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Thank you for being there for me when I had no one, thank you for reminding me that God Is Good and He is faithful
MARTHA AND TO ALL THAT SHARE THEIR HEART. THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME UNDERSTAND, I AM NOT ALONE. I AM CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH A SEPERATION WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY LEAD TO A DIVORCE FROM A BEAUTIFUL, BRIGHT, FUNNY AND BIG HEARTED MAN WHO HAS HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF ALLOWING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS TO RULE HIS LIFE. WE HAVE BEEN SEPERATED FOR 2 YEARS AND MADE ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO RECTIFY OUR MARRIAGE UDNER THE CONDITIONS THAT HE SEEK HELP. HE HAS DONE WELL BUT I HAVE AND CONTINUE TO SEE HIM SLIPPING BACK TO HIS BAD HABITS AND RESISTING ON GETTING ANY MORE HELP THAN GOING TO A AA CLASS ONCE A WEEK FOLLOWED BY DRINKING ON THE WEEKEND/DAYS. I LOVE HIM TREMENDOUSLY AND CAN SEE THE AMAZINING PERSON HE IS AND HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOMEIF HE WERE TO ONLY ALLOW GOD IN HIS HEART. I SHARE MY ANGER, SORROW, SADNESS, GRATITUDE WITH GOD IN THE DARKEST OF MY HOURS. I CRY, SCREAM YELL AND JUST GO TO MY KNESS ASKING FOR HIS GUIDANCE ON THIS HEART TRENCHING JOURNEY. HE LISTENS AND HOLDS ME WITH UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AND FORGIVENESS. WETHER WITH A WISPER OR THROUGH MY SILENCE, GOD IS ALWAYS WITH ME WAITING FOR ME TO SURRENDER LITTLE BY LITTLE SO HE MAY TAKE WHAT BURDEN IS NO LONGER MINE.
MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL IN YOUR DARKEST MOMENTS.
a perfect ending to your message is the song playing
beautiful--funny how we have to be reminded over and over again. thanks for when I need it.
I was watching this video and when i can't sleep at night
I do have a long talk with God. I feel like when i can't
can't sleep or wake up in the middle of the night i do pray
for a certian someone or problem it relaxes me and I do go
right back to sleep. Linda Stevenson
A friend of my send me this site i really enjoy reading the stories
Martha, Martha, what a delight to stumble across your name and this site...it has been what, 3 years since TBAA left Salt Lake City, and yet there are still momentos of it's have been here for so long....I dont know that you remember me in particular, but I am the one who "petted the cow" in the FEAR NOT, first christmas show and the "chicken farmer" in BLUE ANGEL....
I just wanted to share those were such great experiences in my life and have been enjoyed over and over by family and friends...so please accept a huge thank you from me, my family, and my city, for your have the ability and talent to have brought the show here, and for keeping it as long as you could...bless you.... Jim
Your message is spectacularly inspirational and I would consider myself blessed to recieve additional Story's
Several years ago while waiting to have colon surgery I had a long talk with our Lord, at which time I promised him that I would from that time on, ask only that His will be done in my life, turning it all over to Him.
Well, a year ago the 17th of January, `08 I found out what that meant, as I lost my loving wife of 59 years and 3 months. We had looked forward to celebrating our 60th wedding anniversary, but never got to it. She had double Pneumonia and just could not overcome it. Things have not been easy, neither financially, nor spiritually, but with His help I am coping and things are a little easier each day. I just hope and pray that I can stay healthy and get along as well as I have. My wife and I had for years read Open Windows and prayed every night when we went to bed, and I continue to do so. Without my little talk with God I doubt if I could continue, but I know that whatever happens He will be with me and I love Him for it. May you have the Best of everything, Chet
I remember my midnight talk with God. It was Feb.7, 2007. My husband, Jay, was just diagnosed with having 5 malignant brain tumors stemming from metastatic lung cancer earlier that day and while I was with him in the emergency room, it was as if the whole weight of the world rested on my shoulders. I told myself I had to be brave, face this challenge head on with him and his would-be specialist doctors and do the best we all could. That evening, after he calmed down and got settled with the help of an internist, I felt I could leave him overnight in the very capable hands of his doctor and ICU nurses. As I was driving home I felt really cold and the only thing I could see around me was darkness. My house was quiet and dark and knew I needed to talk to someone about what we just found out about Jay. I called his best friend and relayed the sad news. He too was shocked. After we talked, I felt so alone. It was then that I decided to pray. I prayed the rosary, and all the prayers I knew to pray. I don't remember stating the the intentions for the prayers but I do remember praying for strength and guidance. I remember praying all night. The next thing I remember was waking up with vigor, a clear mind and the strength to move on. The first thought that came to my mind as I opened my eyes was that God was in control and that all I needed to do was follow his command and trust Him completely. I was guided by this thought and image of God being in control that all through Jay's 1 year and 9 days' life after his diagnosis, we both made time to prepare for the rest of his life, and his eventual death. He knew he was going back to God when he told me he wanted to convert to Catholicism and that he couldn't wait to receive his first Holy Communion. He attended the RCIA (Rite of Christian Instruction for Adults) at church without fail, even though he felt sick from radiation and chemo treatments. We talked about every thing under the sun including heaven, hell, purgatory, the bright light dying people experience when they transition from here to heaven, daily goings-on or plans for the day, etc. We even went to the cemetery to look at plots.
Jay's brain surgery on Feb 12, 2007 was very successful. His mind was very sharp till the end and was able to make decisions wisely. Later in May, prosthetic femur surgery was necessary to prevent this bone from breaking. At the same time, cancer was invading his adrenal glands and the lymph nodes in his chest area. He would later lose his voice because these lymph nodes were pressing against his larynx. In spite of all the progressive effects of his cancer, he was generally in good spirits and finally was able to say "I'm dying". One pensive day, he expressed, "I wish I can live through another Christmas". I replied, "When the Lord calls you, you cannot say no; you must say yes".
All through Jay's journey (and mine too), everything I had to do and say were guided by the Holy Spirit. I know this for a fact as I couldn't have done and said what I had to do and say by myself. Every night, Jay and I prayed religiously that we may find the strength to follow God's will and accept it as such. We also prayed in thanksgiving for God's blessings especially for the time He had given us both to prepare for Jay's new life. Deep inside us I knew that on the one hand we were hoping for a longer life for him but on the other hand we were praying sincerely to accept whatever God willed for us. Jay talked to God all the time especially when he is by himself. So around Valentine's Day, changes started to happen. My sister and I stayed with him almost round the clock so we could pray, (including asking for forgiveness), sing hymns or to just talk with him. Finally, he started his transition. His eyes remained open staring at a crucifix and was mouth-breathing very gently - no strain at all. I knew he couldn't move but he could still hear me. So I continued to speak to him in a soft voice saying," You are the best gift God has given me and I thank Him for you, but I have to give you back to Him because you belong to Him". My sister and I continued to talk to him, sometimes holding his hand, sometimes praying or singing hymns. 20 minutes before he passed, I gently asked him if he could see THE LIGHT. He tried his best to respond by twitching the muscles under his eyes. When I saw this, I immediately said, "You're going to Heaven". "Hang on to the angels and they will guide you there. Walk with them and when you get there, don't look back, just let go". I repeated these words several times and later, he breathed his last. It was a most beautiful death, the first experience for me. It was also very humbling as I realized that God used me to help Jay reach his destination. All these happened because of my midnight talk with God and many more conversations with Him later. I continue to make time to visit with God because I know it is what God wants me to do. Besides, talking with God helps me get focused. I cannot afford to stray away from God. He is the only Way to Heaven.
Thanks so much for your "Touch of Encouragement". It helps a lot of us focus on Godly ways which assist us in praising and honoring God. May you have many, many more wonderful blogs about God and may your readers increase more and more so God's word will continue to flourish.
My life is crazy. I just filed, after 25 years of marriage. My husband has a girl friend. Says that if any thing in our marriage went wrong that it was my fault 110%. Becauce he has been right 98% of the time. How many nights I wake up and in the dark think of all the things that are going wrong. I know when God closes a door he opens a window. I don't always think my faith is strong. But than thats what keeps me head above the dark water is my faith. Please continue with all your messages they truely help me to remember he walk with me and that I need him. Thank you
Bless you Martha,
That is so true.
We really need to be thankful for all our blessings.
Not too very long ago, I went through a very heart breaking crisis in May of 2002 and
I really felt that many times there really was noone to talk to.
I felt who do I have to turn to, but the one thing I learned is, our father in
Heaven is always there to listen and help us through the hard times.
I'm sitting here trying to read all the comments that have posted. I know God personally, and know that he always work things out for the good. But, lately i feel he is near but still far-away from me. In 2003 I was arrested for battery on my spouse that's when my life fell apart, well maybe not then; it would probably be back to 2002 when i lost my job at one of biggest insurance companies here: not to mention the break-down i suffered, but back to 03 after i was arrested he never came to visit me and the woman he was dating across the street from my apartment got together with her family and decided to tell the police that i was trying to kill her. My son was looking at things happen from the bathrom window but the police said they would not take anything he said because he is a bit slow, so i went to jail lost the job i had while in there. It is five years later and i haven't been able to get employed because of i can't pass a background check. My son works part-time making minimum wadge and have pulled us with his job over that time. Now he has been downsized to working 8 hrs per-week. Sometimes i feel i can't make it another day. He is now sad because we may be out on the street. I asked God if things could get any worse, but i shouldn't because they probably could. Everytime i think i have a handle on a job i'm informed that i didn't pass the background check;sometimes i feel like i'm going to loose my mind again. However, i know that God will bring me through this. I saw this page and felt like getting a little of this out of my system. Please pray for me and my son Joseph.
Hello Martha, I'm very glad that I found this hidden treasure, I have been going through some hard things in y marriage. My husband is not doing the right thins as he should be in this marriage. Martha, I love my husband very much, I'm just asking if you could pray for me, my husband and our marriage. It is keep me up at night, and I do pray, but could you please pray for me as well.
Thank you,
Hi Martha I really enjoyed this passage I have been through a lot in the last six years with my health and face it; after a while you start to get tired but the things that keep me going are waking up everyday in my right mind and knowing God is the only reason I am still alive so I am so grateful to Him and I do lay awake late at night body in agonizing pain but I lay there thanking God for the many blessings He have bestowed upon me my husband, children,both my parents are alive, all of my nine brothers and sisters are still here, every twenty two of my nieces and nephews are alive and well, I have a beautiful roof over my head, food to eat, A Loving Church family that has been so supportive, and once I've given thanks for all of these Blessings I start to think of all the people that have worst health challenges than I do and I begin to pray for them so though sometimes the pain seem to be unbearable my "Multiple Blessings" wont allow me to complain and I often think about a song that simply say that "My Good days outway my bad days I wont complain"
HI MARTHA,
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! COUNTING YOUR BLESSINGS INSTEAD OF SHEEP ALWAYS HELPS ME TO FALL FAST ASLEEP. I'VE BEEN FACED WITH SO MANY TRIALS LATELY THAT I SOMETIMES WANT TO GIVE UP AND LET GO. THEN I REMEMBER THAT GOD WILL GIVE ME NO MORE THAN I CAN HANDLE AND I AM TRULY BLESSED. I REMEMBER THAT I HAVE SO MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR, ESPECIALLY GOD'S UNWAIVERING LOVE AND MERCY FOR US ALL. I EVEN THANK HIM IN THE MIDST OF TEARS AND TRIALS WHICH HELPS ME TO KEEP PRESSING FORWARD.
I have never written to a site like this and I don't blog. But, I was moved to reply this time.So many others are undergoing bad times and sad times, it actually made me sit back and think about my situation.April, 2007 I was run over by my own truck.I almost died, my right leg will never be the same and I am now considered to be disabled. At the age of 55, I am now good for nothing. That's the way it feels anyway. Before the accident, I was a work a holic, 70 hrs a wk and taking care of a large home and 3/4 acre on my own. Not anymore. I barely an take care of anything. You see, after the accident in April, the physicians found cancer in August, of 2007. It is 18 months into this ride and it hasn't gotten any better. Several surgeries on my leg, surgery and radiation treatment for cancer. Then. a couple of wks ago, they found they didn't get all the cancer. To add to the situation, I have ongoing infections. If I am not on antibiotics, then I have an infection. Many, many Dr. visits, emergency rooms and hospital visits and no one can determine what is really wrong. Some Dr. thinks that amputation of my leg would help, but, of course, no guarantees. I have not gone to church since the accident, I can't drive and my husband is angry w/ God. So, I study on my own and keep a journal of my blessings and my prayers. But, it is getting more difficult to rise above the pain and the depression. I have asked myself over and over why didn't I die under that truck? Why did I have to fight to live? It would have been so much easier to have died and gone on. How odd it is for me to admit this to anyone, especially this way. Odd what circumstances will bring you to. Thanks for listening. I try not to unload on my husband or children, they have their own troubles and I don't want to burden them more. That does make the situation bleak sometimes, though. To all that God does for us and the blessings that we have, Amen.
Username: Ann Simpson posted a comment on December 6, 2008 at 5:19am I would love to make communication with this user and willing to share personal information. I am also on the medication Seroquel and taking additional medications. I have been on each and every A-Typical medication. I have suffered with minor and major side effects. I have a sub-type of Bipolar Disorder called Schitzo-Affective Disorder. This condition has caused additional problems for me.
Thank you so much sister Martha W. I was introduced to your Website by a friend and every time I read your word of encouragement I feel uplifted. I have been going through some thoughts after loosing my husband, he died on 10th July, 2008 and every time I think of it I would say Why me Oh Lord but when I read some of your messages I felt encouraged and I am trying to learn to be still and know that he is God and his plans for my life are always better. I will also use the time of the night when am awake to talk to God and count all my blessings. Thank you for every word of encouragment may the Lord bless you and keep you in Jesus Name and keep on lifting many lives for God's sake.
Sister Catherine K.
Martha, those words are so very inspiring and how true!..I had a night of being upset and panic and when I got up the next day and checked my email from beliefnet, there was a link leading to your message. I heard it and replayed it and have now added you as one of my favorites. How remarkable! (I felt like God was and is with me) and not one person should take advantage of their blessings he has given to us. God does hear us, he hears our cries and sadness, he hears our anger and happiness. Know God is there and here with us every day.
Thank you-------- I,like many ,take so many things for granted.Do not pray and when they are taken away-- then will tell the lord that if i get this or that i will never again do this or that. I do wake and have all that clutter to deal with and will try to use your solution which is age old for a reason,a Gratitude List--Thank you for the reminder and Peace to us all in doubt and also to the folks who need to be reminded about taking the lords blessings for granted, God Bless Us All We Need His Grace. Amen
Thanks for the encourgaging words. It really helped. I'm a SOldier in Iraq right now and had a very close call the other day and was ery lucky to walk away with a few scratches. This is the about the 3rd time I had a close call, but I know someone/people are watching over me upstairs. My Aunt DOnna sent me your stuff before and they help out. Cuz I know he is ALWAYS there. I subscribed to the beliefnet newsletters actually think my Aunt signed me up but they do help. Thanks for everything and your inspiring words. Happy Holidays!
Sincerly,
Jodi I.
Martha, What a wonderful talk. I needed it. I am bipolar and I am going through a med adjustment while at home and not in a psychiatric hospital. Right now I am manic and not sleeping very much. I've been awake since 2 am and finally got up at 3 am and came to the internet and one of the first thinks I did was listen to your talk about counting your blessings. I am going to do that from now on!! I am on a mood stabilizer medicine that is supposed to make me sleep, but it is working yet. It is called Seroquel. The first night I took 100 mg and slept only 4 hours. Last night I took 2 pills or 200mg and slept 3 1/2 hours only. I see the doctor next Wednesday, but I can call her today. Before Seroquel I was on Depakote from 1000 mg down to 250 mg and it gave me the hand tremors so I was taken off it. I do a Bible Study by myself or more of a devotional and that really helps out! I also attend a Bible Study Group that is connected to our church, Kinsmen Lutheran Church on Champion Forest Drive in Northwest Houston. I have been manic since October and I need to get stable soon because on December 28th we are going to Hudson, Ohio to celebrate my granddaughters 2nd birthday. That is another story. She suffers from seizures and the doctors at Akron Children's Hospital and now Cleveland Clinic don't know what is causing her seizures.She is on medicine for her seizures. she is also in a day care program on the teo days my daughter works, Tuesday and Friday. This day care program is for well kids and handicapped children and they have therapists on staff to work with Lucy. My granddaughter's name is Lucille Noel Harvey. My daughter is expecting again on March 1st so in March we will go back to Ohio. I can hardly wait!!!!! Agrandma again. I also have a son, but he isn't married and he lives here in Houston with his 4 cats, one 15 year old male and 3 year old kittens. He works with computers, the company used to be called Clear Channel Comminucations, but the name has changed to somethng else and I don't remember what it is. About a month ago my mom moved to Spring form Georgetown and Sun City to a retirement home called Paradise Springs. It is great having her so close. I also have a sister wo lives her in spring and is President of the Northwest Chamber of Commerce and her husband work with or for Pella Windows. My husband works as a contract employee for CB&I (Chicago Bridge & Iron Company). and loves it! I also have a sister in San Antonio and a brother in Oklahoma. We are all Christians, but we don't all go to church. My son doesn't go and I've been praying for him.
I enjoyed your Touch of Encouragement,I felt so good inside just listening to you. I do count my blessing and have a talk with God all the time and I am truly thankful and Blessed.
Thank you Martha
A midnight talk with God, Oh how i miss that, you see I started slowly moving away from God by 1. I left my church to go to another for a good reason to be with the deaf more, then I started not going there because it was harder then I thought to make friends, and I missed my church, then I'm not sure why I started spending less time reading my Bible, but all the way I was giving myself some real good reasons and blaming others for my doown fall. but I listen to you this morning and realize how I miss my time wiith the Lord no matter what eles is going on I got a divorce in Sept, my daughter is sick, on and on and on. I miss my midnight talks with the Lord my early morning prayer, my morning drive where we visited just Jesus and me on my way to work. Thank you for reminding me that there is nothing so precious as time spent with God. I thank God for his Mercy and Grace that calls out to us and for us and how his word will never come back void.
Have a bless day.
Brenda
Hi, Being grateful and counting your blessing is always a good way to give yourself a spiritual boast. Recently I was going through my stuff to see which ones I needed to throw away and which I needed to still keep. I great thing to do before Christmas before the new stuff arrives. Anyway I came across an old poem that I have written years ago and I was surprise that it still had the ability to still move me unlike some other old poems that seem to die out with time this one seems to have a certain timelessness about it. It address peoples frustrations then seems to point you toward the answer at the end. Will here it is for you to see just below this line.
When Will
When will that which is within,
no longer be replaced by that which has been?
Or that which is to come,
no longer judge my potential sum?
When will the outer me, let my inner being be?
How can I get from when and how,
to the here and now?
Hush now, be still, let the quiet fill..................
Hear the soul of all that be,
reveal itself to me.
Then that which has been,
will be replaced by that which is within.
love from Brian, first written April 2002
Dear Martha~
Thank YOU so much for your words and thoughts!
"White Christmas" has always been one of my favorites!
I have arthritis and there are many sleepless nights. Prayer and God are my comforts during those sleepless times!
May God richly continue to Bless You & Your Family as you touch so many others!
Hi Martha,
I was away from God after I quit a church I was going to, thil I came to the Lord this last month.
I was cursing him and blaming him for not healing my mom with Breast Cancer when she had it.
I told hime that I he was a murder for killing my mom on Sunday Feb 13th, 2005.
I didn't want anything to do with him.
Now I know he didn't have anything to do with the death of my mom, so I gave my life back to the Lord here at home and asked for his forgivness, and now everyday I keep telling him how much I love him.
Now I wish my dad would do the same, but he's being stubborn and not doing it.
He still says God's name in vein and he has a girlfriend that he sleeps with and he's not even married.
All I can do is keep prying for him and still turn his life over to the God and let take it from there.
That's all I can do.
I'm 44 years old, I'll be 45 on Tuesday March 10th, 2009.
My dad's 74 years old.
My mom died at the age of 68, She was born on Tuesday March 10th, 1936, and I was born on Tuesday March 10th, 1964.
I use to be Pentecostal, now I'm Baptist.
I go to church every Sunday at Irving Baptist Church here in Irving,Texas which is Located West of Dallas and East of Fort Worth.
I'm so glad that Jesus and I are so close again, I missed his precious love and his warm loving caring arms be around me!
I'm finally going to be baptized this Sunday (12-07-08) at the church.
They have been having heating problems, but praise the Lord it's going to be ready for me to be put under water and come up refresh and rejoicing unto the mighty lamb of God!
You seem like a sweet person and great woman of God!
I just want to say I would like you and I to be brother and sister in Christ!
Take care of yourself and I want to with you and your family a very very safe and Happy Holiday Season!
God Bless you and the spirit of the Lord continue to be with you and your family forever and ever!
I love you my sister in Christ!
I'll remember you in my prayers!
Take care and bye for now.
Your Brother In Christ,
Stanley Abercrombie
Dallas,Texas
as i sit here my mind & thoughts going a million miles an hour,on my right side is enough medication that there would be no pain,just blissful sleep.on the left is a shotgun,will i hear the the sound of the shot,will i feel anymore pain then i feel now? then in the bedroom is my 13 year old son.would he be better off without me.maybe its not to late that his mother could meet some one and they start to do things as a family.i have been in this frame of mind for so long that i know no other life.i see no way out,always before there was that little thread of hope.you have no idea what to do or to feel like when you think tjat thread has been broken...to loose faith,love,self respect,feelings of others makes me feel so selfish.this prayer keeps popping in my head: Angel of God my guardian dear who's Gods love committs you here,Ever this day be at my side to rule & guide and light my way.
PRAISE GOD... for the messages of other brethren that i read just now.. it's a great blessings for me especially i am here in Saudi Arabia, working one of the hospitals here.
Here in Saudi Arabia is very difficult to live here because its very strict country, but i do believed that this is the will of our LORD JESUS CHRIST for me to work here..
I agreed that this website is a hidden treature especilly for me. Here in Saudi its very strict here and its very hard also to mingle with the other people here because you dont know who is your true friends really..
I am looking forward for more letters in this website... May the Lord bless you always...
IN HIM WE LIVE
merly
Dear Martha,
I have just been reading through some of the postings on this website and I felt like ooh! at last I have found a prayer partnerI am a born again christian a divorcee who has been blessed by a daughter aged 18years who has also accepted Our Lord Jesus Christ into her life, Praise God! All has been well untill early this year when she fell pregnant and had to leave school. Unfortunately she lost the baby. Now I am earnestly making plans for her to go back to school next year! Oh God! This time she has been attacked by another destructive devil...she misuses my hard earned money, if I give her money to pay for the bills she consumes it and brings back forged reciepts! Why Lord? I have enrolled her to a driving school which she was supposed to have started in October this year, believe me she has been dodging classes, she never set her foot in the school! Ii am trying very hard to remain sane but the pressure is just too much for me now! I need a breakthrough I wish God could tell me how best to handle the situation! I am terrified! I need prayers! I have developed a septic wound inside me and only prayer can heal it. Praise God
i'm so glad to know that there is a someone we can go to during our trobled times anytime of the day and that is god. i have been struggling with one of the most heart breaking things i could ever experience as a mother with my son. i have a wonderful son and i have him is church and he plays the drums at our church and is very well loved by all that know him. but someone that he loves and trusted chose to bring something into his life that had no right to be there. this evil thing was alcohol and this someone was his dad. we are divorced and it just seems like he just tryes to go through my son to hurt me in any way he can.i really need your prayers to help me deal with this and i will pray for all of you the best i can. god bless.
Great massage. i can only suffice it to say that God is still God and does not change. He knows us even better than we do ourselves. So in our moments of doubts and needs,and all the worries and troubles of this world we should bear in mind that we are not alone. Psalm 23 says, The Lord is my shepard i shall not want..." If God can take care of the birds of the air and the beasts of the field, what about us that are made in his(God's) own image? Lately, it seemed that my needs would overwhelm me, but i remembered God. He is my provider and i shall not want. Though am believing Him for something, i have faith that it is done but if at the end of the day it does not work out the way i have planned, then i know this is for a purpose. He has something better to offer me. God loves me and wants the best for me and i respect his decisions for my life. One more thing, that i am alive and sound is a great blessing and am gratefull to God. Everyother thing is an added bonus.
It's 12:34 AM Dec. 5th. May GOD Bless. Thank You So Much.
Thank you all for sharing. I am in counseling and this was perfect timing for me also.
I pray for a peaceful sleep for all of us. I will have "Be still and know that I am God" running through my mind as I drift off into a deep sleep. Blessings!
I for each and one of you pray for me going into the surgury room on dec16 2008 god bless each and one of you and you have my preys
Thank You! I needed to hear this. I'm blessed and know it. But sometimes I let it slip my mind in my times of trouble.
Happy Holidays,
Gwen
I loved this message.
Its makes me think more about pray and thanks GOD for everything... I do it already.
But sometimes I loose my precious time watching tv show later night instead,
talk to GOD even little bit.
Thanks for this wonderful/precious message of encouragement.
God bless you always.
Your message was sent to me right on time. I have had one of the worst days of my life but I opened my mail and here was a message sent from God by you . Thank you and God bless you!
your words of encourgement are touching just like touch by an angel was.i wish we could always have shows like that on tv.i'd sit and cry and always feel touched by god.
Thank-you. This message could not have come at a better time. Feeling totally overwhelmed, I checked my email to find your encouraging words. It is true, I need to count my blessings & keep things in perspective. This too shall pass. Sometimes I just need someone to remind me of that. Its very hard to be the "rock" everyone expects me to be. Sometimes I need someone to tell me that it will be ok. & that I'm not alone.
I sit at my CPU and i say to myself everything u r saying is true, my sister is in Barbados and she is very sick her fourth and fith lumbar is worn out and we r all just praying for to be well, and jus when i think that life could not be worse than that on sunday nov30 i got a call from my friend telling me my good friend is dead, the family got into an accident coming home to ny from conecticuit, she died on the spot and her 11yr old daughter jus came out of a coma, however her 9yr old survive also alive is her husband, very sweet lady and she was also a child of god i call her one of gods angels, the family is laying her to rest on monday morning we will have a wake on sunday evening and funeral services, this is the first time i watch your clip and u inspire me may god be with u and yours and all your readers, please pray for this family, please keep the DEBELLOTTE FAMILY IN YOUR PRAYERS. THANK U, AND A HAPPY HOLIDAY TO U AND YOURS AND ALL YOUR READERS.....THANKS FOR LISTENING, DONA./////
wow!!! i must say, that was beautiful. i've never heard anyone put
it like that. Thank you for the encouragement.Now thats words to sleep on
You just dont know, yes you do. I thank God for your words of encouragement. THANK YOU !!!!
i found your wed site today and yes i feel so bless in many waysi talk to my children everyday when there sad over money or just taking care of there kids or dailey like i tell them your so bless in many ways you have healthy kids good well behave kids a warm home food put god in your live and all your fears will dispeare i realy loved your massage live sometimes do get tuff but with god in my life i can do anything .thanks again
god bless
Dear Martha,
I was up at 4:00a.m. this morning, worrying about my husband's heart condition, my infant grandson and a host of other things that kept me awake. I do and I did talk to God and felt uplifted. This site was on my email and I have never seen it and it is a confirmation of His loving presence in our lives. God bless you..........
i clicked on your site and the words that came out of your mouth had to be god talking through you. because your words spoke straight to my heart..thank you and god bless you..
Hello,I just got up this morning feeling very down. I begin to ask God why so much pain? What have I done to receive so much heart broken problems. All God said was be still and let me be your God. He also said faith is all we need for these hope for. Than I begin to look on the internet and seen this website like God just brought me here or something.When I begin to listen to you it was peaceful to listen to the words you were saying. It was right on time for me. I thank God for the words. God Bless!!
Sheena Thomas
Montgomery, Alabama
Dear Martha,
You site has really helped me through so many difficult days. The world is a scary place but listening to your calming voice and advice really helps me get through. I loved your show I looked forward to watching it with my mother. Life was so much easier back then.ck then. Since then I have had money problems but I also been blessed with three terrific children from God. The last year has been very difficult because December 10th,2007 we were told our little girl had stage 5 kidney cancer. As of August 20th,2008 she is cancer free and I have never been so greatful for God and power of pray. Her story is posted on www.caringbridge/visit/felicia. Thank you and be continue it helps.
Sincerely,
Renee Frugoli
Boy! As usual, this one is right on time - I have a horrible time of waking in the night & letting unnecessary worries dominate my mind. I've always known that God is there for me, but hearing Martha's words today just enforced it. I have so many blessings to be thankful for. I treasure these 'touches of encouragement!.' God bless you, Mrs. Williamson
Martha, Thank You so much I needed this today so much, like alot of people my family too is living to paycheck to paycheck, and went to bed alittle worried how will we pay the house payment, but at least I have a house to worry about, and then my loving husband comes in and said I don't know how we will get thru this but we will, he is not worried that much.
And I know God already knows what he is going to do, so I just need to stand still and let God Love Me and My Family.
Thank you Martha for these these words of hope.
And God Bless you and your Family.
Vanessa
Daytona Beach FL
Be still and know that I am GOD is one of my most favorite thoughts that take me into my most peaceful moments.I want to say how do you know just what to say and then im reminded you spend time with the creator just as I do and HE is a spirit that connects everything and everyone together Thank You for being there for us Ms Martha may GOD continue to bless you and your family fourteen generations ahead be blessed!!!
In fact that just happened to me at 3:00 am...I am a social worker, and I often lay away at night. I absolutely love my clients.I work in a remote town, and they have cultivated a family like support for each other. I work with orphanned children where one or both parents have died.Since January of 2008, I had nine admissions into the intensive care unit,two children with cancer.Yesterday, one 12 yr old client had exploratory surgery because he may have to amputate his leg, and another father called me to let me know that the biopsy he took several weeks ago was indeed cancer.So yes, I often pray at night when I can't sleep.The only thing I can count on is that He is listening.I hope so anyway because i am beginning to wonder how do you maintain faith in the midst of struggle because it is really difficult to see the blessing.Maybe I have to count sheep during the day too....
netty
I agree with the other posted comment - this website is a hidden treasure. A friend introduced me to this site. Reading that Martha was the hand behind a program in recent years, I have since introduced a relative to the site. They are thrilled! The series, "Touched By An Angel" was a never miss proposition for them! It changed their life (was bitter, angry, cynical, mean from life events) - as strange as that may sound, but the television medium is a good messenger and thought provoking, at times. So, when I was able to forward the link of this new venue !! well, it's now considered a Christmas gift by my relative from me for them to be able to receive powerful words to let manifest in themselves again. These videos are simple and pure, but say it all. Simple in life IS more.
Hi Martha,
I love Touch of Encouragement so much. It's inspiring and uplifting. I wonder though why i can't view the video "Leave it at the Altar" and this one, "A Midnight Talk with God". Maybe some technical glitches? It's a pity, i don't want to miss them. Thanks very much
Martha, Thank you so much for your message this morning. We all need to be reminded of our blessings and now I am going to count you as one of my true blessings from God. It was truly a blessed day when I received your website information from a friend. I so look forward to each new message from you. Bless you and your family and have a blessed Christmas.
Dear Martha,
I only found your website a short time ago. It has really been a blessing to me, and I want to thank you for allowing God to use you in this way. You truly have a giftand your mssages are a gift to all who listen.
Sincerely, Betty
I found your website last weekend and I feel like I've found a hidden treasure. The older I get the simple things bring so much joy...a piece of pie, a lit Christmas tree, a smile on my grandson's face, the DVD "White Christmas." God is good and his blessings are truly appreciated. Thank you for sharing your heart.
Es maravilloso poder escucharla cada semana. Sus mensajes son una medicina para el alma que siempre me deja con ganas de mas...
Gracias por estar ahi.
Un beso , un abrazo y mil sonrisas
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