Cast My Cares...

I love music, it lets me connect with God in a way that is worship centered. I recently have been hearing this song often, it's Cast My Cares by Finding Favor. I was thinking about posting the song this morning when I was in the shower and then the song came on the radio! (Yes Lord!)

I especially love the chorus. Sometimes it's hard for us to remember God is in control, His ways are not ours, His timing is not ours BUT he is still in control! In a bible study Monday we were asked how we know that God is in us and so many said that peace that we shouldn't have in our soul is there, it's evident and it's not forum ourself it's from God!

He is the anchor of my soul and I wouldn't trade ANYTHING in this world for the peace that's in my soul... This world is broken and lost but with Jesus oh the hope and renewal that floods us is unlike anything we could get from this world. 💗

Cast your cares on Him today, remember He sees you and He's got this under control!

Gods Creation 💗

Oh my gosh I feel so blessed this morning to have seen this beautiful creature! I do not live in a wooded area I do not live where dear roam LOL! I took this picture on the side of a shopping area we have near my neighborhood. I was at a stoplight and I saw the deer it took my breath away and then I saw a car coming toward it and I thought oh no I want to see this deer so bad and I just prayed Lord please let me see this beautiful creature you created. Then my light turned green and I drove and I got right up next to this deer and it just went to turn around and run but then it stopped and looked at me and just let me take so many pictures. I was so enamored by this deer it's just beautiful. The native Americans believe that the deer is a spirit animal who can move through life's difficulties with grace. Praising  God for blessing me with this brief encounter 💗

Chosen!

I love what the Lord is telling the Israelites here in Deuteronomy. He says you are a chosen people, a special treasure. I did not choose you because you were many in number for in fact you were the least.

That's how God rolls, he picks the underdog and makes them a champion. If we were in 5th grade picking dodgeball teams God would pick that kid no one else wants on their team and he would pick them first!

God is so good at taking us and revealing the specialness that he put in us. The bible says when it's all said and done the first will be last and the last will be first. If you are dealing with a feeling of being the least in a world that tells us we need to be the most discard that feeling because being the least makes you a special treasure in Gods eyes and that is better than anything any human can say about you!!!

Don't let anyone bust your bubble today!

Offer You!

Reading in Numbers 28 today. This chapter gives more information about burnt offerings for the Lord. The Old Testament gives many rules and regulations and it is obvious that God was there for His people but there is also a distinct separation. Grains, oils and animals with out blemish were sacrificed for many reasons such as atonement for sin, the Sabbath, Passover, and regular routine offerings.

I am so grateful that today all I have to do is offer myself! Jesus paid my debt with His blood and flesh! There is not one person living today that God didn't send His son for. He was the ultimate sacrifice, the lamb without blemish! Sometimes it might feel difficult to be a Christian but it's not. Look back to the Old Testament and you will be relieved lol! Today God has made it simple, offer yourself first then, love God with all your heart and soul, and love your neighbor as yourself. Those are the two great commandments. If you love the Lord with all your heart and soul and you are on fire for Him the rest will follow!

Facing Giants...

Reading in Numbers on my lunch hour. Whew these Israelites that the Lord saved from Egypt, whew they are a spoiled, ungrateful and doubting bunch. Every obstacle they face makes them question the Lords ability to help them overcome it. Here the Lord has commanded spies to go look at Canaan, the land the Lord is promised to them. The land is full of great fruit and truly flows with milk and honey BUT there are some obstacles like giants and fortified villages. I guess the people thought they should be able to just walk the easy road from Egypt strait to the promise land with no struggles. Sometimes I think like that too but guess what character is not developed with out tough times. Hellen Keller said "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." 

Well the Israelites gave up and said "We can't face these giants let's pick a leader and go back to Egypt." Wait, hold up, you have so little faith you would rather go back to your old misery because it's familiar??? In the verse I highlighted the Lord says to Moses "How long will these people reject Me? And how long will they not believe Me, with all the signs which I have performed among them?"

Right now I pray that the Lord NEVER feels that way about me, oh yes I have rejected Him in the past but I have seen His work in my life and will decide day after day to never return to my familiar misery because whatever giants are out there I am not facing them alone anymore, God is ahead of me, facing them for me...

Don't Doubt It!

Good morning friends 😊 I am reading in Numbers 11 today.  This chapter starts out with the Lord being angered at the Israelites because of their constant complaining. These people were on a long journey to the promise land and the food that was given to them by the Lord was called manna yet they were not please they wanted meat in their belly and they went as far to say why did we ever leave Egypt? We had all the meat we wanted. Oh how soon they forgot the slavery and mistreatment they had under Pharos thumb... So Moses cried out to God saying I can not bear this burned of 600,000 people who want meat. The Lord told Moses bring me 70 elders and I will split up your burden and I will give people meat to eat not for a day not for two but for a whole month until it's running out of their nostrils. Moses questions the Lord, their are over 600,000 people how can you feed thin for a month? Will you pull all the fish from the sea??? Look what the Lord says: "Has the Lords arm been shortened? Now you shall see whether what I say will happen or not."

When we hear from the Lord and we doubt  Him we are minimizing the size of our God, shortening His arm... Is He not the God who put this whole world into motion! Doubt your doubts instead not the Lord or His promises. Also as a side note I got out of this scripture that sometimes we forgot where we came from and the past may seem brighter than it actually was. Don't take for granted what God has given you nor underestimate what He is still going to provide!