Gird up the loins of your mind

What does this really mean and what was happening at this time?

I am going through the New Testament and am up to Peter in my reading of the NT.
My attention was stopped at 1Pet1:13.

Peter was writing to the Jewish believers struggling in the midst of persecution. The paragraph descriptor of my bible says that persecution can cause either growth or bitterness in the Christian Life.

So Peter, in the first chapter speaks about God
He shares on God's abundant mercy to these believers, and the living hope through Jesus for resurrection and inheritance, and how they are kept by God's power through faith.  But he then encourages them ....that although (now for a little while) grieved by various trials; that the genuineness of their faith, which is much more precious than gold that perishes, though their faith is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honour, glory at the revelation of Jesus, whom not seen they love, and although they don't see yet believing they rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory.

He then goes on to encourage them to stay faithful in their conduct.... And this is the phrase I wanted to look into more, and felt was important to understand.

Therefore, GIRD UP THE LOINS OF YOUR MIND, be sober, and rest your hopefully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is Holy, you also be Holy in your conduct....

I pondered this for a while, then googled the scripture and came across an explanation by an author I respect in the Christan faith. The explanation is about a runner running his race, not stumbling over the things that may want to trip him or entangle in his mind (or her's, or mine!).

Especially when things are tough, I am especially looking and challenging my thought patterns; are they staying in faith, honouring God, being true to the faith and God's ways. Your thoughts really can trip you up. Old pains that are triggered by situations are especially sneaky and can really capture your thoughts and manifiest itself in your heart, soul, body!

But God is so Good as He reveals, heals, and brings truth so that our faith, even in the pain of testing, grows and produces life.

Check out this article by Rick Renner from Sparkling Gems regarding the scripture about girding up the loins of your mind. It us a great insight and encouragement.

Rick Renner - Sparkling Gems

Be blessed!

How do you see?

Seeing in the Word & the Spirit of truth.

About Christian progress.....
It is when you see you are dead to sin that you die to it (daily); it is when you see you are risen that you arise; it is when you see you are a 'new creature' in Him that you (progressively) grow. Seeing the accomplished fact in the Word determines the pathway to the realising of that fact. The end is reached by seeing, not by desiring or working. The only possibility of spiritual progress lies in our discovering the truth as God sees it; the truth concerning Christ, the truth concerning ourselves in Christ. Watchman Nee.

When I first came to church, intrigued by the girl who I worked with and her faith, the Spirit of God touched me powerfully, it was not imagined but real. The tears testified to that. The JOY I felt driving home after that meeting testified to that. I had to grow in the understanding that God loved me, as life had distorted the reality of this love. This took time and revelation and unraveling old thinking and healing. I came to understand that it is God who is good and I needed a Saviour. Because of sin - my sin, my life, my thoughts, my actions, the whole of me needed redemption. As this all unfolded, as I believed, I really started to see what W. Nee said above and, glory to God, I see clearer than I ever have before and will continue to grow in this.... I did a good job of covering the shame, the fear, the timidity, the rejection, the junk, but God in His grace saw through all of that. He saw me!

Ephesians 3:20-21 (NKJV)
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Words of Knowledge

I was reflecting on some of my first few words of knowledge and the stories behind them.

My first word of knowledge:    SORE BACK

We were in church and we were asked to look around the room and see if the Lord impresses on us anything for someone in the congregation. I looked around and over the other side of the room I saw an older gentleman (55yrs approx.) who I hadn’t seen before sitting next to a couple who went to the church.  I felt that he had something wrong with his back.  We were encouraged to get up and call out what we were getting but I was fearful. At the end of the service I was talking to the girl of the couple and she said that the older gentleman was her dad, visiting for the first time.  I asked Angelina that when I looked around the room my sights stopped at her dad and I felt that he had a bad back.  She said to me that he has a very bad back and she was excited because the Lord had picked him out.  She ended up telling him what I saw and he was encouraged that this took place.  It was his first time in church and hence he was also very wary about the things of God.

My second word of knowledge:   YOU ARE PREGNANT

It was again a church setting and this couple was in my home group. They were having trouble conceiving and it was causing some heartache.  They already had one child but dearly wanted another. In the meantime I had bought a book from Koorong called ‘Healing the Sick’ by TL Osborn and it really impacted me. One day I felt to lend this book to the lady to read.  So I left it with her.  A few months later I was sitting in church, Marissa had finished reading the book at this stage, and we were on other sides of the room.  I had such a great urge to stand up in the middle of the service and the congregation and yell out to her ‘you are pregnant, you are pregnant’ but I didn’t.  A few weeks later they told everyone that she was pregnant and she ended up having a girl.

Another word of knowledge:    YOUR CALLING - TEACHER

It was at a time where I was on a trip to Adelaide for a church conference. I had met one of the girls new to the church, who I didn’t know really well, and it so happened that she ended up being my flat mate for a couple of years following on from this.  During the ride home from Adelaide to Sydney, going through the inland road home, I asked the Lord, ‘what do you see for Imelda’. And I instantly got a picture of her sitting on a chair with children around her and some of them with their arms raised like they were in school.  I thought, wow, she is a teacher.

So during and from this time she was not sure what she wanted to do in life. She worked, and years on, once we stopped sharing, she started studying. First she went to bible college and then she did a counselling type course, but now, just now, 16 years after that picture, she is heading toward her final year of study for a teaching degree for primary school children.  I emailed her last year, I felt to encourage her to keep going with what she was doing and told her the picture I had all those years ago.  She was very encouraged.

There is more, but that is all I can think about right now.

With the first word of knowledge, it would have been best for me to pray for him.  But, still, in him knowing, he was blessed that it was revealed, as he was seeing that it was God that did the revealing.

In the 2^nd word of knowledge, because I had such an excitement and urge bursting in me, I don’t know if it would have been right for me to get up in the middle of church, but again I think I spoke to them after.  But it truly was a God miracle.

With the 3^rd word of knowledge, I think it again is an encouragement, both to me and to my friend, especially at the place she was at when I revealed that vision to her. But also I can see that the Lord will give me other prophetic utterances for people.

The key in this one was to remember to ask!

Fly Together

This is a twist on a previous post using the two pictures earlier this month...

 

FB post.

 

I wanted to share this picture that I found on a FB group I subscribe to, which included the words 'Fly together'.

 

I love this picture for marriages, the body of Christ, ministries, the callings of God....

 

Encourage each other. Seek Peace together....

Eph 4
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all. But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.”Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

 

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ; from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

 

I also added the picture of eagle's as some may relate to that picture as well. Both are pretty cool and speak of something beautiful.

 

 

 

 

Yes, Fly together!

 

 

 

Jesus: King of Kings

The other night I had a dream. A person known to me was wearing a pair of brown ankle boots. She was struggling to walk in them and her left leg was being dragged behind her.  The person gave me the boots to try on to see if I wanted them, as in the natural we sometimes exchange shoes. I tried them on but although they seemed to fit length wise the shoes were really heavy. They were really wide inside, didn't feel nice and although similar the shoes were actually a little different, not even complete with material missing, not matching and even the laces seemed odd.

 

I knew the shoes were no good, not for me and I could see why she had trouble walking in them. I then saw a glimpse of the brand name on the ankle area, which was a brand that use to make shoes and I don't know if they still do?

 

The brand name was 'Roc

 

The message I saw was she was trying to walk on the Rock without the K. The Roc's didn't fit, were heavy and made her walk very tough. This person is in what I would call a religious system that inhibits the full knowledge and reverence of Christ as King and Lord over all.

 

When I woke I said to a friend that the K for Rock was missing and that we are told stand on the Rock of the revelation who Jesus Christ is. Then my friend said K for King.

 

I thought yes. Jesus is the Christ the Son of God. Amen. And He is also Jesus Christ our King. The revelation of Peter is key! To understand He is Lord and King above all is key!

 

So, He is Lord and King, Redeemer, Love, the Christ who takes away the sins of the world and if we have seen Him, we have seen God. To know Him is to know God. That Our Father has revealed Himself in Christ and made Him Lord over all. God is Lord over all. He is preeminent!

 

We are to stand on the full revelation of Jesus Christ our ROCK. All He has done and wants for us 'as a partial understanding' will hinder our walk, our standing, our identity and even salvation itself.

So, we can pray and encourage each other to know Jesus better. To really acknowledge who He is. That people would know Him as the Christ, the Son of the living God, Christ our King! People who don't yet know Him, people who are stuck in religious systems that blind their sight in the truth..... And for our brothers and sisters, to encourage and build each other in Christ, and to encourage each other in to the fullness we have which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

Matthew 16:13-20

When Jesus came into the coasts of Cæsarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock (the revelation of who Jesus is) I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

 

Jesus King of Kings - Scripture references

Jesus the Christ

So Jesus goes from Galilee to Judea. In the middle of the celebrated feast He goes into the temple and teaches.

 

He says, 'if any man thirst, let Him come to me and drink. He that believeth on Me, as the scripture has said, out of His belly shall flow rivers of living water. (here He was talking about receiving the Holy Spirit which would be given once He was glorified).

 

The response by those listening was...
He is the Prophet
Some said, this is the Christ
But some doubted and said, shall the Christ come out of Galilee? Has not the scriptures said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem where David was?

 

Did they recognized something in Him; His teaching with authority and the miracles? But did they discounted it only because they didn't realize he was as the prophets had declared - The seed of David and out of the town of Bethlehem.

 

I wonder what their response would have been if they realized that the very One they were looking for was standing right in front of them?

 

I found this comment on a website and talking about the probability of only 8 prophecies about Jesus be fulfilled, with the answer as 1 in 1017...  That's 1 in 100, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000.

“The fact is, the birth, crucifixion, and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ are celebrated worldwide by folk of every race, language, and colour, every year. And believing in Jesus, they have been delivered from the most evil, disastrous, frustrating, debilitating habits and life forms possible. The real problem with Jesus Christ is not that folk can't believe in Him—but that they won't believe in Him.” My friend, in all honesty, what are the chances you've not been altogether objective about the nature of the baby born in Bethlehem? What if the baby was God? What if He is God? What if you are to submit your life to Him?

 

 

Worshiping Our Creator

On Sunday I was blessed to go to 3 churches.

As I woke this morning I was thinking about the Worship experience which I had at one church in particular and was also pondering on ‘other’ thoughts about worship that I had been having recently.

My thoughts recently were, unless it is due to my age, that I have questioned my getting in touch with God during a worship time when there is so many ‘things happening’.  I don't want it to be an emotional response to what is being used to help provide an atmosphere, I want it to be because I am in touch with God.

I appreciate wonderful singing, great musicians, wonderful lyrics and being able to express my heart to God with my brothers and sisters in Christ.  I want to worship with my whole spirit, soul, and body!

SO

The surprise visit was to a Christian fellowship that was in a big hall.

Prompted to pray in tongues

In the year 2000 approximately, a girl from church asked if I wanted to share a flat.  I was newly saved, about a year, and she a little longer.  I didn't know her very well, and she was being obedient as she felt it was from the Lord to ask me.  I was living a fair distance from church at the time, so was considering the option.

I asked her when, and she said 2 weeks.  I said 2 weeks, I was thinking more in 2 months... but she said that time frame wouldn't do in her current circumstances, and so, within a short while we were flat hunting. We found a place in Ashfield, NSW.

The day we moved in she was all excited and walking up the front steps she told me that she got engaged last night. Initially I thought, 'oh great' - without the exclamation mark, as I knew I would have to find a new flat mate in about 9 months time.  But, after that initial moment, I was genuinely happy for her. Rejoicing with her all the way to her wedding day! (I was honoured to be asked to sign her marriage certificate).

In all, this strange duo, me 11 years older than her, were a great combo!!

We were blessed with many many hours of talking, sharing, encouraging.  We helped each other through the current season we were both in. She getting ready for marriage, me getting sorted in life after big changes :). I had so many self -esteem issues, and she really encouraged me.

Move ahead ... she got married, she fell pregnant.

One day, I was at home and I felt such a burden to go into my room, shut the door, and pray in tongues.  It was a real desperate, deep praying time.  I was there for quite a while, I was keeping a slight eye on the clock, but was remaining led by the Spirit.

During the praying I asked the Lord, "why am I praying like this?" and I had the thought of my ex-flat mate, and I said, I think [my friend] is having her baby!

After praying deeply, groanings, tongues, for quite a while, all of a sudden peace came.  I looked at the clock and felt to note the time, especially as I wanted an indication to know it was for my [friend].  I then went about my day.

Later that day I received a phone call from the husband of my [friend].  He said that he and his wife are the proud parents of a new baby boy.  I was so excited for them and I asked how it went.  He said that it was touch and go for a time, as the baby's head was too big for the birth process and at one point it looked like the baby would not get past the cervix as his head was stuck.  He explained that the Doctor and medical staff were working hard, trying to decided what process to take, but then all of a sudden his baby boy was finally born naturally, and that, although a stressful birth for mother and baby, they were both OK.  I asked, what time was he born?  The new dad said --:--

I was so surprised as that was exactly the time (to the minute) that I had made a special note to look at the clock, when I felt to stop praying in tongues, when the peace came.

I shared my story with the new Dad, what had been taking place that afternoon and the time I  recorded as to when the prayer specifically stopped.

He was encouraged, I was encouraged, and in all, with this new baby boy, everyone was rejoicing.

I felt blessed that the Lord would prompt me to pray for them at this crucial time of the birth.  I felt so honoured to be a part of it in this way. I was blessed that mother and baby were ok, and dad rejoicing.

The following is a exert from a Smith Wigglesworth writing regarding Tongues in Chapter 18 - book title - unknown?:

On this line I want to tell you about Willie Burton, who is laboring for God in the Belgium Congo. Brother Burton is a mighty man of God and is giving his life for the heathen in Africa. He took fever and went down to death. They said; "He has preached his last; what shall we do?" All their hopes seemed to be blighted, and there they stood, with broken hearts, wondering what was going to take place. They left him for dead; but, in a moment, without any signal, he stood right in the midst of them; and they could not understand it. The explanation he gave was this, that, when he came to himself, he realized a warmth going right through his body; and there wasn't one thing wrong with him. How did it come about? It was a mystery until he went to London and was telling the people how he was left for dead, and then was raised up. A lady came up and asked for a private conversation with him, and arranged a time. She asked, "Do you keep a diary?" He answered, "Yes." She told him, "It happened on a certain day that I went to pray; and as soon as I knelt, I had you on my mind. The Spirit of the Lord took hold of me and prayed through me in an unknown tongue. A vision came before me in which I saw you laid out helpless; and I cried out in the unknown tongue till I saw you rise up and go out of that room." She had kept a note of the time and when he turned to his diary he found that it was exactly the time when he was raised up. There are great possibilities as we yield to the Spirit and speak unto God in quiet hours in our bedrooms. God wants you to be filled with the Holy Ghost so that everything about you shall be charged with the dynamic of heaven.

All Who Are Thirsty

This post started with one word - Nailed!

The Cross of Jesus - The Blood of Jesus - The Risen Jesus; He has set us free.

When Jesus calls, it is a beautiful thing. My heart is stirred!

The Word of God says:

Isaiah 55 An Invitation to the Needy 1 Come, Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk Without money and without cost. 2"Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And delight yourself in abundance.…

A commentary

55:1-5 All are welcome to the blessings of salvation, to whom those blessings are welcome.

In Christ there is enough for all, and enough for each. Those satisfied with the world, that see no need of Christ, do not thirst. They are in no uneasiness about their souls: but where God gives grace, he gives a thirst after it; and where he has given a thirst after it, he will give it. Come to Christ, for he is the Fountain opened, he is the Rock smitten. Come to holy ordinances, to the streams that make glad the city of our God. Come to the healing waters, come to the living waters, Re 22:17.

Our Saviour referred to this, Joh 7:37. Come, and buy; make it your own by application of the grace of the gospel to yourselves. Come, and eat; make it still more your own, and enjoy it. The world comes short of our expectations; we promise ourselves, at least, water in it, and we are disappointed; but Christ outdoes our expectations. We come to him, and we find wine and milk. The gifts offered to us are such as no price can be set upon. The things offered are already paid for; for Christ purchased them at the full price of his own blood, 1Pe 1:19.

Our wants are beyond number, and we have nothing to supply them; if Christ and heaven are ours, we see ourselves for ever indebted to free grace. Hearken diligently; let the proud heart stoop; not only come, but accept God's offers. All the wealth and pleasure in the world, will not yield solid comfort and content to the soul. They do not satisfy even the appetites of the body; for all is vanity and vexation. Let the disappointments we meet with in the world, help to drive us to Christ, and to seek for satisfaction in him only. Then, and not before, we shall find rest for our souls. Hear, and your soul shall live. On what easy terms is happiness offered us! By the sure mercies of David, we are to understand the Messiah. All his mercies are covenant mercies; they are purchased by him, they are promised in him, and out of his hand they are dispensed to us.

We know not how to find the way to the waters, but Christ is given to be a Leader, a Commander, to show us what to do, and enable us to do it. Our business is to obey him, and follow him. And there is no coming to the Father but by him. He is the Holy One of Israel, true to his promises; and he has promised to glorify Christ, by giving him the heathen for his inheritance.

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Hearts be opened, Hearts be healed, in Jesus name, Amen.

What are you proclaiming?

Phil 1:6   And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

I recently heard a song, titled:  Rooftops by Jesus Culture. (song clip below).

Here I am before You, falling in love and seeking Your truth
Knowing that Your perfect grace has brought me to this place
Because of You I freely live, my life to You, oh God, I give
So I stand before You, God
I lift my voice cause You set me free

So I shout out Your name, from the rooftops I proclaim
That I am Yours, I am Yours

All the good You've done for me, I lift up my hands for all to see
You're the only one who brings me to my knees
To share this love across the earth, the beauty of Your holy worth
So I kneel before You, God
I lift my hands cause You set me free

So I shout out Your name, from the rooftops I proclaim
That I am Yours, I am Yours
All that I am, I place into Your loving hands
And I am Yours, I am Yours

Here I am, I stand, with arms wide open
To the One, the Son, the Everlasting God

Salvation - Glory - part 3

In the meantime God had brought this South African girl into my circle and she and I became quite inseparable, and during my dropping her home one evening after a meeting (with her limited time left in Australia) she said that she wants to see Ayres Rock, Darwin etc and I passingly said, 'I've always wanted to do that' but not thinking about joining her, just commenting.

Then out loud she says '' L E T S   DO   I T'.  I can still hear her saying it.  I again got all nervous, thinking I hardly know her, will it be OK etc.  I checked with work and yes, it was all fine, I was on my own little trip through Australia.

We had a great time!  People were thinking we had been friends for years and years, not weeks! It really was a God encounter.

Finally it was the day for [boyfriend] to come home.  I went to the Sydney International Airport to collect him and saw him walking toward me, and as I watched him walk toward me I realised that I had changed so much in those 9 weeks that this person walking toward me I hardly knew.

During a conversation within the following week, I explained to [boyfriend] that I felt that I needed to get to know him again.  I also told him I wanted to do things the right way!

Salvation comes from the Lord - the former years

Significant Moments:

• When approximately 9 years old I was walking with Mum and said "I don't need to go to church because I know God lives in my heart'.
• When approximately 13 years old, walking to high school, remembering exactly where I was (Cordelia Avenue, Coolbellup, crossing the road) I said to myself 2 x "I don't know what I am here for, but I know it is for a special reason.  I don't know what I am here for but I know it is for a special reason:.
• When 29 years old, 1997, I responded to God's call through Jesus Christ and received forgiveness and salvation.

The Full Story:

I remember when I was about 9 or so, I was walking with my mum and out of the blue I said to her 
'I don't need to go to church because God lives in my heart'. It is probably one of the most profound things I have ever said! (I do believe that church is a good and blessed place to go, as God says to meet together, but back then, this was a statement of Faith).  My memory recalls my mum 'falter' and say something like 'well, yes, umm, ok' but I think she was more shocked about what I had just said, and she didn't really know how to respond. On the day it was just a random thought and comment, and it just flew out of my heart and mouth.  I've never forgotten that one little moment!  God lives in my heart!

The background. The influences.

My Nana became / was a very devout Catholic. She would arrive at our place on Sunday mornings to take us to church. I went once or twice, but I was extremely timid and shy and scared. I didn't like going to church or any gathering because there were ... 'people there'. My Nana, bless her heart, would always talk God, but there was always a lot of fear in her talk.  Such as: the 3 days of darkness (she even had a special candle made up so it would last 3 days... it was really tall!) and it was all doom doom doom, punishment etc.

Salvation Comes from the Lord - part 2.

There were a lot of years between those early days until the day when God brought a Christian girl in to my path. He really knows how to speak to us.

I had moved from Perth to Sydney.

I had a boyfriend. Someone I had known as a friend for a long time.

It is now 1996 and I am now 28 years.  I hadn't worked for over a year, I was pretty much on extended leave due to overwork, but soon realised that I needed to get myself back to work.  I applied for a job and started working as a secretary.  This Christian girl truly was a God send. She had started at this workplace a week before me. She was the receptionist, but it was my job to cover the gaps and help at reception when required.  The blessing was that I had often finished my job early, so was able to do a fair bit of work at reception and spend time talking to this girl.

Initially I found out she sang! That was a big draw card for me - I found that someone being able to sing was one of the most amazing things. It was beautiful to hear lovely voices, but it was the expression that could be given through someones heart, through a song.

The names of God - Praise

I turned on the TV this morning and a program had just started. The guy was sharing about praising God and he gave 9 names of God that we can praise Him with. Message on praise. Part 4 of a series. I found this message encouraging and lifted my spirit. The past year has been trying for me and at times out loud I didn't even have the energy to praise, but within me, I could still give thanks, prayer and praise.

Praise with the names of God.

His name is:

Yahweh - to be / ever living / self existing.

Jehovah Jireh - the Lord will provide - Jesus offered for us. Gen 2 God will provide himself a sacrifice. (He is the one who sees ahead. He sees your need before you see it).

Jehovah Rapha - to cure / to heal / to restore. God's name is the healing. His name is synonymous for wholeness. His name is a balm to your wounds.

Jehovah Nissi - God our banner. Ex 17. With a giant threat, praise Jehovah Nissi. Victory.

Jehovah Makkadesh - to set aside, separated. God is separated from sin, God is sinless. God dedicated himself for me. Holy.

Jehovah Shalom - God our peace. Judges 6. Gideon. Disobedient to God, but they turned to Him and God heard their prayer and they built an alter. Deep abiding peace.

Jehovah Rohi - the Lord is my Shepherd.

Jehovah Tsidkenu - the Lord our Righteousness. Jer 23:6. This is like a long tall glass of water to a thirsty person. Jer was a time of violence and corruption. Spiritual leaders confused and scattered.
God said, I am going to send my Righteousness. Christ became our righteousness.

Jehovah Shammah - God is always present. Every moment of every day, God is there for you. He never pretends he doesn't know you, even when you can not accept yourself he accepts you.

Mat 28:20 This is why I praise. Praise His name and sense him engulfing you. Praise God with lips, with resources, with who we are.

Leadingtheway.com.au Empowered by Praise part 4. Dr Michael Youssef.

Empowered by Praise

God's Word to my Mum.

My mum was diagnosed with breast cancer in the yr 2000 approx. She had found a lump in her right breast so she went to the doctor and had tests to confirm it. Quickly she had an operation; her breast and some lymph nodes were removed, with the cancer said to be relatively aggressive and estrogen fed.

Her next challenge was the process of Chemotherapy. She lost her hair, her wellness, but she seemed so strong emotionally. I spent a couple of weeks with her early on, looking after her as she recovered from her operation as well as going through her initial chemo treatment. (We live in different States in Australia, so I had some time off to be with her).

Once this chemo process was all done she would then have 6 monthly and then yearly checks, to make sure there was no return of the cancer.  In the 10th year she had her final check and they said there is no need for her to come back - she was cancer free.