Great News~

I am gonna start classes at The Art Institute-Online Division on September 5th! I will be taking Interior Design Course.

I qualified for all of the financial aid AND there is enough money left over to buy a kick-ass computer! My poor puter is soooo tired, it can't handle the software I need for classes.

Phyllis

The Shack...by Wm. Paul Young~

I tend to read for enlightenment, although I do occasionally read just for the fun of it. As a child in need of escaping the world around me, I read voraciously. I devoured book after book after book.

This weekend I read a book recommended by my counselor: The Shack by Wm. Paul Young. What an incredible book it is! Mack, the main character, encounters God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit for a weekend that ultimately provides much needed healing, answers to many of his questions, and changes him for life.

My favorite line from the book? "Rights are where surviors go, so they won't have to work out relationships."

This book does not shove religion down the readers throat, in fact, it does quite the opposite.

Religious critics who bash this book have missed the message and attack the messenger. That is unfortunate, as their bashing may cause some hurting soul to miss the thrust and life changing information woven into the story.

This is a MUST-Read!

Want more info? Visit the website.

Phyllis

Psalms 62:8~

Phyllis

Prayers needed~

Father, God in Heaven,

Our world is in such turmoil. There is pain and suffering everywhere. This morning I lift members, friends, and loved ones from all of the prayer groups on the Internet. Lord, you blessed us with this wonderful means of communication and I thank you for the opportunity to pray for your people.

Jeremy...bless and comfort him and his family during this time of loss. May they feel your presence as you hold them close to your heart.

Kenny and Carol(personal friends of my family)...Lord I know that you created us and that you intend that we walk in divine health and healing. I know that you do, indeed, work miracles on our behalf. Your will be done. I know this is doubly hard for the family as this is the second motorcycle wreck involving one of their daughters in 10 years. Comfort and guide them. Touch them, Lord.

In Jesus' name,

Amen
Phyllis

Pray for Amias and family~

I am posting this to request prayer for Amias. She has a family emergency. Please keep her, her husband ,Robert, and the rest of the family in your prayers. Read the original request here.

Thank you~

Phyllis

Party~

Extravagant Grace is one of the blogs I follow faithfully. They are having a party to celebrate their 500th post! Check them out by clicking on the above graphic or the one in my side bar. While you are there be sure enter to win awesome prizes!

Please tell them Phyllis sent you.

Phyllis

Law Of The Garbage Truck~

Joyce has given permission for fellow bloggers to post this. It is wonderful!

The Law of the Garbage Truck

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded , and missed the other car by just inches!

The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean he was really friendly. So I asked, “Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!" This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, "The Law of the Garbage Truck."

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so . . . . .

Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't. Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!

Have a blessed, garbage-free day.

*****

Personal Note: This reminds me of the time I found myself driving the wrong way in a McDonald's parking lot with a car full of kids. My mother had recently passed on, my marriage was a shambles, and I was stressed beyond measure. All I wanted to do was get some lunch for the kids. Needless to say, the gentleman who was going the right way in the parking lot had little patience or understanding of my mistake and made hand gestures at me while also hurling ugly words at me. In response I hollered,"God loves you!" Years later, Navy Man, reminded me of that day and said he was amazed at how I repsonded to the man. I told him you never know what the other fellow is going through, maybe he had just buried his own mother, too. It's true...we do not have to continue spreading other peoples garbage-or our own.

Phyllis

Beautiful Prayer~

Amias posted this beautiful prayer. Thank you, dear friend!

You said to ask, believing, and it shall be given unto me. I come to you, with bowed head, a humble heart, asking once again for your tender mercy. I beseech you Father, not for myself, but on behalf of Jeffery, Ed, Allen and their families. Father, they need your strength, and we pray for their healing. Only you know the depth of their suffering. Only you can heal them, if it be thou will. Have mercy on them dear God, wrap your love around them and please send them and their families peace; protect them Father. In your son’s name, I humbly pray - Aman.


Phyllis

Prayer Requests for 5-17-09

Here are the latest requests for prayer from The Prayer Hubs:

Please join me in praying for these dear ones.

Please pray for Cliff's brother, Allen, who is battling spine cancer.

Betty is a dear blogging friend and her husband has a blockage in his kidney. Please pray for his healing and that this is not cancer.

I also ask that you continue to pray for My Beloved who battling 2 potential terminal diseases. Pray for his strength and healing.

God bless each and every one of you. I thank you for your prayers.

Phyllis

Prayer is happening at Beloved Mama's~

I found another site where prayer requests can be made...you can also find others to pray for!


Phyllis

Online Treasure and Prayer Requests

"Ye have not because ye ask not." That was the response when I cried out to God that I needed help in carrying the burden of praying for healing for My Beloved. So...I asked!

Yesterday I was led to two incredible sites on the internet. The first one I told you about here.

Today I wish to tell you about an online treasure. The Prayer Hubs is an online group of like-minded individuals who believe in the power of prayer. I wrote to Amias and got a very quick response. After requesting additional information, he posted this.

I thank God that He is ever faithful. I thank God for Amias and the others at The Prayer Hub who have come along side me and now help carry my burden. I thank God that "By Christ's stripes My Beloved is healed!" I thank God that He has given me access to other people for whom I can now intercede.

Pray It-Say It~

I love reading other people's blogs! Today one of the ones I visited had a link to Pray It-Say It which is an awesome site for those of us who believe in the power of prayer. You type in the name of the person you wish to pray for, then click a category for your prayer, and the script generates personalized scriptures and a model prayer. There is also an option to send the person an e-card.

I have been steadily praying for My Beloved and his health issues, so I put in "Jeffrey" and clicked "Health". Here is what I got:

SCRIPTURES:

"You hear, O LORD, the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry." Psalm 10:17 (NIV)

"For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help." Psalm 22:24 (NIV)

"O Lord my God, I called to You for help and you healed me." Psalm 30:2 (NIV)

"Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the LORD delivers him out of them all." Psalm 34:19 (NASB)

PRAYER:

Father, You formed us in our mother's womb and established the number of our days before there was even one of them. You are intimately acquainted with all of our ways, and nothing escapes Your notice.

Jesus, You are the Great Physician, and there is nothing too difficult for You. So I bring Jeffrey before You now, and ask that you would touch them with Your almighty power. Your word says that "You hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry." Hear Jeffrey now, as they cry out to You and answer them in this time of need.

Touch their bodies Lord, with the strength they need to fight this condition that they may recover quickly. Your Word declares that it's by Your stripes that we are healed, so I take hold of that promise for Jeffrey right now, and I proclaim Your provision for their healing. Let Your peace overshadow them, and Your presence be their comfort at this time. I pray in Jesus' mighty name, Amen!

I have added the script to my sidebar. I hope it blesses you as much as it has me.

Be Blessed~

Phyllis

Happy Mother's Day~

Grateful Gals~

Mo is a wonderful gal. The Lord sent her into my life at a time when I needed someone to come along and pull me out of the muck-and-mire of depression. Mo helped change my perspective from self-pity to GRATITUDE. Wanna join us? Click the image!

Blog Award:)~

My dear friend, Storm, from All Things Cherished, gave me my very first award for this blog!

Check out her blog where she shares all the things in her life that she cherishes.

I give this award to my 2 followers and Storm!

1. Mike
2. Linda
3. Storm

Good Morning, Lord~

This morning at 6:30am my phone rang. It was My Beloved! Just the sound of his ringtone on my cell phone causes my spirit to soar. Being 500 miles apart is hard for any relationship and it has been a long time since we could just talk. We both needed the other this morning.

It never fails to amaze me how important it is to this man to make sure that I know he loves me and thinks of me often. He knows I need that reassurance. God knows I need it, too.

This long distance relationship has caused me to run straight into the arms of My Heavenly Father on so many occasions. My Beloved is a man-a mere mortal-and although we love each other dearly, circumstances dictate that we can not wake up next to one another and share our days and nights together. Loneliness tortures me. Anger taunts me. Fear attempts to consume me. Hopelessness grabs at my soul.

I have often prayed to God that He would rise up in my spirit and that I would cry out to Him first and no longer as a last resort. Be careful what you pray for! He loves me and will answer my prayers. I believe the ones I pray that entail me being closer to Him are the ones He holds dearest. He knows my inner most parts, He knows the love He has placed deep within my heart for this man. He knows my every thing.

Once a scripture gets ahold of me, I hang on until the fruit of it is thriving in my life. I read Psalms 37:4 which promises: Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. First an action then a promise of reward. Smart Father, He is! I use the same principle with my children..."If and Then." IF I delight myself in the Lord, THEN He will give me the desires of my heart. Having battled depression most of my life, I didn't have a clue how to delight myself in any thing! I so desperately wanted to live out the desires of my heart....desires that He had placed there.

Finally, I cried out, "Daddy! I want the desires of my heart! Help me to delight myself in You!" Imagine the delight in a Father's heart when His child asks for what He has wanted to give them all along. Things began happening in my every day life. I became all the more aware of the wonderful things I often took for granted. The sun became shinier, the sky bluer, the breeze more refreshing. I grew in my understanding of Him and His ways.

He even tell us that His ways are not our ways and that His thoughts are higher than ours. Even as a parent I don't understand why He allows what He allows but this is where faith comes in. Faith, not blind disobedience but, a choice to trust in His wisdom and the knowledge that He knows what is best for me. It is not always easy to walk the path laid before me even knowing that not only is He there, but that He will even carry me when I can no longer move forward.

And even more amazing is the fact that regardless of how terribly I mess up, He is there to help me to my feet, brush me off, and restore me. He is LOVE!

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Promises to live by~

Romans 8:27-29 (King James Version)
27And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Song of Solomon 2:16 (King James Version)
16My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.

Psalm 37:4 (King James Version)
4Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

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Romans 8:28
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."