OzThoughts Monday 3rd November 2008

OzThoughts Monday 3rd November 2008


It is celebration time!

Daily OzThoughts has been in operation for exactly five years. Hallelujah.

On Monday 3rd November 2003 I reflected on the previous weekend when the Sydney Staff Songsters had been at our Corps, The Gold Coast Temple. It was a weekend full of blessing as the many beautiful voices were lifted in praise and prayer before God. I am sure God spoke to many. I know he spoke to me. I felt a definite urge to move from the weekly Australian Thoughts at the Weekend which had been going for just 10 months to a daily devotional piece. I felt God saying he would be with me in it as the Songsters sang “He knows my name”. The Chorus says “He knows my name
He knows my every thought” and I felt he was telling me to share those thoughts to encourage others in their Christian walk.

Today, I praise God for the Holy Spirit filling me and using my words to bring encouragement, comfort, assurance and peace to others. I believe too there has been a sense of Christian Joy even in tough times and when love ones have been Promoted to glory.

I praise God to for the many who have sent notes of encouragement and thanks. Every time when I wondered if anyone was reading these messages, I would get a note of thanks. I praise God for each of these people.

Today, I repeat the prayer I prayed on the 3 11 03:

Prayer:

O God, my Heavenly Father, I thank you for loving me. I thank you it is not a blind love that just envelopes me like a spring fog. It is a love that takes notice of me and a love that cares about my thoughts and feelings. I thank you that you hear me. Please hear my thanks and my prayer for guidance this week. Thanks for walking before me in life’s uncertainty and blessings. In the name of Jesus. Amen.


[Watch and Listen: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=-j8nI-PFxKI ]

I have a maker
He formed my heart
Before even time began
My life was in his hand

Chorus
He knows my name
He knows my every thought
He sees each tear that falls
And hears me when I call

I have a Father
He calls me his own
He'll never leave me
No matter where I go

Chorus
He knows my name
He knows my every thought
He sees each tear that falls
And hears me when I call

(Tommy Walker)
Copyright ©1996 Doulos Publishing


Psalm 139: 1,2. (NIV)

1 O LORD , you have searched me
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.

Or from Eugene H Peterson’s The Message :

Psalm 139: 1, 2. (The Message)
1GOD, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand.
2I'm an open book to you;
even from a distance, you know what I'm thinking.

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