I don't like airplanes.....

On Tuesday I have to fly to Colorado for a business trip. It’s been a long time since I’ve had to fly and I’m not very excited about it. Please pray for a safe trip and the peace of God during the flight.

Thank you brothers and sisters.

Danielle

Praise God, pray he will give you peace on the trip. How is your boss doing?

Much love
charlene

Hi sister,

I understand ... Have found that these are times of some extra earnest praying and a real testing of faith over fear, all those things that we can conjure up. There is that trepidation yet also paradoxical wonder and awe ... Absolutely love being able to see Gods creation from that vantage point.

Yet, with Ravenhill and yourself on this; [i]Flying is for the birds![/i]

Sister, up until this recent job had flown a total of once in my lifetime and now make similar business trips quite often. It hasen't changed one iota into a sense of comfortability or complacency ... have written a bit here on my own wonder that there is not any apparent wonder around me, just that which seems to be ... perhaps the one very commonality, a taking for granted things without thought. Times when I thought to make a complete fool of myself by stating [i]Look![/i] from the awesomeness of Gods splendor and at other times to weep over the seemingly disregard and the sheer mind boggling attributes of where trust is placed ultimately, siting in a giant metal tube being propelled through the sky ... that these things even get off the ground still amazes me.

Notwithstanding and difficult to state the fact not wishing to add to your concerns, but the sheer folly in not recognizing how precarious the point is that here we sit with our lives given either into the hands of men or to trust in the Lord. These mammoth beasts ought to be sanctuaries of prayer, there is faith there recognised or not, strange thing how fitingly it is at these times;

Rom 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Rom 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Of course that is taken with a great deal of assumption and broad application, more sadness than indignation. Am quite sure for some, this might be on the equivelant of those kneeling at the porcelian throne after a night of indulgenece or maybe even the cliche' like' [i]there are no atheist's in a fox hole[/i], just an observation and a pondering, an opportunity for even more praying for eye's and hearts to be opened ...

But you have the very secret within you sister, being His, and I am sure well know the verse;

[i]For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.[/i] 2Ti 1:7

Pray for the pilots, pray for the passengers ...

[i]"Up and down Lord"[/i]

P.S. Get a window seat if you can ;-)

awakenwithin wrote:
How is your boss doing?

Much love
charlene

Charlene, thanks for asking. He was back at MD Anderson this week after finishing the last round of chemo. I talked to him yesterday but he had not gotten any results yet. Please keep praying for him.

Danielle

Wow Mike, that is quite a response to my little prayer request. Thank you brother.

These mammoth beasts ought to be sanctuaries of prayer

I used to fly a good bit when I lived in California (Santa Clara – right where you are). At that time I was lost, and I knew I was lost, and every time I got on a plane I faced the fear of hell. For some reason the possibility of death seemed more real on that airplane than it did on the ground.

As soon as I posted this prayer request, I noticed that at the same time Kire was posting this
[url=https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=19096&forum=35]If you faced death right now[/url]

The Lord keeps bringing me back over and over to the realization that life is indeed a vapor and that I should live so as to have no regrets when I stand before Him. This is definitely something I will be pondering over the next few days.

Danielle

I used to fly a good bit when I lived in California (Santa Clara – right where you are).

No kidding! Where abouts out of curiosity?

Am glad you took all that as I had hoped, had the exact same pondering you mentioned here;

As soon as I posted this prayer request, I noticed that at the same time Kire was posting this
If you faced death right now

Guess I was hesitating and dancing around it there a bit ... But that is the matter up front and 'in our face' so to speak. For myself it is the one thing that is given much contemplation, a bit redundant to even make mention of.

For some reason the possibility of death seemed more real on that airplane than it did on the ground.

More paradox in that considering the fact that it is safer than driving ... but similarly prior to being abducted from above had a very John Madden like fear of flying ... it is still a tension and trepidation but altogether different, almost one of those love to hate kind of things. I don't know, it just really drives home the reality of that which we believe in such a remarkable way ... I would go as far to say that it shapes and subdues, humbles and changes the fool every single time, I do some of the best praying of flights ...

Bless you sister

No kidding! Where abouts out of curiosity?

But that is the matter up front and 'in our face' so to speak

And so as I look at my prayer request in light of what I have just written, maybe it is cause to further examine the reason for my anxiety……

God bless,
Danielle

P.S. missed praying with you this afternoon...hope it works out next time. :)

I was online at the appointed time, but guess what?? If you play with your Skpye settings and accidentally make yourself invisible, that means nobody can see you. Imagine that!!

Thanks for the prayers and encouragement sister.

Loving the fellowship of believers!!

Danielle

From my journal – May 29, 2007

Now after the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly." John 13:27

John’s gospel says that when Jesus gave the bread to Judas, that Satan entered Judas and Jesus actually gave him instructions to go and do what he had planned. This was the initiation of the events that lead to his crucifixion. How many of us, at the Father’s command, could order our own death? But this is exactly what is required of each of us – of me. That I lay my own will and desires and plans on the altar and bring down the knife.

This morning as I was getting ready for church I continued to think about this fear that I have concerning my flight on Tuesday. I thought about things I may have left undone. But mostly I thought about unsaved loved ones. Months ago I had begun praying “whatever it takes Lord, save my family”. As I remembered that prayer this morning, the thought came to me – what if it takes my death? What if my death would be the catalyst for my entire family to get saved? Would I still be willing the pray “whatever it takes”?

Hi Danielle,

Am just up the road off the El Camino from where you used to live and must admit something that has always struck me strange living here. Used to work at the Quality Tune-Up just around the bend there from Granada and the El Camino and it was a place where a certain individual Christian acquaintance had followed me from station to station in those days, peppering me with tracts and being a general nuisance or rather annoyance. ;-). Lived in the South side of SJ in those days, moved on to Morgan Hill, bought a condo, met a girl ... Apparently I was a very slow convert, but to be back in this same area some 20 years after the fact, to look back on it all ...

That journal entry there ...

How many of us, at the Father’s command, could order our own death? But this is exactly what is required of each of us – of me. That I lay my own will and desires and plans on the altar and bring down the knife.

What a tremendous notation.

As I remembered that prayer this morning, the thought came to me – what if it takes my death? What if my death would be the catalyst for my entire family to get saved? Would I still be willing the pray “whatever it takes”?

Large questions, have done similar musing and have prayed as much ... sometimes I think it may well be the only way.

A remarkable spirit you have sister.
Will be praying.

crsschk wrote:
Hi Danielle,

Am just up the road off the El Camino from where you used to live and must admit something that has always struck me strange living here. Used to work at the Quality Tune-Up just around the bend there from Granada and the El Camino and it was a place where a certain individual Christian acquaintance had followed me from station to station in those days, peppering me with tracts and being a general nuisance or rather annoyance. ;-). Lived in the South side of SJ in those days, moved on to Morgan Hill, bought a condo, met a girl ... Apparently I was a very slow convert, but to be back in this same area some 20 years after the fact, to look back on it all ...

There is a phenomenon in the rational world well worthy of consideration, inquiry, and solution--the strange and fatal insensibility of men to the grand fact that they are mortal! Since it is infallibly certain that they must and will die--and since death is so solemn an event--how does it happen that so few ever seriously think of it, or really prepare for it?

One would think that so grand and solemn a fact as death, especially viewed in connection with the events which are to immediately follow it--heaven, hell and eternity--along with the uncertainty how soon it may be realized--might operate with an unlimited and altogether overpowering influence upon men's minds and hearts! ~ J. A. James

Couldn’t help but notice your signature. I have no idea if it’s a recent change, but it seems very appropriate that I should notice it today.

God bless you Brother
Danielle

I will be praying too sister..

Sorry I missed the prayer too.. when you get back for sure...

In His Love
charlene

But the Lord is with me as a mighty, awesome One….Jeremiah 20:11

I have the most wonderful peace regarding this trip. Thank you to everyone who has been praying for me. See you Thursday…..

Danielle

I have the most wonderful peace regarding this trip. Thank you to everyone who has been praying for me. See you Thursday…..

Praise God ...

anyone see this brokenone is about go up in the air,, Please pray for her thanks

charlene

she is on her way back right now

please pray
thanks

1 electrical glitch
2 delayed flights
1 re-directed flight due to bad weather
2 hour wait on the tarmac at Oklahoma City
3 hours at DFW trying to rebook the missed connection
1 night at a hotel with no suitcases or change of clothes, and only 2 hours of sleep

1 very wonderful flight home to Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Thank you for the prayers. It is good to be home.

me too.:)
I when I went to China byself a few years ago. I was a little fearful of finding the right gate and such.. I was on the plan, and God lead to a Chirstian women who help me when I got to China.
Everything I went on a trip, it ever turn out the way I think it would. Although I always got there.
I am glad you made it back..
God bless you sister...
deeper and deeper we pray we ask make us like you Jesus.. this Is our prayer..

In his love
charlene