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Posted on 07/01/2019 12:03:00 AM PDT by JustAmy
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Beautiful. Thank you, MEG. And to you.
(((HUGS)))
Awesome picture Meg! Thank you
Got the cat chow today... now will hope kitty comes back. Will be taking the food inside at night so the racoons don’t eat it. I hope he comes back tomorrow.
Cheers
(((((Hugs!)))))
Bible in a Year : Job 36–37; Acts 15:22–41
God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them. Exodus 2:25
Barbara grew up under the care of the British government in the 1960s, but when she turned sixteen, she and her newborn son, Simon, became homeless. The state was no longer obligated to provide for her at that age. Barbara wrote to the Queen of England for help and received a response! The Queen compassionately arranged for Barbara to be given a house of her own.
The Queen of England had the right resources to help Barbara, and her compassionate assistance can be seen as a small picture of God’s help. The King of heaven knows all of our needs and sovereignly works out His plans in our lives. As He does, however, He longs for us to come to Him—sharing our needs and other concerns—as part of our loving relationship with Him.
The Israelites brought their need for deliverance to God. They were suffering under the burden of Egyptian slavery and cried out for help. He heard them and remembered His promise: “God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them” (Exodus 2:25). He instructed Moses to bring liberty to His people and declared that He would once again release them “into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey” (3:8).
Our King loves it when we come to Him! He wisely provides what we need, not necessarily what we want. Let’s rest in His sovereign, loving provision.
Why is it important for us to bring our needs to God in prayer? How can you learn to rest in God’s provision—whatever that may be?
Loving God, thank You that I can bring my needs to You. Help me to be content in whatever paths and provisions You choose.
Thank you.
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I want you to know that I have great fondness for you and all of the friends on Amy's Place, you all are the 'best'! I post on a small forum now and have done well there but will always love Free Republic. 
Blessings to ALL of you and please forgive me when I don't always reply back. I'm always touched that so many still ping me!!
I wrote, "I want you to know that I have great fondness for you and all of the friends on Amy's Place, you all are the 'best'! I post on a small forum now and have done well there but will always love Free Republic." I hope this one posts right, lol.
Thank you dear Kitty and (((HUGS))) back to you! :)
We had a dog that loved watermelon!
None of my five ever had a taste for it. They only liked things that taste like MEAT. LOL.
When my husband gave that dog watermelon I thought he was nuts. Then Dusty ate it. Our current dog likes raw carrots.
Hold on to what is good,
even if it's a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe,
Even if it's a tree that stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do,
Even if it's a long way from here.
Hold on to your life,
Even if it's easier to let go.
Hold on to my hand,
Even if I've gone away from you.Pueblo Indian Prayer
A Happy GratiTuesday to everyone here at Amy's Place.
Bible in a Year : Job 38–40; Acts 16:1–21
In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help, and you listened to my cry. Jonah 2:2 On July 18, 1983, a US Air Force captain disappeared from Albuquerque, New Mexico, without a trace. Thirty-five years later, authorities found him in California. The New York Times reports that, “depressed about his job,” he’d simply run away.
Thirty-five years on the run! Half a lifetime spent looking over his shoulder! I have to imagine that anxiety and paranoia were this man’s constant companions.
But I have to admit, I also know a bit about being “on the run.” No, I’ve never abruptly fled something in my life . . . physically. But at times I know there’s something God wants me to do, something I need to face or confess. I don’t want to do it. And so, in my own way, I run too.
The prophet Jonah is infamous for literally running from God’s assignment to preach to the city of Nineveh (see Jonah 1:1–3). But, of course, he couldn’t outrun God. You’ve probably heard what happened (vv. 4,17): A storm. A fish. A swallowing. And, in the belly of the beast, a reckoning, in which Jonah faced what he’d done and cried to God for help (2:2).
Jonah wasn’t a perfect prophet. But I take comfort in his remarkable story, because, even despite Jonah’s stubbornness, God never let go of him. The Lord still answered the man’s desperate prayer, graciously restoring His reluctant servant (v. 2)—just as He does with us.
What, if anything, have you tried to run away from in your life? How can you grow in bringing to God the pressures that overwhelm you?
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