It's Ture...more promises

Well, it appears that I have been subconsciously worried about all sorts of things....Most of my reading and promises have been related to the Lord providing, whether it be financially, with in relationship, rescue, forgiveness, grace, sleep, rest, etc. The Lord ALWAYS provides what we need and He ALWAYS knows what we need. He doesn't forget about us...even if we try to stay away or get lost or wander around in circles for awhile. He still remembers us and He still remembers His promises.

January 3
Psalm 3: 3
But you are a shield around me, O LORD; you bestow glory on me and lift up my head.

Psalm 3: 5
I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me.

Matthew 3:11
"I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire."

January 4
Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

Genesis 8:22
"As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."

Psalm 4:8
I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.

January 5
Psalm 5: 11-12
But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may rejoice in you. For surely, O LORD, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield.

Matthew 5: 4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Genesis 9:11
I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."

January 6
Psalm 6:9
The Lord has heard my cry for mercy; the Lord accepts my prayer.

Matthew 6:8
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

Matthew 6:25
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?

Matthew 6:32
For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

Christmas Quilts

So for this Christmas, as part of my grieving process, I decided that I wanted to get crafty...I decided to make quilts for my family out of my dad's old t-shirts, jerseys, and other things. He so much and actually had a lot of stuff to choose from. I definitely didn't have a shortage of clothes to pick from.

So for about a month, all I did was work, eat, sleep, and quilt...It was really difficult and really emotional at times but it was also really good. One of the hardest times I remember was when I was cutting up his aloha shirts...most of them were dry clean only and when you only a wear a shirt for a couple hours at a time and like 3 times a month it doesn't get dry cleaned every week or so. I picked up one of his shirts and started to cut and I just got a huge whiff of him. The shirt still smelled like him because it hadn't been dry cleaned and not wore before he died. It made me miss him like crazy and I just sat there smelling that shirt for like 20 minutes.

I had lots of moments like that through out the process but I also had lots of release and healing as well. So...here are my quilts. Well some of them anyway. Not pictured are my moms and Tiffany and Richards.


Rick and Carol...All those white squares have little music notes on them...
special for Auntie Carol

Grandpa and Grandma...this took FOREVER!!!

Auntie Jamie

Lauren

Alanna...did you know that her hip bone comes up to the top of my rib cage!!!! RIDICULOUS!

Uncle and Auntie...Old Guys Rule...

It's True...Promises

So, on New Year's Eve we got these "life journals" that have a reading schedule to read through the Bible in a year...it's been awhile since the last time I actually read through the entire Bible, so I figured 2009 seems like a great time to start it up again...

When I was praying on New Year's Eve, asking the Lord to prepare me for He had planned, I felt like the Lord spoke something very simple to me...this year I needed to meditate daily on the promises of the Lord. Promises of the Lord through out the scriptures and things that the Lord reveals as promises specifically to me for the next year through out my daily reading.

So, I started yesterday and next to my "daily promises" in my Bible I have started to put a big "P" right next to them and in my life journal I reference them so I know when the Lord gave them to me and where to look for them.

I have decided that I want to share my daily promises with all of you that check in on this lovely little blog of mine...so (almost) everyday (hopefully) I will post my daily promises and if I miss a day I'll post them with the day after...

So here goes...

January 1, 2009
Psalm 1: 3
"He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yield its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers."

Psalm 1: 6
"For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish."

The Lord promises blessing in season. There is always blessing that comes eventually...
Not only does the Lord promises blessing, but He also promises favor, provision, and protection. He promises to watch over the way of the righteous. Those seem like pretty good promises to me...The Lord brings fruit in season and He watches over the way of the righteous. Whatever he does will prosper!


January 2, 2009
Genesis 3:21
"The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them."

Adam and Eve sinned against Lord. They turned and walked away from Him. Even through punishment (being sent out of the garden) the Lord provided for them. He clothed them. He continued to care for them, even in His anger and sadness, He was compassionate and kind to them.

Psalm 2:8
"Ask of me and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession."

God desires to lavish us with good things, we only need ask. He tells us that all we need to do is ask...Just ask and it's yours. "I will make the nations your inheritance...Everything I have I give to you." God is just so amazingly good to us. We just need to tap into the goodness that is waiting right in front of us. All we have to do is reach out and take a hold of it.

Psalm 2:12b
"Blessed are all who take refuge in Him."

God provides. He brings comfort, blessing, and refuge. He is a shield in times of trouble. God blesses those who bless Him and nothing brings Him more joy then to be near us. When we take refuge in Him (through good times and bad) He is delighted and over joyed and pours those things out in abundance upon us! Again, we only need to ask and start grabbing onto the things that the Lord has waiting for us.

SIDENOTE

I started a new blog...just for fun.

Katie told me to review movies...so here is the first

http://kristiesmoviereviews.blogspot.com/

Thai Time...something special for me

Have you ever had one of those things happen that makes you sit down with the Lord and just say, "Thank you. That was special just for me..." I felt like last night was one of those special moments between me and the Lord.

Last night was our annual women's Christmas tea. It's a bit of a traditional for the Danna/Poncy ladies to go on the same night and be served by the men and just have a good time. While I was super excited for the tea this year (because I love the tea...I always have a great time), I was also kind of dreading it.

See every year my dad would serve our table. He was hysterically part of our ladies tradition...simply because he was such a nerd (but in like a serious way, that's why it was so funny). Every year he would wear and vest and a pair of white gloves. Gloves, you might wonder...yeah...I have NO idea. But he was just too funny and he would snag extra of the only things that me and my mom eat (both of us are super picky). The little things like that make it what it was.

I was sad all week in preparation for doing the Christmas tea for the first time with out him and this year we had a comedian come as our guest speaker. She was super funny and genuine and just really in love with the Lord. She shard a verse from Isaiah 61 that the Lord so easily inserted my name in to, it was really just for me (and I'm sure a bunch of the other women in the room) but really it was a me and Jesus moment.

She shared Isaiah 61: 1-3, which I have translated into Jesus' words for me...feel free to do the same. It's quite encouraging (at least it was to me...)

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on you Kristie,
because I have anointed you
to preach good news to the poor.
I have sent you to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners,
just as I have done for you.
I have bound your broken heart
and I have set you free from captivity and darkness.

I have anointed you to proclaim that this is the year of My favor
and the day of vengeance of our God,
to comfort all who mourn,
and provide for those who grieve in Zion, including you Kristie.

I will bestow on you a crown a beauty instead of ashes,
the oil of gladness instead of your mourning,
and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.

You will be called an oak of righteousness,
a planting of the Lord for the displays of His splendor.

Sometimes, especially with the way that I have been feeling lately, it's just nice to know that the Lord hasn't forgotten. He hasn't forgotten about the pain or about how bad it still hurts. He hasn't forgotten and He so desires to comfort me and be near me.

Thai Time...Undivided

A couple weeks ago I was reading Psalm 86 at the mall before I started work, and I have been continually being reminded of it ever since. I have read that particular Psalm a bunch of times before that no one section in it has ever stood out so greatly to me. I love the way the Lord works. Every time you read the same verse, you learn something different and the Lord shows you something else through it.

Pslam 86:11
"Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name."

I meditated on that one verse all day at work. I just repeated "give me an undivided heart" over and over again. Through repetition the Lord started to reveal to me ways that my heart is divided. The goal is that our hearts would be completely the Lord's and that He was give you the capacity to love and experience other things.

I feel like over the past couple months I have just been so busy with stuff that I have forgotten that the Lord is the one that makes it possible to love and be loved. He's the one that makes being productive at work possible. He's the one that gives me time in the day to get everything done that I need to get done and He supplies me with the tools to do it all.

Psalm 86: 13, 15
"For great is your love toward me; you have delivered me from the depths of the grave. But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness."

God is the only person, place, or thing worth giving our hearts completely too. We forget that, through marriage and relationship and friendship and careers and even doing what the Lord has called you to do. Those are all blessings and desires the Lord has for us, but they ALWAYS come secondary to HIM!

I have given little pieces of my heart away to people, things, stuff, and doing what the Lord wants. It could be a very small and subtle piece, but you know what a bunch of small and subtle pieces lead up to??? A divided heart.

So my prayer over the past couple weeks has been pretty simple.
"Lord show me where my heart is divided. Give me strength to take back my heart. Most of all Lord, GIVE ME AN UNDIVIDED HEART."

Thai Time...a bit of a refresher

I wrote this little ditty a few weeks ago. This is just where my heart has been at over the last few weeks. Just truly desperate for the Lord and clinging to the promises of His word and of His love.

I know that even in the darkest and driest times the Lord is faithful and His promises are true. Just like it says in Jeremiah. Heal me and I will be healed, save me and I will be saved. God is big enough.

My soul is weak
My heart is broken and bruised
I come to Your throne
and fall at Your feet

Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed
Save me, O Lord, and I will saved

In the darkest times
When silence screams
I remember Your love
as I cry out again

I will not fear
I will not sway
I know Your love remains

Sadness sets in and
I fall in Your arms again

Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed
Save me, O Lord, and I will be saved.