Currently Reading Hinds' Feet on High Places By Hannah Hurnard see related

'She stooped over the lonely , lovely little golden face so hopefully and so bravely to the feeble drip, and cried out softly 'what is your name little flower, for i never saw one like you before.'The tiny plant answered at once in a tone as golden as itself, 'behold me! My name is Acceptance-with-joy!' -

If God has given me a new name i am pretty certain that this would be it. i feel like that little flower today. I am stretching myself to get that living water. You will provide. I am thirsty Lord. Thank you that you have said ' blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness and they shall be filled!'- Jesus. You will satisfy me today. I believe and will not doubt. God help me.

"Your word is like a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in! Indeed i cannot!" -jeremiah

I feel like God is doing something inside of me. I want to think that my love for him is growing and that because of that my love for others is growing. I want to be compelled to lose my life for His sake. I want to be compelled to share the gospel of grace for their sake. my prayer is that all of us would have this consuming fire awakened in us. That we would come back to life and really live again!

"Go up! eat and drink for i hear the sound of a rushing wind. so Elijah went up to mount carmel and he bowed himself down on the earth and put his head between his knees and  said to his servant 'go up and look toward the sea!' he went up and looked and came back ' there is nothing.' and he said 'go back' SEVEN times. and on the seventh time his servant returned and said 'behold there is a little cloud the size of a mans hand rising from the sea.' and elijah said 'prepare your chariot and go down lest the rains stop you!' In a little while the heavens drew black with clouds and wind and there was a great rain."- 1kings18:41-46

God's promise fulfilled.

After years of a drought. All elijah had to go on was God's word.  I can see his servant coming to him with his hand stretched out ..'there is a little cloud the size of my hand... and uncertian thinking 'will the rain really come or will this just pass? will we survive this desert land?' I imagine Elijah jumping to his feet "Run, lest the rain beat you!" His confidence. His hope never wavering. He knew His Lord. He knew his promise. I imagine Elijah dancing in the rain, arms stretched out spinning, tongue parched but the sweet living water quenching his thirst. I imagine Elijah laughed and maybe cried. I imagine Elijah like a child. Oh God make us like children. His God was real and faithful! SEVEN times.. seven means completion. Lord please help me to not give up before the seventh time. Im so sorry that i cant look past the desert and rest in the promise that you will come. Lets all wait for that rushing wind. May you find us rejoicing in the hope that it's coming and singing when it is near enough to touch. "hope that is seen no hope at all!" Amen.

she will bear a son and you shall call his name Jesus for he will save the world from their sins...

The creator came in the flesh of a baby. touching the leper. healing the sick. giving sight to the blind man. dining with the tax collecters. befreinding the prostitutes. holding the children. feeding the hungry. Immanual. God WITH us.

he washed his enemies feet.

He became a slave and servant to all.

He died. "Oh God My God..Why have you forsaken me?" He was seperated from God for US. He who knew no sin became sin so that we could become the righteousness of God.. O mercy.

For God so loved this world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life. For he did not send his son into the world to condemn the world but save the world through him.

death had no victory over him. he rose from the grave. PRAISE GOD! PRAISE GOD! God is not dead nor doth he sleep! because he lives we also live! Amen.