His Way is Perfect

*"As for God, His way is perfect!" Psalm 18:30

Back when I rededicated my life to the Lord in 1988, I was truly done with this world! I’d had it! My own decisions put me in all kinds of precarious positions by now and this time even included prison. I’d even tried suicide four times without succeeding along with the life I was leading that was just a slower form of suicide. But, I knew life was over as I knew it after this arrest for selling LSD and my depression worsened. I’d had a history of depression for as long as I could remember so why not check out? But, through a friend sharing God’s word with me, I found hope! I learned that God had a plan for my life but I needed to leave things up to Him! Which I did and now after nearly 23 years of doing so I can tell you that the worst time in my life has turned into one of the best times in my life because I found Him, let Him take over and He turned my sorrow into joy! There are truly no words to thank Him enough for: Psalm 4:8 “At day's end I'm ready for sound sleep. For you, God, have put my life back together.” 

Yesterday a friend shared this devotional called “Let God Choose” from dayspring.com and written by Roy Lessin. I thought it so fit this time in my life that I shared it with my husband as an example of why I’m constantly running to God in prayer! “Let God choose for you, it will be the right decision. Let God guide you, it will be the right direction. Let God plan for you, it will be in the right timing. Let God measure for you, it will be the right portion. Let God help you, it will be the right care. Let God instruct you, it will be the right teaching. Let God prepare you, it will be the right training. Let God counsel you, it will be the right perspective. Let God Fight for you, it will be the right outcome. Let God work in you, it will be the right result.” And, after all this time I’ve truly proven all of this to be right. In nearly 23 years I can honestly say that there isn’t even one thing that He hasn’t proven to be right when left up to Him! 

Romans 8:26-28 (The Message) "Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good."

Once, again, this is very heavy music but it is what has been playing in my mind the whole way through writing this: Red “Breathe into Me”.



Breathe into Me lyrics:And this is how it feels when I ignore the words you spoke to me
And this is where I lose myself when I keep running away from youAnd this is who I am when, when I don't know myself anymore
And this is what I choose when it's all left up to me
Breathe your life into me
I can feel you
I'm falling, falling faster
Breathe your life into me
I still need you
I'm falling, falling
Breathe into me
Breathe into me
And this is how it looks when I am standing on the edge
And this is how I break apart when I finally hit the groundAnd this is how it hurts when I pretend I don't feel any pain
And this is how I disappear when I throw myself away
Breathe your life into me
I can feel youI'm falling, falling faster
Breathe your life into me
I still need you
I'm falling, falling
Breathe into me

Breathe your life into me
I can feel youI'm falling, falling faster
Breathe your life into me
I still need you
I'm falling, falling
Breathe into me

Breathe your life into me!
I'm falling, falling fasterBreathe your life into me!
falling, falling, falling
Breathe into me 
written by Jasen Rauch, Anthony Armstrong, Rob Graves, and Jason McArthur 

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!

SHARE & ONGOING PRAYER REQUEST!

     I sent out the following share and prayer request this morning to some friends of mine and wanted to also share this with my blog followers, etc... since I love and cherish you all so much!

     "Good Morning! This morning I got the cart before the horse, so to speak, and started working on a project on my computer and then realized I’d forgotten to do the most important thing – seek God in prayer and ask for agreement and prayer support in this endeavor. Wow…how absolutely stupid of me! So, here I am to explain and ask for some prayer support! Much love to you all & thank you for reading my share & request!

     To explain, first of all I don’t know if all of you know what I do. I not only minister to many others on Facebook but I also have an Etsy.com shop where I sell my art and some vintage items also. And, I also sell on E-Bay. I have been doing this on and off since about 2004 but now I believe that God has been leading me in a direction to sell more and more (my art, vintage items, etc…) for a couple of years now and I thoroughly enjoy doing this. Now, I am seeing that it not only helps us some financially but it is also an outlet to share Jesus with others. Being my point, up until now I have not had the means to share the Lord with others as much as I’d like. I believe that more recently the Lord has touched my heart to reach out in a more significant means. I am now working on designing a small 2 part booklet to not only thank the buyers for their purchase(s) and ongoing support (as I now have some repeat buyers) but also to share a short writing (not sure exactly what as yet) and a prayer for salvation. I know the front of it will be a smaller spiritually oriented artwork by me.

     Along with all of this, Joe and I are both involved in projects to promote and glorify our Lord through the internet, websites, blogs, etc… (And I’m ecstatic) Joe is venturing to reach out to others to save through couponing to be able to give more to others. And, I am finally soon working on a website with whatever the Lord shows me. I believe you all know that He is my master and I more often feel like I’m just along for the ride! So, His will be done in all of this.

     All of this not only involves our intellect and the means of computer access but also our home to be accessible in an organized means to orchestrate these projects which can mean getting rid of even more than I have in the past few months to make room in our small house.

      So, I would fully appreciate your prayer support in all of this, if you would be willing to give it! I’m excited and see our household finally moving in a more appropriate direction for we who are God’s advocates! Ongoing prayer support is also needed and I would appreciate a response from any of you who are willing to help out in this area!

     Thanks and may you all have an amazingly blessed week and weekend!"

I'd love to hear from you if you are commited to praying for my family and our outreach - please comment below and if you'd like to receive updates, please e-mail me at juliana.pace@gmail.com! 

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!

Video share - all the time I have been writing this, this song has been playing in my mind.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! 

Love One Another

I truly believe the Lord showed me to reflect on the one thing that I remember the most from our church service this morning. To make this even more incredible is that I believe the Lord led me to read 1 John on day towards the end of last week. A young man in our church (who I believe is called to be an evangelist) stood up in the church service today and shared 1 John 3:16 "By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren."! Loving one another is so important that I've truly believed that God has shown me that love is the most important factor of sharing on Facebook. Then, I just shared this verse with some friends Romans 2:4a "knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?"! When I rededicated my life to the Lord, it was His vast goodness and love that drew me! We must reach out to others in the same way that God has reached out to us! This is the way they will see His love! Luke 11:33 " “No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a secret place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, that those who come in may see the light."

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!