Praise God!! Praise God! Flying home the 5th of April. Pray that my good ankle and finances hold up. Mixed emotions. Not only am I leaving a rehab center, it is also an ‘old soldier’s home’. Amazing how my soul has cleaved to these cranky old vets and the staff as well. A real eye opening experience. It’s sad to leave them.
God is good though. VA has been more than good, and God even more so.
Prosper!
3 John 2:1 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Prospering has very little to do with money. Sure, I’d like to help my kids with college but that’s about it. Money to me is simply a way to continue feeding impoverished children, educating them and getting people I know saved by the knowledge of the Gospel. Prosperity is a successful journey through life. Not by what people on the outside see, but by your inward walk
To prosper means:
To have a spouse and friends that love you. That you love your wife and kids and provide for them.
Proverbs 18:22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD
To be living for the Lord in a way that is pleasing to Him. That is a GOOD, UNBLEMISHED testimony to the ignorant observing your lifestyle to find fault.
And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself.
1 Kings 2:3
To love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind and your neighbor as yourself. To kill your sin, confess it and be done with it, and to be forgiving of your neighbor’s sin. It’s going to be tough to leave these old guys here. Love them as myself.
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Proverbs 28:13
To enjoy your own company. To be honest. Yays yays and nos nos
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Isaiah 55:11
To be at peace with yourself
He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good:and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.
Proverbs 16:20
To be saved.
Jeremiah 29:11 I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
To lead others to Christ
Daniel 12:3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
To live in peace with others.
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love;but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Proverbs 17:9
To be a joyous giver.
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Proverbs 11:25
To forgive AND FORGET others trespasses against you.
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Philippians 4:12