What do you say....

What do you say to someone who is discouraged?  How do you help them find their way - Especially when you know this person has been giving it their all to follow the Lord.  We all know the story of Job and how God allowed the enemy to test Job.  But when it all becomes words and more words and you really don't have anything new to say or just do not know what to say...As much as I have tried to instill in my children that God is soverign and can do whatever He wants, sometimes, it just seems that God is not fair; that He does allow more than what we can tolerate.  It becomes really hard when this person is your husband and best friend in life.  When you have gone through all the troubles and trials with them and you have no answers, what's left? 

Well, well??? 

I don't know.  All I can say is COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS!  Start calling to mind all the impossible  moments of your life and remember what the Lord, Your God, has done for you.  If the whole world deserts you, the Lord will still be there.  He is still the one who makes the sun shine and hangs the moon in the sky. 

I love God's wonderful creations. 
They remind me of His awesome
ways and that He cares when it
appears no one else does. 
This picture, of one of our cats,
reminds me God really does care. 
How lonely and cold 'lil kitty' appears.  Yet, we see God sending warmth by the sun shining through on a bitter, cold day.  How much God cares for us to meet all of our needs.   

I have to remind myself we really are in a battle.  We have an enemy who does not want to see us succeed at anything.  He wants to steal our joy and take away our peace.  As so many prophecies have said, God is shaking.  Yes, I believe there is a shaking going on today and that it is going to become worse as God allows the enemy to test us as He allowed him to test Job. 

I look at our trials and thank God because despite our trials and troubles, they are not what some of my friends are going through and have gone through lately.  In the dark times, there have been overcoming victories.  Life was not exstinquished.  Good won over evil.  In what most would term a loss, they knew the Lord and their lives continue to give glory to God although they are no longer here with us. 

So, I'm praying for all my friends who have been having their own worlds' shaken.  I hope they will pray for us and Lord, could you please encourage my hubby today...Call to rememberance those moments in his life when life seemed hopeless and help him remember what great and awesome things our Lord, Jesus Christ, has done for him!