, in all situations if you are his child, that I do KNOW. He will teach his children the things that they need to learn to be exactly what he is calling us to be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is what happens when messaging ......you cannot look someone in the eye or hear the tone of voice......and things can get wacky. Its good to hear from you. I hope all is going well!
shecon23marie wrote:
Oh, no, I wasn't offended. I just didn't understand the use of the phrase as didn't seem to apply to what we were talking about. And I agree he did a fantasic job!
Did I offend you in some way? If I did I apologize. Your page looks great and Mr. Davis who apprently is a professional at what he does did a fantastic job. God Bless.
Your hermenuetics are quite impressive. To simply put it I have been spending the majority of the past few years unlearning what I had been taught in church. I was taught to believe what the teacher taught and ask no questions. To learn the context is everything in the scripture. I have spent virtually no time in the prophecy because I'm scared of it!! Just lots of gloom and destruction and I thought that stuff would never apply to my life(learned that in church too). The timelines that you have to learn to even begin to understand all that Isaiah or any of the other prophets is the key to knowing what it is saying and how to apply that specific passage to your life. I came from a church that would use the scripture to teach what they thought might be important to the people without actually taking the time to understand what it is truly saying. Its like taking the newspaper and reading it and then rewriting the sports section so that people never see that your favorite team ever lost a game though the truth is that they did. So anyways, long story short I am very careful not to use God's Word to justify any of my thoughts or actions that are not clearly stated somewhere else in the Word of God(the Bible defines the Bible). To teach the Word is an awesome responsibilty of which I am learning that I know less and less about the Word than I thought I did. My hope is that Christ died for sinners of whom I am. In HIM lies all the wisdom of all the ages. And I lie in Christ learning how much he loves me!
In case your wondering, yes I believed some crazy stuff in the past and expected God to do all these things in my life just because I know him never considering what he has expected of me! Hope I haven't lost ya, I have a tendency to be scatterbrained!
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away the stone! Prayers are headed to heaven be sure that the Lord hears them!
