Happy New Year

Thanks for the recent words of encouragement ladies ~ they meant a lot to me.

Ever since I found this timeless word in a small devotional at the flea market many years ago, I've published it in one form or another every year.  It's a wonderful reminder for every day, but it's especially meaningful to me as we enter into this new year. 

Sometimes it's hard - but faith is believing
in the promises of God, even when
they are contradicted by our circumstances.

"Write deep in your heart this New Year's day

this word of sublime confidence, Jehovah-Jireh.

It tells you that you can trust God always; 

that no promise of his ever fails;

that he doeth all things well;

that out of all seeming loss and destruction

of human hopes he brings blessing.

You have not passed this way heretofore. 

There will be sorrows and joys, failures and successes,

this year, just as there were last year. 

You cannot forecast individual experiences.

You cannot see a step before your feet. 

Yet Jehovah-jireh calls you to enter the new year

with calm trust.

It bids you put away all anxieties and forebodings --- 

'The Lord Will Provide'."

Happy New Year ~ and may 2012 be a year full of hope,

encouragement, fulfillment, and new beginnings
for all of us

Counting my blessings

xo Susy

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A Hymn of Faith

Though the fig tree may not blossom,

Nor fruit be on the vines;

Though the labor of the olive may fail,

And the fields yield no food;

Though the flock may be cut off from the fold,

And there be no herd in the stalls --

Yet I will rejoice in the Lord,

I will joy in the God of my salvation.

The Lord God is my strength; He will make my feet like deer's feet, And He will make me walk on my high hills.

Habakkuk 3:17-19  These beautiful Old Testament verses end with the notation "To the Chief Musician"  and were to be used in worship.  

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