Monday, December 12, 2022

Waking up to Great Is Thy Faithfulness

Waking up to Great is Thy Faithfulness
by David Brenneman

That's how my morning started.  Anxiety and anxious thoughts were trying to hit me before my alarm went off but the Spirit brought that song before anything got going.  Much indeed is going on this week that I won't get into here.  It's all encompassing.  

Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my FatherThere is no shadow of turning with TheeThou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail notAs Thou hast been, Thou forever will be
Great is Thy faithfulnessGreat is Thy faithfulnessMorning by morning new mercies I seeAll I have needed Thy hand hath providedGreat is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me
Summer and winter and springtime and harvestSun, moon and stars in their courses aboveJoin with all nature in manifold witnessTo Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love
Great is Thy faithfulnessGreat is Thy faithfulnessMorning by morning new mercies I seeAll I have needed Thy hand hath providedGreat is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me
Pardon for sin and a peace that endurethThine own dear presence to cheer and to guideStrength for today and bright hope for tomorrowBlessings all mine with 10, 000 beside
Great is Thy faithfulnessGreat is Thy faithfulnessMorning by morning new mercies I seeAll I have needed Thy hand hath providedGreat is Thy faithfulnessGreat is Thy faithfulnessGreat is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me

There's the timing of God.  My prayers haven't been in vain.  My life is for Him. 

To the waves that are crashing in my mind He says Peace, be still!

To the problems and situations that arise He says much the same. 

John 14:27 NASB "Peace I leave you, My peace I give you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, nor fearful."

I quite often keep much of my thoughts to myself.  We're still building relationships here so there hasn't really been anyone to sit down and talk to or confide in man to man yet.  

Life for most everyone isn't as it appears to be.  As we were reminded from Ephesians 6:12 NASB "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places."  

The battlefield is our minds.
The objective is our hearts.

The enemy doesn't want Believers to be fully devoted followers of Christ Jesus. 
The enemy doesn't want people to find the truth about the free gift of salvation through Jesus Christ. 

He wants people chained to sins by getting us all to call them something else. 

To even get us to grade those sins as not so bad or at least not as bad as others. 

Anxiety and anxious thoughts can come from anywhere. From sin or sins or from perceptions of life.  

It makes it all the more imperative to be in prayer with the one with whom our peace comes from. 

While I indeed face mental challenges, physical challenges and Spiritual warfare while trying to grow in Christ, great is His faithfulness in keeping His promise to never leave us or forsake us.

As others have written I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds my future. 

Many times I don't know what to do but keep in prayer and bring my thoughts and requests to my God.  I don't have all the answers, that is with Jesus. 

His promises that are for me have never failed.  Not all of His promises are for me. It's those promises that fit the will of God for me that I receive.  

Seems the next thoughts are to be:

When peace like a river attendeth my way
When sorrows like sea billows roll
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to sayIt is well, it is well with my soul
It is well (it is well)With my soul (with my soul)It is well, it is well with my soul
Though Satan should buffet, though trials should comeLet this blest assurance controlThat Christ (yes, He has) has regarded my helpless estateAnd has shed His own blood for my soul
It is well (it is well)With my soul (with my soul)It is well, it is well with my soul
My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought (a thought)My sin, not in part, but the whole (every bit, every bit, all of it)Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more (yes!)Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
It is well (it is well)With my soul (with my soul)It is well, it is well with my soul
Sing it as well
It is well (it is well)With my soul (with my soul)It is well, it is well with my soul
And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sightThe clouds be rolled back as a scrollThe trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descendEven so, it is well with my soul!
It is well (it is well)With my soul (with my soul)It is well, it is well with my soul
Sing up to Jesus, it is well!
It is well (it is well)With my soul (with my soul)It is well, it is well with my soul"

Not having answers often bothers me. Not knowing who to physically ask often bothers me.  In Christ I ask as often as I can however I can.  With words or without when I don't know what to say. 

Ephesians 3:20-21 NASB "Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen."

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9 NASB 

"Oh, how He loves you and me, Oh how He loves you and me. He gave his life, what more could he give?
Oh, how He loves you; Oh, how he loves me; Oh, how he loves you and me."

"When peace like a river attendeth my way
When sorrows like sea billows rollWhatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say It is well, it is well with my soul"

These are my thoughts at this hour of the morning.  We have life in front of us to live to the best of our ability to be lived to the glory of God the Father.  I will probably be doing a Nehemiah today and throughout the week to keep anxiety at bay.  

That would be Nehemiah 2:4 NASB "Then the king said to me, "What would you request?" So I prayed to the God of heaven."  Often thought of as bullet prayers.  When time doesn't permit stopping to pray, pray anyway. 

I would ask for your prayers as I pray for all of you.  Holidays are always potentially stressful, couple that with the vast uncertainty of life that we see and it gets complicated.  I am so glad it's not complicated to my God. 


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