A few Sundays ago, I was heading to the Filipino American service that my brother does at our church in BETWEEN regular morning and night services at our church, and I was just sitting there waiting for church to begin and OH MAN...I was soooooo TIRED!!! I was thinking in my mind, I WONDER if its possible for us to just have this Filipino service INSIDE STARBUCKS?!?!?! HAHA!!!
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Annnnnnd I'm just sitting there, feeling totally ZONKED out when the service began!!! Buuuuut then, the song leader got up and we started singing...HE HAS MADE ME GLAD!!! He has made me glad, oooooo HE has made me glad...I will rejoice for he has made me GLAAAAAD....Annnnnnd all of the sudden, something in me just HAD to stand up!!! i just HAD to lift my hands and start worshipping my Jesus!!! Hearing that song, I just FELT SO GOOD!!!
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Jesus had MADE my heart GLAD!!! Growing up, life was anything buuuuuut perfect!!! There was a lot of hurt and sadness going on in my home!!! Buuuuuuuuuuuuut I thank God for a STRONG MOM!!! A mom that NEVER wavered in taking us kids to church!!! My favorite days of the week were ALL the days we went to church!!! As a child, God put a LOVE for church in my heart!!!
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I was telling my outreach kids one time, you know my home as child was FAR from perfect...there were many nights I was scared and went to sleep hearing anger and yelling...things being thrown and broken...my parents may not have been divorced...BUUUUT I came from a BROKEN home!!!
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I told them, I know what its like for things to be a mess in your home...And the kids were shocked!!! Their lil eyes got all big, their mouths kind of dropped...You mary?! You came from home like that? We thought your dad was a preacher or something!!! I'm like NOPE ... They're like buuuuut your so ....??? GLAD!!! HE HAS MADE ME GLAD!!! Thats WHAT God can do for you!!!
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He'll give you love and joy and peace!!! He can change your life all around sooooo that when the WORLD looks at you, they will find it HARD to believe that you EVERRR came from anything less than a perfect little world!!! Like the three Hebrew boys, you can go through some hard things in your life, BUUUUUT WITH GOD, you can come out WITHOUT even smelling like smoke!!!
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My life could have gone in a completely different direction, buuuuuut GOD, He reached down and as a toddler, HE found my lil lost soul and gave me SOMETHING that would make my heart GLAD!!! What does glad mean???
It means...
having a cheerful or happy disposition by nature, joy, or delight : made happy, made pleased, satisfied, or grateful, full of brightness and cheerfulness]
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OH YES!!! Jesus has done ALL that and MORE for me!!! He has made my heart SOOOO GLAD!!! I still think THE BEST days are church days!!! I LOVE CHURCH!!! I love being able to feel Jesus! Just to be in HIS presence, makes me feel soooo GOOD!!! "I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord." (Psalm 122:1)
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♪♫♪♪He has made me glad! He has made me GLAD! I will REJOICE for he has made me GLAAAAAD! He has made me GLAD Oooooo He has made me GLAD!!! I will enter His gates with Thanksgiving in my heart, I will enter His courts with PRAISE!!! I will say this is THE DAY that the Lord has made, I WILL REJOICE, for HE HAS MADE ME GLAD!!!♪♫ Ever since that Sunday, this song has been on my heart!!!
"For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works
of thy hands." (Psalm 92:4)
♥Mary Frances :)
