Sunshine, Flutterflies, and Singing Birds

I am sitting here today, the sun shining through the window warming me~ I feel like a lazy cat. Wanting to stretch out and lay in the sunbeams, soaking it in, and enjoying some quite time. Feeling the sun on my face~ I wonder if that is what a kiss from the Lord would feel like. The light so bright you have to close your eyes and you feel the warmth on your skin... ah yes... Today I am grateful for the sunshine.

Flutterflies (otherwise known as Butterflies) they bring a smile to my son's face. He is so excited about them. He told me once they were angels. Flutterly season is about over but today I am grateful for them and the smiles they give my son.

Singing birds! Oh how amazing. As autumn sets in, the days grow shorter, the nights longer, the birds are leaving and we aren't hearing their songs. But this morning I heard them singing and remembered how grateful I am for the songs they sing to me from the Lord...

Sunshine, Flutterflies, and singing birds are among the many things I am grateful for today! God is so good to me and there is such an amazing variety of things in life that I am blessed by! I know that God showers these blessings on the unbeliever too... but OH let me tell you because of my relationship with God, I am able to SEE the blessings and appreciate all that the Lord has given me. I am able to enjoy these blessings, not take them for granted and PRAISE God for each and every little thing and Great Big thing as well!

Wisdom

James 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.


Praise God that we are able to ASK God and be given wisdom! I thank the Lord for this!

Going Around that Mountain for 40 years....

This morning during prayer time I realized just how ungrateful I can be...
God has blessed me so very much and som eof His blessings are TRUE miracles, yet there are times, while I am receiving the blessing, I am complaining.

It made me think of the Isrealites~ there they were out in the middle of nowhere and God was providing Manna from heaven and they complained.

I had to ask the Lord for forgiveness this morning because I have complained about the Manna God has provided. I do not want to do that. I want to shout PRAISE for everything the Lord gives me. I want to be sure that WHATEVER happens in my life, God gets the Glory! How can I be in the presence of the Lord and complain one iota about anything in my life? II feel as though I have slapped my God, my Father in heaven, in the face because I complained...

So today I am going to give praise for exactly where I am in my life at this very moment. I am going to say "To God ALL the Glory for every great and perfect Gift I have been given." Without the Lord I would have nothing. He showers the blessings on my life~ today I am ever grateful for what He has done!

Praise!!!!

Good Morning Dear Readers!!!!

What a beautiful day it is!!! This morning I realized just how amazing it is that we live in this time, in this place, where we are able to praise our Lord without fear. Others before us, others in other places, and perhaps even those here in this place that come later, they worship in secret to preserve their lives. When they share their faith, they risk their own lives. It is one of the things I am ever so grateful for. Because for several years I was wishy washy in my faith and had I not had that freedom to praise, I would have failed to be saved. But because of God's Grace, He brought me into this world in a time and place where I could become the fullest He wants me to be because of the freedoms we have.

I can turn on a radio and find worship music, I can turn on the tv and find someone preaching His word, I can step out my door and share what I have in my heart from the Lord~ YES LORD I am grateful for being born when and where I was so that I could come into a personal relationship with You and go and share it with all the world!

Faith Gratitude

This morning I am ever so blessed and ever so grateful to our Lord for the measure of faith He has given me! It is enough to bring victory over anything the world can throw at me! Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17)

Thank You Lord for allowing my heart to hear Your Word so that I have the faith of that mustard seed.

morning praise

Oh Father in Heaven! I fill the air this morning with praises ~ shouting loudly my gratitude to my Lord who makes all things possible!!!!  Oh Lord thank you for all you have given us, but Lord thank you the most for Your Grace that You have granted each of us who confess You are God and accept Your son Jesus Christ into our lives as the blood sacrafice for our sins and brings us into relationship with You!

Living in Grace

God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:8

I am so grateful that I live under grace!

PRAISE the LORD!

Gratitude? I am full to the brim this morning!!! God is so awesome and His blessings are so Over the Top!!! This past weekend I was blessed to attend the Women of Faith Conference in Sacramento... Oh what an awesome time! God's presence was felt by all 10,000+ of us that attended! Many accepted Christ into their lives for the first time~ including my daughter!!!!

I don't know what God has planned for my future... but I can tell you I am EXCITED to have Him guide me through to where He wants me to be!!!

Gratitude Today

I am going to be blessed beyond what I could imagine this coming weekend! Praise the Lord for making the path for me to be able to embark on this most amazing adventure! I will be going to the Sacramento Women of Faith Conference.,.. Listening to some awesome men and women sharing their testimonies with us, sharing what God has lead them to share, worship music that fills hearts and fellowship with friends and strangers and all part of the family of Christ. Today my heart is so full of gratitude to the people who have made this trip possible and to the people who have encouraged me to attend, and to the Lord for bringing all these people into my life!

A little whine...

This morning I decided that I wanted to do some major housework and changing things around. As I looked around at what I wanted and needed to get done I had a moment of feeling sorry for myself. A little whine that it is a lot to get done and that I have to do it all by myself with the little ones needing attention too. Just one of those feel sorry for myself moments.

THEN....

Reality came crashing in!

How blessed am I that I have a home that needs to be cleaned? How blessed am I that I have furniture that needs to be rearrainged? How blessed am I that I have too much stuff and need to give some things away? How blessed am I that we have a stack of dirty dishes already this morning, even though all were washed last night? How blessed am I that I have carpets that need vacuuming?

So instead of a little whine, I am going to give a little praise that i have all this to do today! The to do list is evidence of all the blessings in my life!!!

Gratitude

When was the last time you remembered to be thankful for indoor plumbing? As the U.S. spins out of control morally and socially we forget that we were so blessed as a country. Go to other countries and they do not have near the ammenities that we have come to expect. Even the poorest among us in America have expectations for indoor plumping, electricity, and all that sort of thing.

Even the breath we take is a gift from God and yet we take it for granted.

American people call abominations "alternatives", bad behavior is justified, sometimes even glorified. It just makes me sad that as a collective group we have fallen so far from the teachings of our founding fathers, from the bases of the Bible which this country was based...