From: "Beverly French" <frenchb@vcss.k12.ca.us>
To: "C & P Greene" <cfgreene@teleport.com>
Subject: Home Again with Greetings to All
Date: Sunday, September 24, 2000 7:04 AM

"I will praise You, O Lord, with all my heart;
 before the gods I will sing Your praise.
 I will bow down toward Your holy temple and will praise Your name for Your
 love and Your faithfulness,
 For You have exalted above all things Your name and Your word."  Psalm
138:1-2

Can we each say, 'my whole heart I give to You, O Lord?'  God desires this
as Scripture tells us.  We give our hearts:

In Love,
"And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your might."  Deuteronomy 6:5

In Obedience,
"How blessed are those who observe His testimonies,
 Who seek Him with all their heart."    Psalm 119:2
From our heart we ask:
"Give me understanding, that I may observe Thy law,
 And keep it with all my heart."  Psalm 119:34

In Trust,
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
 And do not lean on your own understanding."  Proverbs 3:5

In Prayer,
"And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your
heart."
"And I will be found by you, declares the Lord..."   Jeremiah 29:13-14

In Repentance,
"Yet even now," declares  the Lord,
"Return to me with all your heart..."  Joel 2:12

Psalm 138 speaks of God's love and faithfulness; looking again at the verses
above and at the ones just before or the ones following we
see the consequences in giving our whole heart, which are all blessings of
God's love, faithfulness and mercies.

Deuteronomy 6:3, "O Israel, you should listen and be careful to do it, that
it may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as the Lord,
the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and
honey."

Psalm 119:1, "How blessed are those whose way is blameless,  who walk in the
law of the Lord."

Proverbs 6:6, "In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths
straight."

Jeremiah 29:11-12,  "'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares
the Lord, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a
hope.  Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen
to you.'"

Joel 2:13, "...Now return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and
compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness..."

Our God is so wonderful.  To think that He, the Creator of all things,
desires
fellowship with mere man surely causes each heart to give itself wholly and
completely to Him.  Christ Jesus the Lord, ransomed us and we are His; body,
soul and spirit, therefore, He has every right to whole hearts.  Let us each
freely yield ours wholly to Him in love, obedience, trust, prayer and
repentence.  And with grateful hearts give Him all the praise and honor that
is
due Him!