Better things ahead...!

With Leslie my husband at #SomaVineyards #Nasik

2015 may have been a very difficult one for some of us. It sure was for us.

But it is God's grace we stand this day facing a new year and hoping and praying our desert walk will end and we will walk into green pastures!

This difficult season too will pass and our desert will bloom again.

And..

God did not promise....

A life free of pain,

Skies always blue,

Pathway strewn with flowers,

A bed of roses,

Only sunshine with no rain,

Only joy and not sorrows,

No heart breaking incident...

But He has promised.....

Grace for the trials,

Light for the way,

Strength when we are weak,

A lift when we fall,

His undying love,

His presence with us at all time!

To mend a broken heart..

This gives us the courage to keep walking this narrow, difficult path...

May Grace and Peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be multiplied on each of you.

God Bless you all and thanks to our friends, family and Church family that prayed with us, encouraged us, blessed us in so many ways!

 We praise God for our desert and valley walks too!

It has molded us, humbled us, renewed us, strengthened us, made us wiser and given much more!

Julia

Looking ahead at 2016 with Hope!

Our desert will bloom and dry land watered...

Habakkuk 3:17 Though the fig tree may not blossom,

Nor fruit be on the vines;

Though the labor of the olive may fail,

And the fields yield no food;

Though the flock may be cut off from the fold,

And there be no herd in the stalls—

18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD,

I will joy in the God of my salvation.

19 The LORD God [c] is my strength;

He will make my feet like deer’s feet,And He will make me walk on my high hills.

When God allows us to pass through testing times we should know we'll come out stronger and better.Let's learn to walk through the desert praising God. 

 Soon the dry deserts in our lives too will bloom.

God permits these desert walk so that we learn to cope with pain, rejection, misunderstanding, loss, death etc. 

When we faithfully endure, in due season God will make our deserts bloom. 

Let's serve God regardless of our circumstance. May be nothing is going as planned but let's remember God has good plans for each one of us His children.

Let's praise God at all times..even in our dry seasons.

Has the going been tough for some of us?

God's Word says..

 " We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose." Romans 8:28

So let's press on...

Julia

#SomaVineyards

Study The Word of God!

Good Morning!

Ignorance of God's Word makes us confused, double minded, keeps us in darkness and weakens us!

It is better we search ‪God's Word‬ prayerfully to know God's thoughts on any matter, than search on Google which will only leave us confused!

God's Word says,

2 Timothy 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

We may read God's Word daily but when was the last time we sat down to study and search the Word of God?

Hebrews 4:12 "For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and discerns the thoughts and intents of the heart."

If we do not seek and search, how will we find and know the truth?

Only when we study His Word we can discern right from wrong and know what is acceptable to the Lord. May we too daily take time to search God's Word to find out what God has to say and not believe all the different teachings we hear on TV, read on the net etc.

The Bereans not only received the word in all readiness but they also searched the scriptures to confirm if the things they heard preached were true!

In ancient times, the Bereans were the inhabitants of the city of Berea, also known in the Bible as Beroea, and now known as Veria in what is today Greek Macedonia, northern Greece.

Acts 17:10 "Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these."

What is it, though, that made the Bereans so special? The Bereans did not blindly believe but examined what they heard by comparing it to the Old Testament Scriptures. The fact that they honestly listened and conducted further personal research led many Bereans to faith in Jesus as the Messiah. They are a positive example of how a person has to respond to biblical teaching.

May we not blindly believe all we hear and read and form our opinion of Yahweh and His Word! Let us ourselves Read His Word and get to know Him and His Will.

Be blessed studying His Word,

Julia