Blessings in Foreign Form

Often time’s people miss out on their blessings because it doesn’t come in the packaging that they expect. This is a sad realization. We pray and we pray for breakthroughs and blessings to rain down on us. But we do not recognize the blessing when it is set before us.

Last week I was invited and privileged to attend a prophetic anointed service that the anointing of Kevin Leal was unleashed to the benefit of the attendees. One of the topics he touched on was the inability of God’s people to recognize when God has sent someone into their live to bless them. He referenced scripture in 1 Samuel 30. Within this scripture the chapter is the revelation of a successful battle which was granted to David through a most unlikely source.

David and his warriors raised their voice to the Lord to know how they should proceed in battle. For he was in pursuit of the Amalekite’s who had raided and captured two of his wives. A blessing in the form of an improbable messenger was a sick and left behind Egyptian servant of an Amalekite.

The Lord sent them a resource outside their familiarity, not in a package they would expect. Yet David kept within his faith in the Father to accept this gift from an unlike source. And this acceptance caused him to be successful in battle and recovery of his wives. So as Kevin Leal stated, “Lord send me my Egyptian.” Do you want yours?

Lift my EYES

Eleven years ago our eyes were lifted to the unfathomable events in New York City, Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon. Today where are our eyes?

It is my prayer and my hope that we are looking towards the Great I Am. With this in mind I offer my thought for today. Today’s thought – The Hope of His People gives us today thanksgiving in remembrance of each life returned to You Father 11 years ago today. They are away from our physical presence but they rest in You in spirit. We shout HALLELUJAH, for no matter what it looks like to these earthly eyes, You are ever more in control. “But Thou, O Lord, art a shield about me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head…I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people who have set themselves against me round about.” Psalms 3:3&6 NASB

Lift our eyes to the One who is our eternal hope. He is the One who in His infinite wisdom and by His elegance had fore thought to reconcile His creation unto Him. He did this not because we deserve this but by grace and an earthly sacrifice of His Son who was with Him from the beginning.

Friendship Montage

This past weekend I was filled with celebration of friendship with three different friends. And as I reflect on this weekend I was drawn to a comment by one of my friends. This comment expressed that I do not discriminate in friendship. This observation became illuminated in the spending and enjoyable three days with three different people that I am privileged go call “friend”. And these three days exemplified the true montage in friendship that my life is filled with. My friends are a real tapestry of friendship.

I have friends older, same age and younger than myself. For example on Saturday I spend the time with a friend of over 20 years and her family. This friend is old enough to be my mother but her family over the years has enveloped me into their family.

On Sunday I shared dinner with former co-workers parents. I have the opportunity to have dinner with them at least once a month and speak with them weekly. By the way they are in their 90’s. They too, consider me a part of their family and call me their daughter. Because they are of a different race, often times I get stare from people who eyes which express the comment of, “Why is she with those people”, and sometimes they are even bold enough to ask how I know these elderly people. So my stock answer is that these are my parents. You could SMASH mud on those goggled eyes in disbelief. But what can they say? It’s none of their business anyway!

Then on Monday, the holiday, I spent the day with a graduate school friend at an Expo. After the Expo we visited with one of my friend’s lifelong friends. These two friends are younger than I. Throughout the many occasions that we have gathered we have developed an inner circle of our own.

Do I have a lot of friends? No. Do I have quality in friends? Yes. So when I page though acquaintances or friends of friends Facebook pages I most readily remember that one doesn’t get a prize for the number of people you friend. Keep your inner circle tight. For everyone who you “Friend” you may not be your friend. Oh and by the way the reply to the comment by my friend that I don’t discriminate in friendship my response was, “Yes, I have a variety of friends. I give everyone a chance for if they are not a friend it will not take long for them to show their true colors.”