Thankfulness

Donna Braman

THANKFUL IN ALL SITUATIONS

I am filled today with such a thankful heart I hardly know where to begin.  But I thank the Lord this morning for the people who are a blessing to me, my family and friends and neighbors, the children in my life, for my brothers and sisters in Christ, for pastors and teachers who are a part of my life, for those who have loved me even when I was not so loveable, for the friend who built my deck, for the people he put in my life to serve and to help. I even am thankful for the thoughtful postman I have.

    Thank you Lord for the many ways You use these people to meet my needs, brighten my path, and lighten my load, to enrich my knowledge of You, and to counsel or correct or nourish me, building me up in the faith. How good and how pleasant it is to enjoy rich fellowship with those who love You!  Thank you Lord for every person you have brought into my life.

     I am thankful for those who have been in my life that have disappointed me, for I know we all have flaws, and that only you are flawless.  I'm thankful Lord that you have taught me to love even those with an ugly edge, and not to force others to meet my needs, for You are the only one that can meet my deepest needs and You are the one that is always available.  This makes me even more glad to have You as my deepest love, a friend that is always there.  My wonderful counselor, my ever present help in trouble, available around the clock.  How wonderful that I belong to You, the pure, unpolluted source from which all downstream love flows.  So I delight in people here in my earthly world, but first and last I come to You, the only perfect person, the only ideal person, the only One whose love is flawless, the only One who is worthy of my highest praise.  O, God, who is like You? There is none to compare with YOU!

     Some of the people who have hurt me the worst are the ones who drove me to your feet, upon Your Love 

to feed.  I'm grateful too, through all life's way no one could satisfy and so I found in You my rich and full supply.

     I am most thankful to You Lord for my husband, for each specific strong point and admirable quality you gave to me in my life partner.  Thank You for bringing us together, and for the way Your love sweetens our earthly love! I bless and praise You Lord for the many benefits You have given me through this dear one called my husband.  He lifts me up when I'm down.  He loves me even when I get an attitude, he loves me when I look my worst, he hurts when I hurt and he laughs with me over the silly, funny things. But most of all He loves You and we both make our home a house of love for you, that foundation I am so very blessed to have.

     Thank You Lord that we get to share our life, rewards, and inheritance with YOU.  Who can compare with You?  You are the strength of my life, and my portion forever.  Thank You that You are so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful, that You can meet and overflow the deeper love I have for you onto others.  My tower, My stronghold and Your name is Yeshua (Jesus).

     I thank You today Lord for my son, that beautiful wonderful gift you gave me 26 years ago that took my heart and love as he was laid upon my chest to nurture.  He has been a blessing to me ever since, even when he threw down in the floor at 2 years old fighting sleep, even when he spilled the bucket of paint on the new carpet at 9, even when he poured my Paul Mitchel shampoo on the hall floor for a makeshift slip and slide at 7, even when he whispered something ugly to me at age 12 and got whapped on the back end. He is all grown up now and graduated from UNC in 2007 and is in China teaching children English for a year. He is still the catcher of my heart.  The goodness of him far outweighs the natural behaviors of growing up.  I love the unique mind he has and the visible kindness like when he brought me breakfast in bed at 11. All the bear and eskimo kisses in elementary school, all the paintings he did that reflects his inner beauty. The consciousness he has to beautify and keep God's earth clean and natural.  He loved me still even when I got frustrated as he taught me this thing called COMPUTER, networking and widgets and all that goes with being a writer these days. Most of all I love him for taking the time to spend those days with me at church and building me a raised garden bed like Martha Stewart's before he left for China.  I pray blessings, protection and guidance from the Lord to Him and that the Lord will give him peace and joy throughout his life.   

SEED WORD:

I ask each and everyone of you to take the time today to get a piece of paper and write down the people you are thankful for and why and tell them.  Don't leave out the people who have angered you, hurt you or disappointed you, for even those relationships we are to be thankful for as they help mature us in the Lord and teach us the fruit of the spirit. Write down the blessings the Lord has provided for you, your health, your job, the food on your table, the family members, and thank him for the provision he gives you that enables you to GIVE to others in need.  Don't forget to share your meal this Thanksgiving to a shut in, to a lonely neighbor, or to simply go out of your way to lift someone up who is struggling with something, a word of comfort or a word in prayer!

Thank You Lord

Donna Braman
Praise and Thanksgiving
Devotional Series

THANK YOU LORD FOR MAKING ME ADEQUATE

2 Corinthians 3:5

Scripture Reading:  Hebrews 10:24, John 15:15, Ephesians 4:16

I'm so grateful Lord, that the Christian life is not a rigorous self-improvement course or a do-it-yourself kit, that it is not a call to prove myself or improve myself by overcoming my own shortcomings and failures, in my own way or by own resources.  But it is You that is at work in me and in my situation, to break old patterns of thought and action, to create within me both the desire and the power to do Your gracious will, and to make me a joy to You in new ways.

Thank You for the many ways You use other people to counsel me and help me grow, and yet that Christ Himself is the Answer to my hang-ups, the one Source who can meet my deepest needs.  How I rejoice that He is wonderful in counsel and mighty in power, and that He heals from the inside out.

Thank You too, for the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength.  I praise You that He is in me to enlighten me through Your Word, to flush away my anxieties and fears, my resentments and hostilities, my guilt and regrets, as water flushes away dirt and trash to keep me filled with Himself and to flood my heart with Your love.  Produce in me Lord the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.  Enable me Lord, to give thanks for all things as the hours and days and weeks pass.  I rejoice that You are able to do far more than all I ask or think according to Your power that is at work in me, the same power that raised Jesus from the dead!

SEED WORD:

The Holy Spirit sends others to us to counsel us and to help us grow. He is also the Source who can meet your deepest needs, and it is in allowing Him to live through us that makes us adequate. Take time to thank Him today and rejoice that He is wonderful in counsel and mighty in power, and that He heals from the inside out! 

All Situations

Donna Braman

BE THANKFUL IN ALL SITUATIONS

Scripture Reading:

Isaiah 63:9

1Thessalonians 5:18

Thank You, my gracious and sovereign Lord, that You have been with me and carried me from the day of my birth until today...that You have known my whole life, from beginning to end, and that You wrote in your book all the days that You ordained for me before one of them came to be.

Thank You that in Your gracious plan to bless and use me.  You've allowed me to go through hard times, through trials that many people go through in this fallen world.  How glad I am that You're so good at reaching down and making something beautiful out of even the worst situations!  How encouraged I am when I think how You did this for Joseph, how his brothers hated and abused and betrayed him.  Lord, You worked these things out for blessing both for Joseph and his family and for countless other people.

I praise You that the things that happened in my past, both enjoyable and painful are raw materials for blessings, both in my life and in the lives of others.  So I thank You for the specific family into which I was born and the opportunities You did or did not provide. I thank you also for my extended family and my in-laws you have blessed me with. 

I thank you Lord for the things in my past that appear to be limitations, hindrances, bad breaks, the wounds of old hurts, the unmet emotional needs, the mistakes or neglect of other people, even their spite toward me or wrongs of me.

SEED WORD:

We don't like to revisit bad experiences or bad relationships but when we can be thankful for the hard times and bad experiences we then can begin to see how God put those in our lives to bring us to where he wants us to be.  When we can let go of blame we can begin to see what it is in us that God is trying to remake or correct. It is not about the other person at all, but about how God can help us to grow in a test of our love, patience, forgiveness and commitment to His ways. Sometimes, now I just say Lord, show me what it is in this situation that can make me a better person or grow in You from this test or trial.

Love By Design

Donna Braman

LOVE BY DESIGN

Scripture: Psalm 95:6, Psalm 139:13-16

For Thou didst form my inward parts, Thou didst weave me in my mother's womb.  I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well. Psalm 139:13.

I give thanks to You, O Lord and I stand in awe of You, for I am wonderfully made.  Marvelous are Your works!  Thank You that You uniquely designed and created me, with the same care and precision You used in creating the universe.  That you formed me in love exactly to Your specifications, that You embroidered me with great skill in my mother's womb.

I'm grateful that my looks, my abilities and my personality are like a special picture frame in which You can portray Your grace and beauty.  Your love, Your strength, Your faithfulness, to the praise of Your glory.  I rejoice that You have gifted me for the special purposes You have in mind for my life.  I thank You for Your loving wisdom in allowing the things that have influenced me throughout my life, the things that have prepared my heart to respond to You and live for Your glory.  I might not have turned to You if things had been different!

  

It's wonderful to know that You are not the least bit dissatisfied with my inborn talents, intelligence, aptitudes, appearances, and personality, for your hands have made and fashioned me.  I am one of Your original masterpieces!

I worship and bow down, I kneel before You, my Maker and my ever present help in trouble.

I thank you Lord for the Mother that you gave to me, to be the vessel that bore me and nurtured me to adulthood, took care of my needs, and desires.  I thank you Lord for her, even when we disagree for without her I would have never been!.

I thank you Lord for all the unique experiences I've had because they are all in your plan to make me everything that you have planned for me and even in my greatest pain is born my destiny of greatness.

SEED WORD:

Sometimes it's difficult to be thankful for our parents and for the painful experiences of our lives, but God will begin to implement His plan for our lives when we humble ourselves and learn forgiveness and accept  His unique design of our lives.  The greatest destinies have been born out of pain!

Equipped

Donna Braman

BELIEVERS MINISTRY DAILY DEVOTIONAL

EQUIPPED FOR EVERY GOOD WORK

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, for man to be adequately equipped for every good work.

Scripture:

2 Timothy 3:16-17, Isaiah 55:8, Psalm 119:17

I glorify You for giving us Your Word Lord, that wonderful written revelation that gives us You and your Plan.  As snow and rain fall from the skies to meet our needs, so You have condensed Your thoughts, which are vastly higher than all human thoughts, into Your Holy Scripture.  I'm so grateful that You cared enough to communicate with us in this clear, unchanging, always accessible way, so that Your thoughts are now available at all times to refresh and nourish and teach me -  that you are still a communicating God, speaking these words to me as I am attentive to You, as I read and meditate with a listening heart.  

What a privilege it is to store Your Word in my heart, where You can use it at any moment to bless me and guide me...to keep me from sinning against You. You are a storehouse of inspired words that the Spirit can bring to my mind to help others.

Thank You that in Your Word I can see Your face and hear Your voice.  I can discover Your will and Your seasons, Your patterns for living and serving.  I can develop deeper faith and confidence.  Thank You that the Holy Spirit inspired Your Word and uses it to enlighten and guide me, and to change me more and more into Your image, from one degree of glory to another. 

SEED WORD: The word is living and it cuts through bone and marrow, if we will speak it and preach it, it will do powerful things. It doesn't need us to correct or judge another. It convicts on its own to new converts, sinners and Christians who have stumbled. All God needs for us to do is to be faithful with His Word and to uplift others in his word and to restore those who come to us back into his favor and righteousness. 

Mystery

Donna Braman
11-10-09

BEHOLD, I TELL YOU A MYSTERY, WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP,

BUT WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED...

I magnify You, my God, for Your absolute purity, honliness and justice as the Judge to whom all people must give an account.  I praise You that Your fairness is intertwined with everything You do, that when the time is ripe You will end all sin and injustice, all corruption, all immorality...that You will right all wrongs and reward all loving service and suffering for Your sake.

Thank You that Your Son will return from heaven with a shout of triumph, that the dead in Christ will be raised imperishable...and in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, we shall all be utterly changed.  We shall see the radiance of His face and the glorious majesty of His power.  It will be a breathtaking wonder and splendor unimaginable to all who believe!  Thank You that "whatever we may have to go through now is less than nothing compared with the magnificent future" You have planned for us.

What a joy it is to know that the government will be on Christ's shoulders, and that there will be no end to the increase of His government and peace...that His Kingdom will be established with justice and righteousness from then on and forevermore.  Your Kingdom is an everlasting kingdom...a kingdom that cannot be shaken.  You will never be voted out; no coup will ever dethrone You.  For all eternity You are the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.  To You be the glory and the dominion forever and ever!

SEED WORD:

I ponder what it will be like for seven years with Jesus at the grand wedding supper.  I imagine Abraham being there and us getting to witness a greater laugh than he did when God told him of the birth to come from his barren wife.  I imagine King David worshipping and dancing before his son and rejoicing that when at age 16 when he slung that rock into Goliath's head he foreshadowed the crushing of Satan's head, the evil seed that Jesus' blood destroyed.  Think of the ways you might interact with all the souls now and that has been that you will see in heaven and what it is that they mean to you..  I can see myself jumping up and dancing with King David and oh what joy Jesus will have to be with us all.  Why, I'll bet you King David's crown is so big, and he is little man, will  be taken off and sat at the feet of his, great, great, great whatever grandson, the King of  Kings and the Lion of Judah!

Purpose in the Storm

Scripture Reference: Romans 8:28-29

Believers have a choice about how they will respond to life's trials. Either they can cast blame while becoming resentful and bitter, or they can turn to the Lord and ask, "What is Your purpose for me going through this difficult situation?"

Since recognizing God's purpose and plan is the way that faith grows, Christians have the right to ask "why?" Like a child learning new concepts, we see that when x happens, God does y, just as He promised. For instance, in the Old Testament, King David made destructively wrong choices for which God allowed CLEANSING STORMS into his life. The leader of the nation had wandered off the right path, but painful experiences drove him back to the center of the Lord's will. We might consider the divine method cruel, but David would disagree. He wrote, "Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I keep your word...It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes." (Psalm 119:67-71).

Returning believers to right fellowship is only one of God's purposes for a life storm. Some difficulties are meant to blow away all distractions so we can focus our attention on the Lord and what it is that he's calling us to do. Other trials break our worldly mold so that we can be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. Our personal pleasure is not the top priority. God's primary concern is to shape a wise and obedient servant who loves him and desires for him to reach the destiny and assignment God has for him for without obedience and learning how to fellowship and listen to God's instruction in his word and His Holy Spirit we take a road that is less fulfilling than God's plan for us and true joy and happiness can only come when we are walking in the will of God.

SEED WORD: When a storm rages into our life, the Lord is already planning how to turn destruction into good. Seek His objective, and work with Him to acheive it. The promise of Romans 8:28 is that we will reap gain from our losses. Sometimes, it is our pain and losses that we learn from and that God uses to bring about our divine assignment. I have learned two things in the midst of trials. One, that the sooner I start to praise and speak his word into my situation that His Spirit guides me through it more quickly. Secondly, I start to sing thanks for I know through his word that joy comes in the morning and manifestation of His Holy Spirit is on the way and I'm about to be promoted to a higher level of service to my Lord and have a closer, more intimate relationship with the Father. I had to go around the mountain a few times with trials before the Potter could shape this lump of clay into His design. You see, we have to be renewed in his image before we can be of much use in His Kingdom. After a few years in my walk with the Lord I learned the hard way how to go through fires instead of allowing these tests to paralyze me, or turning to my own power to change them, or resorting to the world's way of reacting to them which is to place blame and try to skirt around the trouble. Are you SINGING yet?

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None Like Thee

Donna Braman
11-09-09

THERE IS NONE LIKE THEE, O LORD; THOU ART GREAT

AND GREAT IS THY NAME IN MIGHT!

Scripture:

Jeremiah 10:6, Psalm145:3,5-6 and Daniel 5:23

I magnify You, O Lord.  I exalt Your name for You are great and highly to be praised.  I praise You for the glorious splendor of Your majesty and the power of Your awe inspiring acts.  Your power is unlimited, absolute, beyond imagining.  You are able to do immeasurably more than we can ask or dream of.  "There is nothing too hard for You."

Who is like You?" Majestic in Holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders?"

O Lord Most High, You rule over the heavens and the earth, for You made all things by Your great power, and You keep them existing and working by Your mighty Word.  You are exalted high above every star and galaxy in the entire cosmos, yet You are also "the God of all mankind,"  the great, personally present, personally involved God who loves, rescues, and takes care of all who trust You.

You exercise Your gracious authority over all nations, and over each individual in all the world.  There is none like You, the true God, the living God, the everlasting King of the Universe. The only God I bow to.

I praise You for Your sovereignty over the all the events of my life and over the details.  With You, nothing is accidental, nothing is incidental, and no experience is wasted or without reason.   You hold in Your own power my breath of life and all my destiny and determine my steps.

SEED WORD:

Every trial that God allows to happen in our lives is a platform on which we reveal ourselves to God, our love and devotion and commitment and faith to Him and as others look on.  I thank Him today that I can move into the future without a false image of who I am in Him, and without defensiveness, or falsely trusting in the power of self.  But to be able to stretch out both my hands to whatever lies ahead, for He holds the future and He goes ahead of us to prepare the way and outcome when we can trust Him enough to rest in his everlasting love that never abandons us.

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King of Kings

Donna Braman

THE SUPREME KING OF KINGS

Scripture:
1 John 4:10, Revelation 1:18, 5:12

"And God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power."

Praise be to the God of Israel, O King of the Universe.  How I love thee today, because You first loved me and sent Your Son to atone for my sins.  I stand amazed before You today that Yeshua, who by nature had always been You incarnate.  I thank Him today that He did not cling to His rights as Your equal...that He laid aside all His privileges, to be born as a human being...that He totally humbled Himself, submitting to the death of a common criminal, enduring infinite humiliation and pain...that on the cross You laid on Him the compressed weight of all my sin and guilt and shame, of all my griefs and sorrows, and He became sin for me, dying the death I deserved.

And how much I praise You that it was impossible for death to hold Him in its power...that You raised Him from the dead to be my Savior, to make me righteous in Your sight...that You highly exalted Him, giving Him a position infinitely superior to any conceivable command, authority, power, or control, both natural and supernatural.  Thank You that He is the Great High Priest...that He is able to save me completely, for He lives forever and prays for me, and for all of us who have come to You through Him.  I glorify You, my Father, with gratefulness and joy.

I bow today at your feet, the one who was dead, and is now alive forever and ever.  I exalt Him, I yield myself to Him, for He is worthy of the total response of my entire being: "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing."

SEED WORD:
Let us always remember and be thankful and praise Him, the one that raised us up into a new man with Him, at the cross of calvary.  Today, my life is not my own, but is the one who lives in me, and daily I have to pick up my cross, shake off the rubbish from the world and say Lord, here am I, lead me today into more and more into Your will, not mine.


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Transformation

Donna Braman

BE TRANSFORMED

Scripture:
Hebrews 4:12, Matthew 7:24, Psalm 40:8

But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, and the Holy Spirit. (2 Corinthians 3:18)

I praise You O God of Israel that your Son, Jesus lived His life sinlessly, in total accord with reality, with no falseness, no self-deception, no dark secrets, nothing to regret, nothing to be ashamed of...that He proclaimed the truth, the one utterly reliable foundation for our thinking and living.  Thank You that He delighted to do Your will...that He withdrew for time alone in Your presence...that He was attentive to Your Voice and sensitive to Your working...that He lived in complete dependence on You, so that You in Him spoke those gracious and life-giving words and performed those mighty works.

Thank You that He demonstrated how I am to live and serve, completely depending on His life as He walked on earth, and beholding His glory, "the glory of the one and only" who came from You, full of grace and truth. What a delight to know that as I focus on Him, You transform me into His image by Your Spirit within me.  You work in me that which is pleasing in Your eyes.  You strengthen my heart in every good work and every good word, so that more and more I honor Christ by the way I live.

SEED WORD:
We can seemingly be doing all the right things in our work for Christ but without agape love backing it up, its impact will be almost nonexistent. Do our words and actions reflect that of Christ, and are we working in His will being led by the Holy Spirit? Or are we doing a "me" thing to establish "me" through doing works without faith and love.   Love is what will cause the lost and dying world to return to the empowered, end time, righteous church.  Did you know that agape love is empowered by the Holy Spirit?  The kind of love Jesus had is not cultivated by ourselves, for it is impossible. We need the Holy Spirit to give us understanding of this kind of heart that Jesus had and to demonstrate it with transparency.


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A King to All

Donna Braman

A KING TO ALL

Scripture:
John 3:16 And Psalm 45:2

Thank you Father, that You so loved the world that You gave Your one and only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ...that when the time had fully come, He wrapped Himself in human form, being born as a helpless baby in a poor family.  Thank You that He walked here on earth radiating the brightness of Your Glory and flawlessly expressing Your nature.  Through Him, people saw You in action, involved with them, available to meet their needs.  Thank You that He focused Your Almighty power into the lives of common people with deep needs just like me.  He preached the gospel to the poor, proclaimed freedom to prisoners of sin and recovery of sight to the blind, and set free the oppressed victims of sin and Satan.  He lifted up the downtrodden, the lost, the hurting, the broken.

Thank You for the way He rebuked the arrogant and looked with favor on the humble minded, opening wide the door of His Kingdom to those who were destitute and helpless in spirit.  I delight in Your tender mercies, O my God, by which the Sunrise from on high has come to us!

Thank You that through the Gospels I can watch this beloved One walk among ordinary people.  I can hear the gracious words that came from His lips.  I can see His compassion and tenderness toward needy people.  His anger at hypocrisy, His faithfulness, His intense love for His Bride whom he has covenanted with.

Fairest One of all Lord Jesus!  You alone are my heart's desire...my chief delight...my soul's glory, joy, and crown.  Every advantage life can offer is like rubbish, compared with the overwhelming gain of knowing You. You are worthy, Lord, worthy to be thanked and praised and worshiped and adored.

SEED WORD:
Sometimes we can lose our fire when circumstances aren't good in our life, but if I'm never blessed again, that gift of life he breathed into me the day I fell to my knees broken in spirit from the world's filth, is enough to make me praise and thank Him the rest of my life.  There is nothing that thrills my soul more than to see a person go to the foot of the cross and get saved.  A life has been reborn, and the angels even rejoice. Let us not shut out the ones Jesus wants so lovingly to come to Him.  Take the time in your busy life to help a young Christian mature or the lonely and desperate find their way to the greatest miracle of all, salvation. Let not our mercies and justice be withheld in our churches for the less fortunate. The church should be a place that radiates life, not judgment and hypocrisy.

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Joy and Protection

Donna Braman

PRAISING THAT BRINGS JOY AND PROTECTION

Scripture Reading: Psalm 91:1-2
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, "My refuge and my fortress, My God in whom I trust."

I awakened with a song of praise in my heart. Oh how my heart rejoices in you my Lord.  YOU are my strong shelter in times of trouble and stress, my hiding place to whom I may continually go. Oh how you so lovingly provide for me, my Shepherd who guides and protects me, my Champion who upholds my cause as His child and defends my interests. My bridegroom who delights in me, my God who is mighty to save, who rests in His love for me and rejoices over me with singing, with shouts of joy.  You are my inheritance, my share in life, the One who satisfies my longing soul and fills my hungry soul with goodness. Oh how I search for you upon wakening with a thirst to be in your presence.

I praise you this day for Your Love and Your wisdom.  You are too wise to ever make a mistake, too loving to ever do anything unkind.  You act on my behalf accomplishing what concerns me and fulfilling Your purpose for me as I call on You.  Thank You that You love me deeply and tenderly.  You are compassionate and gracious, full of lovingkindness, ready to forgive, patiently considerate, and generous beyond imagining.  You desire my love today and I desire yours. Oh how you rejoice to do good things for me today.  You delight to give me the desires of my heart as I delight myself in You.  How precious is Your love to me.  O God, Hashem, O, King of the Universe. I sing for joy as I take refuge in the shadow of Your wings as I bow before you today covered in the Tallit and in the healing wings of your mighty arms. I graciously wrap myself in your love, my lover, my life, my joy. My heart remains faithful!

SEED WORD:
Let us get our hearts on the one that matters and you Will delight in the goodness of Him. Go ahead and lay your burdens down to Him today and see if He won't breathe a newness in you.  Praise Him in the midst of your trouble and see how quickly you go through it. Watch a small child love on his Father and see how quickly that Father gives the child his desires.  Go ahead and ask Him for your hearts desire today!

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