A Daily bit of Word (Devotion and Verse): A Light at the End of the Tunnel

A Daily bit of Word (Devotion and Verse): A Light at the End of the Tunnel

A Light at the End of the Tunnel

     Sometimes in our lives we find that the journey we have taken or where we may be at this very moment is not where we wanted to end up or we may open our eyes to see the person we are with is not who who we wanted to end up spending our later years with and you think this is how it's going to be for the rest of my life.
   This is a message to most husbands and wives. We grow up and marry the man or woman we fall in love with, have children with this person, build a home with this person, share our bed with this person, cook and clean, love and adore. We take a marriage vow that promises to love, honor, and cherish until death do us part but then as time passes we begin to see a different side to the man or woman, we begin to see all of them or as some say their true colors begin to shine through. The person who in the beginning was happy all the time, bought you flowers, said I love you 10 times a day, could not bare to be without or away from one another because  you yearned to be with them every waking moment and when he or she walked through the door you were there to greet them with a kiss hello. You begin to loo at this person with uncertainty, after 30 years you are not so certain you want to be with them anymore. The bed that you once shared now only occupies one because you have moved into the guest room because his snoring makes you literally want to smother him in is sleep. You look at he or she and they are not handsome or beautiful anymore. Their skin is wrinkled and the lips that used to smile now seem to stay turned down into a frown of unhappiness and anger. The eyes that use to sparkle are now dull and lifeless as if the life has been drained from them. You decide you don't want to be with them anymore, you decide you are not in love with them anymore. They have done nothing wrong you just don't love them. You aren't happy anymore and you want to feel like you did when the love you had was new. You want to feel that shiver that used to run through your body when they touched you, you want that feeling back when you would walk into a room and it was as if you were the the most beautiful person in the world as they look at you with such passion. This my friend is when you need to "STOP"take a moment to think about this situation. Is this not the same person whom you fell so deeply in love with so many years ago? Is this not the person who held you close and whispered sweet nothings in your ear and made you feel so loved and so secure? This is the same person only they are not twenty years old anymore, they are still working those long hours to help to ensure that the two of you are still provided for, the same person who sat up at nights and help you rock the children as they cried due to a sickness and the same person who would love you even as your hair turns to gray and the once smoothe skin begins to wrinkle from the years of living a life that was sometimes hard and sometimes came with many struggles but never with more than you could bare. Why you find your self saying silently to your self would I even think of leaving the one person who has always stood beside me even when there were times I was in the wrong. Why would I ever think of leaving the one person who always let me be me and allowing me to be exactly who I am with my little qerks and oddities, the person who still kisses me good bye in the mornings and who stops to wait for me when I am some times walking a little behind. The one who has held my hand through all the good and all the bad and I close my eyes and pray.

Dear Father in Heaven, thank you for all you have given to me and my spouse, for the lovely times we have shared, the beautiful children we have raised and to the grandchildren to come. Thank you Lord for your patience with us through the years as we have learned to love and as we have grown into a loving aging man and woman Lord. For alllowing us to grow strong in faith and in one another. Bless this marriage Lord and forgive me for thinking if even for a moment that I could ever live without this person, for there is no other on this earth Lord who could ever hold a candle to this love of my life and Lord please I pray, allow us to continue to enjoy one another's love throughout the years to come and to cherish the love Lord that has taken us to such a content place. Thank you Lord for allowing me to live, laugh and love with such a beautiful ,heart and soul. Amen....

To all of us marriage isn't just a vow of the words I DO. It is a holy, spiritual union between to people who promise to love for ever, so when your feeling a little sad for yourself and being a little selfish, pause for a moment and stop to thin maybe it is you that needs to laugh a little more, whimper a little less, and love like there's no tomorrow and remember it takes two to make a house a home and a heart feel loved.

Let his light keep on shining

    As seasons come and seasons go, we all begin to grow older, wiser, and we truly begin to see life for what it really is. Our life is a collection of memories that we have stored up in our minds to think about and share with those we hold near and dear to our hearts, but the most important of all we achieve in this life is by what we do for our Lord. What have we done to make him proud of us, that makes him happy to call us one of his children. I have found out that it doesn't matter how great the things we do are, how much money we will raise for a charity, how big the church we call our own will become, how much we will learn in school or where our careers will takes us. What makes him happier I believe than anything else is how much we truly love him, how much me honestly trust him. Will you give it all up to him? Will you or I give up everything we own without hesitation, knowing that he will take care of us and we will not have to worry about anything. I believe what makes him happiest, is when we stop to say hello to a dirty, homeless stranger on the side of the road that nobody else has taken the time to even notice he existed until just now. What makes our Father God happiest, is when we give without hesitation on the spur of the moment not because you had to think about it first or how much you could give without it hurting your pocket. I know that when we allow his light to shine through us that this is when we have definitely made him the happiest. When we love all out hearts, when we take the time to realize that what we want does not matter as much as what we do with what time we have on this earth. As you go through today, tomorrow and the days to come. As the holiday seasons approach you and your family, let His Light Continue to Shine through everything you do for that light is LOVE of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST!   Let us pray.  Dear Heavenly Father, we come to you on this day to thank you for all you have given to us. For all the love and joy and blessings to have brought into our families lifes and homes. Thank you Lord for letting your loving light shine through each of us in the sometimes little things we do Lord but you make us realize it isn't about size or quantity but about love for one another. Lord please continue to use our bodies as your vessel Lord that we all continue to do as you would have us do daily. Be with the poor, the sick, the dying, the hungry, the homeless, and all of the children of this world Lord, keep them all safe from harm and sin on this day and days to come. In Jesus name we pray, Amen....

I am so Blessed

   As a new school year begins I am once again faced with having to live with the fact that my beautiful daughter is once again away at college. I was blessed with having her home for the summer, but it just wasn't long enough. There wasn't enough time, time to spend with the most precious daughter in the world, time to hold her in my arms and tell her just how much I love her, time to sit and reminisce about the days of old when she was a little girl with not a care in the world and only love in her heart.  In writing this I remember the day she phoned me so excited that she had memorized this Bible verse and as I read it today I realize that this is my daughter, she is so full of this love, the love that the Lord has ask all of us to practice in our everyday living. I have been so blessed with the gift of a child whose heart is so full of light of Christ that she wants nothing more that to share that light and love with all. God has given me the most beautiful gift a mother could ever ask for, a daughter so full of joy and love and goodness.  

1 Corinthians 13:4–8a  
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance ... love will last forever!

Sorry I've Been Away So Long

  I realized today as I was looking through the past year of blogging and all the days I posted a devotional in hopes of helping someone to become closer to God, closer to loving your neighbor, your family, your friends, that I have failed in almost all of the above because I closed my heart to all of you when I closed my lap-top and put my life on hold just so I could go through the motions of wallowing in my own self pity. There is know excuse for what I have done to each of you but I realized also that I miss you all so very much. There is nothing I can do to bring back the sister that I lost so tragically to an illness that had know remorse for taking such a beautiful life but there is something that I can do to help bring a peace of fulfillment to the living, so please accept my apologies for abandoning you for so long. I have missed each of you more than you could possibly imagine. Many of you have said that just being able to read my daily devotionals helped to bring clarity to your day, a smile to your lips and a joy to your heart but please know that you too have done the same for me. My promise to you for the remainder of this season is to come back to you daily once again to bring you my DAILY BIT OF WORD and to share with you a line of scripture in hopes that in some way I may be able to reach out and touch someones life in a spiritual message from our gracious Lord and Savior.
                               

  Let it be known that he who seeks the world without God in it will travel a long, lonely and unfulfilled life but he who seeks the Lord God daily and whole heartily will find that life is filled with a spiritual bliss, a life filled with love, peace and all that is good.
   

                Daily Bit of Word

 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. 
(Psalm 22:26)

 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
(Psalm 37:4)

 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
(Psalm 107:9)

 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
(Psalm 145:15,16)

 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
(Isaiah 55:2)

 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
(Isaiah 58:10,11)

Gotta Have Faith

             

Hebrews 11:1-40  

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. 

Faith is something that I have definitely learned to have over the past several years. If not for faith in the Lord God I would not be able to have came this far. I have faltered, stumbled and failed so many times in my life but, when I accepted God and truly gave my heart to him wonderful things began to happen in my life. I defeated evil temptations through faith, I was healed from medical ailments

through faith in the Father. My life is so much better now with God in it. Without him I was but a broken soul drifting alone in this world but with him I rejoice for I am alive and happy and have the faith and belief to know that all things are possible through him. It is our faith that makes us who we are spiritually. Faith in God works miracles that might never happen if we didn't believe. Let us pray.

Dear Lord, we thank you for this day. Help us Lord that we continue to grow spiritually and that we learn that faith is the answer to our prayers. For through faith all things are possible. I pray Lord that today many lost souls will seek your love, that they may know the happiness that is awaiting them when they allow you to come into their lives Lord. I pray for the poor, the sick, the dying, the hungry and the homeless Lord. I pray for all the children of the world dear Lord, for they are with you always, their protection is given to them through your love. I pray that they not be hurt or burdened or hungered but pray that they know only happiness Lord. In Jesus name I pray that this world know only peace and joy on this day dear Lord. Amen..

Power of Prayer

The Power of Prayer!Is wonderful, is beautiful, is a miracle in the making. Our faith is strong and the power of prayer can only help things along. For why do we expect God to just continually do good in our lives if we are not willing to whisper a prayer of thanks or a prayer of need to him daily. Maybe the reason your not getting what you ask for, is because your not asking it in the proper manner.The Lord says ask for and ye shall receive, have you ask him in prayer, or did you just ask?