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Thank you, & GOD BLESS your heart, Lapses.

I am having my emotions, & my thoughts, attacked daily by the deceiver of world. I am not too bad at this moment. It's morning when I wake up, I am fighting it off with GODS positive Word for our lives.

I realize that you are being emotionally attacked, too. Maybe GOD is getting ready to do something BIG in our lives, Lapses! We as Christians, & the family of GOD need to gather around together, & hedge each other up with Prayer, & Word.

I would love for us to gather together, & have communion together. I believe in the power of us together, honouring The Lord, at HIS communion Table all together.

I will see what I can find on the internet, & if I find a way of offering a communion service here in CT, would you join in Lapses?

The LORD'S Will Be Done! Amen & Amen!

Evening @Former-Member @Former-Member, I have been trying to find a 4 bedroom house since March but haven't gotten anything as the house we rent now is a old housing trust home and 3 bedrooms are to small and no cupboard spaces. My mum is coming to stay with us from Sydney a couple of months throughout the year.

So I've left it with Jesus to help me find the house as he knows where I'm suppose to be, ive applied for over 20 places, and heard nothing from some, they get so many people applying now, and it's even harder when you have pets, so ive asked the Lord to help me as I can't do it myself now, its made my depression worse, when i go to the inspections now when everything will just fall in place with no hurdles then I'll know it's the Lord's work and it's the right house.

@saturnzoon

4 U from ABBA Father! Amen! <><

Morning Believers ☀

Haven't caught up yet but just had to post this edifying devotion by Joni, about how God sees suffering...

TWO LENSES

by Joni Eareckson Tada

"Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men."

Lamentations 3:32-33

The Lord took no pleasure in my broken neck. Like any father who has compassion on his children, it pained His heart to see me hurt. Yet at the same time, it pleased the Lord to permit my accident. My spinal cord injury was something He sovereignly designed in and for His good pleasure.

God's ways are so much higher than ours, He has the capacity to look at the world through two lenses -- through a narrow lens and a wide angle one. When God looks at a painful event through a narrow lens, He sees the tragedy for what it is. He is deeply grieved. In Ezekiel 18:32 He says, "I take no pleasure in the death of anyone." God feels the sting in His chest when a child dies of cancer or a husband is killed in an accident. However, when God looks at that same event through His wide angle lens, He sees the tragedy in relation to everything leading up to it, as well as flowing out from it. He sees a mosaic stretching into eternity. It is this mosaic with all its parts, both good and evil, that brings Him delight.

In the span of a single verse, the Bible asserts "the Lord brings grief," yet "he does not willingly bring... grief." God tried this out on Himself. He willed the death of His own Son, but He took no delight in it. God saw how Jesus' death would demonstrate His incomprehensible mercy, as well as bring His people to glory. God often wills what He despises because -- and only because -- He has a wide-angle view on the world.

Lord, too often I have only a narrow-lens view of my world. Give me Your perspective, and may I rejoice in the beautiful mosaic I will one day understand

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Blessings,

Joni and Friends