As I read and type these words that I wrote in Jan.-Feb. 1999, they are a blessing to me now in my current situation also. If the economic situation and/or more terrorist activity/war cuts off our special food and supplements, I shall have to read what the Lord spoke to me here over and over again....
The "somewhere" I was going here was to Mexico. Even though I was quite sick at the time and the trip was a "nightmare", the Lord held me in His arms of LOVE , gave me several special promises from the Scriptures which I "lived on", and allowed me to safely return to an
even better place than I had before. He also continued to provide the special food and supplements that I was concerned about losing. I just want to share this and praise His Name!
1b I SHALL NOT WANT.
Thank-You, Lord, for this verse! - "But my God shall supply ALL your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus." (Phil. 4:19)
Lord, You have always given me everything I really needed in the past, and You shall do so in the future. You have not promised me a life free from suffering, but until the day of my death, You shall give me all that I really NEED. All I REALLY need is YOU!
My dear husband has found a buyer for our trailer, and he thinks we're going SOMEWHERE - not sure exactly where, but probably to the mission field. I feel a little bit like Abraham and Sarah this morning. At times it seems so utterly impossible since I'm so sick, but I must remember that You are the God who works above and beyond what we are able to ask or think. In Your time and in Your way, You shall supply everything that I need. I fall into Your arms of love this morning - not knowing where I'm going or how I'm going to get there or how I will be able to survive if I don't have special food and supplements, etc. Maybe You shall indeed heal me, and then I shall not need SPECIAL provisions. Or maybe You shall provide these things for me in some miraculous way. Or perhaps You shall take me HOME. May I be content and happy and JOYFUL in whatever You choose.
2a HE MAKETH ME TO LIE DOWN IN GREEN PASTURES:
Yes, Lord, You are MAKING me to LIE DOWN. You are bringing me through a series of events in my life that are leaving me powerless with no strength of my own. I cannot decide what to do. You hold the keys! You hold the future! And You are MAKING me lie down in
Your wonderful arms of love in Your green pastures. All that I am going through is for my good to bring me to a place of total SURRENDER. I must LIE DOWN and let You determine what happens next. I'm sorry that I keep trying to get up and make my own plans...I'd so
much like to have it all planned out and know exactly how You will provide and lead, but I must live by faith. Thank-You for MAKING me to LIE DOWN again!
"IN RETURNING AND REST SHALL (I) BE SAVED; IN QUIETNESS AND IN CONFIDENCE SHALL BE (MY) STRENGTH." (Is. 30:15)
How I long to rest in Thee and quit the STRUGGLE! Please forgive me, Lord. I have been such a selfish person and so unwilling to SUFFER
" (You) say (to me), "My PRESENCE shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest." (Ex. 33:14) Yes, I shall LIE DOWN there, too, in the place where you are taking us...there, too, in Your green pastures- because Your PRESENCE is everywhere I go. Hallelujah!
You make me to lie down in GREEN PASTURES...Green Pastures...luscious green pastures. I shall lie down here in the soft, green grass and look up at the beautiful, blue sky with the fluffy, white clouds...and here I shall find PEACE...PEACE in You...I want to lie here FOREVER!
In these green pastures I shall find food - the perfect food that I need - the SPECIAL food from Thee that my body can tolerate. Thank- You, Lord, for the food of Your Word, the food that I CANNOT do without! Indeed "When by faith (I am) enabled to find rest in the promises, (I am) like a sheep...finding peace, rest and refreshment, serenity and satisfaction in a beautiful green pasture!" (Quote by Spurgeon)
You say to me, "I WILL FEED (THEE) in a good pasture, and upon the HIGH MOUNTAINS of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they LIE in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the MOUNTAINS of Israel." (Ex. 34:14)
Ah, Lord... Yes, I shall feed in Your HIGH PLACES...there with You...and I shall feed UPON YOU. I cannot eat physical bread, but I can partake of Thee... and thy Word, my spiritual, living bread!
Yes, Lord, You are making me to LIE DOWN in Your green, "vitamin- enriched" pastures of SURRENDER. It is Thee who "graciously enables (me) to perceive the preciousness of (your) truth and to feed upon it." (Quote by Spurgeon)
Thank-You, Lord!
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