From the Front Porch

It is a a beautiful afternoon on the front porch. This morning it was a tad bit cool. I am always drawn to the the beauty of spring with all the new life and flowering trees. So I am posting a picture of one of our flowering Crabapples. We have a few that blossomed really full this year. Makes me smile:-) Makes me want to praise the One Who holds the Universe. And holds you and me in His arms.

  Think about this: "When we praise God and bring our request to Him in prayer, by faith, we plug into His almighty power...and when we offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving we open a door for Him to rescue us and bless our lives, and we also prepare the way for Him to rescue and bless other people as well." R .M.

Do you worry about asking Him in prayer? Paul puts it this way in his letter to the Philippians. "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." Phil.4:6
By prayer and petition, with thanksgiving...here's our key to receiving. God loves a thankful heart. What we are doing here is saying, "thank You God in advance for what You are doing and going to do"...faith at work!

I love this quote from S.D. Gordon. "no human imagination can take in the startling, revolutionary power, softly, subtly, but with irrestible sweep, that flows down from the crowned Christ among grateful men and women...that flows through the lives of individuals wholly under the gracious influence of the Holy Spirit...through people who simply live in full-faced touch with Christ, and who take that power as the need arises and the Sovereign Holy Spirit leads."

Ruth Myers adds to this, "thank You God, that I am part of a vast army of people around the world--people who live in full-faced touch with Your Son and move Your mighty hand to bring about Your gracious purposes."

 Prayer is the key to living in full-face touch with God, with Christ. When we trust Him to do what He says He will do and believe we hear His voice, all things are possible.
God has given us the blessed Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth and He makes known to us the heart of God.
Zechariah 4:6 "Not by might, not by power, but by My Spirit says the LORD."

If you find yourself today wandering or wondering... stop!!!! Ask yourself, "have I even asked God about this? does He even know I am struggling here?" He delights for us to seek Him first, and to trust Him. Don't call a girlfriend, don't wish and whine...start believing and receiving my friend. PUSH=Pray Until Something Happens:-)

Know you are loved and prayed for daily. Jesus loves you and I do too.

Simply His,
Alta Lynn