Engraven Upon the Palms of My Hands

Just returned from the NYS LEAH conferences...we had a wonderful
time there. So many friends...so many stories of changed lives. The more I
hear about how Lamplighter has been used by God to bring redemption to so
many lives, the more I am fearful that we will be blind to our weakest line
of defense and leave ourselves vulnerable. Oh, please pray for us...God has
blessed so abundantly...may we be found faithful.
While at the conference I met a woman who was selling tapestries
crafted from women in Bangladesh. They had stitched bible verses upon the
tapestries and the ones that I read were verses that one stumbles upon
rarely. Enjoy these life changing truths (perhaps memorize?)
"See, I will not forget you; I have engraven you upon the palms of
my hands." Is 49: 15b, 16
"But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to
offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given
you." I Chron 29:14

This next verse really spoke to me:
"Lord, you will grant us peace; all we have accomplished is really
from you." Isaiah 26:12
Isn't that the truth? What can we give back to a God who has already
given us everything and not only has he given us everything, he helps us
accomplish it. It reminds me of I Thess 5:24, "Faithful is he who calls
you, who will also do it."

Someone who once said, "He gave us first, that we could give Him back, that
He can give us more."

"If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we
need to be needed." - The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis.
Have a great Lord's day!
Mark