Known & Loved Before My Birth

The Lord's Word from Psalm 139 (NIV) show the Lord knew & loved me even before I was born.

For you created my inmost being;you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Blessed be the Name of the Lord !!

Thankful For His Power To Keep Me

I am thankful that the Lord is able and will keep me & bring me into glorious presence.

Jud 1:24-25 And now, all glory to God, who is able to keep you from stumbling, and who will bring you into his glorious presence innocent of sin and with great joy. All glory to him, who alone is God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Yes, glory, majesty, power, and authority belong to him, in the beginning, now, and forevermore. Amen.

Phil 1:4-6 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

Because of Who He Is

Blessed be the Name of the Lord. He has been watching over me & protecting me today. His thoughts toward me have been full of compassion. He loves me & has been directing me in what I have done. He has made me aware of His presence although nothing unusual has happened. He has been with me as I have been reading His Word & made that Word truly alive for me. He has brought to my memory other times He has spared my life & protected me in the past. I've had cause to remember His extreme provision & mercy in my life over many years. As a mater of fact, all of my memories of His interactions with me have been good & uplifting. Blessed be His wonderful Name!! I have no reason to think He will ever change & I believe that I will always be in His love & care. And all of this is not because of who I am or what I have one or may ever do; it is all because of who He is. Blessed be the Lord God Almighty!!

God Is For Us

Blessed be the Name of the Lord! I am so delighted in the Lord. As I think of His awesome power & His wisdom, I am thankful that His ways are higher than man's ways. I am thankful that His plans are better than all of his enemies plans & their attempts to usurp His authority. I praise Him that His Word has within it the power to make each of those individual words come to pass and that none of His words return to Him void of accomplishing their purpose. I am blessed that He has always existed, will always exist, & that time is not issue for Him. Yet, even though He inhabits eternity & is bigger than can be imagined, He also lives within each of His children to guide & protect them. Think of it - He has not been caught by surprise by anything that has ever happened (or may happen). In His goodness & faithful lovingkindness, He has always had solutions to problems before the problems ever existed. He has made a way of escape before we even realized any way was needed. Even now, He is looking out for us & providing for us in every circumstance we may encounter. God is for us! Who can be against us? Blessed be the Name of the Lord!!

Praise Him for His Protection

I remember a time in Japan when I was taking a 2-mile-run during one of our PT times. I was running on base on a route that was laid out on the roads instead of in a gym. I was in the last quarter mile of my run and had just started to pick up my pace and lengthen my stride when all of a sudden I just started running in place. It was one of the most awkward things I have ever done in my life. It was as if I had run into some type of barrier & I could not go forward any more. A brief second later a car that I never saw raced in front of me near an intersection. A couple of seconds later I was able to go forward again & I realized that the Lord had once again spared me at least from serious injury or even possibly had saved my life. Needless to say, the last quarter mile of my run I was singing the praises of God. I still praise Him for His goodness and protection!!

Praise Him for His Protection

While I was in the Army Band in Japan in the late 70s, there was one summer when I used to bike back & forth between bases. I had a 15 speed 27" bike & was easily able to travel as fast as the flow of traffic. I remember one time when I was riding back to Camp Zama when it was raining lightly. I wasn't thinking so much about my ability to stop quickly & was traveling with the flow of traffic at about 35 - 40 mph when all of a sudden a car in he lane in front of me turned on it's left turn signal & turned into a driveway. I remember slamming on my brakes to no avail, trying to turn left away from the car when all of a sudden I found myself standing on a sidewalk on the other side of a low guardrail & I watched my bike go flying under the car that had turned in front of me. Without thinking I took a few steps forward, went to my hands & knees & reached under the car to pull my bike out. I reassured the driver that I was OK and examined myself & my bike finding only a scratched up left pedal as evidence of the accident. Needless to say, I rode that last few miles back to the base very slowly and singing the praises of God for his protection.

Praise Him for His Protection

I remember the only motorcycle accident I have been in very clearly. It was the late 70s when I was in the Army serving in Japan & I was a passenger without a helmet. A friend had picked me up between two military bases and on our way home we found ourselves coming head-on with a car on a one lane road. The driver of the bike hit his brakes and the bike went down. He flew over the handlebars & I ended up flying over his shoulders and rolling some distance ending up on my back under the front bumper of the oncoming car. We shook ourselves off and insured the driver of the car (as best we could) that all OK. That night I noted my right shoe was beat up pretty bad as my leg had temporarily been caught under the bike. The next morning's visit to the hospital revealed no problems as all X-rays were clear and I was uninjured. Praise the Lord for His protection!!

He watches over us

I have recently reconnected in Facebook with some of the people I worked with while I was in the 296th Army Band at Camp Zama, Japan and it brought back some memories. To me the most amazing was how the Lord watched over me while I was in Japan. I remember two times in particular when He saved my life and another time when I was healed overnight after I had been blinded in a basketball game. This caused to realize that He has blessed me and watched over me more than I will ever know. How great is God that He has blessed us so much that we can't even remember it all!!