Job

Good evening everybody,
I have decided to read through the entire old testament in order. I know I haven’t read all of it, and I don’t want to miss anything. So anyway, I got up to Job and just could not go on for a few weeks. Tonight I decided that I could do it, so I got through fourteen chapters. What a depressing book! I know the end is ok, though. I am reading for the specific purpose of figuring out what the friends said that was wrong. You know, Job has to make sacrifices for their words.
So be blessed and thank the Lord for His mercy! 2 Corinthians 2:14 says thanks be to God who ALWAYS causes us to triumph in Christ. I love you all.

Healed by His stripes,
Nancy Bass

Rain in the Forecast

Good evening everyone,
I was so blessed tonight! My daughter had a choir concert and since it was raining off and on, and my breathing machine is not all weather, I stayed home. An old, not old! Long time friend came over and massaged my feet and legs. What a treat!
Anyway, I was reminded today with the rain, of all the times when it rained but the sun shined through. The Lord said it is going to be like that spiritually. In fact, it has already started. The rain of the Spirit will come along with the light of the knowledge of God. We will learn what is the height, depth, length and width of God’s love, and we will know, more and more, the love of God which passes knowledge, like Ephesians says.
So, come out into the rain! And no sunblock, these rays will not hurt!
I love y’all,

Healed by His stripes,
Nancy Bass

Thomas

Good afternoon everybody,
‘blessed are those who have not seen and yet believed’.
Jesus said this to Thomas when he had to touch His hands and side, after He rose from the dead.
Of course, Jesus was talking to all of us. We all believe and yet have not seen Him. But, can we carry His words further? Can we also believe what he said even though we don’t see it yet? He has never lied to us. Not one time! You know, you can’t have faith for something you already see. Faith is only before you get results. Everything Jesus bought at the cross is paid for and has your name on it. So you are blessed (with eventual results) when you don’t see and yet believe. I love y’all.
Healed by His stripes,
Nancy Bass

Parable of the Wedding Feast

Good afternoon everybody,
In the past, I had some questions about this story. It sounded sort of violent to me. But we know that Jesus is right! What He says is not inaccurate in the slightest. He never exaggerated to make a good story. If He said it was like this, it is like this.
Jesus also told them other parables. He said, 2 “The Kingdom of Heaven can be illustrated by the story of a king who prepared a great wedding feast for his son. 3 When the banquet was ready, he sent his servants to notify those who were invited. But they all refused to come!
4 “So he sent other servants to tell them, ‘The feast has been prepared. The bulls and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the banquet!’ 5 But the guests he had invited ignored them and went their own way, one to his farm, another to his business. 6 Others seized his messengers and insulted them and killed them.
7 “The king was furious, and he sent out his army to destroy the murderers and burn their town. 8 And he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, and the guests I invited aren’t worthy of the honor. 9 Now go out to the street corners and invite everyone you see.’ 10 So the servants brought in everyone they could find, good and bad alike, and the banquet hall was filled with guests.
11 “But when the king came in to meet the guests, he noticed a man who wasn’t wearing the proper clothes for a wedding. 12 ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how is it that you are here without wedding clothes?’ But the man had no reply. 13 Then the king said to his aides, ‘Bind his hands and feet and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
14 “For many are called, but few are chosen.”
What can we learn about our personal walk, today, from this parable? Always wear nice clothes to a wedding?? (-: I think there is more than that. (duh!)
First, it would be wise not to ignore the King when He invites you to a party, and this IS the party event of all time and eternity!
Second, it is even stupider to insult and beat down His servants (apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, whether they agree with your doctrine or not).
So you are in the banquet hall now, fellowshipping and waiting for the ceremony to begin. You see a guy in there, not dressed properly. (what is ‘properly’? a robe of righteousness, given to us by the Son, washed in His blood). He is dirty and has filthy clothes on. You see the King coming. What will you do? You have three choices.
1. Bring him to the King. He has some nerve claiming to be a guest with no robe! And, he is stinking up the place, too.
2. Do nothing, because you are not supposed to judge.
3. Help him by standing between him and the King, and telling him where the robe room is. You can’t keep him hidden but you can buy him a little more time.
What will you do? Make people’s faults public, do nothing, or pray for them and show them Jesus if you get the chance? The King really is coming around. You are ready, that’s great, but what about your relatives, friends, coworkers? Are they still out on the street? Are they pretending, going through the religious motions but have not given their lives to the Son of Love? What can you do? Pray and love, pray and love!! And, enjoy the party!!
I love y’all dearly!
Healed by His stripes,
Nancy Bass

Faith to Faith - Choose Life

Good afternoon everybody,
I know you have all heard this before, but it was put in such a perfect way here. Plus it is an excellent reminder to refocus. It’s the ONE thing that is needful, the Word! I love y’all, (see below)


Choose Life
"For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."
(Romans 8:6)
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If you were given the choice between life and death, which would you choose? The answer seems obvious. But, in reality, it's not.

You see, choosing death doesn't necessarily mean jumping from the nearest cliff. It's much more subtle than that.

The Bible says death is being carnally minded, being entangled in this present worldly realm. The Bible also tells us what life is. "My son, attend to my words," says Proverbs 4:20-22, "...for they are life!"

To be worldly-minded is death. To be Word-minded is life.

In Luke 10, there's a story that illustrates this principle extremely well. It's the story of Mary and Martha. You probably remember it. Mary was sitting at Jesus' feet listening to Him teach while Martha was bustling around in the kitchen cooking dinner for everyone.

Finally Martha couldn't stand it anymore. She came to Jesus and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the work myself? Tell her to help me!" Jesus answered, "Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her" (Luke 10:41-42).

Mary had set everything else aside, so she could hear the Word. But Martha had let the seemingly important business of living take priority over the Word. She'd chosen death, not life.

You see how easy it is to slip into that?

"But Brother Kenneth," you say, "if I didn't spend all my time taking care of the business of living, my life would fall apart!"

Oh, really? Martha probably thought that too. She probably thought if she didn't cook dinner for all those folks, they'd go hungry. But they wouldn't have. Jesus had miraculously fed multitudes before and He could have done it again in Martha's home. She could have plopped herself down at Jesus' feet, and they could have had a banquet at God's expense!

Don't make the mistake that Martha did. Don't get so entangled in the business of living that you choose death by default. Decide to put the Word first place. Choose life!
________________________________________Scripture Study: Romans 8:5-13

Dual nature of light

Good evening everyone,
Following up on yesterday’s email, shadows have neither substance nor power, but light has both particles (substance) and energy (power, sort of). That is, light is made up of electrons. They travel just like any other object, in straight lines. You know, until they are bent by something like glass or water. Or they bounce off something like a mirror. Or until they are cut off by something opaque, creating a shadow. Those are the particle properties of light.
Colors are made by the wave properties of light. Each color has a different wavelength and frequency. Light waves, like water waves, vibrate at right angles to the direction of the wave. Higher frequency waves are higher in energy too.
Remember that physical things are copies of spiritual things. God Himself said He is light, and He created light with its properties for us to discover something about Him.
God is a just God. He ‘follows the rules’, so to speak. He will not pervert justice for anybody. But He wrote the rules, and He wrote in mercy. God is also a merciful God. From before the beginning, Jesus was the just sacrifice for all time. So mercy could, and can , and will, triumph. Thanks be to God who ALWAYS causes us to triumph in Christ! I love y’all.
Healed by His stripes,
Nancy Bass

Spiritual Light

Good evening everyone.
What?! Two emails in one day?? Well, this is a follow up to the previous one, so you will get more from it if you read the other first.
There is a song by Petra from the 80s, The Road to Zion, that has a verse that goes like this…
Sometimes a shadow dark and cold
Lays like a mist across the road
But be encouraged by the sight
Where there’s a shadow there’s a light.
The Lord started putting physics concepts together about light. While shadows have no substance or energy, light has both.
The bible has a lot to say about light. God is light. We are children of the light. Walk in the light. You are the light of the world. In fact, the first thing God created physically was light. So He could see to work, I guess. (-:
Physical light is a copy of spiritual light, and it works in much the same way. So spiritual shadows also work like physical shadows. They are caused by something cutting off the light source. Did you know the scientific term for cutting off the line of sight to a heavenly body is occulting? Interesting… Psalm says thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. Satan uses anything he can to cut off the truth, the word, from your heart.
But you have a flashlight inside you! It is as powerful as you make it. It gets brighter as you commune with the Lord in prayer and the word. The power supply is the Holy Spirit within you, but you have to stay plugged in.
If a light is small and dim, there can be large, scary shadows. But bright lights dispel darkness, so the shadows are small and not very scary. The shadows (spiritual) are really there, but our perspective changes and brightens as we plug into the Source of light. Remember the homework assignment from August? God, our Source, is light!
I love y’all.

Valley of the "sahdow"

Good afternoon everybody,
A friend of ours sent this to me and I could so identify! I bet you will too.

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I’ve always wondered why the 23 Psalm had the passage, “valley of the shadow of death”. I always thought that a shadow wasn’t that scary. It’s just a shadow. Surely death is way more scary than a shadow? Well, one night, years ago, I was locking up in the house and was going to the front hall after checking that the back door was secure. It was getting cool out so there were several coats and a hat on the coat rack in the front hall. You can see where this is going, can’t you? I caught the sight of the shadow of the coat rack out of the corner of my eye and thought I saw a “robber” in my house. I almost wet myself! I couldn’t move, I couldn’t scream, I was just frozen to the spot. After I got a couple of guts to working I turned around to face the intruder and that’s when I saw it was “just” the shadow of the coat rack on the wall. I Immediately thought of the that passage, “valley of the shadow of death”, and decided that if the shadow of a coat rack was that scary, then the shadow of death would be extra-way scary. It was then that I understood what the passage is saying.

Just a random thought…
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You are so right! I laughed at your story, but it is so true. Shadows can be very scary. And valleys are long and big. But the good news is that we don’t have to be afraid because God, our Good Shepherd, is with us and He is the biggest thing in the valley! Plus as you implied, they are extra-way scary if you think they are real. I heard someone say once, ‘the shadow of a dog never bit anyone’. They can look and even act real but they are still shadows with no substance.
And be encouraged, where there’s a shadow there’s a light. Light has both substance and power.
Boy, I needed that ‘random’ God inspired thought today! Thanks for sending. Look for Jesus in your valley…

Growing

Good afternoon everybody,
How do we grow up spiritually? Much like we do physically and mentally. Physically we eat and move and grow. Mentally we learn and exercise and grow. Spiritually we eat the word, exercise our faith and love, and grow. How does the bible say we grow? Ephesians 4 says
speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ
so we speak. We speak the truth which is what God says, and we say it in love. That is one way the bible says to grow.
Feeding your spirit is more important than mental exercise or physical food. It is written, man shall not live by bread alone but by every word of God.
Eat and exercise your spirit today, speak the word of God in love and grow up.
I love y’all.
Healed by His stripes,
Nancy Bass

Faith Hall of Fame

Good evening everyone,
Hebrews 11 lists lots of people who operated in faith. We automatically think they were all above reproach, or their flaws were minor. Well, not really. Take Rahab, for instance. She ran a house of ill repute in a penthouse apartment in the wall of Jericho. But she had faith in God to deliver her and her father’s family. There she is, listed by name when Daniel refused wasn’t. Not to compare, but that is sort of my point. God is not a respecter of persons, we are all loved the same, infinitely. Once we accept him, our past failures and mistakes are gone. Hallelujah we are clean!
When Rahab came out of Jericho, she was not called harlot. Her past was buried in the rubble. Your past and mine are even more gone, we are new creatures in Christ. By grace through… Faith. Woo hoo! I love y’all.
Healed by His stripes,
Nancy Bass

Moses etc

Good afternoon everybody,
Numbers 12 tells us a little about Moses. 3 (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)
Think of Moses, ‘let my people go’ and the ten commandments and all that. Humble is not the word I would use to describe him, but the bible is right. If I see it a different way, I am wrong. The bible is right. So, there must be something I do not know about humility. Can humility make you as bold as a lion? Can humility give you enough guts to order the death of about 3thousand calf worshipers? Can humility help you get water from a rock? Here’s a better question… Is God humble?
We can look at Jesus to find out. Hebrews says He was the exact representation of the Father. Jesus said in Matthew 11, 28"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
So Jesus was humble too. The man who told demons to shut up and get out, who called Pharisees hypocrites and brood of vipers, who said that He was anointed, that man. On the surface, He doesn’t look humble. The Pharisees didn’t think so, either. But He was the perfect example of humility. And He still is. He said He could do nothing without the Father. He said that He only said what He heard the Father say and He only did what He saw the Father doing.
So we can learn about humility from two humble people in the bible. They were not weak. They had the nerve to be and do what God said. Only. Well, Jesus was perfect. Moses did have that one problem when he took credit for getting water out of the rock. But the Lord called him the most humble man on the planet at the time.
I believe that we can learn about true humility from the experts. Daring to be only what the word of God says we are, righteous in Christ, more than conquerors through Him, etc. knowing, and acknowledging, that we live, move and have our being only in Him. His grace gives us every ability, every dollar, every breath. And He is so happy to!
I love y’all

Healed by His stripes,
Nancy Bass

Thanks Grace

Good evening everyone,
Thanks be to God who always causes us to triumph in Christ!
God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. Grace is how the Lord blesses us and sustains us. The epistles (I call them ‘ians’) talk about grace all the time. One of the things that Paul links together often is grace and thanks. Go to biblegateway and do a keyword search on ‘grace thanks’ in king James. Many verses connect the two. If you remember all the good stuff God has done for you, like keeping you breathing and your heart beating, you know, little stuff, then you will give thanks to Him. When you thank Him it shows humility because you recognize that you don’t deserve it based on your works. Then God has a chance to extend more grace, and it causes more thanksgiving, then more grace, etc. It is a wonderful cycle! I love you all,
Healed by His stripes,
Nancy Bass

Listening again

Good afternoon everybody,
A friend of ours sent this. I was really blessed and knew you would be, too. Notice when she sent it, too. I was always in the biggest hurry that time of day.
Be blessed, as you listen. Love y’all!

Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 6:16 AM
Good Morning,

Wow! Good Word! I find I only hear God when I stop from my busyness, and that fact has been bugging me a lot lately. I think busyness can become a habit, just like smoking or drinking. We work in a mode of haste all of the time and when we do stop, the time isn’t used productively because we are mentally exhausted. All of this frenzy drowns out the voice of God. My prayer for all of us is that our ears will be keen enough to hear the voice of God, not only when we are waiting quietly in expectation, but when He calls to us through our busyness. If we aren’t listening, we and others miss out on the blessings offered by a great and loving God. Have a great day!

Listening

Good afternoon everybody,
Where do you hear the voice of the Lord best?
In your car? In the shower? On the lake or golf course? Wherever it is, why? Why is it that you hear Him there? I would venture to say it is because you expect to hear Him. You are open, listening.

Do we set aside special days when we listen more, or expect to hear more? Like New Year’s Day maybe, or your birthday? Typically, we spend time examining ourselves too. Where have we been, where are we going?
The Jewish new year, Rosh Hashanah, is the day that God designated to begin a ten day self examination before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. I imagine that many Jews, orthodox and Messianic, hear the voice of God clearly during those days.

What do we do when we hear the voice of God inside? Psalm 95 says
7For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice, 8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

So when you hear the Lord, enjoy Him thoroughly. And then, live out what you heard in your heart. He will help you, you can do it!
I love you all,
Healed by His stripes,
Nancy Bass

Growing

Hello everyone,
I apologize for not sending out words as often. Sometimes I am not hearing the Lord like I should, so if you notice that you are not getting emails, please pray for me. Sometimes family is in town and I am busy with them, but other days I simply have nothing to say. I am not one to ramble anymore. Used to… (-:

We grow up gradually. So gradually that most of us do not notice our children growing each day, but grandparents who don’t see them every day say ‘my, you have grown!’ Doctors always weigh them to make sure they are growing, or else they would be failing to thrive. When they are teenagers, sometimes they grow in spurts. Seems like my son shot from five feet to over six feet overnight. And he is only fourteen!
In the same way, we grow up spiritually. We eat spiritual food, hopefully not junk, and exercise spiritually. We can grow in spurts, and that is good, but the every day growth is much more important. We cannot have a spurt once or twice a year and starve in between, and expect to grow. As my junior high band director used to say, “ten minutes of practice each day beats a hundred once a week”. in the same way, it does more good to the body to eat every day than once a week, and daily fellowship with the Lord is essential for lasting spiritual growth.
Of course, the Father loves His time with us on Sunday, that is part of the reason he created the Sabbath. But it does not replace daily time. First thing in the morning can set your heart and prepare you for the day. Just before you go to bed will get your spirit ready to be instructed in the night. Spirits don’t sleep, we can fellowship with the Lord all night if we invite Him.
So bottom line, Jesus loves spending time with us whenever we choose but we will be better off, healthier spiritually, if we spend time daily with Him.
I love you all,
Healed by His stripes,
Nancy Bass

Not a fairly tale

Good evening everyone ,
God is good and His love endures forever!
This age is almost over. Soon (see 1 Corinthians, 2 Thessalonians, Revelation) the trumpet will sound, the dead in Christ will come back to life and go flying to meet Jesus in the air, then we who are alive will join them in the air! This is not a fairy tale, it is your future! (-:
Just imagine… Flying without an airplane will be the small thrill, JESUS will be with us! Or, we will be with Him. Wow! They lived happily ever after. No end.
I love you all,

Healed by His stripes,
Nancy Bass

Greater is He

Good afternoon everybody,
Thanks be to God who always causes us to triumph in Christ!
You know, I have always had a desire to walk in the miraculous power of the Spirit, to see signs and wonders in daily life. And I still want that, but I realized recently, again, that walking in the Spirit is much more than outward signs and wonders. It is , like Romans says, not fulfilling the lust of the flesh. The lust of the flesh can be something you want, but it can also be something you want to do, like spit in someone’s face. 
Seriously, no matter how right one is, no matter how mistreated, no matter how justified our flesh is, God has another way. It doesn’t feel good on the outside, and our emotions scream for justice, or at least to be heard. And what they want to say isn’t very pretty. Our Father speaks quietly and patiently, can we hear? Boy, I can’t sometimes. So my loud flesh wins. Then the devil takes his shots and condemns, so now I am guilty and condemned, two things that take me farther from the Lord. To quote Romans again, 4 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord.
My only hope, our only hope, is in Jesus. But He is MORE than enough! Oh thank God for Jesus! He is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We don’t deserve it but He extends us mercy. Why? Because, He loves us!
Father, please forgive me for not listening to you. Forgive my hardness of heart and ugliness, forgive me for not considering others as you do. Forgive me for being driven by my sinful flesh. Thank you for your mercy!!!
I love you all,
Healed by His stripes,
Nancy Bass

Self Pity

Good afternoon everybody,
Jesus, our Master, the spotless, the strongest spirit that ever existed, said something that was extremely profound. Matthew 16…
21From that time began Jesus to shew to his disciples that it is necessary for him to go away to Jerusalem, and to suffer many things from the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be put to death, and the third day to rise.
22And having taken him aside, Peter began to rebuke him, saying, `Be kind to thyself, sir; this shall not be to thee;' (*greek literal, ‘pity yourself’)
23and he having turned, said to Peter, `Get thee behind me, adversary! thou art a stumbling-block to me, for thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.'
Other translations of 23 say ‘you are a danger to me’. ‘tempting me to sin’. Etc.
What was the danger? What was the temptation? ‘pity yourself’, be kind to thyself. If Jesus could not allow this type of thinking even for a moment, can we? He whirled around and cut Peter off, and said, probably pretty loudly, get behind me Satan! The strongest spirit in history could not tolerate another second of this.
Jesus was already casting down his own thoughts and feelings. He was trying to prepare his disciples so they would know the end and not pity themselves. Peter was allowing the devil speak through him. Jesus was the only person who actually did not deserve any foul treatment, but it He was going to get the worst on all levels, all at the same time.
We are all tempted to feel sorry for ourselves, but according to Jesus, it is sin. A serious sin. One he had to cut off quickly and finally. And if He had to, so do we. How? Say it, get behind me satan, God has been good to me! Then recount about six or eight things He has done for you. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Self pity does no good, it is evil. When you play with self pity you are listening to unbelief, selfishness and unthankfulness. You know I am talking to me, too.
So praise the Lord. For He is good, His love endures forever! Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all His benefits. He forgives all our sins and heals all our diseases, He redeems our lives from destruction, crowns us with lovingkindness, and tender mercies. He fills our life with good things so our youth is renewed like the eagles. (Psalm 103) He died so we could live forever, he was bruised for our healing,, He took our chastisement so we could have His peace, and we do! Thanks be to God!! I love you all.
Healed by His stripes,
Nancy Bass

Wait on the Lord

Good afternoon everybody,
Alelu jah! (praise the Lord) ke tov, (He is good), ke lay olam has do (His love endures forever).
I’m sure I spelled it wrong, but this is a Hebrew phrase that the Israelites used often. And if you look it up, it almost always precedes a powerful manifestation of the Lord. Jehoshaphat in battle, the dedication of the Temple are two examples. Wow! Enemies destroy each other without you lifting a sword, the thick and heavy cloud of God’s glory filling the place so full, no one can stand!

What brought God on the scene so powerfully? His beloved dwelling on His faithful, enduring love. See, they didn’t just say it once… They kept saying it. The priests would say ‘alelu jah’ and the crowd would repeat at the top of their voice, then the priests would say the next phrase and the crowd would yell, and so on. Imagine three to four million people, at the top of their lungs, cheering for the Lord. Reports said that the ground shook for miles! Beats the super bowl hands down!
They didn’t just say it five or six times, either. This kind of focusing is what they call waiting on the Lord. Your head may get tired after a few times, but your spirit hasn’t engaged yet. Try setting aside thirty minutes or more, not thinking or saying much but ‘your love endures forever’, just to stay focused. See what the Lord will say or do. He waits until your spirit is quiet to really speak. Well, actually, He is always ready to speak, but we have to get our spirit quiet so we can hear. With our hectic lives, it is very difficult, and it is completely impossible with strife in our hearts. So forgive them even if they don’t deserve it! When you let them go free, you go free.
Anyway as the psalmist says, ‘wait, I say wait, on the Lord.’

I have tried to wait on the Lord, and it is a challenge. But I believe it is worth it. Does anyone have something they would like to share, a personal experience, about waiting on the Lord? I would love to share with others for encouragement.
I love you all,
Praise the Lord!
He is good.
His love endures forever!

Healed by His stripes,
Nancy Bass

I Don't Know

Good evening everyone,
Thanks be unto God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ.
God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. Prideful and selfish. God resists them. Humble and thankful, they go together. A broken spirit and contrite heart. Help! Hebrews says harden not your heart. The hardness of our hearts is reflected in our attitudes toward others. How quick do we get angry with others, even if they are ‘total idiots’? oh, Lord. Help us. We are all fools compared to your infinite understanding. Help us to shatter our prideful and selfish hearts. No matter what other selfish prideful people do, or don’t do, to us. Help us be patient with them like you are with us. Ephesians 4:32 be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ has forgiven you.
Tenderhearted. Broken. Shattered is what that word means. Father, we can not do this ourselves. We need your help! We receive by faith a broken spirit. We will not resist you with pride because we can’t bear the thought of you resisting us. We repent and ask for your forgiveness. We thank you for forgiving us. Your mercy endures forever!

Healed by His stripes,
Nancy Bass