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Notes from
​the Homestead.

Joy In The Journey

1/17/2018

 
Joy in the Journey
By Michael Card

There is a joy in the journey
There's a light we can love on the way
There is a wonder and wildness to life
And freedom for those who obey
And all those who seek it shall find it
A pardon for all who believe
Hope for the hopeless and sight for the blind

To all who've been born of the Spirit
And who share incarnation with Him
Who belong to eternity stranded in time
And weary of struggling with sin
Forget not the hope that's before you
And never stop counting the cost
Remember the hopelessness when you were lost

There is a joy in the journey
There's a light we can love on the way
There is a wonder and wildness to life
And freedom for those who obey
And freedom for those who obey...

🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥

Sometimes the road is a little rough, a little bumpy. Have you noticed that yet? However, we can always find Joy in who He is and what He’s doing.

I look around and see how the Lord is touching so many of His creation in the county. It’s wonderful, it’s exciting, it’s faith building and it’s a dramatic show of His Love. It’s also what He promised would happen as we Proclaim the Good News that His Love Never Fails!

Every time we proclaim the Truth we are proclaiming that His Love Never Fails, Hallelujah.

The evil one cringes at those words… LOVE NEVER FAILS❣️

There are many ministers think that we are at the beginnings of another Great Awakening in our country. Maybe, I don’t know but I do know the fields are white with the harvest. I do know that He’s here now, today and healing the broken-hearted. I do know there are tears in His heart when The Lord sees the broken-hearted. He always sends His love, through His people, to them. Love Never Fails!

I know. I’ve been broken-hearted in the past and He has always healed me. I wrote this poem years ago about my journey during our trial with Grace’s illnesses.

🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥

Journeying
A strong young man stood straight and tall
A pillar, bearing burdens of one and all
Then darkness fell and he groped to find
Weaknesses hidden in the corners of his mind

The days grew long, the nights grew short
A quitter he wasn’t, he couldn’t abort
He stooped lower and lower with each passing day
Finally to realize–’twas simply the price he must pay

For the cry of his heart had been heard on high
To follow in the footsteps of the One who said die
As he slumped to the ground worthy of ruin
He found Life in the trial his Father had been brewin’

As the new day dawned, where the pilar had stood
A man was arising, saying, “God, you're so good”
From a pillar of wood, bowed low in despair
Arose a column of granite, with gold in his hair

The journey seemed long, and yet longer still
But Faith has been born, that shouts of His will
The Joy is returning, with tenderness new
That He has reserved for His chosen few

Who bow low on the Pathway that He has ordained
With a heart that is Joyous, not one that is pained
A song in their spirits, of Glory to the King
Awaiting the Marriage they Joyously sing!

🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥

When my daughter Grace was diagnosed with cancer the first time, it broke my heart. 💔

When Grace was diagnosed with cancer the second time my heart broken again.💔

When Debby first became ill and then when we almost lost her, it broke my heart. 💔

When Thomas abandoned his family, it broke my heart. 💔

These past 5 years of medical issues have taken their toll on me. I’m broken-hearted now and I am looking to Him to heal me yet again.💔

There have been other circumstances that have broken my heart but you get the idea. I’m so grateful that the One who created us in the beginning can recreate us today and everyday as we look at Him, Hallelujah!

Is it hard to find Joy in the midst of your trial?

Sometimes. It really depends on who I’m looking at. If I’m looking at myself, all I find or ‘feel’ is sadness. If I’m looking at my Lord, I find Him and He is Joy.

You will not necessarily be Joyous in the circumstance you find yourself in but you can become Joyous in Him.

Rejoice as the Potter remolds you into His Image.

Love Him.

—john

James 1:2-4
2. Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
3. knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Romans 14:16-17
16. Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil;
17. for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.”

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