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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

ONCE AGAIN, my apologies & prayer request

I am here apologizing once again and asking for prayer. I know that I have not posted in some time. I am hoping this fact will change not long after the new year along with getting some much needed maintenance done on this blog. I inadvertently left out part of the title and have never fully gotten the background like I wanted it. My apologies! I also have hopes to get back to working on my next book while proofing all of my previous blog posts at the same time. Please bare with me and if you think of it, offer up a word of prayer for all of this, too! I am wanting to lift Him up for your benefit, not mine. Praying He helps me in this!

In moving to our new city and apartment, my husband and I moved back into a room together. I have much, much less space BUT I am just feet from my husband instead of several rooms away. I do not mind at all living in a smaller space. We gave up space for amenities. Now in a gated community at least at night. We are closer to my husband's work, 10 minutes compared to 40 minutes. So we have also given up a car. Please forgive me if I've shared all of this before. I won't rehash. Giving up some space has taken some reorganizing and with all else that has conspired this year, it's still ongoing. I have not been able to do any of my artwork since September of 2015. I have been missing it all and it is getting much closer to having it be resolved. I would appreciate any encouragement in the comments.

On top of all the moving, our son was married in November up in Pennsylvania. We attended and were so very excited about the whole thing. We now have a sweet new daughter-in-law and even a granddaughter! So our family has grown in leaps and bounds. Being adopted myself, this has brought much joy to my heart. When I was first told of her daughter (3 years ago) I was actually so very happy that our son was considering being a Daddy to a child that was already present in the world and needing him in her life. I am still ecstatic! The smile on our son's face at the completion of their vows told me volumes! He is 30 years old and I never saw such joy on his face. I can honestly tell you that I don't think I've ever gone so many hours without a dry eye, from joy, of course! My only regret now is that they live several states away. We would love to know both of them better! When I married my husband, I knew that he had a son from a previous marriage. I told him that if he ever wanted to get custody of him that I was fine with that and that I already loved him, being that he was a part of him. We went on to finding out that I could not have children (story planned on this in a later post). We got custody of his son in 1999 when he was 13 years old and I also had a son! And I won't spoil any more of the story for you.

Despite my efforts to regain health, along with many prayers, I ended up in the hospital in Pennsylvania. Then we returned home to work with doctors to overcome newly arisen issues yet Satan has appeared to be on the warpath. The only reason why I am sharing more in depth is that I need you to know how serious this is so that you all may pray accordingly. I was informed just two days ago that at some point I have had a mild heart attack. I am having further testing with a cardiac catheterization just after the new year. I know this can also be something that requires more recovery time to get me back moving again so it may slow my posts here, I will keep you updated. This is all something that I have been praying about for some time and has been needed even before the heart attack. Prayers please for my healing, and right now for me to keep my eyes on Jesus since I appear to be a bit flighty in my emotions. And also for my continuation in lifting Jesus up higher. I believe that God has a place for me out there and that Satan is mad and on the attack because of what God is wanting to do. But, we all know that Greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world. I was having a much worse time of it until I saw this photo posted on Facebook and have had to share it now, many times over:

*1 John 4:4You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

And, due to the Christmas holiday I will share a Christmas song that I've lover over and over again. When the "Hallelujah's" ring in here it just truly inspires such awe in my heart that it brings tears. It is my hope that you will pay some deep attention and find the same! God bless you and Merry Christmas.

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!

Thursday, October 11, 2012

His help through Psalm 27

Good Morning! "Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ"!

I'm slowly but surely coming back and able to type more again but too much to do in a day and not enough hours since I have only partial use as a helper in my left hand and being slowed down for 4+ months has slowed me down even more. Will surely be working to get my strength back as the weather cools down for us down here in Florida. Only 68 degrees this morning, Hallelujah!

I do have something to share with you this morning as someone on Facebook sparked my memory. My favorite Psalm is the one that firstly, God helped me to face prison by reading it numerous times and then every time it comes to mind since. As I've read it over and over again I realized that it used the be the first couple of verses that got to me the most but it changed to the 8th verse (large print) which just makes my heart leap and brings tears to my eyes! That was my turning point! Hallelujah!

*Psalm 27
New King James Version (NKJV)
An Exuberant Declaration of Faith

27 The Lord is my light and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the strength of my life;
Of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked came against me
To eat up my flesh,
My enemies and foes,
They stumbled and fell.
3 Though an army may encamp against me,
My heart shall not fear;
Though war may rise against me,
In this I will be confident.

4 One thing I have desired of the Lord,
That will I seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord
All the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the Lord,
And to inquire in His temple.
5 For in the time of trouble
He shall hide me in His pavilion;
In the secret place of His tabernacle
He shall hide me;
He shall set me high upon a rock.

6 And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me;
Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.

7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice!
Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
8 When You said, “Seek My face,”
My heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.”
9 Do not hide Your face from me;
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not leave me nor forsake me,
O God of my salvation.
10 When my father and my mother forsake me,
Then the Lord will take care of me.

11 Teach me Your way, O Lord,
And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.
12 Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries;
For false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.
13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed
That I would see the goodness of the Lord
In the land of the living.

14 Wait on the Lord;
Be of good courage,
And He shall strengthen your heart;
Wait, I say, on the Lord!

Please keep praying! I'm on my way back!

Friday, December 9, 2011

Is He Reaching Out to You?

I started my day today with my Bible studies. Even though I wrote yesterday I still feel compelled to share this with you. There must be someone who needs to see this since I sure can’t get it off of my mind. I am doing a study on creativity which asked if I had a favorite Psalm and I knew right off that it was Psalm 27. And the study asked why, to which I wrote the first title of "God is All Powerful and Steadfast", to this post. But, then I read through the Psalm in the New King James Version, which is my favorite, and I was surprised at the verse that stood out the most to me.

*Psalm 27

¹ “The LORD is my light and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the strength of my life;
Of whom shall I be afraid?
² When the wicked came against me
To eat up my flesh,
My enemies and foes,
They stumbled and fell.
³ Though an army may encamp against me,
My heart shall not fear;
Though war may rise against me,
In this I will be confident.

⁴ One thing I have desired of the LORD,
That will I seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the LORD
All the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the LORD,
And to inquire in His temple.
⁵ For in the time of trouble
He shall hide me in His pavilion;
In the secret place of His tabernacle
He shall hide me;
He shall set me high upon a rock.

⁶ And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me;
Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.

⁷ Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice!
Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
⁸ When You said, “Seek My face,”
My heart said to You, “Your face, LORD, I will seek.”
⁹ Do not hide Your face from me;
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not leave me nor forsake me,
O God of my salvation.
¹⁰ When my father and my mother forsake me,
Then the LORD will take care of me.
¹¹ Teach me Your way, O LORD,
And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.
¹² Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries;
For false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.
¹³ I would have lost heart, unless I had believed
That I would see the goodness of the LORD
In the land of the living.

¹⁴ Wait on the LORD;
Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart;
Wait, I say, on the LORD!”

The first verse just always stands out due to it being my recognition point of this Psalm. But as I read through it, it was “⁸ When You said, “Seek My face,”
My heart said to You, “Your face, LORD, I will seek.”” that stood out to me and just is so endearing to my heart. He reached out to me. In my times of trouble, He sought me to come to Him. In my book “Beyond to Better Things” I wrote of a time not long after being arrested in 1988 where I had turned on a TV church service on Sunday morning and during this service I remembered feeling God’s presence as though He was filling my whole apartment. He reached down to me.

Is He reaching down to you right now?

And, a song that has gone through my mind the whole time while writing this is another one from the Our Hymns cassette tape that I learned to love while in prison. I wonder why? Enjoy: