How Could I Ask For More - Cindy Morgan

There's nothing like the warmth of a summer afternoon
Walking to the sunlight, and being cradled my the moon
Catching fireflies at night
Building castles in the sand
Kissing Mam's face goodnight
And holding Daddy's hand

Thank you Lord, how could I ask for more

Running barefoolt in the grass
A little hide and go seek
Being so in love, that you can hardly eat
Dancing in the dark, when there's no one else around
Being bundled 'neath the covers, watching snow
Fall to the ground

Thank you Lord, how could I ask for more

So many things I thought would bring me happiness
Some dreams that are realities today
Such an irony the things that mean the most to me
Are the memories that I've made along the way

So if there's anything I've learned
From this journey I am on
Simple truths will keep you going
Simple love will keep you strong
Cause there are questions without answers
Flames that never die
Heartaches we go through are often blessings in disguise
So thank you Lord, oh thank you Lord
How could I ask for more

09/22 Journal Notes

Joyce Myer Notes:

She says every time she goes to a new city.

I bind the strongholds in Jesus Name! Satan I will go in and rob your kingdom today. Souls will be saved, people will be filled with the Holy Spirit. I plead the Blood of Jesus over myself that the enemy can't come against me and do me harm. No demonic activity can be successful against me, as I go in and rob satans kingdom! I am covered in the Name of Jesus!! AMEN!

SAY IT!!

I RESIST YOU
I BIND YOU
I REBUKE YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS!

* Be determined not to be talked out of the will of God! Don't go to people for something you can get from God!

* Don't fall into the trap of spening your life being mad at people.
* Hurting people - hurt people
* Somewhere along the line someone has to draw a blood line [of Jesus] and say IT STOPS WITH ME!! ITS NOT GOING TO THE NEXT GENERATION!!

I AM NOT GONNA LIVE WITH HATRED
I AM NOT GONNA LIVE WITH BITTERNESS
I REFUSE TO LIFE OFFENDED ALL THE TIME!!

1) Recognize that God is your source and He uses different resources. Just because something is drying up in your life doesn't mean there is sin, its means there is CHANGE!

LET GOD BE GOD AND YOU BE YOU!
You can't be the Holy Spirit to yourself!

2) Trust God with your future.

GOD IN LIGHT AND IN HIM THERE IS NO DARKNESS!! AT ALL!!
You CAN trust God.
Trust in the quality of his Character!

Give it all to God.
Your marriage, your kids, your finances, your relationships.

* If fear stays in your life, your fears will come true.
* Where there is fear - there is confusion and strongholds and that is ABMORNAL for the believer!

* Behaviour comes out of our belief system. Fear damages your relationship with God.
* Fear fosters torment.

Causes of Fear:

1) Sin - to miss the mark
2) Learn behaviour - from parents, superstitions, school, society
3) Ignorance - False arrogance
4) Imaginations - False Evidence Appearing Real

Change comes by the Word of God!

09/16 Journal Notes

Fear is anything that moves you from a stability in faith - the Word of God acting in your life.

Fear causes you to panic, to abort the Word over your life and look at your circumstances.

REMEMBER - Wes King

Remember
Oh, I never will forget
My Ebeneezer
Is the day You paid my debt

So tender
Was the way that we first met
I thought I heard the angels singing
I thought I heard my mama cry
As I walked down the aisle
And I will...

Remember
When a sea was in between
Me and where I needed to be free
And then there
In the moment of my need
The ocean floor went dry
And You divided the sea
And saved my life

Remember
Wont' you tell me one more time
Just to be here
Is in iteself a glorious sign
Consider
And let it ease this weary mind
Every thing has worked together
There's a purpose in the pain
These trials are not in vain

HOLD ME JESUS - Rich Mullens

Well, sometimes my life
Just don't make sense at all
When the mountains look so big
And my faith just seems so small

CHORUS:
So hold me Jesus,
'cause I'm shaking like a leaf
You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace

And I wake up in the night and feel the dark
It's so hot inside my soul
I swear there must be blisters on my heart

CHORUS

Surrender don't come natural to me
I'd rather fight You for something I don't really want
Than to take what You give that I need
And I've beat my head against so many walls
Now I'm falling down, I'm falling on my knees

And this Salvation Army band
Is playing this hymn
And Your grace rings out so deep
It makes my resistance seem so thin

CHORUS

You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace

Journal Notes - Songs on my mind

Sept 12. Joyce Myer Notes:

* When God saves you, He doesn't change your personality.

* The input of the Word of God will have the output of a changed life.

Jill Phillips - STEEL BARS

So this is how it feels at the rock bottom of despair
When the house I built comes crashing down
And this is how it feels when I know the man that I say I am
Is not the man that I am when no one's around
This is how it feels to come alive again
And start fighting back to gain control
And this is how it feels to let freedom in
And break these chains that enslave my soul

CHORUS: I refuse to be locked up in here like a prison cell
Where all I ever get is a meal and four walls
I used to be just fine in here but not anymore
Gonna break through these steel bars

So tell me how it feels when the tables start to turn
And you find yourself at the losing end
Tell me how it feels, you're not welcome here
'Cause I'm tired of pain and I'm tired of sin

CHORUS

I won't let you win
I have no doubt
I don't want you in
So get out, get out

CHORUS I refuse to be locked up in here like a prison cell
Where all I ever get is a meal and four walls
I used to be just fine in here but not anymore
Gonna break through these steel bars

Borne - Words byt Naomi Thompson

I think this says it all....

Borne of dust, I get so dirty, But You pick me up, brush me off. Send me on my way. Borne of flesh, I get so caught up in my story, It's so human to concern myself with. Everything that I seem to be going through. But Lord, where would I be. Without this flesh to remind me.

Chorus 1: I was borne to breathe, Borne to be broken, Borne to realize that it's not I, But the You in me. Borne to live, AND Borne to love You. I was borne to die. Knowing that my life is not mine.

Hook: So Lord, thank you for the thorn, I've had to bear. From the day that I was borne.

Borne of love, Love so perfect. You are Heaven's thought, gift of God. Come to save the world. Born of flesh and born of Spirit, My sweet Savior it's so like You. To concern Yourself with, Everything that I seem to be going through. Oh Lord, where would I be, Without Your love to remind me. Chorus 1

Hook: So Lord, thank you for the thorn, I've had to bear. From the day that I was borne.

Bridge for 2nd Chorus: You were borne to breathe, Borne to be broken.....

Chorus 2: You were borne to breathe, Borne to be broken, Borne so that I would realize, You are all I need. Borne to live, Borne to love (save) me. You were borne to die so that I, Could be completely free. (Repeat)

Hook: So Lord, thank you for the thorns, for the thorns, you chose to bear, So that I could be... I could be borne. I could be borne.

Scriptural References:(John 3:16, Psalm 46:1, 2 Cor. 4:7-9 & 12:9, 1 Peter 5:7, Romans 8:26)

September 8 - MORNING TEA!

DO IT ANYWAY

'Let every detail in your lives - words, actions, whatever - be done in the name of the master, Jesus . . .' Colossians 3:17 TM

When Bishop Abel Muzorere was asked to lead the African National Congress, he prayed as he had never prayed before. Most of his predecessors had been killed or imprisoned, so he struggled with the decision, until a friend handed him these life-changing words:

'People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered - love them anyway!

If you do good, they'll accuse you of selfishness or ulterior motives - do good anyway!

When you're successful, your friends may be false, your enemies will be real - succeed anyway!

The good you do today may soon be forgotten tomorrow - do good anyway!

Honesty and frankness will make you vulnerable - be honest and frank anyway!

The biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest people with the smallest minds - think big anyway!

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs - fight for the underdog anyway!

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight - build anyway!

Give the world the best you've got and the chances are that you'll still be despised - give your best anyway!'

You say, 'How is such a lifestyle possible?' Listen: 'Let every detail in your lives - words, actions, whatever - be done in the Name of the Master, Jesus, thanking God . . . every step of the way' (Colossians 3:17 TM). Now, that's the way to live!

Sept. 6 thoughts on forgiveness

I have dealt with alot in my (nearly) 37 years of life. As I have allowed God work in my life, really trusted him with my pain, I have seen miracles. I have been delivered. I have been freed from bondage.

What I had to do was write down a list of people who hurt me, wounded me, used me, abused me or abandoned me in any way. At first I had to start with a small list. The things I thought I could handle. As I wrote the names down, I prayed for that person and then I said outloud. I FORGIVE YOU. Sometimes I had to say, By the Grace of God, I forgive you. Others were easier. I would do this once a week. I'd have a list fo 3-4 people and I would pray for them that week and pray for the stregnth and courage to forgive. I have had to work on an attitude of forgiveness. Just this week I was faced with a serious offense. I had to decide to forgive. I had to decide I wanted that person to hear God say, "....this is what you did to shelly, and she chose to forgive you almost instantly..." I want my reward to be in Heaven.

Forgiveness is really a choice. Holding onto the past is really a choice. A choice that causes one to be bitter, jealous, harsh, resentful and unforgiving. Its like taking poison hoping it will kill your enemy. It never works. Forgiveness is more about you and your reward in heaven, than it is about the other person.

A bigger thing for me was to forgive God. Not that He needs it or that it is even mine to give to God....but I knew I harbored so much resentment....so many questions....if you are really God then THIS or THAT...But as the years went on that I had to see that was me telling Christ...if you are really the Son of God, get down from the cross. Who am I to do that? Jesus stayed on the cross FOR ME. In that while I was still a sinner, Christ died for me. Said forgive Shelly, for she knows not what she does.

I had to get out of an attitude that I had to make people pay for what they had done to me. That I didn't see God doing anything, so far He hadn't struck anyone down with lightening....WHERE WAS GOD? WHERE? Why hadn't He come to my rescue? What kind of God would let me be treated like this, over and over and over..... I can tell you this...What Satan intended to for evil, God has turned it into good, in my life.

I had an opportunity to be pressed the other day, to have another rough spot buffed out....it was unpleasant. It was just another feable attempt by the enemy to try to make me tell him who I am....define my worth..... I'll tell you one thing, the DEVIL IS A LIAR! God doesn't consult my past to determine my future! Satan can only back me up to my last experience with God...The more often the experience, the less I go one step forward, two steps back.

Who Am I? He says??? I AM A CHILD OF GOD! Creator, Maker, Life-Sustainer, Comforter, Healer, My Redeemer, Lord and King, Beginning And The End.....I AM THAT I AM. Maybe satan is familiar with Him...but that's a sermon for another day... :)

I heard Joyce Myer say a few weeks ago...Nothing is trusting God more than going thru something that you could change, but knowing it is Gods will for you to be uncomfortable. Let God work in your life.

He is trustworthy, He is faithful, He is able, your issues are not too big for Him, He'll meet you where you are, but you have to ask Him to come to you....Not tell Him what you want and what you want Him to do, he's not a menu....allow His will to be done in your life. You will receive, healing, freedom, recovery, restoration, rest...