Blessed again!

Dale joined me this evening he went in and found a seat in the crowded sanctuary while I was able to get a photo with John Michael Talbot.  Introduced as "the signer".  


John Michael Talbot and Trisha

In the beginning of the service John Michael played a couple of songs that he didn't plan on playing.  The evening before I had told my friend, Jeanne, that one of my favorite songs was from the CD "The Painter".  That was the first song that he played.  I was sitting in the back signing my favorite song with a full smile on my face.  Evidentially I was the only one that was engaged in the song because he teased, "Are you excited about the Lord? Someone tell your face."  


Are you excited about the Lord? Someone tell your face :^)

In praying "The Jesus Prayer" it should be like a cleansing breathe.  As you take a slow and conscious breath in pray, "O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God" (Allow God to fill your life like a breath of fresh air.)

Breath in the Lord!

The rest of they prayer is completed as you exhale, "have mercy on me, a sinner." (Release the sins as you accept God's mercy."


Exhale the bad ...

All things ARE possible through God.  But we must do our part.  We must repent of our sins and through active and frequent prayer build a personal relationship with God the Father, His son Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

All thing ARE possible with God!

We are like the wheat in the field.  When we are Ripe unto harvest we need to go through the harvesting process.  (Sorry, I didn't write down the terms so here are my words.) The wheat is cut down, pulled together in a group, beaten to drop the fruit/grain from the stalk, then tossed in the air to separate the chaff from the grain, then the grain is ground up and mixed together with other ingredients so that it begins to grow, the dough is kneaded three times to remove the last of the bad air so that it can be cooked into a golden  brown nutritious piece of bread; the bread of life.  God works all things to good (even the bad things!)


An animated speaker

The picture below is my favorite picture.  You can see the glow from the Joy of the Lord shining through.  How many of us can have someone say that about us?  So many times, we stifle God so that he can not shine as a light in our life.  America, it is time for a revival in the land!  Let your light so shine!


May the Joy of the Lord Shine like a lamp through you!