Breathe Into Heart

Psalms 146:5[5]But joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper,    whose hope is in the Lord their God.First beforehand, it is best to become happy as you wake up. Give thanks in all times throughout all the tests and tribulations.Be more curious and ambitious in the Lord. For the Word of God to soak within and out. Continuously, God brings forth everything at the right time.…

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RETURN OF THE KING

Young phoenix wright gives me such a specific emotion and I don't know what it is. It's just. Look at him. He's a baby. Baby man. I wanna keep him as my pet hamster and put him in a microwave to watch him spin around

st would be a much better show if they just let el and will kill people

Revelation 2:10 (ESV) - Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

If you can remain friends throughout it all, through thick and thin, and never give up on each other...that's what marriage is made of.

i think i hauve Covid

So it happened earlier today. Endoscopy and colonoscopy.

They were running really behind but I only had to wait like an extra 10 minutes to be called back for the procedure itself.

The nurse that went over everything with me was super nice and even was understanding of my fibro and EDS, which was nice. Kinda scared her because my heart rate was 155, but I'm terrified of needles and I was freaking out a bit but she understood I wasn't having an actual crisis thank fuck. I did not want to reschedule this shit.

The anesthesiologist was also very kind and understanding of my situation as well, walked me through everything and patiently answered my questions.

Like usual it took like 2 seconds to knock me out, and when they woke me back up I just wanted to go back to sleep. Typical reaction from me, basically.

My mom brought me home and actually went and bought the specific foods I asked for thankfully. I have some pretty stupid food allergies and can't have most normal foods anymore so I'm glad she listened to me.

Now for the like...gross ish part.

So they found...something? Just inside my asshole? Not like a polyp or whatever. I don't remember. But they took a sample for biopsy so there's that. But also I guess when they looked in my stomach I still had liquid and stuff in there many hours after I last had anything so it means I likely have delayed emptying or something's up. He told me my next step is to do a gastric emptying study.

So gastroparesis might be one of the answers after all. I'm honestly a bit surprised that our first guesses might be accurate after all.

But now I'm home, took my nap, ate a bit, and now I'm ready to sleep some more.

 The Test, the Tribulation, and the Triumph

 The Test, the Tribulation, and the Triumph

I am picking up my grandson’s favorite after-school snack: the big plate of honey chicken X 3 and white rice at Panda Express. The manager is helping me. She knows me well from the many times I go in to get Bryson’s “snack”! But this encounter with the manager starts my TEST and my seeking! My wallet is NOT in my purse. I ask if I can take the meal and pay her tomorrow. Food in hand, I am…

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Wise Enough to Know Better

Wise Enough to Know Better

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. – James…

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#DailyDevotion You Can Trust God To Deliver You From Your Trials & Temptations

#DailyDevotion You Can Trust God To Deliver You From Your Trials & Temptations 1 Cor. 10:12-13 12So if you think you stand, be careful that you don't fall. 13You haven't been tempted more than you could expect. And you can trust God. He will not let you be tested more than you can stand. But when you are tested, He will also make a way out so that you can bear it. The Israelites saw the plagues in Egypt. They walked through the Red Sea on dry land. They saw the glory of the LORD on Mt. Sinai and heard the voice of the LORD give them the Ten Commandments. They saw the wonders of the LORD take care of them in the wilderness and they still messed up royally. We heard the good news of Jesus Christ. All you have is a promise. It is with this understanding and this context St. Paul tells us, “if you thing you stand, be careful that you don't fall.” Now I guess the Israelites had this going against them. They were a stiff-necked people. They did not gain any humility during this time it appears. When we come to the Gospel, how else do we come to it but in humility, if you have rightly understood the Gospel. We came to the LORD Jesus Christ with nothing but our sins and fallen nature, unable to save ourselves. We had nothing to offer him that wasn't his anyway. Yet in his great mercy, he became man. He took our sins upon himself. He became the atoning sacrifice and propitiation for our sins that we might become the righteousness of God. He asks us to put our faith in him that he has indeed saved us from our sins and given us the kingdom of God. Nevertheless, even though we have become the children of God through faith in this promise, we still have the sinful flesh, live in a sinful world, which tempts us to not believe God's promises and to reject his loving mercy. Paul tells us we can trust God. He will not lest us be tempted more than we can stand. In the context of the Israelites in the wilderness there were two types of testing. The first testing was from the LORD himself, to see if the Israelites would trust him and do all that he said. This testing is never to tempt us to do evil but to trust God and do good. It is like the discipline of the LORD Hebrews mentions in chapter 12. So when the people were tired, hungry or thirsty, when he brought their enemies against them, would they trust the LORD would take care of them or not? The other sort of testing is not from God but from the devil. He tempts us to sin, to turn from God's will for us in our lives and to fulfill the desires of the flesh. He tempts us to selfish, self-centered, to reject loving God and loving neighbor and do what we think will make us the most fulfilled despite God telling us is will not. He tempts us to reject the warnings of our conscience, perverse as it, itself is. Paul encourages us to trust God in both of these testings unlike the Israelites who grumbled against the LORD and who fell into idol worship and sexual sin. He promises we will not be tested more than we could expect nor more than you could stand. We have the Holy Spirit now indwelling us. He gives us the power to trust God and to reject sin. He does not leave us to ourselves. We are promised when we are tested he will provide a way out. So whether we are experiences trying times or enticements from the devil, our flesh and the world, turn to the LORD and put your trust in him and not in yourselves. He will be your rock and shield. And should you fail, you have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ whose blood cleanses us from every sin, stain and blemish. Heavenly Father, grant us your Holy Spirit that we may trust in you when tried so we may not fail like the Israelites in the wilderness. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Read the full article

May, 22 (Morning) Devotion

“He led them forth by the right way.”

Psalm 107:7

Changeful experience often leads the anxious believer to inquire “Why is it thus with me?” I looked for light, but lo, darkness came; for peace, but behold, trouble. I said in my heart, my mountain standeth firm; I shall never be moved. Lord, thou dost hide thy face, and I am troubled. It was but yesterday that I could read my title clear; today my evidences are bedimmed, and my hopes are clouded. Yesterday, I could climb to Pisgah’s top, and view the landscape o'er, and rejoice with confidence in my future inheritance; today, my spirit has no hopes, but many fears; no joys, but much distress. Is this part of God’s plan with me? Can this be the way in which God would bring me to heaven? Yes, it is even so. The eclipse of your faith, the darkness of your mind, the fainting of your hope, all these things are but parts of God’s method of making you ripe for the great inheritance upon which you shall soon enter. These trials are for the testing and strengthening of your faith—they are waves that wash you further upon the rock—they are winds which waft your ship the more swiftly towards the desired haven. According to David’s words, so it might be said of you, “So he bringeth them to their desired haven.” By honour and dishonour, by evil report and by good report, by plenty and by poverty, by joy and by distress, by persecution and by peace, by all these things is the life of your souls maintained, and by each of these are you helped on your way. Oh, think not, believer, that your sorrows are out of God’s plan; they are necessary parts of it. “We must, through much tribulation, enter the kingdom.” Learn, then, even to “count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations.”

“O let my trembling soul be still,

And wait thy wise, thy holy will!

I cannot, Lord, thy purpose see,

Yet all is well since ruled by thee.”

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