I wanted to tell about a sweet experience I had this morning.
This morning when I woke, the kids hadn’t gotten up yet and I wanted to start my morning with a walk. The sky was already a beautiful blue with some dotted white clouds and it felt so peaceful. By the time I got down to the bridge in front of Stuart’s house, I said, “Good morning, Lord!” Then it hit me that BeBe sings that song 🙂 As that thought came, Jesus said, “Open up Songs of Rest.” I usually do listen to that while I walk but just hadn’t had the feeling to turn it on yet. I thought…no…really? Is that just me thinking it would be the neatest coincidence that the song would be playing? I opened it up and the song “A Simple Life” was playing (it’s simple just to listen the spirit), and what did I see as the song that followed?…”Good Morning, Lord”! 🙂 It just tickled me so! Jesus was listening to me. That song did not just happen to be about to play. I did not just have the thought to open up Songs of Rest. Jesus met me in that conversation!
So, I listened to that song twice and was just past the Nelson’s at this point, and I thought I’d play it again, but Gary started singing a song about raising your hands to praise Jesus because he’s worth it. I wish I could remember what it was, but it was perfect, so I walked a while with my hands up! Then, as I was coming back up to that intersection after going down the road, BeBe came on again and sang, “He’s an On-Time God, he’s always right on time, He knows exactly what I need and He knows it every time!” I just about couldn’t take the sweetness. I feel like if I wasn’t crying from happiness, I was speaking in tongues my whole walk.
After the song ended, that was it. Nothing else played, just 3 songs and it stopped. So I took that as just quite time now and to thank Jesus for taking time with me and let it soak in. I got almost to Carrie’s, and I looked up and the sky was so beautiful and there was just the ghost of a moon in the sky above the trees (Jesus knows I love the moon 🙂 ) and it was the prettiest picture, that it had to be captured. So I stood there for a minute looking at it after I took the picture, thinking how good God is and how special this time was. Then, my music randomly started up again, and in my pocket I heard, “God is good, good, good….so I just have to praise Him…” I felt that to my core, and was the most perfect timing. I walked down my driveway singing it with my hands up, then the spirit of laughter hit me. I haven’t laughed in the spirit in a long while and it felt so good!
No one can tell me Jesus doesn’t plan things for you and doesn’t know what you need. As I was walking down the driveway, I opened up the phone to take a screenshot of the song list so I could remember but it wasn’t what played for me. Maybe it was set to “random” play? I don’t know but those songs weren’t what was on the list after “Good Morning, Lord” that it started up with 🙂 Jesus had those songs picked out for me in order. I never would have known if I didn’t open up the link for the music. But then again, he’s the one who gave me the thought in the first place to tell him “Good morning” 🙂 He’s so good 🙂
Leah
