Oceans in the Desert

Originally posted on Raw Fruit: I usually love morning. It is a time of fresh hope, a new day, a new start. But there are days.        Sometimes, I wake in the morning, and must fight off a howling pack of barbarous fears. Thoughts, impressions, memories–a roaring cacophony of  angry voices–fill my head the moment I…

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life]. Proverbs 18:21 We sure do a lot of talking!  If we are not speaking words, we are thinking words.  We use words to share our hearts, to give opinions,…

My beloved speaks and says to me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.   For, behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.  The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing [of birds] has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our…

“Where did that come from?”  Tonight I was taking a few moments to read something that my husband had written  when I saw a message online that had come from someone who had deeply hurt me last year.  I had been in a very tender place due to the death of my father and this…

Last night I woke up  at 1:45 a.m. and knew that the Lord wanted to speak a promise to me as I looked at the time; it is out of Luke 1:45, Luke 1:45 Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!” Back in November the Lord spoke…

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.  Ephesians 2:8-9 Grace…this is the greatest gift ever given to mankind.  We are saved by grace and then live in it for during every…

Psalm 27:4 One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek, inquire for, and [insistently] require: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord [in His presence] all the days of my life, to behold and gaze upon the beauty [the sweet attractiveness and the delightful loveliness] of the Lord and to meditate, consider, and inquire in His…

Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall in any wise hurt you. Luke 10:19 God has given us both power and authority!  We know that God has power and authority but I think that we often forget that He has…