Romans 8:28

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love the Lord, to those who are the called, according to His purpose. (Romans 8:28)

How awesome.

Left and right, as if floating on clouds laid out in front of me just as I take each step, so as to cushion me in the most delicious way...first enunciated this feeling last Wed. at the Healing Rooms of Santa Maria Valley. Never been? Your life will change forever. By their faith, were they healed. Check out their website. It's off Main St. in Santa Maria, CA, not all that far from where the Michael Jackson trial is being held. I'd hoped to glimpse Jay Leno or some other star as my friend and I drove by there last Fri. on our way out to North China for lunch. Great Chinese! Good service. A closet for a bathroom, so I realized there was no way I could balance Paulo on the teeny sink or something to change his diaper, so I meandered out the back way which opened into a large warehouse and had a perfect little card table sized table which I asked to use and all was good. Romans 8:28.

This testimony is dynamic, increasing daily, so may go on for quite some time. Therefore, I'll relate it in snippets, so as not to overwhelm.

From: My Utmost For His Highest (Oswald Chambers)

"May 18
Living Simply—Yet Focused
"Look at the birds of the air … . Consider the lilies of the field …" (Matthew 6:26, 28).
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin"—they simply are! Think of the sea, the air, the sun, the stars, and the moon—all of these simply are as well—yet what a ministry and service they render on our behalf! So often we impair God’s designed influence, which He desires to exhibit through us, because of our own conscious efforts to be consistent and useful. Jesus said there is only one way to develop and grow spiritually, and that is through focusing and concentrating on God. In essence, Jesus was saying, "Do not worry about being of use to others; simply believe on Me." In other words, pay attention to the Source, and out of you "will flow rivers of living water" (John 7:38). We cannot discover the source of our natural life through common sense and reasoning, and Jesus is teaching here that growth in our spiritual life comes not from focusing directly on it, but from concentrating on our Father in heaven. Our heavenly Father knows our circumstances, and if we will stay focused on Him, instead of our circumstances, we will grow spiritually—just as "the lilies of the field."
The people who influence us the most are not those who detain us with their continual talk, but those who live their lives like the stars in the sky and "the lilies of the field"—simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mold and shape us.
If you want to be of use to God, maintain the proper relationship with Jesus Christ by staying focused on Him, and He will make use of you every minute you live—yet you will be unaware, on the conscious level of your life, that you are being used of Him."- From Oswald Chambers' My Utmost for His Highest, via QuickVerse.


A.E. says: Whoo-ey! Is this right on the money, or what? Hope it blesses you as well.

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