Good Morning everyone! Grace and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ!
Just thought I might share with you a little health update. I am improving and able to write a little but still in the sling. The Rotator Cuff surgery was on August 27th. I had a follow-up visit with my doctor on September 11th. He made my next appointment for 3 months later but I'm believing God for healing me up before that. My doctor ordered 6 weeks of occupational therapy and told me that I have to wear the sling for that amount of time, too, unless I am home and down on the couch. Then I can sit with the sling off.
So, I am typing with the sling which makes it a little harder to do and my arm still gets tired a bit more easily.
I have several ideas in my mind to write but I need to ask you all to grant me a little patience in getting them out since some is a little longer and harder for me to take the typing time. Still finding if I don't get some downtime that I end up quite sore the following day so I'm rather stuck right now!
So then after my hubby was off to work I sat down to
read my daily Bible reading that I get from www.Biblegateway.com (they come in
my e-mail so not easy at all to miss reading along with getting through the new
testament in a year).
To share a bit from the past, not long after we moved
here the Lord spoke to me and told me that He was going to lift me up (no clue
what all that entails and certainly up to God and His will). I told Him
that I would be so concerned about being big-headed about it. Repeatedly "when
I am weak, then I am strong" has come
to my mind over the years about so many things. Then when I was prayed
for at a Billy Burke meeting as a prayer warrior I talked with God after
getting home and part of the conversation was telling Him that I felt so weak
in the area of prayer and He told me that's why He is strong. Then this
morning a part of my reading was: 2 Cor. 12: 7b-10:
"Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a
thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three
times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he
said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power
is made perfect in weakness." Therefore
I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power
may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in
weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For
when I am weak, then I am strong." (NIV Translation)
I have read this many times but never in this translation and only this
chapter set aside.God’s word is so very
alive and important in our lives.Confirmed even more to me about why things have happened in my life in
the way they have.He is forever working
His good in our lives when we trust in Him!
Just thought I'd share the song that just came on while listening to my computer playlist:
May God bless you through my writing. If
He has especially touched you in any way, please leave a comment below. Your
comments are so very encouraging to me to help me to keep writing. Also, click
on the “Uptweet” button on the above right and share! I pray you will keep
coming back. I fully believe that my writing is by the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit so if I am writing, there is someone that needs to read it! Maybe it’s
you? Also, please be sure to share any questions you might have with me and if
you would like to keep them personal (just between you and me) please don’t
hesitate to e-mail me at juliana.pace@gmail.com. If I don’t know how to answer
you, I will may every attempt to refer you to someone for more information.
Thanks and may God bless all your days!
For more than 28 years I went by the
nickname ‘Julie’.Not long after
rededicating my life to the Lord, I was sentenced and spent 16 months in
prison.It was there that God showed me
I would be called by ‘Juliana’…and it truly helped my heart to see ‘Julie’ as
the old me!Loved getting this today!
“Your
name will no longer be Jacob .... From now on you will be called Israel.”
(Genesis 32:28a NLT)
You don’t have to stay the
same! In conversion, we’re given a new identity. Look at Jacob in the book of
Genesis. Once Jacob confesses his manipulative behavior, God gives him a new
identity. Notice that three things
happen: God gives Jacob a brand new identity (Genesis 32:28). Essentially, God says, “I know you’ve
blown it. I know you’re conniving, but I see in you a prince. Beneath all
your emotional hang-ups, all your insecurities, all the stuff you don’t want
anybody else to know, I see a prince.” God is saying that today to many of
us: “Beneath all of your sins and hang-ups, I see a princess/prince. You can
be something great. You can be what I made you to be.” God blesses Jacob/Israel (Genesis 32:29). Deep down, we desperately want God’s
blessing. If we want God’s blessing, we have to take the steps God requires
of us. God gave Jacob/Israel a limp(Genesis 32:31). Remember, when they
wrestled, God dislocated Jacob’s hip. Jacob walked away with a limp, and it
served as a daily reminder to depend upon God. God does his deepest work in
your life when he deals with your identity — who you are and the way you see
yourself. You will always tend to act according to the way you think about
yourself. So God does his deepest changes in your life by changing the way
you see yourself. He says, “Let me show you how
I see you.” When you see yourself the way God sees you, it’s going to change
your life. Talk About It
Have you been asking God to bless you? If
so, how have you made yourself available to hear his instructions so
that you can take the steps he requires of you?
How do you look different when you see
yourself through God’s point of view?
"I am not afraid, of the storm that comes my way,
When it hits, it shakes me to the core,
And makes me stronger than before" -- Thousand Foot Krutch
(My e-mail signature)
May God bless you through my
writing. If He has especially touched you in any way, please leave a comment
below. Your comments are so very encouraging to me to help me to keep writing.
Also, click on the “Uptweet” button on the above right and share! I pray you
will keep coming back. I fully believe that my writing is by the inspiration of
the Holy Spirit so if I am writing, there is someone that needs to read it!
Maybe it’s you? Also, please be sure to share any questions you might have with
me and if you would like to keep them personal (just between you and me) please
don’t hesitate to e-mail me at juliana.pace@gmail.com. If I don’t know how to
answer you, I will may every attempt to refer you to someone for more
information. Thanks and may God bless all your days!
Good Morning! Just realized that I left no explanation for my faithful followers as to why I'm not posting right now. Not for long! I had rotator cuff repair surgery on Monday 8/27! Already doing therapy again so quickly on the mend! God bless you all! I'll leave you with a newer song that I truly love. It is full of lyrics that speak to me, especially:
“I
am not afraid, of the storm that comes my way, When it hits, it shakes me to
the core, And makes me stronger than before” ---Thousand Foot Krutch
