WAITING ON THE LORD

Have you not known?

Have you not heard?

The everlasting God, the Lord,
The Creator of the ends
of the earth,
Neither faints nor is weary.
His understanding is
unsearchable.

He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might
He increases strength.

Even the youths shall faint
and be weary,
And the young men
shall utterly fall,

But those who wait on the Lord
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up
with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.

Isaiah 40:28-31 (NKJV)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

OH, Give Thanks To The LORD

For He is Good!

For His Mercy

Endures Forever.

GIVING THANKS

The LORD

Has Done

Great Things

For Us,

And We are Glad.

Psalm 126:3

THE INVITATION

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" ~Matthew 11:28-30~


OH, THE EXCITEMENT OF INVITATIONS!

Down through the years, we've opened invitations for this and invitations for that. Some interested us, and some didn't.

IMAGINE--in the midst of prolonged stress--opening an invitation from Jesus . . . just for us.

When caught up in a web of stresses, the ultimate invite can lighten cares and concerns and brighten our outlook on life.

Regardless of what some may say, those who have witnessed anointed invitations can bodly attest to the wonder it works when battling stress.

And guess what? Jesus extends this invitation to us all!

Peace I leave with you . . .

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

IF WE'VE STRUGGLED with stress over-and-over and back-to-back for extended periods of time, we eventually reach a point where we literally become stressed out.

Then one day we wake up to the fact that we are sick and tired of stress. We simply cannot stress anymore. As if by "Divine" strength, we make a conscious decision that we are K-I-S-S-I-N-G stress goodbye.

GOOD RIDDANCE!

Like the Late Great Gospel Singer, Frank Williams, We come to the conclusion that if "Jesus Can't Fix It, Nobody can!" And with every beat of our heart, we vow to lay our stresses at Jesus' feet, and to trust Him for the outcome.

It's rarely an easy decision to make. But as we sing our K-I-S-S-I-N-G song, surprisingly, we begin to feel a long-forgotten peace. Even if our issues still exist, our mind is at peace.

Once we make up our mind to kiss stress goodbye, we must be careful not to create any stress during the K-I-S-S-I-N-G process.

There's not a list of instructions to fret over. We need not make this harder than it has to be. The most easiest and effective way to kiss stress goodbye is just do it!

Let's kiss worry goodbye . . . kiss irritations and aggravations goodbye . . . kiss can't eat and can't sleep goodbye. . . and kiss grouchy goodbye.

There are no ifs or ands or buts about it; We can do it, if we set our mind to it!



Peace I leave with you . . .

WORD POWER

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue..."
Proverbs 18:21 KJV

Have there been days when someone spoke the very words we needed to hear?

Can we recall times and places, and people who eased our stressed mind simply by what they said? As some folk often say, their words were a soothing balm to our bleeding heart.

Certainly, we can remember not-so-pleasant times when someone's ill and offensive words left us sad and stressed.

Be not deceived, words are extremely powerful. They can heal and they can hurt. Words can be priceless and they can be plentiful . . . and most of all, they can be pure-thee-painful.

Proverbs, the Bible's book on life, teaches that death and life hinges on the tongue. Plain and simple, kind and caring words can enhance and give life new meaning--whereas harsh and unkind words destroy the joy of life and almost always create deadly stresses.

The words in Colossians 4:6 admonishes that our speech "always be with grace..." See, One never knows the effect words might have on deeply-troubled souls who desperately need life-changing words to push stress straight from the heart.

Peace I leave with you . . .