Week 4 --- Romans 4:19-25

Abraham didn't focus on his own impotence and say, "It's hopeless. This
hundred-year-old body could never father a child." Nor did he survey Sarah's
decades of infertility and give up. He didn't tiptoe around God's promise asking
cautiously skeptical questions.

He plunged into the promise and came up strong,
ready for God, sure that God would make good on what he had said.

LOVE THIS! :)

Week 3 -- Psalm 107:7

He led them by a straight way to a city where they could settle.

Week 2 -- Luke 24:32

Luke 24:32

They asked each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us
while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?"

I've got to admit that I found this verse embroidered on a little picture frame thing at my aunt's house. I hadn't really thought of it standing on it's own before. But isn't it true!? I hope that we've all had times --- whether in worship, or a certain bible study, or a specific thing we were praying about where we can think back and say "were our hearts not burning?" and know that they really were. I can think of two times in the last year where God just brought me to my knees with the realization of how big and how real He is in my life.





I've been trying to think of my verse in terms of what's happening in my life in the current week. And the disaster in Haiti happened this week. I watch the news and hear the stories and just say directly to the Holy Spirit that "I need you to intercede for me on this one" --- where would we even start to pray?? I'm also trying to praise Him everytime I hear a story about a miraculous rescue or an impossible story that happened with the earthquake. 15 day old baby that was trapped alone for 48 hours??? Jesus that's YOU saving that child! In church this morning we sang "Saviour, You can move the mountains, My God is mighty to save" and prayed for the nation of Haiti while we worshipped. It was crazy powerful! Thank you Jesus for making your presence known!

Week 1 -- Isaiah 43:19

18 “But forget all that— it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. 19 For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.

I'm on a quest to find 52 verses this year. One per week. I'm hesitant to tell people that because I'm afraid I won't be able to do it. Or that I'll start strong and taper off as is a known weakness I have. But here goes nothing. This verse seems like a great place to start -- I feel like God has been working so powerfully and noticeably this past year and I don't want to lose that feeling of closeness. I also feel like its a challenge and a promise --- kind of like God smiling and saying "if you thought that was cool, wait til you see what I've got coming up" I want to be ready for that!

I'm also constantly looking for verses in scripture that define our "worth". When I was looking at this verse I found something earlier in the chapter that I think speaks to this in Isaiah 43:3-4

3 For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your
Savior. I gave Egypt as a ransom for your freedom; I gave Ethiopia
and Seba in your place. 4 Others were given in exchange for
you. I traded their lives for yours because you are precious to me. You are honored,and I love you.

Doesn't that just sum it up!? I traded His life for yours and I love you. How many of us need to hear that and repeat if back to ourselves constantly?