Topic: Tricia Leas thoughts and writtings

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* sunlight hugs TL tight

I really really like that one... a whole lot.

[Tricia Lea]

Thanks

* Tricia Lea hugs sunlight back

[Tricia Lea]

Joshua 6
1Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
2And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
3And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
4And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
5And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
6And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD.
7And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.
8And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.
9And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
10And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.
11So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
12And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD.
13And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
14And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
15And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
16And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city.
17And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
18And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
19But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.
20So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
21And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
22But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
23And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.
24And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
25And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
26And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
27So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.

Reading Joshua Ch 6 got me thinking: The Children of Israel won the battle of Jericho because they had faith in God, and what He could do. They believed God could win the battle But it wasn’t just knowing God could do it that they won but they had to do something. They had to march around the walls once a day for 6 days and they had to cary the Ark with them. On the seventh day they had to go around 7 times. They had to do it as God said to. There would have been no victory had they just went around a couple times then said this is too much. Or had they decided they would go around but they weren’t carrying that heave Ark with them. They won because they followed Gods instructions
It got me thinking this. How often do we have walls in our life that we want God to tear down. Walls that are keeping us from victory. We have faith that God can give us the victory but are we doing our part. For me I have realized so often I am asking God to remove a wall but yet I am not doing my part even at times maybe trying to reinforce the wall. I have several walls that need tore down and need to learn not only to give it to God but do what He wants me to do to get the victory.
I think of Naaman. He wanted healed of leprosy but He had to do something. He had to go dip in the river Jordan. He couldn’t just go to the local pond but he had to go to where God told him to go.
God will give me the victory but am I willing to do my part

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* sunlight hugs TL really really tight.

Thanks for the timely reminder...

[Tricia Lea]

* Tricia Lea hugs sunlight back

A couple weeks ago I had went back and visited the upc I used to go to. And somthing there was said that has stuck with me
pretty much it was we need to make up our minds that we are going through to the victory and if that is hard for us then we need to look inside and work on removing those hurdles that are holding us back then I went one night of family camp and Br Mooney hit on the same topic there and thats where my recent  posts on overcoming negativity, courage and walls have come from and there will probably be a couple more before its over. Based on some issues I know I need to work on. I wrote a small poem from this too I might post later called "I'm going to win"

[Tricia Lea]

I Must Win

I have decided I must run
I can not give in
I may have been knocked down
But somehow I must win

God give me the courage to get up
And to get back in
I may not run too fast
But somehow I will win

I know its only you Lord
That can help me get back in
Please give me power
So that somehow I can win

I may fall back down
But please Lord don’t let me stay
Help me get back up
And help me to win


Tricia

[baristagirl]

Tricia, you have no idea how much that last poem touches me. I teared up reading it. It is so relevant to my current situation. I'm blessed to have you and your courage to post your thoughts and writings in my life. Thank you!!!! *HUGS*

[Tricia Lea]

Learning to truly give problems to God

Psalm 55
22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

1 Peter 5
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.


Why is it so hard to truly lay our burdens down to God. Why is it we pick them  back up so fast and try to handle them ourselves, only to fail.
This is something I have realized myself. I will pray and say God I give it to you but then go and try to handle it myself

I have fought a couple of battles for a long time now and I know as long as I keep trying to do it myself I am going to keep failing and then I get tired of fighting and its been a cycle that I need to break and I want to break. I don't want to keep living this way. I know I can do this if I allow God to help me but why is that so hard at times. I want to win this. God help me to truly lay this at your feet and let you help me. I want out of this cycle. I need out of this cycle but I can only do it with your help God.