God on the Mountain

The other night when we were coming home from my friend Buck's church. We were listening to The Cruz Boys sing "God on the Mountain." I always did like how they sung it. I don't know if they could sing it like they use too because three of the boys have grown up and they probably couldn't hit their high notes now. The other Cruz Boy was the boys' dad. I wish I could share their version of the song, but I only have the song on a tape. I found another video on YouTube of the song though.

Psalm 139:3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

In the first verse of the song it says we are never alone. And Psalm 139:3 says God knows when I lie down and he knows my ways. So if you ever feel alone, remember God is with you in the valleys and on the mountain tops.

Please Go With Me!

Last night we went to my friend's church for the start of their revival. Brother Paul Hagen preached and as always did a great job. When he was preaching, this verse kept coming to my mind. He was talking about how God lets you go through things because he knows that you will come through it.

I read this verse the other day in Exodus and it gave me comfort. Moses was praying to God and he said...

And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. Exodus 33:15

You know what happened God answered his prayer. Even if the children of Israel wondered around for 40 years God still answered Moses' prayer because they made it to the place God wanted them to be. When I read that I said to myself, if you (God) are not going to be with me then I should just curl up and die. And guess what, He is with me. Sometimes even though I know God is with me I don't want to go on, but praise God, He is still with me! When I get to a place in my life that I don't think I make it, I feel God and I know he is telling me to go on that I'm going to make it.

Seriously folks if God is not going to be with us there is no reason to go on. But if you haven't got it by now HE IS WITH US!!!!

Psalm 37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

That is such a beautiful verse and it is a promise. Now there are some promises in the Bible that we can't inherit because they are for Israel, but I know this is one promise that can be for anyone who believes and trusts in God. Because I've seen my dad out of work because he was fired due to an illness and we never once went hungry. He always testifies and says he was laying in the hospital, he lost his job, his tire blew out on the car when my brother was taking us home from visiting him at the hospital and you know what happened. He was dismissed from the hospital went and put brand new tires on the car and paid for them with cash. Only God can do something like that.

What amazes me about that verse though, Moses didn't have that verse to lean on. But deep down some where inside of him he knew that in order to make it he needed God's presence to go on. And the children of Israel didn't have to beg for bread either. You know we should be very thankful that we have God's word. If we are going through something we can look back to different times in the Bible and say, "hey they made it through and so can I." Well I didn't intend for this blog to be this long, but my prayer for myself and others around me, "Please God go with us and continue to help us through our problems."

Prayer Request

My mom told me earlier this morning that she received a phone call from a lady from our church. She had received a phone call saying that Michael Combs had called and said to remember his wife in prayer. She has suffered a stroke. If you can, please say a prayer for her. Her name is Denise.

Also I decided that some people might not know who Michael Combs is. So I found a video of one of his songs. I haven't heard this song for years. I really enjoyed listening to it.

When We March Through

I should have posted this last year sometime, but I never got around to it. This is a video with photos from our camp meeting that we have at the end of July every year. The song is sung by Witness, one of my favorite groups. I hope you all enjoy.



Other things going on in my world. We had snow early Tuesday morning. Then it started to rain. I am still thanking God that we have electric. Back in February 2003 we had a very bad ice storm and our electric was out for a whole week. I'm already crazy but that made me more crazy. Also with no electric we played Scrabble so much, that I wouldn't play it for months after the ice storm.

Tuesday night when my mom was watching the weather I was getting so depressed. I actually told my mom that I wish they would have lied to us and told us that the sun was going to start shining. Also during that night (Tuesday and early Wednesday morning) we had some old familiar sounds around us. Just say it was the sound of gun shots and then a swooshing sound. If you have never heard those sounds before then I will tell you what it was. It was trees around us. The limbs cracking and then sometimes they would break off, that was the gun shot sounds. The swooshing sound was the ice falling off the tree limbs. We had a tree that was in our yard fall and knock the power off at the fire department next to us. They did get the power back on. Pray for other people who still does not have electric.

Psalm 139:5

Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Psalm 139:5

I love reading Psalm 139, but verse 5 has always stood out to me. Recently this verse has become one of my favorite verses. I thought I would share the verse with everyone.

New Song

Well here lately this song has been playing a lot because it is a new release from The Booth Brothers. It is a great song. When I first heard it I didn't think much about the song. The music is so laid back and I really didn't listen to it. Even if I wasn't listening to it very closely it was becoming one of my favorite. Isn't that odd, now every time I hear it, I truly listen to the words of the song. I hope you enjoy this song, "What Salvation's Done For Me" by The Booth Brothers.

Prayer...

I titled this blog prayer and who am I asking prayer for, well myself. I've been having a bad couple of days. I've let my mind take control of my feelings. I have a good family that I know loves me. But I let what other people (not my family) have said to me in the past really get me down. I've come to the realization because of myself that I don't want to make jokes of where someone is from or how they act. Because in secret the jokes maybe killing them inside.

I live in America where I've found out that I don't have an opinion. I can't be a critic, because some people can't handle the critic side of me. All I have to say is don't get in the business brother! Because there will be worse people then me. So I live in America where I have no freedom of speech and I've been told that I'm stupid and if I'm not told that, then my mind screams and tells me stuff from the past.

So I'm asking people I don't even know to pray for me. I would like to see the sun shine again. I would like God to point me in the right direction.