Friday, January 6, 2017

Blessed

Reflecting back on 2016 and looking at my prayer journal at all the answered prayers and the blesseings that God bestowed upon me and my family; I'm humbled and reminded of the verse from Psalms 68:19 "Blessed be the name of the Lord who daily loadeth us with benefits". God is so good and so faithful to each of us, yet, it is easy in our busy stressful lives to neglect to see His goodness and His favour. But this precious verse reminds all of us of His daily love and His unmeasurable blessings.  Look at how He uses the words "daily loadeth us with benefits"...wow! This is so exciting and so encouraging.

A recent blessing was such an amazing wow moment for us that I would like to share it.

We were back home visiting family for Christmas when One of our fur babies, Bella got sick. (very sick) without going into the gruesome details, I was in the bathroom giving her a bath when my husband came busting in there all excited.

"Guess what I just found?" he asked, I was busy washing a nasty dog so I didnt even look up when I responded back with a "what?"...and to be honest, I didnt feel like playing the game. He started babbling and I was half listening to him as he was saying how he was going through his suitcase going through some pockets when he found money. (Over $600)....wait what!?

 It was at this point that my ears somehow made sense of what he was saying and those babbling words made their way into my brain and processed the details. My head automatically jerked up and looked at him. He was smiling and holding a bundle of money as if to prove what he had just said.

What...this never happens to us, but before we could celebrate or plan on what to do with the money, Bella became sick again. For the next hour all the focus was on her and we soon knew we would have to take her to the vet.

It was late at night and we found an after hours vet that would take her. We soon found out she had a stomach disease and would have died if we had not taken her when we did. We also found out that the extra money we had just discovered was the amount we needed to take care of our very sick fur baby.

 God provided the money just in time of a need. We would not have had the money to take her had God not blessed us at that exact moment.

Had we found the money before, we might have spent it on unnessasary things, had we found  it later, im not sure what would have happened to our little baby. God is neither too early nor is He too late. He is always on time.

My husband and I were completely amazed at Gods timing and provision. Our Bella is doing much better and back to her silly self!


Maybe 2016 was not a good year for you and it left you hurt and bitter, may I challenge you to dig deep and look for the blessings. Perhaps, things happened out of your control and you were left dissapointed, may I ask you to let it go and start fresh.

God is good all the time, even when we don't see it and when we don't understand. We must trust Him and His Word. He promised He would take care of us and our needs. He daily loadeth us with benefits but we must choose to see it.

If you do not have a prayer journal, please get one. It's amazing to look back and see the answered prayers and the extra unexpected blessings. It helps me to remember God's love and It does this girl good to be reminded that the same God who created the universe is the same Heavenly Father that knows me, my name, my needs and my prayer request.

May 2017 be a year filled with blessings and answered prayers. But just remember, if you want prayers answered, you have to pray. Make time for Him, He sure makes time for you.

As always,
Blessings and Love



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