Today was such a beautiful day,"we are home", I say this with great thankfulness and much gratitude. Knowing none of us are promised tomorrow,not even today! Dad and I do not try to take a day for granted,we wake up with thankful hearts, we can touch each other to see if were still breathing and say we made it to another day! THANK YOU JESUS!
Its interesting how a month a go we were on our way to California, "we had not planned to go", but our oldest Son and his family gave us news they were moving to Hawaii, so this meant they would be moving out of our home.
Just to back up a few months I had expressed in December of 2012 to Ron I believe 2013 will be a very significant year for us,-----------------indeed it has been thus far........so much has transpired in just the past few months,
We have to believe it is what the Lord has ordained for our lives to walk out,and through it all with
"great trust and great faith" in {Him and Him alone}.
You see it is one thing to "say" I trust you Lord and another to "walk it out" with Him and believe He will do what He says He will do.
His word tells us that He will...........
For since the world began, no ear has heard and no eye has seen a God like you, who works for those who wait for him! Isaiah 64:4
We wait on the Lord. we will lean heavily on Jesus, we trust Him at His word, He will give us His strength "we walk in obedience to His word, Serve only the LORD your God and fear him alone. Obey his commands, listen to his voice, and cling to him, this is all we know to do, even when everything around us is falling apart!
He will uphold us,
we believe and apply His word. Do we have doubts? only when we take our eyes off of our author and finisher! We are flesh and blood and we do war with the flesh and the spirit with in us,our flesh is weak,
but I pray we make the Holy Spirit of God in us the greater influence in all our decisions and choices, for we know the consequences are great if we flounder in our flesh! This is a daily commitment to follow Jesus.
He will be with us through it all.....walking it out by faith. "not by sight"! Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. Heb 11:1
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 11 Cor 4:18
"I will bring that group through the fire and make them pure. I will refine them like silver and purify them like gold. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'These are my people,' and they will say, 'The LORD is our God.'" Zechariah 13:9
"The heat defiantly got turned up in our lives" more than we would like,
but this we can testify-----what an amazingly kind, gentle,generous,merciful, gracious, loving Father we have through it all, to show us more of those areas of our life we need more of Him!
How it has pressed us in even more to ask O Father how will you work this one out? Our lives are not our own,they are yours,so we put our faith in action and move until He directs differently.
But we are not like those who turn away from God to their own destruction. We are the faithful ones, whose souls will be saved. Heb 10:39 --------we believe this! we will persevere in our Faith and trust in Jesus Christ, until we meet Him face to face.. We struggle,----we also overcome,-----thank you Yeshua!
Long ago during hours of prayer time, being in the word, the Lord gave us His word through my dear friend and Blood sister in Yeshua Messiah
this is His promise to us, Do not be afraid for I am with you, Do not be discouraged for I am your God, I will strengthen you in your time of help, and by my victorious right hand I will uphold you.
When we got the news that our Son would be moving, we looked at the Lord asking "what is your will for our lives? The last year we've been asking you Lord what we are to do with our home, we could see the financial burden it has become.
We prayed much as to how and what your will would be,
Our Son and his family were not only moving out of our home----- but clear across the ocean!
Our house was going to be empty! Renting was a thought but so difficult from a distance!.
Dad and I know the Lord's ways are not our ways, this was a big shock to us,we were not prepared for this news......it took a few days to digest, cry,mourn the loss of "3" of our grand babies moving so far away------all the questions flooded us,----what to do?, what are we to do? how will we do it?
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| Our Hawaii bound family. |
Lord what are you going to do?
Lord we prayed about this and "you have answered this prayer", your way, your timing is always right on time, expectantly or unexpectedly!
You answer prayer--------our faith is now being tested! -------------BAMM!
not just a little---------- a big lot!
how much do we trust you Lord and take you at your word,and do we "really trust You?
No lip service here----------And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose Romans 8:28
so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ
1 Peter 1:7
O Lord help us to put our faith in you in action.................God will do this, for he is faithful to do what he says,
We are already walking by faith with Dads brain cancer, knowing the Lord has our best interest at heart, and the peace he has given us through the past 3-1/2 years.
Dad and I packed it up and headed for California one day at a time that's all we knew to do. We got down there and the house was empty only a few boxes left the kids had sold everything of theirs.
There tickets were bought for Hawaii and as we were there they sold one of their cars and kept the other so Ronnie could continue working, every thing they had was gone except the clothes they were taking and a few other personal things.
As Dad and I looked around so many emotions flooded us,our babies were going to be leaving, they had just come to see us in November and now they are moving across the ocean----------O Lord our hearts are overwhelmed,comfort us now as we feel weak in spirit, strengthen us to walk in your ways knowing you have ordained and purposed this time for us now,even when it looks to be to much all at once.
Our Father is so kind, compassionate,generous in how He comforts us in our time of great need.
Our Faith was being greatly tested, each step of each day.
In all that was going on it had become way to much for Dad we did not realize the impact it was going to have on Him.
Dads health was declining rapidly, He had taken all the tools he thought he would need to work on the house,for any repairs we may have needed to do,----- but this did not happen!--------he would wake up get a bite to eat shower,and sleep this went on for almost 3 weeks, He was confused at times,not able to gather his thoughts, very tired, headaches,nausea,
His left side had worsened unable to use fully, no feeling, no grip,very weak.
The Dr after seeing Dad was so concerned about him he called personally 4 times just to check in on him to make sure he was ok. Even on call over the weekend in case of an emergency.
He put Dad on steroids to shrink the swelling in His brain, Dad's MRI showed the tumor had grown to
7.3 cm the right lateral ventricle is nearly completely effaced {wiped out}by the mass,
containing cerebrospinal fluid and communicating with the third ventricle. {which pumps oxygenated blood out through the aorta to all the tissues of the body}
There is a worsened mass effect upon the third and fourth ventricles {contains cerebrospinal fluid } Dad's tumor is pressing on the brain stem the danger here is "Brain herniation" it puts extreme pressure on parts of the brain and thereby cuts off the blood supply to various parts of the brain,
The Dr's gave there medical prognosis, ----------"Dad has less than a year to live",
human hands can't serve Our Lord's needs--for he has no needs. God Almighty himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need. Acts 17:25
Medically Dad should not be alive, -----------but he is!------------because of "who our Heavenly Father"is! "we give Him all the Glory".
Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.{When we see Jesus in all His glory} All that I know now is partial and incomplete,{our finite minds} but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.{Father made us in His own image} He examines the heart closely} Oh how we Love Jesus because He first loved us.
For the living know that they will die,
but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten. Ecclesiastes 9:5
O LORD my God, you have performed many wonders for us. Your plans for us are too numerous to list. You have no equal. If I tried to recite all your wonderful deeds, I would never come to the end of them.
Psalms 40:5
We Magnify you O Lord for there is no one like you, you alone are God.
"You say when it's time to come home"!
until then we live to Magnify and testify to "who you are and how great you are". Yeshua Messiah.
Thank you so much to all who have kept us diligently before the Lord in Prayer
Today my Husband rests, Lord Please take away His Headache.
"But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God;
ReplyDeleteI trust in God's unfailing love for ever and ever.
For what You have done I will always praise You
in the presence of Your faithful people.
And I will hope in Your name, for Your name is good."
Psalm 52:8-9"