Entering in to a 40 day prayer

Folks, I am entering in to a 40 day prayer. I receive a wonderful devotional each and every day, from a Pastor Frank, and I wanted to share with you what he said in today's devotional:

Psa 100:4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving, And His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him; bless His name.

No matter what!

No matter what you see in the natural!

No matter what you feel in your emotions!

No matter what a Christian did or did not do correctly!

WOW! Did I need to hear this.

I also received this daily devotional in my email, from Dr. Charles Stanley:

The Nature of Discouragement

Psalm 16:7-11

Discouragement is a powerful, destructive force. Before we can understand how to rid our lives of this deadly landmine, we must recognize its harmful nature.

Understand that discouragement...

1. Is something we choose. Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.

2. Is universal. Everybody will face periods of disappointment and discouragement from time to time. This simply cannot be avoided, because we live in a seriously flawed world that is filled with equally flawed people.

3. Can recur. Sometimes we think we've settled an issue, which later resurfaces when we least expect it. Or, we may have old emotional wounds that are torn open by something a person says or does.

4. Can be temporary--or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.

5. Is conquerable. With the Lord's help, we can choose not to be discouraged. If we don't believe discouragement can be conquered, then we're actually saying that God doesn't want His children to have a rich and fulfilled life.

Are you stuck in the throes of discouragement? If so, it will simply be impossible to experience the peace and inner joy that God wants for His children. Let Him help you out of that lowly state: start by believing that the Father wants to lift you up and get your life back on track with Him.

For more biblical teaching and resources from Dr. Charles Stanley, please visit www.intouch.org

We need to be Christians, that LIFT one another up, to the FATHER. There are way too many Christians, that waste precious time and effort trying to tear someone down. If you are one that does this, you need to STOP IT! Time as we know it, is growing short, and there are plenty of people who are lost and dying, watching you. Ask yourself: What is my TESTIMONY and WITNESS, to them? If it is negative, then there is some heart changing that needs to take place. It is time to purge yourself, and get a clean heart, prepared to SERVE the LORD.

It isn't about us. It is about serving the ONE, who can and does SAVE us, from all unrighteousness. We all fall short of the GLORY of GOD. There is not a single Christian, that has been made equal to GOD, nor will we ever be completed, in this lifetime. We need so desperately, to get down on our faces, and really seek the LORD, to make necessary changes, from within.

What we show the world, is who we really are. You can't hide behind a mask, and pretend to be something your not. What we show them, comes from our hearts. The words we speak, often give our hearts away. The BIBLE tells us, that the tongue, a little member, can destroy all that is good. Is your tongue in check?

Righteousness, comes by following GOD'S WORD. Can you honestly say, that you follow the TEACHINGS of CHRIST? You know, the words that are written in RED, in most BIBLES? If you are missing one point, the WORD says, that one sin, is breaking all sins. WHOA? That means, that you are the same as a murderer, or something just as vile! It is time, for Christians, to really seek the LORD, while HE is yet to be found.

I'm doing this 40 days of prayer, to ask the LORD to pull on our heart strings, and to motivate Christians, everywhere, to put on the FULL ARMOUR of GOD. Let's stop play acting, and get down to the FATHER'S BUSINESS.

Dear FATHER how fitting today's devotionals are! Thank you for giving these men of GOD such WISDOM and UNDERSTANDING of YOUR HOLY WORD. Thank you, that we are able to GLEAN TRUTHS from them, even today. We ask that our LAMPS be BRIGHT, and full of the OIL of YOUR WORD. Guide us each day, into the LIGHT of YOUR WORD. Help us, to become FRUITFUL, in the fields that are ready for HARVEST. Touch each of YOUR Children, today, LORD. RENEW the FIRE that leads us to do YOUR GOOD WILL. Oh, don't let us tarry or waste any precious time, but be about YOUR BUSINESS. Remove all the barren lands that we were to harvest, for you, and bring us into the FIELDS READY for HARVEST, today. Let us realize, that the GOSPEL is about JESUS, from beginning to end, and that no page in between, should be overlooked. Give us a NEW DESIRE to HIDE YOUR WORD, within our hearts. Let YOUR WORDS be our words. Let others see JESUS, in all we do or say. Let our activity be EDIFYING to YOU. Guide us, FATHER, in every detail of our daily life. Let us be forever in communication with YOU. Help us to see, that nothing we do our selves, is good enough, without YOUR DIVINE TOUCH. Thank you FATHER, for LOVING us, while we were yet sinners. Thank you, that we are a WORK in PROGRESS, and even though we often fail, YOU STILL PICK us UP and USE us. Make us into WILLING VESSELS. Thank you for the HOLY SPIRIT ANOINTING and for sending JESUS to be our LORD and SAVIOR. Thank you FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE, ARE DOING and WILL DO. IN JESUS NAME, AMEN.

Day 19

Aug. 29-30, 2009
The Influence of Faith

1 Kings 18:37-40

In contemporary Christian culture, faith is often considered a possession that affects just its "owner." Because of our love for independence and self-sufficiency, we have, in many ways, lost the sense of community and outreach that the church is meant to embody. We live like little islands in our own "personal relationship with Christ." But in reality, God wants our faith to influence others, both within and outside the church.

Elijah's faith influenced the entire nation of Israel. By believing and delivering God's message, he was an example to them in word and deed. When he asked the Lord to reveal Himself as almighty God, fire fell from heaven, and the people believed.

His motive in the showdown at Mount Carmel was to draw the people back to the Lord. We usually think of "sharing our faith" with those who don't know Christ, but our confidence in God can also encourage weak or wayward believers. Likewise, those strong in faith can strengthen us when we are struggling with doubt.

The church is described as a body whose parts are all interconnected (1 Cor. 12:12). God never intended that we be autonomous, living in our own personal faith. We are not like a bag of marbles; rather, we're to be like a bunch of grapes whose juices blend in times of pressure.

Guard against living an isolated Christian life. Share your confidence in God's faithfulness. Your testimony could help others' faith to grow. If you're troubled by doubt or fear, let go of any pride or shame, and seek help from a strong believer. Mutual blessing awaits when we reach out to one another.

For more biblical teaching and resources from Dr. Charles Stanley, please visit www.intouch.org

What Is Salvation?
from the messages of Adrian Rogers
BIBLE MEDITATION:
1 John 5:1 - "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God."

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
What is salvation? It's not a creed. You say, “Well, I believe the plan of salvation.” You can believe the plan of salvation and go straight to hell. You’re not saved by the plan of salvation; you’re saved by the Man of salvation. Salvation is not a creed. It’s not a code. You say, “Well, I believe if you live right, you’ll go to heaven.” If you could be saved by living right then Calvary was a blunder. It’s not a cause. You say, “I’m a member of a good, fundamental, Bible-believing church.” It’s not any of these things. It’s Christ. Salvation is not believing something; it is receiving Someone. The true gospel is one that centers in Jesus Christ.

ACTION POINT:
Ask God to give you a divine opportunity to boldly share Jesus with someone today. Maybe it’s a co-worker; maybe it’s your child. Maybe it’s a stranger that sits next to you at a restaurant. Be strong and of good courage; God will go before you to prepare the way.

http://www.lwf.org/


This is where some Christians are. They abide in their "own personal WALK", forgetting that FELLOWSHIP, with other Christians, is Crucial. Our TESTIMONY can and does make a difference in other people's lives. JESUS drew people to HIMSELF. HE never forsaked an opportunity to WITNESS, and often, it was the ones who considered themselves to be self-righteous, such as the Pharisee's and Saducee's. HE ate supper with the tax collector, helped a prostitute, and heals many others who were considered burrs in the society. Who have you shared your WITNESS with? Have you FELLOWSHIPED, with other Christians, through the sharing of the WORD? What about your own SALVATION? Are you sure that your SAVED? Are you focusing daily upon JESUS, and HIS WORD? Make CHRIST JESUS, LORD of your life, and SERVE HIM, in your daily WALK.

Saturday, August 29, 2009
This Morning's Meditation
C. H. Spurgeon

"Have mercy upon me, O God."—Psalm 51:1.

WHEN Dr. Carey was suffering from a dangerous illness, the enquiry was made, "If this sickness should prove fatal, what passage would you select as the text for your funeral sermon?" He replied, "Oh, I feel that such a poor sinful creature is unworthy to have anything said about him; but if a funeral sermon must be preached, let it be from the words, 'Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness; according unto the multitude of Thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.'" In the same spirit of humility he directed in his will that the following inscription and nothing more should be cut on his gravestone:—

WILLIAM CAREY, BORN AUGUST 17th, 1761:
DIED—
"A wretched, poor, and helpless worm On Thy kind arms I fall."

Only on the footing of free grace can the most experienced and most honoured of the saints approach their God. The best of men are conscious above all others that they are men at the best. Empty boats float high, but heavily laden vessels are low in the water; mere professors can boast, but true children of God cry for mercy upon their unprofitableness. We have need that the Lord should have mercy upon our good works, our prayers, our preachings, our alms-givings, and our holiest things. The blood was not only sprinkled upon the doorposts of Israel's dwelling houses, but upon the sanctuary, the mercy-seat, and the altar, because as sin intrudes into our holiest things, the blood of Jesus is needed to purify them from defilement. If mercy be needed to be exercised towards our duties, what shall be said of our sins? How sweet the remembrance that inexhaustible mercy is waiting to be gracious to us, to restore our backslidings, and make our broken bones rejoice!

http://www.spurgeon.org/morn_eve/this_morning.cgi

Purify us, O' LORD...

Saturday, August 29, 2009
This Evening's Meditation
C. H. Spurgeon

"All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk."—Numbers 6:4.

NAZARITES had taken, among other vows, one which debarred them from the use of wine. In order that they might not violate the obligation, they were forbidden to drink the vinegar of wine or strong liquors, and to make the rule still more clear, they were not to touch the unfermented juice of grapes, nor even to eat the fruit either fresh or dried. In order, altogether, to secure the integrity of the vow, they were not even allowed anything that had to do with the vine; they were, in fact, to avoid the appearance of evil. Surely this is a lesson to the Lord's separated ones, teaching them to come away from sin in every form, to avoid not merely its grosser shapes, but even its spirit and similitude. Strict walking is much despised in these days, but rest assured, dear reader, it is both the safest and the happiest. He who yields a point or two to the world is in fearful peril; he who eats the grapes of Sodom will soon drink the wine of Gomorrah. A little crevice in the sea-bank in Holland lets in the sea, and the gap speedily swells till a province is drowned. Worldly conformity, in any degree, is a snare to the soul, and makes it more and more liable to presumptuous sins. Moreover, as the Nazarite who drank grape juice could not be quite sure whether it might not have endured a degree of fermentation, and consequently could not be clear in heart that his vow was intact, so the yielding, temporizing Christian cannot wear a conscience void of offence, but must feel that the inward monitor is in doubt of him. Things doubtful we need not doubt about; they are wrong to us. Things tempting we must not dally with, but flee from them with speed. Better be sneered at as a Puritan than be despised as a hypocrite. Careful walking may involve much self-denial, but it has pleasures of its own which are more than a sufficient recompense.

http://www.spurgeon.org/morn_eve/this_evening.cgi

JESUS was known as the NAZARENE.

Dear FATHER, thank you for WISDOM and TRUTH, being spoken through these men of FAITH. Let us take to heart all the lessons that are GLEANED from YOUR WORD of TRUTH. Thank you that YOUR WORD, never returns void! Purge us, of any self-righteous thoughts, and remind us, that we are but dust. Dust that is carried about by the slightest motions of wind or rain. Dust, that even in our human forms, can be swayed by doctrines of men. TEACH us YOUR WORD,and HIDE YOUR WORD, within our hearts and minds. Let us SEE the world as YOU SEE it. Give us COMPASSION upon those in the world who are often cast aside, and let us, be a LIGHT in their darkness. Give us EARS, that hear, the faintest cries, for MERCY. Give us a HEART, that is WILLING to SERVE YOU, in any situation. Forgive us, when we fail so miserably. FATHER, thank you, for sending JESUS to be our LORD and SAVIOR. Thank you for the many examples, found in YOUR WORD, for us to emulate. Thank you for the HOLY SPIRIT ANOINTING, and for the RENEWING of our SPIRITS, through this time of PRAYER and MEDITATION, on YOUR HOLY WORD. Lead us down the NARROW PATH, that comes to YOUR THRONE of LOVE, MERCY and GRACE. Fill our hearts and minds to overflowing, and put YOUR WORD, in our mouths. Let us not be weary in DOING YOUR GOOD WILL. Give us all that is needed to reach a lost and dying world. Time as we know it is growing short. Let us busy ourselves, in the right things, and be WORKERS in the FIELDS that are RIPE for HARVEST. Thank you LORD, FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE, ARE DOING and WILL DO. YOUR WILL BE DONE, IN JESUS NAME, AMEN.

Day 20

Fear Not
from the messages of Adrian Rogers
BIBLE MEDITATION:
Joshua 1:9 - "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest."

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
The devil is the sinister minister of fear. When he clamps his icy fingers of fear on your heart, do you become afraid of what he’ll do to you if you take a stand for God? Don’t be afraid. Fear is an insult to God who said, I will be with thee. Fear will destroy you. Are you a worrywart? One lady said, “Don’t tell me it does no good to worry. Most of the things I worry about never come to pass.” Be not dismayed. God will take care of you.

ACTION POINT:
Ask the Holy Spirit to show you what your fears are, then confess them as sin. Repent, then reach up and take hold of His right hand that is outstretched to sustain you and give you the victory!

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DO NOT FEAR

Sunday, August 30, 2009
This Morning's Meditation
C. H. Spurgeon

"Wait on the Lord."—Psalm 27:14.

IT may seem an easy thing to wait, but it is one of the postures which a Christian soldier learns not without years of teaching. Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still. There are hours of perplexity when the most willing spirit, anxiously desirous to serve the Lord, knows not what part to take. Then what shall it do? Vex itself by despair? Fly back in cowardice, turn to the right hand in fear, or rush forward in presumption? No, but simply wait. Wait in prayer, however. Call upon God, and spread the case before Him; tell Him your difficulty, and plead His promise of aid. In dilemmas between one duty and another, it is sweet to be humble as a child, and wait with simplicity of soul upon the Lord. It is sure to be well with us when we feel and know our own folly, and are heartily willing to be guided by the will of God. But wait in faith. Express your unstaggering confidence in Him; for unfaithful, untrusting waiting, is but an insult to the Lord. Believe that if He keep you tarrying even till midnight, yet He will come at the right time; the vision shall come and shall not tarry. Wait in quiet patience, not rebelling because you are under the affliction, but blessing your God for it. Never murmur against the second cause, as the children of Israel did against Moses; never wish you could go back to the world again, but accept the case as it is, and put it as it stands, simply and with your whole heart, without any self-will, into the hand of your covenant God, saying, "Now, Lord, not my will, but Thine be done. I know not what to do; I am brought to extremities, but I will wait until Thou shalt cleave the floods, or drive back my foes. I will wait, if Thou keep me many a day, for my heart is fixed upon Thee alone, O God, and my spirit waiteth for Thee in the full conviction that Thou wilt yet be my joy and my salvation, my refuge and my strong tower."

http://www.spurgeon.org/morn_eve/this_morning.cgi

WAIT UPON the LORD

Sunday, August 30, 2009
This Evening's Meditation
C. H. Spurgeon

"Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed."—Jeremiah 17:14 "I have seen His ways, and will heal him."—Isaiah 57:18.

IT is the sole prerogative of God to remove spiritual disease. Natural disease may be instrumentally healed by men, but even then the honour is to be given to God who giveth virtue unto medicine, and bestoweth power unto the human frame to cast off disease. As for spiritual sicknesses, these remain with the great Physician alone; He claims it as His prerogative, "I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal"; and one of the Lord's choice titles is Jehovah-Rophi, the Lord that healeth thee. "I will heal thee of thy wounds," is a promise which could not come from the lip of man, but only from the mouth of the eternal God. On this account the psalmist cried unto the Lord, "O Lord, heal me, for my bones are sore vexed," and again, "Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee." For this, also, the godly praise the name of the Lord, saying, "He healeth all our diseases." He who made man can restore man; He who was at first the creator of our nature can new create it. What a transcendent comfort it is that in the person of Jesus "dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily!" My soul, whatever thy disease may be, this great Physician can heal thee. If He be God, there can be no limit to His power. Come then with the blind eye of darkened understanding, come with the limping foot of wasted energy, come with the maimed hand of weak faith, the fever of an angry temper, or the ague of shivering despondency, come just as thou art, for He who is God can certainly restore thee of thy plague. None shall restrain the healing virtue which proceeds from Jesus our Lord. Legions of devils have been made to own the power of the beloved Physician, and never once has He been baffled. All His patients have been cured in the past and shall be in the future, and thou shalt be one among them, my friend, if thou wilt but rest thyself in Him this night.

http://www.spurgeon.org/morn_eve/this_evening.cgi

Jehovah-Rophi
The LORD HEALS thee.

Dear FATHER, thank you for YOUR WORD, that we can TRUST in whatever YOU SAY. Thank you that we have nothing to fear, when we stand in YOUR WILL. Give us strength to STAND, with our feet GIRDED in YOUR WORD. Teach us to be PATIENT and WAIT upon YOU. You are Jehovah-Rophi, and YOU are our HEALING. We thank you for all the things that YOU Do for each one of YOUR children, each day. Thank you for sending JESUS to be our LORD and SAVIOR. Thank you for the HOLY SPIRIT ANOINTING, that guides us. Thank you for BEING EVER PRESENT to each one of us. That when the enemy comes to steal and destroy, YOUR PLANS for us, are much GREATER than the enemies, that we face. YOU are our BUCKLER and SHIELD, in the days of trouble. Thank you FATHER, that we may not be deserving, and yet, YOU MADE A WAY, because YOU LOVE us. Help us, to get past our failures, and see JESUS STANDING before us. HIDE us, under YOUR HOLY WINGS, and PROTECT us, when it is needed. Let us never fail to THANK YOU, for ALL THINGS. Thank you for ALL YOU HAVE DONE, ARE DOING and WILL DO. Let YOUR WILL BE DONE. IN JESUS NAME, AMEN.

Day 21

Aug. 31, 2009
The Prayer of Faith

1 Kings 18:41-46

A committed and consistent prayer life is essential for every believer who wants to grow in his relationship with Christ. Yet so many Christians struggle in this area. What is hindering us?

No Burden: Being diligent is easy when we feel passionate about our request. We will storm the gates of heaven when a loved one is sick, but once the urgency is past, so is the prayer. We drift back into apathy.

No Time: We're busy and can see no way
to squeeze in regular prayer time without a drastic rearrangement of our schedule.

No Apparent Answer: We've tried praying, but God just doesn't seem to answer. Thinking, It's a waste of time, we give up.

James 5:16-18 tells us that Elijah was a righteous man whose effective prayer accomplished much. He was passionate and persistent because he knew God intimately and believed that He would answer. Past answers to prayer and time spent in His presence had strengthened the prophet's absolute trust in the Lord.

When Elijah first began to pray on the mountain, there was no apparent answer, and yet he continued to seek the Lord. God is always working around us whether we perceive it or not. Eyes of faith can see His presence and involvement even when there's no tangible evidence.

God did not design prayer as simply an avenue for requests; spending time in conversation with our heavenly Father is meant to help us know and love Him. Then, as we grow in passion for the Lord, spending time with Him will be a delight, and life turns into an adventure of faith.

For more biblical teaching and resources from Dr. Charles Stanley, please visit www.intouch.org

The Powerful Influence of Music
from the messages of Adrian Rogers
BIBLE MEDITATION:
2 Corinthians 10:5 - " ... and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ."

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
Satan is waging a battle to control the thought life of America’s teenagers. The typical teenager listens to an average of 10,500 hours of rock music from the seventh to the tenth grade. That’s only 500 hours shy of all the time he/she spends in school from first through twelfth grade! Do you have any idea of the fatalism that is bombarding the airwaves everyday into young people’s heads? The National Education Association estimates that a percentage of the 5,000 teenage suicides we have in America every year are caused by the fatalistic music of today’s youth. Somebody has said, “You let me write the songs that a nation sings, and I don’t care who makes its laws.”

ACTION POINT:
Is there a teen in your life? If so, spend some time this week talking with them about the music they listen to and the healthy choices they need to make to take back the ground that Satan is trying to conquer with his onslaught of fatalistic music.

http://www.lwf.org/

Monday, August 31, 2009
This Morning's Meditation
C. H. Spurgeon

"On mine arm shall they trust."—Isaiah 51:5.

IN seasons of severe trial, the Christian has nothing on earth that he can trust to, and is therefore compelled to cast himself on his God alone. When his vessel is on its beam-ends, and no human deliverance can avail, he must simply and entirely trust himself to the providence and care of God. Happy storm that wrecks a man on such a rock as this! O blessed hurricane that drives the soul to God and God alone! There is no getting at our God sometimes because of the multitude of our friends; but when a man is so poor, so friendless, so helpless that he has nowhere else to turn, he flies into his Father's arms, and is blessedly clasped therein! When he is burdened with troubles so pressing and so peculiar, that he cannot tell them to any but his God, he may be thankful for them; for he will learn more of his Lord then than at any other time. Oh, tempest-tossed believer, it is a happy trouble that drives thee to thy Father! Now that thou hast only thy God to trust to, see that thou puttest thy full confidence in Him. Dishonour not thy Lord and Master by unworthy doubts and fears; but be strong in faith, giving glory to God. Show the world that thy God is worth ten thousand worlds to thee. Show rich men how rich thou art in thy poverty when the Lord God is thy helper. Show the strong man how strong thou art in thy weakness when underneath thee are the everlasting arms. Now is the time for feats of faith and valiant exploits. Be strong and very courageous, and the Lord thy God shall certainly, as surely as He built the heavens and the earth, glorify Himself in thy weakness, and magnify his might in the midst of thy distress. The grandeur of the arch of heaven would be spoiled if the sky were supported by a single visible column, and your faith would lose its glory if it rested on anything discernible by the carnal eye. May the Holy Spirit give you to rest in Jesus this closing day of the month.

http://www.spurgeon.org/morn_eve/this_morning.cgi

Monday, August 31, 2009
This Evening's Meditation
C. H. Spurgeon

"If we walk in the light, as He is in the light."—1 John 1:7.

AS He is in the light! Can we ever attain to this? Shall we ever be able to walk as clearly in the light as He is whom we call "Our Father," of whom it is written, "God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all"? Certainly, this is the model which it set before us, for the Saviour Himself said, "Be ye perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect"; and although we may feel that we can never rival the perfection of God, yet we are to seek after it, and never to be satisfied until we attain to it. The youthful artist, as he grasps his early pencil, can hardly hope to equal Raphael or Michael Angelo, but still, if he did not have a noble beau ideal before his mind, he would only attain to something very mean and ordinary. But what is meant by the expression that the Christian is to walk in light as God is in the light? We conceive it to import likeness, but not degree. We are as truly in the light, we are as heartily in the light, we are as sincerely in the light, as honestly in the light, though we cannot be there in the same measure. I cannot dwell in the sun, it is too bright a place for my residence, but I can walk in the light of the sun; and so, though I cannot attain to that perfection of purity and truth which belongs to the Lord of hosts by nature as the infinitely good, yet I can set the Lord always before me, and strive, by the help of the indwelling Spirit, after conformity to His image. That famous old commentator, John Trapp, says, "We may be in the light as God is in the light for quality, but not for equality." We are to have the same light, and are as truly to have it and walk in it as God does, though, as for equality with God in His holiness and purity, that must be left until we cross the Jordan and enter into the perfection of the Most High. Mark that the blessings of sacred fellowship and perfect cleansing are bound up with walking in the light.

http://www.spurgeon.org/morn_eve/this_evening.cgi

A little Testimony: I still remember the first time I heard this song as a solo in Church. My life was a mess, as a single mom, and my abusive ex-husband stalking us. I remember the tears streaming down my face, as the words, resounded in my spirit. Even today, it is there, each and every time, I sing or hear someone else sing this. IT IS WELL with my SOUL! Though trials may come, the LORD is there, and HIS LOVE, flows over me, like a blanket of HIS COMFORT. We have nothing to lose, and everything to GAIN, through CHRIST our LORD and SAVIOR.

Please listen to the words of this Gospel Hymn; It is well with my soul.