Influence

The people who influence us the most are not those who detain us with their continual talk, but those who live their lives like stars in the sky, and the lilies of the field -- simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mold and shape us.
-Oswald Chambers

Answered Prayer- in God's Way

"I asked for strength --

and God gave me difficulties to make me strong.

I asked for wisdom --

and God gave me problems to solve.

I asked for prosperity --

and God gave me brain and brawn to work.

I asked for courage --

and God gave me dangers to overcome.

I asked for love --

and God gave me opportunities.

I received nothing I wanted --

I receieved everything I needed.

My prayer has been answered."

Simply Trusting

Help me to trust when things are not going my way, O Lord.

Help me to trust when I see not.

Help me to trust when I feel not.

Help me to trust when I hear not.

Help me to simply trust my Heavenly Father.

Help me O Lord!

He is the Giver of all good things.

He has given me His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.

Won't my gracious Heavenly Father freely give me all things?

God wants the best and nothing less for me.

He loves me.

He even has the number of hair on my head numbered.

How can I doubt?

Help me with my unbelief Lord.

"You shall call, and the Lord will answer;

...the Lord will guide you continually,

and satisfy your soul in drought,

and strengthen your bones;

You shall be like a watered garden,

and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail."

Isaiah 58:9, 11

Nearer, Still Nearer

Nearer, still nearer close to Thy heart

Draw me, my Saviour, so precious Thou art

Fold me, O fold me close to Thy breast

Shelter me safe in that "Haven of Rest,"

Shelter me safe in that "Haven of Rest."

Nearer, still nearer nothing I bring

Naught an off'ring to Jesus my King

Only my sinful now contrite heart

Grant me the cleansing Thy blood doth impart

Grant me the cleansing Thy blood doth impart.

by Lelia N. Morris

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."

Philippians 4.13

God is more than enough!

Childlike Love

credit: ridewiththewind

If our love were but more simple

We should take Him at His Word

And our lives would be all sunshine

In the sweetness of our Lord.

- Jim Elliot

big or small

Trust the Lord with all my heart,

lean not unto my own understanding,

in all my ways acknowledge Him,

and He will make my paths straight.

Proverbs 3.5-6 (NASB)

"It is nothing less than self-idolatry to conceive that we can carry on even the ordinary matters of the day without his counsel. He loves to be consulted...Consider no circumstances too clear to need His direction. In all thy ways, small as well as great; in all thy concerns, personal or relative, temporal or eternal, let Him be supreme." Charles Bridges

waiting and knowing God

Bahman Farzard

You're waiting for the day to be swept off your feet,

Dreaming of the blessed hour, when two hearts will meet.

It's easy to get caught up, lost in wishful thinking,

But a dream is just a dream until it becomes reality.

Let thine eye be single; guard your heart faithfully,

I know what is best, trust and abide in Me.

'Cause true love only comes from truly knowing Me.

I have a perfect plan - My child, wait paitently.

You are a king's princess, though maybe still a child,

With love I give these words:

Dream of Me and wait awhile.

-Jaclynn Robinson

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the fireworks season is approaching! :)