Thank You Lord.

Thank You.

Don’t worry about anything : instead, pray about everything; tell God your needs and don’t forget to thank him for all his answers. Philippians 4:6 . Living bible

No matter what happens ,always be thankful, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:18. Living bible

I meant to write last week on my birthday but it did not happen. Here I am today , I know I serve a mighty God . A God that can use my delays, and let it be Right timing for something.

Going back to my birthday I want to share what was on my ♥️ that day. I was sincerely filled with gratitude on that day. Thankful to be alive and so ever grateful , for what are truly the most precious gifts I have been blessed with. I was thinking of the gifts my father in heaven had given to me .

Firstly, he has let me live and see another year ,another day. I easily breathe and take for granted that at any moment he wishes he can stop that. He determines every breath I take and how many I take . I don’t count my breaths all day . I don’t plan to do that for any reason but I know he knows all my number of my breaths, taken and left to take . It’s not knowledge that I even want to know . I just want to keep breathing. He is my gift , along with the Son and the Holy Spirit. I was thankful on my birthday for the trinity.

My other gifts are my family , My blessing of a husband that loves me dearly and through him our 2 loves of our lives ,my victor and my Eliyah.

God has entrusted Me. Wow , I will say it again Me with these 3 hearts , hmm ,that’s my second trinity . I have 2 sets of trios that are my life . The first is first and above all of course . I can’t have anything or anyone without God and I would not want to change that .

Furthermore, I thought of family sisters,brothers, nieces,nephews,cousins etc. I am grateful I have them even those I don’t know well or close to . I also thought of the church on earth . I love the body of Christ and when I meet those that love God for God. Those that belong to the body are so blessed . I think we sometimes take for granted how favored, loved, protected, covered in grace we are . I myself don’t realize it at times what a blessing it is to be loved by the one who created me , so much so that he puts others he loves around me to love me. We that belong to him ,speak our own language. I don’t mean what sometimes is referred as Christianese , words like I’m blessed, glory, etc, it’s more than religious words .

I’m not interested in being religious, I want to be like my Jesus , He was not religion but relational , his words were godly ,from heaven . Godliness may sound religious but it’s not. You know the difference by the fruit . The fruit is love . Make no mistake it is righteousness ,holiness, etc but the motive for it all is love.

Nothing is more beautiful than love , I’m so so thankful I am loved most of all. I’m still learning and growing in these love . True love ,not the superficial or just the feelings love, what feels good or convenient kind of love . Nope that’s not true love if it’s gone when it’s tested, I’m talking about the 1 Corinthians 13 kind of love. Read it yourself in more than one version, think about it , pray about it , meditate on it . God became this love for us to see ,know about in the person of Jesus. It takes a lifetime,one day at a time to be transformed into this person . God is good ,I encourage you to ask him to help you be this , live this out the best you can.

I have to do a plug here because the story is about love. I saw this movie called blood brother , directed by Steve Hoover (2013) released date.

What gets me is that this young man who is followed ,literally did what Jesus did, laid down his life because there was risk in working with kids with aids. It moved me and astounded me to see that it was his love for this one little boy, who all believed would surely die from aids ; therefore was not touched by others at the hospital or health center. He however, took care of him , touching, cleaning him, hugging him, just loving him and the boy did not die. I’m also reminded of the story of Genie I learned and read about in my sociology class. She was trapped to a potty chair in an isolated room for the first 11 years of her life , in her parent’s suburban home ( Sociology in a changing world ,William Kornblum, pg 121) . . Her father was psychotic and mother blind. Thank God she was rescued and a researcher named Susan Curtiss studied her development for language for years. It moved me to hear her story and what lack of love ,affection does to a person. Later on she still craved and wanted that love, because years later she drew picture that expressed she missed her mama.

Reminds me of the verse proverbs 19:22 what a man desires is unfailing love ( NIV) other version says kindness , kindness is love . We all need and desire to be loved.

I don’t want to forget that . I’m so thankful for people like that. I’m inspired to love by people that love deeply, selflessly, they are angels around us.

I have many friends that I love dearly that inspire me to love , just will name a few Mandy, Priscilla and Nathalie . These 3 are like angels of love to me , they inspire me to love. To love God more and others more. Haha, wow I realize that they are a trio too . Very interesting indeed. I have 3 trios. I am so grateful that God loves me to give me them and much more. I thank God for women of God that impact others, people like Ms. Bendetta, Ms. Tina, Ms. Edna. Ms. Vicki, Ms. Caroline, Ms. Beverly, Ms. Trae, Ms, Kelly, Ms. Barbara that serve God . There are many can’t name all, I have not met Joyce Meyer but she holds a special place in my heart because of the way and when God use her life and testimony to minister to me. Also, Charlette ,always known as my BF. Others I see once in awhile like Lizette, Tamara, Jackie,Rafaelina,Tiff, few Sam’s, Jessica, Jen, Debbie, Judy,if you are not mention it’s not because you are not in my heart.

I’ve been blessed to meet lovers of God in others countries . Cynthia one of my hearts in Belize. I love some that are asleep, until Jesus returns but God still uses them to minister to me , my favorites Elizabeth Elliott, George Mullier, Derek Prince, Smith Wigglesworth, Richard Wurmbrand, Amy Carmichael And list goes on . And last but not least thankful for music that ministers to me , I would be here all day if I named songs and singers but few songs are , It is well , Victory belongs to Jesus, Thy will be done,For your glory, This is amazing grace. Something about the name of Jesus. Pretty much almost any song with the name of Jesus ,lol.

I have said plenty I think, I hope and pray you find something to be thankful for and someone to be thankful for and please cover them in prayer. God bless you ,cover you , heal you and keep you. Don’t forget you can choose to love someone before someone loves you . The truth is you are loved always first by God. Someone loves you . Love someone today.

Ps. Today is a special day too, it’s not my birthday but the birthday of someone I love. Happy Birthday my dear sister Dorla, May God fill this year and all your years he gives you with love . ❤️ You are one of his treasures he wrapped in love when he made you. You love me and I thank you for that.