Great is Thy Faithfulness..

This morning I am a little down.. Troublesome dreams in the night and so I am staying home from church today and instead will be listening to two online sermons, one on David and Goliath and one on Lamentations.  As it happens, some of my favorite verses of encouragement are in Lamentations 3:18-26 and I am leaning on them today.

Lamentations 3:18-26 "And I said, my strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.  This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.  It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.  The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.  The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.  It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD."

The photo below of crepuscular rays was taken early one morning at French Beach Provincial Park..  I think that they are a good "picture" of God's mercies reaching down to the believer every morning.

God's Faithfulness in Little Things

Jonah 1:17 "Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah...

Jonah 2:10 "And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited Jonah upon the dry land."  (KJV)

I love the story of Jonah for showing our Sovereign God in control of everything.  Because of God's control, I am in the habit of praying for needs that some might find a little strange.  Such was my prayer for today.

For the past 15 years I have been taking care of my son and his family's cats when they are on vacation, going to their home every other day, leaving enough food and water to last, always seems to be more food than necessary.  There have been several cats over the years, and they have two right now, a 6 year old and a 6 month old.   The 6 year old has always been a wild child, wanting to be outside since she was a kitten.  I am sure that she has spent more time out than in.  When they are away she stays in the house where she is not very pleased to be in.  She is always ready to be fed and then cries mournfully, begging to be let out but alas, in she stays until my son and his family are home again.

Yesterday my son, daughter-in-law and grandaughter left for a week away, and this is the first time that the 6 year old cat did not come into the house by the time for them to leave.  The kitten was taken to a kennel to avoid conflict between the two of them home alone together should the older cat come in.

This morning I received two text messages saying that the cat was out, that the neighbour was going to try and bring her in, and could I come this evening to feed if the neighbour was able to catch her.  I said that I would and that if she was not in the house I would leave food and water outside for her.  And then I prayed "Lord, please bring Misty home,  In Jesus name I pray, believing that with you all things shall be possible."