WHAT A GIFT!

Dear friend, Anne B. celebrated her birthday today! I sent love and prayers from my heart---from North Carolina to Memphis, TN!

But....her fiancé, Jeff, took a picture of the red moon to send to her.

What a gift!

Anne, has always been my photographer friend and she shared this gift with me!" She sensed God put that red moon out for her birthday!

I call it a God wink." Either way, it's a perfect early in the day gift!

What a super gift??

PSALM ON SHIRT!

Traveling quite a distance with hubby to a Carolina Hand & Sports Medicine clinic, we took a quick left onto Old Balsam Rd. It was the beginning of a couple of God winks!

The place was packed; the staff were plentiful and helpful. Still lines existed to taste the apples and buy sweet "apple" treats of cider, turnovers, fritters, cookies, loaf cakes, apple pies, slushies  etc. 

But God, in His love and mercy took it a step further to a spiritual realm.

H, our check out gal, had a sweet spirit and a Psalm on her shirt. 

Front and Back. 

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. (Psalm 42:1) 

Conversation ensued. Leaving us more prepared for the upcoming doc appointment! If that's not a "God Wink" I don't know what is!

Soul strengthening is reason we stopped there again as we headed home. H had us laughing and sharing Elvis stories....though we did purchase a few turnovers and fritters to share with godly but ailing neighbors!

All because of a Psalm on a Shirt!

GOD'S STEADFAST LOVE!

Sing for Joy in the LORD (Psalm 33:1).......

Rejoice in the LORD,

Sing to Him a new song; (Psalm 33:1,3) *

Why?

...the word of the LORD is upright,

...His work is done in faithfulness.

...the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.

...Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD.

The Words are His. Make the melody yours.

SING! SING!! SING!!!

*The Lord had me in Psalm 33 yesterday---the result was this entry.

At bedtime last night I listened to First Evan Church service and heard a few choir members  read aloud these very words. God had me here ahead of time where He wanted me.

An affirmation of sorts. Much Needed. That was my God Wink! I wanted to "Shout for joy in the LORD!" (ESV)

PERFECT GIFTS!

It's hard to believe---December will be here in just a few hours! 

That will mean there's just 24 days until Christmas. Ads on TV are already calculating the number of shopping days left to spur the buying frenzy!

Having trouble with your shopping list?

This past week, ABC's Reading List had us reading in the book of James---right where I found the perfect answer. Tonight as I changed the calendar on the kitchen table. I was affirmed in that answer.

Every good and perfect gift is from above, (James 1:17a)

Share Jesus, a true and perfect gift from the heart!

GOD WINK EXTRAORDINAIRE!

GOD WINK!

Those moments which so touch us at an unexpected time.

A unique blessing. For many, it's as if God were just winking at us. 

A divine moment. 

Yesterday at the neurologist appointment, I had such an event.

Neurology appointments are always a bit difficult for me....as, my RX diagnosis remans the same. "Make the most of your moments."

Today's check-in gal, Marcie had scripture messages on the wall, given to her by a patient. A great spiritual conversation ensued. Uplifting reminders.

As she scanned my med sheet, she wrote down one a favorite quote from her "Mama."

A message of encouragement for today and forever.

WHEN YOU CAN NOT "SEE" THE HAND OF GOD MOVING

CONTINUE TO TRUST IN THE HEART OF GOD!! 

                            Pleasure to meet

                            Marcie

The pleasure to meet was all mine!

Now I look forward to my next appointment. 

I will go back to her "station" in anticipation of another "God Wink."

I BELIEVE!!!!!!

"Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief."

The desperate man cried out in Mark 9:24.....knowing that Jesus said, all things are possible to him that believeth.(Mark 9:23)

This morning's reading from Henry Blackaby's, Experiencing God p.171 had me with the first sentence. 

You can say prayers in your mind but doubt in your heart.

Is it possible to be a "person of prayer" and yet not have faith?

May it never be in my life!

As I align my will with His in prayer, I can wait expectantly to see how God will answer.

Today I am meeting with other prayer warriors at FEC to pray for revival. But....am I preparing for its coming? A reflective life of absolute trust?

I need to look for His hand at every turn. A God wink. A God sighting.

May I not miss His response to my requests..........or I'll miss the joy of praying faith!!

ABOUND IN HOPE

Yesterday's F.O.C.U.S. verse was Romans 15:13 as I was praying for a Ukrainian gal who is very much in need of the God of all hope.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so by the power of the Holy spirit you may abound in hope.

I also visited a widow lady at her new assisted living facility and there on her counter was Romans !5:13, in part. 

My Monday meditation had certainly included that but it even went beyond as I applied the F.O.C.U.S. formula. Because of my meditation time, I knew how to "fix my eyes on the unseen" part of the verse. Believing and abounding.

Beyond that it was like a blessing from the Lord...a God wink, of sorts from Bobbie's kitchen counter! Close to skywriting from above.

Needless to say. I am now abounding in hope for an answered prayer from Ukraine.

FROM A CLINIC BED TO A CHURCH YARD!

An encouraging quote reverberates regardless of its location!

Thanks to the clout of high school chum, Joyce Ann, my God Wink quote from an EKG room, is now on the lawn of a church in Owensboro, KY. 

There is nothing more encouraging than the prayers and actions of friends in the faith......whether in a clinic bed or a church yard! (1 Thessalonians 5:11)

GOD WINK!

What is a God Wink? Is it something you see physically? Is it something you "see" in your mind?

For me, a God wink can be when God comes alive as I'm reading His Word as if speaking directly to me and my circumstance. Often a God wink becomes evident after the fact. Hindsight. Surely God has done this thing in His timing just for me.

Sometimes  a God wink looks me right in the face----square in the eye,  through a friend whom God had spoken to and she passed along the blessing. God had such a God Wink planned for me this morning.

I was going in the door as Marsha was coming out---I can't even remember her last name but I know her daughter is married to a friend from church's son. Her smile spoke volumes of recognition. (Psalm 27:13)

Then she reached in her "exercise tote" and pulled out a box of "D" stationery. 

She said, "I bought these months ago to benefit a "hope" women's ministry and prayed, knowing God had just the person whose name began with a D to cross my path. And here you are!!!"

That, my friends, is exactly what a God Wink looks like---a blessing, that sometimes is a surprise wink of blessing both ways. (2 Corinthians 1: 3-4)......

....and in some unique way seems to have God's stamp on it!