YOU keep YOUR Promises

There is no GOD like the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, either in heaven above or on the earth beneath.

“YOU (LORD GOD) have kept what YOU promised to YOUR servant … YOU have spoken with YOUR mouth and have fulfilled YOUR Word with YOUR hand.. (1 Kings 8:24).

Are you or someone you know struggling with something?  Family members, several of the girls in my classes, and even I have physical issues right now and that is not even counting the other troubles we face.  As one pastor recently said, you just come out of one crisis to face a problem.

This morning as I was speaking with the LORD and laying several people’s concerns before HIM, I thanked HIM that HE was a GOD who keeps HIS promises and does or allows nothing without a purpose (Ezekiel 14:23).

I began rejoicing as I lay one concern after another before our Mighty LORD.  I smiled as I thought of Ezekiel 36:36 last clause through the 1^st clause of verse 37 “…I the LORD have spoken it and I will do it says the LORD GOD, Yet I will have them ask ME for it…”  

Yes GOD keeps HIS promises, but we must ASK!

This morning like usual I prayed according to promises found in specific verses. Beginning with, “LORD GOD, YOU say that when YOU have spoken something that YOU will do it.  I know that we must ask for that fulfillment and we must also fulfill any conditions that are attached, so I ask…”

Romans 8: ²⁸ And we know that ALL things work together for good to them that love GOD, to them who are the called (because they called on the name of the LORD -1 Corinthians 1:2) according to HIS purposeà ²⁹ For whom HE did foreknow (would call on the name of the LORD), HE also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of HIS SON (JESUS), that HE (JESUS) might be the firstborn among many brethren.

2 Corinthians 4: ¹⁵ For all things are for your benefit, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of GOD. ¹⁶ For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. ¹⁷ For our light affliction, which lasts but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and (unending) weight of glory; ¹⁸ While we look not at the things which are seen (our situation/problem), but at the things which are not seen (that which YOU are achieving for us through our situation): for the things which are seen are temporary; but the things which are not seen are eternal (will last forever).

LORD, I don’t have to know what YOU are doing or how YOU will achieve what YOU promised.  Just knowing YOU will do what YOU said is enough and gives me peace as I bring each concern to YOU.

Hugs,

Sharon

What is unseen

Have you ever heard GOD speak to you concerning a situation with a promise, but it did not play out the way you thought it would? I have.

Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was highly regarded as a military leader and honorable and respected by all, but he had leprosy. Now Naaman’s wife’s little Jewish slave girl said, “Oh I pray to GOD that my master (Naaman) would go to the prophet which is in Samaria for he would cure him of his leprosy.

Long story short Naaman went to Samaria to the prophet Elisha with great expectations. But when the prophet sent his servant down to tell Naaman to go wash himself in the Jordan 7 times, Naaman balked and went away mad.

Naaman said, “Behold, I THOUGHT, he will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his GOD, and strike his hand over the place, and cure me. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So, he turned and went away in a rage.

But his servants loved their master, drew near him, and said, “If the prophet had asked you some great thing, would you not have done it? So why not go and wash? Kind Naaman listened to his servants and went and washed and the 7^th time he came out of the water clean…no more leprosy (see 2 Kings 5).

Like Naaman, I had to learn that GOD’s ways and thoughts are not my ways and thought but are as high as the heavens above my ways and thoughts but that they always work (Isaiah 55:8-11).

You see many years ago the LORD promised me to work in a situation and I THOUGHT HE was going to do it right away. HE did not do it right away, in fact it still has not come to be. But I am still as sure of that promise as the day HE spoke it to my heart. The promise has been active in keeping me from giving up and given me peace in difficult moments. Through the extended delay, I have learned that GOD has preset the exact times and places for amazing reasons (Acts 17:26-27) and that HE is achieving for us through our problems (2 Corinthians 4:16-17) and HE has taught me that I am not to focus on the situation but on HIM trusting HIS love and wisdom knowing what HE does is eternal.

I can see things GOD has achieved through the delay of fulfilling the promise. Yet I am sure at the proper time HIS word to me will be fulfilled.

I guess that is what GOD means in Proverbs 3:5-7, “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not LEAN on your own understanding (THOUGHTS). In all your ways acknowledge HIM and HE will direct your path. Be NOT wise in your own eyes, fear the LORD and depart from evil.”

So, if the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, who does not lie, has given you a promise, but it does not look like HE has kept it. Ask HIM to show you what HE is doing to set the stage so the promise fulfilled is greater than anything you could have imagined.

Hugs

Sharon

Are you paying attention?

JESUS can say some pretty startling things. We believers in JESUS do not always understand the rhema (instructions and promises) that are impressed on our hearts. But we need to grab on to them anyway. Because GOD will explain them to us at the right time.

We are instructed, “Let these words sink down in your ears” (Luke 9:44). 

Are you paying attention to that still small voice? Remember that the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY changes not (Malachi 3:6).

One of my rebels was out of state, we had not heard from him.  When one morning, before light, as I sat over a heater vent reading my Bible, a bit of a verse jumped out at me with clarity and emphasis.  “Do not fight this, for it is from ME.”  Although out of context and I had no clue as to what the LORD was referring to, I knew without a doubt, GOD was speaking to me concerning my rebel.  A few hours later, I found out what it was all about. I need only say, that rhema (a specific word for a specific situation) warning GOD gave me, prepared me for what lie ahead.

Some things GOD says can knock you upside down, or even smart like a slap on the face, until you remember the motive behind HIS words is to prepare and achieve for us (2 Corinthians 4:15-18).

Once, I had become very discouraged concerning a promise GOD had given. I went to HIM bemoaning “how long?”  Like a slap in the face, the words came, “You have need of patience, that after having done the will of GOD you will receive the promise” (Hebrews 10:36).  That slap refocused me.  It took my eyes off the problem and encouraged me as I turned to GOD’s Word. Remembering the scripture, “what GOD had promised HE was able also to perform” (Romans 4:20-21) brought me peace and filled me with joy.

Has GOD given you (rhema) instructions and/ or a promise? Peace and joy, (GOD’s rest) come as a direct result of believing/ trusting what GOD says and that in turn results in obedience (Hebrews 4:2,6).

Until we deliberately choose to turn to listen GOD, over the clatter of the world and taunts of the evil one, we will not be able to fully grasp what GOD is saying to us (2 Corinthians 3:16). This is a daily, sometimes moment by moment choice for me. Sometimes it comes automatically from spending time with the LORD in HIS word and prayer, but often it must be a deliberate choice to ask GOD what HE means and trust HIS word and instructions even when I do not understand (Proverbs 3:5-7).

Hug

Sharon

Listen

Claiming a promise

Writing a chapter lesson for my class in Hebrews about claiming a promise of GOD, I came across the same exact statement 4 times. According to translation rules that repetition brings emphasis it is clear this thought is important.

Since GOD declares that HE gives us great and precious promises that if we will use benefit us greatly (2 Peter 1:4), I thought it something I needed to share.

“Today if you hear HIS voice, Don’t harden your hearts (or be stubborn)…” (Hebrews 3:7-8, 15, 4:7, Psalm 95:7-8).

Notice the choice is to pay attention to what is said or to be stubborn and refuse to hear.

Now eight times in the Gospels and 8 times in Revelation, 16 times total another term is spoken of. “if you have ears to hear, listen and you will understand.” NLT (or if you want to hear, listen and you will understand).

In John 5:45 JESUS says that everyone IS taught by GOD (through the HOLY SPIRIT- 1 Corinthians 2:10-12) but its only those who listen and have learned that profit from what is taught.

As we know a teacher teaches all his students but not all the students learn.  Some refuse or choose not to listen.  Those students do not learn or benefit from what is being taught.

Romans 10:17 says faith comes from hearing and hearing by the Word of GOD.

But we know that everyone that hears the truth of GOD’s word does not choose to grab ahold of it and believe it simply because GOD said it.  The one who grabs hold of the word obtains faith (2 Peter 1:1), but those that refuse to receive the love of the truth (2 Thessalonians 2:10), who ignore or suppress what they initially know is true (Romans 1:18-21) do not get faith in what they have heard.  Rather they deliberately choose unbelief and that is evil.

If you turn from doing what GOD says, Hebrews 3:12 tells us you have an evil heart of unbelief.

This shows that it is a choice not to accept what GOD says, it is not an inability to accept.

We live in evil times and 2 Timothy 4:3 speaks directly to our time. “For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear.

So let us listen and as Hebrews 3:13 tells us “exhort one another daily while it is called TODAY (until the RAPTURE) lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.”

Hugs

Sharon

Hold on to the promises

The barren tree branches sway in the wind knocking off the bits snow left from the recent storm; patches of dead grass are seen here and there as the snow melts and its not surprising that there is not a flower in sight.  Glancing around reminds me of verses I memorized years ago to earn a patch at Camp Elim.

“All flesh is like grass, and all the goodness thereof is like the flowers of the field, the grass withers and the flower fades but the Word of our GOD shall stand forever” (Isaiah 40:6, 8).

The pleasures and possessions of this world with all its goodness are fading in light of the individual and worldwide mounting problems and disasters crashing all around.  So many are filled with fear on every side.

But there is still a place to find freedom from fear and even gain peace, joy, and hope (Romans 15:13).  Something that will last no matter what else comes our way.  It is found in coming to JESUS and daily meeting with HIM in GOD’s word. 

JESUS urges us, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).

JESUS also promises that anyone who comes to HIM will obtain eternal life (John 3:16) and that HE will never leave nor forsake those who believe in HIM (Hebrews 13:5). 

With all that is going on in our country and globally I especially love JESUS promise found in Revelation 3:10. “Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.”

The first step is to make sure you know JESUS.  That is to know HE is eternal GOD and came to earth in a human body (John 1:1-3, 14), sent to earth by GOD the FATHER (John 3:16) to reveal the truth (John 18:37) and then to die for the sin of mankind (1 Corinthians 15:3) and disarm the powers of darkness while on the cross (Colossians 2:15).  GOD the FATHER through the HOLY SPIRIT raised JESUS from the dead and if you confess that JESUS is LORD, and call on HIS name believing JESUS lives today because GOD raised HIM from the dead you will be saved (Romans 10:9-10, 13). 

Does that seem like a lot to swallow?  Then let me suggest that you go to the book of John in the Bible and ask GOD to show you the truth.  For, “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of GOD” (Romans 10:17).

By prayerfully reading the Bible you get to grow in you knowledge of both GOD our FATHER and the LORD JESUS CHRIST.  As that happens, you learn of the wonderful things HE promises to those who love HIM and do what HE says.  (2 Peter 1:2-4).

Your fears will flee and you will find peace, joy and hope even in the turmoil and troubles of this world when you continually run to JESUS (Hebrews 4:14-16). 

Let GOD speak to you through HIS word.  What you find there will last forever, for the Word of GOD shall stand forever (Isaiah 40:8).

Hugs

Sharon

Are you a copy cat?

Before computers, I would write out by hand the things GOD encouraged me with in HIS word in a letter. Then I would make several handwritten copies and send them to ones I thought might be encouraged by them. Making copies took time and was work! Today with my computer and printer making copies is so much faster and easier.

GOD tells us to copy HIS ways (but like the cat in the picture, we don’t do it perfectly yet).

GOD tells us to bless our enemies, not curse them (Matthew 5:43-45). When JESUS’ disciples wanted to call fire down on a village, JESUS turned and rebuked them saying, “You don’t know what manner of Spirit you are of” (Luke 9:54-55 KJ).

To copy GOD’s ways, we must 1^st learn them and that takes time and can be work. But it is our LORD and Savior’s desire and HE promises to help us do it (1 Thessalonians 5:24).

In John 8:42-44 JESUS explains why we are to copy GOD’s ways. Our actions show who is controlling us (who is that one we are copying). If we have the fruit of the SPIRIT flowing from us, others can see we belong to GOD, and the SPIRIT of GOD is leading us. But, if we use the enemy’s tactics, if we do what the world does, the origin is demonic (James 3:15, Ephesians 2:2).

As C.S. Lewis alluded to in his 1942 satire novel, Screwtape Letters, when we use the enemy’s tactics (lying, manipulation, anger and such) it’s because we are listening to the whispered advice of demons and unaware of their deceptive control of us.

During group prayer, a gal once asked for something bad to happen to another, I stopped her mid-sentence to reminded her that we are not into witchcraft for that is the devil’s territory.  Calling bad down on someone is nothing short of a curse.  She was none too happy with me but I wasn’t going to take part in that.

JESUS said that if we use HIS name, GOD will give us what we ask for (John 16:33) if we ask according to HIS will and purposes (1 John 5:14-15).

When we pray, we are to use JESUS name, but not as a magic incantation to get what we want, or think is needed. The word name is used both in the Old and New Testaments to speak of the character of a person. When we pray, we are to ask according to JESUS’ character (Matthew 5:44-45, Philippians 2:5-8) the things HE wants, the plans of the FATHER.

That is why we are to follow JESUS’ example, and say, “Thy will be done” (Luke 22:42).

Every time you see the words the name of the LORD, or in JESUS name, think of the nature and character of our eternal loving GOD. When scripture says the name of the LORD is a high tower that we can run into, it means GOD is faithful to protect HIS children who run to HIM in times of need.

Using the name of the LORD, is not an incantation, or an invoking of a magic formula, but rather it is depending on the very nature and character of the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, who was and is and is to come. So, ask, but ask according to what HE wants done.  You find that in HIS word and HIS leading while in prayer.

Looking unto JESUS, the Author and Perfecter of my faith.

Hugs

Sharon

Did GOD really say?

Our enemy whispered the taunt, ‘Did GOD really say?’ So, I asked the LORD, open HIS word and in Matthew 10 was confronted with the truth that a bird cannot land on the ground without GOD permission.  The cross references were amazing and now I ask you

How big is your GOD?

The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY called to Abraham (an idol worshipper) and told him to leave where he was and go where GOD would lead him and GOD promised to give Abraham an inheritance and children but didn’t tell him where he was going.

There was just one tiny glitch: Abraham and his wife were old and couldn’t have children.  For when GOD called Abraham, he was 75 years old and his beautiful wife was 65 years old and barren.

But even with that “impossibility,” Abraham believed GOD and obeyed anyway. Somehow, some way, at some time, he knew that GOD would follow through and do something that made no earthly sense whatsoever.

The years went by one after another until 25 years later when Abraham was 100 and Sarah was 90 that promised child was born. 

Now that is a lot of waiting!  Waiting is hard! It would have been easy to give in to the tempter’s accusations of “Did GOD really say?” (From experience I can tell you that the devil throws that jab at people frequently)  But Abraham believed GOD.

Romans 10:17 says that faith comes by hearing and hearing from a “rhema” word (spoken word within your spirit) of CHRIST.  When you hear that word you either receive it or refuse it.  But once received that kind of faith is permanent.  Oh doubts may come (through the tempter) but HE who is in us who believe (the HOLY SPIRIT) is stronger than he (the tempter) who is in the world and GOD the SPIRIT reassures us that GOD really said.

Because Abraham believed GOD, his faith in GOD prompted him to do what GOD told him to do so Abraham is called the “Father of faith” of all who believe (Romans 4:16).

Has GOD has made you a promise?  If HE has you know it.  Don’t listen if others mock, or if the liar whispers taunts that sound more like you than you. Trust in the LORD like Abraham.  Do not lean on your own understanding or be wise in your own eyes (Proverbs 3:5-7) just trust.

“Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of GOD! How unsearchable (you can’t figure it out) HIS judgments, and HIS paths beyond tracing out!” (Roman 11:33 NIV). Many of HIS workings are hidden like the path HE had for the Jews to go through the sea on dry land.

“Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of GOD, you might receive the promise” (Hebrews 10:35-36).

“GOD is not a man, that HE would lie, Nor a son of man, that HE would change HIS mind; Has HE said, and will HE not do it? Or has HE spoken, and will HE not make it good?” (Numbers 23:19).

Remember everything GOD put in the Bible and every promise HE has spoken to individuals will come to be.  For the LORD who cannot lie says, “I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it” (Isaiah 46:11).

Be encouraged, I am.

Hugs

Sharon

Did GOD really say?

Did GOD really say?

Did GOD ever give you a promise? Has it been fulfilled yet? 

As we begin this new year we need to leave behind the past, both good and bad. We need to look and reach forward to what GOD has for us both now and eternally.  BUT, that does not mean we are to trash promises GOD has placed in our heart and created faith and hope in us (Romans 10:17).

As a believer in the LORD JESUS CHRIST’s saving work for us on the cross, we are a new breed that can hear directly from GOD.  If we go seeking to hear HIM, we will hear HIM in HIS written word (Matthew 4:4, Hebrews 4:12) and through an inner voice (knowing) as GOD through the HOLY SPIRIT leads, corrects and promises us of things to come (Philippians 2:13, John 16:13).

GOD gives promises of something that will really come to be to encourage and enable us along the way. Habakkuk 2:3 says, “For the vision (promise) is for yet an appointed time, at the end it shall speak (happen) and is no lie.  Though it tarry wait for it, because it will surely come and it will not tarry (it will come suddenly!).

GOD has given me a promise and when LORD speaks it creates faith if we grab ahold of it (Romans 10:17).  But the preset time (Acts 17:26-27) for its fulfillment has not yet come.

GOD spoke to an idol worshipping Abraham and Abraham believed and it was accounted to him for righteousness (Romans 4:3) but it was decades before Abraham got what was promised. 

GOD showed Joseph what was to be when he was a young teen and then after being sold as a slave by his brothers and several other horrible things at the age of 30 Joseph was called for out of prison to became 2^nd in command of Egypt and the things GOD had promised him were fulfilled.  The Bible tells us that through that time, even having to be lie about and wrongfully put in prison GOD was working out (putting all the players into place) HIS eternal plan for good for Joseph. The Word of GOD to Joseph tested him as he lie in prison (Psalm 105:16-19).

Its been years and years since GOD gave me a promise, there have been times the evil one taunts me with, “Did GOD really say?”  Well, each time that happens I go running to the LORD and HE always speaks.  Once it was directly from Hebrews 10:35-36 “Cast not away your confidence which has great recompence of reward.  For you have need of patience that after you have done the will of GOD, you will receive the promise.”

I am learning that the seeming delays are GOD at work putting everything in place and preparing me, as HE prepared Joseph, to do what I am to do (James 1:2-4).

Hebrews 10:23 “Hold fast the profession of faith (in that promise) without wavering (for HE is faithful who promised).

Hugs

Sharon   

A star in the East

The picture is of my granddaughter Chloe from years ago.  She was married 11/11/22 so is in her own home this year making her own cookies instead of helping Grandma.

My grandkids have always loved to help make cookies, ginger bears and all kinds of goodies for the holidays. Our times of cooking together were fun and with much laughter, But, with the abundance of goodies around wherever I turned I sampled too much, put on extra pounds, and my clothes got snug.

Whenever I decided I needed to go on a diet, what do you think the 1st thoughts that came into my head were?  Yep, you are right.  I’d think of food.  Why do you think that was and is to this day? 

After years of living in bondage to my old sin nature serving the prince of the power of the air, the devil (Ephesians 2:2), like everyone else before coming to JESUS, I had bought in to the lie it is all about me and what I want and wanting it now.  Those little whispers in my ear, that sound more like me than me, those suggestions, “Oh a little won’t hurt” so often is too hard to push away. 

The trouble is it often I don’t stop with just a little, for a little cause cravings for more. Like, one addicted to drugs, what began as pleasure has become a task master that enslaves and controls him.  But it’s not hopeless for there is a GOD of hope who has sent a Deliverer.

“And she shall bring forth a son and you shall call HIS name JESUS for HE shall save HIS people from THEIR sins” (Matthew 1:21).

Laying HIS glory aside, JESUS, truly GOD, through whom all things were made that were made (Hebrews 1:2) took on the very nature of a servant, was given a human body and born a babe in Bethlehem. This same ONE became obedient even to death on the cross after HE’d suffered and overcome every temptation there is (Hebrews 4:15) and HE did it all for you and for me. So, JESUS knows how to help us when we are tempted.

When JESUS carried sin on the cross, HE broke the power of sin over us.  That’s right we don’t have to sin.  That does NOT mean we will not be tempted to sin.

Once we believe in JESUS, we immediately are sealed with the HOLY SPIRIT (Ephesians 1:13) and then have power to say NO to sin.  For GOD is within us to help us.

Hebrews 4:16 says that if we come boldly to the throne of grace (pray) that we will receive mercy (favor instead of anger) and get the grace to help us in times of our need (when we are tempted, need strength, wisdom, or whatever).

I really have to call out for help during Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years for the seasons demand goodies to be available for guests.  So, although GOD tells us to make no provision for the flesh (Romans 13:14), there are times it’s just not feasible.

Praise the LORD that our GOD uses all things, stirring them together to get an end result of good for us who love HIM and have answered HIS call (Romans 8:28).  For the more I choose to go to GOD for help, and it is a definite choice, the easier it becomes as I grow in discernment.  For the more time I spend with JESUS in HIS word and prayer and living out what HE shows me in HIS word and through nudges to do (Hebrews 5:14), the more I think and act like HIM (2 Corinthians 3:18,) and the more peace and joy I have (Galatians 5:22-23).

Like GOD the FATHER decreed, I am being changed into the image of HIS SON’s divine nature (Romans 8:29) as I claim HIS great and precious promises found in the Word of GOD (2 Peter 1:4). They are HIS promises and HIS power, I just believe HIM.

That very thought is surreal. Even though I must choose to say no to what is not good, (even an extra cookie or piece of pie, telling a little white lie, or speeding) the power to choose is mine.

Consider these things and may the good LORD give you wisdom and understanding (James 1:5, 1 Corinthians 2:10) as HE guides you with HIS peace (Colossians 3:15), strengthens you with HIS joy (Nehemiah 8:10), and enables you with HIS grace (Hebrews 4:16). Now may the GOD of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the HOLY SPIRIT” (Romans 15:13) Keep looking unto JESUS (Hebrews 12:2) and talk over your thoughts with HIM (2 Corinthians 10:5).

Hugs
Sharon

HE did it again!

Once again God proved His love to me by preparing the way ahead Ephesians 2:10

Another new crisis in ‘The Scenarios of Sharon’ has me up during the night in tearful prayer. The Lord has been reminding me in this latest struggle to practicing what I preach: “Give thanks in all things for this is the will of GOD in Christ JESUS concerning you” (I Thessalonians 5:18). As I give, not feel, thanks peace returns.

Responsibilities and commitments have me running during the day. Today is one that is to be crammed full, so this morning in a rush I only had a few quick moments in GOD’s Word to hear HIS instructions before heading out.

Turning to Psalms, my Bible opened in Proverbs and my eyes lit on a verse. “People with good sense restrain their anger; they earn esteem by overlooking wrong (Proverbs 19:11 NLT). Then I noticed a verse across the page. “Avoiding a fight is a mark of honor only fools insist on quarreling” (Proverbs 20:3 NLT).

Not long into the day one attempted to goad me into an argument and it seemed so funny and I had to hold back the laughter lest I add fuel to the anger of the one already stirred up.

God had prepared me in advance for this temptation and by doing so I was not pulled in.

The LORD’s acting on HIS foreknowledge of what I would encounter not only kept me out of a foolish argument but encouraged me greatly that HE is with me leading all the way plus it strengthened my faith.

Several hours later, with other particulars GOD provided what would be needed later. I didn’t know it would be needed, but it was. All was done before the fact as HE emphasized to me HE plans and acts according to HIS awesome foreknowledge.

Don’t know what lies ahead but am sure something is coming and HE is preparing me for it and promises to provide

For by confirming HE acts according to HIS foreknowledge- highlights it as one of HIS marvelous ways. Because that is true, we can know what HE says HE will do! GOD will keep HIS promises cause nothing unexpected can come up to block it. HE knows everything that lies ahead.

What a wise and mighty GOD we serve!

Looking unto JESUS the Author and Perfecter of my faith

Hugs

Sharon