Revelation of the Spirit - #32 Where Faith Falls Short.

"Help me where faith falls short."
Mark 9:24

Today has been a day where you have so much to do there's no way you can get it done in 24 hrs. I have just been going going going since 630 this morning. And when I read that verse tonight it struck my heart with a deep warmth I haven't had in a while. I knew it was the Father speaking to me through His love.

This verse is truely awesome. Our faith cannot be measured. Because every time we are to measure it we would come up less than empty handed. But I truely thank God that our faith can be as small as a mustard seed but we can move mountains. Amen.

I just want to praise God today for being there even when my own faith falls short day after day. That even though I may not always be sure of things, He is.

Please pray for the PENDEL Brass this weekend as we travel to Boston and Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Love to you all!


Amen.

Revelation of the Spirit - #30 The Way Appointed

"My appointed time is near."
Matthew26:18


I read about Jesus speaking of His appointed time at the cross. Jesus knew what was going to happen but He also knew for not one second was His life in the hands of those people hanging Him on that cross. Not for one minute did He question the will of His Father for His life. Lord appointed a time, date and place for Him to die. Jesus knew it and He knew whatever happened between now and then was at the will of His Father.

My prayer today for myself and for those who read is, in our everday walk we would remember our way is appointed just at Jesus' was. The Lord has set a path and a will for our life and we are never at the mercy of those in our life.

So the next time your in a situation when you feel you are at the mercy of another person, pray to God. Lord my way appointed, let the will you have for my life have it's way. You're Spirit shall be comforted by His perfect peace and knowing His will be done and none other.

Amen.

Revelation of the Spirit - #29 Power and Love

"When Lazarus died the crowd of mourners was divided when Jesus wept. Some took it as evidence of how greatly He had loved the man. Others thought it a hypocritical gesture, since one who could heal a blind man certainly could have prevented this man's death.

Jesus did indeed love Lazarus, and Mary and Martha. He could have prevented his death. But certain things, in a broken world, must be allowed to happen. None of the, however, in the hands of a loving and powerful God and Savior, are beyond redeeming. Resurrection is a far greater evidence of the power and love of God than the mere aborting of catastrophies. God, help us to rememberthis triumphant hope when we, too, stand weeping hopelessly."

That was a little bit of my devotional today from Elisabeth Elliott in The Music of His Promise. Love this book. Such lessons to be learned of the Lord everyday. I love the word "love". When I read the word "love" I cannot tell what it does to my heart. It moves me in a way I suppose the Lord designed it to. But this passage Elisabeth talks about moves my heart in the way love does, because the story of Lazarus truely expresses Gods love for us. The moral of that story is sometimes God has to let us die before we can be saved. We have to learn to die of this world, to learn that the things of this world cannot compare to the things the Lord has to offer.

But while we're so to say"dying" you must know that your suffering is not beyond the power and love of the Lord. Anytime we choose to call on His name in our suffering is when we truely begin to understand a part of the Lord we probably haven't before. We begin to understand His sufferings. Most of all we begin to experience a little bit of the relationship between the Father and the Son.

Before I get off on another tangent. Just know how far you may feel from God, no matter how much suffering you think you're in beyond God's reach, know you're not. Know you can call upon His name and through His perfect power and love He reach down to the depths and seat you at the right hand of the throne of God.

In His power and love,

Amen.

Revelation of the Spirit - #28 He's waiting with open arms

It's good to be back here again. I've truely missed this, but I needed to find out for myself if God was really still in me. I had quite a big test. For a week I went to Disney World in Florida with my high school marching band. And can I just say I've never been more tired in my entire life. We never stopped going and going and going. It was up at seven to eat breakfast and off to the parks til 10 or 11 that night. So it was a test to see even if I wasn't doing a daily devotion if the Lord would really shine through my heart. And I can't say I passed but I can say I know for a fact that the Lord My God and Savior is living in my heart. I had more struggles that week than I've ever had before in my life, physcially and mentally. I was so exhausted and wanted to give up completely. But then as I saw around me the wonders God had made and how present He was, though others could barely see him, it was like I was staring him straight in the face.

My favorite things about Disney weren't the beautiful rides, princess, the giant Cinderella castle or the wonderful firework spectacular they put on every night. For me it seeing the sunset everyday. To feel the warmth of that sun on my face every day kept me going. Feeling that warmth was like feeling his love. He kept me knowing he was there and that I could go on. And every time I needed him, he was waiting with his arms of love open wide. He was ready to embrace me with an embrace never known in this world. That sun on my face and arms and feet everyday was his embrace.

The Lord is always waiting for you with his arms wide open. Even if you've been away from him for years and years. He's waiting for you and to remind that his love is always there no matter what we go through.

P.S.
I have two prayer requests :) First on March 27-30 the Pendel Brass is taking a ministry weekend trip to Boston. And I ask you keep the band as a whole in your prayers and for me on Sunday morning. I was asked to give my testimony and I just ask you pray that the Lord would speak through me that day and that at least one person would see Christ in me. The second request is on May 1, 2008 at 730 pm in the Pottsville Area High School Auditorium I will have the biggest performance of my short music career and I just ask that you begin praying now that the Lord would prepare me for that day. And most of all that that day would be for His glory and not mine or anyone elses. That he in that high school auditorium would be honored with our offering of music.


I really missed blogging on here. So glad to be back!

Love to you all!

Kathryn

Time Off

Tuesday morning I leave around 4am for Disney world with my high school marching band. So for the next week I won't be posting. But even after I return I will not post again for a while. I have come to a crictical time in my own faith when I feel so far from God that I cannot even pray to him. I feel very weak and vulnerable to sin and need time to spend with God. I really just want to completely disappear but that's a little hard when you're 16.

I ask for prayers and support during the next couple weeks.
Thank you.

P.S. I will not be accepting phone calls or text messages.

Kathryn.