" HE KNOWETH THE WAY THAT I TAKE "

HELLO AGAIN,

I JUST WANT TO ENCOURAGE  ALL OF US TODAY! 

THIS MORNING, I READ THE DEVOTIONAL, FOR TODAY'S DATE (APRIL 22) FROM:
"STREAMS IN THE DESERT", by MRS. CHARLES E. COWMAN, copyright 1928 and 1965 by COWMAN PUBLICATIONS, PUBLISHED BY BARBOUR PUBLISHING. (there is a newer publication of this devotional available)

IT IS A RICH COMMENTARY OUT OF GOD'S WORD..ENCOURAGING US TO KNOW, TRUST AND BELIEVE THAT:
 "HE KNOWETH THE WAY THAT I TAKE." (JOB 23:10 nklv)

JOB WAS A MAN WHO TOTALLY TRUSTED GOD..WHO LIVED A LIFE OF FAITHFULNESS AND DEVOTION TO HIM..BUT THEN, EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TIMES CAME UPON JOB.
JOB LOST EVERYTHING..ALL OF HIS FAMILY..HIS PROPERTY..HIS HEALTH..HIS CHARACTER WAS ATTACKED BY HIS FRIENDS...NEEDLESS TO SAY, JOB'S SORROW AND SUFFERING WAS IMMENSE. 
DID JOB CRY OUT IN HIS SUFFERING, DID HE ASK GOD "WHAT IS GOING ON, WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS LOSS OF EVERYTHING?" YES, MOST DEFINITELY! BUT IN THE VERY CORE OF JOB'S HEART... HIS SPIRIT...HE KNEW THE GREATNESS AND GOODNESS OF GOD. IN HIS DEEPEST DESPAIR, JOB BELIEVED THAT GOD'S HAND, HIS EYE WAS STILL UPON HIM!

I BELIEVE THAT GOD WANTS TO REMIND US ALL TODAY: 
"THAT HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE WE ARE..KNOWS EVERY STEP THAT WE ARE TAKING..THAT NOTHING  WE ARE GOING TROUGH IS A SURPRISE TO HIM.....THAT THOUGH HEARTACHE, SORROW, LOSS, PAIN WILL COME....HE "KNOWS" AND IS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT WITH US! AND THAT IF WE "CHOOSE" TO PUT OUR HAND, OUR LIFE, IN HIS, "HE WILL USE IT ALL AND MAKE OUR LIVES INTO MORE THAN WE COULD EVER HOPE OR IMAGINE!"

A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE BOUGHT THE DEVOTIONAL FOR ME IN 2004...IT IS HAS BEEN A SOURCE OF WISDOM AND ENCOURAGEMENT..I HAVE READ IT THROUGH A FEW TIMES.. ON THIS SAME DAY..APRIL 22...IN 2009, GOD MADE THIS WORD PERSONAL TO ME WITH THE FOLLOWING WORDS:

"HE KNOWETH THE WAY THAT I TAKE"

(Job 23:10 nkjv)

      HE KNOWETH THE WAY THAT I TAKE
      FOR IT IS HIS HAND THAT IS TAKING ME THERE!
      IN THE NATURAL, IT MAY LOOK LIKE
      MY LIFE HAS GONE "HELTER-SKELTER"
      AND MAY FEEL AS THOUGH......
      I HAVE COME TO "UTTER DESPAIR"

      BUT IT IS:
      "NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER, BUT
      BY MY SPIRIT SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS"
                                           (Zechariah 4:6 nkjv)
      AND THE WAY THAT "I LEAD" YOU, TAKES
      YOU DEEPER INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF ME
      AND "HIGHER TO THE OUTERMOST"
      THE "OUTERMOST PLACE" WHERE
      SPIRIT TO SPIRIT WE MEET, AND IN THIS
      PLACE YOUR JOURNEY IS MADE COMPLETE!
                                                         hs/DH 4/22/09 8:30 A.M.

HAVE YOU SAID YES TO JESUS, HIS GIFT OF SALVATION AND MADE HIM  LORD OF YOUR LIFE? ARE YOU GOING THROUGH SOME EXTREME DIFFICULTIES RIGHT NOW? PERHAPS THEY MAKE NO SENSE AND HAVE CAUSED YOU TO QUESTION OR WONDER. WELL, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO LIFT UP YOUR HEAD. 
 DO AS JOB DID AND CONTINUE TO TRUST IN YOUR REDEEMER. IN JOB 19:25 (nkjv), JOB SAYS: "FOR I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVES, AND HE SHALL STAND AT LAST ON THE EARTH;..."

PERHAPS YOU HAVE NOT YET "CHOSEN" TO SAY YES TO JESUS VOICE CALLING YOU UNTO HIMSELF. NO MATTER WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE, HE LOVES YOU AND HAS NOT TAKEN HIS "EYE" OFF OF YOU. HE HAS GOOD PLANS FOR YOU AND WILL USE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU, YOUR LIFE, TO ACCOMPLISH THEM! HE KNOWS EVERYTHING WE HAVE DONE OR WILL EVER DO!
 "HE KNOWS THE WAY THAT WE TAKE." 

THE ENEMY OF OUR SOUL WANTS TO ROB US OF TRUTH AND HOPE. HE WANTS TO BRING US INTO A PLACE OF BEING DOWNCAST IN OUR SPIRIT.
PSALM 42:5
WHY ARE YOU CAST DOWN, O MY INNER SELF? AND WHY SHOULD YOU MOAN OVER ME AND BE DISQUIETED WITHIN ME? HOPE IN GOD AND WAIT EXPECTANTLY FOR HIM, FOR I SHALL YET PRAISE HIM, MY HELP AND MY GOD.

IT WAS JOB'S TRUST AND FAITH IN GOD, THAT GOD USED TO BRING HIM BACK TO THE PLACE OF PRAISING GOD FOR WHO HE IS. JOB IS AN EXCELLENT WITNESS OF THE TRUTH OF GOD'S PROMISES TO US..HIS LOVE FOR US!

NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH, NO MATTER WHERE YOU'VE BEEN OR WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW...
"HE KNOWS, HE KNOWS THE WAY THAT YOU TAKE."

love and blessings in Jesus Name,
Drema

OUR FATHER INVITES US: "COME AND PLAY"

GREETINGS EVERYONE,

GOD HAS BEEN "STIRRING UP" SOME WORDS OF INVITATION, IN MY SPIRIT, WHICH HE SPOKE TO ME ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO. I JUST KNOW THAT THEY WILL ENCOURAGE, BLESS, AND "STIR" YOUR SPIRIT ALSO.

MAY WE ALL SAY "YES" TO HIS INVITATION.."ALL TO GAIN..... NOTHING TO LOSE"..... EXCEPT FOR SOME HEAVY, UNNECESSARY "BAGGAGE."

FIRST, BEFORE I SHARE  "A CALL TO ABUNDANT LIFE", I WANT TO SHARE SCRIPTURE, HIS WORD, WHICH GIVES TRUE LIFE TO ALL WHO WILL HEAR AND BELIEVE AND RECEIVE HIS INVITATION.

FOR THOSE WHO ALREADY KNOW HIM AND NEED TO BE STRENGTHENED AND REFRESHED AND FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT YET SAID YES, TO HIS INVITATION TO ETERNAL LIFE, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS SAYING..."COME."

REVELATION 22:17

(nkjv)

AND THE SPIRIT AND THE BRIDE SAY,  "COME!"  AND LET HIM WHO HEARS SAY, "COME!" AND LET HIM WHO THIRSTS COME. WHOEVER DESIRES, LET HIM TAKE THE WATER OF LIFE FREELY.

PSALM ONE HUNDRED

(nkjv)

MAKE A JOYFUL SHOUT TO THE LORD, ALL YOU LANDS!

SERVE THE LORD WITH GLADNESS

COME BEFORE HIS PRESENCE WITH SINGING!

KNOW THAT THE LORD, HE IS GOD

IT IS HE WHO HAS MADE US AND NOT WE OURSELVES

WE ARE HIS PEOPLE AND THE SHEEP OF HIS PASTURE.

ENTER INTO HIS GATES WITH THANKSGIVING

AND 

INTO HIS COURTS WITH PRAISE

BE THANKFUL TO HIM AND BLESS HIS NAME 

FOR THE LORD IS GOOD; HIS MERCY IS EVERLASTING

AND HIS TRUTH ENDURES TO ALL GENERATIONS.


MATTHEW 11:28-29
(amplified)

COME TO ME, ALL YOU WHO LABOR AND ARE HEAVY- LADEN AND OVERBURDENED, AND I WILL CAUSE YOU TO REST. (I WILL EASE AND RELIEVE AND REFRESH YOUR SOULS.  TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU AND LEARN OF ME, FOR I AM GENTLE (MEEK) AND HUMBLE (LOWLY) IN HEART, AND YOU WILL FIND REST (RELIEF AND EASE AND REFRESHMENT AND RECREATION AND BLESSED QUIET) FOR YOUR SOULS.

ISAIAH 55:1

(nkjv) 

"HO! EVERYONE WHO THIRSTS, COME TO THE WATERS; AND YOU WHO HAVE NO MONEY, COME, BUY AND EAT. YES, COME, BUY WINE AND MILK WITHOUT MONEY AND WITHOUT PRICE."

PSALM 91:1

(nkjv)

"HE WHO DWELLS IN THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH SHALL ABIDE UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY."

REVELATION 22:2

(amplified)

"THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE BROADWAY OF THE CITY; ALSO, ON EITHER SIDE OF THE RIVER WAS THE TREE OF LIFE WITH IT'S TWELVE VARIETIES OF FRUIT, YIELDING EACH MONTH IT'S FRESH CROP; AND THE LEAVES OF THE TREE WERE FOR THE HEALING AND THE RESTORATIONS OF THE NATIONS."

JOHN 3:16

(nkjv)

FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.

JOHN 8:36

(nkjv)

THEREFORE IF THE SON MAKES YOU FREE, YOU SHALL BE FREE INDEED!

"A CALL TO ABUNDANT LIFE"

CHILDREN OF GOD, WE'VE BEEN INVITED TO PLAY

IN THE COURTS OF OUR GREAT KING

COME JOIN THE THRONG

HIS GATES ARE OPENED WIDE

ENTER IN WITH THANKSGIVING AND SONG!

FREEDOM AND LOVE, IN ABUNDANCE YOU WILL FIND

FOUNTAINS OF JOY TO QUENCH YOUR THIRST

UNDER HIS WINGS-A GREAT PLACE TO HIDE

HIS ANGELS WILL FIND YOU

IF YOU DON'T FIND THEM FIRST!

HIS TREE OF LIFE? IT WILL SUPPORT ALL OF YOUR WEIGHT

SO! "CLIMB UP AS HIGH AS YOU CAN"

TAKE A SWIM--BE REFRESHED

IN THE BEAUTIFUL RIVER OF LIFE

YOU'LL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN!

A DAY IN HIS COURTS WOULD NOT BE COMPLETE

WITHOUT A WALK-THROUGH HIS GARDENS, SO RARE!

AND IF YOU TARRY LONG ENOUGH

I JUST KNOW YOU WILL SEE 

THE "ROSE OF SHARON" WALKING THERE!

SO, SAY YES TO THE INVITATION

ALL TO GAIN, NOTHING TO LOSE

SING AND DANCE--LAUGH AND PLAY

FREEDOM IN HIS COURTS

BRING A FRIEND OR TWO!

COME! BASK IN OUR FATHER'S LOVE

HE WANTS TO SHARE IT ALL WITH YOU!

         

                                                                           HS/dh  August 12, 2003

HE IS INVITING US INTO HIS PRESENCE...WHERE EVERYTHING WE NEED IS THERE...AND EVERYTHING WE NEED IS FOUND IN HIM!

 PSALM 46:4 (amplified)...

"THERE IS A RIVER WHOSE STREAMS SHALL MAKE GLAD THE CITY OF GOD, THE HOLY PLACE OF THE TABERNACLES OF THE MOST HIGH."

HO, COME!

LOVE AND BLESSINGS, IN JESUS NAME,

DREMA