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13 Jan 2010
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Keeping the people of Haiti in Prayer

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.-2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (New King James Version)

When we came home last night from spending time in fellowship with friends, the images that greeted us as we checked the news was devastating.  Our hearts fell as we quickly lifted up the people of Haiti in prayer,followed with what can we do to help.

Heavenly Father, Thank You for being our Father and there in times of joy and in times of grief; Lord, I ask that you cover the people of Haiti, the people who are seeking answers and news of loved ones who are there, the people and organizations who are organizing at every second that passes, to bring relief, comfort and prayers of rescues and miracles in this great time of sadness.

Lord, I dont’ know what words to adequetely say, just pray You lead us all through this time and prayers that as we open our hearts to those in Haiti, we also open our prayers to You to lift all who need Your strength and comfort right now.

Amen.

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Here’s some of the resources that are being twittered, emailed and shared online, if you feel led to be a candle in this time of darkness.<br>

Disclaimer: If you can volunteer or donate through your local church, I encourage you to do so, but like any thing, these are 3rd party links and I do not know them personally, but follow your heart, do your research prior to participating in any organization that you may not be personally familiar with or have worked with before.

There is power in prayer so don’t think you’re prayer doesn’t count-It does. God bless you Gentle Readers.

If you have any other resources to share with others, to help the people of Haiti, please feel free to share via the comment section.

****UPDATED****

 

Here’s what Desiring God with John Piper shared:
If you’re looking for an organization to channel your money through for Haiti—and you probably should be—here are some options.

Compassion International
Feed My Starving Children
Food for the Hungry
World Vision
World Relief
Samaritan’s Purse
Love a Child
Northwest Haiti Christian Mission
Compassion Weavers
Mennonite Central Committee
Water Missions International

She added that you can go to Desiring God’s Blog for the links.

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13 Jan 2010
Word-Filled Wednesday

Isaiah 41:10 (NKJV)-"No Fear"-Word Filled Wednesday

Photobucket Feel like you have dirty laundry in your past that you just don’t want or could deal with it?

Easier to just let it pile up and keep the door close thinking “out of sight out of mind?

Maybe you’re just dealing with things right now in the present: gossip, stress, broken hearts, broken marriages, or it’s just simply a case you really just don’t want to deal with the laundry period.

Well good news and bad news, but let me give you the bad news first.

You really need to get that laundry done. Unfortunately wearing a purple snow coat over the yellow summer dress to church isn’t really trendy…yet.

The good news though is that while we maybe pushing off wanting to face that dirty load of laundry, our Heavenly Father is wanting us to know that there is nothing too big for Him to handle. He’s like Tide only better and really does get the stains out.

The trouble with fear is that it’s more of a tool for the enemy and though it helps us avoid the things we don’t want to deal with, like that checkbook that needs to be balanced, maybe the fact that we didn’t have that not so great childhood and pretending isn’t working anymore or the fact that your husband really can’t go to work with one yellow sock and a purple and pink stripe sock again.

Whatever it is that we are fearing, eventually, we have to allow ourselves to realize that our Father is in control and He isn’t going to lead us anywhere that His love and grace hasn’t already covered (sound familiar?).

I really hate doing the laundry.

There, I said it in a public forum.

I hate laundry.

 Ooooo…laundry is my Darth Vader that taunts me with the fact that if I want to actually be socially acceptable, I’ve got to wear clean clothes (or if I want to be completely anti-social, dirty clothes really isn’t a good way to avoid attention-just draws more attention).

However, eventually, I know I have to get it done. I owe it to my family, to myself and the fact that if I want to ever use the vacumn cleaner again, that I have to also take care of the load(s) of laundry that’s in the laundry room too.

The same with the sins that are in our live, the regrets we just won’t let go of, and the fears, both real and imaginary, that we tend to keep closer to heart than we keep our Heavenly Father’s promises to our heart.

Not a good feeling, just like it’s not a great feeling wearing a pair of socks or jeans, knowing that it’s been (ack), three days since it’s gone through soap counseling in the washing machine.

We can only go so far in our lives, when eventually, we need to go through heart counseling ourselves with our Heavenly Father, and just let go of the things that keep us from moving forward in our lives, and unfortunately, just like a laundry room gone out of hand, a life gone unchecked, is not always an easy process to go through, but a necessary one at that.

By going to Him in prayer and humbliness, and just giving it to Him and letting Him see us through what we need to be seen through to be convicted and refined, we come out much cleaner and refresh in the end and able to truly do what we should do, all the time, and keep not our fears or our regrets close to our hearts, but have room to keep His promises and His word without the unnecessary clutter, getting in the way.

If you haven’t or had been thinking of having a laundry day with your heart, now will be a good time to do so whether than constantly shelving it and thinking not now, not now.

Don’t let fear, regret, whatever it is, keep you from having a closer and cleaner relationship with our Heavenly Father.

As for me.

Sigh. I can hear the washing machine stop. Time to get back to some laundry cleaning myself.

God bless you, Gentle Reader!

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