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Best Known Thank You Verses from the Holy Bible

2 Corinthians 9:15 – "Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!"

Today "God spoke to me" (i love you jesus)

Today is not an unusual day. It's only a monday and it happens every start of a new week. 

However I did have a unusual happening this morning but first I want to tell you about my unusual gifts I was recieving from God in the past few weeks.

God has blessed me with apples... well at first I got a couple bags of yellow delicious, I shared them with some friends and i dried a few with my dehydrater. Then I got 4 bags of red delicious and two more bags of yellow. and I thought surely the Lord wants me to bless a larger group with these apples. So I donated some to our local homeless shelter. I dried some more and then was blessed with a few bags of Apples called Red Chief. which i had never ate before but they are out of this world and huge so I shared them with some friends and dried them. Then I was asked to make some apple crisps for this person that blessed me with these apples. I made her 3 so far.. and I plan on making more for who ever wants them.. :) Then I got about 6 more bags of fugi apples. and I am going to dry and make "apple what evers" as God has planned or brings to my mind.

So all though these blessing of apples, I have been asking God why? .. why apples, I know I've been praying for food, since I have very little to live on these days after my seperation. So I have been mostly living on apples.. :)  my thinking is " A apple a day keeps the doctor away" guess they are very good for you.. so there you have it.. I was thinking..ok God is blessing me with food and health.

So this morning, as I said, it's not like any other morning but it was a morning of rememberance, sadness, and joy all mixed intogether. I had to get up early, so I can say my prayers, and Give thanks to God, then I had to head off to Divorce court... :(

As you all know I love my husband, and this divorce is his doing  not mine. I have never wanted this divorce and he knew that as well. All I ever wanted was to work out our indifferences.  But when the enemy gets deep into the camp, then he takes it over and claims it. Thats how I see how satan took my husband's "good heart" and turned him up side down and robbed every good moral sense in him and made John so unforgiving with a single minded heart and convinced him to end this marriage with Lies from the pit of hell. (but its not over till God says its over) and miracles do happen . I will continue to pray for his salvation and If God sees willing.. to restore our vows again.

  Well here I am this morning when God spoke to me.. well not in a voice you hear with but with the inner voice. He said to me " You are the Apple of my eye."

I did not realize that all those apples could have a more significent meaning. But today its feel  is "death and sorrow". Today I wore black for morning, Today my beloved husband signed away our marriage rights.

However, my heavenly Father came to me this morning.. as a father comes to his little girl right before she is to go face the world or an event so changing in her life that she didnt even know that she needed those words spoken, but right before I went out the door, He said " You are the apple of my eye".

For the first time ever, I realized God is not just God... almighty.. as He is but he is more.."amen"  I can clearly see he is my Father.

{Deuteronomy 32:10
In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye,} i found this scripture.

God really loves me,  and he knows the pain and heart ache and all  I have endured this year on the behalf of my husbands unforgiveness and separation. Now I know I am taken care of and I am in the best hands anyone would ever want to be in .. I am in Gods hands, and I am " The apple of his eye." 

 

I hope you all have a wonderful day today, God Bless my friends here and keep Loving and praying for one another..

Love your friend and sister in Christ

Kimberly

A year ago till now.

I wanted to share with my friends how wonderful the Lord has been to me though this heart breaking time of my life. But first »where I have been and where I am going now..

The only time I can recall such a broken heart was when my fiance was killed in a auto accicent two weeks before our wedding. That was a horrible tragety back in 1974. He was my first true love of my life.

Well when I met my husband 7 yrs ago I had fallen so deeply in love with him. I moved well over a hundred miles to be with him, leaving all my friends and family behind to make a new life together. We were shortly married. We gave the Vow to God in front of witnesses the pledge of Love to be with eachother as one till death we would we part, then sealing it with our rings and a Kiss.

Even though there were times in our marriage we had difficulties we stuck together though it all. I am not going to write about what I did or what he did throughout our marriage. But only one thing that happened is that I could not forgive him for something he did early in our marriage. Within the next few years this unforgiveness festered inside of me Lots of things took place I dont want to say on here, but we both reacted in a un-rash matter twards eachother. He dove deeply into his music, photography, bars, stage highlight and the like. And i dove deeply into depression, drinking being alone, hiding myself on the computer with games, ufo searches, and just trying to feel better than I actually did on the inside of me. Then we had a huge fight one night, I left the house thinking it was going to be for one or two nights which became now a year later.

I tried to read the Bible..while I was staying in a shelter. I had nothing but the clothes on my back. I know I needed help.. my heart was torn in a million pieces. I hated myself. I hated the life style we lived the sin we lived in. It was so hard to come to Jesus.. I cried myself to sleep so many months. One day I was served divorce papers at work in front of all my co-workers. Well my prayers were twards us getting back to counseling and then back to eachothers arms again.So I felt sick when I was handed the papers and went off to the back of the store and broke down.. It was it! it was final .. God didnt hear my prayers. thats all I could think of.. the rejection of my husband and now God. The devistation was more than I could bear.

I managed to continue to work.. I hadnt had a drink in months.. I havent to this day and I have no desire to.. not even when It was more than i could take. But one thing that was on my mind was that my life all that I loved all that I wanted was gone and those thoughts of dying came to me all the time.. One day I just couldnt take it one more day.. I had no body .. all my friends would not talk to me.. not one asked or called to see how I was doing.. These were people who I adored.. I met them threw my husband since I had been a stranger here 7 yrs ago.. but no one seemed to be concerned how I was holding up. So in my pity I knew that that night I would just go to sleep and not wake up. Well God had another plan.. Praise The Lord who Loves me!!!! He said he would never leave you and forsake you.. and he came to me that very day in a form of a Angel..

Work was so busy that day.. hords of people were so impatient asking me left and right to find something on the sales floor.. I looked over to my dept where I sell cell phone contracts and saw a man there with long hair and a beard.. my first thought . humm he looks like Jesus would look.. then as helping some one else.. I glanced over to see him again and he was standing there gentle like but the white shirt he had on was brilliant.. and it glowed brighter and brighter before my eyes.. and I got a feel that this was either my eyes playing tricks or his white shirt is whiter than white I had ever seen.. alluminating. I was being called by several people to help them and I quickly directed them to where to find their products. Then I went back to my area and it hadnt been but a few sec and this man was gone.. I looked for him up the isles looking for this whiter than white shirt.. but he was gone. I asked if anyone that was on the registars next to me saw him standing there to see if they noticed his white shirt.. and they told me there was no one there all that time while I was not in my dept...  Jesus? or a Angel?   was my frist thoughts....I believe it was.. because I went home that night and instead of wanting to die I had Hope..and God and I had a very, very , very long talk with so much tears that I could have flooded the town I live in.

I repented of walking away from my faith in Him, and all my sins I commented, all the jellousy, anger, un-forgiveness, and I asked him to help me now to get through this broken heart and the loss of my Love. The Lord has been helping me with his word and fasting with prayer has been a regular for me now particularly since the divorce court dates have been set.. and then canceled.. I know its the work of our Lord.

 I had the Holy Spirit refreshed in me one sunday morning at church. It was truely a miracle. One of the pastors here on myspace from Pakistan  that has a healing ministery was here in Yakima for a convention. When my pastor introduced him I couldnt believe my ears or eyes. It seemed like such a long wait for service to be over and meet him. Who would think out of all the churches in the world or out of all the cities in the USA that this man would be at my church all the way from Pakistan? The wonderful thing is that I had written him a few months prior and asked him if he would pray for my Husband to be saved and our marriage to be restored. So here he is at MY CHURCH.. God is truely amazing..

After service I went to introduce myself.. and he knew me too. But he wanted to pray with me before I had to head off to work. As we prayed and as I was had  my eyes shut the Holy Spirit swept threw my body with a surge of energy of pure love and gentleness. The whole day It seemed as if I was in the arms of Jesus. Later the next day I realized my knee didnt hurt as it had been.. and God had healed it along with a new sense of His divine presense of his Holy Spirit leading and teaching me and helping me in His Faith with the word of God. Alluluah... Glory to God.

God is so Good.. one night as I was praying I got overwhelmed in sorrow.. I've been really trying to focus on Gods word and praying his word with belief. But this one night I broke down and bawled like a baby to God.. wishing for my husband missing him.. remembering his smell, his laugh, his funny humours jokes. the feel of his touch and the times we shared enjoying one another. Well as I was in this deep sorrow.. I wispered Holy Spirit help me..I was at a low point in emotions and my heart seemed to have opened its wounds again. As I was sitting there grabbing gobbs of kleenex I suddenly got this surge of energy threw my body again as sort of like the time I prayed with Bishop Shalmat but a bit different because as  Gods energy went threw me the Holy Spirit grabbed my Heart and held it tenderly. I sat there and  in a instant the crying stopped.. and God held my heart all the rest of the night as if he had his arms around me tight. I love the Lord.. He really has been there for me he said in his word he heals the broken hearted. God love is so divine His presence is un-mistakeable!

Then this miracle again happened.. My step daughter added me to her myspace.. I have missed her so much, I have prayed and continue to pray for her.. I thank the Lord for this miracle.. I pray that we can sometime in the future talk again. I love her so much.

Well thats it all wraped up in a blog.. I pray for all my friends here.. you guys  have been such a blessing to me threw all this time of my loss. I thank you for Your Prayers and your friendships. I felt to just share what a Blessing God has been to me. As I learn to pray effectually I believe that God has his hand on my divorce that the Holy Spirit is working within the means of my husband and he will ask Jesus into his heart. I believe that this restraining order will be lifted off both of us as God leads His Spirit and that our marriage will take a new bound turn in the near future for the Glory of God and His Kingdom and as a witness to all who have prayed and who are not saved.

God Bless you all

I love all of you In the name of Jesus

Kimberly

A Standers Affirmation

I AM STANDING FOR THE HEALING OF MY MARRIAGE!..

I will not give up, give in, give out or give over 'til that healing takes place.

I made a vow, I said the words, I gave the pledge, I gave a ring, I took a ring, I gave myself, I trusted GOD, and said the words, and meant the words..

In sickness and in health, in sorrow and in joy, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in good times and in bad ...

So I am standing NOW, and will not sit down, let down, slow down, calm down, fall down, look down or be down, 'til the breakdown os torn down!

I refuse to put my eyes on outward circumstances, or listen to phophets of doom, or buy into what is trendy, worldly, popular, convenient, easy , quick, thrifty, or advantageous..

Nor will I settle for a cheap imitation of God's real thing,  nor will I seek to lower God's standards, twist God's will, rewrite God's word. Violate God's covenant, or accept what God Hates.... Namely Divorce.!!

In a World of filth, I will stay pure;

Surrounded by lies, I will speak the truth;

Where hopelessness abounds, I will hope in God;

Where revenge is easier, I will Bless instead of Curse;

Where the odds are stacked against me, I will Trust in God's Faithfulness.

I am a STANDER, and I will not acquiesce, compromise, quarrel or quit... I have made the choice, set my face, entered the race, believed the Word , and trusted God for all the outcome.

I will allow neither the reaction of my spouse, nor the urging of my friends, nor the advice of my loved ones, nor the economic hardship, nor the prompting of the devil to make me let up, Slow up, blow up or give up.....'Til MY MARRIAGE IS HEALED.!!

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Bob and Charlene Steinkamp has a  amazing story how God healed their marriage, and others have the same stories and God moves in our lives and the lives of our love, to heal, restore, and set free addictions, loosen strongholds of unforgivness, and salvation threw Jesus Christ.

If you want to Be a Stander for your broken marriage, then I would suggest you take a look at this web sight, sign up and listen to divorce radio that they have there too. or order their tapes. This has moved me into a deeper relationship with the Lord understanding his loving purpose he created us as a Man and Wife, and the union between our vows and God as we are one in Him.  Marriage is not to be taken lightly. It is God given, God created, and God planned  from the very beginning of time.

If you are reading this Blog, and are following the Lord , I ask you to take a moment In prayer for the healing of my marriage.

If you are in need of healing of your marriage send me a message and I would love to pray for yours aswell.. God bless all of my friends here!

 

 

Dream Interpretation (please read)

A few days ago I had a dream. I did not think much of it when I awoke, but Its one of those dreams that seem to have you flashing back on it during the daytime hours. It was one of those dreams that has emotional feelings attatched to it as well.

Here is the dream i drempt and feel free on any comments you might have to add to this dream meaning.

It was not a story dream just a part of a dream that I remember most. I found a large wooden spindle leg. It was about the size of my fist in thickness and it was about a foot long. It was clearly a piece to a beautiful antique table. the wood was heavy as if it was well built.

This leg had a clear and clean break in it. It seemed easy to repair back to the table it came off of . My husband was there and was curious about it so he took a look at it and both of us decided we can fix it as he went and got some strong wood glue.

after we glued the leg back we both noticed there was layers of paper wrapped on the wood leg and he started to pick off the first layer. This layer was thin as if it was wrapping paper. So if you can imagine it looked like it was wrapped up like a gift. Then as we both looked again as that paper was removed we saw another wrapped layer. thinking we can take that one off as well I proceeded to take it off.  Eventhough it was a more colorfull paper it seemed thicker and corse to the touch and it was a bit harder to take off.

Then when we thought it was all done and we would see the beautiful wood of the leg we repaired there seemed to be another piece of paper wrapped around it. It seemed to be glued tightly to the wood but oddly it wasnt a full piece of paper it had holes in it so as to see the wood also in places. We both started picking at this paper. It got up under our finger nails and stung a bit and it was a working effort to remove this layer. I wanted to keep finnishing the task to see the fine wood finnish in the end, however my husband wanted to stop for awhile and so he did and retreated to his computer to play a game.

well that is my Dream.. funny too I havent spoken to my husband in a year, and all threw my prayers for the marriage to be resorted and his salvation in the Lord, I had this dream.

I would like some interpretation of this dream if you could ..and Keep Praying with me for Gods will to be done..

thank you and  God bless you Kimberly

The Most Beautiful Flower

The Most Beautiful Flower

Disillusioned by life
with good reason to frown,
For the world was intent
..ging me down.

And if that weren't enough
to ruin my day,
A young boy out of breath
approached me,
all tired from play.

He stood right before me
with his head tilted down
And said with great
excitement,
"Look what I found!"

In his hand was a flower
what a pitiful sight,
With its petals all worn
- not enough rain,
or too little light.

Wanting him to take his dead
flower and go off to play,
I faked a small smile and
then shifted away.

But instead of retreating
he sat next to my side
And placed the flower
to his nose and declared
with surprise,

"It sure smells pretty
and it's beautiful, too.
That's why I picked it;
here, it's for you."

The weed before me was
dying......or dead.
Not vibrant of colors,
orange, yellow or red.

But I knew I must take it,
or he might never leave.
So I reached for the flower,
and replied,
"Just what I need."

But instead of him placing
the flower in my hand,
He held it mid-air
without reason or plan.

It was then that I noticed
for the very first time
That weed-toting boy could not see:
he was blind.

I heard my voice quiver,
tears shone like the sun
As I thanked him for
picking the very best one.

"You're welcome,"
he smiled,
and then ran
off to play,
Unaware of the impact
he'd had on my day.

I sat there and wondered
how he managed to see
A self-pitying woman
beneath an old willow tree.

How did he know of
my self-indulged plight?
Perhaps from his heart,
he'd been blessed with
true sight.

Through the eyes of a blind
child, at last I could see
The problem was not with the world
the problem was me.

And for all of those times
I myself had been blind,
I vowed to see the beauty in life,
and appreciate every second that's mine.

And then I held that wilted flower
up to my nose
And breathed in the fragrance
of a beautiful Rose

And smiled as I watched
that young boy,
another weed in his hand

About to change the life
of an unsuspecting old man.



Shared with JesusOne by:   Dale Hercules

http://www.jesusone.com/poems/themostbeautifulflower.htm

Name Above all Names

NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES

In GENESIS Jesus is the Ram at Abraham's altar.
In EXODUS He's the Passover Lamb.
In LEVITICUS He's the High Priest.
In NUMBERS He's the Cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.
In DEUTERONOMY He's the City of our refuge.
In JOSHUA He's the Scarlet Thread out Rahab--s window.
In JUDGES He is our Judge.
In RUTH He is our Kinsman Redeemer.
In 1st and 2nd Samuel He's our Trusted Prophet.
And in KINGS and CHRONICLES He's our Reigning King.
In EZRA He is our Faithful Scribe.
In NEHEMIAH He's the Rebuilder of everything that is broken.
And in ESTHER He is the Mordecai sitting faithful at the gate.
In JOB He's our Redeemer that ever liveth.
In PSALMS He is my Shepherd and I shall not want.
In PROVERBS and ECCLESIASTES He's our Wisdom.
And in the SONG OF SOLOMON He's the Beautiful Bridegroom.
In ISAIAH He's the Suffering Servant.
In JEREMIAH and LAMENTATIONS it is Jesus that is the Weeping Prophet
In EZEKIEL He's the Wonderful Four-Faced Man.
And in DANIEL He is the Fourth Man in the midst of a fiery furnace.
In HOSEA He is my Love that is forever faithful.
In JOEL He baptizes us with the Holy Spirit.
In AMOS He's our Burden Bearer.
In OBADIAH our Savior.
And in JONAH He is the Great Foreign Missionary that takes the Word of God into all of the world.
You go on and you see in MICAH He is the Messenger with beautiful feet.
In NAHUM He is the Avenger.
In HABAKKUK He is the Watchman that is ever praying for revival.
In ZEPHANIAH He is the Lord mighty to save.
In HAGGAI He is the Restorer of our lost heritage.
In ZECHARIAH He is our Fountain.
And in MALACHI He is the Son of Righteousness with healing in His wings. 
In MATTHEW Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God.
In MARK He is the Miracle Worker.
In LUKE He's the Son of Man.
And in JOHN He is the Door by which everyone of us must enter.
In ACTS He is the Shining Light that appears to Saul on the road to Damascus.
In ROMANS He is our Justifier.
In 1st CORINTHIANS our Resurrection.
In 2nd CORINTHIANS our Sin Bearer.
In GALATIANS He redeems us from the law.
In EPHESIANS he is our Unsearchable Riches.
In PHILIPPIANS He supplies our every need.
And in COLOSSIANS He's the Fullness of the Godhead Body.
In 1st and 2nd THESSALONIANS He is our Soon Coming King.
In 1st and 2nd TIMOTHY He is the Mediator between God and man.
In TITUS He is our Blessed Hope.
In PHILEMON He is a Friend that sticks closer than a brother.
And in HEBREWS He's the Blood of the everlasting covenant.
In JAMES it is the Lord that heals the sick.
In 1st and 2nd PETER He is the Chief Shepherd.
In 1st, 2nd, and 3rd JOHN it is Jesus who has the tenderness of love.
In JUDE He is the Lord coming with 10,000 saints.
And in REVELATION, lift up your eyes, Church, for your redemption draweth nigh,
He is King of kings and Lord of lords!