Keep Breathing

"THE LORD PROVIDES!
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us."  ~Augustine

"Today God promises us grace!
Grace for every moment and every need--a marvelous sufficient grace that can turn confusion into clarity, fear into courage, inactivity into blessing, doubt into decisiveness, and trouble into triumph.  With hands and hearts open wide, may we receive all that we need--the shower of His amazing grace!"
~Matt Anderson

Sometimes the only thing we can do is to remind ourselves to just keep breathing.  God continually awakens me to the amazing fact that life is not about me!  We must come to the end of ourselves.  It is and always has been about God!  We were created and we breathe for one soul purpose, to praise honor and glorify Him.  How incredibly easy it is to lose sight of this vital truth.  Pain is sometimes the most potent emotion and resource God uses to awaken us to His heart and overall plan and desire for us.  In a way it sounds cliché...yes God has a plan for me so I may be asked to give up so very very very much and go through so much pain and suffering in order to fulfill His plan.  But when God allows or asks us to go through the kind of pain that He has allowed me....I must hold onto Hope.  God does indeed have a plan.  HE is in charge.  My heart may be shattered...I may have bled out...but my hands are up, in surrender. I must trust my desires to Him.  I will not give up.  I will never stop holding onto hope and Gods promises to me.  For it is truly His promises that are the guiding light directing us out of the storms we must walk through in order for God to make us into the men and women He desires us to truly be. 

"In the storm, in the darkness I clung to Your love,
Your promises and Your sovereign power.
Like a raft in a raging sea, keeping my head above the water.

The unabated flames of pain and sorrow were the refining fire
removing my faded passions~
revealing Your love more fragrant,
Your strength more enduring,
Your power more comprehensive
Making who You are more clear,
removing all of my fear.

When I can't pray, When I can't cry anymore,
When my spirit is heaviness, I lift my eyes to You~
open my heart in worship and am renewed
with the garment of praise.

The fire of life not only reflects the Masters face
and aluminates His craftsmanship in us,
but it reveals what we're made of
and exposes our true color so everyone can see
the real me.


"For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy, in his distress, A refuge from the storm, A shade from the heat;  For the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall."
In the pain remember...Wait on God!  There may be a storm blasting against the walls...but God has already sent His rainbow of hope and promise to guide us to His perfect path and purpose!  Thank you God!!

"Nothing happens in vain or for any other purpose than to conform us to Christ."
~Luci Swindoll

PROMISE:
"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose!"
Romans 8:28