to encourage

As I woke up this morning I had this impending sense of doom wash over me. It was heavy and weighted and I was becoming overcome with a dark feeling of despair. I began to pray and ask GOD for strength and then the LORD brought these things back into my mind and heart! HE still reigns, HE still lives, all the things that are happening must take place but HE is still in control!! There are difficult days ahead and the world will march on to its appointed end but we are not citizens of this world and our home is with HIM!! Even in the darkest times there is still light in JESUS!! He does not abandon HIS sheep...

I have shared this before but I thought maybe there might be some few(like me) who need encouraging this morning so here I am posting these words again. God has used them many times to strengthen me and help me remember that nothing takes HIM by surprise...

No regrets! No second thoughts! No Anxious thoughts. No mid-life crises. No fears of the future. No daydreams of the past. Not duped for a minute by the shifter of shadows. My anchor and Hope ARE in a world that HE CAN’T TOUCH! He can’t get to any of my stuff... It’s not HERE! God has ALL my stuff; and it’s very well protected! And He cannot keep my FATHER from giving me anything He wants to give me anytime He wants to give it to me. Try to starve me and He’ll send the ravens to feed me...
And that snake CAN’T take anything from me! Because I’m not holding onto anything....My Father keeps all of my stuff. NONE of my heartstrings or hopes or emotional security lies in the SHADOWLANDS... and that’s the ONLY stuff he can touch. He can only shift the shadows... He cannot disturb anything REAL... UNLESS I let Him through UNBELIEF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All my hopes, all my trust, all my security, all my peace, all my expectations.... are protected by the host of Heaven and buried deep in the fortress of my Father’s loving heart...
If God is for me...Who can be against me?

God bless
mj

Dear Mary Jane,

That's the stuff to read and meditate upon.

Only Jesus. . . . . praise His name.

I love you,
white stone

Thank you Mary Jane, for that encouraging word!!! I also felt heavy this morning and grieved for this country and what is to come. Yet, God is in control, although we can't see it yet. I am reminded of Isaiah 55:8, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways".

“Too long have we been waiting for one another to begin! The time of waiting is past! The hour of God has struck! War is declared! In God’s Holy Name let us arise and build! ‘The God of Heaven, He will fight for us’, as we for Him. We will not build on the sand, but on the bedrock of the sayings of Christ, and the gates and minions of hell shall not prevail against us. Should such men as we fear? Before the world, yes, before the sleepy, lukewarm, faithless, namby-pamby Christian world, we will dare to trust our God, we will venture our all for Him, we will live and we will die for Him, and we will do it with His joy unspeakable singing aloud in our hearts. We will a thousand times sooner die trusting only our God, than live trusting in the approval of man. And when we come to this position the battle is already won, and the end of the glorious campaign in sight. We will have the real Holiness of God, not the sickly stuff of talk and dainty words and pretty thoughts; we will have a Masculine Holiness, one of daring faith and works for Jesus Christ.” (CT Studd, 1898)

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another very encouraging thought!!

God bless
maryjane