Our Daily Bread

Well Praise the Lord! It’s been a while since you’ve heard from me. If you don’t know by now my husband, Aaron, got a job – Praise God- all the way in Maryland. He has been gone since the end of May. So I’ve been here with the kids and the packing. Well, I was hoping that we’d be up there by now; housing is so expensive up there and we have dogs too – so there have been issues. Though that might be so, where God guides He also provides (I have been reminding myself of this), and there is nothing impossible with God. I am a serious planner; I expect for things to go according to plan. It doesn’t have to go exactly the way I want it, but the results should be the same and accomplish around the same time. Well it has not gone according to my plan, and to be honest, I have been out of sorts. I have been up and down, and sometimes under “down”. When I was down, I would always get "up" with prayer and encouragement from my mom/pastor. I have “bent” her ear more than I’d like to admit, but I am thankful she was there willing to listen and correct my wrong thinking. I know it’s the result on lack of fellowship with God and lack of sleep. I am here with my five (5), three (3) year old and the 10 month old. I have cried the tears of exhaustion more than I’d like to admit too. Oh, but weeping may endure for a night, but JOY comes in the morning (Psalms 30:5). If I didn’t continue to pray – no matter how little it was – I could have gotten myself caught up in something I didn’t need to. The enemy doesn’t strike when you are strong; he comes when you are at your lowest. I turned off my phone, computer and would have turned off the TV if it hadn’t been for the kids. But while they played, I listened to some Word on my MP3 – my spirit was near starving. Times of refreshing comes from being in the presence of the Lord. I was thinking to myself‘Give us this day our daily bread.’ Now this is not something I pray all the time, but have heard throughout my walk with Christ – but you better believe it’s about to become part of my daily confessions from now own. I don’t plan for a day only, but try to plan out as far ahead as I can. But the Word of God clearly tells us not the worry about tomorrow. Matthew 6: 30-34 states: 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and green and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? or, What are we going to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear? 32 For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all. 33 But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things, taken together, will be given you besides. 34 So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble. And furthermore, we have no clue what tomorrow may hold; and therefore, have no control over it. Now I’m not saying not to plan; having a plan is a good thing. Proverbs 19:21 states: Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails. And we should want the Lord’s purpose to prevail over our plans; though I can make a really good plan – kidding smile! It is when our plans don't go as expected, and we lose our hope – the foundation of our Faith, and that’s a bad thing to happen. For where there’s no Faith, there is fear; where fear is Faith cannot operate. Without Faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6). I have been confessing that I fight the good fight of Faith, and I WIN! I begin thanking God for my daily bread – everything I will need to be successful for the day. You can and should do the same. He is the supplier of ALL our needs, and He will give us what we “need” for the day – whether it’s rest, peace, healing, strength – whatever – He will give it to you. We have not because we ask not; Luke 11:10 states: For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. If you don’t ask for your daily bread for the day, then you won’t receive it. Remember there's a sinner's prayer on this site. If you have back-slid or haven't tasted and seen that the Lord is Good, say this prayer. You don't have to be in a church building to receive Jesus as Lord and Savior. There is a moment that will happen, and it will happen in a twinkling of an eye (as fast as you can blink), and those who have confessed Jesus as Lord and have walked according to the Word of God will be raptured up to be with Him forever and ever. Yes, it sounds too fantastical to be real, but don't take the chance that it's not and be left behind. So don't put this off. No one knows the hour or the day when this will take place, but it is for us to be ready when it's time to go. The first step is to receive Jesus as Lord and Savior. If you say this prayer, contact me; let me welcome you and personally encouraged you in your new life with Jesus!