He Knows Your Name

Christmas was wonderful , one of the best in a few years..... I will have pictures tomorrow....and it snowed today .....YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a beautiful snow.......huge snow flakes........ It almost persuaded me to get out in it........ I miss the energy that was mine as a child....... but the child in me was jumping for joy........ We do not get much snow here in southern Oklahoma so when we do it is wonderful......... My sweet hubby went out and got a video for me to blog........ I think he will have that for me tomorrow......... I am still pretty new at this blogging thing but I bet I figure that out.......
.... As this year of 2007 slips away, I look back on the hard times and they are overshadowed by the blessings......... I turned 60 in 2007 in natural years and September 10 of this year I turned 30 in my spirit life.....
....I remember the very dark places in my life and so many times I cried out to the Lord to make sure that the terrible mistakes in my life would not go to waste... I cried to the Lord that He would allow me to help if only one young woman to avoid the pitfalls that I fell into.

....I feel that the Lord has finally moved me into the place that He will begin to use the "wisdom" of the years from walking through the dark places...... walking by faith and sometimes just walking and wondering where He is........... there were those places........ but always, always when I came out on the other side He was already there....... It has been such an amazing walk with the Lord.. I have to keep reminding myself that He does not wear a watch and that the past 30 years for me has been three steps forward and two steps back... but to Him it was only yesterday that I was born into the kingdom.

...Thirty years of making the same mistakes too many times until it finally sinks into my thick head... Sometimes in the past 30 years I wondered why in the world the Lord puts up with me........I feel like the apostle Paul, the chief of sinners........ I am amazed at my life and the sin stain that covered me and my heart is overwhelmed at His grace that saved me....and continues to save me...

... When I was first born-again I thought that I had arrived...... a few years into this walk with the Lord I would have told you the 3 step method to getting your prayers answered........ Me and Jesus was going to save the world......... How pompous was I........... Now 30 years into this walk with the Lord , if you ask me anything having to do with life and the pain that comes with it I will cry with you and do what I can to help you but I will tell you this one thing.........

.......For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 1 Corinthians 2:2

...I have no answers for a broken life but I know the man that does have the answers and I can introduce you to Him ... and if you think about it... it no longer is your wisdom that matters... it is just your relationship to Him ........it is Jesus that brings people into the kingdom.......... we just need to bring people to Jesus.....

... I heard a saying once....... Christianity is not my responsibility, it is my response to His ability... I believe that....... In myself I can do nothing for I have tried. The word tells us in

Acts 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

....My prayer for you this new year and my prayer for myself this new year that we will move into Him in a greater measure, understanding that standing alone from Christ we are clouds without rain... It is while we are moving and living and having our entire being surrounded by the Savior of the world that we truly live................ I want to live so that when people see me there is a shadow of the one true Christ about me and they will ask who is that Man.... and I can respond.......... He is the Christ ............ and He knows your name............