It's April yet again...the month that has consistently filled my days with high emotions since pretty much the beginning of time. Newsflash: I'm still unemployed, and now I've got 2 condos that are about to be vacated...almost thought it would be 3 when I heard last week that my grandfather wasn't doing well...and my mom and aunt would then have to vacate my place in Orlando to care for my grandfather. By God's grace, he is doing much better.
I can't deny that my heart has been heavy...much heavier today than days before of not having the cash flow that I'm used to. Thankfully, with each new day, God has given me courage, strength, and peace...to adjust...and appreciate His goodness. He never runs out of blessings! I am so thankful that God has given us His Word to meditate upon, His promises to claim...knowing that He hears us, He cares for us, He loves us unconditionally, and that He will never leave us nor forsake us.
Here are some of the verses that He has impressed upon my heart this evening. My own words are not enough to express what I'm going through, and I don't really see the value in sharing my own words, especially tonight. Instead, I feel blessed to be able to use God's Words to express my thoughts and feelings as well as use them as a source of comfort and blessing.
I am really hoping for a miracle in April!
Matthew 6:8b: "For your Heavenly Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask of Him."
Matthew 6:26: "Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?"
Matthew 6:30: "Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?"
Matthew 6:33: "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
Matthew 6:34: "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."
Matthew 7:7-11: "Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in Heaven give good things to them that ask Him?"
Matthew 8:26-27: "And He saith unto them, 'Why are ye fearful? O ye of little faith?' Then He arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. But the men marvelled, saying, 'What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him!'"
Matthew 9:28b-29: "'Believe ye that I am able to do this?' They said unto Him, 'Yea Lord.' Then touched He their eyes saying, 'According to your faith be it unto you.'"
Matthew 10:40-41: "He that receiveth you receiveth Me, and he that receiveth Me receiveth Him that sent me. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall have a righteous man's reward."
Matthew 11:28-30: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
Job 1:21b-22: "The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly."
Job 6:8: "Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!"
Job 6:24: "Teach me, and I will hold my tonuge: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred."
Job 10:8: "Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me."
Job 10:15c-16: "I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction. For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me."
Job 16:21: 'O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!"
Job 19:25: "For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:"
Job 23:10: "But He knoweth the way that I take: when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold."
Job 40:4: "Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer Thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth."
Psalm 19:14: "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer."
