worship with Psalms

When you want to worship God, when you are all by yourself, read Psalms and pray a few of the verses back to Him. " Dear Lord, I delight in your Word." " Dear Jesus, Help me to bear fruit in season"....."God,  you are my shield, my glory,  the lifter of my head".   Can't you just see Him reach down and lift up our chin to face Him when we humble our self  and bow to  pray.  Love Jesus, love His Word

April bible study

I began April with a 1950's Billy Graham book and finished with his daughter Anne Graham Lotz . Also had bible study  with  Beth Moore,  and  Joyce Meyers at home and  Tom Blackaby and several other speakers at the conference. I was reminded of some spiritual truths and learn some more. Here are a few of them.

1) We need Revival.
2) Revival begins with repentance
3)  I need to repent from sins of omission  and sins of commission
4)  Love your neighbor as yourself
5) The first three fruit of the Spirit are love, joy, and peace
6) Jesus did not die for religion , He died so that we can have relationship with him
7)  Pray as the Holy Spirit directs
8) Start each day in the word to thrive and not just survive
9) Read  1 Corinthians 13 to learn about God's love
10) Legalism and Joy do not mix
11) Forgive
12) The greatest among us  are those who serve
13 )Ministry = awareness, action and  restoration
14) God uses the unworthy and unqualified so that  He gets the glory
15) God needs prayer warriors ...devote you life to prayer
16) Do not judge
17) Your action speaks louder than you words
18) Redeem your time...start today
19) Share you faith
20) Wake up.. put  love, pray, and bible study back into your life and get your joy back

Tomorrow is May Day, the beginning of a new month..  I love fresh starts.  I get to start a new journal.
Life is a journey...Enjoy...

Peace

Do not worry about anything; instead, pray about everything; tell God your needs and don't forget to thank him for his answers. If you do this you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand.  Philippians 4:6, 7A LB

Georgia Baptist Spring Event

Mom, Barbara and I just got back from the Georgia Baptist Spring event in Callaway Gardens. The key note speakers  were Shaun Pillay from Africa; Tom and Kim Blackaby of Experiencing God and Billy Grahams daughter, Anne Graham Lotz.  We enjoyed the praise and worship with Cindy Johnson.  We choose classes from a long list. The first on Love, the second on prayer of  and the third on thriving on the Word. They were  great classes with very special leaders.

Weeks ago, I read a 1950 book about Billy Graham early Revivals that  included six of his sermons.  The first sermon topic was, "We need revival".  This weekend, his daughter  Anne spoke on the seven churches in Revelation and on  2 Chronicles 7:14, If my people, which are called by my name.......She stated that  Revival of the church begins by drawing a circle around our self  and making  sure that  all is right in that circle.  She said that we need to allow the light of His word reveal what He sees. Then we will name it, claim, and confess it.  The key to Revival is repentance .  Sunday afternoon,  I saw Franklin Graham on T.V. preaching a sermon.  Here we are 60 years later and Billy Graham's adult  children are still  serving the Lord and bringing Revival  to the world. What a legacy.

Too much excitement

Last night, we  planned a big supper to see Mark's sister and brother off to Ecuador.  We cooked all afternoon and planned a sort of grazing meal with every one snacking  until  all arrived.  We said the prayer and  fixed plates.

 I was holding the baby  Alle near the table.  Mark walked toward the table and barely bumped into a shelf that sent an entire shelf of carnival glass flying.  Drew grabbed the shelf.  I handed the youngest grand to the oldest grand and started grabbing  things as they  were falling.  Mark stood there and calmly said , "I'm bleeding.  I saw his shoe filling up with blood.  Phillip, my son in law and Meagan,  Drew girlfriend jumped into  action.  He is a first responder  and  she is a LPN,  two classes from being a RN.  I was so glad they were there.  She cleaned and compressed the area, while Phillip grabbed bandages out of his truck bandaged   Mark's leg.   They did such a good job , that the E.R. did not touch  the bandages until the Doctor stitched him up 3 hours later.

 When we got home , the party was over.  I think, they had a good time sitting around the fire pit talking.  We have so much to be grateful for...Mark injury was deep, but clean with no glass in it. He will recover in time for  his  Amigo  annual golf   tournament. None of the babies were close enough to be hurt.  We have great support from family.  God is good.

 I think maybe we need to get Phillip and Meagan to travel with us to be our to take care of situations as they arise.  Thanks,  you two for being there.

Always Mom

This  week we are doing a show in Madison Florida.  We are having a great time.  We started off  with lunch and golf  with one of my brothers. Then,  we had supper at  his house and  a long walk on a country road and sat outside  until dark.

The next day we set up and sold stuff.  Mom brought lunch  out at noon and had supper ready when we got home.  This after noon I was in the sun selling, Mom got up from her chair and walked over there and put sun screen on my back.  I am 55 and Mom  is 82 years old .  It does not matter how old you are, Mom is always Mom.    

Good morning birds

There is a bird that chirps in the morning very near the window. On our brisk early morning walk, we  heard  a  turkey,  geese, a wood duck and several  different types of birds. Spring has sprung and the birds are celebrating.  Thank you Lord for another day.