Abide With Me Lord. This I Pray.

God could have kept Joseph out of jail, kept Daniel out of the lion’s den, kept Jeremiah from being tossed into a slimy pit, kept Paul from being shipwrecked three times, and kept the three Hebrew young men from being thrown into the blazing furnace, but He didn’t. He let those problems happen, and each of those people were drawn closer to God as a result. Problems force us to look to God and depend on Him instead of ourselves. Be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power! You will come out victorious in and through your struggle, as you continue to depend on Him.

“We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us again. On Him we have set our hope that He will continue to deliver us, as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.”

‭‭— 2 Corinthians‬ ‭1:8-11‬ ‭(NIV‬‬)

Everything God Created was Wonderfully Beautiful..Happy Sunday anyone who sees this.. :-P

photos by marina cano (previously featured) of a mother elephant using her trunk to rescue her one month old calf who, after taking a drink from a watering hole, became stuck in the mud and was unable to climb out. 

the bond between a baby elephant and its mother has been described as the closest of any animal on earth. much like a human, a baby elephant is utterly dependent on its mother for the first two of three years of its life.

if the baby is female, she will typically remain together with her mother right into her own adulthood, and will likely never once be separate from her until the mother dies in old age. male elephants remain with their mothers until the age of sixteen (just about the age humans are ready to take off too).

(see also: elephants mourn the dead and other posts on elephant “humanity”)

Okay.

Heard Your Voice Lord through her.

Something I recently heard from God about:

Make sure you’re sowing into ministries which have fed you spiritually and make sure you’re being a cheerful giver when you are led, whether you’re in a good position financially or not. Actually, especially when you are not it is important to “sow your mites” and to stop thinking that you’re better off saving your money and pinching pennies instead of giving your firstfruits like you ought to. A Christian friend recently said something really wise to me “you have a special opportunity while in a season that you are struggling or poor to ‘sow out of your poverty.’ You will probably never be this financially unstable again in your life so show your faith now while you have the chance to make that display”

Luke 6:38 ESV

Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 CORINTHIANS 9:6-7

Kingdom living requires kingdom giving and I am not promoting a prosperity gospel in saying that, but just the fundamental ideas of sowing and reaping and supporting those working in the field/vineyard

Skeleton Trees of Boneyard Beach 12 – A blended photograph, with the sunrise from Cape Hatteras National Seashore and the Skeleton Trees from Boneyard Beach at Botany Bay, SC on 01/28/2015 Our life is contrived from the start. The grounding foundation of our way with life is having our way with life. How to have our way in each situation as it arises– in every here-and-now that comes along– it our prime motivator. How do I get/have what I want today? And keep from getting/having what I don’t want? All day? Every day? If we are ever thrown into a life where we cannot ever hope to have what we want exactly like we want it, we wonder why go on. “So what? Who cares? What difference does it make? What’s the use? What’s the point? Why try?” become the burdens we bear every day. And it isn’t just us. It is everyone. It is the entire culture. It is the entire world of cultures. We are in it for what we can get out of it. And we bend, shape, form, contort our bodies and our lives to have the best chance of getting what we want. We do whatever it takes to have what we want. Our life is contrived from the start. NO CONTRIVANCES! NOTHING CONTRIVED! STOP IT NOW! That would change everything. And to live the life at the heart of life, we have to do that very thing: No contrivances! Nothing contrived! Stop it now! And replace it with what? We have no idea. We are so lost to the true center and ground of our living that we are completely clueless as to how to go about life without getting, having, keeping as the directing force of our living. Getting, having, keeping is what guides our boat on its path through the sea. Without that, we drift, flounder, capsize, sink. Poor, pitiful, us. What to do? When we don’t know what to do, the one thing that is always best to do is grow up some more again. We always grow up against our will, so no growing up ever happens until we are at the end of our rope. At the bottom of some wall. Wobegon and woeful “on the heaving waves of the wine dark sea.” There is always one more door to open. It is the one that leads to ourselves. To the Self that has been with us through it all. The Self that knows the way to life without contrivance. But. “That which we seek lies far back in the darkest corner of the cave we most don’t want to enter” (Joseph Campbell). To live without contrivance is to live with complete, utter, vulnerability. Jesus was born in a manger and died on a cross. How’s that for vulnerability? Jesus said, “If you want to be my companion, you have to pick up your cross each day and come with me.” They don’t talk about this on Easter morning. It’s all resurrection and life and Jesus died for us so that we don’t have to. BS. BS. BS. Jesus died as a way of saying, “This is how it is. The path to the empty tomb winds across the face of Golgotha. In the service of life, we die every day. Are you coming or not?” The Way is the way of vulnerability. And the power of vulnerability is that once you say yes to that, understand that, embrace that, nothing can harm you ever. You walked right into the cave you most don’t want to enter. You strode all the way to the darkest corner far in the back. You seized the treasure that has been waiting on you all these years, embraced your vulnerability and walked out of that cave completely immune to the worst life can do. You are Ulysses smiling up at the Cyclops, spitting into its ugly red eye, saying, “Show me what you got!” And, in that moment, you know the secret of facing every day, every moment of every day, each situation as it arises in the strength and confidence of one who knows you have what it takes to find what it takes to do what needs to be done in all circumstances, no matter what, all your life long– and that it comes to you in your moment of need, in the darkest place, in the most hopeless hour, in the here-and-now comes “the still, small, voice,” suggesting the way, the right way, the right response, the right reply, the right deed, the right action for this time, this place, right here, right now, arising from within– spontaneously, unbidden, unthought, unimagined, but undeniably occurring to you out of nowhere, offering in the darkness resurrection and life. And like that, contrivance gives way to occurrence. And it is a new world, Golda. A brand new world.

Wake up, we're only at the start of it

We're only at the edge of the ocean...

And there's eternity to go

And even in my searching

I know I'm only ever really just beginning

And even though your endless

Lord, my joy is in the searching of Your heart

Father, Your peace surpasses everything

All thoughts and understanding

As I trust upon Your name

..And even on this ocean

With the waves all crashing over and around me

I put my trust in Your love

For Your voice has stilled the savagest of storms

...So let Your voice that stills the raging sea speak over me..

Speak "peace".

hahahahahahahahaha... i need to see this every time i log into my blog.. LOOOOL

God draws people to himself. Kanye is no exception.

y’all acting like Kanye West is impossible for God to save—as if the man God used to write most of the New Testament didn’t use to be a murderer of Christians 👀

this song is flyyyyy..... oh my! cant have enough....#Elani #Dope #Awsome.#Kenyanese #+254

#Word.

Men!

As a Black Woman,

Yes I think some Black men are Hot. Yes I think some White Men are Hot. Yes I think some Asian men are Hot. Yes I think some Hispanic men are Hot. Yes I think some Middle Eastern men are Hot. Yes I think some Native American men are Hot. Yes I think some Mixed men are Hot!

I can be attracted to men of various backgrounds and still Love and fight for justice in my own race. I can like other men while calling out the evil ones too. Yes I can love the men in my own race and still call out their bs too!

I don’t put restrictions on myself and neither will any of you!