Let us make this a thread within this message board in which we can share the great blessings that God has performed in our lives.

Let this forum serve as a way for us to be a witness to the Lord's wonders, a place where we can give our testimonies and derive faith and spiritual strength from reading how great God is to us even when we don't deserve it.

Ok, I'll go first.

I got into law school!! I'm stoked!! I'm so happy. This is a huge blessing that I had faith I would receive but not to the magnitude that it came for I got into my first choice school! I'm so happy!!!!!!




I most definitely praise God for this blessing. I am incredibly indebted to God, and my faith has only been increased. I know God's listening to my prayers. He listens! He lives! All we need is a little faith, for without God what can we do for ourselves? Nada. Oh Lord, Praise the Lord...

Wow...how exciting! Hey ClaireBear - great stuff! I'm so happy for you! God knows the desires of our hearts eh? I pray that you will not only enjoy yourself studying and learning all you can, I pray more so that your life will be as salt to the people around you in law school so that you will one day practise law with a difference in this world. Also that you will be a shining light to the people around you.
Keep walking closer to our great God and you'll begin to see how He wants you to live your life in this new chapter that He's opened up for you! Great stuff.
I wanna thank God for the greater family in Jesus Christ His Son. I love the family of God. I know that it's not always nice and peachy with the brothers and sisters in the Lord but it's still great to belong to this wonderful family. Iron sharpens iron and when that happens - sparks fly! But still we get sharper and sharper - praise God!
Talking about faith - I also praise God because I've been learning much more in depth on how to live by faith and the more I read His Word, the more I realise that I'm actually not living by faith as I should and I really pray that my faith be tested and proven solid as gold! I know that as I pray this, life will not be easy peasy...but I'm excited cos I know that Jesus is there holding my hand and leading me through. I've gotta learn to trust in Him - gotta learn this lesson!
To God be all the glory for the great things He has done! AMEN!

Heaven and earth may fade, but His Word will remain!
God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever! AMEN!

That is so cool Clairbear. CONGRATULATIONS!!! LA FE MUEVE LA MANO DE DIOS! I think that God is just letting you know that if you trust in Him, nothin can come against u

Thanks everyone. I hope this blessings thread catches on. God bless you all.

Congrats Claire!! To be honest, your posting has just encouraged me to strengthen my faith and to devote fully, my trust in the Lord. Gabs ALWAYS is my source of light, she's just gifted with her words, so thank you to both of you for being salt and light to me.

The reason I write this is because I'm going through hard times with my new sister in-law, and it seems to revolve around what I say. For some reason, everything I say gets taken the wrong way, even when it's just a joke. I've cried so much to the Lord and to my fiance about this, but my spirit is still uneasy. I hear the Lord telling me to apologize, and I do. I should know better than to say too much. I think I need to pray David's prayer more often, for the Lord to put a shield over my mouth so that hurtful things do not come out of it, even if I think they are innocent. I need prayer, so this is also a request.

I realize now that the Lord's just testing my faith, and I thank Him for giving me the opportunity to prove to Him that I want to live for him and ONLY him. I pray that He uses my life as a witness to others, especially to my brother and his wife. I love them both very much and I want the Lord to be the center of our relationship.

Hey there Vanessa!
Thanks for your encouragement! I praise my Lord for this gift and woe to me if I don't use it for His glory! Hahaha.
You know what girl...I used to be absolutely pants (a British slang for HORRIBLE) with my words too. From a very young age I struggled alot with the words I said. But fortunately I had amazing people around me who loved me dearly and wanted the best for me - but who also constantly corrected me and sometimes sternly warned me of the way I used my words. I used to be very negative and many times I found, just like you that my words were taken the wrong way. I struggled girl - I certainly did.
But God encouraged me through preachers and the people around me and that just made me so determined to allow Holy Spirit to change me from deep within. I began to learn to mix around with more positive people and Holy Spirit made me alert to those who are very encouraging and building up with their words and that spirit rubbed off on me. Praise God!
You know what - life is a test. This is a test for you. It's hard - I know. I was reading your post and I laughed a little because I said some things that you mentioned in your post some years before! I identified with what you said. Don't worry - keep your eyes on Jesus. It's gonna be hard, but you know what? Keep focused on the fact that the end results are gonna be FANTASTIC! I know this much is true because we've got God. No test that He allows us to go through will be to tear us apart - but we need to go through it His way.
Just don't take things too personally. God may be using the ones closest to you to "refine" you. I called these people "God's sanctifying agents" sent to me! Hahahaha. Our characters are constantly being tested and refined. This is one of those instances. Keep persevering girl! You'll come out victorious I know because Jesus is leading you through by His Spirit! The whole host of angels are cheering you on.
Romans 5:1-5
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
Have hope my friend! Keep the faith yah! god bless you Vanessa. Jesus loves you A WHOLE LOT!

God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever! AMEN!

WOW! Gabrielle, your words always strike a chord with me. After I read everything she (my sister-in-law) had to say in her text messages to me (believe me they were very negative and hurtful), I realized that I may be making her feel convicted....just by my presence alone, and so maybe she tries to find fault with me because of what I say. She made a list of the things that I've done wrong and really let me have it. OOH, man did it hurt! I prayed that night over that silly little comment I made that was meant to be a joke. Anyway, after I slept on it, I felt soo peaceful the next morning and felt the Holy Spirit telling me to apologize. I feel like I'm always the one that has to apologize, even when it's not my fault. So, after fighting the thought for a bit, I remembered a passage in the Bible that ended with a situation that said something like, "'How many times must I forgive? Seven times?'.... And the Lord said, 'Do I forgive you only seven times? No! Not seven times, but seventy times seven.'" It still plays over and over in my head. (Forgive me, I'm really bad at remembering the books of the Bible). So, I sent her a text message apologizing to her for what I said, b/c I had no idea she would get so upset.

I feel better now. Like I've righted a wrong sitaution, but now I don't even know how to communicate with her. Oh well, just gotta keep on living my life for Christ and strengthening my faith in Him everyday. Thank you Gabrielle for the passage you wrote for me. It's really strengthened my spirit. It's what I needed, what I was hungry for.

Hey there Vanessa,
Just keep hanging in there and don't give up on your sista-in-law. Just keep focus the fact that no matter what happens, you wanna win her for the Lord. As we know, the enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy. Destroying relationships is something that he works at alot and it's also something that we Christians often help him achieve.
It's harder to mend relationships than it is to destroy it. I've faces many confrontations in my short lived life! But I've learnt that no matter how heated the confrontation or how serious the issue, my desire should be to win that person over and that in itself shows me how I should conduct myself and how I should see the person that I'm in conflict with.
Sometimes I may be right, many times I'm wrong. But no matter right or wrong, there's always something to learn from the situation and I know that my character is being tested and built as well. Apologizing can be hard especially if we don't think that we're in the wrong and we know that very well. But still that's not the main issue is it? The main issue is that we win that person over so that we can continue to share the love of Jesus to them.
See, if a relationship is destroyed, the bridge is broken - it's hard for us to share the love of Jesus. Isn't that what the devil is working towards? But I'm glad that you're learning stuff from this girl. Great stuff!
Don't be discouraged ok. Just keep your eyes on Jesus and always ask yourself - What Would Jesus Do? You'll never go wrong if you keep asking yourself that and find out from His Word how He would have handled things. Always works! Hahaha.
I ask our HEavenly Father that He give you strength to work things out and that as you seek Him daily, you'll begin to see how to handle things His way. I pray that Holy Spirit will guide you and teach you. I also pray that His joy be your strength and that your heart be kept from hurts and always filled with His love and peace. In Jesus most powerful name I pray! AMEN!
By the way - the fastest way to find scripture is to use www.biblegateway.com. I use this to search out scripture. So you see, I'm not that good with finding verses when I need them. But since God's given us such tools to use - why not make the most of them! Hahaha. So there you have it - my secrets out in the open! Hehehe.
You take care girl and keep the posts coming in ok. If you wanna email me it's www.gabbytham.com

God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever! AMEN!

hahaha.....so THAT's your secret, huh?! Thanks for that prayer. I can just feel the Lord pouring out His love over me as I read that prayer. BTW....I checked out those songs on your website....they're BEAUTIFUL! I think I'm gonna have them played at my wedding! Thanks again, Gabrielle, you know....for being such a leader! Stay blessed!

Oh goodness!! What a blunder I made!Instead of giving you my email add, I gave you a website instead. I totally didn't mean to do that! Oh gosh I'm so embarressed!
My email add is gabbytham@gmail.com.
Oh gosh....I didn't realise it until you mentioned about the songs then I realised what a blunder I had made. So sorry girl!

God bless!

Sorry for what? You've got more than one gift, and God made you put that website up for all to share! LOL Thanks for being such an encouragement always, and a friend. Don't care if you're halfway around the world, you're a true friend and sister in Christ. God bless you!

Hey there Vanessa!
You're a star! Thanks for the encouragement girl! Yeah, that's what's so special about being in the Body of Christ, though we're not related in natural blood - we are totally related by the blood of Jesus! AMEN?

AMEN!