COMPLETION OF FORGIVENESS

Psalm 19:12-13  “Who can discern his errors? Forgive my hidden faults.  Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me.  Then will I be blameless, innocent of great transgression.”

I was thinking about some things that we discussed at church last night.  We were talking about the cleansing power of the blood of Jesus, the cleansing of sins, forgiveness and how the enemy has no claim over us bringing to mind our past sins.

The Lord was showing me some things concerning this today.  When we repent and ask His forgiveness, He is gracious to us, loving to us and forgive us our sins.  But I don’t believe that completes the forgiving process.  I remember asking the Lord to forgive me my sins, repenting completely in my heart when I asked the Lord to take me and cleanse me from all unrighteousness.  But then for a long time after that I was so drug down by my sins.  I knew I had been forgiven but I could not let go of the guilt, the burden of what I had done.  I don’t even think the enemy had much to do with it, I was just so overwhelmed at the things I had done, how I had grieved the Father, grieved the Holy Spirit.  Never did I realize I was still grieving Them.  My precious Lord brought this to my attention when He asked me, “Are you better than I?  Are you greater that I?”  I was struck down by this accusation from the Lord.  I quickly told Him, never would I think such a thing.  I would never think I was better or greater than my Lord.  I could not imagine why He would ask me something like that.  My Lord was quick to tell me what He meant.

The Lord told me that He had forgiven me all my sins when I repented and asked Him to cleanse me completely.  And He said this forgiveness was for all sin I had done, all I would do.  I was completely His.  He would forgive all past, present and future sins as I would be repenting daily asking for cleansing.  The Lord told me by not letting go of the past, the sins that I had been forgiven by Him for, I was putting myself as one higher than He that could not forgive my sins.  He told me if He, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the Great I Am could forgive me, who was I not to forgive myself.

I had never thought of this.  Here I was shaming myself still for letting my Savior down when I sinned, for hurting the Holy Spirit with my sin, still racking myself over the coals for the things I had done, the time wasted in my life when I was not worshiping my Lord, just everything I had not done right causing more sin in my life.  I was judging myself when I had nothing to judge, it had all been forgiven and forgotten by my Lord.  There was nothing left to forgive, I had been cleansed.  The slate was wiped clean.   Mind, heart, soul washed white as snow by the blood of my Savior.  I was forgiven.  Past, present, future.  Forgiven.

The process was not finished as I had to let it go.  I had to put it away just as my Lord had done.  Forgive myself.  Lift my head up, look into my Lord’s eyes and see the love He was showing towards me, look in the mirror and smile at myself with love for myself as I was loved by the Lord, I was lovable, ready to be loved by myself.  The Lord showed me when He loves us so much, we are to be loved by ourselves also.  Be liked by ourselves.  I had to finish the forgiveness process.  I was forgiven by the Most High God, who was I not to follow that beautiful pattern of forgiveness and not forgive myself.  And so I did.  I just let the love and grace of my Master flow over me, I let His peace come into my being, my soul was like a sponge soaking up that beautiful peace, that quietness that went into me; all the shame and dislike, hatred was replaced by such an unmistakable joy, the perfect joy of the Lord.

When you look into the mirror, if you are not liking what you see in your eyes, take a deep look inside of yourself.  Are you hiding some things inside?  Do you have layers of unforgiveness of yourself. That would be a great transgression.  If you have repented of these sins to the Lord, know that He loves you and has forgiven you.  There is nothing that He sees in you that is not righteous now.  You also need to let it go, forgive yourself, remove all shame of yourself from your eyes, begin to love in yourself what the Lord loves, that would be everything.  He loves everything about you, in you.  He made you what you are.  He loves what He made, you are forgiven, you are cleansed by the blood of the Lamb, you are righteous in His eyes.  Let His beautiful peace flood your soul and let His joy enter your being and just pour all over you until you cannot contain it and let it peal out of you in beautiful, free, chain breaking laughter.  You are free of sin.  The forgiveness process is completed, completed in the love and grace of the Lord.

My precious Lord, how I love You.  I pray my Lord that these words You gave me tonight will set my brothers and sisters free from the sin of unforgiveness of themselves.  You have set me free, my Lord, to love.  You are everything to me, Lord, and I glorify Your Holy Name.  This 12^th day of May, 2011, I am complete.  I am complete in You.

HIS EYES FOLLOW ME

Job 36:7  "He does not take His eyes off the righteous; he enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever."

I have this figurine type figure of the face of Jesus and no matter where you are in the room His eyes are on you.  If you watch it and walk across the room His eyes follow you everywhere.  I decided to put this in my office and was taking it in there when I was struck with the thought, that even though this is just a figurine it truly had a message.

There is nowhere I can go that my Lord's eyes are not on me.  I can remember when that thought would have struck fear in my heart as I was not always where I should have been with the Lord.  When I think of the places I have been, taking my precious Holy Spirit into places that He wanted not to go, but as He is with me, He went.  How grieved I have made the Holy Spirit at times.  Do you realize when we do things we should not be doing, when we watch things we should not be watching, hear things that are ungodly, the Holy Spirit is exposed to them, unwanting to be, unwilling to be, but as we are never alone, He is subject to it also.  Forgive me, Holy Spirit, for all those times I subjected You to things that were unworthy of me, much less something I should have put You through.  But now, now I am not ashamed of where I go and where the Holy Spirit goes with me.

The eyes of my Lord are forever looking down on me.  He is so watchful to see that nothing happens to me as I do His will, as I go about my day, giving unto Him.  He can see how very much I love Him, how much I adore His presence.  He sees me living my life for Him.  The Word tells me that there is no place I can go that He doesn't see me, there is no place that I can go that His love won't reach me.  Here is no depth I can fall to that His forgiveness won't be given to me.  I am His beloved.  He made me to be who I am in Him.  It has taken some time for me to get to this point, to the point where in my heart I can feel that He is pleased with me.  I know He has always loved me, but now I can feel His joy in the fact that I am beginning to be exactly what He had in mind when He created me.  I know I have more to do to become exactly what He has in mine for me to be, but He is not leaving me, He won't let go of me and He is leading me into that plan each day.  My job, my goal is to follow Him, stay in His will and love Him more each day.  How could I not love Him more each day.  Sometimes I wonder if it is possible to love Him more than I do now, at this moment, but I find that as each day passes, and there is less of me and more of Him, there is more love also.

The eyes of my Lord, how beautiful they must be.  I don't know if the Word ever described His features other than it being explained that He was ordinary.  But how beautiful His eyes must be.  Can you imagine what those lovely eyes have seen, what they have beheld....the very Kingdom of God, the making of creation, the Glory of the Father.  How could they not be so special reflecting the Glory of the Father. Yes, my Lord, yes.  The Lord is telling me now that one day our eyes, if we give ourselves totally to Him, will reflect His Glory.  How wonderful that is to know that one day, you will look on me, and I will look on you and see the Glory of Jesus.  We will be resplendant in His likeness, reflecting His glory, His love. 

I love the thought of Your eyes on my, Lord.  Knowing that You keep me in Your heart, keep me in Your will, and that You are watching me constantly.  You see if something is in my path for destruction and You move me around it, You walk with me down the path You have put before me, holding my hand, loving me, talking to me, my constant companion.  Nothing comes between You and me, as we visit each day, talk about whatever comes to mind.  I love the fact that I can talk to You about everything.  Just as I would someone at church or over the phone.  I just talk, You listen, You guide and give me Your thoughts.  I love Your thoughts, Lord.  Wonderful thoughts.  I know You enjoy our talks also.  I  make You smile a lot, I know I do.

Thank You, my precious Lord for Your love, Your guidance, Your patience with me.  This 11th day of May, 2011, I am comforted as I know Your eyes are forever on  me, Your beloved.

HE IS THE ANSWER

2 Corinthians 4:17  "For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all."

There are so many hurting people.  So many troubles, so much heartache.  I see a number of people every day, talk to some, I am on prayer chains and hear of deaths, illness, problems.  So many problems.  I have had more than my share also, and as I look back at them....now, from this side of the problems, having walked through them, gotten past the worse part, that is how I see it now, as the worse part.  I know without any doubt that I could not have gotten on this side of the troubles, so many were devastating, loses of loved ones, heartaches that I never would have dreamed could subside; such pain at times I suffered under the hands of others; the pain of never having children; so many things.....yet, I know, never, never could I have gotten here where I am without the wondrous love of the Lord.  I can remember times that I did not want to live, as death seemed more acceptable than living through another day of what I was in, surely the Lord would have allowed me to die...but no, that was not in His plan for me.  Instead, He chose to pour His redeeming mercy on me and lift me up, out of my misery, out of my grief, out of my pain; He chose to lift me up and teach me how to walk with my head held high.  He showed me that I could walk through anything, anything was possible when I was letting Him do the leading.  All I had to do was follow, hold tightly onto His hand, and He would lead me through everything. 

My God did just that.  He took my hand, He poured His Light on the path and walked me right through it all.  All the dark days I look back on now, seeming so impossible at the time, were made livable through my Lord, my precious Lord.  I really do not know, my Lord, why we are in this place right now, talking about this.  Why this night, why, when nothing is wrong, things are so good, I am at such a peace, have so much joy in You.  The only thing I can think of is so others can see that with You, all things are possible.  That there is nothing so bad, nothing so impossible that You can not turn it around for the child that will call on Your Name.  When there seems to be nothing, no one, there is always my Lord.  There is nothing He cannot do, that He won't do for the child that has calls out to Him, asks forgiveness for their sins, (and yes, I know a lot of times, we think we have not done anything wrong....what do we need forgiveness for...well, think about it, not calling on the Lord, not worshiping Him, thinking of only ourselves, pitying ourselves....too much pride to ask Him for help.....yes, we need to ask forgiveness).  The Lord is waiting to help each of us, just waiting for our pride to fall away, love for Him to rise up and call on His name.

Who am I, that I thought I could do things on my own....I failed miserably, but when I called, my Lord was listening for my voice and drew me to Him, showed me the right way to go, and walked with me the entire way.  He never left my side, and to this day has not.  The Lord will not leave one who is constantly seeking Him, Jesus is there, every step of the way.  To show you that no matter the problem, no matter how you have been treated, no matter how much you think you hate yourself, He is the answer.  He is the only answer.

Jesus is the answer to loneliness, heartache, illness, depression.  There is nothing He cannot change, there is nothing that He does not want to change for you.  But He will not push Himself on you.  You must call out to Him for help, He just waits, He waits for you to finally see that He is the answer to all your problems.  Call Him and He will come to you as He did to me, lift you up, hold you while you cry, love on you until you feel so loved, so special, your life will take on new meaning.  Your life will be one that you will want to live, the Lord has plans for your life.  Let Him take you on that path, in His Light, to the life He has for you.

I am now on the other side of the painful path.  I know there will be other things that will come, things that will hurt me, grieve me, but I know I will not walk through it alone.  No matter what this life brings my way, I know my Lord will be right by my side.  He is not going anywhere and He will be holding my hand in His, I will not fall.  Ths 10th day of May, 2010, I am so in love with my Lord.  He is my life, He is my everything, and I know that He alone, only He is the Answer.

HIGH AND LIFTED UP

Isaiah 40:11  "He tends His flock like a shepherd, He carries the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart..."

I was listening to a song this morning, they were singing "You are high and lifted up, You are high and lifted up".  I saw in my spirit my Lord rising triumphant from the pits of hell and being drawn immediately into the arms of the Father.  Tears on both their faces; the Son whose victory completed the walk the Father led Him to, and the Father, rejoicing that the walk He had put His Beloved Son on was over and He was returned to Him, to reign forever in glory. 

Our Savior tells us in His Word that because of His sacrifice, every blessing, everything given to Him and done for Him would be for us also.  I love this, because of this, my Savior sharing His treasures in Heaven with us, I can see myself in the wonderful arms of my Father.  I believe our Father enfolds us into His arms each evening, at the end of each day, whether good or bad, and just loves on us.  He is happy for us that the day is done, delighted in our worship to Him that day and loving our walk in Him that day, our offering of praise to Him in our daily walk, that walk that is dedicated to Him alone. 

Each night He takes us into His arms, washes us clean once again, and replaces that grimy robe with a new spotless one, cleans and reclothes us in His righteousness, His mercy and His grace. I can see my Father telling me "it's going to be alright, trust me" when I tell him about what I see in the world that distresses me; the evil, the cruel acts of men, the senseless killing, the tragedies...He will just hold me as I let it all out, crying, sobbing as it breaks my heart that so many of His children seem too busy to worship Him, to sing praises to Him; I want so badly for this earth to worship Him.  He tells me "it's going to be what you cannot even imagine, everything will come to the Light".  He tells me this and I know He does not mean the daylight but His Son.  Everything, everyone will come to the Son, even those that refuse to believe on Him, to recognize Him as the Son of God, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords.  They will all see Jesus, high and lifted up, as they have to pass through Him to Judgment.  Everyone, me, you, unbelievers, we all go to be judged; the difference is that when you, when I, go before the Lord to be judged, our Jesus, our adored Savior, He goes with us.  He will be standing beside me, in front of me, in back of me, the same with you, I will be completely surrounded by Jesus and when the Father looks at me, all He will see is the righteousness of Jesus. 

In love, the Father will then tell me to "come, come to Him".  And then I shall finally be able to go to my Father, be wrapped in His arms of love, put my head to His chest, reach up to lovingly touch His cheek, and tell Him, finally be able to tell Him, looking on His beautiful face, "I have waited a lifetime for this day, I love You my Father, I love You so much."  Then I will hear His response to me, "Yes, my beloved child, welcome home, my good and faithful servant.  I have been waiting for you, for this time with you."

You may not see things as I do, but then everyone sees the Father differently in their spirits.  It has to be the personal relationship between each of us and our Heavenly Father, between each and Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.  A personal relationship, that intimacy that only each of us know within ourselves.  Should you not have this type of relationship with our Lord, just give yourself to Him, completely, holding nothing back of yourself, give Him your all.  All your love, all your worship, your praise, completely give Him control over every part of your life.  He loves each of us so much, if you have any doubts, look at Jesus, His Son that He gave for us, for our redemption.  Look to Jesus, who loves you and is drawing you to the Father's side.  Look to the Holy Spirit that Jesus left for us, here to guide and comfort us, who shows us the way to the Father's heart daily as He encourages us in our walk, shows us the Father's heart, leads us to worship our Lord.  You will never be regretful of the day you completely become one with the Lord, never.  Joy, unspeakable joy, and peace that surpasses any explanation known.  And love, it is unconditional, never failing, never waivering, and His presence, well, I will let you enter His presence and then you will know, as I find it indescribable.

My beautiful Lord, my wonderful Lord, how I love You so much.  I cannot contain my excitement for this day to arrive, for my entrance into Your holy throne room.  This 9th day of May, 2010, I thank You for the day that I too, will be lifted up to You, into Your arms for eternity. 

BILLBOARDS FOR LIFE

Psalm 19:7-8  (Message)  "The revelation of God is whole and pulls our lives together. The signposts of God are clear and point out the right road.  The life-maps of God are right, showing the way to joy.  The directions of God are plain and easy on the eyes."

My Holy Lord, I want to first thank You for this beautiful day, the blessings You gave, that You poured out from beginning to now the end of my day.  Church this morning, where I went to worship You, my King, my Beloved, and then this afternoon to hear the Gaithers Homecoming Concert.  Four hours of wonderful praise and worship to my Lord, giving You, Almighty God, glory and honor.  I am so blessed this evening as the waves of adoration still resound in my ears.  I thank them for blessing and honoring my wonderful Lord.  For drawing praise from those that were there, to encourage them to honor You.  I ask Your blessings on their travel this night or tomorrow to their next destination, Lord.  Travel mercies.

As I was traveling over there to where the concert was, about a 50 mile trip, I noticed how all the way was well marked with road signs, no concern about losing ones way, didn't even need to take out the GPS, the way was clearly marked.  But as I noticed all the road signs, highways and regular streets, I found myself comparing this to the directions You have placed in Your Word for me, for us.  All the signs are there, "walk this way, stay off that road, take this path....".  Your Word is full of meaningful directions for us, all that is needed is that we read what You put there for us.  I can remember times when I was younger in my spiritual walk with You when a lot of what I read did not reach me.  It just did not seem to penetrate my being like I would have wanted.  But now I understand that until we are willing to let go of ourselves, give total control of our lives, of our hearts, minds to you, the mysteries of Your Word will be just that, a mystery.

Now, though, my Lord, I know Your heart, it is entwined with mine, as I belong to you totally, I want to see what You have written in the Word, I don't want anything hidden from me ever again. I belong to You, Lord God, Your child, no holding back from me, Yours alone.  I want to know everything that You have for me.  I want to read Your Word and have those verses come alive, to literally dance before my eyes.  I want to read, ponder, read and have You reveal Yourself to me in these words.

I know that You have all the directions for my life written in this wonderful Book.  Your Word is my most loved Book, I love to read it to see what You have to tell me this day, this moment.  You have my very life explained in it.  From before I was born You tell me You loved me, that You had a plan for my life.  Before my tomorrow ever arrives, You know what will happen in it.  And You know how I will react to every word spoken to me, every action done to me; just how I will respond.  My Lord, all I can do is pray that You guide me, shield my mind and heart.  I want to do nothing displeasing to You, Lord.  I want to glorify You with every word I speak, everything I do, I want it to honor You, I want my life to be praise to You.

Lord, please annoint me each morning that you rise me out of bed.  Annoint me so I may carry out the plans You have for my day.  Pour fresh upon me Your love, Your grace and mercy so I may pour out of myself onto those You send my way.  Your plans, Your directions are written easily to understand, there are no complicated twists and turns, it is plainly written that I am to love as You love,  I am to forgive as You forgive, I am to give as all I have is Yours, freely received, give as freely, I am never to judge, as not to be judged myself.  I am to remember that what I am, what I have been given, what I know, is by grace alone, Your grace.  I have done nothing that would earn me anything.  The blessings You give to me cannot be purchased by me, as they were purchased by something I could not give, Your blood.  Your precious blood purchased life for me, eternal life; all blessings that flow from that were by Your grace alone.

My Beloved Lord, You are the air that I breathe.  You, whom my soul seeks constantly, needing Your presence, needing and desiring Your company.  Your constant presence is my hearts desire.  I give all I am to You, my Lord, all that I am.  I love You beyond anything I can think of, any words I can say.  You are my everything.  On this 8th day of May, 2011, I ask but one thing of You, my Lord.  Come soon, Lord Jesus, Come Soon.

DAILY WASHING

John 13:8b  "Jesus answered, "Unless I wash you, you have no part with me."

Jesus was washing the feet of the disciples and of course, Peter, being Peter, did not want the Lord to lower himself to wash His feet, but after Jesus telling him He had to wash him, Peter wanted to be drenched with the washing.

As I was reading this scripture, I thought of how when I truly turned myself to the Lord, truly after so many years of feeling that I was never going to know this love, this Annointed Presence again, I felt washed, totally washed by the blood of my Lord.  I felt clean, spotless, loved.  I know I was loved before, as I know now that my God has always loved me, He has always waited for me to come to Him, truly come.  But now, washed I knew in my heart if was so.  I was totally convinced and nothing the enemy can do will take that knowledge from me.

But each day, you know how you feel when you return home in the evenings, after being in the world all day.  I feel grimy, like I need a bath that will scrub a few layers of skin off me.  To get under my nails, totally scrub and scrub myself.  There is not enough soap and water in this world to get this kind of dirt off you after being among so many in the world that are not of the Lord.  There is but One that can clean me from all this daily activity around me.  Just as He sustains me while I am there at work, or at the store, while so many things are being done and said around me, how he protects me from harm, He also needs to take care of the daily ritual of cleansing me.

I truly believe we need to be cleansed each day, over and over.  I love my Lord and I try daily to walk in the very Christian attitude and love He places on me.  I do a pretty good job, but I have the enemy constantly throwing his darts at me, trying to get through to what would hurt or wound me.  I just feel like I need a good washing, the only kind my Lord can give, when I get home.  I need His washing my outer body just so I can feel that there is no sinful residue on me from the world.  That anything I came in contact with is gone, not to linger in my home.  I need my mind washed and renewed so I know there are no thoughts that are not of my Lord, nothing that would shame me before my King.  I need my heart washed so I know that no kind of judgment, dislike, or anger is there.  Such actions could keep me from coming into the presence of my Lord.  I need my soul washed so that joy can once again pour out all over me, like a fragrant oil, the oil of joy of my Lord.  And lastly I need my spirit washed.  I need to have my spirit cleansed and restored to be one with my God again.  I need nothing of the outside world to linger there and interfer with the communication between me and my Lord.

I realize that some will think if I was truly washed, cleansed by the blood that I should be able to stay spotless, but I find as long as we are here on this earth, with so many of the enemy's soldiers around, well you are going to get dirty.  If I just let a thought linger in my mind for a moment, I feel dirty.  If I find myself falling into the pit of saying something that is not worthy of me, a child of god; I feel dirty.  I don't like this feeling at all.  I want always to be the child my God wants me to be, that He expects me to be.  His beloved should not have anything ungodly about her.  And I do not want to be that way, so I, if you don't mind, will ask my Lord for a daily washing.  Just cleanse me, Lord, each day, to keep me spotless before You, to keep me in your presence.  Cleansed, sweet before You, knowing You are pleased with me.
A worshiper is what I am.  A worshiper is what You taught me to be.  I know I must be without blame to come before You and worship You like You desire.  I love to worship You my Lord.  I must worship You always.....You mean so much to me.  You are so good to me.  I know You love me so much and I do so want to be all You want me to be, in You.

This 7th day of May, 2011, my Lord, I stand before You, freshly cleansed today by Your blood, shed for me, worshiping You with all my heart and soul.  My spirit sings to You from my most inner being as I seek You once again this night.  I long to be with You my Lord.  I long to see Your face.... 

THE GREEN LIGHT OF FAITH

Jude 1:20  "But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in you most holy faith, and pray in the Holy Spirit."

I was reading the Word earlier today and I was reading in Jude.  When I got to this scripture about building up my faith, I stopped to think about that.  The Lord was trying to get my attention to the fact that I can never sit and rest on the faith that I have at this point.  Faith needs to be re-established each day.  New faith, stronger faith, a more resilent faith in our Lord.  Faith that stays as it is from day to day will become weary, diminished somewhat without new expereinces that keep producing stronger faith in God.  The Lord does new things for us each day to show His wonderful power, grace and His mercy to us.  How He keeps us afloat in our daily lives, not letting us sink when circumstances come against us, when the enemy would cause us to begin to question our walk.  Our God is never far from us and He is lifting us up to Himself more and more as we continue to walk in His light, as we look to Him for our daily substance, for our very breath.  He is more than enough to supply everything we need, everything I need comes from Him.

See, I realized some time back that without my Lord, I can do nothing.  And now I am to the point, that without my Lord, I do not want to do anything.  I am going with God, all the way.  There is no turning back for me now.  If my God is not in something, than trust me when I say, neither am I.  I can remember when worrry was second nature to me.  But now my second nature is my faith in God.  No matter what comes my way, I can honestly say that I do not fear, as I know that my Lord already knows about it and He is making arrangements to walk me through it. Right by my side, holding my hand, walking me through it.

Faith.  With the kind of faith the Lord asks us to have in Him, we have a green light to walk in complete trust in Him.  Walk that path that He sets before us, never fearing that something might happen to us, as we trust in Him completely and fear not.  Faith.  The kind of faith that is necessary to stand against anyone who would curse us, spitefully use us and lie about us.  We don't have to try to defend ourselves as our Lord in Heaven is our Counsel, He is our Defender and He is our Shield  He made us complete in Him and has stirred up the passion of the Father to pour out all His mercy and grace upon us that will enpower us to stand there and let our faith do our talking for us.  Never waivering, just standing in the face of defiant followers of the enemy and let them see what a child of God does when attacked.   I, for one, will be the undefeated example of a child of God who has had her faith built up on a daily basis, never settling for what would be yesterdays faith, but constantly adding to the storeroom of faith as the Lord shows Himself more trustful, more loving each day.

All I have is You, Lord.  There is none other that I would go to for anything but You.  You have provided to me all that is necessary for my life.  I am content in what You have for me as I trust, in this powerful faith I have in You, that You want what is the very best for my life.  I know I have the best, as I have You, my Lord.  I have a love that surpasses any love known to man, I have peace that is like a river running over me constantly, I have joy that is poured our from Your heart, and I have Your presence.....Your precious presence.  I have all I need.

I have a green light to go, to run, to stand, and to continually rest in You, my Lord.  I trust in You.  Thank You for showing up each day, thank You for adding to my faith each step of the way so I never have to rely on what happened yesterday or last month, but there are fresh mercies to build my faith each day.  Faith that can more a mountain, faith that can do anything in You.  In You, my Lord, is my faith, my trust.

Thank you for my life, Lord.  Thank you for what You are doing in me each day.  For You are making me into the likeness of Yourself, one day at a time.  This 6th day of May, 2011, I ask, Lord, always, more of You, less of me, until, please Savior, please my Beloved, let me see just You in me.