Inhaling His Whispers of Rich Grace

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the Lord.   Psalm 31:24   In the waiting, discouragement and despair can settle in as we wait on God.  Sometimes the response comes soon and other times not so soon.  There are also the prayers and desires that are again met with a no as the desired outcome remains elusive. Disappointment and anger can settle in if our prayer and desire is attached to the outcome. Our hope is to be in the Lord, not in the desired outcome.  For when the response is not what we want if we're not careful disillusionment can quickly take over and anger towards the One who loves us.  We may even turn our back on Him. So, today, mourn the loss of the desired outcome, then bring your hope back to the One who is listening and cares.  

 I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.  Wait for the Lord; be strong and let your heart take courage; yes, wait for the Lord.   Psalm 27:13-14 (NASB) Friend, fellow-traveler on this journey of life; may I remind you and if this is your first read on wait - wait is to bind together (perhaps by twisting), to collect, gather, look, expect and as we wait on the Lord; we bind ourselves to Him, intertwining our hearts with His to discover something greater than ourselves. When I look around at the conditions of the world and the choices I see people making, my heart can constrict and it can cause a moment of panic.  I certainly feel the weight of despair, of feeling faint as the KJV adds.  My heart loses the courage to stay, and sometimes to truly live.  And I sense the disappointment that David must've felt as He expected to see God in this land of the living.  He, too, felt th...

 Tea with Jesus - conversation and prayers Lord,  This morning. As this day awakens,  awaken my heart to Your love. As the light pushes back the darkness, I want Your love to overpower the darkness in my heart, revealing, healing, and redeeming the hard and broken.  As this day dawns may I see You.  Your daughter and child,  Judith

  Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new (renew their) strength, they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary.  Isaiah 40:31 (NASB) WAIT. Wait in the Hebrew means to bind together (perhaps by twisting), to collect, to expect, gather, look. RENEW. (pass on, spring up, change, abolish, go on forward, grow up, sprout) This verse in Isaiah comforted me and yet, in many ways baffled me.  How does one get strength by waiting.  Yes, God gives strength in our weakness, but really, what is the strength in waiting? Until I read the Hebrew meaning of wait.  Then it made more sense. When I wait on the Lord, I am binding myself to Him and His strength renews mine.  I am joined to Him and I can soar because He has everlasting strength and never gets tired. I may get tired, but He does not.  I get weary, but He does not.  So when I look for Him; when I join to Him; I find my way through an...