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Daily Prayer: Stormie Omartian
Lord, I thank You that Your promises never fail. I see that illustrated in Your Word in each of Your servants through whom Your amazing promises were fulfilled. I pray that You would fulfill Your promises in me. Thank You that You have promised me provision and protection and the fulfillment of my purpose. Thank You that You have promised me eternal life with You. I trust You for all of Your promises, and I thank You that even now they are being fulfilled in my life.
Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised through His servant Moses.
1 Kings 8:56
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This week is a very profound time for me. Yes, with the “Ending of one chapter, one door closes another opens.” We usually don’t know when that other door will open up for us, only God has the answer to that, but in life that other door will usually open up for us when God decides to work his miracles and change our lives in very positive ways. This blog post is special to me because it not only marks my journey, but I get to take this time to just listen to the gospel songs and just enjoy the moment. It’s been a long, and trying year but I have emerged in one piece, thank you God for your mercy and your grace. Thank you for been with me and my two wonderful children everyday, every step of the way and thank you for the lessons even for the ones that were painful.
Some people believe that we are solely responsible for our own destiny, but I beg to defer. In many ways we help to shape our own destiny on a daily basis, but overall God is always in control, he just makes us think we are in control. We would like to believe that we are the masters of our lives, our own destiny. However, we know when we are not in control when God works in very unusual and mysterious ways and we look at our situation and we realise only God could have planned these things in our lives.
We should not as humans fool ourselves into believing that we alone and only us alone are in control of our lives. God has already mapped out his masterplan for our lives, he knows what our lives will be like today, tomorrow and the next day, so trust him. I think the reason why many of us are afraid of change it’s because we have everything perfectly planned in our lives, right down to every minute, every hour of everyday and then God comes in and say, “This is what you have planned for tomorrow, well I have a different plan for you.” Basically as humans we panic and we say, “my gosh, I didn’t expect this to happen what am I going to do?” God then says to us, “just sit back and enjoy the ride, I have something else planned.” Oh, my, gosh it’s true though, we don’t like the unexpected that’s for sure. That’s how God surprises us though, because we can’t see him coming at all, we have no idea what he has planned.
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It will be one year tomorrow April 10th, that I have been legally separated from a marriage of seventeen years. 
What a journey it’s been for me. So many things have happened during the past year, some things joyous, others not so joyous. Through it all, I stood steadfast and made two things my main priority my two wonderful children, making sure that they were safe and they would not be without a roof over their heads, even if it meant I needed to sacrifice my own sense of self, comfort and happiness by living under the same roof as my ex. As long as my children were happy, nothing else mattered to me. As well, working on my “Spiritual Growth” everyday, that was important to me.
The ending of this chapter of my life has taught me so much about myself about the way I have manage to rise up above my difficulties even though the odds were stacked against me, and were they stacked. I believe with all sincerity that the hands of God have carried me to safe waters. Although my situation is not one hundred percent where I would like it to be, I do feel grateful to God for all that he has done. I am alive and well, my children are safe and I know as time goes by things will move in the direction of where I would like my life to be. Yes, I do wish just like I had wished last year that I would have been on my own with my two children starting fresh in a new environment. I don’t know what the future holds but I do know that God walks beside me and he’s worked a few miracles in my life and I am so eternally grateful. It’s been a trying year with many ups and downs but with many ups as well and I know that those experiences I have had though painful some of them, I have learnt many valuable lessons. This new chapter of my life is blessed by God, it’s really hard to explain. I don’t have any fear about my future because I know God has my best interest at heart. Also, I don’t feel any anxiety about this new chapter of my life because I know God has been preparing me for this new journey a long time now.
My strong faith in God is what have been my rock-my foundation for many years, but particularly more so this past year. Prayer and Gospel music were essential to me been strong and focused during this new journey of my life. Below I have some Gospels songs that have carried me through the difficult moments. If my Grandmother were here, she would brush my hair and tell me everything will be alright. She would say, “Don’t worry, don’t worry just rest, everything will be fine.” I miss her so much, after listening to the songs yesterday I cried endlessly not because I was sad but because I know I have managed to keep myself together and keep my children safe despite my obvious discomfort I know my Grandmother would be proud of me.
Like the gospel song says, “I learnt that I could cope, I learn that I could grow, and through my struggles I discovered I could make it.”
So, today I say to the Lord what I have said many times before:
“Ohhh… Lord I want you to help me….Help me on my journey, help me on my way—“Oh Lord I want you to help me” —-Amen.
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Stormie Omartian Prayer of the Day
www.stormieomartian.com
When You Need to Understand Your Purpose and Your Future
Lord, I know that You have created me with a unique gifting and a specific calling. Help me to understand what that is. You have given me a special purpose. Help me to move into it. You have established for me a future that is good. Help me to trust You about that, especially when the future seems unsure or frightening. Help me to always lift up praise to You and thank You for all that You have ahead for me. Thank You that I will never lose the calling and purpose You have for my life. Thank You for freedom to be who You created me to be.
He who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called while free is Christ’s slave.
1 Corinthians 7:22
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*This song “Father Can You Hear Me” is a nice song to listen to—(See Video Link Below) The song is from the movie: “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” the storyline was about a woman who was married to a very abusive guy, he was a very successful Lawyer and had a lot of power over this woman, he also had a very, very, filthy temper, bad temper this guy—You wouldn’t want to mess with him. In the movie, this guy was not only emotionally abusive but also physically abusive to this woman. I wouldn’t want anyone like that with that kind of bad temper coming into my life, I don’t need that, not for the next chapter of my life. I know it’s hard to detect men like these because at first they are sweet and nice to the woman but like the saying goes “ A Leopard will eventually show their true colours.” That bad temper they hide at the beginning will come to light eventually because something is going to get them mad and it shows up whether through emotional abuse or physical abuse. These men don’t take “No” for an answer, and this leads to control issues, they have this overwhelming need to have control over others.
Men with deep seated anger, needs to work on themselves before going into any relationship at all, period. Men like that who carries a filthy temper if they go into any relationships with any woman it won’t last long, the relationship will just die. If you haven’t seen the movie I recommend this movie for women to watch. Anyway, this guy eventually kicked her out of the house and brought another woman into the house, a woman that he had a child with while he was married.
In the video you will see the lady in a (red dress, pink hat and scarf) get up to help the guy with the cane, she was the wife he kicked out of the house but she forgave him and nurse him back to health and eventually moved on with her life because she found someone else who really loved and cared for her. By forgiving him she was able to move on with her life—Amen to that.
(Listen to Song See link below)
Father Can You Hear Me: Watch Video on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnnLKftIcf0
Today I dedicate this song to my Grandmother Verona she was my “Angel on Earth”, she was one the most loving, kind, gentle, giving person I have known in my life, I can’t not talk about her without crying, this was one of her favourite Gospel Song.
Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT88jBAoVIM
Yes, Jesus take the wheel…because I can’t do this on my own
Enjoy the song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lydBPm2KRaU
Mary Mary is a three time Grammy-award winning American Contemporary 
Gospel music duo, consisting of sisters Erica Atkins-Campbell who is 38 yrs.old (seen in the yellow top) and Tina Atkins-Campbell–36 yrs.old
Love these two sisters and their great R & B gospel songs—Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agxi8cei9h8
Watch on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xXS7Tlwtdg&feature=relmfu
