katie rose writes

Friends, I read this blog this morning really as an accident, but into turned into a great morning devotional to guide me into the Word. I pray that Jesus will use it to speak into your life-individually-just as He used it to speak to me. Also, this hymn is running through my heart this morning: Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take Him at His Word, just to rest upon His promise, just to know, "Thus says the Lord." Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him, how I've proved Him over & over, Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus. Oh for grace to trust Him more. Yesterday, I read Psalm 46, one of my all time favorite psalms. And it really speaks truth to this hymn. So maybe check it out too. Especially if you are feeling the mountains around you quake or the waters roar. Dear friends, we are safe in His refuge. Those who run to Him shall never be ashamed. Throw Your Burden

I've learned so much in this season of my life of how waiting is never is vain. It is worth it, because God is in control and working in & through me in it all like never before. Because of those facts, I'm seeing this season as not an end, but a means to an end. A waiting season generally comes between two rather large events, a time where God must mold, shape, and change us in preparation for what He has in store for us in the next season. A couple of weeks ago (before my hiatus in Mississippi), God gave me Psalm 40, and the words have touched my heart as I've been walking through some intense waiting.  If you want to catch up, click here . Today, I want to share the next couple of phrases that have propelled me into a kind of new-wind to keep waiting, keep hoping, and keep trusting through it all. My prayer is that it speaks to you as well. ...and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Man...

No word could better capture the current season God has me in. It's a season of waiting. For the next doctor visit, the next scan, the next blood test, the next diagnosis. I feel like life has been on hold. Questions about school linger, pending on what my health looks like over the next couple of months. And God has told me to wait. To not pursue answers, but to let HIM be the answer to it all. He knows the diagnosis. He knows the plan. He knows each of my days. He knew them before any of them came to be (psalm 139). And that keeps my heart at peace through it all. That doesn't mean I never question or complain, but it means that I have surrendered my heart, my life, my all to my Lord who is in complete control. He is sovereign over every pain, every cough, every twist and turn on this journey. I can trust Him to lead me, and so I do.  Today, I want to begin walking through Psalm 40, starting just with the first few phrases. Here we go. I waited patiently for the LORD; h...

Tonight, I was praying for a friend, and chatting with another couple friends over Skype, but my thoughts drifted to a song. A song that I have been praying through all day, since I first was prompted to pour myself into praying for this friend. God has kept my thoughts on these lyrics all day long. So I first want to share that with you. Please take the 5 minutes and listen to it, and let the Spirit speak to you through it. After I listened to this song (again), and prayed some more, I opened my Bible. I've been reading in Jeremiah, and was looking forward to finishing chapter two tonight. Oh how God had something better to show me. Instead, I heard Him say, "Read a psalm." So I absentmindedly turned to the psalms. Note: I've been using a new journaling Bible for some time now, yet obviously the vast majority of the pages are nice and white and empty, waiting for new thoughts in this new season. So, there wasn't anything to stop me (like bright highlights or...