Revival in Raw Form

Original Post

This is actually a late entry. I have had this word in my spirit since about Sept 14th of this year. I had preached on it on a Wednesday a few weeks after God put it on my heart. I was going to put the recording on here for people to listen to, but I don't have time to figure out how to convert the format right this moment.

We were on our way to church actually I think it was earlier than the 14th, I know it was a Sunday so it had to have been the 7th. At any rate we were on our way to church that Sunday morning when God placed the following Word on my heart:

My child, there should be no cause for concern as you watch my plans unfold before you, only cause for excitement and gratitude. I tell you that I am responding to the cry of my children, I am working to bring about revival - I am answering the prayer to bring revival to this nation, to this world. I have said in my Word that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven. Those who have faith in me, those who seek me diligently will have refuge and this is cause for celebration.

I knew the general idea behind the parable of the rich man, so my first impression of what God was sharing was as God's children have been crying out to God for revival, and though things are looking tighter and more stressful God is answering the prayer for revival in the midst of all this chaos. The general idea I had of the 'rich man' parable was that he needed to have faith in God, not himself or his wealth, or in his ability to store up wealth. Now if you match up the concepts of what we are facing in the world today, and this principle found in the parable of the rich man, what God had placed in my spirit made perfect sense. We have faith (depend on ) our pay checks, our ability to fend for ourselves. We have faith in ( depend on ) our systems, our families our government programs. We allow ourselves to be comforted in a false security of "well.. I have such and such to fall back on". Is it wrong to use systems that were set up to help in times of trouble... not necessarily... I believe that there are times when God utilizes these things to provide for His children. But if we depend on them MORE than we depend on God, if we do not seek God FIRST on how we should proceed than we are on shaky ground. We must trust and depend on God alone, He should be our source of wisdom and guidance and through that He will provide and care for us faithfully.

*Thoughts written on Sept 15th 2008* : Perhaps God is allowing man created provisions to lack or deplete as a way to honor prayer for true revival... is it possible that God would allow our pocket books to be tight and for us to wonder where our next meal might come from? Absolutely. Those who fully rely on God are already aware of the fact that this should be no cause of concern as God is indeed Jehovah Jirah, God is our provider. In fact, it is a very exciting place to be, when we are down to raw faith. God is about ti do the spectacular things we have read about in the lives of those in the Bible! Can you see why I am excited yet?!?!?!

Why is it, honestly, that we have a tendency to equate natural wealth with spiritual wealth? Yes, it is truly exciting and a blessing when you have a bill that must be paid and 'suddenly' a check comes in the mail that covers it- Jehovah Jireh - God's provision in that way is remarkable, but it is not revival. When someone who has been paralyzed 30 years and hasn't walked in that time frame, when stage 4 fatal cancer suddenly disappears, when blind eyes see and deaf ears hear we experience Jehovah Rophe (God our healer) it's exciting, it's wonderful but IT IS NOT REVIVAL! Revival is when Nations are on their knees - desperately seeking God; not with empty words or prayers, not for His provision or protection but for His heart! Revival changes you in ways we can not comprehend, revival creates hunger that can not be satisfied - we must have more of Him at any cost. Revival upsets anything and everything so that we are brought to repentance - removing ALL that is not of Him and becoming closer to being the reflection of Him that we were originally created to be.

Hebrews 11:6 (The faith chapter) says "And without Faith is is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him"

Vs 3 By faith we understand that the universe was created at God's hand
Vs 4 By faith Abel...
Vs 5 By faith Enoch...
Vs 7 By faith Noah...
Vs 8 By Faith Abraham ...
Vs 11 By faith Abraham (&Sarah)...
Vs 17 By Faith Abraham (&Isaac)...
Vs 20 By faith Isaac...
Vs 22 By faith Joseph ...
Vs 23 By faith Moses' parents...
Vs 24 By faith Moses....
Vs 29 By Faith the people...
Vs 30 By faith Jericho's walls fell ...
Vs 31 By Faith the prostitute Rahab...

32 And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell you about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel and the prophets 33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions 34 quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword. Whose weakness was turned into strength and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. 35Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection. 36Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. 37They were stoned; they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— 38the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground. 39These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. 40God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

I know what we face in our lives, not just as a country, but what we are about to face in our individual lives as well can be incredibly disconcerting, and frustrating and downright scary... but we are called to be a peculiar people... when everything crumbles... THAT is the time to be the MOST excited because God is about to bring something amazing! (When I wrote that .. little did I know what the next days would bring!)

1 Peter 2:9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light;

Peculiar is to be unusual, strange, instinctive in nature or character from others, belonging characteristically, belonging exclusively, a property or privilege belonging exclusively or characteristically.

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There is more... but I will stop for now. I am telling you that I am finally realizing the work that God has been doing in my heart and my life. You may see a 'different' Kizzie posting in the next little while. I am finally coming to realize that I need to just be who God has called me to be and that should be without repentance... and so as I continue to learn and Grow and stretch ... my passion for God and for His truth and love will increase. I am so excited to watch the events unfold in our world today.... God is going to do something amazing unlike anything we have ever seen before! These are dangerous and very exciting times!!!!!!

WOO I am so fired up!

Perfected.... Not Punished

If you were asked which Bible character you most identified with at this point in time in your life, what would your answer be and why?

I know that there are several great examples that we could apply to our lives, but right now with everything we are facing in life and in ministry ... I feel like at this moment I can identify with Sarah (formerly Sarai).

During our Sunday School classes we have been learning all the lessons surrounding Abraham (formerly Abram) and Sarah. We had began with their amazing journey of faith to an unknown land just simply trusting in and following God's lead. This past week we were discussing how God surprises us in tough situations. My lesson was using Sarah and the promise of her son as an example. I had asked the kids "Why do you think Sarah laughed" and they gave me the per usual answers all revolving around the basic answer of "disbelief". Well God used one 12 year old to really speak to me when she responded with "Maybe part of the reason she laughed was to cover up fear."

And then that's when it hit me that right now ... I can most identify with Sarah. This couple and their faith up to this point is already amazing. They trusted God and did as instructed. When Sarah was about 65ish God promised Abraham that he would be the father of nations. Though she was already up in years they took on this promise with joy and excitement. Ten years went by and Sarah was still barren. So at this point, they take matters into their own hand. She tells hubby to sleep with her servant, Hagar, to bring forth the promise. All the while telling herself that this is the way it must be done. Once the deed is done she regrets it. Ishmael is born approximately a year later. Then 14 years later (Abraham was 99) they get some visitors. Angels of the Lord telling Abraham that the time has come for the promise and that they would have a son a year later. Sarah overhears this conversation and laughs. They confront her as to why she laughs.. she lies and they tell her as such. They named Him Isaac because God brought her laughter... disbelief turning into joy.

This Story is found beginning Genesis chapter 12 to about the 18th chapter. There are so many interesting points about this story, but right now let me share what I identify with. Here Sarah is with a promise, that in the beginning she holds on to. As time goes on her hope seems to grow less and less. She, at one point, gets tired of waiting for it to happen so she takes things into her own hands... and by the time she realizes her mistake the damage is already done, Ishmael is born. When she is 89 years old God tells her husband that she will give birth to that promised son in one year. She laughs. At this point, can we as humans blame her? Even they say it themselves... look at their age... it's impossible. And, as that 12 year old pointed out, perhaps in the midst of the disbelief she laughed out of fear. Perhaps she laughed not only in disbelief but out of hurt and hopelessness. Perhaps a thought on her mind was "I've waited for so long, I've hoped this long, I've already messed up things with Hagar, do I dare to hold on to hope again that this will come to pass?"

I identify with this at this point in my life, because so many promises I have been given by God for my life and the ministry I've been called to. I know God has called hubby and I for big things, I know God has something big in mind for our church. I know all the wonderful promises God has for our lives. And just like Sarah I had embraced them with passion and enthusiasm. And after waiting... and waiting.... I have even a time or two tried to make the promises come to pass by my own means... and of course it didn't pan out LOL. I am now at the point where I want to ask "do I dare continue hoping?"

God is so full of Grace and mercy and PATIENCE isn't He? Sarah laughed in disbelief, in hurt and fear... but even despite her being so weary God lovingly confronted the issue. (Genesis 18:13 Then the LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Will I really have a child, now that I am old?' 14 Is anything too hard for the LORD ? I will return to you at the appointed time next year and Sarah will have a son." 15 Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, "I did not laugh." But he said, "Yes, you did laugh.") God confronted the issue of disbelief, the issue of hurt and hopelessness and in doing so she was able to hold on to the promise once again.

There was a glimmer of hope restored to her.

Genesis 21:1 Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised.

I am in tears with this realization. I have been feeling so weary. And honestly I have been afraid. Things are getting thick spiritually and physically. I find myself asking more frequently "God when? God how?" And yet God is gracious to me by using a 12 year old in my class to point me to a new thought I hadn't yet considered. God is restoring my hope. He is turning my laughter of disbelief and given up on hope into laughter of joy and continued hope.

Luke 1:37 ...For nothing is impossible with God."

My hope is being restored, and I pray that as you read this and consider the promise of God in your life, that your hope in the impossible will be restored. God always comes through... no matter how bad things look.

Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.

James 1:4 Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

I am being perfected, not punished. And so with that in mind I will dare to hope, dare to believe that though I can not tell the time when it will come to pass.. I know that it WILL.

To Begin Again...

It turned out to be a beautiful day, actually. It was somewhere in the mid-to-high 70s. The sky was a beautiful clear blue... not a cloud around.

With my children tucked in for a late afternoon nap, I took a step out on to my driveway out front to look, once again, at the house that was consumed by flames so much earlier that morning. This was a moment of time that has become imprinted on our memories for a lifetime. Our normally quiet street has maintained a steady flow of various visitors from police, to fire dept, to inspectors, to news crew and to many curious observers. There was such devastation in a short period of time. Although a good neighbor had called the moment they smelled and saw smoke, the fire had gone undetected long enough to consume everything completely. If you stood in front of the house (before they bordered it up and condemned the home) you could see right through to the back yard and into every part that once had been a carefully decorated room.

A clip on lamp had been left on, from what I understand, in one of the children's rooms. To it's own demise, the clip had released it's fateful grip, landed on the linens and the rest of the story writes itself. No one was home, thankfully, when this happened. Everyone was on their way to work and where they needed to be to be ready for the day.

My heart filled with compassion and my eyes with tears as I quietly observe from my driveway, the family standing there out in front of the scene silently looking at their home... at the place that had been their haven where they would rest their heads and share their meals. What consumes their thoughts in these moments I wonder. Perhaps a mental list of things lost... or perhaps considering things that had been left undone that they had planned on getting to when they arrived home from a hard day's work. Maybe they were remembering all the memories that this home held... the sorrow and the joy alike. They could have been thinking nothing at all just staring in disbelief wanting to wake up from this horrible dream.

This Family had lost a husband/Father/Grandfather not too long ago.. maybe a year at most. I remember praying for them that day, too. Praying for them to begin again and trust their sorrowful hearts to God the Father. We prayed for them then, and we pray for them now.. to begin yet again.

There had been nothing left to claim, the fire had already made it's selection. In circumstances such as these how easy it is to say "God where are you!?!" Job 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job [Cynthia and her family] out of the storm.

In the home everything was black, burned and destroyed. Some of the charred items were recognizable, you could tell what they once were... others there was no indication of what they might have been. You could scan from room to room, seeing one black thing after another. And finally... when you came to the garage it was spotted. A metal shelving unit had melted under the intense pressure and heat of the fire... everything that shelf once held was burned to ashes.. everything but a very colorful picture.

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words... and this spoke to my heart today. It's a picture from a bible that had belonged to the Husband/Father/Grandfather that had passed away. The cover of the Bible had burned away, leaving this picture entitled "The Good Shepherd" almost completely intact. ...."Then the Lord answered out of the storm..." God is in the midst of our storms, all of them. He tells us in His Word that not even a fallen sparrow goes beyond His notice. He numbers the hair on our heads and knows the fullness of our hearts.


Psalm 107:28-30
28 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,
and he brought them out of their distress.
29 He stilled the storm to a whisper;
the waves of the sea were hushed.
30 They were glad when it grew calm,
and he guided them to their desired haven.

He can still our storms to a whisper and hush the waves on our behalf. God will make a way when there seems to be no way... and in the meantime we must hold on to Him for our strength and our comfort. When the reporters asked this beautiful woman what she would do next, she replied with "I don't know" but I hear the heart of God saying "My child, you will begin again, but you will not do it alone"

Perhaps, through this reflection God is telling you the same thing. You may ask "God where are you" - He is with you in the midst of the storm in the heat of the fire. You may wonder what will you do, how can you go on... you need to know that you can begin again, you can move forward with confidence, knowing that you will not do it alone. God tells us in Corinthians that His grace is sufficient, and it really is, when you bathe in the sufficiency of His grace.

Thank you Jesus, for your mercy and your care. Lord I thank you that this family of four is still here to testify of your mercy and grace. Thank you for the protection on their lives, and Lord we just now believe for provision for them. Place people into their lives to provide for everything they have lost, and cause them to be blessed as well as those who are obedient to help to be blessed. Thank you for the message you have for us through this storm, and let the love penetrate this family's heart so they know that you truly do answer from the midst of the storm. Cause this storm to fade to a whisper and be but a memory. We love you Father. In Jesus name, amen.

One Rock At A Time

I wasn't going to tell anyone about this, because it was an intimate moment and it was a weak moment. I do not typically share my week moments with everyone but a handful of people I can be vulnerable with. But this moment came with such an encouraging dream.. it was a desperate prayer with an answer that I feel may encourage some of you out there as well.

I've had four migraines in about 3 or 4 days... they were bad enough to make me sick to my stomach. I have been over tired and so busy I had forgotten to eat... not a good combination. I have had lots of things on my mind and haven't been able to sleep well. Life can really pack a punch when it wants to.

Yesterday I went to go to the new Target in our area just to look around and be by myself as I hadn't had that opportunity in a while. But when I got to the parking lot I couldn't hold it in any more. I began to cry. Not just a little cry it was from my heart being so heavy. I cried so hard that it brought on another headache. I ranted and raved at God demanding to know where He was, I was so tired emotionally. I cried out to God in desperation, needing these heavy burdens lifted from my heart and from my shoulders and I finally told God defiantly "I GIVE UP". I had decided in that moment that I was going to bottle my emotions and not let anyone know what I was feeling inside. I could play it off as a head ache when anyone saw my eyes.

Sounds pretty pity party-ish doesn't it? Yeah.. I can have a good party at times, and this was a good one.

I told God how I was feeling, and how alone in this struggle I felt. I told God that I was scared and so confused. I told God that if it wasn't one thing to walk through it was another, it would seem that the battles have gotten closer these days. I wanted to be strong, but I didn't have it in me any more.

Someone asked me this morning how this could happen when I was so encouraged just a few days before. And my only answer to that is that I was encouraged... but the enemy caught me on a low and used something to bring me down in a hurry, and I didn't resist. Remember the Bible tells us to resist the devil and he will flee from us. This includes resisting temptation to giving in to emotions and despair when we know that is not for a child of God. I was foolish to trade in my faith for my emotions, something I had confidently blogged about not too long ago. We humans can be so fickle at times can't we?

I had a good cry, wiped my tears and looked into my eyes.. that hope was definitely very faded. I took a deep breath and headed into Target. I didn't feel much like looking around so I ended up just getting a few things I had been needing and I headed home to sleep off the headache. I made supper for my beautiful family and realized I needed something from Walmart.. so I headed out again, looked around a little and came home, had a snack and went to bed. This morning I woke up and when I saw my eyes again you could tell I had been in battle. I was still on pity party mode so I went to church... did our thing ( I was in children's church we had a lot of fun it cheered me a little and it was good to know that the main service was good also ). I came home and took a nap.

I had a dream that answered my desperate question to God in a Target parking lot.

I was picking up rocks.. barely small enough for me to lift. I needed to get them into a truck so they could be hauled away. It was all labor I had to do by hand. So I picked up one rock at a time, struggling to get each one in there. I had come to the end of the pile and that last rock I could not move it. I was exhausted. There was no time to rest I had to move the rock or my entire effort would have been pointless. I tried everything but could not do it, I slumped beside the rock and cried just as I did in the parking lot. "God I can't do this, I've failed". Then all of a sudden I felt a hand nudge me and it picked up the rock as though it were a mere pebble and it tossed it onto the pile. I could feel something smiling at me with such tenderness.

I woke up from the dream and know what God was saying to me. I need to keep going, keep persevering. I am not in this alone, and when it comes to something that I am not capable of doing, He is there to set things right for me. I realized then that when I demanded to know where God was.. He was right there with me... I was too busy looking in other directions. I was not piling all those rocks by myself, He was taking care of the bigger ones I could not have possibly moved. And when He moved those, He came back to move the one I had given up on.

I had a friend remind me today, that I have gotten through one more day, one more battle. That is all we can do is take things one piece at a time, one rock at a time. Faith can move mountains... even if it is just one rock at a time.

So here's to moving mountains, even if it is one rock at a time!

Oh ... and that hope is back in my eyes... they are still very tired but it's there! God is my hope and my salvation... on Him I can truly depend.

absolute trust

I was reading around again when a question pulled at my heart. What, do you think, makes someone so completely resistant to hearing about God or the Word of God? What causes people to turn away from the truth? I know a few people who have been around Christianity all their lives... they know what the Bible says and yet the truth can not pierce their hearts because they refuse. It makes me wonder how they came to the conclusion that God is not what He claims to be and any mention of His name they become either incredibly defensive and argumentative or shut you out completely.

Perhaps Jill Austin hits the nail right on the head when she wrote "In the Western church today, "intimacy with Jesus" has become a sweet and oft-heard phrase echoing in church halls as believers quote from Philippians 3:10: "That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection … " but they don’t finish the verse: "… and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death." This irony is a powerful revelation – that intimacy comes through suffering! That is why Holy Spirit chose to use Paul not only to pen these words, but also to demonstrate them through his own life of suffering for the gospel.The Western church has developed a pacifying theology of telling herself that suffering is not the will of God, but that it is Satan having his way in the life of a believer. Accusations rise up in our hearts against a sovereign God’s inability to alleviate pain and suffering in our lives, preventing us from embracing the Cross."

My life isn't perfect by any means. I have my own struggles and trials. Things that make me sad, tired, hurt or angry... it's all part of the course of life. God adds purpose and direction to my life, a goal to work towards. God adds meaning and joy to my life, support to get through the times that are rough. Without God, I would be living only to die, no hope, no purpose no plan. Even if I were to "seize the moment and live it up" I would still... only be living to die. Even if I felt I was here to make a difference in this world, what a wonderful thought isn't it... but without God I would still only be living just to die.

Eccl 7:14
When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one
as well as the other. Therefore, a man cannot discover anything about his future. NIV

God promised us to be a help in times of trouble, that He would carry us through it... no where have I read where He removes every challenge in your life completely. God tells us in His word to praise Him in the good times and in the rough spots. There have been so many times in my life that I honestly can not tell you how I would have gotten through them without God. I don't always understand the way things pan out, and there are times when people ask me questions of why that I can not answer... but that's where trust comes in to play. God tells us in Jeremiah that He has plans for us, and they are not to harm or hurt us... so when we are facing something that we can not understand we just need to look to God for our direction. He also tells us in His word that the steps of a righteous man are ordered of God... meaning we need to trust Him for every move we make. Some may consider this 'blind faith' and in a sense it is but it isn't. I trust without knowing every little detail... but it's not completely blind because I know my destination. This is not foolish when you know the person you put your trust in. When we write up our wills and set out guardians for our children should we pass away untimely.. we carefully select people that we would feel would raise our kids with all the love and support that we provide them with.. we choose people whom we know well and trust well to make decisions on our behalf. So if this trust is possible among humans, then it is possible to Trust God in the same manner with our own lives... the difference being that God would never misplace that trust, it is a sure thing.

Anyway... this is what I have been thinking on today --- be blessed.

Kizzie

Beware of the three year old... she packs a punch!



So hubby has somehow managed in his 37 years of life to not get a black eye... and he gets his very first black eye from our three year old ROFL



Perhaps this means I don't have to worry about boys mistreating her? heheheheheheheh

They were playing and I think she accidentally bumped her head into his eye. It really looks worse in person, the camera would not do it justice ROFL!

So anyway be nice to me... or I'll sick my 3 yr old on you!

Faith Not Feeling

Thetus Tenney writes: " An important lesson I learned rather reluctantly is that the effect of the Word is not dependent on me or how I feel. What you know and how you feel are often two very different things. Remember that feeling will always follow fact -- if you don't allow feelings to be the leader. This is why you speak the Word by faith."

I remember when I was younger, I would struggle with feelings of fear that God had left me -- or when I felt so dry spiritually that I would crack any moment, and it would really discourage me. I can remember though, my dad would encourage me to press on in faith rather than feeling -- to hold on to the truth no matter what my feelings were trying to say (that was contrary to the Word of God). Reading Thetus Tenney's words were a welcome reminder of that encouragement.

Sometimes we face circumstances in our lives that feel as though they may crush every fiber of our being. We grow faint and weary and sometimes it takes everything we have to move forward. I often feel it in my emotions, in my spirit and even physically. These past few months have been intense, often feeling like I am on one giant roller coaster ride with it's ups and downs, sudden turns and full of surprises, welcome and unwelcome alike. A few weeks ago I finally admitted to my husband that I had been feeling weary and worn out. My shoulders have been so knotted up that I wonder if I can even remember what it feels like to be relaxed. I share this to be empathetic, to share that I understand the stress that life is often traced with... but I also want to share what God has been saying in my spirit. Even in the midst of facing trials and tribulations, even in the midst of feeling weary and tired the Truth of the Word keeps me moving forward. It might sometimes look and feel dark and hopeless, but God said that it's not. Where there seems no way God will make a way. When I feel down I love to encourage myself in the Word... and when I feel like I can not do it myself I have wonderful friends who encourage me with the Word, remind me of what it says... even when sometimes I don't want to hear it ( we tend to like to wallow... Sweetblessings had a good word on that one).

John 8:32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." NIV

When you KNOW the truth it will set you free... just knowing what the Word of God says can not only set you free of your circumstances, not only set you free from being slaves to sin and messing up... but it can even set you free from those 'feelings' which hold you down and discouraged, those feelings which can have you in bondage and work it's way into your heart pushing for you to give up.

I am beginning to feel pumped up and revived as I type as I share this revelation that is coming to my heart. You want to feel encouraged, walk in faith. You want to be encouraged, speak the truth with faith. You want to catch a vision that will propel you forward and past your circumstances, stand on the word of God in faith and do not let anything deter you from what you know to be truth.

Rom 5:1-2
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. NIV

We have been justified through faith, not feeling. We gain access to God through faith, not feeling. And it even says in this verse, when we stand on faith, then the peace (the feeling) comes! How exciting! What a burden lifted from my shoulders! Even when I feel like I am wandering around in the dark, even when I feel tired and weary, if I stop and stand on God's word, if I speak it to my circumstances, to my heart and go with what I know rather then what I feel not only will God take care of my circumstances but I can have peace about them in the meantime! That peace that passes all understanding is acquired by faith!

God, Thank you so much for your word for me tonight. I am so encouraged to know that despite what I may feel, I know what the truth is and I can bank on that, I can stand on that with full confidence that you will work things out. Thank you God that by standing on the truth in faith I can have that peace that passes all understanding. Help me to hold on to this revelation, and bring it into people's lives who need this encouragement. I thank you for it Father, In Jesus name, Amen