Please Pray

By the way, just wanted to ask for y'all's prayers for my friends, the M family. My aunt, uncle, and 'sisters' in Idaho, remember Danny and Dianne?? They had a house fire on Wednesday night, damaging their living room pretty bad and blackening the kitchen as well. They lost two of their three Chihuahuas to the fire, and they aren't sure yet whether the third is going to make it. Please pray for them, they are hurting right now. They're staying with their aunt, and Danny says that God has really given them a peace, they are doing much better, and they can still find things to be grateful for -- like that none of them were hurt, including my uncle who ran into the house trying to put the fire out and save the dogs. Again, please just lift them up, as they're hurting and grieving for their dogs. God is still good, He is still in control!

EDITED TO ADD: The third Chihuahua died this morning. They are really hurting... Please keep them in prayer!

Thanksgiving Musings -- Yahweh's Gift

The other day I was watching the Gaither Israel Homecoming video, and one verse of one song really struck me. The song was "I Have Returned To the Faith of My Father," and the verse is the one which Mike Allen sings so beautifully:

"I have returned to the Yahweh of Judah
On my knees I did fall where the wall now stands
This lesson I’ve learned as I’ve worked my way homeward
The Savior of All is a Comfort to Man."

The rest of the song is excellent also, but this one verse stuck in my mind, repeating over and over like a broken record. I couldn’t remember the words to any of the other verses or even the chorus, but this one verse stayed in my mind all day until finally in the evening I began to think about the meaning of these words…and only then did it truly hit me what a marvelous gift Jehovah has given us.

Have you ever really thought about the fact that we are now adopted sons and daughters of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? The same God that Adam walked with, Joseph served, Moses talked with, David obeyed… The One whom Daniel stayed true to, Ruth converted to, Esther believed… The One whom Anna and Simeon recognized, John the Baptist preached, the disciples followed… The One whom the people saw crucified, then risen to life! The One whom Stephen saw as he was being stoned; the One whom Paul saw on the road to Damascus; the One whom John saw as Lord and King of the new heaven and new earth. This is the One – this is the Yahweh – that has taken us, dogs of Gentiles, the wild olive branches, and grafted us into the cultivated tree of His chosen people.

Of course I’ve always read verses like Romans 11:13-28, but I never really stopped to ponder it much. This is an amazing – and, I might add, completely and totally undeserved – gift of our Father. Do you realize that as adopted children, we now share the same Father as our Jewish brothers and sisters? They are the biological children, as His originally chosen people, but when they rejected Christ, salvation was opened up to us in this truly miraculous and amazing way.

Which brings me to something else I’ve been meaning to say. I mentioned this in one of the first posts I ever made, but I haven’t discussed it in quite a while now.

The title of my blog is Daddy’s Girl, and the description is I’m a child of my loving earthly father, and of my loving Heavenly Father. Now I know this isn’t exactly original with me, but I really appreciate a constant reminder that God is my Father. Matter of fact, He isn’t just my Father, He’s my Daddy – the literal meaning of Abba! That means I can go to Him anytime with anything, He’s always willing to listen, He’s always loving, never too busy. Think about that – the Yahweh Jehovah, whose Name is so holy that no Hebrew would ever pronounce It, that every scribe would have to perform ritual purification washings before writing It, He is now our Daddy, who wants us to talk with Him, walk with Him, trust in Him, be guided by Him, and spend all of eternity with Him.

’El ‘Elyon (Most High God)
’El Shaddai (God of Might)
’El ‘Olam (Yahweh, I AM, the Eternal God)
Yahweh-jireh (the LORD who provides)
Yahweh-rohi (the LORD Our Shepherd )
’El-Roi (the God Who Sees)
Yawheh-rapha (the LORD is our Healer )
Yahweh-Shammah (The LORD is Here)
Yahweh-Shalom (The LORD is Peace)

Now if you ask me, that’s something to be thankful for.

Happy Thanksgiving! :)

I'm Back!! :)

Hey everybody -- I'm back on WOOOHOOOO!!! Our modem seems to be doing fine, we've got the router hooked back up and everything. Best we can figure out, Skeeter-cat had been chewing on the internet cable, which basically disconnected it (it was chewed through in several spots -- we had to splice it in a couple places), and confused our modem. Needless to say, the cable is now stapled to the wall high above her!! :D

So anyway, now that I'm back, I get to do the usual fun catching-up. Problem is, I'm going out of town in a day or two, so I won't be able to do my usual catch-up post until next week. By then I'll have some other news too, so stay tune -- you don't want to miss it! :)

Hope all of you are well. Thanks so much for all the kind comments while I was gone!!!

I'm thankful for:

1. My dad who knows how to do things with computers and cables! :)

2. All my bloggie friends who missed me and left kind comments to tell me! :)

Still Having Problems

Thanks Morgan, our modem was having issues, I don't know when I'll be connected again, so sorry everybody... I probably won't be on for another week or so... We think we may have found and fixed the problem, so I should be able to connect pretty soon... Meantime, we'll all be praying for God's will for the elections!

I'm grateful for:

1. That the Lord is in control of everything, including the elections
2. That I have friends like Morgan who are willing to do that for me! :)

Talk to everybody soon! :)