>You Can Have Me

>I have spent the past week preparing myself to receive the worst news today.
This morning on the way to the hospital, as I was singing songs of praise to my Creator, my Maker, the song by the Sidewalk Prophets, You Can Have Me, came on the radio and as I drove and sang, I prayed.
I was ready.
Or at least I told myself I was.
I was ready to go through whatever God had waiting for me with these tests.
I told Him that I would count it all joy.
I told Him that I would be honored to know the joy of His suffering.
He could have me.
I would go through whatever He needed me to go through to conform me into the image of Christ.
I would go through it with grace and be a testimony of His love in the midst of whatever trials this life brings.
I was geared up and ready to fight for the glory of Christ and the increase of His kingdom. If it takes death working in me to bring eternal life to someone else, God I am ready…
Or at least I believe I think I am…

“So death works in us,
but life in you.”
2 Corinthians 4:12

After the first test, they said there was no reason for the second.
They said this with a smile… so I assume it was good news.
So now I wait for the final word… but it all looks very positive, so many prayers have been answered.
Thank you for yours 🙂

But now… after having geared up for the fight… I feel almost as if God did not count me as worthy to carry this cross.
I know.
How crazy is that? To desire to be able to rejoice in the fact that I was allowed to suffer for His sake…
Well maybe it’s not too crazy.

“They took his advice; and after calling the apostles in,
they flogged them
and ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus,
and then released them. 
So they went on their way from the presence of the Council,
rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for His name. 
And every day, in the temple and from house to house,
they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.”  
Acts 5:40-42

The truth is death still works in me so that life may work in others. Death works in us every time we have layed down our own wants, desires, and needs for the benefit of another. It’s just that as for me, it doesn’t look like it will be this way at this time. Oh, but I think, maybe, I am a little more confident in my question that if He were to ask for my life, would I freely give it as He gave His…

Have you ever considered an illness in that way?
As a way to bring glory to God, instead of an attack from Satan?
This was my choice in this possibility.
I would count it all joy to be an example of living in dying because I know that to live is Christ, and to die is gain (Phil 1:21).

Yes, Father of Love You can have me

>Peace of Christ and a Praying Husband

>This morning are my tests.
I am about 15 minutes from jumping in the shower and getting ready and heading to the hospital to go through another mammogram and then follow the mammogram with an ultrasound.
Possibly in less than 12hrs I will know if this situation is behind me… or if this is just beginning.

It has indeed, as a friend described it, been “a cloud hanging over me.” I know that God is sovereign. I know that He is in control and I know that He already knows what the results of these tests will be, but nevertheless, the fact that I am clueless creates the cloud.

I have been a little scattered this week, more than usual, I am at norm always a little scattered. So it’s been a week with a report like scattered clouds with a chance of approaching storms…

It’s been a strange, at peace but not, kind of week.

I stand in the peace of my God that is mine by the grace of my God through my faith in Jesus Christ… this peace that surpasses all understanding. It’s so great that we don’t have to understand the peace of God to rest in it.

I received a text from my husband this morning that just placed me in perfect peace. He told me that he had prayed over me until he fell asleep, began again when he woke up, and he prayed for me all the way to work, and was praying for me still, and if I needed him I was to call and he would leave work to come and be with me.

There just is nothing like knowing your husband is praying over you. The power of a praying husband brings a peace like no other can, not the pastor, not the Sunday school teacher, not the CBN prayer line…

 “Husbands, love your wives,
just as Christ also loved the church
and gave Himself up for her, 
so that He might sanctify her,
having cleansed her
by the washing of water with the word”
(Ephesians 5:24-26)