Whatever You're Doing

Psalm 103:1-5
1 Let all that I am praise the Lord;
with my whole heart, I will praise his holy name.
2 Let all that I am praise the Lord;
may I never forget the good things he does for me.
3 He forgives all my sins
and heals all my diseases.
4 He redeems me from death
and crowns me with love and tender mercies.
5 He fills my life with good things.
My youth is renewed like the eagle’s!


In spending some time with the Lord this morning He gave me this verse. What joy it brings to my heart. I have realized lately when I feel like I have nothing left, I always have my praise for GOD. For I will praise Him when I'm on the mountain and I will praise Him in the valley! It is Him who forgives and makes what was broken in my life whole again. He is my healer. He is my redeemer and it is because of Him I can love.

I know that through all the things that has gone on lately God is in them. Everytime I have asked to see Him in this--He has shown me. It has come in the form of a text, it has come in an e-mail from an aunt, it has come in a comment on FB, it has come from a call from my sister, it has come in a word from someone at church, it has come in hugs, it has come from my husband, it has come from my dad, it has come from a friend and it has come from HIS WORD. God is so very, very GOOD to me! I cannot help but to sing HIS praise. To lift HIM high for the world to see! To sing my praise of whatever you're doing inside of me.......it is something HEAVENLY!!! My healing has begun...the wrong will be made right...I have face up to it....I have cleaned house...shed some tears...faced fears...and I know he is doing something bigger than me here! Thank you LORD for my life is in you......

Please read the lyrics to this from Sanctus Real----I totally get them and here is where I live at the moment......I cannot say it enough.....GOD is so GOOD!!!!


Whatever You're Doing (Something Heavenly) lyrics

It's time for healing time to move on
It's time to fix what's been broken too long
Time make right what has been wrong
It's time to find my way to where I belong
There's a wave that's crashing over me
All I can do is surrender

[Chorus]
Whatever you're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos somehow there's peace
It's hard to surrender to what I can't see
but I'm giving in to something heavenly

Time for a milestone
Time to begin again
Revaluate who I really am
Am I doing everything to follow your will
or just climbing aimlessly over these hills
So show me what it is you want from me
I give everything I surrender...
To...

[Chorus]

Time to face up
Clean this old house
Time to breathe in and let everything out
That I've wanted to say for so many years
Time to to release all my held back tears

Whatever you're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but I believe
You're up to something bigger than me
Larger than life something heavenly

Whatever you're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but now I can see
This something bigger than me
Larger than life something heavenly
Something heavenly

It's time to face up
Clean this old house
Time breathe in and let everything out

Freedom.....

I recently took a trip to my home town in Florida. Lately going home has been such a blessing to me. It restores my heart every time I go. This was the first time I went without my kids, other than when Mary died and that was not a good trip. As I was there I got to thinking about being free......what that really means to Paula. For the first time in my life I am understanding freedom in more and more ways. See, on this trip I was 'free' from having to be mom, just to be able to enjoy the beach, my home church, and my friends there. I was free to enjoy the place that has so many memories, both good and bad, and not think about anything but that moment in time. I didn't dread coming, like in the past, because this time I didn't dread leaving. I just enjoyed being.


God has shown me what freedom is lately. Showing me little by little what being free in Him means. Being free means to me----that is OK to tell the world I was a victim of a child molester. Free from the hurt, free from the guilt, free from the anger, and free from all the lies an act like that tells you all your life. I am free to talk about it with my head held high knowing what Satan meant to kill me with, God has saved me from and will use for GOOD! God has taught me I will never fit into some one's box. I am free to rest in HIM, to love through HIM, to cry on HIM, to laugh with HIM, to be different because of HIM, to be blessed by HIM, to play with HIM, and to put my hands in the air and surrender all to HIM! I am free to make mistakes, free to say I'm sorry, free to try again, free to fail at something, free to get back up again, free to say I don't understand, free to cry, free to laugh, free to smile, free to love and free to hurt. I am free.....because John 8:36 says "So if the Son has set you free, you will be free indeed." !!! Jesus has set me free and when I trust in HIM, He shows me more freedom. Freedom---not to do what I want to do----but freedom----to be all HE wants me to be----freedom----to have all HE died to give me----you see freedom is not free but the price has been paid for you and me.


I thank you, Lord for the freedom I understand and the freedom that is yet to come.......