God’s Word strengthened me
Gloria Woo, 3/7/2014
1. It was one early Wednesday morning in Jan or Feb, I was still in bed, but had a dream. I heard a hymn clearly, like someone was talking to me continuously. The words were very clear: “He makes the rose an object of His care, He guides the eagle thru the pathless air, and surely He remembers me, My heavenly Father watches over me.”
As I heard the lyrics, I felt my whole person was surrounded by a great sense of security and peace. As the words came to my mind, great calmness descended into my heart. The voice went on and on, repeating the lyrics, and the peace went deeper into my heart. This went on for a long time, and I felt so uplifted and enlightened that I didn’t want it to end at all. After a while, I woke up and found it was a dream. But the peace was still there deep in my heart. The incident was so sacred that I wanted to savor it to myself. I felt so calm the whole day.
The lyrics spoke exactly to what I needed at that time. I am a fragile person physically and emotionally; sensitive and easily getting hurt. Even in my diet I have to be very careful. Sometimes I wish I could be stronger like other people. But when I heard about the rose, it was very encouraging to me because the rose is very fragile too. The Lord is telling me that He makes the rose fragile in order to care for it. That was very enlightening, so He’s going to care for me too. Also recent months I’ve been struggling for directions for our ministry and a church to worship. I feel the path ahead of us is not clear at all. So the verse about the Lord guiding the eagle through the pathless air is just what I need.
When I finally woke up, I had to look for this hymn.
Peter helped me to find it. I was so happy. Imagine the Lord gave me the hymn before I knew where it was. Praise God. Later I looked up the whole verse, it was even more strengthening.
“ He makes the rose an object of His care,………..And surely He remembers me, My heavenly Father watches over me. I trust in God, I know He cares of me, on mountain bleak or on the stormy sea, tho’ billows roll, He keeps my soul, My heavenly Father watches over me. “
2. I’ve been hearing so many sad news and tragedies recent months. I was discouraged and my faith became very weak. One evening I told Peter I didn’t even want to pray. The next morning while still in my sleep, a verse came to my mind “ If we believe not, yet He abideth faithful: He cannot deny Himself.”
I was encouraged. I didn’t even know where is that verse. Later Peter helped me to find it; it’s II Timothy: 2:13. I was thankful that the Lord didn’t even rebuke my lack of faith in Him, instead He assured me of His own faithfulness in spite of my doubt. Praise God.