TSMSS - For As Long As I Shall Live...

Originally posted at the beginning of the year, but reposting for TSMSS hosted by Amy--reaffirming my love for my God. Will you join me?

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...I will testify to Love...With every breath I take, I will give thanks to God above...I declare my love to You, my God!


I can think of no other song to start my New Year off with than with one of the moments in a Touched By An Angel episode that made my spirit soar and touched emotions deep within...if this is your desire, sing with me...Testify to Love (Psalm 151) sung by Wynonna Judd...
Happy New Year to one and all and may you all testify to His love in 2009!



All the colors of the rainbow
All the voices of the wind
Every dream that reaches out
Reaches out to find where love begins
Every word of every story
Every star in every sky
Every corner of creation lives to testify

Chorus:
For as long as I shall live
I will testify to love
Be a witness in the silences
when words are not enough
With every breath I take
I will give thanks to God above
For as long as I shall live
I will testify to love

From the mountains to the valleys
From the rivers to the seas
Every hand that reaches out
Every hand that reaches out to offer peace
Every simple act of mercy
Every step to kingdom come
All the hope in every heart
will speak what love has done

My birthday prayer, November 11, 2009

My friend, Lidj,has honored me with this prayer she posted on her blogsite, Rhythms of Grace, for my birthday. I am mesmerized by her heart and words and there are no words to express my gratitude to her. Thank you, Lidj.

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As the deer pants for the water brooks
So pants my soul for You, O God.

Psalm 42:1


Today, November 11, is the day your were born, dear Sita.

It is a special day, and heaven is rejoicing as the Father sees what you are becoming.

He is proud of you, and delights in you.

He sees your hunger :

...for righteousness

...for His presence

...for His peace to reign in your life.

And your heart will be filled.

He says to you today, "I will not turn the hungry away. You will never leave My presence empty-handed. You open your mouth and I will fill it. I will give you the desires of your heart."

He hears you ask, "How long, my Father, how long before I see your glory reign upon my circumstances, and upon the earth?"

He says, "I am giving you brand new eyes to see my glory in a way you've never seen it before."

Dear Father, I thank you for this dear woman, Sita. She is a friend You have given me. She is a gift I never expected to have, and yet, you sent her into my life.

You have a purpose for allowing our lives to meet.

And today, as God fills my heart with love and thanksgiving for you, I pray that God will satisfy the longing of your heart to have more of Him in your life.

I know of your passion to be a woman after God's heart. God has gifted you with an incredible gift of compassion and tenderness. The struggles and disappointments you have been through have served to make your heart soft, instead of hardening it. Satan is baffled why his plans are not pushing through. I see that God has kept you safe in the hollow of His hands all these years.

Your childlike innocence has been kept pure and intact, and God sees your eyes of faith, your eyes which are a window to your soul.

You are always waiting... for the breakthroughs...for the promises...for the fulfillment of godly plans, not only for yourself and your family, but even for your homeland, and for the land where God has sent you, and even for other nations where you have seen affliction wreak havoc upon young lives.

There is a coming day when your mourning will turn to songs of joy and deliverance!

Father, I lift up Sita on this her special day. When I thought of her this morning, the picture of a deer drinking by a stream of water came to my mind.

And indeed she is a deer, Father, always looking for Your water.

She is a Mary sitting at the feet of her Master...eyes looking up into His, soaking herself in the ONE THING that shall not be taken away for her, YOUR WORD.

Fill her heart today with a deeper love for Your water, Your word. Hide your word in her heart, and she will be as a tree, planted by the water...whatever she does she prospers, she will not fear when the heat comes.

God is giving you His songs to sing, keeping your heart soft, a heart of flesh, though Satan had sought to put a thick wall around it, he has not succeeded.

"You are mine, fear not," the Father says. "No weapon forged against you will succeed. Because you have come often to the water... and have stayed close to my heart."

Dear Sita, this is my prayer of affirmation for you today.

Love
Lidj

TSMSS - Psalm 1 - Tree replanted in Eden...

Instead you thrill to God's Word,

       you chew on Scripture day and night.

   You're a tree replanted in Eden,
      bearing fresh fruit every month,
   Never dropping a leaf,
      always in blossom. 

 (Psalm 1:2-3 The Message)

This 'replanting' can only happen if:

²But her (Sita's) delight and desire are in the law of the Lord, and on His law (the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God) she habitually meditates (ponders and studies) by day and by night^.

    ³And she shall be like a tree firmly planted [and tended] by the streams of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not fade or wither; and everything she does shall prosper [and come to maturity]

(Psalm 1:2-3 The Amplified Bible)

May it be so, my Lord.
 

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