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Trusting God :)

**All Glory & Honor to God. And Peace to His people on earth. Inspired by God 🙂**

Trusting God when things are not going well is a hard thing to do. But there are a few things that we can focus on that may help us to do just that ?

God doesn’t just know our today, He knows all of our tomorrows. But we only know what today feels like, God knows what our tomorrows will feel like. And He loves us. Today may seem difficult or even painful, but it may also prevent an even harder day in the future.

When our heart feel filled with our fears, we have a choice. We can allow ourselves to be consumed by our fears, or we can turn to God and Pray God’s Will be done. Trusting God does not mean that we will necessarily get the outcome we want, it means that we Trust that whatever the outcome is, it is God’s Will for us and it is what is best for us and for those we love.

And that may be so very hard. We may shed tears, we may feel pain, even great pain…But we do have a choice. We can grow closer to our Lord during this time or we can pull away. It’s our choice. Given to us by God Himself. But I promise you this, anyone who chooses to grow closer to God will be wonderfully rewarded!

Prepare, Pray and Be Ready!

Heaven IS A Place Of Light!

**Heard and Seen while Praying The Rosary**

This is important because our earth will become a place of darkness, but Heaven will remain a Place of Light. And since Heaven is a Place of Light and Heaven is our Home, no matter how dark our lives on earth grow, we will spend eternity in Light 🙂

This is where our Hope IS!

Heaven is more than any of us can imagine. It’s hard to explain Heaven, but think of all of the things you do and now think of them always going well and never having any fear! Imagine a flower touched by light and how beautiful it is! Now imagine flowers touched with God’s Light 🙂

For example, when we pick an apple or buy one. Many of us wash it, in case it has “germs”. And we do this for all the fruit we get, grapes, pears, strawberries, blueberries… But in Heaven, we will not need to wash anything and the fruit warmed by God’s light will taste so amazing :).

The gardens will be more colorful and more fragrant than we have ever seen! The colors of the flowers will be more brilliant; the fragrance will be so beautiful and exactly what we wish for.

In Heaven, we will not have to walk, if we do not wish, to go to the next beautiful site, because we will be able to simply think of it and be there.

The river will be touched by God’s light and the light will dance on it making it astoundingly beautiful! We will be able to drink straight from it with no fear of getting germs or becoming ill.

Sense a pattern here? There are no fears or fatigue or worries or pain or illness in Heaven. When we come Home, we leave all of them behind!

“And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”-Revelation 21:4

There will be animals in Heaven. Dogs, lions, elephants, horses, zebras…And they will be so happy! We will never need to fear an animal for they shall be happy. And not only that, we will be able to ride any of them 🙂

“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.” – Isaiah 11:6-9

Heaven is not some misty place where we do nothing. Heaven will be filled with awe inspiring grand adventures! And when we are done for the day (so to speak), there will be a wonderful Home for us to go to 🙂

“In My Father’s house are many mansions;” – (Jesus) John 14:2

We will be able to jump from the highest waterfall to the river with no fear! (Remember how our mother’s always said be careful that the water is deep enough lest we hit our head, lol). That won’t apply anymore, the water will always be just right!

We need never fear death, for death is just the door to Heaven. God will send His Angels to get us or come Himself. Even on our journey Home; we will not be alone!

“fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” – Isaiah 41:10

If we truly choose to accept Jesus as our Savior, if we love Jesus and follow Him, we WILL go to Heaven.

We need not fear anything on this earth, for Heaven is our true Home.

Love One Another!

**Empty Food Bin Seen While Praying The Rosary**

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.” – John 13:34

There are so many ways that we can love one another. :). A great friend just sent me this: “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change. Be kind. Love like Jesus Christ. Amen. Peace. “. 🙂

A food crisis is coming. Food will be expensive and short on supply. One practical way we can “love one another” is to share what we have! Perhaps your neighbor is having trouble affording food for the first time ever and is too proud to ask for help, 0ffer! It’s okay to ask your neighbor or workmate if they need anything. Or perhaps specifically – if they need groceries.

We can easily give a grocery gift card or actual groceries. Sometimes a gift card to the grocery store is easier, since we don’t always know what they need. We can donate food to a local food bank or a shelter. Or if we don’t have the money to do that, we can volunteer our time a church or a local food bank. They desperately need volunteers!

We can pray for that family! Prayer is always good! This is especially important if we can not afford to help them financially or with food, but they need help. Pray for them that they will receive the help they need!

Sometimes we feel overwhelmed ourselves; we don’t “feel” like helping anyone else. But God can change those feelings! We can ask God, in Jesus’ Name, to change the way we “feel”.

We can ask God to change us . In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

We can choose to help in so many ways, but it is important that we help each other in the coming days! That to is part of “loving one another”.

Prepare, Pray and Be Ready!

Being Friends With God-Lessons From My Father

All Glory & Honor to God. And Peace to His people on earth.

Being friends with God, is in some ways no different than being friends with someone on earth. It takes spending time together, really knowing each other and learning to Trust one another. Prayer and reading the Bible with the Help of the Holy Spirit can really help us spend time with God.

Thank goodness, dare I say Thank God, we are all capable of that 🙂

Prepare, Pray and Be Ready!

Children Playing In Heaven :)

Seen while praying the Rosary

“Arise & Shine” !

All Glory & Honor to God. And Peace to His people on earth. Inspired by God.

“Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.
See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples,
but the Lord rises upon you”-Isaiah 60:1-2

We were not meant to hide our light, but to share it!

Prepare, Pray & Be Ready 🙂

Is Heaven simply on the other side?

Maybe. We don’t know for sure where Heaven is-exactly. But I look at this picture, and think…

“No Weapon Formed Against You Will Prosper”!

“No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the Lord.”-Isaiah 54:17

We live in frightening times, which are about to become even more so. But we need not fear, No weapon formed against us will prosper 🙂

But the second part of this verse is important too:

“And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the Lord.”

One of the things that will happen is that those who are Christians will be criticized and mocked. But we need not fear this. Not only will the Holy Spirit give us the words that we need at the time, God Himself will protect us for “This is the Heritage of the servants of the Lord” 🙂

Practice Trusting the Lord NOW, so you will BE READY when the time comes…

What Really Matters :)

“Each of us has been created by God. In the likeness of God. And after His image. Let us make a man (male and female)”

“In our Image, According to Our likeness. We are three in one –spirit, soul and body.”

“The most important thing about us Is our immortality –our everlasting soul”

“Paul said that he was called to preach (see 2 Timothy 1:10-11)”

“Each of us, no matter the color, Shape, size intellect or gender , are human beings (being human)

But our real label is not who we are,”

“What really matters is that we are immortal”-Garry T Ansdell, born in 1946

“Seek The Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near” – Isaiah 55:6

Sacrifices Pleasing to God

“Let brotherly love continue. ²Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. ³Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.“-Hebrews 13:1-3

^”Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. ⁵Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” ⁶So we can confidently say,”- Hebrews 13:4-6

“The Lord is my helper;
I will not fear;
what can man do to me?” – Hebrews 13:6

It can be hard to love some people. Especially right now. But remember, we don’t have to agree with everyone and we don’t have to condone everyone’s behavior. In fact, loving someone also means being honest with them.

And Loving someone is being kind to them, listening to them, encouraging the good in them, hugging them and helping them when they are in need…We can all do that 🙂

Our beloved country may never be what it once was, but Jesus’ Commands have not changed:

^“Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.“-Matthew 22:36-38

^”And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” – Matthew 22:39