Tag: God’s faithfulness

Psalm 42, 2014

On By Judy GlasserIn MayLeave a comment

May 7 a 2014I need you, dear God.

I am so empty when don’t feel you near me.

How can I get closer to you?

I am blinded by tears running down my face – day and night.

People say to me, ” What good is your God now?”

I remember how I used to run to you so easily and feel your protection.

I had so much joy!  I felt very blessed!  I loved being surrounded by people who love you!

Why am I so depressed?May 7b

I know what to do.  I need to turn back to you.  I need to revive the hope that I have because you have saved me and you are my God!

When I am most miserable, I need to remind myself of how you have always taken care of me.  You have always been faithful to me.

I need to feel your deep, endless love sweeping over me and through me again.

I know you love me.  I feel you near me at night.  When it’s dark…..and I’m praying.

But I still lose focus and I start complaining and whining.

When I focus on negative things, I start thinking that you have forgotten me.

I feel like the entire world is against me.  I am so sick and tired.  So helpless.  So useless……..

The taunts of the Evil One echo in my head – where is your God now?

I need to stop letting my mind take me there.  I need to focus on you, God, and spend as much time as possible with you.

You are my hope and salvation.

You will deliver me again!

Psalm 13, 2014

On By Judy GlasserIn MayLeave a comment

Why is this happening to me, Lord?April 20 2014

Even more important – why are you letting this happen me?

How long will I be overwhelmed with sorrow and defeat?

Why am I such a loser?

Answer me, God!

Are you answering me?

If you are, I’m not seeing it.

I am at the end of my rope.  I am barely  hanging on.  Everybody is fighting against me…and they are winning!

BUT I know that I need to remind myself that I just have to trust in you.

Your love has never failed me….ever.

You have saved me and my relationship with you gives me joy.  You give me joy deep inside of my heart.

I will always praise you, Lord.

You have been very good to me.

Thank you, dear God.

 

He is Faithful

On By Judy GlasserIn February2 Comments

I don’t know most of you.  I’ve never met you.

Yet, if you love God and have accepted Jesus as your personal Savior, I know something very important about your life.  I know that God always has been faithful to you.  He always has been and he always will be.  That’s who he is, he can’t be any other way.Feb 15 2014

It’s a challenge for all of us to trust God when we’re in the middle of a storm in our life.  But then we remember the last time – when God was faithful.  And the time before that – when God was faithful.  And all of the times – God was faithful.  Sometimes he calms the storm and sometimes he just calms his child as the storm rages on but he is always faithful.

Moses reminds the Israelites about God’s faithfulness in Deuteronomy 1 as he prepares to hand over leadership to Joshua.  Moses is getting ready to head home to heaven.

He recounts the time when God commanded them to go into the Promised Land.  God had prepared this special place for them – it was very beautiful and extremely fruitful.  God had told them not to be afraid – he was going to go with them.

Instead of obeying, they sent spies to check out the land and then listened as 10 of the cowardly spies discouraged everyone by their negative report.  The Israelites ended up ‘grumbling in their tents.’  I like that phrase.  How often does our disobedience and lack of courage cause us to grumble in our tents?

Moses reminds the Israelites that they refused to trust in God who had rescued them from Egypt and who had guided them day and night through the desert.  They had seen how ‘the Lord God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”

And they still didn’t trust him.

Dear Father, Please help us trust in your faithfulness every minute of every day.