God Speaks I Listen

I’m missing many body parts.  I’m missing ovaries, uterus, 1 breast, many teeth and some of my hair.  I pray that I can keep what’s left… LOL! Psalm 139:13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.

The rest of me that’s left is wrinkling, shrinking, drying out and not functioning properly.  I must sound like a hot mess to you…but I tell you this….this outward wo-man might be decaying, but my inner man is being renewed every day!  Thank God for the daily renewal of my spirit!!!

2 Corinthians 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. WOW!!!

I’ve suffered with so many physical ailments including the big C…cancer.  I’m still suffering right now physically from other illnesses.  Some days are extremely difficult for me…but I tell you one thing that’s very important to share with you….”IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL!!!!!!!” This means that no matter if my body is mutilated, broken, falling apart and deteriorating…my soul is 100% totally well!!!!  It also means that if things in my life are very difficult or tragic…I’m in the hands of my Savior.

I don’t contain a soul…I AM a soul.  I have a body and a spirit too.   My soul is who I am and everything in my soul is well ( because of Jesus) no matter what happens to me and around me!!!   Isn’t that the greatest news?

My soul is WELL because:

1. I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior and I’m saved.
2. The Holy Spirit lives inside of me helping me 24/7.
3. I’m so blessed regardless of my situation.
4. My name is written in the Lambs book of life.
5. I’m God’s adopted child.
6. I’m destined for heaven.
7. God loves me so much!

***Psalms 121:7  The LORD will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul.***

See you don’t have to worry about your soul!!!!!!!

I experience peace in my soul in the midst of my suffering!  I’m not saying here that life doesn’t hurt …I’m talking about my soul that is me…the total makeup of the human being that I am.   If I lived how my body really feels… I would never get out of the bed in the morning.  There have been many days though when I’ve been too sick to get out of the bed and even then it is still well with my soul.

My spirit is soaring because my soul is well!

I was not always this way.  Before I got saved and even in the early years of my commitment to the Lord…I doubted God a lot.  I didn’t know what God could do for me in the midst of my difficult circumstances.  I didn’t understand God’s ways at all.  I cried a lot over everything.  I had lots of pity parties!!  I was a spiritual mess!

But the more I got to know God…the more that I learned:

1. To walk with God and trust in Him.
2. That the more I understood that I don’t understand God… I really was understanding His ways….Huh? Read this slower LOL!
3. That God’s motives towards me are 100%.
4.  That God has His own plans or agenda for me!!!!!
5. That God has super powers and angels and He will use them to help and protect me!
6. That trials are a natural part of a Christian’s life.  Suffering teaches us patience and also shows us many victories and miracles and that brings glory to God. In other words…God shows up and shows out!!!
7. That studying the bible helps me to learn that God is trustworthy, Jesus gives peace of mind and that the Holy Spirit is my helper.

This old body?  Huh!….Did you know when we get to heaven….we are going to have a glorified supernatural body.  So I won’t need my missing parts.  I’ll never be sick again.  I love this song:

Turn you eyes upon Jesus
Look full in His wonderful face
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace

Now don’t get me wrong…I’m not treating my body all willy nilly!  I take care of it as best I can.  You know checkups and all.  I’m just saying that I make sure my spiritual needs and my soul are well fed and taken care of too.

Make sure you feed your soul with good spiritual food from God’s word!

If you have experienced a terrible tragedy like the man who wrote “It Is Well With My Soul”…my heart goes out to you!! Horatio Spafford who composed this song after the terrible tragedy of the death of his 4 daughters, understood that although gut wrenching loss can occur in life your soul can still be ok because of God’s amazing grace.  Before his four daughters died, He lost most of his investments due to the great fire of Chicago.  After the loss of his daughters he had 3 more children, but tragically their son died at the age of 4. “When you have Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and you have put God first in your life…God will be there to support you and bring you through anything that you may suffer.”  Your mind can feel restless and emotional and your heart can really ache bad, but your soul can be well because of God’s amazing grace and the loving help and comfort from the Holy Spirit.  The way God does this in us is unexplainable.  The result is amazing!!!  Reach out and take the Lords hand today and it WILL be well with your soul.

Father God…please bring comfort to all those who need it today!  In Jesus name…Amen!

Why is it well with our soul?  Horatio Spafford said it best in this line from his song:  My sin, not in part but the whole, Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,

There is no better peace in this world than to be cleansed by the blood of Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!

It Is well with my soul

By Horatio Spafford

When peace like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to know,  (Original lyrics. say know,new lyrics use say)
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

Refrain:
It is well, (it is well),
With my soul, (with my soul)
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.

My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

For me, be it Christ, be it Christ hence to live:
If Jordan above me shall roll,
No pang shall be mine, for in death as in life,
Thou wilt whisper Thy peace to my soul.

But Lord, ’tis for Thee, for Thy coming we wait,
The sky, not the grave, is our goal;
Oh, trump of the angel! Oh, voice of the Lord!
Blessed hope, blessed rest of my soul.

And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
A song in the night, oh my soul