WISDOM WAS THERE AND STILL IS!

In the beginning - WISDOM was there!

From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth - WISDOM was there!

When there were no depths - WISDOM was there!

When there were no springs abounding with water - WISDOM was there!

Before the mountains were settled - WISDOM was there!

Before the hills - WISDOM was there!

While He had not yet made the earth and the fields,

Nor the first dust of the world - WISDOM was there!

When He established the heavens - WISDOM was there!

When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep - WISDOM was there!

When He made firm the skies above - WISDOM was there!

When the springs of the deep became fixed - WIDSOM was there!

When He set for the sea its boundary so that

the water would not transgress His command - WISDOM was there!

When He marked out the foundations of the earth - WISDOM was there as a master workman!

"Now therefore, O sons, listen to me,

For blessed are they who keep my ways.

"Heed instruction and be wise,

And do not neglect it.

"Blessed is the man who listens to me,

Watching daily at my gates,

Waiting at my doorposts.

"For he who finds WISDOM finds life

And obtains favor from the Lord.

Dear Lord God, what a friend you have provided in WISDOM. Help me to not lean on my own understanding but in all my ways to acknowledge YOU so that You will make my paths straight. Lord, you know that I desire to walk with you in an upright way and that I need your DIVINE WISDOM to do that. You are my Rock, the Lord of my salvation! I praise you Jesus for all that you have done, are doing, and continue to do in my life. AMEN

A BROKEN CISTERN!

Good Morning World!

At 5:30 a.m. this morning I could no longer lay in bed and continue to be restless and thinking about the Lord. And by the way, I don't even know that I was truly sleeping anyways, since I keep popping my eyes open its seems every few minutes. So.... I'm glad that I did not continue to lay there but that I got up and communed with God this morning because that is exactly what He wanted from me and I'm so thankful that He did not give up until I surrendered.

I began reading, crying, praising and praying through Isaiah 58 all the way through to the end and then began again in Jeremiah chapter 2 and have ended this morning with Jeremiah 2:13 that reads:

"For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters, To hew for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns that can hold no water."

To me there is so much God is saying in this passage. I don't even know that I can fathom it all, but I did want to write the thoughts in which came to my mind that God was speaking to me about.

One thought that came to my mind was about being a cistern that could hold "The fountain of living waters". When a pot is broken, it cannot hold anything that is liquid. It's going to leak out and there will be nothing to give away or to keep me refreshed or sustained. So the questions, I must ask of the Lord are: What kind of pot or cistern have I been hewing for myself? Am I okay being a broken cistern that can hold no water? I can quickly answer that one, NO, NO, NO, I'm not okay with that! I want to be a cistern that can hold the fountain of living waters that would be glory and honor to my Savior. I do want to be one whom the Lord will look who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at His word.

I believe our world has become so accustomed to being broken cisterns that can hold no living water that we are believing that is okay and acceptable because of the grace of God. I believe God is saying that it is not okay......I did not make you to continue to be living as broken cisterns hewn out from your own making, I made you so that you could hold the fountain of living waters for My glory and My glory alone! I sent my precious son, Jesus to break the chains and bondage of sin, so that you could live as a beautiful, unbroken cistern holding my Son's fountain of living water inside of you to give away and refresh not only yourself but others as well.

Lord my prayer today is that you will repair or even destroy if you have too my cistern. The one that Kathleen has made because her cistern is leaking uncontrollably and is in need of a Master Potter who can mold and shape a new one for His glory alone! Amen.

I SHALL REMEMBER!

Psalm 77:11 - 13 reads: I shall remember the deeds of the LORD; Surely I will remember Your wonders of old. I will meditate on all Your work And muse on Your deeds. Your way, O God, is holy; What god is great like our God?

In recent months, I have remembered.....what have I remembered?.....I have remembered and treasured sweet things of the Lord from when I was a little girl. You see, what I saw and experienced as a young child, set my feet and heart on a path of loving God and desiring to do the right thing. I have failed along the way many times, but I know that God has not loved me any less in my failings than when He loves when I'm on the right path.

Here are some of the wonders of old that I remember of the Lord and His people:

I remember gathering with my mom and other believers at church, singing, praising, listening and hearing the Word of God preached. I remember testimonies, I remember the Lord's supper and foot washing following the Lord's supper. I remember people coming to the altar and their heads being annointed with oil and everyone gathered around that person praying for healing, praying for unspoken requests, praying for a Word from the Lord! I remember going down to the river where baptisms would be held and folks coming up out of the water praising God for what He had done in their lives! I remember the stories/Testimonies of God's faithfulness to our family when we were down to our last cracker in the house and God provided a job for my daddy. I remember going to our Pastor's house and sitting and talking about the Lord. I remember so many good and precious times of seeing the manifestation of the Lord working in the lives of His people. What treasures these are too me and I praise You Lord for allowing me to see this. I praise God for a Mom who lived out her faith in the Lord before me. She wasn't perfect and still isn't, but I really saw God/Jesus and the Holy Spirit through her life. I remember that God is the same yesterday, today and forever. I remember that God is unchangable and that He is the Great I AM!

Thank You Lord for Your Word and for bringing to my rememberance Your wonders of old!

I praise You Lord for all that You have done for me,

Kathleen

PSALM 50 AND A NEW YEAR TO BEGIN AGAIN!

Where do I begin? I think Psalm 50: 23 is a great beginning to start with, so here it goes, "He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me; And to him who orders his way aright I shall show the salvation of God."

I'm so glad to be leaving the year 2009 behind and starting anew with 2010!

Right now Lord, I offer you what I have, and that is, I'm thankful for Your Word from Isaiah 33:6 that I began memorizing and claiming at the beginning of 2009. I didn't really know at that time, how much I would come to lean on that scripture as a source of strength throughout this past year and that I will continue to lean on it in 2010! Lord You are and will continue to be the stability of my time, You will continue to be a wealth of salvation, wisdom and knowledge to me and Lord I know that the fear of the Lord truly is my treasure. There is nothing else Lord that I can truly depend on.

I surely do not know what the future holds, but I know that You know. And I know that Your Will, will be done on earth as it is in Heaven and I thank You for that.

My last thing I want to share today is this beautiful Scripture I read this morning that brought my thoughts to try to imagine and take in this scene.

Psalm 48:1-2 says:

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,

In the city of our God,

His holy mountain.

Beautiful in elevation,

the joy of the whole earth,

Is Mount Zion in the far north,

The city of the great King.

For Thine is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever!

Kathleen

SCRIPTURE MEMORY VERSE #19

I'm so thankful I received my verse before today actually came! Thank you Lord. May I trust YOU at ALL times! You are my refuge.

Trust in Him at all times, O people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us.

Psalm 62:8 (NASB)

Kathleen

SCRIPTURE MEMORY VERSE # 17

This is a scripture that I want to use from reading Beth Moore's Praying God's Word.

Isaiah 61:3

To grant those who mourn in Zion, Giving them a garland instead of ashes, The oil of gladness instead of mourning, The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.

Thank you Lord for your Word. May it bring refreshment to my soul. Amen.

Kathleen

SOMETHING GOOD

James Madison, the Father of the Constitution (Yes, I've been reading up on American Government in Homeschool) realized that a good government was impossible apart from morality and virtue among the citizenry. At the Virginia Convention which assembled to ratify the new U.S. Constitution, he stated the following : "I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom. Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation."



I think this is good and thus I wanted to post it here!



Kathleen