Look What the Lord Has Done

Look what the Lord has done.

Look what the Lord has done.

He healed my body, He touched my mind,

He saved me just in time.

I'm gonna praise His name,

His name is just the same.

I'm gonna praise Him,

look what the Lord has done.

That is one of my favorite praise and worship songs, of course just like Bible verses, I have many favorites.

What has the Lord done for you today? If you are reading this, you can say He has given you the precious breath of life another day! Praise God.

He gave you today but what you do with today is up to you. God gave you freewill and a choice. He gave you breath, He gave you life. The rest of the day's choices are up to you, beginning with choosing to get out of bed or just lay there. The Bible says to choose "this day" whom you will serve. Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

As for me and my house, we WILL serve the Lord.

Look what the Lord has done. Have you asked God for healing, finances, maybe just some peace in your day? Did you pray believing? Did you praise Him immediately after for answering your prayers? Or, did you first check the symptoms to see if He had?

Let me stray a bit to say (again) as I've said before in my blogs. God is speaking to me and I've asked myself all the same questions that I write in my blogs. I am never attacking anyone with what I write.

Unfortunately, not to long ago my answer to those questions were yes, no and yes.

I prayed (yes), I did not praise God immediately after (no), and I immediately checked to "see" if God had answered my prayers (no).

But... I'm learning!!! I'm learning to put ALL my faith in God. That means that now I go to Him in prayer (yes), I praise Him for His grace and Mercy first, (which by the way are free), (yes), and His answer to my prayers, and I no longer look immediately at the circumstances to see if He has answered me, because I know He will, (yes). I know that God in His infinite wisdom is going to answer my prayers, not in my time but in His time. He tells me in His word "anything" I ask, 1 John 5:14-15, 14And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

If I pray for healing, I believe He has healed me. If I don't see the results immediately I don't look to see, I continue to praise Him for what He is going to do.

We can choose to hang on to our sickness and problems and NOT claim healing or we can "pick up our bed and walk". Look what the Lord has done!

I recently read a wonderful book with all you need to know about healing and praying God's will. It's called the Bible. I have never enjoyed reading any other book as much as that one since I prayed for God to reveal His word to me! God gives us so much and every promise He has made He has to keep because He cannot lie.

I read another book on healing and something the author said in the book caught my attention. She said, "When god heals you, you can't keep your handicap sign". I love that. Who would want to??? So many times we pray for healing or ask others to pray for healing for us and then we don't accept it. We just go on complaining and showing our lack of faith. We choose to lay in bed instead of picking it up.

I was reading in Acts 3:19, about the lame man that laid outside the temple gates asking for alms.

Peter and John commanded him "in the name of Jesus", "to get up and walk and he did, praising God for his healing! Not only that, the Bible says he leaped up. He had a choice. Beggars can't be choosers but God gives us the right to choose. Laying outside the temple begging for alms, its an uncommon word to us. He didn't worry about what he would do next or how he would live. He just KNEW he was healed. He leaped up and praised God. Look what the Lord has done.

Father, God help me to walk in Your perfect will. Help me always when I pray to leap up accepting Your blessings and my healing from You. I give you praise, honor and glory right now Father for what You have done. Touch my life today, heal me from the inside out Lord. I have a special hurt in my life that only You can heal right now Lord God, You know what it is. Heal and cleanse my heart first, help me to live and love as You do. Keep me in Your perfect will and sustain me, lead and guide me today.

Father, I ask for those reading this today that You would heal them, whatever the problem God, You know what it is. Help them to see You instead of the mountain they are facing. You are bigger than any mountain. Heal them and help them to see that You are the Great Physician, nothing is to big or too small for You. Help them Lord to grow in faith so they can learn to depend on You. Touch them in a mighty way Father so they have no doubt their healing and answered prayers come from You. In Jesus name I ask and pray. Lord again I give You all the praise, honor and glory knowing that whatever we ask in Jesus name, believing and having faith in You, You are faithful and just to answer our prayers. I love you Lord and I praise You. In the name of Jesus. Amen

Now, "Look what the Lord has done." Take up your bed in the name of Jesus, you are healed!!

God bless

tawanab

Don't tell God how big the mountain is -

Tell the mountain how big your God is. Trusting in Jesus means I don't have to try and "fix" everything and everybody! Isn't it funny how sometimes things just "come" to us and it's like a light bulb being turned on? I've really honestly learned to turn my trials and troubles over to God and let Him handle them, although being human I occasionally still try to "fix" things myself. When God wants me to learn something knew He isn't shy about it. Everywhere I turn, everything I look at, everything I pick up to read will illustrate His point and what He is trying to teach me.

You might say today's lesson is "Lean on me". I open facebook and see a status that says, "Let Go and Let God". My message of the day says, "The weight you carry on your shoulders is too heavy for one human being. Give some of that weight where it belongs, - to God and have faith that what happens is for the best, whether you understand it or not." I get a daily email called, "what the Lord is saying today", that also has a lesson about NOT trying to fix everything myself. Now what would you think? Think the Lord is trying to tell me something? I sure do, and I'm listening Lord.

Yesterday I got an answer to something I've waited on for almost two years and finally after all this time the answer was yes, praise God. However, after finally getting a positive answer, the rest of the day I worried!!! I worried what if -- what if they change their mind, what if something happens and they reverse the decision, what if one side still doesn't agree and decides to fight it. Very quietly that small still voice is telling me, "it's okay. Didn't "I" fix this, am I not still in control here? Haven't I been telling you all this time, trust me?" "Lean on me, trust not in your own understanding." Wow what powerful words! Then I remember how wonderful it is to trust in Jesus, what a burden is lifted when I just let go and let Him do His work. He loves me, that is all that matters. He promised me in His word that He would take care of me. He does. It's true when "I've been down to nothing, God has been up to something."
God bless you and yours
Tawana B
pray for the peace of Israel.

God don't move that Mountain

We all have different devices we use to escape reality. For some its a shopping spree, for others its a good book and for still others its sleep. But eventually reality steps back in, we can't avoid it forever. Though at times when life is really rocky we would like to. I was talking to one of my daughters on the phone tonight and we were talking about "if it weren't for bad luck we'd have no luck at all" and suddenly it occurred to me that these trials are just that, trials. Maybe God is strengthening us for things yet to come. Now that thought doesn't really give me warm fuzzies thinking that God might be toughening us up for something worse, cuz at times it seems about as bad as it can get right now but deep down I know that isn't true. I know the cliche, "look around there is always someone worse off than yourself" but it's NOT just a cliche. That thought brought one of my favorite songs (I have many lol) to mind. The name of the song is "God Don't Move That Mountain". Basically what the song says is don't take away my troubles, just give me the strength to face them. The words, "Lord don't move that mountain, just give me the strength to climb, for if you should move each mountain I might grow weaker every time" is so true for me possibly for most of us. The easier we have it the weaker we are the next time we face a trial. The song goes on to say that if God moves that mountain "I" might forget to pray and that really hits home! I couldn't tell you how many times I've found myself going through a day, I got up, started my day running, without a prayer and then before I know it, my head drops on the pillow and I'm asleep again without praying. Then the next day goes by and the next day and then something goes wrong and all of a sudden God is the first person that comes to mind. My prayer is to start my day with prayer, pray through the day and in the evening. The Bible tells us to pray without ceasing. That doesn't just mean when we are facing a mountain, that means all the time. There is another song that I dearly love (told you I had a bunch), called The God on the Mountain. That song says "the God on the mountain is still God in the valley". "The God of the day is still God in the night". "The God in the good times is still God in the bad times". Though I haven't written the words in the exact order, what that means is He is there for us always. When you face a mountain in your life, just remember, don't ask God to move it, just ask Him for more strength to climb it. He is there always for all of us. The devil would have us think we are unworthy and he is right but we were unworthy when Jesus died for us and still He gave His life. He still loved us, He stood in our place to make sure we had a home in Heaven.
Next time you are facing a battle run to the One that can carry you. He is faithful, He loves us all. There is no greater Love.