Sunday, March 13, 2011

Psalm 34

I will extol the Lord at all times,
his praise will always be on my lips.
My soul will boast in the Lord;
let the afflicted hear and rejoice.
Glorify the Lord with me;
lut us exalt his name together.
I sought the Lord and he answered me;
he delivered me from all my fears.
Those who look to him are radiant;
their faces are never covered with shame.
This poor man called, and the Lord heard him;
he saved him out of all his troubles.
The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him.
And he delivers them.
Taste and see that the Lord is good;
Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

I was asked to read this scripture to start the worship service off at church today.  I read it over and over this week in preparation, but this morning I was flooded with emotion as I read it.  At each line, I was reminded at how God has gotten me through my cancer journey.  I'm not strong enough on my own to withstand all that goes with fighting cancer, only with God can I keep the hope alive.   I sincerely pray that everyone who visits this website or recieves a cap honestly accepts Jesus as Lord of their life.  He has been so good to me.  He has carried this broken down sinner through what should've been the worst time of my life.  And though this year has been hard on me and my family, I would not classify it as the worst time of my life...the worst time of my life were the years I spent without Jesus.  If you don't know Jesus, I urge you to talk with a Christian friend, email me, or visit a local church and take the first steps to putting the worst time of your life behind you.  God Bless and love to all!

Thank you to Joshua for asking me to read this beautiful scripture, I was blessed by reading it.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Hope

Hope has become my word.  I claim it. I own it. I wish I had thought of it myself, haha! During the fear, the doubt, the worry, the sickness, the hair loss, the pain, the fatigue...what keeps me going is hope.  God given, peaceful hope.  First it was the hope that I would be healed.  After much prayer and reading God's word, hope for healing turned into faith that it would be done, that it had in fact already been done!  The word, Hope, still kept coming to my mind. God kept bringing it to me on rings and bracelets that people gave me for breast cancer awareness.  On a rearview mirror ornament my mom gave me.  And when it came time to think of a name for this ministry....hope was the only word i wanted to use.  Hope is what God has filled me with.  Hope is what I want to share with every cancer patient in the world.  Hope is Jesus.  Jesus gives me and you and everyone who will accept it Hope for a future with Him.  No matter what cancer does to this earthly body, because of my relationship with Jesus, I have the Hope of a future with him forever.  Do you have hope?

"For I know the plans I have for you," decalares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you HOPE and a future."  Jeremiah 29:11