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I start this encouraging blog with a praye;

Lord, please listen to that one that calls to you. Listen to them as you have so many times before listened to me and others as we called to you.

Psalms 61:2 -4 From the ends of the earth will I cry unto you. When my heart is overwhelmed; lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For you have been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.

Our lives are so filled with hopelessness, anixety, and yes, sometimes even fear of the unknown.

Why would we have these anxious thoughts Lord ,? When we as your children by believing, trusting in Jesus that died for our sins on Calvary?

I know for one, I know better. I think it's because we are looking at the wrong circumstances, we are trying to handle it by ourself.

We are forcusing on the wrong things. My hope is not in this world, but in the one that gives me my eternal home in His Kingdom.

Our amswers, our hope is in his word. If we would read, follow and keep our eyes on the creator of the universe, how could we have any doubt that he is in total control.?

After all; He created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 He is the great I AM!

I don't know what your big struggle is , I do know what I consider mine. I feel left along without my husband of 59 years of marriage. I really didn't know I would have to face this struggle. But, why not me? Why not you in your present struggle.

Losing a loved one is grief for sure. A grief that most do not know about, untill it happens to you.

I look around and all I seem to see if spouses that have each other. I feel like, Why, not me Lord? Sad as it makes me feel, I can say: Lord, you let him have no pain, a very short in comparison to any others, a short illness. And, above all. he had Jesus and the word tells me; that when he took his last breath here on earth, he took his next one in paradise.

2 Corinthians 5: 8. That makes me rejoice!

I have been a prayer warrior trusting my Lord since "my new birth " in 1969. And allthough I've been through many trials, this has been my hardest one. How do I keep going? How do I know that I will get through it all? Because, my heavenly Father is walking right beside me, he is not letting me go through it by myself. he is teaching me scripture, that I have need of.

My greatest comfort is: we both have Jesus as our own personal Savior. The written word tells me.I will see him again. Its just a matter of waiting. Yes, we don't like to wait, but friends when you know you will see them again, you can wait.

IT WILL BE WORTH IT ALL, when we see Jesus. Remenmber; We were not designed to do it by ourselves. Turn to Jesus, he will battle it for you.

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Life can be a long hard journey..But we were not designed to do it by ourselves. LET GOD!

I will start by asking, " How is your day going? " Then as you want to answer me, I say, "Yes, I know, mine as well."

If we will be honest on this question, I think many at this season of life we find ourselves in will say, " when will this nightmare end?"

I'm using this title NO MORE...because I found it so fascinating and inspiring as it was used at my husbands funeral.

I, like my departed husband of 58 years was, and I am, getting tired of all the chaos we find in our older lives. After all, we enjoyed the " good old days." And I mean they were, so unlike todays upside down world. Gas , twenty-one cents a gallon. Mc Donald hamburger twenty-five cents. WOW!

As the pastor spoke of this life now departed, ( well, actually the scriprure teaches that as a Christ believer, we really never die, we will live forever.) But he was comparing all the life chaos we go through, now it is finally over for that child of God.

He spoke, saying, No More pain, No More heartbreaks, No More struggles in trying to take care of the life altering changes. On and On, NO MORE!

It took me back to how my husband would say, "trying to compete in the business world, now is harder than ever before. I'm taking all this medications just to keep living, and his biggest one was: I can't believe you have to drink that much water everyday!

Don't tell me the farmers out in the fields all day, drank that much water, and they were fine.

Yes, he had a point. Life after you go into your eighties, gets like, no, I'm ready to see my Savior.

Even the apostle Paul in scripture had this on his mind. Phillipians 1:23 "I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, which it is far better. or living and serving Christ, gaining rewards, and giving Him glory." KJV.

I know that we all have a beginning and an end. The day of our departure is settled in heaven . Ephesians 1:11 relates to that. " You are immortal until God's purpose for you is complete."

May I stay content , serving, loving, prasing God , until my Lord and Savior says, It's your time now. Let there be No More of this chaos here, come and enjoy the glories of heaven, your real home, for eternity and evermore.

Be sure you are His child by faith in Jesus, God's son dying on the cross for your sins.

Then you can rejoice in the NO MORE! You just gotta love it, when you are the child of the great I AM!.

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Come home my child, welcome to your eternal home. Absent in the body, present with the Lord. 2 Corinthians 5:8

As I sit down for my morning devotions, I find I'm still having trouble comprehending all that I am processing about this sorrow. I know that I read about all the Bible verses that give us hope in these times of grief.

Psalma 34:18 " The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit." Isiah 40:29 " He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak,"

I am very aware from being a Christ believer for many years that all God's scripture is for real.

I've been through other struggles, heartaches, and sorrows, so I know His word is my source for trusting Him.

The Lord knows when we are suffering, He knows when we are dealing with grief and loss and we need His help. Because of how much He loves us, when we feel pain, His heart hurts as well. But, it's at this time He puts us under His protection so that we can heal and grieve in the comfort of His arms. Under His Wings, under his wings, as the song says.

That is a remarkable promise that I can relate to. I hope you, my friend can also.

Bible verses about grief remind us that, no matter what happens, God is on our side.

May I tell you that it's been about three months now since the departure of my husband of fifty-eight years. I expected it to be hard, but, I never expected it to keep hurting, and finding myself not understanding, to just where do I belong.

It's when this type of sorrow comes into your life that you start to process your grief in your way. I had to find that way for my grief.

I know all have their way of dealing with grief. I wanted to share what my go-to has been, and it's kept me going and filled me with hope that I can share.

being my husband and I were both Christ followers and redeemed by the blood of Jesus, I first of all knew, " I would see him again". 1Thessalonians 4:16-17 . But, that didn't give me all the hope Jesus speaks of persay. So what God did and does in keeping me filled with hope, Is that there is a good chance that the Rapture will happen in my lifetime.

I have read, and listened to every Rapture message I can find; I have searched scriptures; followed scripture and the signs of the times, and get so excited that it may be sooner than many think.

Each time I see on the news of another sign of the times, I get very excited. If you are a believer in Jesus Christ as your personal savior, then you have to get excited in knowing that when the trumpet sounds, the true believers will hear, and we will be caught up to meet Jesus in the air. Now that's the HOPE that I can hang onto.

The scripture says, "That as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the last days". Well. see what's happening now. Doesn't it sound like the evil that was in Noah's days? We are there!

If you are grieving, and need hope, consider what I found as my HOPE. Looking for the return of my Savior. I not only get to see Jesus, but, I get to see my loved one again. Now that's a hope I can go through my sorrow and know that it won't be long. When you can see a blessed future it lets you hang on.

As my husband always said, "See you at the gate. I will, sooner than I may realize.

For the King and His Kingdom

Our FirstDayy in Heaven. O Happy day!

He's waiting for me on those Golden streets

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How many people think it would be nice to have a long-lost uncle or friend who amazingly leaves you a nice inheritance?

I would like to tell you of a greater inheritance that we all have if, we have Jesus Christ as our own personal savior. You know you can have that by accepting the finished work on Calvary and knowing the Christ of the Bible, trusting in him for your forgiveness of sins.

The Bible tells us, "We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God. "Romans 3:23

But I find my hope is in Focusing on my heavenly inheritance. That is and will be my focus.

The Bible tells us in Isaiah 55:8-9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither my ways your ways. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.".

I have learned in my recent days, that it is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn your statutes. The law of your mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

They that fear you will be glad when they see me: because I have hoped in your word.

I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that you in your faithfulness have afflicted me. Psalms 119: 71-75

You may ask, How have you been afflicted? I answer you, " I have lost a dear loved one."

I feel as the apostle Paul did in the scriptures 2 Corinthians 4: 8-9 and 16-18.

I now know that no matter what can be allowed to come our way, we have an advocate with the Father and his name is Jesus.

Do I hurt,? yes. But do I know that I have an inheritance in heaven that awaits me? YES!

Many people have suffered many conflicts, but we have a high priest who feels our pain and has told us in scripture that he will not leave us comfortless. Even when Lazarus had died, Jesus WEPT! So why would I not know that he wept at my loss also?

But, he knew it was not to harm me but for my good. Remember, his ways are not our ways.

I will Focus On My Heavenly Home. We both were His Children by faith in the Son of God and I will see him again.

May you, my friends Focus on your true inheritance. Our home in heaven, and seeing our mighty Lord and our loved ones that went on before. What a glorious inheritance we have,

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If you are a woman and mother who has given birth to your precious child, you are well acquainted with what I am comparing this encouraging blog to.

I think all of us as Christ believers, and his faithful followers know there is a big difference between a simple prayer and laboring in prayer. A prayer of grace is not the same as when we labor in prayer.

In the Old Testament days when a woman was about to give birth, she would crouch down, put her head between her knees and someone would cry, PUSH! It was hard and took a lot of effort.

That's what we have to do when we are laboring in prayer. We have to get along, in a private setting, and go into labor with our prayer.

You say, why do I have to do all that? Because you're getting ready to give birth to a MIRACLE.

Are you one out there needing a miracle? Are you in sorrow from the passing of a loved one?

Then you know what it's like to labor in prayer. You know what it's like to ask the Lord for help in so many avenues of your life.

James 5:16 concludes with; The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

Did you know that God has already answered your prayer? He's just waiting for you to pray earnestly for his will. Did you know that God loves His children and has nothing but good for you? He tells us this in Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. plans to prosper you and not harm you plans to give you a hope and a future."

Friends, I have seen miracles before and my recently deceased husband was part of those. Toward the end of his days on this earth, he was found asking. " Why does God choose to heal some and not others?' He watched over and over the movie," The Chosen" loving the part where Jesus was asked by the man with leprosy to be healed. Jesus chose to heal him because that was in His will. God's will for my husband was: "Come home my child."

I don't know about you my friends, but I want to labor in my prayers, I want to know the perfect will of my Lord and Savior. Saying grace before I eat a meal is being thankful, but needing God's perfect will in one's life is going to take laboring in prayer.

Why do we have to do that? Because we are getting ready to receive a MIRACLE!.

If you are a child of the Risen Savior by belief and trust in the forgiveness of your sins on Calvary, you can have these powerful results for your prayers. Just remember, for God's perfect will we must labor in prayer because you are giving birth to a MIRACLE!

For the King and His Kingdom, SarahTylerAuthor.com

contributing writer for https://coffeewithjesus.info

It was only one month yesterday that my husband of 59 years was drawn upward to the everlasting home that we as Christ believers await anxiously.

How do I say the words that are on my heart as I grieve the loss of the love of my life?

I imagine many of you reading this latest blog have been through similar emotions.

We had our final conversation, we bent over them with tears that would not stop as that loved one stayed so calm and told us we would be okay.

He knew as I also have known that he was going to his eternal home prepared for him by our heavenly father. John 14:1-3 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, I will receive you: where I am there you may be also. ( paraphrased some to make it current).

My husband was a man of integrity, a man that anyone who met him, loved him and felt as if they had known him for years. He was just that kind of guy.

He always said, " he could tell if someone he was talking with in his business was a Christ believer within a few minutes of speaking with them. He said, "your spirit just connects to their spirit. " And if they weren't believers, he had a way of making sure that person knew there is a Savior that loves them deeply.

Being in the Hair Replacement business for 40 years, he called his barber chair"anointed" it was "a witnessing barber chair". That had to please the heart of Jesus.

I am trying to go on with the life he left me with. He said I was strong! I know I have been through many heartaches with the family I grew up in, so he found that to be what he called strong.

My tears tell me I'm not. Only through the strength that Jesus gives me. When I am weak then he is strong. 2 Corinthians 12:9 Because it tells us that when we are weak, God's grace is most powerful.

God was so gracious to give me a soul mate that was filled with Jesus from the

young age of 13. He was the one to take me to church for the very first time at age 20.

There I heard for the first time that there is a Jesus who died for our sins, Romans 3:23, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. That is me, friends that is you.

I will see the Love Of My life again because we were both Redeemed children of God by faith in Jesus Christ as our Savior.

Is it hard to go on without the Love Of My Life? I can say with a resounding YES!

I am told it gets easier, but it's hard for me to believe that right now.

Because I believe in a Rapture of the Church, The children of God will be caught up before that great day of wrath the Bible speaks of, 1 Thessalonians 4:16 I find myself studying more intensely about that great event. I can't wait to die to see " The Love Of My Life"

Until then... my heart will go on singing, until then I'll carry on. Until that day, my eyes behold that city, until the day God calls me home and I see " The Love Of My Life" again.

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Lanty

You have heard it said, "We're all in this together". But what does that really mean?

I have been a Christ believer since 1969. I took Jesus as my Savior, my personal Redeemer after struggling with not understanding why must I be saved.

I was raised in a household of ten children, a tyrant dad and a submissive mother. We as children learned to be quiet and obey my daddy's word.

We never had any church or even someone to tell us much about Jesus and why He came to give us freedom from our sins. And what sins would that be? We led a very sheltered life, didn't know what wearing shorts, talking to a boy, or doing anything that was part of the world.

But the reason I am telling you this story of my up-bringing is because it let me search for the right answers in all that I went through. Those answers eventually came when I had my first job.

My now husband of 58 years invited me to church. Bet you think that brought me to Jesus? not really, it didn't untill three years after we were married.

I am telling you all this to tell you what has become my mission in helping others to find Jesus and also to bring you through those rough times that surely will come.

This has been a season in my life that has tested my faith like never before.

We take our health for granted, untill we have health issuses.

Mine was in the way of my husband. He started with kidney stones Two surgeries later, got through that but because of complications afterward, not necessarily physical but emotionally.

He began to think that his life of 84 years old was ready to end. Lost lots of weight, saw wrinkles appear, memory became blurred, plus other doubts in what his Jesus would do to help him.

What I've learned to pass onto you my reader. WHEN THINGS GO WRONG!

(1) Don't demand to understand what is happening. Isaiah 50:10 He is God you are not.

(2)Don't fail to be faithful.... Philippians 4:13. He remains faithful even when we do not.

(3)Don't bow to bitterness. Hebrews 12:15 and Ephesians 4:31 Don't fall short of the grace of God to show us the way.

(4) Don't rush God. Peter 3:8 We are reminded that our timing doesnot match the timing of our Lord. What you may feel is a lifetime, God sees as one day or a thousand years.

I love Genesis chapter 39 the account of Joseph and all he went through. But God, verse 21 lets us know that God showed mercy and gave Joseph great favor through the actions taken by becoming the keeper of the prison. God will help you also in ways you may not see, until later.

So do you see why I can trust my Lord,? I can wait upon my Lord. He is in total control.

Will you turn to Jesus when THINGS GO WRONG? Psalms 108: 12-13 Please read and you'll see: When tThings Go Wrong..Who you Gonna Turn To.?

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May I start with: I know God cares and loves His children. So what am I to learn from my yet another struggle in being a caregiver?

To all who are living in this deep dark world. I first want to say, Yes, I understand and I want to give you hope that I can only give you from Jesus, my Lord and Savior.

First, I have asked this question to my Lord, "Why was I the one that You have assigned to carry several of my siblings as a caregiver?" And what do You want to teach me from all that I seem to keep going through?"

I guess even though I have had, and do have now, one of my 10 siblings left to care for, now I find that I also have at the present my dear beloved husband of 58 years, Soon to be 59 years come June. Discouraged, and depressed from complications left from recently having two back-to-back kidney stone surgeries.

It has been said that when you are a child of the great I AM, he keeps giving you testing until you learn what he wants to teach you. His way of getting us ready for His Kingdom.

So Lord, I'm here to learn what You have for me and maybe I can help one of my readers to find hope also in what you are teaching me.

I read in 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in our afflictions, so that we may be able to comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

As God comforts me in my afflictions I am to be able to comfort those that need this comfort.

I know as a believer and follower of my Savior, my Redeemer, that He can comfort me like no other.

He tells me in Isaiah 41:10 Fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

I cry unto the Lord and I read: Psalms 34:18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

I respond from His promise: This Lord is my comfort in my affliction. that your promises, Lord give me life.

I also have read and heard that God never wastes a hurt or sorrow that we as his children may go through. He works all things out and for His glory.

I surrender to this and say, "Who am I to question what God has planned for my life? Who am I to think poor, poor me, look at all I have to endure. ?" Lord, You suffered and shed your precious blood for me so I could have my sins forgiven. You paid for them.

Lord, I look to you the Savior of my soul knowing that no matter what I have to go through what I am called on to help my loved ones or friends, I will get through it as I have seen you lead me through over and over again.

One more time I fight the battles of depression in loved ones and continue because I know that one day all will be well. One day this will be another lesson learned with the power and strength to help another with the comfort that I have had comfort from you.

So until then, as the song written by Bill and Gloria Gather, expresses: I say: My heart can sing when I pause to remember a heartache here is but a stepping stone, Along a trail that's always winding upward This troubled world is not my final home. But until then my heart will go on singing, until then with joy I'll carry, on. Until the day, my eyes behold that city, until the day God calls me home.

Flee troubled heart, rest on the Great I AM! For his word will not fail you he promised.

Luke 1:37. This I give to bring you through being a caregiver, God will be your comfort.

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I find it interesting in what Jesus said to the churches in the early days.

As Jesus expanded on all the things good about the churches, with all the things he commended them for and what they were doing, he still found the most important thing was missing.

He says; in Revelations 2:4 Having commended the church in Ephesians for its doctrinal integrity and persevrance in the face of adversity, Jesus reveals in verse 4 what he found lacking in the Ephesians church. The love that they had in the beginning for Him.

What remained was devotion to the truth, doctrinal, but not devotion to the Lord.

Let us compare that to a good marriage:

How would it be if the wife performed all the duties of a wife but without genuine love for her husband?

The same can be said for the husband.

What if the husband continued to work to provide an income for his family and kept performing the household duties that fall to a husband, but no longer loved his wife? Wouldn't the marriage be a cold, sterile relationship?

On the other hand, duties performed out of love for one's spouse give meaning and warmth to one's marriage.

I have come to see that most of the modern-day churches are doing this very thing.

So many programs, functions, talking of spreading the gospel, even many mission trips, where in itself these things are good. But if the church followers are doing all they do out of a righteous not out of a heart that truly loves the Lord Jesus Christ putting him as their first love, it becomes just a do so only. "Good works."

Asking: is the music the focus of drawing new church attendees? Is the programs to draw people to Jesus or the CHURCH? What about drawing people to the main one? The Lord Jesus Christ who died for our sins?

So many who truly took Jesus as their personal Savior maybe many years ago, get caught up in the programs, and small groups, what will we do this weekend, my friends, my church seat, all about my, my, my!!?

I know for myself, that it took a long time for me to come to Jesus as my personal Savior because, I saw busy church people, but not Jesus as the focus.

When I led my elderly brother to the Lord, just a month before his passing, that was his reason for not understanding and coming to Jesus. He saw pastors on TV church only talking of money, and not making the main thing the MAIN thing. I helped him get straight on that, sadly, some are not saved themselves. And he did take Jesus as his own personal Savior.

Let's all that know the Lord, let Him be our first love. Let us put Him above any church activities or let the church be number one to us. Let Jesus who died for your sins, be and stay the FIRST in our lives.

JESUS may YOU always stay FIRST in my life.

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I couldn't let 2023 go out without giving you "HOPE for 2024."

So, this is what I want you to envision as we go into 2024 Let us write your story for 2024.

I'm assured many of us, including myself are leaving behind a turbulent year. Some with illnesses, some with financial woes, some with family quarrels, and some feeling there is no hope for me.!!

But I want to help you write YOUR story for 2024.

We will start with the following: Have you been to the cross of Jesus our sin redeemer? Have you accepted Him as your Lord and Savior? Are you washed in the precious blood of the ONE that paid the price for your sins?

If you have then you have a choice to "Let Go and Let GOD" He knows all and He can see ahead showing you the path for a new story in 2024.

We know according to Bible scriptures, you have been given the power to overcome through Christ, all can be left behind in 2023.

God's word knowing it is true gives you that authority!!

Ephesians 4:31-32 tells us this. " Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. he wouldn't say this if it wasn't possible to do for His child that you are.

Psalms 117:6 " The Lord is on my side, I will not fear: what can man do unto me".

That includes all you left in 2023 behind.

Psalms 61: 2 says, "From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. I told you he would lead you.

Now... go into 2024 with that "New Hope" that He our blessed Savior promises us he will do

" ALL things are possible with God. " The doctors, the financial situation, the hurt feeling, the ungodly world we live in, does NOT have the final word. God always has the FINAL word.

When you know that, without ANY doubts, you can overcome ANY situation. You must believe in the finished work of Jesus Christ. Seek him, with all your heart. Believe his spoken word. And know that He will honor his promises. Friend, He will not fail you! Don't listen to the lies of Satan that fill your mind. Remember: fear is

" False Evidence Appearing Real".

Romans 8:28 "And we know that ALL things work together for good to them that love God to them who are called according to his purpose".

Now, go into 2024 with Your NEW story. Go in His mighty name, and his unfailing love for you. Jesus loves you, he always has, he always will.

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