Today as I was catching up on Facebook updates, one caught my eye almost immediately.\u00c2\u00a0 He said he had been woken up early this morning, and the song “Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus”, came to mind.\u00c2\u00a0 When I woke this morning,\u00c2\u00a0 that song wasn’t on my mind, but I felt an overwhelming peace… and love for my God.\u00c2\u00a0 After reading his status update, I thought… “yeah, it is so sweet.”<\/p>\n
Over the years, I have sang this song… in some of my deepest hours of need.<\/p>\n
Being a young mother, I often sang “Jesus, Jesus, How I trust you…” while rocking my daughter to sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 I doubt that I was the only one that would look at her child and think… “what an awesome responsiblity it is to raise her.”\u00c2\u00a0 It was times like these that I just trusted in God, that he knew what he was doing, and he would help me.\u00c2\u00a0 If she was sick, I sang, and prayed… and felt that peace, that only he can give.<\/p>\n
When I was on my deathbed in 2003.\u00c2\u00a0 That song was one that I heard others singing, and in my mind I was singing it.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a time where I could literally feel the prayers of the saints going up for me.\u00c2\u00a0 My room would be thick with the presence of God.\u00c2\u00a0 I remember my mother sitting in the hospital room with me, and calling her over to my bed… saying, “Mom, their praying… someone is praying… I can feel it.”\u00c2\u00a0 That changed my life forever…\u00c2\u00a0 He allowed me to live, there had to be purpose, and in that purpose I would trust Him.<\/p>\n
Last year, my husband was in the hospital.\u00c2\u00a0 I remember sitting in his hospital room, and praying… then, of course, this song would come to mind.\u00c2\u00a0 “Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, Just to take Him at His word, Just to rest upon His promise, Just to know Thus saith the Lord.”\u00c2\u00a0 I begin to remember the promises, and visions God had given us in coming to Kentwood.\u00c2\u00a0 During Prayer Force at our church that Sunday, I remember being in a realm of my own with God… trusting Him.<\/p>\n
He has never left me, He has never forsaken me.\u00c2\u00a0 He has always proved to be trustworthy!<\/p>\n
Thank you, God, that I can Trust in You!!!\u00c2\u00a0 You are the only real thing in this world to trust in!\u00c2\u00a0 Thank you that I know you, Thank you for being there every time I felt I couldn’t go on.\u00c2\u00a0 Thank you for teaching me to lean upon you!<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,
\nAnd to take Him at His Word;
\nJust to rest upon His promise,
\nAnd to know, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thus says the Lord!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him!
\nHow I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve proved Him o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122er and o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122er
\nJesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
\nO for grace to trust Him more!<\/p>\n
O how sweet to trust in Jesus,
\nJust to trust His cleansing blood;
\nAnd in simple faith to plunge me
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Neath the healing, cleansing flood!<\/p>\n
Yes, \u00e2\u20ac\u2122tis sweet to trust in Jesus,
\nJust from sin and self to cease;
\nJust from Jesus simply taking
\nLife and rest, and joy and peace.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m so glad I learned to trust Thee,
\nPrecious Jesus, Savior, Friend;
\nAnd I know that Thou art with me,
\nWilt be with me to the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today as I was catching up on Facebook updates, one caught my eye almost immediately.\u00c2\u00a0 He said he had been woken up early this morning, and the song “Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus”, came to mind.\u00c2\u00a0 When I woke this morning,\u00c2\u00a0 that song wasn’t on my mind, but I felt an overwhelming peace… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}