May 2009 – Finding Joy in Him

I wrote a new poem for Mother’s Day. I’d really like to write more than one a year. Recently I’ve had so much stirred up inside that I’ve had a hard time choosing what to write about. Maybe I should write one about that. 🙂 Hope you had a great Mother’s Day.

Love,

Jenny

The Secret

by Jennifer Coleman

The secret [of the sweet, satisfying companionship] of the Lord have

they who fear (revere and worship) Him, and He will show them

His covenant and reveal to them its [deep, inner] meaning. Psalm 25:14

Oh, how I love to hear God’s voice;

He whispers affectionately that I am His choice.

We are the joy for which He sacrificed;

The prize He counts worth more than life.

The world glares, yet cannot see

The beautiful bride He’s fashioning us to be.

To the glorious Gospel they are made blind;

To go their own way they are resigned.

To the Good Shepherd we will tightly cling

Until the day we hear those wedding bells ring.

Then we will see Him face to face,

And He will enfold us in His impassioned embrace.

Love, peace and joy will abide,

And forevermore we will be His glorious bride.

1) I’ve started walking. Yeah! I’d like to walk 6 days a week and did for the first few weeks but slacked off this last week. The thing is the cool afternoons are turning hot and muggy and I need to be walking now instead of waiting till the afternoon.

2) I learned how to set my DVR to record Joseph Prince. I don’t normally watch TV preachers. I watched Joyce Meyer everyday for a year several years ago and grew leaps and bounds. I still turn her on every once in a while and she always says exactly what I need to hear. She has an awesome message on grace and maturity.

Joseph Prince focuses on trusting in God’s grace and in what Jesus has accomplished for us on the cross. The one question God asks me again and again in life is will I give Him the control and not try to force things in my own strength but trust and rest in Him and allow Him to do the work in through and around me.

Joseph Prince pulls this principle out of the New and Old Testaments and explains how Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament requirements so that we don’t have to. I’ve been watching every sermon at least twice. I am seeing God and the work that Jesus did on the cross in a new and more glorious way.

Religion is always devising things that we have to do to get to God. We like the idea of meeting a list of requirements. It gives us a since of pride and accomplishment but in the end those things keep us from God because we can never meet the requirements in our own strength. Jesus came to give us direct access to God and His blessings through his obedience to God and death on the cross.

3) I made a commitment to myself a couple of months ago to pray in the Spirit more. I spend a lot of time just being quiet while driving, waiting for the kids to complete something etc. I decided that I would redeem that time by praying in the Spirit. I’ve seen it produce the fruits of more wisdom, peace and joy in my life and expect much more to come.

4) I’ve been knitting and crocheting while praying in the Spirit, doing school, meditating on the Word and worshiping. Whenever I start a new project, it takes a little time for me to decide which pattern and yarn to use… but once I get it going it’s just something to keep me happily creating while doing everything else.

I’ll try to write more soon,

Love,

Jenny

Month: May 2009

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