Happy New Tears...

If you will, I would like to take a break from our journey through the Lord’s Prayer to share something I believe God put on my heart this past week.

Each year since I have been a believer I spent the last part of the year (such as 2009) in Prayer and Reading the Word and the first part of the New Year (such as 2010) in Prayer and Reading the Word. So no matter where I am I take time to spend this time with the LORD and end the year and start the year in His presence.

At one point in my prayer time, I said "and LORD I pray a Happy New Tears for" ….and I stopped. What? Did I say Happy New Tears? Hmmmm. Obviously a slip up or was it? I started to think about that. You know every year we experience “new tears”. Those tears can come from a multitude of emotions……new baby, your marriage or the marriage of a child or sibling, laughter, passing of a loved one or friend, physical hurts, emotional hurts, sadness, joy, fear, anger, and my favorite tear producer… hormone imbalance! Truly the list could go on and on because what causes tears for one person isn’t always what causes tears for another.

I suppose my point is this…this year I want to encourage you and myself to embrace the "New Tears" and KNOW:

He sees them…. (2 Kings 20:5)
“Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord,

They do not go unaccounted for…Psalm 56:8
Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book?

As we step into 2010, I ask you to be ever prayerful concerning Pure Joy International and God’s plans for us. We pray that we only turn to the left or right at His Word! Please join us by being a part of Pure Joy International in 2010 through prayer, giving and going!

His,
vickie