Peace, Peace, Where Is Your Peace, O LORD?

Are you feeling like me today, stressed, tired and weary? It is a very hard time for many families in our church. We have families needing to make life and death decisions that will change their lives. Perhaps having a choice is not always a blessing. Think about it for a moment. Isn't it sometimes a blessing to have people tell you this is exactly what you need to do? In other words wouldn't the world be a great place if we could always count on absolutes? In life there are very few absolutes. One thing we can be sure of, God loves us, wants His best for us and will be sovereign and sufficient in our lives.

You would think we could rest in the knowledge of Psalm 139:16, "You eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." It is a comforting scripture on the front end and a bit more unsettling on the end. I love the scripture and gain great peace knowing God knows everything about my coming in and going out of this world. All of my ordained days is a beautiful thought as long as I can see many days ahead.

Please be in prayer today and in the days ahead for Cathy Favre and family, as the LORD brings them to mind, lift them in prayer. It is a very difficult time for them. Pray also for Mary Walker and family as they continue to grieve the loss of her brother and celebrate the joys of life with weddings and the birth of another generation all at the same time. Beverly Davis has decisions to make on future treatment options concerning her bladder cancer. George Gerl has been placed in the care of hospice, please be in prayer for Ann and their daughter, Beth. Juanita Kennedy is in need of your prayers as well as Charlotte Hawkins, Ralph Oneal and many others have unspoken prayer requests.

We have spent a great deal of time looking at what women fear. I think it was a very timely study for us and I am grateful for the opportunity to lead you through the study. Ladies, we are going to need one another more than ever. I treasure each one of you and pray you have been able to receive a nugget or two along the way to help you through your day. I will always remember you and cherish our time together through these past 14 months.

Our lesson for this week is Appointed, Fear of God's Plan for My Life. Again, ladies we are about to live this lesson out in all it's glory. Have you ever feared God's plan for your life? I have, all the possibilities are overwhelming. What if I am not up to the challenge? What if He requires me to give up someone I love? What if I am required to give up myself? My money, my home, my reputation, my career,the list can go on. Please read your material and come prepared to share what God has spoken to you. I covet your prayers.

You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal. Isaiah 26:3-4