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LORD
plse hold on tightly to my brother. He needs you right now. I dont know what his relationship with you is like, but i know he believes and i know he prays. His life has been turned upside down now. I know they needed a changed because he was so stressed out with his job and family life. Something had to give. I'm sad for him that it has ended this way with the loss of his job after all his hardwork. I need you to fill him with hope about his future LORD. He has opened the door for you to turn this change around. You let this happen for a reason. Plse show my brother what he needs to do, help him to make right choices, to see your plans for him, to prosper him and not to harm him, to give him a hope and a future.

It's the first time my sister-in-law has said anything about you to me LORD. Please show her that you are taking care of them. That Satan meant this for their destruction, but you will use it for their good because you love them. I have prayed about them for years LORD. Please help them now. Letting this turning point in their lives bring them closer to you.

Please hold on tightly to them LORD. No weapon formed against them shall prosper LORD. Your joy will be their strength. Fill them now LORD. No more bad news. Give them that hope they need to pick themselves up and keep going. Show them what you see, lift my brother up on your shoulders and show him that you closed that door so he could move on to something better for his own personal growth and for his family. Show him the possibilities and fill him with your spirit LORD so that he can walk in your will. Be a lamp onto his feet and a light onto his path.

If you did this to discipline him then show him what needs to change. For you only discipline the ones you love, like a Father with his son. If it's because you wanted to set him free from his burdens so he move on to a better future, then show him what he needs to do next to walk in it.

Speak to him loud and clear LORD. Show him that he is sheltered under the shadow of your wing, and even though this is so hard and sad, he has so much more to look forward to. comfort him LORD, like you always comfort me, more so LORD because he's not use to your voice. He was brought up in traditional christianity, so having you step into his every day life needs to be as crystal clear as Thomas seeing the scars on your hands. Show him LORD that you are real and you care for him now, in the midst of his pain, you are there. That you will never leave him nor forsake him.

His wife is trying to be so strong for him. Please LORD fill her with your wisdom. Help her to understand her man. You know her personality LORD, plse use this to bring them both closer together. To strengthen their love and commitment to each other and to their children.

My brother weighs heavy on my mind. My heart breaks for him because he worked so hard for so long and this is how it ended. He needs to take some good from this LORD. Please let his managers remember the good he did, and reward him in some way so he can walk away on good terms.

My other brother is also weighing me down. It's funny but times like this I want to talk to my mum and my sister. Why is that LORD? For comfort or just to hear their voices and make sure they are both ok.

Help the rest of us to speak your words to him LORD. Fill us with your discernment and wisdom so we can help and not hinder. So we wont be a stumbling block for them, so we can love them as you would. So we can be like Jesus and speak words of wisdom that will touch their hearts and help them to see past the fog that surrounds them now.

in your mighty name Lord Jesus

answered prayer

I wrote the post on prayer yesterday in the early hours of the morning because I was leaving something in the LORD's hands that I couldn't fix and had no answers for. It has been on my mind for a while now but more so in the last week because it was looking impossible for me to change...no solution. Yesterday, the LORD showed me that he is working on it.

I would give details but it's about an impossible relationship. I needed to change my mindset and he has started that. He's changing my heart because I have told him that I don't know how and I need him to do it.

It always amazes me how something seemingly impossible is nothing to the LORD. He can get rid of the problem so easily and you are left thinking 'what was the big deal, how easy was that to solve'. He's the King of conflict resolution.

I was only saying yesterday to this person that we will just keep doing what we can and leave the rest in the LORD's hands. He is so good! I know it's only the beginning but he has so filled me with hope that I can't wait to see the rest of his handiwork.

prayer

when i pray I pray for the possible but also for the impossible. Because I believe what the word says about our LORD...all things are possible with him. He is the same yesterday as he is today.

I pray to the God who created heaven and earth, gave life to us, flooded the earth, raises the dead,parted the dead sea, came to this world as a vulnerable little baby in the hands of a young girl, who walked on water, calmed the seas, fed 5,000, overcame death...2,000 years ago and much much more!

I believe in the unseen. I believe that love conquers all. I believe that when God forgives a sinner like me, i'm made new and my sins are forgotten. I believe Jesus celebrated his birthday with me.

So I pray to the God of the impossible...my Creator and Heavenly Father. I ask him to do what i cannot do. And then i wait with great expectation for his answer...my God reigns.

merry christmas

to anyone who pops by this page:

Merry Christmas. May the LORD bless you right where you are! May he draw you closer to him in the coming new year. I hope the Lord's birthday is filled with love, laughter, and praise.

I have had my traditional christmas eve all nighter with my family and am about to close my eyes for a few hours before celebrating another day. Christmas for me is 48 hours of family, food, and giving.

It's so the LORD's character that on his birthday we get presents! He is the no.1 giver and his generosity knows no bounds.

How do i thank you Lord for saving me, renewing me, restoring me? Not by remembering you only once a year, but by choosing to live my every day life with you, and at this time of year finding all the energy i have within me to wish you a happy birthday in as many ways as possible.

thankful

i should be asleep but this use to be a time when i would have some of my most 'awake' moments with the LORD. So here i am again and tomorrow i am going to be such a zombie.

lots of thoughts...what happens when you're so controlled and responsible in life that it becomes very tempting to do something you normally wouldn't. A small example would be as a Mum I really should go to bed because tomorrow I have 2 little ones to look after. Instead I am here. That's kind of irresponsible. But there are worse things I could be doing. How tempting is that? An extreme would be to live a double life.

Today I am thankful for so many things big and small...my daughter who wakes up looking for me...my son who says 'come on mummy' when he wants me to put him to bed. Watching them do the funniest things as children free to be as loud and as crazy as they want to be or as quiet and shy as they want to be.

I am thankful for my home. That i can decorate it any way I want and make it into a welcoming personal space for my family to grow. I live a privileged life and with that privilege comes responsibility that one day my LORD will hold me accountable for.

I love Christmas because i love buying gifts for people. I am having a gathering of about 24 loved ones on Christmas eve. I want it to be...a time to enjoy each others company, relax after a busy year, and laugh, for everyone to feel comfortable and at home, for the children to have a great time, and lastly a time to remember my Lord and Saviour who died so I might live and love. And who lives so i might live and love.

i know why it's not tempting for me to lose control or lead a double life. Because i know in this life I don't have to be perfect. I don't have that expectation of myself. If anything I know the value of imperfection. And when i'm being 'imperfect' it's ok because i know the LORD doesn't change. He is the same today as he was yesterday. He is my rock and even tho I might be shaky at times, I have not built my house on the sand. No one can snatch me from his hand.