Encouragement For Women

And they cried out in a loud voice: "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the lamb." ( Revelation 7 :10) At different times in my life I have different "favorite" verses in the Bible. A few years ago, while studying the book of Revelation the entire seventh chapter gripped me. Most especially verses nine through 17. John is in the midst of heaven through a vision that God has given him. He sees before the throne of God a great multitude that cannot be counted. People from every nation, tribe, people and language crying out in worship before God. What grips my heart is that these are they who have come out of the great tribulation. Each of us have a long list of people we know and love who have walked away from serving God or others who continually choose not to serve him. These are those whom we should remind ourselves to pray for often. Each time just one person repents, there is rejoicing in heaven! (Luke 15:7) Imagine the rejo...

No title, no real sense of direction, just sort of a rambling rose... Here again you find me blogging a wee bit late. Late, I guess the deadline is created by me so "late" is up to my own self. I am tired. No, exhausted. I finally got the desperate sleep last nite that my body/mind has been craving. As a mother of two boys under the age of Four, I can see why interrogators choose sleep deprivation to get into the minds of people. I'd give away the Colonel's secret recipe for a good nites sleep! However, in these moments of bleak desperation I find my heart and head is really ready to listen to God's voice. My heart seeks Him, my soul is enraptured with worshiping him in song (mostly in my head and sometimes right out loud). I become more acute with life and the really important things. The sort of things that have nothing to do with what I don't have or who I should be or look like. Watching my kids breathing whilst sleeping and reliving the miracle...