GOOD AND LOATHING

AFRICA: I have had a desire for a number of years now to have a monthly prayer meeting in my home for the continent of Africa but have not had an encouraging response from others when the idea was presented to them. So I am going to add a new feature to this blog for those who want to take a few minutes each week to pray for Africa. Beginning next week I am going to give five specific prayer requests for the continent of Africa as a whole, and after we are finished praying for the continent I will present prayers for specific countries. Please join me in praying for Africa. I would also encourage you to spend time in prayer each day for ethnic groups that have under 2% Christian representation by having the Joshua project sent to your phone or computer or tablet <joshuaproject.net/pray/unreachedoftheday> then select how you want to receive this information. I would also encourage you to pray with for our brothers and sisters in the persecuted Church <www.vomcanada.com/pray1.htm> and select <free weekly email prayer alert>. Lets pray together.

Reading the Psalms this week has been spiritually refreshing. Psalm 86.5 was particularly encouraging. "For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you." What a wonderful description of our God. He is Lord, the Sovereign Ruler of all. God is Good, all the time. God is forgiving. God abounds in steadfast love to all those who call upon Him. I rejoice that I have such a God as my Father.

But as other verses in the Psalms remind me, God is Holy and must be obeyed with our whole hearts. So just a few chapters later I read, "For forty years I loathed that generation and said, 'They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.' Therefore I swore in my wrath,'They shall not enter my rest.'" Psalm 95.10-11.
I thank God that in His Goodness and Love and Forgiveness He brought my heart into fellowship with Him and has shown me His ways, and brought me into His rest in Christ Jesus. That my friends is the essence of life, a life that will last forever in relationship with God my Father, Jesus my husband, and the Holy Spirit my dwelling place. God cannot be praised enough for His Goodness and Forgiveness and Love. Eternity will not suffice to render to God all His worth.