MEMORIES and THE POWER OF HIS LOVE

I'd like to share with you how this blog came to be. I pray daily--many, many times a day. I pray for others, for myself, for situations, thanks and praise. I was visiting someone else's blog one day, and I saw that she had a prayer journal, and I thought to myself, "What a good idea!" As I thought on this, the idea flourished into inviting others to share in this experience. Thus, the beginnings of "The Power of Your Love". This will be a blog where you can address prayer requests, praises, what are your concerns, joys, sorrows. You could contribute a poem that you may have written, a picture that you love that depicts your love of our Lord, a video, a scripture that is particularly meaningful to you and why, anything that is given to the glory of God. I have several people who have expressed interest in this, and I am going to be inviting them as authors. If you happen to come across this and would like to be included, please let me know. And now--my first prayer request: My Father, As we begin, I ask your blessings upon this venture. Please utilize this spot to glorify your name, and your name alone. All things have come from you, and I lift up my praise and love to you on this day and everyday of my life. In Jesus' precious name I pray, Amen ~ written by sailorcross 9/13/08

I recently went back and read what 'sailorcross' wrote upon starting this blog. Isn't it beautiful? Doesn't it just about cover so much of the Power of His love.
I did not come on board until much later (the last of the crew here) and then she and I started "The Lighthouse of Prayer" together to do just what she had hoped to do here. 

I found out back at this time, that she is particularly fond of lighthouses and so our Lighthouse was launched together. There is so much power in God's love and in His Light. He shines His Light in our darkness and reveals, if we listen, to how we can go forth in His Light and escape the darkness. A lighthouse has a purpose to guide the sailors to a safe place. Our Lighthouse of Prayer also has that purpose to guide the lost, the broken, the hurting, the sick, to a Safe Place, the Light of our world - Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He came to be a Light to us and hoped that we would be a light to others, when they may be lost, may be shipwrecked, may be going through a storm or when they just need to find the Rock, a Safe Place, a Refuge to wait it out. 

I just felt that it is important to reflect and be His light and lead you once again to read about the beginnings of "The Power of Your Love"! Because although the Power of God's Love is the most important, He calls on each one of us to share that power that comes from His Love and His Light with others.

This is the importance of the Power. We all must be connected to the Source which gives us this power. The power is given to us through Jesus Christ and by His Spirit. But as the words to the song say, "Lord, I come to You..." we must first come to Him. Surrender to Him completely. Let go of whatever is hindering us or being an obstacle in us to move ahead in our journey. FORGIVENESS is the place where this LOVE is released and shines best (as you can see this word with the folded hands of prayer in this blog's header). 

The next line in the song is "let my heart, be changed, renewed..." which is only possible by the grace found in Our Lord (the next part of the song). We must change, we must be renewed, but if we could do this on our own, why don't we? Because we need Him. We need the Lord and His grace to change us and free us from anything and everything that is hindering us from walking by faith, in His power, authority and strength daily. Yes, daily we must say, "Not my will, but Thine." I surrender all to You this day! Let's start fresh! 
And we can, and we do, BY THE POWER OF HIS LOVE and Grace as we "come to know" Him and His Grace, "the weaknesses" that He sees in us "will be stripped away" by the POWER OF HIS LOVE!
We (I) have posted this song many times on this blog with different videos. Yet, I will share for my last time, my most recent favorite of "The Power of Your Love" ... and let's allow His Spirit to melt these words into our hearts as our prayer every day... until we see Him "face to face" may the knowledge of His Love as He "lives in us, renew our minds" as His "will unfolds in our lives" in LIVING EVERY DAY BY THE POWER OF HIS LOVE! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjtGS0S_VbYdone by  UPWARD CALL
Thank You Lord for the Power of Your Love!
Thank You Lordfor holding me, surrounding me
Thank Youfor bringing me near to YouDrawing me to Your side
And as I waitI'll rise up like an eagleI will soar with YoubecauseYour Spirit leads me onBY THE POWER OF YOUR LOVE!
Thank You LORD!
With all my love and YoursI bid 'adieu'
Peggy

Change

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40: 24-31

I did a little blog hopping early this morning, and I found many posts about "change". Even I wrote on warmharte regarding change before I started hopping around. Is it the season for change? Is it because summer is turning rapidly into autumn? Or is it because we are being more receptive to the changes God desires for us?

I was listening to the song "The Power of Your Love" by Hillsongs on my way to church this morning. And this song is also about change--allowing God to see the weaknesses in ourselves, stripping them away and replacing them with His will for us.

I have made many changes in my life, and I still have many to work on. I cannot do these things alone. I need God's direction in my life, God's strength, God's hope. If I do not rely on God's power, I will certainly falter and fall.

I need to ask God, moment by moment, what I am to do next.

With God at my side, drawing me closer and closer to Him, increasing my faith and trust in Him, by His power and His power alone, I will be able to make these changes. Then I will soar on wings like an eagle.

I used the words to this song as a prayer this morning. I invite you to do the same--listen to the song and pray the words asking God into your heart to give you the strength and power to sustain you in your own personal changes.

Lord I come to You
Let my heart be changed, renewed
Flowing from the grace
That I found in You.
And Lord I've come to know
The weaknesses I see in me
Will be stripped away
By the power of Your love.

Hold me close
Let Your love surround me
Bring me near
Draw me to Your side.
And as I wait
I'll rise up like the eagle
And I will soar with You
Your Spirit leads me on
In the power of Your love.

Lord unveil my eyes
Let me see You face to face
The knowledge of Your love
As You live in me.
Lord renew my mind
As Your will unfolds in my life
In living every day
In the power of Your love.

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