Lord, can I stay here forever?

Five Minute Friday {stay}

Start:

It's a happy morning! The smell of hazelnut coffee fills the house. Laughter is heard coming for the kitchen while the kids eat their breakfast. Daddy is in his office downstairs and the kids know it and are eager to go tell him "good morning!!" Breakfast is over the kitchen is cleaned and I sit at the table in the dining room watching my little play together! Elias is teaching the twins how to put the letters in a new alphabet puzzle...they just want to force them in like most toddlers do! The morning is filled with "mommy I love you!!" "let's play together" "it is time for math?!" {he loves math}
I look at them and I am filled with so my joy I almost can't handle it. These little people are my children!! The Lord gave these little to me! In that very moment my husband walk up the steps...his hair is a mess, he is in his pajamas, and desperately needs another cup of coffee...but...I feel butterflies in my stomach, the kind I felt on our first date, or when we got married, or countless times since we met! I'm so in love with him! My life is full of blessings! I'm a very blessed wife and mommy! I'm filled with love, joy and a lovely sence of peace! I close my eyes tight, eyelashes damp with tears of joy..."Lord, can I stay I this moment forever?!" is my prayer. I know that at some point the arguing and fighting will start, someone will hurt someone else's feelings, he'll have to go back down to the office. But right now is this very moment...deep breath...I want to stay here forever.

Stop

A Little Encouragement!

Encouragement...Just what I needed today!

"Let My love enfold you in the radiance of My Glory. Sit still in the Light of My Presence, and receive My Peace. These quiet moments with Me transcend time, accomplishing far more than you can imagine. Bring Me the sacrifice of your time, and watch and see how abundantly I bless you and your loved ones.


Through the intimacy of our relationship, you are being transformed from the inside out. As you keep your focus on Me, I form you into the one I desire you to be. Your part is to yield to My creative work in you, neither resisting in nor trying to speed it up. Enjoy the tempo of a God - breathed life by letting Me set the pace. Hold My hand in childlike trust, and the way before you will open up step by step."

- 40 Days with Jesus

Celebrating His Presence By Sarah Young

And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory,

are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory,

which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

- 2 Corinthians 3:18

Yet I am always with you;

you hold me by my right hand.

You guide me with your counsel,

and afterward you will take me into glory.

-Psalm 73:23-24

The Gabby Mom's - March Mission: Super Shots

THE GABBY MOM'S

We Gab * We Giggle * We Glitter

Super Shots Review


SUPER SHOTS...what pop into your mind?

Honestly my first reaction was the thought of those energy drink in the tiny little Barbie size bottles.

When I heard I would be doing a review on Super Shots for this month's Gabby Moms mission, I have to admit I was very curious!

But still what is Super Shots?

Super Shots are actually something amazing and oh so useful!

The Encouraging Mom Super Shots is a huge dose of well...encouragement, tips, ideas, and God's Love! I guess they are like little energy drinks…but for your heart, mind and relationships!

The new program:

The Encouraging Mom is a new membership program from Eternal Encouragement that offers a monthly Super Shot - each month’s Super Shot has a theme and contains four products in a number of formats (eBooks, audio downloads and Chick Flicks). Each product is guaranteed to be New and Fresh and it's only $7.97 per month for 4 total products a month!

This new program is coming soon at EternalEncouragment.com

I was so excited to get review Super Shots: Whinning - Winning the Whinning War!

I just want to give a little summery...

A few years ago I would have never thought I needed this...but...now at 6, I SO do! My Son has started using whinning to get his way in all aspects. It DRIVES ME CRAZY! Whinning to me is worse than Cars with Bass, Squealing Breaks, Nails on a Chalk Board and Neighbors that have parties in the Middle of the night all rolled into one.

The Tips that are jam packed in to this Super Shot are wonderful! Lorrie knew exactly what she was talking about! After just a few days using Lorrie's tips the Whinning had nearly stopped! My Husband couldn't wait to read this Super Shot as well! Now, we have this happy little face...

...Mommy and Daddy are happy too!!!

waiting, waiting, waiting...a little stressed...I will seek the LORD, great  is HIS faithfulness!

Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him.” -Lamentations 3:22-24

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." -John 14:27

"No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us." -Romans 8:37

"Your word is a lamp for my feet,

a light on my path." -Psalm 119:105

"The LORD has done it this very day;
let us rejoice today and be glad." -Psalm 118:24

"How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!
People take refuge in the shadow of your wings." -Psalm 36:7

"Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful." -Colossians 3:15

"Do everything in love." -1 Corinthians 16:14

"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ," -Romans 5:1

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:38-39

The Word...

"Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." John 4:13-14

♫♪The Beauty of Simplicity♫♪

by Telecast

♫♪It's the beauty of simplicity
that brings me down to my knees
I'll praise You for eternity
and lord I love You
Because You
You first loved me

♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪

It's the beauty of simplicity
that fills me with eternity
I've tasted Your divinity
and, Lord, I love You
Because You
You first loved me

♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪

And all God's people say:
We, we love You
we love You, Lord
we love You
And we, we love You
we love you, Lord
we love You
We love You

♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪

It's the beauty of simplicity
that brings me down to my knees
I'll praise You for eternity
and, Lord, I love You
Because You
You first loved me

♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪

You gave Yourself away
just that I could stay
You took my place in death
and rose that I could say
That You are Holy
and You alone deserve my praise

♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪

And all God's people say:
We, we love You
we love You, Lord
we love You
And we, we love You
we love you, Lord
we love You
We love You ♫♪

But the fruit of the Spirit is love,

joy, peace, patience, kindness,

goodness, faithfulness, gentleness

and self-control.

Galatians 5:22-23

I will carry you...

Over the last few week there have been many tragedies, our family has be touched by, I have found such peace in the words of Amy Grant's song "Carry you"

(´*•.¸♥¸.•*´)¸.•*´ ♥•.*Carry You*.•♥ ¸.•*´(¸.•*´♥´*•.¸)

Amy Grant

Lay down your burden, I will carry you
I will carry you, my child, my child
Lay down your burden, I will carry you
I will carry you, my child, my child

If I can walk on water
And calm a restless sea
I've done a thousand things you've never done

And I'm weary watchin'
While you struggle on your own
Call my name, I'll come

Lay down your burden, I will carry you
I will carry you, my child, my child
Lay down your burden, I will carry you
I will carry you, my child, my child

I give vision to the blind
And I can raise the dead
I've seen the darker side of Hell
And I returned
And I see those sleepless nights
And I count every tear you cry
I know some lessons hurt to learn

Lay down your burden, I will carry you
I will carry you, my child, my child
Lay down your burden, I will carry you
I will carry carry, my child, my child

(´*•.¸♥¸.•*´)¸.•*´ ♥•.*Such comfort in these words*.•♥ ¸.•*´(¸.•*´♥´*•.¸)

I will sing of the LORD forever...

Psalm 89:1

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"Let everything that has breath
praise the LORD!"

Psalm 150:6

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But now that you have been set free from

sin and have become slaves to God,

the benefit you reap leads to holiness,

and the result is eternal life.

For the wages of sin is death,

but the gift of God is eternal

life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:22-23

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I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."

Romans 1:16-17

Good Friday

Celebrating our Savior!

Good Friday

The nails in your hands
The nail in your feet,
they tell me how much you love me
The thorns in your brow,
they tell me how, you bore so much pain to love me.


And when the heavens pass away,
all your scars will still remain,
and forever they will say,
how much you love me.
Forever my love, Forever my heart
Forever my life, it's yours, it's yours.

Now as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside and said to them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!"

Matthew 20:17-19

Thank You Jesus!

Blessed Assurance

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God, born of his Spirit, washed in his blood.

This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long; this is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long.

Perfect submission, perfect delight, visions of rapture now burst on my sight; angels descending bring from above echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long; this is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long.

Perfect submission, all is at rest; I in my Savior am happy and blest, watching and waiting, looking above, filled with his goodness, lost in his love.

This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long; this is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long.

"Then he said: 'The God of our fathers has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth. You will be his witness to all men of what you have seen and heard. And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name."

Acts 22:14-16 (NIV)