Clouds

Now if you were to ask me who these artists are....I might be able to tell you....but that is not the reason for posting them....When we look at the clouds ...in NY ii can feel so gloomy . There are times when I long to see the sun shining....however with out the clouds there would be no rain and with out the rain there would be no growth.
That makes me think about what goes on in my life......there may be many clouds glooming around ...and then the rain may come and cleanse and refresh my soil......But...the Son is always there even if all I see are clouds, mud and brown colors all around me.....I know that new life is beginning every time it rains and that the Son of God will raise me up from it all.
He is my hope and desire..and my love.

I am turning 40

May he begin a new work in Me

Forty is something new and beautiful

Fighting weariness

Isaiah 40:29
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

Isaiah 40:31
but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Jeremiah 31:25
I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint."

Matthew 11:28
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Trust

5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;

6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5&6


I am feeling pressure all around me in many thing in my life, sometimes my heart feels as though it is going to explode.

Psalms 121 :1-3 1 I lift up my eyes to the hills— where does my help come from?

2 My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.

3 He will not let your foot slip— he who watches over you will not slumber;

My eyes need to look up to Him at all times.

Duet 1:29-31

29 Then I said to you, "Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them. 30 The LORD your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, 31 and in the desert. There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place."

I Have hope in Him.

Psalms 33:18 18 But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,
Thank you Lord for being there for me at all time....so that at all time I may seek your face.

HIs word is strength to my bones and heart

Ephesians 6:12
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Psalm 3:4
To the LORD I cry aloud, and he answers me from his holy hill. Selah

Psalm 6:9
The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.

Need I say any more?... the Word of God is my strength.
Exodus 15:2
The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.

God's Love for us all....Happy Valentines day

1 Chronicles 16:34
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.

Psalm 13:5
But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.

Psalm 26:3
for your love is ever before me, and I walk continually in your truth.

Psalm 33:22
May your unfailing love rest upon us, O LORD, even as we put our hope in you.

Psalm 36:7
How priceless is your unfailing love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of your wings.

What is the one thing I choose?

Philippians 3:13-14

13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus

Psalm 27:4 4 One thing I ask of the LORD,
this is what I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD
and to seek him in his temple.

Luke 10:41-42
41"Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, 42but only one thing is needed.^[a] Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her."

What is my focus? What is my mind on throughout the day and night?

Psalm 63:1-7
1 O God, you are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you,
my body longs for you,
in a dry and weary land
where there is no water.

2 I have seen you in the sanctuary
and beheld your power and your glory.

3 Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.

4 I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.

5 My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods;
with singing lips my mouth will praise you.

6 On my bed I remember you;
I think of you through the watches of the night.

7 Because you are my help,
I sing in the shadow of your wings.