Because He is Truth. His Word declares He is Good. I hold on to it with my life, especially when life gets hard. When my husband passed away last year. And also when my daughter left with her boyfriend last week, and refuses to tell me where she is. My heart weeps, I feel I have no purpose most days. But I have walked with the Lord for 44 years. He is walking with me through it all. I know He is good. Time and time again. Thank you for this, I needed it more than you know.
What ever the situation is God is good for all His creation ,in all time. God cannot be bad. Absolutely! His goodness is eternal and was before all creation.
I think he is - good. What resonates in my spirit as I listen to you in this podcast is having him in the marrow of my bones AND having known/seen him in the small things and in the earthquakes. I’m not going anywhere either. He says to us, to enter the Kingdom of God we need to become like little children. I four Growns. When they were Littles, they asked if I still loved them. Sometimes we don’t know what He is doing, we question because we want to know, understand, see - but sometimes we have to wait, trust and keep going by believing. It is faith growing AND going to the next level. ❤
Surviving 2 boubs of breast cancer & His faithfulness & loving kindness carrying me through all of it. Ups & downs are human & real . He loves us in the depths of our mess & the reality of our story. Love you, Sister ❤
This is coming at the perfect timing- I bury my son tomorrow at 11 AM. I lost him at 19 weeks gestation. It is only by the Lord I am getting through this the way I am… I am excited to tune into it. Please keep me in prayer for healing of the heart. deeper depths of knowing Jesus ❤
I'm so sorry for your loss. I add my prayers for your comfort, and hope that you'll feel the love of heaven to lift you from your sorrow. Heaven is always near the broken hearted. 💔 May your angels as well as friends and family carry you with love today, and give you peace and hope for better days tomorrow.
I literally had this conversation with the Lord this morning. I was in so much pain in my head to my neck and shoulders. I said help me in this moment. Teach me how to know you even in this. Hearing you say this. Just gives us freedom to be in real relationship with him. To have the real conversation with him. This album will be so dear to me. Because it has been seasons I don't understand. But I know he is here and I am glad you said I am not alone.
I'm with you on this. I have been a believer for 43 years and in those years I have talked to Jesus about every single thing that comes in to my mind, my heart, my soul. Otherwise, how can I love him him with my whole heart? My whole mind, my whole strength? He has healed me of every single lie, and disorder and whatever the world has to keep me in captivity. I agree! He knows our thoughts before we do. Be honest
Thank you Rita. I find myself in the hardest time of my life. I beg the Lord for physical healing. Today I told Him that I was CLAIMING it! He has been with me for all of my life! He is my life! I keep praying and loving my Lord. And I will trust Him in all things!❤
I know God is still good because I am still breathing and alive today. Every time the devil tried to destroy me, God came up behind me with a hedge of fire and protection and defended me. Just like your song, Rita, He is my defender, and He goes before me.
Rita, what comes to mind is the father who tells JESUS, "I believe; help my unbelief." Remember this Dad originally said to JESUS, "If you can do anything..." Mark 9:23-25 I think, GOD loves the honest cry of a heart in journey.
Oh, Rita, yes! How I have experienced that complete despair during seasons of such deep depression! I suffer from bi polar disorder and when the darkness overtakes my life, it seems impossible to hear the Lord’s Voice or know His Presence. Darkness becomes my only companion, like the writer says in Psalm 88. “Has the Lord ceased to be merciful? Has He forgotten to be gracious? “ Another psalmist questions in Psalm 77. Thank you for keeping it real and trusting the Lord’s love enough to say aloud what He knows anyway. “Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a Light to me”.Micah 7:8
Walking through the hardest season of my life - my son has been in the hospital 3 months and is not getting better. I cry out to God everyday, praying for relief from this pain. I believe He is good. I love this song listened several times.
God met me in a season of loneliness where I was crying out ..... I had sought for all of the things of the world to fill my heart. I met Him broken and torn with nothing to offer but a willingness to seek His face. In the journey out of the world and back into His arms the Father's love overwhelms me again and again. There was a turning point in my letting go of having things my way where I found Him saying to my spirit "I am more than enough" ..... love that swept in with His forgiveness and His heart for my good .....
There are many going through this seemingly never-ending story that will never end,but after listening to this message the lord brought these scriptures to me: Lam3:24 Ps.16:5 Gen15:1 Which all are saying to the many still waiting and believing the best we can unto God in heaven. "THE LORD IS OUR PORTION AT THIS TIME AND OUR EXCEEDINGLY GREAT REWARD AND INHERITANCE. The Job walk will assure us all in the end,,all things become possible when God moves on our behalf..❤❤
So appreciative I found your music last week when you shared the backstop of "Fed by Ravens." You've fed my heart with your humility, vulnerability, and honesty. The past 3 years have been the hardest, as I've sought the Lord daily, Nightly, and hours in between for relationship, for healing, for pain relief, for inspiration, for A WAY and to know how the Lord speaks to me. Thank you, Rita. Your testimony is beautiful. Thank you for your encouragement and your blessing. I ❤️🩹 you!
God connected me with your UA-cam channel shortly after you started the video versions of your podcast. It has been so life giving to my soul as God has been walking me through the process of turning my religion into relationship! I have a history of running from pain and ignoring my true emotions. God is so beautifully teaching me to lean into Him through the pain and revealing His love for me in the midst of my imperfections!!! I am so blessed by this song and many others! The raw honesty you share is being used by God to help my navigate this journey and I thank you for your obedience to Him 🙌
She’s as real as you can get in her own race as a sojourner in this earthly life. I pray her reward is great in eternal life. She’s got spiritual grit.
God is ALWAYS good because that's his nature. He wouldn't be God if he isn't. We have doubts about his goodness because we don't see it, not because it doesn't exist.
Thank you for sharing this. Jesus even said, "Father why have you forsaken me?" I understand that God knows me. Jesus understands my anxiety. The Holy Spirit will come when I feel forsaken and on the edge or holding on by faith and hope.
You edify, grow and encourage my spirit and my love for Jesus more than I can say. After 6 years of chronic pain and bringing our adoptive son Yeshua home from China after years of waiting, God has prepared for me a feast for my weary heart in your words and outpouring of your honest love for Him. These videos bring so much more connection and learning then just the podcast alone. Thank you for your obedience, I am with you in this story! God bless you
Thank you Rita! Raw honesty straight from the heart. Great song, breathtaking vulnerability talking publically about such personal things. It gonna be good in the end because He is good. Yes, that's what I think. 😊
From the first time I heard it, this song feels like "Lord I believe. Help my unbelief." I find myself in that place so many times when life is harder than I thought it would be. I have often "sung" this myself and am incredibly blessed to hear that you do too. Thank you so much for putting it into powerfully gorgeous musical form. My song would not be palatable to others.😅
Thank you for sharing this with us! I am reminded of Habakkuk. He launches question after question (also frustration after frustration) to the Lord all through chapter 1, and then he says, “I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what He will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint.” Habakkuk was transparent, he was honest in all his questions and complaints, AND he made the choice to still stand in the place he was called to (in obedience, alongside all of his questions and frustrations), knowing the Lord would bring clarity in His time.
Your words are a light calling at the end of a dark tunnel. Echoing from the small pinpoint glow I must get to. It’s scary and it can be a crushing road with scrapes and bruises as you move through. In the end, it is all worth it. Although it is so narrow we crawl and walk in trust. We keep listening to his words as you so eloquently speak and sing them to us. Making our journey lighter and our hearts braver. Thank you. ❤ Can’t wait to listen.
Oh I can really relate to you about all of this. I’m glad you said these things because I have asked these things too and know it’s ok. Thank you 😊 God Bless you Rita.
My soul literally left my body when I heard you talking about your back pain and surgeries because I've gone thru those same issues, 2 of my disc's completely crumbled into pieces for no apparent reason. This ended me up with 2 emergent surgeries and an ICU stay for complications. I've been a worship leader all my life, my dad was a pastor and all I knew...but until this circumstance hit, I started to walk with the Lord in a whole new way. Everyone around me prayed for my healing, but I knew the Lord was using this to take me to a deeper level. There were days where my very next breath was dependent on the Lord because the pain was so bad. It took me 2 yrs before I could sit at the keyboard again and many days I shook my fists at God and said why? It wasn't until I surrendered and became obedient to the suffering that things shifted for me. I bless you in this message Rita, its so needed!!
I relate to her story of pain. I'm rt there. 4 loooong lonely years in excruciating tormenting intractable cervical spine pain & head pressure pain, along with being 99% bedridden. I'm at my breaking point! Help Lord... Mercy mercy 🙏🏼
Today when I thought about the emptyness I would feel inside without God.... Because I do miss a godly man in my life... yet my life is filled with healthy children, good friends, fellowship, a lot of traveling.... what would the emptiness feel inside without Jesus/Yeshua? I ask God not to let me feel this. ... Very greatful that God turned my life around 23 year's ago picking me literally from the streets, freeing me from drugs and alcohol and other bad addiction. He still turns my life around.... And I have to restart again with 55 being a grandmother who raises her 13 year old grandson.... God gave me a very good work in a school for disabled children where there is so much love and resilience.... Thank you for all your encouragement I appreciate it a lot. Sometimes I go somewhere also to scream aloud and bring all my frustration to Father. He is a good Father .... Yet life is tough for many of us Sending love to all my brave brothers and sisters
Ugh the part where you felt Him ask you to turn your physical pain into worship was so, so beautiful, and just resonated with me. I am going to incorporate that into my own worship. He is amazing. Thank you Rita for being vulnerable and sharing.
The timing of this song is all God orchestrated. What a powerful song during my 3 year season in the desert. I am a praise girl and this will be part of my prayer times as a declaration of trusting Him during this time. Thank you for being honest and true like David.
For decades I didn’t think that anything could be worse than 1996 was, but this year has been. God is still good, He’s in my marrow and I am also praying to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Rita, thank you for your obedience. One of the most liberating things I've experienced with the Lord is when I was really bothered by not understanding something, and I was pretty much yelling at Him...He said, "I'm not afraid of your freedom." he caught me off guard. Like a parent with a toddler, "Go ahead, cry it out.. You don't understand but I do." Man, I had to really meditate on that. What in the world, God? He reminded me that "it is for freedom that Christ set us free." And then when we STILL come to him, and STILL give him a go with our honesty, give him permission to write on our hearts even when we struggle with his way/will, That's the moment that He can and will really embrace us. He doesnt always change circumstances. But that's NOT the eternal part of us anyway! Our spirit and our hearts soar above problems, thorns in the flesh, struggles, seeing through dark glass moments, and there we will find the fullness of the Lord waiting to embrace us and hold us forever.
If we can’t be honest with God, then who can we be honest with? He is so much bigger than our emotions. He desires our utter transparency because that is where intimacy is. David had this transparency with God. He was painfully honest. Raw honesty with Him is what He wants. I have always felt this freedom with Him, and I’ve practiced it. I’ve had a number of meltdowns with Him- total tantrums. And He has never chastised me for this. In fact, I’ve felt His presence in such a sweet way just listening and holding me tenderly. He understands. Jesus Christ Himself cried out on the cross, “Why have you forsaken me?” He knew why. This was the plan. He knows what our pain is like. He knows better than we could ever imagine.
This is so sweet. David was always honewith God. I also see God as always wanting to be involved with everything we go through. So if I can't be entirely open with him forget about it
I am so excited for the song! Rita your life has blessed me in so many ways, I’m really thankful to God for your journey with the Lord, it has been a light to me in my life showing me that even if God doesn’t give me what I thought my life should be like - He is more than enough. God was so good to me by allowing me to come across your videos.
what you advise me ?i am not living with my wife and children for 7 days with in a week for 8 years . I was hoping to live together but it is not realized yet. I am traveling for work more than 80 kilometer from my family home and i always returned at the weekend . I am missing my wife and children and i am feeling bad and always asking myself How i live this life for how long? and it is some times we face conflict with my wife. The problem is she is teacher and not getting enough money to sustain family life and i am working in local NGO and have some better salary but it is fixed term job and still my salary alone not adequate. So i am in dilemma between choosing bringing my family to my region and leaving my job. If I leave my job ,my wife salary is not sufficient to cover my family life and If my wife leave the job ,she is loosing her permeant job. I am so tired. Please pray for me .God bless you.
Your heart and desires are good and honorable. Pray that the Lord opens a way. I add my prayers for you and your family. I'm proud of your effort, I know that God Sees you and is willing to provide for your needs. ❤️
I'm in great anguish. I can relate to this story of physical pain. 4 loooong yrs in intractable cervical spine pain and diabolical head pressure and 99% bedridden. Where is God!? I'm wrestling with these questions of goodness. When will my prayers be answered!? 😭 I'm at my breaking point! Help God ... HELP!
@cherylwilliams4738 God is Jehovah Rappha, our Healer. He bore our sins and sicknesses in his own body on the tree...and by HIS stripes, we were healed!!!
Just in time this words, being in a Domestic violence shelter for almost two months isolated , with no one in this country and a restraint in order I got for my husband of only one year married feels like dessert and I cry my soul to God in my prayers and ask for an easy way out , is it divorce ? Is it going back to my husband and ask God gives me courage to endure what ever comes? Is it start making my life in this country where I’m not even able to work ? Where my husband brought me and now I feel trapped , if I go back to my country then will not be able to come back us and what if God is having us separated for restore our marriage? What if my husband was never to be my husband and I took a bad decision? At this point of my life I only cry in the night to God , help me please , rescue me , tell me what decision to take , which is the way you want my life to stick to your will God ? I don’t even have my cats anymore with me , I have no children, my family and friends are in Mexico they all tell me to go back there , but heart cries out to God ,, should I leave my husband ? Just like it leave ? Or I divorce ? Or I stay and wait.. this is the darkest season on my life , but the one that made me hold to God as my everything finally relying all in Him my creator my defender my provider in all.. Thank you God , thank you Jesus for your unfailing love and perfect redemption
Hello, Rita. I've been crying bitterly, listening to your podcasts, since God (apparently it's still from Him) started showing them to me. After I heard your words, God answers you: "I may not heal you today, but I will give you the strength to endure it." For the first time, I said terrible words to myself - I hate you! I've been in pain all my life. This vile endometriosis has taken away normal life and natural motherhood. But what about "with his wounds we were healed"? How so "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it²³ ?? You play and sing beautifully, you have a wonderful voice. But ... how bitter it is about so many your unanswered prayers... You would like to be a wife and mother and be healthy, just like me. Why didn't God give you this? Why doesn't He give it to me, but instead YEARS of pain, loneliness, suffering, tears??? Since I came to believe 11 years ago, it's like I'm only crying, I know only suffering, and there are answers "NO" from God to my prayers. HOW can I consider Him good in everything?? For some, He is certainly good. But for me, He is like cruel, relentless.. Why does God allow such suffering, INTENTIONALLY? It's killing me... it`s killing faith...it's horrible..😭
There's a saying that all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. This is absolutely not true! Good men stood up to the evil government and tried to effect change, but they were destroyed! So I had to conclude that God allowed this to happen because the nation is under Devine judgement.
Only one Gospel: The Gospel of Reconciliation. Jesus Christ came into THEIR kingdom to reconcile fallen angels unto Himself. We are the fallen angels (ELOHIM) kept in DNA chains of darkness. If you do not confess being a fallen angel in Lucifer's kingdom, then you are an unbeliever. Unbeliever = those that claim to be made in the image of ELOHIM(gods).
I think God's definition of good is different than what a lot of humans would define as good. I find His definition not so appealing. About God: Deuteronomy 28:53-55 God's curse of cannibalism where parents eat their children. 2 Thessalonians 2:10-13 God sends strong delusion that they may believe the lie. Romans 9:22 God creating some humans for the purpose of destruction.
How do you know personally that God is still good?
Because He is Truth. His Word declares He is Good. I hold on to it with my life, especially when life gets hard. When my husband passed away last year. And also when my daughter left with her boyfriend last week, and refuses to tell me where she is.
My heart weeps, I feel I have no purpose most days. But I have walked with the Lord for 44 years. He is walking with me through it all. I know He is good. Time and time again.
Thank you for this, I needed it more than you know.
What ever the situation is God is good for all His creation ,in all time. God cannot be bad. Absolutely! His goodness is eternal and was before all creation.
I think he is - good. What resonates in my spirit as I listen to you in this podcast is having him in the marrow of my bones AND having known/seen him in the small things and in the earthquakes. I’m not going anywhere either. He says to us, to enter the Kingdom of God we need to become like little children. I four Growns. When they were Littles, they asked if I still loved them. Sometimes we don’t know what He is doing, we question because we want to know, understand, see - but sometimes we have to wait, trust and keep going by believing. It is faith growing AND going to the next level. ❤
Because I “found”the song “I think HE is” when it was needed desperately. Amen and Baruch Hashem!
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Surviving 2 boubs of breast cancer & His faithfulness & loving kindness carrying me through all of it. Ups & downs are human & real . He loves us in the depths of our mess & the reality of our story. Love you, Sister ❤
This is coming at the perfect timing- I bury my son tomorrow at 11 AM. I lost him at 19 weeks gestation. It is only by the Lord I am getting through this the way I am… I am excited to tune into it. Please keep me in prayer for healing of the heart. deeper depths of knowing Jesus ❤
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My condolences to you 😢
I'm so sorry for your loss. I add my prayers for your comfort, and hope that you'll feel the love of heaven to lift you from your sorrow. Heaven is always near the broken hearted. 💔 May your angels as well as friends and family carry you with love today, and give you peace and hope for better days tomorrow.
Praying for you 🙏
So sorry
I literally had this conversation with the Lord this morning. I was in so much pain in my head to my neck and shoulders. I said help me in this moment. Teach me how to know you even in this. Hearing you say this. Just gives us freedom to be in real relationship with him. To have the real conversation with him. This album will be so dear to me. Because it has been seasons I don't understand. But I know he is here and I am glad you said I am not alone.
I'm with you on this. I have been a believer for 43 years and in those years I have talked to Jesus about every single thing that comes in to my mind, my heart, my soul. Otherwise, how can I love him him with my whole heart? My whole mind, my whole strength? He has healed me of every single lie, and disorder and whatever the world has to keep me in captivity.
I agree! He knows our thoughts before we do.
Be honest
How can he know our thoughts before we have them?
Thank you Rita. I find myself in the hardest time of my life. I beg the Lord for physical healing. Today I told Him that I was CLAIMING it! He has been with me for all of my life! He is my life! I keep praying and loving my Lord. And I will trust Him in all things!❤
I know God is still good because I am still breathing and alive today. Every time the devil tried to destroy me, God came up behind me with a hedge of fire and protection and defended me. Just like your song, Rita, He is my defender, and He goes before me.
Rita, what comes to mind is the father who tells JESUS, "I believe; help my unbelief." Remember this Dad originally said to JESUS, "If you can do anything..." Mark 9:23-25 I think, GOD loves the honest cry of a heart in journey.
Oh, Rita, yes! How I have experienced that complete despair during seasons of such deep depression! I suffer from bi polar disorder and when the darkness overtakes my life, it seems impossible to hear the Lord’s Voice or know His Presence. Darkness becomes my only companion, like the writer says in Psalm 88. “Has the Lord ceased to be merciful? Has He forgotten to be gracious? “ Another psalmist questions in Psalm 77. Thank you for keeping it real and trusting the Lord’s love enough to say aloud what He knows anyway. “Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a Light to me”.Micah 7:8
Walking through the hardest season of my life - my son has been in the hospital 3 months and is not getting better. I cry out to God everyday, praying for relief from this pain. I believe He is good. I love this song listened several times.
God met me in a season of loneliness where I was crying out ..... I had sought for all of the things of the world to fill my heart. I met Him broken and torn with nothing to offer but a willingness to seek His face. In the journey out of the world and back into His arms the Father's love overwhelms me again and again. There was a turning point in my letting go of having things my way where I found Him saying to my spirit "I am more than enough" ..... love that swept in with His forgiveness and His heart for my good .....
There are many going through this seemingly never-ending story that will never end,but after listening to this message the lord brought these scriptures to me:
Lam3:24
Ps.16:5
Gen15:1
Which all are saying to the many still waiting and believing the best we can unto God in heaven.
"THE LORD IS OUR PORTION AT THIS TIME AND OUR EXCEEDINGLY GREAT REWARD AND INHERITANCE. The Job walk will assure us all in the end,,all things become possible when God moves on our behalf..❤❤
So appreciative I found your music last week when you shared the backstop of "Fed by Ravens." You've fed my heart with your humility, vulnerability, and honesty. The past 3 years have been the hardest, as I've sought the Lord daily, Nightly, and hours in between for relationship, for healing, for pain relief, for inspiration, for A WAY and to know how the Lord speaks to me. Thank you, Rita. Your testimony is beautiful. Thank you for your encouragement and your blessing. I ❤️🩹 you!
God connected me with your UA-cam channel shortly after you started the video versions of your podcast. It has been so life giving to my soul as God has been walking me through the process of turning my religion into relationship! I have a history of running from pain and ignoring my true emotions. God is so beautifully teaching me to lean into Him through the pain and revealing His love for me in the midst of my imperfections!!! I am so blessed by this song and many others! The raw honesty you share is being used by God to help my navigate this journey and I thank you for your obedience to Him 🙌
She’s as real as you can get in her own race as a sojourner in this earthly life. I pray her reward is great in eternal life. She’s got spiritual grit.
God is ALWAYS good because that's his nature. He wouldn't be God if he isn't. We have doubts about his goodness because we don't see it, not because it doesn't exist.
Thank you for sharing this.
Jesus even said, "Father why have you forsaken me?"
I understand that God knows me. Jesus understands my anxiety. The Holy Spirit will come when I feel forsaken and on the edge or holding on by faith and hope.
I have CRPS… the most painful pain disorder on the planet. Physical pain can bring you to a place that you never thought could even happen.
You edify, grow and encourage my spirit and my love for Jesus more than I can say. After 6 years of chronic pain and bringing our adoptive son Yeshua home from China after years of waiting, God has prepared for me a feast for my weary heart in your words and outpouring of your honest love for Him. These videos bring so much more connection and learning then just the podcast alone. Thank you for your obedience, I am with you in this story! God bless you
Thank you Rita!
Raw honesty straight from the heart. Great song, breathtaking vulnerability talking publically about such personal things. It gonna be good in the end because He is good. Yes, that's what I think. 😊
From the first time I heard it, this song feels like "Lord I believe. Help my unbelief." I find myself in that place so many times when life is harder than I thought it would be. I have often "sung" this myself and am incredibly blessed to hear that you do too. Thank you so much for putting it into powerfully gorgeous musical form. My song would not be palatable to others.😅
Thank you for sharing this with us!
I am reminded of Habakkuk. He launches question after question (also frustration after frustration) to the Lord all through chapter 1, and then he says, “I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what He will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint.”
Habakkuk was transparent, he was honest in all his questions and complaints, AND he made the choice to still stand in the place he was called to (in obedience, alongside all of his questions and frustrations), knowing the Lord would bring clarity in His time.
God can handle our rawest emotions. I am willing.🙏🏼🙌🏼
I found this podcast very meaningful. Powerful questions. ✨
Thank you, Rita. This is sooo good! Bless you….
Your words are a light calling at the end of a dark tunnel. Echoing from the small pinpoint glow I must get to. It’s scary and it can be a crushing road with scrapes and bruises as you move through. In the end, it is all worth it. Although it is so narrow we crawl and walk in trust. We keep listening to his words as you so eloquently speak and sing them to us. Making our journey lighter and our hearts braver. Thank you. ❤ Can’t wait to listen.
Oh I can really relate to you about all of this. I’m glad you said these things because I have asked these things too and know it’s ok. Thank you 😊 God Bless you Rita.
My soul literally left my body when I heard you talking about your back pain and surgeries because I've gone thru those same issues, 2 of my disc's completely crumbled into pieces for no apparent reason. This ended me up with 2 emergent surgeries and an ICU stay for complications. I've been a worship leader all my life, my dad was a pastor and all I knew...but until this circumstance hit, I started to walk with the Lord in a whole new way. Everyone around me prayed for my healing, but I knew the Lord was using this to take me to a deeper level. There were days where my very next breath was dependent on the Lord because the pain was so bad. It took me 2 yrs before I could sit at the keyboard again and many days I shook my fists at God and said why? It wasn't until I surrendered and became obedient to the suffering that things shifted for me. I bless you in this message Rita, its so needed!!
I relate to her story of pain. I'm rt there. 4 loooong lonely years in excruciating tormenting intractable cervical spine pain & head pressure pain, along with being 99% bedridden. I'm at my breaking point! Help Lord... Mercy mercy 🙏🏼
Today when I thought about the emptyness I would feel inside without God....
Because I do miss a godly man in my life...
yet my life is filled with healthy children, good friends, fellowship, a lot of traveling....
what would the emptiness feel inside without Jesus/Yeshua?
I ask God not to let me feel this. ...
Very greatful that God turned my life around 23 year's ago picking me literally from the streets, freeing me from drugs and alcohol and other bad addiction.
He still turns my life around....
And I have to restart again with 55 being a grandmother who raises her 13 year old grandson.... God gave me a very good work in a school for disabled children where there is so much love and resilience....
Thank you for all your encouragement
I appreciate it a lot.
Sometimes I go somewhere also to scream aloud and bring all my frustration to Father.
He is a good Father ....
Yet life is tough for many of us
Sending love to all my brave brothers and sisters
The raw Truth in this song and Grace and strength to keep believing. I love it💕thanks for the encouragement!
Ugh the part where you felt Him ask you to turn your physical pain into worship was so, so beautiful, and just resonated with me. I am going to incorporate that into my own worship. He is amazing. Thank you Rita for being vulnerable and sharing.
Oh wow. I certainly understand cronic pain !😢❤
Blessings to you from Rockport IN. 🎉 We are celebrating this new release!!!
The timing of this song is all God orchestrated. What a powerful song during my 3 year season in the desert. I am a praise girl and this will be part of my prayer times as a declaration of trusting Him during this time.
Thank you for being honest and true like David.
This is beautiful. So grateful for your honesty.
So much for me today were those spirit to spirit words ❤ So glad you’re doing these podcasts!
God is good all the time, and all the time God is good and that is nature wow!
Thank you so much for this message. It helped me tremendously. God bless you.
Oh how timely this message is for my soul!!!!
For decades I didn’t think that anything could be worse than 1996 was, but this year has been. God is still good, He’s in my marrow and I am also praying to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
😢❤This has blessed me so much. I can relate to this so much. Super timely💕🌙
Hebrews 11:13. Without seeing the promise. I absolutely understand.
You're speaking to my heart .... Thankyou ❤
Rita, thank you for your obedience. One of the most liberating things I've experienced with the Lord is when I was really bothered by not understanding something, and I was pretty much yelling at Him...He said, "I'm not afraid of your freedom." he caught me off guard. Like a parent with a toddler, "Go ahead, cry it out.. You don't understand but I do." Man, I had to really meditate on that. What in the world, God? He reminded me that "it is for freedom that Christ set us free." And then when we STILL come to him, and STILL give him a go with our honesty, give him permission to write on our hearts even when we struggle with his way/will, That's the moment that He can and will really embrace us. He doesnt always change circumstances. But that's NOT the eternal part of us anyway! Our spirit and our hearts soar above problems, thorns in the flesh, struggles, seeing through dark glass moments, and there we will find the fullness of the Lord waiting to embrace us and hold us forever.
Thank you for this ❤️🩹
Such a great story, podcast, encouragement. Love Rita
So so good! God bless you, Rita! Thank you for being faithful and sharing God’s goodness.
Thank you @ritaspringer for your beautiful raw, pure worship! I absolutely love your podcasts and your deep wisdom! 🙏🏼❤️
If we can’t be honest with God, then who can we be honest with? He is so much bigger than our emotions. He desires our utter transparency because that is where intimacy is. David had this transparency with God. He was painfully honest. Raw honesty with Him is what He wants. I have always felt this freedom with Him, and I’ve practiced it. I’ve had a number of meltdowns with Him- total tantrums. And He has never chastised me for this. In fact, I’ve felt His presence in such a sweet way just listening and holding me tenderly. He understands. Jesus Christ Himself cried out on the cross, “Why have you forsaken me?” He knew why. This was the plan. He knows what our pain is like. He knows better than we could ever imagine.
This is so sweet. David was always honewith God. I also see God as always wanting to be involved with everything we go through. So if I can't be entirely open with him forget about it
This was therapeutic. Thank you, Rita. ❤
Waiting for the song release! God bless! Your words really encouraged me!
There just aren't words for how much I love this! Thank you for your honesty and humility to share what so many are afraid to say out loud.
♥ love His withness
I am so excited for the song! Rita your life has blessed me in so many ways, I’m really thankful to God for your journey with the Lord, it has been a light to me in my life showing me that even if God doesn’t give me what I thought my life should be like - He is more than enough. God was so good to me by allowing me to come across your videos.
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what you advise me ?i am not living with my wife and children for 7 days with in a week for 8 years . I was hoping to live together but it is not realized yet. I am traveling for work more than 80 kilometer from my family home and i always returned at the weekend . I am missing my wife and children and i am feeling bad and always asking myself How i live this life for how long? and it is some times we face conflict with my wife. The problem is she is teacher and not getting enough money to sustain family life and i am working in local NGO and have some better salary but it is fixed term job and still my salary alone not adequate. So i am in dilemma between choosing bringing my family to my region and leaving my job. If I leave my job ,my wife salary is not sufficient to cover my family life and If my wife leave the job ,she is loosing her permeant job. I am so tired. Please pray for me .God bless you.
Your heart and desires are good and honorable. Pray that the Lord opens a way. I add my prayers for you and your family. I'm proud of your effort, I know that God Sees you and is willing to provide for your needs. ❤️
I'm in great anguish.
I can relate to this story of physical pain. 4 loooong yrs in intractable cervical spine pain and diabolical head pressure and 99% bedridden. Where is God!? I'm wrestling with these questions of goodness.
When will my prayers be answered!? 😭 I'm at my breaking point! Help God ... HELP!
Thank you so much for your prayers and heartly concern for me and my family . GOD bless you and your family@@sherainebruce9772
Thank you so much for your lovely heart .And i wish you Lord's protection for you and your family@@cherylwilliams4738
@cherylwilliams4738
God is Jehovah Rappha, our Healer. He bore our sins and sicknesses in his own body on the tree...and by HIS stripes, we were healed!!!
Just in time this words, being in a Domestic violence shelter for almost two months isolated , with no one in this country and a restraint in order I got for my husband of only one year married feels like dessert and I cry my soul to God in my prayers and ask for an easy way out , is it divorce ? Is it going back to my husband and ask God gives me courage to endure what ever comes? Is it start making my life in this country where I’m not even able to work ? Where my husband brought me and now I feel trapped , if I go back to my country then will not be able to come back us and what if God is having us separated for restore our marriage? What if my husband was never to be my husband and I took a bad decision? At this point of my life I only cry in the night to God , help me please , rescue me , tell me what decision to take , which is the way you want my life to stick to your will God ? I don’t even have my cats anymore with me , I have no children, my family and friends are in Mexico they all tell me to go back there , but heart cries out to God ,, should I leave my husband ? Just like it leave ? Or I divorce ? Or I stay and wait.. this is the darkest season on my life , but the one that made me hold to God as my everything finally relying all in Him my creator my defender my provider in all.. Thank you God , thank you Jesus for your unfailing love and perfect redemption
0:40 Does Jesus Care
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Does Jesus care when my heart is pained
Too deeply for mirth and song?
When the burdens press
And the cares distress
And the way grows weary and long?
Oh, yes, He cares, I know He cares (His heart)
His heart is touched with my grief
When the days are weary
The long night dreary
I know my Savior cares
Does Jesus care when my way is dark
With a nameless dread and fear?
And as the daylight fades
Into deep dark shades
Does He care enough to be near?
Oh, yes, He cares, I know He cares
His heart is touched with my grief
When the days are weary
The long night dreary
I know my Savior cares
When we live long enough we finally begin to understand
What these songs are saying
Does Jesus care
When I've tried and failed
To resist some temptation strong?
When for my deep grief there's no relief
Though the tears flow all the day long
Oh yes, He cares, I know He cares
His heart is touched with my grief
When the days are weary
The long night dreary
I know my Savior cares
Does Jesus care when I've said, "Goodbye"
To the dearest on earth to me
And my sad heart aches
Till it nearly breaks
Is it aught to Him? Does He see?
Oh, yes, He cares, I know He cares
His heart is touched with my grief
When the days are weary
The long night dreary
I know my Savior cares
I know my Savior cares...
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: J. Lincoln Hall / Frank E. Graeff
Does Jesus Care lyrics © Word Music, Llc
Hello, Rita. I've been crying bitterly, listening to your podcasts, since God (apparently it's still from Him) started showing them to me. After I heard your words, God answers you: "I may not heal you today, but I will give you the strength to endure it." For the first time, I said terrible words to myself - I hate you! I've been in pain all my life. This vile endometriosis has taken away normal life and natural motherhood. But what about "with his wounds we were healed"? How so "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it²³ ??
You play and sing beautifully, you have a wonderful voice. But ... how bitter it is about so many your unanswered prayers... You would like to be a wife and mother and be healthy, just like me. Why didn't God give you this? Why doesn't He give it to me, but instead YEARS of pain, loneliness, suffering, tears??? Since I came to believe 11 years ago, it's like I'm only crying, I know only suffering, and there are answers "NO" from God to my prayers. HOW can I consider Him good in everything?? For some, He is certainly good. But for me, He is like cruel, relentless..
Why does God allow such suffering, INTENTIONALLY? It's killing me... it`s killing faith...it's horrible..😭
Roman 8:28-39 My promise ! ❤️
“Use the pain as a metronome to praise”……omg! Could have stopped it there!
Wow...using the pain as a metronome...
There's a saying that all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. This is absolutely not true! Good men stood up to the evil government and tried to effect change, but they were destroyed! So I had to conclude that God allowed this to happen because the nation is under Devine judgement.
I don’t know
Only one Gospel:
The Gospel of Reconciliation.
Jesus Christ came into THEIR kingdom
to reconcile fallen angels unto Himself.
We are the fallen angels (ELOHIM) kept in DNA chains of darkness.
If you do not confess being a fallen angel in Lucifer's kingdom, then you are an unbeliever.
Unbeliever = those that claim to be made in the image of ELOHIM(gods).
I think God's definition of good is different than what a lot of humans would define as good. I find His definition not so appealing.
About God:
Deuteronomy 28:53-55 God's curse of cannibalism where parents eat their children.
2 Thessalonians 2:10-13 God sends strong delusion that they may believe the lie.
Romans 9:22 God creating some humans for the purpose of destruction.