Tuesday, May 24, 2011

God Is Still Writing Love Stories

This testimony on God coming through for the lady in waiting makes me so mushy as I think on how faithful He is. Read Nneka's testimony on her experience as she waited on our romantic Father for her Boaz...


My testimony was inspired during the last testimony service in 2007 at The Carpenter’s Church (TCC). I recall a truly beautiful testimony service as one by one, the testifiers told us of how God performed one miracle and the other in their lives.
 
As the service drew to an end, I looked around the auditorium at the faces of God’s people rejoicing with others even when it was obvious that they all had one thing or the other they were also trusting and waiting on God for. I especially noticed the faces of certain sisters – not too many of them, but still very conspicuous. They were faces of faithful single women who truly love the Lord and are committed to His work. These were lovely ladies who have prepared themselves and are ripe and ready for their BOAZ and yet are wondering if he will ever come.
 
I recognized them so easily and could read their thoughts and prayers because those thoughts and prayers were mine...Read on HERE

Thursday, May 12, 2011

A Full Term Journey

As soon as we saw the double red lines, we were filled with joy. Finally God had answered our prayers and I was pregnant. We began making plans. We gave her a name. We prepared her room. We spoke about who she would look like. We talked about her life and made positive declarations concerning her future. She was real to us. Alas some weeks into the end of the 1st trimester, the doctor announced that there was a problem. Our baby did not have a heartbeat. That was how she did not end up being full term...[Read on HERE]

Thursday, May 5, 2011

The Name Changer

As Jesus awaited the return of the two disciples sent ahead into Jerusalem to bring a colt, the crowd that followed Him broke into small groups. Some sat down and started some chitchats. A teenager, who joined the crowd after Jesus left Jericho, spoke concerning a familiar face he saw in the group he was in.

“I think I know you from somewhere,” he told the man whose face looked familiar. He paused for a moment as he tried to recall where he could have seen the face. Something came to his mind but he was not sure. “Are you not one of the poor beggars my father and I saw at the side of the road every time we passed Jericho?” Then he stuttered “Are you not blind…”

Read on HERE...

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

You Are Gold On The Inside: Guest Post By Le Dynamique Professeur

It is no surprise why the  blog “Le Dynamique Professeur” was awarded the Most Inspiring Blog in 2010. In this guest post “You Are Gold On The Inside” read and be INSPIRED…

In the mid-twentieth century, in Bangkok, Thailand, the government wanted to build a large highway through a village. Yet in the path of the planned road was a Buddhist monastery with a little chapel, so they had to relocate the monastery – including a heavy, eleven-foot clay statue of buddha – to another place. Using a crane, the government workers moved the monastery in sections..READ ON HERE...

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Counting The Costs: Guest Post By Beauty and Spice

Like all posts on Beauty and Spice, I am reminded to go back to the drawing board and count the cost of the relationship I am building with my Father...and continue building. Thank you Beauty and Spice for this inspiring post...

I wasn’t born into love. Growing up I was never surrounded by love. I never knew what it meant to be loved. We never talked like a family, didn’t act like one and never ate like one. My parents were total strangers to each other, my father was violent (a classic wife beater), abusive and absent. I have been wounded and broken by my father and for the twenty seven years of my presence here on earth, my dad and I have barely had a decent conversation...Read on HERE...

Monday, April 18, 2011

Waiting On The Master List

Guest Post by Maid of Heart (Blog Author of Histiara and Faith Dames).

When I was single, like any young woman waiting on the Lord and wanting the best for herself, I wrote down a list of seven things I wanted in a husband. I must confess that I included the ‘Tall, dark and handsome’ title to my list. Who wouldn’t want a man who could make you swoon?

But the day I was studying the life of Abraham and how he sacrificed the most precious thing to him back to God, I thought about my life and wondered if there was anything I was still holding back from God, something precious to me...

Read on HERE...

Monday, March 21, 2011

Mr. Rita's Babe

I watch as they share special moments alone together, looking each other in the eye lovingly and whispering sweet nothings no one else can understand. When she lays on his chest, nothing in the world seems to matter. There is no doubt that there is a special love and bond between them. My Mr. Rita has a babe - she is ........