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Thursday, May 07, 2009, 6:35 a.m. – The Lord put this song in my head:

He Giveth More Grace / Annie J. Flint

He giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater,
He sendeth more strength when the labors increase;
To added affliction He addeth His mercy,
To multiplied trials, His multiplied peace.


His love has no limit, His grace has no measure,
His power has no boundary known unto men;
For out of His infinite riches in Jesus
He giveth, and giveth, and giveth again.


When we have exhausted our store of endurance,
When our strength has failed ere the day is half done,
When we reach the end of our hoarded resources
Our Father’s full giving is only begun.


His love has no limit, His grace has no measure,
His power has no boundary known unto men;
For out of His infinite riches in Jesus
He giveth, and giveth, and giveth again.


I woke from A DREAM: There was a problem with the legs under a table. We had to keep putting something under the table to either replace the legs or to help with the legs so that the table could remain up. END. I woke to a song that was encouraging, but that I don’t remember now. I lay in bed singing the song and contemplating the dream when I fell back asleep.

I woke from ANOTHER DREAM: Someone came to our house. I had told her that I had a dress for her, but she went to my daughter’s room, saw a dress hanging on the wall or on the door, and she put that one on, instead. Then she went back outside and got into the back of a garbage truck and began to take off.

I saw her as she was leaving, so I ran out to tell her that she had on the wrong dress. That one belonged to a house guest of my daughter. I told her that was not the one I had chosen for her. Yet, since she was in the back of the garbage truck and not the one driving, the driver took off with her in the back, wearing that dress. I was disgusted at the idea of that dress being worn by someone in a garbage truck.

I went back inside the house and was trying on a series of what looked like bride’s maid dresses, trying to decide which one I wanted to give her. I was thinking that I could wear one of them to a banquet and that my husband could wear a white tuxedo.

She did eventually come back, and so I assisted her out of that dress so that I could give her something to wear that was for her. END. I woke with another song that I don’t recall. I lay in bed singing that song and I was praying and thanking the Lord for how he was encouraging me this morning through these songs, and as I got ready to get up, he gave me “He Giveth More Grace.”

Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read I Peter 2:4-25:

The Living Stone and a Chosen People
4As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him— 5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6For in Scripture it says:
"See, I lay a stone in Zion,
a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in him
will never be put to shame." 7Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,
"The stone the builders rejected
has become the capstone," 8and,
"A stone that causes men to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall." They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.
9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

11Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. 12Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

Submission to Rulers and Masters
13Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to the king, as the supreme authority, 14or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right. 15For it is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men. 16Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God. 17Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

18Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh. 19For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God. 20But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. 21To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.

22"He committed no sin,
and no deceit was found in his mouth." 23When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. 24He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. 25For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

To be continued...

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