Thursday Pearls

  

"No man can do a truer kindness in this world

than to pray for me."

~ Charles Spurgeon

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Dearest friends...I am so grateful and blessed by your prayers and sweet concern for our family...

As my dear mother's due date draws nigh, the busyness in our household increases - we are currently putting the finishing touches on Little One's nursery and I hope to share pictures of our handiwork very soon...

We have yet to find out when the C-section will be scheduled for, but we will more than likely meet our precious new brother in the next three weeks or so!  How perfectly exciting it that??

Realising that another darling babe is about to join our family, all the tiresome work and busy days become small and insignificant in comparision with the incredible miracle of new life...such a wonderful gift from God!  {{smiles}}

I am thanking the Lord today...and everyday, for the joy of having sweet friends to share this precious time in our lives with, and for the love expressed in the prayers, emails and comments each of you have left!

With much love on this beautiful Thursday morning...

Painting by:  Ernest Walbourn

Thoughtful Thursday

"I have come to know that God can smooth my path, calm the storms, keep me and all I care about safe, and even make my way simple when I ask Him to carry the complexities of life for me.  But these things don't just happen.  

Not without prayer."

- Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Woman


"Do we want praying young people in our churches?
We must have praying mothers to give them birth,
Praying homes to flavour their lives, 
And praying surroundings to impress their minds 
And to lay the foundations for praying lives.
Praying Samuels come from praying Hannahs.
Praying priests come from 'the house of prayer.'
Praying leaders come from praying homes." 

- E.M. Bounds 

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"I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever - the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you."

- John 14:16-17

Blessings to you, dear readers!

 ~ Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. ~

In the spring garden...

 

...Spring Sows

Summer Grows

Autumn Reaps

Winter Sleeps...

How delightful it is to spend a couple of tranquil hours in the spring garden, tending the delicate and fragile new plants popping up everywhere, and pulling up the ferocious weeds threatening to take over and smother the life out of them!

 {Bright Calendula...}

It feels so simple and peaceful to be in God’s glorious creation and to see the new life bursting forth...  How blessed to be a gardener, growing and tending the little piece of earth He has given us to use...

 {Lush Apple Mint...}

Whilst sowing spring seeds with joy and expectation in my heart this lovely morning, I was reminded of how important it is for us as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, to sow seeds of hope and salvation in the hearts of those who do not know Him...

 {Courgette...}

It may seem futile to pray for them...  It may even appear worthless to sow these seeds...  But remember that often we are just required to sow that small seed - another person might water it and then it may just grow...

 {Beetroot Seedlings...}

Do not be discouraged or become weary in praying for a person’s salvation...

Show God’s love and remain on your knees, for your prayers are powerful.

How does your garden grow in the month of September...?

Blessings and love,

~ Pray without ceasing.  1 Thes 5:17 ~