Standing in the need of prayer

I have been wanting to create this square for a while but had a few of trial and error moments.
Will be posting this pattern in the near future. I am waiting to purchase a web cam to do a video tutorial on the stitch for this.

It uses my own version of a wave crochet stitch (could also be called mock broomstick).  Its an extended wave. I think it looks like people standing together holding hands.

We all are in need of prayer everyday of our lives. We need to continually keep in comunication with our Lord. He is in control and if we are not in comunication with him, its like not knowing where the pilot of the plane is taking you. God may not always let us know everything in advance as to what will happen next but staying in contact with the pilot will let you know he has got everything figured out.

Then there is the body of Christ. We need to continually stay in contact with the body of Christ. To encourage each other, and pray for each other along the journey.
We are in a battle and need our fellow soldiers of the Lord to have our backs.
 At church when we have our altar call, almost the whole congregation goes up to the altar. People surround those in need of prayer and pray over them. One time I stayed back and watched. I thought of the front lines of a battle. The elders of the church stood and formed what was like a line of protecting prayer around those in need of prayer. How can the enemy get through such a solid wall of prayer and praise?

Things that can break that wall is discord through gossip, and unforgiving or judging attitudes. Judging someone when you just don't know what they are really going through. Our perception of others can destroy the chance to help pray that person through to victory.

We need each other to keep going because we may be the next one standing in the need of prayer.

The Well

Leave a Well in the Valley You Go Through - uncertain of who the writer of this song is

To the Valley you go through
those around you  must go too
down the rocky path you travel they will go
by those learning of your trials
will find the secret of your smile
and you will help them more than you will ever know

Chorus
Leave a well in the valley
your dark and lonesome valley
for others have to walk that valley too
and what blessing when they find
the well of joy you've left behind
leave a well in the valley you go through

 And blessed is the man
who has learned to understand
and becomes a hand for God
to those in need
and all the tears he shed
with God's help becomes instead
a precious bond that will heal the
the hearts that bleed

Chorus

Leave a well in the valley
your dark and lonesome valley
for others have to walk that valley too
and what blessing when they find
the well of joy you've left behind
leave a well in the valley you go through

Up-cycled bag

Up-cycled bag: Gingham is from curtains bought at a thrift store. Sstrawberries are from a table runner (same thrift store). The pocket is from jeans. Inner linning is from an old shirt of my husbands. Polka dot ribbon and lace trim are from...yes ...the thrift store.

I love you Jesus

Jesus you are so good to me.
 I know I falter and fail often. I just want to praise you for your grace and mercy given me everyday.
You love me because that is who you are.
I love you for everything you are.
 I thank you for your healing touch in my life and for your restoration.

Flower scrubbie power

*This is an unedited and untested pattern*
materials
tulle cut into 1 1/2  inch wide strips and tied end to end.
(I bought about 4 yards of tulle at a thrift store and made a large ball of it for future use. so the strips are long)
cotton yarn
J or k hook for tulle and cotton combo
I hook for petals and leaves

combining cotton yarn and tulle ch4 and sl st to 1st ch
rnd 1- ch 3, 9 dc into ch, sl st to beg ch
rnd 2- ch3, dc in same st. 2 dc in each st around.
sl st to beg ch. fasten off .

Petals- made without the tulle
fasten to any st, *(ch3, 3dc, ch3)  in same st, sl st in next st*, sl st again in next st and repeat * to * until last sl st. Sl st to 1st ch of  beg ch-3. fasten off

Leaves
working behind petals.
sl st to st behind the sl-st of previous row in between petals, *ch3, dc in same st, ch3, sl st back into 1st ch to make picot., dc into same st as last dc, sl st into st after next petal *.  Repeat * to *  sl st to beg ch. fasten off

made a little chain attached to the back of the flower for hanging.

crochet terms in different languages

I keep finding these wonderful patterns but unfortunalely they are in different languages. So here is a woderful resource for those brave enough to try to decipher patters in another language.

Crochet terms in six languages-linky

Bestir thyself

Heard a great message last night from 2 Samuel 5: 22-24 
When the Holy Spirit's wind moves through the mulberry trees. We are to bestir ourselves, go out up against the enemy, and the Lord will go before us to defeat them.
I had just been talking about how I live waiting for the other shoe to drop and how easy it is to slip into that old familiar self instead of putting on the new creature.
In the message last night he spoke of living like there was a storm coming, with his house all boarded up and staying in the basement even when the strom was over.
For me that reminded me of a dream I had where I was in the house I grew up in and God was there. The windows were bolted shut and I was hiding under the table. Which was something I used to do when I was little. God was taking the bolts out of the window and I could hear them dropping to the floor. Suddenly memories of the past start to come at me and I raised my hand and told the Holy Spirit that I was not ready to face these things yet. That is when I woke from the dream.
It wasn't until recently that I told God I was ready, and sure enough those memories started coming in dreams. In one memory, I'm not sure how old I was but I know I was little, but one night I was crying.  My mother came in the room yelling at me to shut up. She came over to the bed and took something and covered my face. I could feel her press down in the dream until I could not breath and had to turn my head so I could get air.  You would think that I would have woke up upset from that memory but it was like an ah-ha moment. Like a piece of the puzzle was being put together. I wasn't surprised. I knew it to be true.
I live like the storm is still here but it is over. Those memories are just that. The past is done. God kept me through all those things and broke me out of the prison I was in. I don't need to live under that table any longer, or in the  basement. God wants to open those windows to let light and fresh air in. The Holy Spirit's wind can't reach me unless I let those windows be opened.
The word bestir in the concordance means to preach, proclaim. We are to preach to ourselves the message of victory in Jesus. Proclaim it. God has already gone before us and won.
To live in the basement is acting like God never won. To keep slipping into the old self is as if I was never saved.
Put on the new creature, the robe of righteouseness, the Lord Jesus Christ, the garment of praise, the armour of light , the whole armour of God. These are all commands in the bible. In order to put on our clothes we have to take off our bed clothes. Each day is a choice to get up and put on the new creature.  Discard the old covering, defenses, attitude. Put on the new; to take on, cover one's self to compass, surround, live in, abide, hide in  Jesus.

Psalm 91
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the LORD, [He is] my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.