Laced With Grace

…commenter # 6 - Karen at Hallelujah Anyhow!

Congratulations, Karen!!! Angie and I will contact you so we can get your snail-mail address. We want to thank all our readers from the bottom of our hearts for your continued support.

To give honor to the LORD, and to express our grateful hearts to each of you for your faithful reading and commenting, we are having a giveaway!

We are celebrating our 3rd year and 1000th post! The faithfulness of the LORD to get us to this point is so incredible! We could not, and would not be here without you, our kind, time-sharing readers! You share and give your time to read, comment and encourage one another!

Thank you. To enter the drawing for this Study Bible simply leave a comment on this post and share a bit about what God’s word means to you. We encourage you as you read the Word this year, memorize as much as you can. Feeding your heart and soul the Word of God enables you to have something to draw on when the trials of life happen! (And they do—frequently.)

Also, we would like to take this time to thank you for visiting our writers. They are encouraged by your visits and comments on their personal blogs! You have no idea how just a simple “thank you for sharing” touches their hearts!

The drawing will be held at the end of the month. Share the news of this drawing with as many friends as you can! We are glad to have been a part of your lives for the past 3 years-and look forward to many more! Until He comes!

As a little girl I would listen to Donnie Osmond and Shawn Cassidy for hours at a time, on my Holly Hobbie record player. Paper dolls and connecting the dots were lots of fun too. I was thrilled when I got my first pair of metal roller skates, overjoyed with my very own pogo stick, but hands down one of my favorite things of all were those magical paper books. You know the ones I’m talking about. When you picked up one of these books and flipped through its pages, they were blank. Not very impressive at all. But, when you moved the yellow felt tipped pen that came with the book, back and forth, back and forth, over the blank pages, beautiful pictures would be revealed!

While sharing a scripture from the Bible with my children and one of God’s many promises to us, I couldn’t help but think again of those fun little books, and the treasures that would be revealed after I’d move my pen over the crisp white paper. I went on to tell my four children that the Bible is filled with promises that have been made just for them from God, their loving Father, their creator. I went on to share that when they asked God into their hearts, they became His children. His promises were theirs now too. Every single one of them.

I reminded them of the fun little books that I loved as a child, that they too have now played with. I asked them to imagine God’s word as the blank paper and to take their imaginary yellow pen and move across His word and His promises, back and forth, back and forth, until they could clearly see their faces, and their own precious names written with God’s own hand, in each verse. They needed to know that it was each one of them, His children he was thinking of, when He made those promises.

Friends, your face and your name is there on each page and each promise too. God loves you so very much. His word and His promises are infallible, unbreakable and irrevocable. He longs to hold you close and whisper these life giving promises in your ear.

So what are you waiting for? Get out your yellow pen and start moving it back and forth across the pages of His word. Don’t waste another second, start revealing the treasures He has for you, today!

“God is not a man, that he should lie. He is not a human, that he should change his mind. Has he ever spoken and failed to act? Has he ever promised and not carried it through?” Numbers 23:19 NLT

In His Love,

Joanne