STRENGTH IN THE LORD

Well here I am up at a decent hour, it after 6am. This is new for me. I am unusually unable to sleep when these come to me. So here we go, lets see what God has for me today. Strength in the Lord. I woke up with this song in my head. I can hear Brother Glenn the pastor from Bethlehem, singing this at our Revivals. It's like it is going over and over in my head. So all I can think is God is sending me a message.

This week is the week before my treatment. So this is my most tired, and the weakest time in my monthly cycle. Have treatment...feel rotten...week 1. Great Energy so that I could move mountains. So of course I always do way way too much. Week 2 still have that invincible feeling that I can do any thing until about 6 pm. then I crash. I'm even getting were I can't eat supper with my family on this week, because I have such trouble swallowing. Week 3 so tired, my bones are tired, if it wasn't for Bitz I would not get out of bed, part of that is the evil Depression whitch lives with me on a daily bases. . Muscles are weak, can't read because vision in such a mess, depend so much on my family, and I am just a grump. Then guess what the cycle starts over its time for my treatment. Is it worth it yes, because without it I would feel worse than the 3rd week all the time and then my breathing would becone so bad. So this is my month. And the repeat of my montn, after month.

Sometime I can't find my Strength in the Lord. That is on me, because God is there just waiting for me to lean on him. To find my Strength in the Lord. But I'm not the only one, who keeps him on a shelf and just brings in a him out when I think I need him. That is not what he wants. He wants to be our strength every minute of every day. Even the days I don't want to get out of bed.

This week the 3 week when I usually feel pretty rough, I've been very busy. I've had Mackenzie and Maddie all week and they are a Joy and I feel like having them to help Karen is my calling right now from God. But boy am I tired. Joshua has had baby goats born the last 2 weeks in a row. The first ones were to and older mother who we think is deaf, so we had to work to get her to accept them, this meant holding her to let them nurse and a supplemental bottle. But mom finally took to them and they are doing great and moving like they have little springs in their legs. So fun to watch. Then this week his younger nanny goat had triplets, we knew from the beginning that the one we called Little Bit was in trouble, first off he could not get his back legs under him to stand, he could stand if we held him up, and he could nurse if we stood him up and held mom for him to nurse. We even were giving him a supplemental bottle. He passed away a day and a half, the other 2 are doing great.

Why have I just shared that story, well it made me think of when I'm weak my father in Heaven holds me up. If I can't stand he will pick me up. When I can't make it get nourishment he provides it for me. He is truly my strength. Why do I forget this. All I have to do is snuggle up to him and he's their just waiting on me to realize I am nothing with out God's strength. Why do I wait so long to lean on him. It's because I'm human and part of a fallen creation. The only way I can have Strength in the Lord is to have a Jesus and God the Father living in my heart and my whole life. So today, I'm tired, I'm weak, and I hope that God continues to let me hear Brother Glenn sing Strength in the Lord, it has been a comfort to me this morning. I hope the words to this song will get in your head, and you can't get rid of it as a reminder to that There is Strength Beyond Measure, There is Strength the Lord. I'm working on it, and my prayer for you is that you get that personal close relationship with Jesus our Lord and Saviour so that you can feel the Strength in the Lord. He is strongest when I am weak. This my be why I deal with Myasthenia Gravis so that I can, in my human sinful self, recognise His GREAT STRENGTH. OK enough of my whining, I hope you can recognized his strength in you life today, and let your self curl up in his strong arms. I have put the words to the song below and several scripture. I hope this is helpful to you today, it lifted me up. And as always remember all missed spelled words, typos, grammar errors are all mine, and I ask your forgiveness. Love y'all so much yours in Christ Lisa

STRENGTH IN THE LORD

When life’s burdens ore’ take us
And our pathway is hard
When all others forsake us
There is strength in the Lord

There is strength beyond measure
In God’s comforting word
Seek his storehouse of treasures.
There is strength in the Lord

Though the foe may assail us
Rest we cannot afford
Jesus will never fail us
There is strength in the LordThe Lord Is My Strength

Exodus 15:2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.

2 Samuel 22:33 God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.

Psalms 18:1 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

Psalms 18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

Psalms 19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

Psalms 22:19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

Psalms 27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalms 28:7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

Psalms 28:8 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

Psalms 31:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
Psalms 31:4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

Psalms 37:39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

Psalms 43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
2 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalms 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Psalms 62:7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

Psalms 73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Psalms 81:1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

Psalms 118:14 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.

Psalms 140:7 O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

Psalms 144:1 Blessed be the LORD my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

Isaiah 49:5 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.

Jeremiah 16:19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

Habakkuk 3:19 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.


2 Corinthians 12:9-10

9And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.