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   

What should I do?

Ever wonder what is happening in the world?   Why are things so crazy and getting so violent? That takes us back to “GOD made man upright, but THEY sought out many schemes” (Ecclesiastes 7:29). When we do what is right in our own eyes we run into troubles because “O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walks to direct his (own) steps” (Jeremiah 10:23).

If you think things are bad now, this is nothing compared to what we are told will occur around the time the Antichrist rises and his 7-year treaty with the Jews is signed and the 7-year Tribulation (called Jacob’s trouble -Jeremiah 30:7) begins (Daniel 9:27, Revelation 6).

So how can find hope and direction?

GOD the FATHER so loved the world that HE gave HIS only Begotten (unique/ not made but eternal) SON- JESUS that whosoever believes in HIM will have eternal life (John 3:16).  And to as many as received HIM (JESUS) to them HE gave the power to become the sons of GOD, even to them that believe on HIS name (John 1:12).

To those GOD foreknew (would believe in JESUS) GOD decreed (predestined) to be conformed to the image of HIS (only Begotten) SON, that HE (JESUS) might be the 1^st of many brethren (Romans 8:29).

Notice that GOD sent HIS ONLY begotten SON so that HE might have MANY sons.  Amazing truth isn’t it? That does not mean we who believe in JESUS will be gods but that we are true children of GOD, sharing HIS image and HIS nature.

Hebrews 2:10 tells us that it was fitting for HIM (GOD the FATHER), for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons (us who believe in JESUS-1 John 3:1-2) unto glory, to make the captain (Leader/ JESUS) of their salvation perfect through sufferings.”

In other words, to lead us (who believe in JESUS and have become children of GOD-John 1:12) into maturity and conformed to HIS image, JESUS had to suffer. And did HE ever suffer! Though eternal Creator of the universes, JESUS voluntarily took on a human body (Philippians 2:5-8), suffered poverty, indignities, ridicule, humiliation and then shame (Hebrews 12:2) and indescribably awful pain as HE was whipped and then hung on the cross and bled so that we might be washed from our sins by HIS blood (Revelation 1:5), saved and reconciled to GOD (2 Corinthians 5:19-20) with the right to be called the children of GOD.

However, I’d like to pinpoint just one of the things I find absolutely, remarkably amazing.  As JESUS lived on earth in such a way as to LEAD us to know how to live (2 Corinthians 3:18, Hebrews 12:2-3) we are told over and over all JESUS did and said was in compliance to what GOD the FATHER told HIM to do and say (John 8:28).  HE never did anything on HIS own.

That is what JESUS meant when HE said “man shall not live by bread alone (physical nourishment) but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of GOD” (Matthew 4:4).

And what Solomon meant when the HOLY SPIRIT led him to pen, “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and LEAN not on your own understanding.  In all your ways (in everything) acknowledge (talk to) HIM and HE will direct your path (you will know something you need to do).  Be not wise in your own eyes, fear the LORD and depart from evil” (Proverbs 3:5-7).

In other words, we need to do what GOD says. And HE gave us the Bible to tell us what that is. “All scripture is given by inspiration of GOD, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (1 Timothy 3:16). By using the great and precious promises found in HIS book we can escape the corruption that is in the world through lusts and actually participate in the divine nature/ the very nature of GOD (2 Peter 1:4).

Yesterday I was struck with GOD’s instructions in how we should live in this crazy world as I read Psalm 37. In it GOD tells us NOT TO FRET 3 times, to TRUST GOD 3 times and to WAIT FOR GOD 3 times.  Since repetition in the Bible always indicates emphasis, those 3 words sound like instructions to me.

DON’T FRET at all the evil prospering around the world (Philippians 4:6-7), you can only do that by TRUSTING GOD is in control, is with you (Hebrews 13:5) and leading you in how you should go (Psalm 25:12), in that way WAIT for JESUS to come catch you (who believe in JESUS) away before everything breaks loose when the 7-year Tribulation begins.

“What man is he that fears the Lord? him shall GOD teach in the way that he shall choose” (Psalm 25:12).

Hugs,

Sharon

Ever want to say ‘hurry up’?

Do you like to wait? The word wait is used 154 times in GOD’s word, and through time I have found that the LORD is in no hurry but takes HIS time to prepare everything for an end result of good before HE brings something to be.  But I find that waiting can be so annoying.

One day when I was weary of waiting the LORD reminded me of 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 might receive the promise.”

It is written that we are GOD’s workmanship created in CHRIST JESUS for good works that HE prepared in advance for us to walk in (Ephesians 2:10).  Well, I was praying for the teams going on prayer journeys into the 10/40 Window when the LORD open the door for me to be on a team going to Albania in 1993.  I didn’t even ask the LORD to make a way for I saw no way, but HE thought different.  HE was about to teach me a lesson.

In 1944, at the end of World War II the allies turned over the country of Albania to Communist partisans. At that time Enver Hoxha, as the strict communist ruler closed Albania from any incoming or outgoing travel from the country.  All personal ownership was also snatched away from the people by the government and the people were forced to move to the cities into towering cement block apartment buildings. Religion was forbidden. Then in 1991, Albania was set free, ending 46 years of isolated communist rule.  But following nearly 50 years of not being allowed to own anything and not being taught absolute standards of right and wrong, the people had no sense of what ownership meant.  After the government changeover people felt as they did in the times of the Judges (Judges 21:25) when every man did what was right in his own eyes.

We saw an example of this in Albania when our tour guide’s bike was taken then found a left on the sidewalk a few blocks away.  You see if someone wanted something they just took it and used it then left it with no sense of guilt at all. 

Missionaries that had come into the country when it opened up said that Albanians could not make decisions for they had not been allowed to make decisions under Enver Hoxha’s iron grip rule.  They just did what they were told or else.

While in Albania in 1993 we walked the streets and prayed, climbed up to the high places where witchcraft had been practiced and prayed, and the Imams (prayer leaders of the mosques-they were folk Muslims) even invited us to come into the mosques that were being rebuilt and pray.  It was fun when several of us climbed up to the turret (where the call for prayer went out) of one large mosque and prayed from that location over the city. We asked GOD to bless the Albanians and open their eyes to truth so that they might get saved.  The day we were to leave we went to one hospital and prayed for the patients and one blind man received his sight. Some of the doctors, nurses and caretakers circled us asking us to pray for them as well.  We barely got back to the hotel where others of our team had loaded our belongings to get to the airport in time for our flight.

We flew home elated, but several months later the headlines of the newspapers screamed at us.  All hell had broken loose in Albania and even young preteen boys toted rifles and bullets flew everywhere.   It was pure chaos after the exposure of corruption in the new government.  Missionaries were forced out of the country.  Honestly, I was terribly shaken and often cried out to GOD on my knees confused and concerned about the value of prayer and trying to hide my confusion. 

After a year and a half or so, as the violence settled down, the missionaries were allowed back in and reports filtered back to us concerning the Albanian Christians.  Whereas before the crisis, the missionaries had to make all the decisions for the Albanians because they were childlike, now the Albanians made strong thought-out decisions and the missionaries no longer ran the churches but were just available for the Albanian leaders to consult with. 

What had been evil, GOD had used for good- to teach and develop the Albanian Christians.  Like mom used to say, “necessity is the best teacher.’ GOD does the same with us. HE will use the hard things that come into our lives to teach and change us into the image of JESUS (Romans 8:28-29, 2 Corinthians 4:17, Genesis 50:20).  James even says we are to count those times of trouble pure joy for they develop endurance and patience in us until we are able to cope in whatever comes our way (see James 1:2-4).

During the chaos in Albania, all we could see was the outward appearance (1 Samuel 16:7), we couldn’t see GOD at work and had not yet learned just to trust GOD.

GOD’s ways are definitely not our ways, and HIS thoughts are not our thoughts, yet what HE designs or allows will accomplish what HE intends for them to do (Isaiah 55:8-9, 11).

We see the crisis in the Ukraine and the threats to Poland and the tornadoes in the on the East Coast and ongoing attacks and shortages throughout the middle east and Africa our hearts cry out for the people. That is right and good, but I think we need to ask GOD to lead us in how to pray according to what HE is doing and to enable us to trust HIS wisdom and control. GOD knows the plans HE has and HE will answer according to HIS will (1 John 5:14-15).

We do know without a doubt that HIS desire is to give eternal life through believing in JESUS CHRIST the only begotten Son of GOD who died for the sins of the world.  Sometimes it takes a crisis or loss before we see our need and reach out to GOD. Some consistently refuse GOD’s offer regardless of the opportunities GOD gives them.  Yet GOD says that the times and places things happen have been preset for the specific purpose of causing men to reach out to HIM (Acts 17:26-27).  HE does allow people to refuse HIS offer of forgiveness for HE is not a puppeteer, but the consequence of that choice means they must suffer the death penalty for their own sins (Romans 6:23).

Reports are filtering back that in Ukraine and other areas being affected by the war over in Ukraine and in attacks in Syria that people are calling on the name of the LORD JESUS to be saved (Romans 10:13) and are being gloriously eternally saved.  

Unless the Rapture comes 1^st, each of us will die physically.  Only those who come to GOD through believing in JESUS (Hebrews 7:25) and calling on the name of the LORD (JESUS) will have everlasting life with GOD and enjoy all the wonders HE has prepared for them starting at the Rapture. 

Those who choose to refuse the love of the truth, refuse JESUS’ offer to forgive them face 1^st the 7-year Tribulation period, judgment and then everlasting destruction and will be shut out from the Presence of GOD and all good things GOD’s power has prepared for those who love HIM (2 Thessalonians 1:9).  We are told the unbeliever will be tortured forever in the everlasting lake of fire (Revelation 20:15).

I sure hope you will join with me as I go up to meet JESUS in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:17).  All it takes is to believe on the name of the only begotten Son of GOD (JESUS) John 3:16 and know that GOD (the FATHER) has raised HIM from the dead (Romans 10:9-10).

Now, “I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in HIS Word do I hope (Psalm 130:5).

Hugs

Sharon

Praising the LORD

I want to praise the LORD and tell everyone of HIS kindness to me!

I had a major problem and had been struggling with how to solve it for several days. Today, after I decided to check with my computer savvy grandson the LORD whispered for me to try something 1st.

I did and it worked. Thank YOU LORD!

I had asked the LORD what to do from the beginning, but GOD waited to answer until I was desperate for an answer. For the LORD was using waiting for HIS purposes in my life (James 1:2-4)

Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the GOD of my salvation: my GOD will hear me. (Micah 7:7).  

Look unto the LORD and wait patiently for HIM. GOD is never late! (2 Peter 3:9).

Always listen to that still small voice, GOD will never fail you.

hugs

Sharon

On Hold?

Standing in line or being put on hold when trying to resolve an issue on the phone can be frustrating.  It is the same with promises.  GOD gave me a promise years ago that I know HE will perform.  Every so often the enemy will bring fear into my heart concerning what GOD said.  If I run to the LORD HE will answer me.  One time HE answered by bringing scripture to mind.

“Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence 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).   

Those words reminded me that waiting is often part of GOD’s plan of completing HIS work in us! (James 1:2-4). All is in GOD’s time not mine and that GOD is never late (2 Peter 3:9).

Like many of us, a dear friend of mine has a serious situation brewing concerning one of her children and she is feeling overwhelmed as a resolving of the problem has been delayed over and over. It’s like she has been put on hold. As I was talking to the LORD regarding the situation and interceding for my friend and her family the following 2 verses came to mind along with a name.

Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come (1 Corinthians 10:11).

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope (Romans 15:4).

The name of the one who it Happened to==that came to mind was Abraham.  The 1^st verse says. “these things happened to them as examples for us and were written for our instruction”.  Abraham was an idol worshippping pagan at the age of 75 when GOD called to go to a place without telling Abe where he was going.  GOD promised that HE would give Abe’s descendants a grand inheritance and possession of a land of milk and honey.  But Abraham was 75 years old at the time and had no children and his wife was 65 years old and barren.  But Abraham believed GOD and it was counted to him as righteousness (Genesis 15:6).

Now Abraham believed GOD, but year after year went by.  GOD’s timing to fulfill HIS word was long and it was 25 years later when Abraham was 100 and Sarah was 90 when their biological son was born. 

How could Abraham hold on to a promise for that long? “And being fully persuaded that, what HE (GOD) had promised, HE was able also to perform (Romans 4:21). 

Abraham is call the father of all who believe (Romans 4:12) because he simply believed GOD’s word.

That demonstrates that nothing is impossible for GOD and waiting is often part of HIS plan as well as the means GOD uses to prepare us for what we are to do (see James 1:2-4).

Do you feel like you have been put on hold? You are in good company.  But, do you believe what GOD said HE will do?  Never lose sight of the fact GOD can be trusted.  If HE says it HE will do it!

So, don’t throw away your confidence in what the LORD GOD ALMIGHY has said.

Hugs

Sharon

Are you ready for a change?

We have been waiting for all this virus business to be over. Waiting is not fun especially when it goes on and on and on!

Waiting is not fun! GOD gave me a promise a long, long time ago.  It still hasn’t come to be.  From time to time the accuser will whisper in my ear, “It’s not going to happen you just conjured the whole thing up by wishful thinking.  GOD really didn’t say.”  At those times I run to the throne and GOD calms my spirit with assurances.

One time when I went to the throne with Satan’s accusations, GOD spoke instantly and clearly, “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompence of reward.  For you have need of patience (you need to wait), after you have done the will of GOD, you will receive the promise” (Hebrews 10:35-36).

Some have vocalized to me doubts concerning the promise that JESUS may come at any moment to gather us who believe in JESUS away to be with HIM that we may be wherever HE is (John 14:2-3, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, 2 Thessalonians 2:1).  They say along with the scoffers of 2 Peter 3:3-4 that people have been talking of the end times for 2,000 years, where are the signs of HIS coming?  For eyes who are willing to see, they are everywhere.

Way back in the Garden of Eden GOD promised the woman to send a Redeemer (Genesis 3:15).  That hope was passed down from generation to generation.  Some assented to that truth but in reality didn’t expect to see it happen.  Although 1,000s of years had passed some clung to the hope of that Promise GOD made.  Old Simeon was one (who the LORD promised that he would see the Messiah before he died- Luke 2:25-35) and Anna, a prophetess, was another who looked for(Luke 2:36-38) and clung to the promise of GOD to send a Redeemer.

Then, one quiet night in Bethlehem JESUS, the Redeemer, was born.

In the same way we are promised that JESUS will appear in the heavens and gather HIS believers to HIMSELF (2 Thessalonians 2:1).  It can happen at any moment.  For only two things must occur before that happens: 1-the last gentile to believe must accept JESUS as LORD and 2-the last one assigned to be a martyr must die (Revelations 6:10-11). Only GOD knows when, for only HE knows who they will be.

GOD is not willing that any of US, we who will accept JESUS as LORD, to perish (2 Peter 3:8-9).  Since the Antichrist cannot come to power until the restrainer (the HOLY SPIRIT) leaves (2 Thessalonians 2:6-8)being the HOLY SPIRIT indwells every believer in JESUS that means HE cannot leave without taking us with HIM.  So we can be confident that JESUS will gather us/ catch us up /rapture believers up to meet HIM in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) before the 7 year Tribulation told of by both Daniel and John (in the book of Revelation) begins.

GOD has foretold that HE will bring judgment, pour out HIS wrath, to avenge HIS servants and make atonement for the land where innocent blood was spilled throughout the world (Deuteronomy 32:43). That is what is called the 7 year Tribulation.  Simultaneously, will be the last week (7 years) of judgment on the Jews for their idolatry before they are forgiven and given a place of honor during a 1,000-year reign of CHRIST (Daniel 9:24-27, Revelation 20:2-5).

After that will be an explosion (2 Peter 3:10-12, Revelation 20:9-10), then the reserved a day for judgment for THOSE who are willingly ignorant and have refused the love of the truth (2 Peter 3:7, 2 Thessalonians 2:10, Revelation 20:11-15).

Believe me, compared to what lies ahead for unbelievers, Covid-19 and the new strains are nothing.  So be sure you know JESUS. 

All who call on the name of the LORD will be saved ( Romans 10:13).

JESUS is LORD and HE will reign forever for after that last judgment comes the new heavens and earth and sin will not raise up again.

What do ye imagine against the LORD? HE will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time (Nahum 1:9)

Hugs

Sharon

Appearance

This morning as I was reading in the Psalms I came to Psalm 13:1 “How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? forever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?”

Boy, could I ever identify for some serious situations are going on and on although the LORD had given me promise after promise for each them.  So, I cried out with the psalmist, “How long, LORD?”

I just love the way the LORD speaks to me when I am down for HE often teaches me as HE answers me.  For no sooner than I cried out and the LORD brought the word Habakkuk to mind and I knew what HE meant and turned there.

“I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what HE will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.  And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that reads it (so I had my orders to share with you what HE was going to show me). For the vision (promise) is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry…the just shall live by his faith (Habakkuk 2:1-4).

Then came the word appearance into my mind and again I knew what HE meant so turned there.

“Judge not according to the appearance, judge righteous judgment” (John 7:24).

Now I have often wondered how I could judge not by appearance cause that is all I saw.  How else would I judge? And now the dots were beginning to connect.

For we walk by faith, not by sight: (2 Corinthians 5:7) GOD whispered, Hold on to the promises even when the opposite seems true.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1)

For we are saved by hope: (hope that GOD means what HE says) but hope that is seen is not hope: for if a man sees, why doth he yet hope for it? (Romans 8:24).

In other words GOD answered my cry by saying don’t look at what appears or can be seen but look at what cannot be seen- what GOD said and is achieving through these struggles (see 2 Corinthians 4:15-18).

JESUS said, “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.  You believe in GOD, believe also in ME’ (see John 14:1).

Hugs

Sharon

How much longer?

Are you waiting?

I read this morning Psalm 31:15 “My times are in YOUR hand.”  As it is written, “it is not for us to know the times and dates that GOD the FATHER has set by HIS own authority (Acts 1:7) for GOD has preset the exact times and places according to HIS purposes (Acts 17:26-27). Over and over in the Bible you will find the words, “the time appointed.”

Although it says it is not for us to know, we or at least I want to know when it will happen.

Around 40 years ago, a problem was evident and I cried out to GOD to fix it. At that time GOD used the scripture Ezekiel 14:23 to make me a promise that HE would do just that. But with the promise HE stressed another verse from Habakkuk –“ the vision is for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come and then it won’t tarry.”

Through the years, no matter how rough things got or how impossible the promise seemed, I knew that one day GOD would make good on that promise. Sometimes I would ask the LORD to hurry up and once HE took me to Hebrews 10:36 to tell me that I needed to have patience and do HIS will and then I would get the promise.

I’ve still not got it but lately HE is giving me verses that have stirred up my thoughts about the promise.

Listen to the sweet assurances:

Genesis 21:1 the LORD visited Sarah as HE had promised and the LORD did to Sarah as HE had spoken.

Ezekiel 36:36,37… I the LORD have spoken it and I will do it. Yet I want them to ask ME…

Judges 11:36 do to me according to that which you said

Luke 1:38 be it unto me according to YOUR word

2 Samuel 7:25 & now LORD establish the word YOU have spoken and Do as YOU have said.

Psalm 119:38 Stablish YOUR word to YOUR servant who is devoted to YOUR fear.

Psalm 119:49 Remember the word unto YOUR servant upon which YOU have caused me to hope

Jeremiah 11:5… so be it LORD.

Has GOD given you a promise? Are you waiting on GOD to keep HIS promise to you?

Be assured that GOD is not a man that HE should lie nor the son of man that HE will change HIS mind.  If HE has said it, HE will do it (Numbers 23:19)

I know HE knows all things and that HE won’t forget what HE has promised.  But for some crazy reason HE wants us to remind HIM.  How do I know?  JESUS gave us the parable of the unjust judge in Luke 18 to encourage us to keep praying.

WHY? As Oswald Chamber puts it: The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of GOD, not of the answer (we seek).

Therefore, remind HIM of HIS word to you.

For it is through faith and patience you will inherit the promises (Hebrews 6:12).  After we patiently endure, we will obtain the promise (Hebrews 6:15).

Hugs,
Sharon

Cast after cast

When my youngest grandson, Zachary was 2 he had to have his feet amputated and both legs were cast. Our go-getter, nicknamed “Taz” because of his constant zipping around was being hindered from his whirlwind activity and didn’t like it one bit.

He believed the casts were the problem, not something intended to help him. Therefore, time and time again he would contrive, wiggle and jiggle, pull and push until he had his casts off (after 11 re-casts I quit counting).

Each time the casts came off necessitated an immediate 120-mile one way trip to the Children’s Hospital in Denver, for no one else would touch him. We found that out the 1st time around.

A sweet gal who was praying for Zack (bless her heart) asked a question. “Isn’t he old enough to understand not to pull his casts off?

If something is wrong Zack, like his Grandpa Mac wants to fix it.

The word wait meant nothing to our 2 year old. All he understood was that nobody was fixing his problem the way he thought they should. So, he was bound and determined to fix it himself. Certain that the casts themselves were the problem, he figured getting rid of them was the only solution and was determined to get out of his casts.

Regardless, of what we did and believe me we tried all kinds of things, Zachary managed to free himself from the casts time and time again.

Now aren’t we all a bit like Zack? When GOD doesn’t answer our problem the way we want RIGHT NOW, don’t we often set out to fix it ourselves?

But GOD says, “Wait on the LORD, be of good courage, and HE will strengthen your heart; wait, I say wait on the LORD ((Psalm 27:14).

Looking unto JESUS and trusting
hugs Sharon