It's Who You Are....

Just the other day my daughter says, "Mom, I don't know what I am gonna do once I finish if I don't make it in? The road seems impossible". My encouragement to her and you is the same, keep pressing on. Don't look at your circumstances. I know God is in control and he will get you to where you need to be, so even when it looks like you can't, God can and he is making a way, his way, trust him!

I have many memorials throughout my life that encourage and fuel me to press on to the next level, when things seem impossible. I was born to an unwed mom, delivered in a home, adopted in adverse conditions, yet God intervened and provided a Godly home for me in the midst of confusion. I was saved in boating accident as a child, and spared in a potential car wreck as a young adult that should have taken my life and others, but it didn't.  I was blessed with a child and should have died in child birth, but was spared. I was given a half million dollar home when I was unemployed and then blessed with a job at it's highest level in front of hundreds. I been favored in countless other homes, jobs and provided for at each step of the way. I have traveled around the world and have been given first class service, and protected even when others said there was no way. Outsiders would say I am "lucky", but my God says I am "his"!

Take time to remember all the many blessings God has done in your life. He is perfect in all of his ways! His timing, his desires, his plans! Won't ya take the next step out into the unknown, stretch your wings and trust your heavenly Father to provide as only he can.

My encouragement is don't leave anything on the table! Do you have dreams that God has placed in your heart? Are you looking at your circumstances, or trusting in your God? We are on the mission field and the finish line is in sight. It is time to sprint! My heart's cry and I hope yours is too, "Take me deeper still"!

Listen and be encouraged today. Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBmwwwiHrOk

I Will Cast My Cares On You!

Everyday we have a chance to cast our cares on God, with a knowing that he cares for us, through a regular communion that happens through our spirit. Even in times when our thoughts would say, well if he doesn't take care for this simple request, how can I trust him with my bigger needs? We then have to remind ourselves, we don't have to know the answers, we just have to trust him. 

It is during these times of mental tug of war, I have learned to let go and allow him to have his perfect way, irrespective of my thoughts. Would you know, whatever it is I am praying for disappears and is resolved even without me thinking about it again. It is during that time of release and submission, with complete trust, where God has never left me.

How about you? Are you willing to truly let go and say God whatever your will, and take it to the worst conclusion that you fear the most and say even if "this" continues, I will trust you? 

When we face our fears, whether big or small, with a loving God who loves us more than we can even hope or dream, we can "let go" of the outcome of any and all situations and trust in God's loving mercy for his children. 

Won't you trust him today? Faith as a child is how the bible puts it..... 

Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKuAMmTqUbs

Just Be Held...

Ya know there are times in this life when I just don't have the answers! I go to a church service where there is a healing prayer afterwards and the obvious handicapped kid does not go, yet I am sure through the years he has been prayed for many times, even as I offer up my own prayer on his behalf, yet his life continues as it is, why? Then there are others who have prayers filled by hundreds of people as evidenced by facebook, and yet the inevitable happens, and their loved one dies.

So where does that leave us on our earthly walk with a confidence and trust that keeps us dependent on God in the midst of life's storms. How do we keep our confidence and hope on a loving God when bad things happen?

Just the other day I felt an urging to get a card and gift card for food for a particular homeless gentleman, and with the prompting proceeded to do so without really understanding how it would all work out. After purchasing it and then going to work where I would see him occasionally, yet I did not at this time, I left with a whispered prayer that God would have to help me. As I drove off and pulled around another way, no less than this gentleman was wheeling himself around the corner right where I was going to pull out. I had the chance to deliver what God had placed on my heart to give.

I share that only to say, it is the everyday little things where God continually shows up, and teaches me, reminding me that he is truly in charge of our lives and others, and hears our prayers, even when we don't understand! The bible puts it like this.

Matthew:29-30 "Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. 30"But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31"So do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows."

So no, I do not have the answers to some of life's most difficult questions of why? What I continue to learn and am reminded of daily, is to trust God, and during those times of confusion and uncertainty to just be held....

Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIZitK6_IMQ

Connecting the Dots...

How many have ever drawn one of those pictures where you follow the numbers and ultimately come up with a beautiful drawing? For a non artist like myself, I was always amazed at how what appeared to be random lines drawn across a page could manifest into something beautiful.

Is that not the same in our Christian walk. We are going along wondering what in the world is going on, when hardships and persecutions hit, but we keep moving forward trusting our heavenly Father who is making all things beautiful!

Sometimes we can see where he is going, but most of the time, we just have to trust in his promises and stand on his word, because in the natural through our vision it doesn't make sense. The night Jesus was turned over to be crucified was one of those baffling moments for his closest disciples.

Matthew 26:39 "Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will."

You see being carnal we have the here and now, desires of comfort before pain, prosperity before lack, but God has salvation for eternity before anything else. No there is nothing wrong with any of these earthly desires, but God's ways are so much higher than ours. He has a heavenly, eternal perspective that is oftentimes hard to see, from our view.

What IF, losing your only child meant you would see them in heaven for eternity? What IF that terminal illness was going to cause all of your children to give their lives to the Lord? What IF that eviction was really taking you away from unknown pollution that was killing your body? What IF and the list goes on and on....

I am here to remind you that God loves you and is working ALL things to the good to them that love him and are called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28.

Song: Something Beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBtK_fGCORw
Song: Just Be Held https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIZitK6_IMQ

Treasures In Heaven

Last month I was informed that the family I have been sponsoring below has been displaced because the shelter they were living in by the "river" was not theirs and the government has made them move. That means that even their makeshift home as it was, is no longer. The are now literally on the "streets".

With the help of the local colleague, the mom has agreed to allow her 3 youngest children to be put into a home, so that they will have access to food and shelter. She is making the ultimate sacrifice that only a parent would consider. However in order for the children to go there, they need sponsors to help pay for their support of rs 2500/month. With the exchange rate that is about $40 a month. What I am proposing, is to raise enough funds not only for these children, but other orphans and widows that are on the streets this holiday season, in Kodaikanal, India.

 For the bible puts it like this in Ephesians 6:8. "Knowing whatsoever good thing any man doeth the same shall he receive of the Lord whether bond or free". 

Now for us in the US. going into a orphanage or senior home would be considered a bad thing, but look at the smiles of these children as they put on their Sunday best to be considered for acceptance into this orphanage. As a mom, I can only imagine how this mom feels as she considers this path for her own children.

Would you consider sponsoring a child or widow this holiday season for a life changing gift of just $40 a month?

James 1:27 "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world".

My personal email is ckskrmetta@yahoo.com for additional financial information and sponsorship.