He trembles when we pray

Satan dreads nothing but prayer. His one concern is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, he mocks our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray. - Samuel Chadwick

Praying in the name of Jesus makes Satan flee,

this should bring us great comfort and admiration at His power!

So why do we often slip into periods and even prolonged periods

of prayerlessness? I think a lot of times we forget that there

is a very real spiritual battle going on. In a Beth Moore Bible study

I remember she said something along the lines of,

"When we sit at the feet of Jesus and commune with Him, 

the devil is forced to watch while our cup overflows." 

So, lets quite our souls and earnestly pray to our Creator, our Strong Tower,

our Defender, our Provider .. our Savior {+more}. Beg for our cup

to overflow.

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Run

In a few hours, my 5 year old nephew will ring my doorbell.

When I open the door I will see his beaming face, "AUNT DANI!" 

I will scoop him in my arms and hug him and try to hold him as long as I can

before he sees the WII and wants to go play. 

The joy that fills my heart when I see this little boy in my arms. 

The joy that fills the Father's heart when we run to His arms.

Run to Him, Run to him and He will receive you with open arms. 

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We're moving!

The news is out - WE'RE MOVING! Dave & I have found a quaint, cozy apartment in North Bergen and our move in date is October 29th! I am so thankful for my husband who has faithfully commuted for 2 years, 5 hours each day, to provide for us. We have been searching for months and it was a rough couple of months trying to find the right place. First, north Jersey is [outrageously] expensive. Second, there's a lot of areas that aren't the greatest. Third, it's not suburb - the closer to the city you are, the more it's LIKE the city! I mean, you're lucky if you see a sidewalk or grass anywhere .. it's crazy!

Through these last few months we've really learned what it means to seek the Lord's will and to wait on Him. After applying to an apartment that we *loved*, it was [below] our budget and in a great location we prayed that we would get it. Well, we didn't get it. We were denied; Others were more qualified. "Alright Lord, what are you trying to teach me?" I asked myself. He opened my eyes to His will - that's what he was trying to teach me. I realized that I was praying for what I wanted, not for His will to be done. Knowing, that He knows what's best for us. In the midst of all this, Dave has been trying to meet to discuss being hired as staff but things keep coming up and the meeting keeps being pushed off. My first thoughts are, "Why can't everything just fall nicely into place. We could get this apartment, he could get this job and everything would be all peachy?" I am doubting God's faithfulness and goodness. Day after day, this meeting was supposed to happen and it didn't and it still hasn't. BUT, God has been teaching me patience! I noticed my prayers changing [from what I want, to what the Lord wills] and just resting in the fact that God is sovereign and has ALL authority over everything that happens in our lives.

With all that said, on October 2nd I went to north Jersey to look at an apartment I found on Craigslist and I loved it. Dave wasn't able to be with me because he was sick. After discussing it, we decided to submit our application but some things came up and we weren't sure we were going to get approved. It had to be submitted to their regional person and after a week we still hadn't heard anything. On that 7th day, they said it would be another 2 weeks and it wasn't guaranteed we would get approved. We almost withdrew our application and I was content that we again, might not get to move into this apartment. A few hours later, the leasing officer calls and says, "you're approved!" "Wait a minute, you just said 2 weeks ..!" I was thrilled!

Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment.. 1 Tim 6:6