I was reading Psalm 84 for devotions to the girls, I got to about verse 3, and then I just started crying...and cried the whole way through....
This Psalm is my prayer....the cry of a mother's heart....
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"How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD:
(Yes, I miss going to church and meeting with God's people so much!)
My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
(He is my only hope, my only help! I have no resources/answers, but HE is my HOPE! :)
Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a NEST FOR HERSELF, WHERE SHE MAY LAY HER YOUNG, EVEN THINE ALTARS, O LORD of hosts, my King , and my God.
(Longing for a godly place for my children....)
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. Who passing through the VALLEY OF BACA (where I'm at right now)make it a well;
(I want to make this "valley of Baca" a well, a place of refreshing and sweetness in the midst of loneliness and sorrow.)
The rain also filleth the pools.
They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
(What a promise...especially right now when I feel so utterly powerless and weak. Surely God will help, and here is my cry:)
O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
(Yes, amen! I'd rather be a "doorkeeper" and do what God wants me to do, even if everybody thinks I'm crazy...even if I'm "all alone"...than to go in the paths of wickedness.)
For the LORD GOD is a sun and SHIELD:
(He will give LIGHT and wisdom...even if there seem to be no answers. He will protect me and mine....AMEN!)
No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
(Thank-you, Lord, for this promise!)
O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
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