Happy Wednesday! 

Well, I messed up today. I wrote the information for the graveside service for Steven Baker down incorrectly. The service is tomorrow and I accidentally wrote down the information for the family time at the funeral home. Oh, well. I think perhaps I have too many irons in the fire. I need to check more carefully when I put things on the calendar.

Please continue to pray prayers of comfort for the Baker family.

On a good note…I completed my outline to lead class discussion tomorrow. 

Prayer victory:  My friend Casey Carter is healing beautifully!   We are celebrating God’s gracious healing and restoration to good health. I am also so very thankful that God’s strength was within this young man so he was able to endure the healing process.  Praise God from whom all blessings flow!

Prayer:  Holy and loving Lord, it has been a long day and a good day. It was good because I have been allowed to remain in Your loving Presence throughout the day. Thank You, Lord, for guiding my steps. Today I asked for You to stretch my time and I was able to complete my work for class. Lord, when I get tired, please be the fuel source of energy I need to work in Your will and walk in Your ways. Lord, in Your mercy, hear this prayer.

“To this end I labor, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in me.”

Colossians 1: 29

God’s unfailing love is always with us. The more we focus on God the more we become filled with God’s ever present love. I was in a Bible Study tonight with Bruce and Geni. The study has begun with a study of the building of the temple. One of the questions is “how did the Hebrews keep the fire of the Mount Sinai alive as they wandered the desert?” One of the ways was that they constructed a mobile temple. When they would leave one area of the desert on the way to the Promised Land they would pack the Tent of Meeting and its contents take it to the next area. The Tent of meeting was where God lived.

As Christians who have Jesus dwelling within us and have round the clock access to the Savior, we have become the Temple or in our case the Church and can carry our access to God no matter where we go. This wonderful indwelling of Jesus is the Holy Spirit and is the source of energy that flows through each of us freely as we continue to look to God and trust in Him daily. When we trust in God we get rid of some of our baggage and our source of energy rises because more of God lives in us. So my friends, let the limitless love of God energize and empower us, walk with us and live with us.

Take joy in the journey remembering that hope does not disappoint.   Wear comfortable shoes, pray with a heart filled with gratitude and cast your cares upon the Lord before you sleep tonight; He is going to be up all night anyway. Love you all, Bruce and Gaylene.

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I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am only moved by what I believe and I believe God.