tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47398998595554233592024-03-08T01:45:26.814-08:00Princess PonderingsDarlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11362063055732832528noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739899859555423359.post-13007951317138865402010-01-27T17:11:00.000-08:002010-01-27T17:11:59.722-08:00well...<span style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Been working on reconstructing my blog "overcomer" into something that God has laid on my heart. Still working on my book that may never be finished, but its teaching me alot! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I will still be keeping this one as it speaks my heart, and i love the background! LOL i am easy like that! I would love to hear from you and could use the encouragement Princess to Princess. If you would like to visit the new blog<a href="http://4evrhis.wordpress.com/"> ponderings of a princess</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Peace and Love...God Rocks! and daily melts my face off..or it feels like that..yah i still have a face =D</span></span>Darlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11362063055732832528noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739899859555423359.post-85440150477479920752009-12-31T06:42:00.000-08:002009-12-31T06:44:09.778-08:00Happy New Year...ponderism...<div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; font: normal normal normal 13px/19px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0.6em; padding-right: 0.6em; padding-top: 0.6em;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;"><span></span>Reflecting on the New Year that we are about to enter, so many things flood my mind. Good, Bad, indifferent, all definitely a part of living. As I enter the New Year, I choose to remember these things...</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">**God is trustworthy</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">**God is loyal</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">**God is faithful</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">**God is never too busy</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">**God never forgets us for a second</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">**God wants the best for HIS children</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">**God's glory will always shine</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">**God always has a plan</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">**God is love, and shares with me</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">**God provides for me, always</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">**My identity is found in HIM</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">**Everything falls on HOPE , FAITH, LOVE, GRACE, MERCY, and a never ending supply of all!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What was it like for you to transform God the son in to a human form? How much did you have to give up to come here? Did you hear you tummy growl for the first time in all eternity? Did you feel what a tear felt like for the first time? As a baby, did you all ready see the shadow of the cross, and was it present through out your earthy life? Did the Angels gasp when you disclosed your plan to them?,or did they rejoice immediately? Although Mary was submissive to your will, did she ever doubt, or have great fear? </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Altho my mind runs on and on..I know that this holiday is not about a baby, its about your redemption plan. The great extents you went to in order to build the bridge to bring us back to you, even while in a cursed world. You are amazing! Beautiful! We are so very loved by You. I cannot wrap my head around all that you sacrificed to bring us to you. Only a heart of Love, Mercy, Grace, would even attempt it. Yet you did it all, while we still walked in sin. I can not comprehend. But I am grateful, thankful, humbled...that my King would confine himself in a human body, for no other reason than to die for me, leaving all the riches of Heaven, a truly perfect, holy, supreme being....for someone like me. Thank you, Happy Anniversary of the day your plan unfolded for man's redemption, as the angels dance around your throne. Your princess who loves pondering on things above!</span></span></span>Darlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11362063055732832528noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739899859555423359.post-72816652340477758162009-11-16T16:38:00.000-08:002009-11-16T16:38:08.263-08:00God loves the children<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Father God, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">you placed a young girl(7) in my path today, her story ripped my heart in pieces. so very beautiful and innocent in appearance, but nothing in her young mind is innocent. Sin in the world has already gotten to her. As i looked at her, i heard you remind me how you love the children. Even at her young age you are forming her testimony. Please...open the doors for me to help her, or bring others around her. Oh how i pray that the things she has encountered is all that she will have to, and You will show yourself to her. Protect her. Bring adults in her life that will raise her in you. praying that you are already moving in her heart, and that she will sleep in your shadow, dreaming the things that little girls should dream. Your princess who is sure she just met her little sister in you</span></span>Darlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11362063055732832528noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739899859555423359.post-88729485730297880112009-11-10T17:33:00.000-08:002009-11-10T17:33:14.329-08:00traveling thru Baca<span style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Psalm 84:5-7</span></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Blessed are those whose strength is in you,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">As they pass through the Valley of Baca,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">they make it a place of springs;</span></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">the autumn rains also cover it with pools.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">They go from strength to strength,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">til each appears before God in Zion.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The Valley of Baca, a desolate place, dry, sadness, weary...we go in and out of it as we continue to press on towards knowing and loving the LORD more. Not to be confused with James 1 that tells us about being tossed around like a man with a divided heart. We have a choice in the valley to draw closer to the LORD and allow HIM to shine through us. The most amazing thing about the valley is.....others are watching us as we go through our trials, and they can see Jesus in us, even when we don't. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">On our pilgrimage, when the valleys seems to about crush us, we need to remember to ask HIM "what do you want me to learn here?" and praise HIM through it. No its not a normal worldly thing, but we are not at home here, we belong to heaven...a heart on pilgrimage headed and pressing hard..traveling to our final destination..HOME. Traveling from strength to strength..</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Lord, thanks for bringing me back here to remember the lessons you taught me in this. I have a heart set on pilgrimage, this world is going to be uncomfortable to me, and at times i won't fit in here. But Heaven is my home, i belong to heaven...having a focus on the eternal, home with you, where this all started and will end...to a life without end, without tears, without broken hearts, without death. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I so needed this scripture, it seemed to pull it all together for me. your princess whose heart is set on pilgrimage</span></span>Darlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11362063055732832528noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739899859555423359.post-71188035657867941842009-11-04T17:21:00.000-08:002009-11-04T17:28:18.342-08:00Letter to my Watchman<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">(blogged Bible Stud</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">y is on hold, but will get back to it asap)</span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">My Sacred Watchman,</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">I am humbled at the way you watch over me! Thank you. You reach much farther than my mind can comprehend. I don't know how things get so out of control, or how distance comes between us, but you are always faithful in keeping your eye on me, and never allowing me to get beyond your reach. No matter how far i get from you, You are there.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">While reading through Isaiah the last couple of nights, i am forced to look at my own unfaithfulness to you. Thank you for rebuking and then reminding me of your unfailing love, your compassion that is for me. Losing hope, and forgetting what i am here for, is devastating to me and everyone i connect with. Its hard at times to stay in the fellowship of believers when it always seems i don't measure up. It really only matters what you think, and that i am walking in your shadow. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">I can't help but wonder..do your other children struggle the same or is it just me, and the Isrealites? Really don't hear many fess up to being like them, just alot of people with lots of instruction, and coming across as perfect in you. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">I just want to be real..real in You, real in roles as parent, wife and employee. I love that you have your eye on my, and that I am precious to you. You never let go, you are always faithful. You are my watchman, and i am your princess who definitely loses sight of her mission way too often.</span></span></span></span>Darlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11362063055732832528noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739899859555423359.post-39212039008885036722009-10-21T17:45:00.000-07:002009-10-21T17:46:42.181-07:00Blogged Bible Study- Ephesians 2-in the heavenly places<span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Ephesians 2:1-6 </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;"><a class="cf" href="http://www.esvstudybible.org/search?q=Eph+2%3A1%2CCol+2%3A13%2C1%3A21" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"> </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">And you were </span></span><a class="cf" href="http://www.esvstudybible.org/search?q=Eph+2%3A1%2CEph+2%3A5%2C4%3A18%2CLuke+15%3A24" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"> </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">dead in the trespasses and sins </span></span><a class="cf" href="http://www.esvstudybible.org/search?q=Eph+2%3A2%2CEph+4%3A17%2C22%2C5%3A8%2CCol+3%3A7%2CRom+11%3A30%2C1+Cor+6%3A11" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"> </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following </span></span><a class="cf" href="http://www.esvstudybible.org/search?q=Eph+2%3A2%2CEph+6%3A12%2CRev+9%3A11%2CJohn+12%3A31" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; 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font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px; vertical-align: text-top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1em; vertical-align: text-top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"> and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. </span></span><span id="v49002004-1" style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px; vertical-align: text-top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">But</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1em; vertical-align: text-top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">God, being </span></span><a class="cf" href="http://www.esvstudybible.org/search?q=Eph+2%3A4%2CEph+2%3A7%2CTitus+3%3A5%2CRom+2%3A4" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"> </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">rich in mercy, </span></span><a class="cf" href="http://www.esvstudybible.org/search?q=Eph+2%3A4%2CJohn+3%3A16" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; 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<span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Lord, in our immortality, we have so much trouble just seeing what it is you saved us from. We can quote words, but when it comes to a heart connect, we struggle. As I read this again, I stuck fast to these few verses... While we followed your enemy the prince of the air, while we were dead in our sin, your great love made a way for us to be alive together with Christ. How great is your love for us! Because of your grace we are saved from eternal separation from you. As hard as it is at times for me to grasp this love that you have, i can not wrap my head around the fact, that we are already raised up and seated with you in the heavenly places in Christ. Just another awesome thing about you! You see the whole picture, you already see how it all ends, and how eternity with you begins and goes on and on..we are already seated in the heavenly places with you, in Christ. That is quite enough for this princess, understand it fully-no, believe it-yes. Thank you Lord for saving us, and even as we followed your enemy...This GRACE, this LOVE, such MERCY...YOU alone are worthy of all my praise, what priceless gifts you have given to us, we can't comprehend. Your princess who is now pondering on the heavenly places.</span></span></span></span>Darlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11362063055732832528noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739899859555423359.post-72492705889557552512009-10-14T07:20:00.000-07:002009-10-14T07:30:40.776-07:00Blogged Bible Study- Ephesians 1-our identity in Christ<i>I am part of a blogged Bible Study, to find other writers and the days which they post go</i><a href="http://philter48.com/bbs"><i> here</i></a><i>.</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will-to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">* we are blessed with every blessing in the heavenly realms-we have no reason to live in defeat!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">* we are chosen to be holy and blameless in his sight-doesn't say in the worlds eyes, what HE thinks is most important</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">*we are adopted-into his family through what Christ did for us.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">*we are redeemed-no reason to wear the reproach that the world continues to want us to wear.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">*we are forgiven of our sin-does anyone not feel a joy with in knowing they are forgiven?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">*we are loved-in his love for us he did this, and not just mildly...HE lavished it on us! Love that it was HIS great pleasure to do it!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">If we would think on this each day, and apply it to our lives daily, wonder what kind of powerful, contented, and all round different our lives would look like. I need to look at this lots! in my human-ness I tend to forget who I am in Christ, and the name Christ trumps all other names, so who I am in HIM, is definitely more important than what anyone else(including myself) may think of me, and you!</span></span>Darlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11362063055732832528noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739899859555423359.post-59693991111055284562009-10-12T11:01:00.000-07:002009-10-12T11:01:47.230-07:00Seasons are changing<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Seasons are changing, and not just outside my door, but in my heart as well. I know that YOU LORD, are constantly at work in me. At times being the clay is wonderful and your caressing smoothing affects are very enouraging. At times being the clay is painful. I know YOU are molding me into who I am to be in YOU. So although I squirm, and at times jump from the table, I know its all part of your plan, and its not to hurt me but to bring the greater good. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">This weekend you brought some friends back into my life that have been gone for a very long time. From a time when I did not know or love you. As much as I love them, I felt the emptiness of YOU not being part of that relationship. So I beg you to bring them closer to you, and for me to show them YOU, through me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">It seems like the closer we are to YOU, or the more desire we have for YOU, the more the internal war wages. I am sorry for not being the Princess that you have made me to be, and for so very often longing for the life YOU took me from. I can't ever return there, not and know what I know now. So I take you hand, climb back on the table, where you will continue to mold me into something that is more of a likeness of you. Your squirmy princess!</span>Darlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11362063055732832528noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739899859555423359.post-61369454523586430632009-10-09T18:51:00.000-07:002009-10-09T18:52:38.214-07:00now i lay me down to sleep<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Father God,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">today, i realized how quickly our children grow up, and how quickly life changes. It truly scares me to watch them grow into young adults, and begin to make some tough decisions. Again I put them in your hands, where you know the plans you have for them. Asking that you will protect them, and help them make good choices. Asking that the partner you have for them, created just for them, is also being prepared to follow hard after you.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Altho its been a good day, mixed with deep thinking..my heart sings to you "how great is my God"... we are so undeserving of all that you do for us. Please give me a grateful heart, a heart that desires you above all else. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"now i lay me down to sleep"...thank you for being here with me always, thank you for being the night watchmen, my strong tower, for singing over me, keeping me close..there is no place sweeter than wrapped up in you. Your princess, who knows how lost she would be with out You</span>Darlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11362063055732832528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739899859555423359.post-64002157404595151672009-10-08T03:10:00.000-07:002009-10-08T03:21:14.856-07:00I need another do-over<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">LORD, </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">today i sit at your feet, and beg for you to open your mouth and speak. Returning to the road, YOU have set before me, and knowing that you only want the best for me. Although life is hard at times, its always easier walking with YOU. YOU are my King, YOU have adopted me into your family. YOU have loved me with a never ending, unfailing love. YOU have forgiven me for straying so far away from the only ONE who truly matters. Everything is about YOU, and nothing is about me. Nothing or no one has the right to be called Amazing, or Awesome, because you trump every name and title this world has to offer. There is none that compares to YOU, this world has nothing for me, I belong to Heaven, I am part of the KINGdom, and serving is YOU is my great delight! Thank you for your patience, and your consistently pulling me back where I belong, right here by YOUR side! Your Princess who truly is grateful for yet another Do-Over..</span></span></div>Darlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11362063055732832528noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739899859555423359.post-48017909303810852792009-10-04T17:40:00.000-07:002009-10-05T09:54:54.983-07:00Where R the Prophets?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC66CC;">Lord, i have been pondering "where are the prophets of today? the ones you send to warn us to repent, and move from our complacency?" There are so many churches, and so many denominations, and lots are doing awesome things in your name, but few are speaking loudly to repent, or that your Kingdom is here, at work. Recently i have realized that we are your modern day prophets to a lost world. Help us to be bold, and to speak only when you tell us. </span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC66CC;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC66CC;">Your message to the world is more than the precious love you have for us, it is a call to repentance, a call to bow before you, and to take our place in your Kingdom. Its Kingdom living. We need you to direct us. How in the world did we get so far from what you have sent us to do?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', -webkit-fantasy;color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', -webkit-fantasy;color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div>Darlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11362063055732832528noreply@blogger.com1