tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87671001738687008802024-02-19T07:38:01.030-08:00Terrie's Tender TouchThe Tender Touchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046422854121330770noreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767100173868700880.post-53735489473585127062021-02-02T08:50:00.000-08:002021-02-02T08:50:23.729-08:00God Wants me to Pray!<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and
watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ephesians
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pray without ceasing</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. 1
Thessalonians 5:17</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This year the Lord has impressed on my heart that my prayer life
can be so much more than it has been. I’ve had a prayer life, some
years better than others. I’ve always struggled with how to organize
my prayer life. Lists seem too much like I’m just reading an
inventory of things I want rather than sincere heartfelt requests to
God. Prayer “straight from whatever is on my mind” has seemed too
scattered, jumping here and there – so I have been praying all throughout the
day as thoughts cross my mind, people’s needs come to my memory, or as I look
at social media and people ask for prayer requests; sometimes I have prayed for
someone because the time on the clock is their birthday. I’ve been
praying – basically talking to God almost all day long, and yet, my prayer life
still seemed not intimate enough, not the one-on-one conversation I wish to
have with God.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I long for my prayer life to be a time where I know that I am in
communion with my God, just the two of us with no interruptions or
distractions. In my longing, I chose my theme for this year to be
prayer – and as it turns out perhaps nothing is more important than
prayer this year!</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This year our country is in a situation I’ve never lived
through. We are politically separated, and there seems to be no
tolerance for disagreement. I see Christians even adopting the
cancel culture – the idea of writing people off because they don’t agree with
you or support your ideas. On top of that we have the pandemic and
quarantine, which also seems to be politically charged to the point that
families are at odds against each other. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Though I have chosen this theme for this year, I must admit, I
have still struggled with just how to get my prayer time to where I want it to
be. The Lord knows I have been trying and this week He brought me
special help through my husband. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For the last several months we have been going back and forth with
a furniture company because the sofa bed we purchased was defective, and the
frame that held the mattress was broken. Finally, this past week my
husband went in to see if we could get the problem resolved. While
there he spotted a chair that was on sale for an incredibly good price; he
bought it thinking it would be helpful to put in our closet so I could sit to
put my shoes on. At first, I thought it was almost silly – I didn’t
NEED a chair to sit on to put my shoes on, plus we have a chair in our room, but
I received it as a blessing of my husband’s thoughtfulness of my needs. </span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt; text-align: left;">This morning during my devotion I once again expressed my
deep </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQz-V-GI3pb1g78sCEoM0qpUBP9XvKGm2ry98ZmAVM3Tw-t6KaVYBtOO-7aV4doNoJgvKDdb6P8-Mi8aqdHB1KrU1Od3gAFGe1etzhqS5UOpUEDR-zti2-PbhngYvzAleKUbmQJt5WxEI/s2048/my+prayer+closet+chair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQz-V-GI3pb1g78sCEoM0qpUBP9XvKGm2ry98ZmAVM3Tw-t6KaVYBtOO-7aV4doNoJgvKDdb6P8-Mi8aqdHB1KrU1Od3gAFGe1etzhqS5UOpUEDR-zti2-PbhngYvzAleKUbmQJt5WxEI/w148-h200/my+prayer+closet+chair.jpg" width="148" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Prayer Chair</td></tr></tbody></table>desire, need for my prayer time to be more…and the Lord spoke to my heart
telling me that He had provided a place for me to be able to meet with Him,
uninterrupted and free from distractions…my closet on the new and comfortable
chair my husband had purchased for me! God is so good to
me! He provides my every need! I’m thankful that He’s
given me a husband that is sensitive to His leading as well. </span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This afternoon, after my prayer time I spoke to my husband and
asked if he had purchased the chair for me for that reason, and he said that he
just thought it was a nice chair and that it would be nice for me to have
it. We both marveled at how God moved him to buy the chair so I
could have a place, my own prayer closet, so I could spend time with my Savior
and my God. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">God doesn’t need me to pray, but He has shown me that my desire to
grow in my prayer life matters to Him. Perhaps the sofa bed frame
was defective so that we would have to go back to the furniture store at just
the time when the chair was on a very special close-out price. I believe the
Lord had every little detail planned so that I could have a place to
pray. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thank You, Lord! I know You did this for
me. I look so forward to growing in my prayer life. Thank
You for answering prayer even though my prayer life has been so
disorganized. I know You are a God of order, so please help me to be
better about that. I love You, Lord; thank You for loving me.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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sharing this because I believe that it glorifies our God, and in the hope that
it might be a blessing and encouraging to you. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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have often wondered how Elijah could have been so afraid of what Jezebel said,
(“<i><span style="color: black;">Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah,
saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the
life of one of them by to morrow about this time.” 1 Kings 19:2</span></i><span style="color: black;">)</span> after he had just seen such a tremendous
victory…and yet here I am. I can’t say I’ve seen the huge miracle
that Elijah did in calling fire from heaven to burn water buried stones, but,
we are seeing blessings of God as we’re ready to charter our 2<sup>nd</sup> church
in less than 3 years since we came off deputation. Folks are coming
to church, a church in Florida sent a mission’s team here to help us,
US! So, Satan is calling out the big guns…the IRS! </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
IRS. They have taken us through the wringer before and about bankrupted us…and
we did nothing wrong – they decided to disallow any and all of our write-offs,
they levied our bank accounts, and put a lien on our property; but when it was
all said and done, they not only verified and approved our write-offs, they
gave us an additional refund- above what they levied and placed as a lien, but
it was a horrible experience. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well,
a couple months ago they sent us a “bill” for $22,000 stating that our income
was greater than originally stated on our taxes. When I contacted
the accountant that prepared our taxes regarding the “bill” they immediately knew what happened, an error had
been made and they sent a correction that somehow the IRS took to be additional
income rather than a corrected income. The accountant knew
exactly what the problem was, and immediately sent the correction (again)
to the IRS. We never heard another word, so we thought it was taken
care of. WRONG! We found a pink slip from the Post Office
on our door that showed they attempted to leave us 2 certified letters from the
IRS, and that we could pick them up…the letters required a
signature. So, being the studious, and curious, and impatient person
that I am, I looked up the reasons the IRS would send a certified letter, and
as I suspected, it is never good news! </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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what does that have to do with Elijah? Well, after seeing great
victories, he heard bad news that caused him to run, to want to give up, to
feel lonely, and defeated…that’s where I am right now. I have prayed
a zillion times, I do have faith, I know that God can do anything, I know this
is not the end of the world…and yet, I am tired, I don’t want the trial and I
am crying as I type this because I really just want sunshine and roses, and a
smooth and clear path, full well knowing that is not always what is
best. God knows what is best, and He has an answer for this
situation all worked out, and I know this – I just feel too tired to have to
endure it right now – Father, forgive me. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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now, I am going to retreat to my Bible and beg God to help me through my
ridiculous weakness that I know is just that, my weakness…I’ll finish here
after He ministers to me…</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you know what I found? After Jezebel made her threat that she would
make sure that Elijah would be killed within 24 hours…nothing
happened! Her words were just that…words! Elijah was worn
out, discouraged, and afraid because Jezebel had been killing prophets, so it
does make sense that he would feel not just fear, but discouraged in the fact
that even though God had used him to rain fire from heaven, and cause it to
finally rain again after 3 years, he was just a man, and he didn’t see that his
work for God had made a difference. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When
Elijah ran away and asked God to let him die, God sent an angel to minister to
him. The angel fed him and made sure he had strength for his coming
journey. He traveled 40 days and met with God. God asked
him what he was doing there, and Elijah answered him – and God showed him a
great wind, an earthquake, but that is not where God was – God was His Word,
that still small voice. At that point, God once again asked Elijah
what he was doing there, and Elijah repeated himself, giving God the same
answer. “<span style="color: black;">And he arose, and did eat and drink, and
went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the
mount of God.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9 ¶ And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and,
behold, the word of the LORD <i>came</i> to him, and he said unto
him, <span style="background: yellow;">What doest thou here, Elijah?</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10 And he said, I have been very
jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy
covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and
I, <i>even</i> I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the
LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the
mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; <b><i>but</i> the
LORD <i>was</i> not in the wind: and after the wind an
earthquake; <i>but</i> the LORD <i>was</i> not in the
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12 And after the earthquake a fire; <i>but</i> the
LORD <i>was</i> not in the fire: and after the fire a still small
voice</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">13 And it was <i>so</i><span style="background: yellow;">, when
Elijah heard <i>it</i>, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went
out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, <i>there came</i> a
voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken
thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword;
and I, <i>even</i> I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15 And<b> the LORD said unto him, Go, return</b> on thy
way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael <i>to
be</i> king over Syria:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint <i>to be</i> king
over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou
anoint <i>to be</i> prophet in thy room.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">God
didn’t comfort him by telling him He’d protect him from Jezebel, God gave him
his next assignment! In fact, after this God used him to “torment”
(teach) Ahab, about his wickedness…Elijah was right back in the same place
where Jezebel was, and he boldly proclaimed God’s warning to Ahab and there is
no mention of anyone trying to kill him! Jezebel was a wicked woman
with a lot of power, but she was no match for God! Elijah did begin
training his replacement, but God still used him for many years, and he
outlived Ahab and kings that followed him! </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What
I am seeing is that just because I am freaked out about receiving an IRS letter
doesn’t change one thing about what God has planned for me, what He wants us to
do, or how things will end. Jezebel was just like <span style="color: black;">Proverbs 25:14: “Whoso boasteth himself of a false
gift <i>is like</i> <b><u>clouds</u></b> and wind without <b><u>rain</u></b>.” She
was clouds in Elijah’s life that day, but no rain. So, today the IRS
is looking like pretty ominous clouds, but that doesn’t mean that the rain is
coming – and if they do bring rain, "The LORD <i>is</i> my
strength and my <b><u>shield</u></b>; my heart trusted in him, and I am
helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise
him." Proverbs 28:7</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And with that said, I do feel better now. Thank you,
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<span style="font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
is very personal to me, something I kept memory of for my own records, but with
the current unusual situation that is clearly garnering a lot of fear and
insecurity in the unknown, I thought I would share this with you today.
It is my prayer that this will be a help and a source of encouragement to
you. I do love you and most especially so does God!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Have
a wonderful day!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;">A L L</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;">I like to remember it this way...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">A-</span>always</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">L-</span> look for the</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">L-</span> Lord</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>All</b></span>…that is a big word for having just 3 little letters. It is big because it is
completely inclusive; it leaves nothing out!
For the last several days I have been pondering over the verse in Psalm
10 that states that the wicked, in their pride do not seek after God because
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><i>The wicked, through the pride of his
countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in <b>all his
thoughts</b></i>. Ps 10:4</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;">This is not saying that God is not in any of
their thoughts, it is saying that it is wicked and proud to think we don’t need
God; it is wicked when God is not in ALL our thoughts. In other words, when I think I can handle
something on my own, I am being wicked and proud, because in that action or thought
process I am not including God. Wow! </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;">How
many mindless things do we do every single day and not consider God? How many times do we do something without
praying because we’ve done it a million times, we know it is the right way, it
doesn’t seem miraculous…or because we believe the popular saying, “you’ve got this”? I imagine that most all of us have encouraged
someone with those very words without considering that it is a form of
pride that God hates!</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;">I have been “blessed” with a chronic health
condition. I find myself often
discouraged feeling a sense of uselessness because I can’t do all that I once
was able to do. I talk about the grace
of God, but as I have pondered “all” my thoughts, and how often the Lord
commands us to walk with Him, consider Him, acknowledge Him, glorify Him, pray
to Him (without ceasing…another form of always or “at all times”) I realize how
much I don’t always seek the Lord first - or how many of all my thoughts He is not included. </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;">There are many commandments and rich promises to those that
include God in all their all. Here are a few for you to ponder.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><u><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;">In</span></u></b><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"> <b><u>all</u></b> <b><u>thy</u></b> <b><u>ways</u></b>
acknowledge him, and he shall direct <b><u>thy</u></b> paths. Proverbs 3:6 (promise)</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black;">De 6:7</span><span style="color: black;"> And thou shalt teach them diligently unto
thy children, and shalt talk of them <b><u>when thou sittest in thine house</u></b>,
and <b><u>when</u></b> <b><u>thou</u></b> <b><u>walkest</u></b> by the way, and
<b><u>when</u></b> <b><u>thou</u></b> <b><u>liest down</u></b>, and <b><u>when</u></b>
<b><u>thou</u></b> <b><u>risest up</u></b>. (commandment)</span></i></span></span></div>
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11:19</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"> And ye shall teach them
your children, speaking of them <b><u>when</u></b> <b><u>thou</u></b> <b>sittest
in thine <u>house</u></b>, and <b><u>when</u></b> <b><u>thou</u></b> <b><u>walkest</u></b>
<b><u>by the way</u></b>, <b><u>when</u></b> <b><u>thou</u></b> liest down, and
<b><u>when</u></b> <b><u>thou</u></b> <b><u>risest up</u></b>. (commandment)</span></i></span></span></div>
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10:31</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"> Whether therefore ye eat,
or drink, or <b><u>whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. </u></b>(commandment)<b><u><br /></u></b></span></i></span></span></div>
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1:8</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"> <b><u>This</u></b> <b><u>book</u></b>
<b><u>of</u></b> <b><u>the</u></b> <b><u>law</u></b> shall not depart out of
thy mouth; but thou shalt <b><u>meditate therein day and night</u></b>, that
thou mayest observe to do according to <b><u>all that is written therein</u></b>:
for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good
success. (promise)</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><i>“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all
these things shall be added unto you.”
Matthew 6:33 </i></span> (promise)</span></span></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;">Father,
forgive my pride, and please help me to make sure to include you in all my all. I pray for all who read this to be helped and that they too will remember to include YOU in all their thoughts.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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The Tender Touchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046422854121330770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767100173868700880.post-6111360278052001992018-02-15T14:37:00.001-08:002018-02-15T14:47:40.882-08:00Who Art Thou...?<br />
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<i><b>"But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance,
or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth
not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD
looketh on the heart."</b> </i>1 Samuel 16:7 God told Samuel not to judge who should be king based on his
countenance – which would include his facial expression, his behavior, composure,
self-control, because man can’t tell what is in the man’s heart – but God can.</div>
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As a Christian, I believe the Bible, and I believe that I will do
well to follow the teachings of the Bible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Bible is my standard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because
of that, I have chosen to dress a certain way (modestly, gender specific), I
strive to love and forgive, I read my Bible and pray daily; but…those things
don’t make me a Christian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In many cases
they don’t even necessarily show that I am a born-again believer. I am afraid that in our zeal to please God by doing, we have
without realizing it, portrayed the importance of the outward man more than of
the inner man. While it is true that who
I am on the inside influences what I look like outwardly, I don’t believe that
my inner most devotion is always clearly portrayed by what others see.</div>
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Because man can only see the outward appearance, when reading
facial expressions, body language, or style of clothing – we should realize
that we can easily “misread” all those things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Remember that “<b><i>as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.</i></b>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, if I see and think something
about another person, I am really interpreting what it would mean if I did what
they’re doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can never fully know
someone’s motives the way God can and does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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It would be a sin for me to judge someone’s worship,
sincerity, adoration of God based on what I can see in their clothing, facial
expressions, music choices, etc. because I cannot see their hearts, and I can
only judge based on me and what it would mean if I did those things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an example, to some I am considered old
fashioned because I only wear modest dresses or skirts, but to others I am
considered worldly because I wear make-up and curl my hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there
is no pleasing everyone.<o:p></o:p><br />
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The evidence of salvation, of a walk with and love for God
will be manifested by the fruit of the Spirit. “<i><b>But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness,
temperance: against such there is no law.</b></i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Galatians 5:22-23.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> We</span> cannot
manufacture the fruit of the Spirit, only the Holy Spirit can produce that fruit in us and that will
happen only when we are first born-again believers, and as we spend time with
the Lord growing in grace. In reading over the what the fruit of the Spirit actually is - judging others is not in line with the behaviour the fruit of the Spirit would produce.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We are clearly in the last days, and our focus must be on
the gospel…we must reach the lost while we can!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We need to give folks the gospel, the love of God, and let the Holy
Spirit do His work in their hearts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I am not saying that a preacher or teacher cannot teach standards, or even explain why they have their preferences - I am saying that we shouldn't determine who we believe is a "good Christian" based solely on what we can see. </span>I
have unsaved relatives, and when they hear Christians judging other Christians
because of things that don’t pertain to the gospel, or the fruit of the Spirit
– “preferences,” I see their disgust and disdain for that behavior and quite
frankly, it turns them off – it turns them away from listening to what “Christians”
say when they see them behaving in a manner that so clearly goes against loving
others and not judging…which they know is what Jesus teaches in the Bible!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We need to stop judging others –we are commanded not to judge
– so actually, we need to start paying more attention to obeying God’s commands
and less about how we believe other Christians should behave and look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is between them and God!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN4adF1dnJnc2IlD3MeVSuXmg4ZjgutBh-HjqBnWKejx-AFMIhpaoajxOyScJhi_vgmE4ZS2PDsMPGmQJgHDLwg0IQOPuoJwF8Y5Tzkm-897r1LGew5u0jP8fR_z0UZ32pLennnsUXi7g/s1600/judging+james412.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN4adF1dnJnc2IlD3MeVSuXmg4ZjgutBh-HjqBnWKejx-AFMIhpaoajxOyScJhi_vgmE4ZS2PDsMPGmQJgHDLwg0IQOPuoJwF8Y5Tzkm-897r1LGew5u0jP8fR_z0UZ32pLennnsUXi7g/s1600/judging+james412.jpg" /></a>"<i><b>Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to
his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is
able to make him stand.</b></i>" Romans 14:4<o:p></o:p></div>
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"<i><b>There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to
destroy: who art thou that judgest another</b>?</i>" James 4:12<o:p></o:p></div>
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From the verses I quoted above, judging others is a form of
pride!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God hates pride!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wow!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So, while we may be sincere in how we believe others should look, and
what they should listen to – we need to realize that when we do that we are
disobeying God, displaying a form of pride, and displeasing the very God that
we are so piously “defending” when we are judging others!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Oh, wretched man that I am…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Lord, may I be careful to please you and seek to live my
life trusting and pleasing You!<o:p></o:p><br />
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<br />The Tender Touchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046422854121330770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767100173868700880.post-11988432506488814512016-12-08T22:11:00.001-08:002016-12-09T08:15:28.457-08:00Mirror, Mirror on the Wall<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Every day we spend time looking at ourselves in the
mirror.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">We use it to see ourselves, to make
sure things are in place, to apply our make-up, fix our hair, make sure there
is nothing in our teeth, see if our tummy shows less with our top tucked in or
out…we use it all the time, right?</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">But,
when you look in the mirror what do you see?</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I am positive that none of us see ourselves the way others view us.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">We look for our own faults, and we tend to be
much harder on ourselves than we are on others.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">We look so that we can present ourselves to others looking the best we
can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I wish there was a mirror for my heart, one that would be
honest with me and tell me who I really am on the inside.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">See, our hearts are so deceitful; our hearts
tell us what we want to hear.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I am
pretty sure that my heart can convince me to believe anything that I want so
that I can get my own way.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Bible
confirms this in Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked: who can know it?”</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">And there is a mirror for our hearts too – the Bible.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Word of God is likened to a mirror in
James 1:23-25, “For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like
unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and
goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso
looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a
forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his
deed.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Bible exposes our hearts, who we are, what we’re like,
what makes us think and behave the way we do.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Bible shows us that we are sinners, and that left to ourselves we
imagine wickedness, we may not always carry it out, but we sure think it! “And
GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Genesis 6:5. What a horrible truth we must
admit! “But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ.”</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I Corinthians 15:57</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I am a Christian.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">By
definition, that means that I should be like Christ.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">As a born again believer I am a blood washed child
of God – God is my Father, the Creator of the universe tells me I may go boldly
to His throne of grace and make my requests known unto Him.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I may call Him Abba, Father – meaning I can
call Him Daddy.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">He loves me, He has a
plan and a purpose for my life.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">He has
left me a Book of Instructions, a Love Letter like no other.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">He has regened me and sealed my soul with His
Holy Spirit until the day of redemption!</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">God has given me His Holy Spirit to guide me, comfort me, teach me,
empower me, help me to remember the things God has taught me, convict me when I
go astray – even in my thoughts!</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">That is
so amazing!</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">God has equipped me so that
I may fulfill His will, and have all that I need to accomplish great things
for His honor and glory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">God left us here so that we may continue His work.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that
believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than
these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">John 14:12 Jesus came to seek and save that
which was lost.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Our job is to do the
same – seek the lost and lead them to the Saviour that died to save their
soul.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">That is our first and foremost
purpose for being here.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">When a soul is
saved that glorifies the Father, when we witness to others of God’s greatness,
he is pleased.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8RUeFJRtnK1fnvFHI9LiGss5qiA5eds10xsUKhZ8ZM8dtrqCeQFI9pppwrRxUwcr0WzeFapo6vrc_AalhsD0W7eA4Kznp6IXXmegSyFjiRDj_lmdgYtsIaJL6-C_HJj241YRzzrhVLe4/s1600/chris-kyles-quotes-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8RUeFJRtnK1fnvFHI9LiGss5qiA5eds10xsUKhZ8ZM8dtrqCeQFI9pppwrRxUwcr0WzeFapo6vrc_AalhsD0W7eA4Kznp6IXXmegSyFjiRDj_lmdgYtsIaJL6-C_HJj241YRzzrhVLe4/s200/chris-kyles-quotes-3.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";">For the last several days I have had a burning thought on my
heart.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">My husband and I watched a
filtered version of American Sniper.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">What a story of patriotism!</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Chris
Kyle was definitely an American hero!</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In
one scene in the film he was home from one of his tours, and as he was driving
with his family in the car – he said, “there is a war going on, people are
dying, and I am going to the mall?”</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In my heart, the thought that has been brewing is that we,
as Christians, are also in a war – </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the
flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God
to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high
thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into
captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So, what do these two things have to do with each
other?</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Well, I thought about looking at
myself -am I the soldier that God wants me to be?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We are admonished to put on the whole amour of God to
protect us from the wiles of the devil, He works to trip us up and worry about
things that don’t matter.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">He is a master
of diversion – like what magicians do – they get you to look at one thing so we
won’t see them do their trick.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">He gets
us off track – and I would have to say that it sure seems that many Christians
are off track right now. Our number one concern should be to yield to our Lord
and Savior.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">We have a sovereign and
mighty God – He has a plan, a will, and a way for each of us; and if we yield
ourselves and submit our will to His, He will lead us and guide us to do the
things that He has for us.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">To walk in
close union with God doing His will brings peace, joy, and fulfillment in life
that nothing else can ever offer.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">We get
caught up in the cares of this world that are vain.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I am not saying we can’t be concerned with
things in this world – we just need to remember that is not our main purpose in
life.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In other words – I can have a home
and work to keep it clean and cared for, after all, I am to be a keeper at
home; but my sole purpose in life should not be my house!</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Not too long ago my husband made a statement
in a message as he preached saying, “we should realize that there is a “soul”
purpose in everything we do; we mustn’t think that God’s plan is as trivial as
sending us to the store alone – it is so that we may reach someone with the
gospel.”</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Will everyone get saved?</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">No, but we should strive to give everyone the
opportunity to get saved.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">We should be
giving out the gospel at every opportunity we get.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">We may not be able to take the time to
present the gospel to each person, but we can certainly give them a gospel
tract so they can see what the Bible says about going to heaven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Yet, Christians, how often do we take time apart from our
day to day routine to stop and think that people are dying and going to hell,
and it is our responsibility to warn them, to tell them “the good things God
has done for us?”</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">We are in a mighty war
striving through the power of God to save some from the burning, to keep people
out of hell – and we are worried about trivial things that don’t matter.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Church leaders bicker over preferences, and
the world watches and shakes their head in disbelief – I know because I have
relatives that can’t believe that some preachers are unloving toward other
Christians because of differences in clothing choices!</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I
absolutely have standards about what I wear and seek always to be modest, but
in the grand scheme of things, it is more important that a person hear the
gospel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So, back to the mirror – let’s think about it for a minute
here.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">If the Bible is a mirror – how
about the first thing we do is rely on the Bible and make it a part of our
daily routine like we do with our mirrors at home.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I would venture to say that all of us look in
a mirror every day – we don’t leave the house without it, right?</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I believe it would make a huge difference in
our lives if we rely on the mirror of the Word of God as much as we do the
mirrors in our bathrooms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">When we look in our mirrors we hope to see an improvement
after we put on our makeup, after we brush our hair – and when we see something
out of place, we correct it.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">When we see
things out of place in our lives in the Bible we should do the same thing – we
should correct what’s wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As Christians what should we see?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We should see ourselves as loved and forgiven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We should see ourselves as someone for whom God willingly
and lovingly sacrificed His only begotten Son. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We should see ourselves as God’s children</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We should see ourselves as someone that has a purpose in
life: </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">to please and glorify our Heavenly Father
because we love Him with all our heart, soul, and might</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">to go into all the world and preach the gospel</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">pray on a daily basis, without ceasing</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">obey the Lord</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Yield to the Lord</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">love others as we love ourselves</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">forgive as we are forgiven</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">While we have to admit, that we don’t always like what we
see in the mirror – there is so much good to see in the mirror of God’s
Word!</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Let’s take the time to see it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Have a wonderful day!</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>The Tender Touchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046422854121330770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767100173868700880.post-40275725580159254442016-07-30T10:18:00.000-07:002016-07-30T10:18:10.445-07:00He Loves Me Like...<div class="MsoNormal">
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years, and a thousand years is as a day…so by that standard, even someone that
lives a good, long life – we never even live to be a day old! “But, beloved, be
not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand
years, and a thousand years as one day.”
2 Peter 3:8<o:p></o:p></div>
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Verily I say unto
you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall
not enter therein. Mark 10:15<o:p></o:p></div>
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But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little
children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of
God. Matthew 19:14<o:p></o:p></div>
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Salvation requires child-like faith, upon salvation we are
called the children of God. “For ye are
all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:26<o:p></o:p></div>
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As His children, He wants us to know that we can always go
to Him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now, as moms, let’s think of the things we know about
children<o:p></o:p></div>
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<li>They need to feel loved</li>
<li>They are dependent</li>
<li>They don’t understand everything</li>
<li>They need comfort</li>
<li>They need security</li>
<li>They need nourishment</li>
<li>They need sunlight</li>
<li>They need sleep</li>
<li>They are learning</li>
<li>They are growing</li>
<li>They cry when they need something</li>
<li>They cry when they want something</li>
<li>They cry when they’re tired</li>
<li>They cry when they’re hungry</li>
<li>They make messes</li>
<li>They ask for help, especially when
they don’t want to do something</li>
<li>They try to do things they are not
ready to do</li>
<li>They are sponges that absorb
everything they see and hear</li>
<li>They can be easily deceived,
tricked, or fooled</li>
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<li>God loves us, Romans 8:38, 39 – “For
I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,
nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor
any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is
in Christ Jesus our Lord.”</li>
<li> He created us and loves it when we depend on Him</li>
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understanding in His time, as we’re ready</li>
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comforteth, so will I comfort you.”</li>
<li>Fear thou not; for I am with thee:
be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help
thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.</li>
<li>And Jesus said unto them, I am the
bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth
on me shall never thirst.</li>
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saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in
darkness, but shall have the light of life.</li>
<li>Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest.</li>
<li>He teaches us through His Word</li>
<li>He gives us His Word that we may
grow thereby</li>
<li>He gave Himself and died for our
sins because of His love for us – “while we were yet sinners Christ died for us”</li>
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<li>He meets our needs</li>
<li>He promises to answer our prayers
when we ask according to His Will</li>
<li>For I the LORD thy God will hold
thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.</li>
<li>He put Romans 8:28 in the Bible to
let us know that even when we mess up, good can come from it</li>
<li>He gives us trials and then gives
us the strength to go through them</li>
<li>He warns us to “come out from
among them and be ye separate” from the worldly influences that would endanger
us</li>
<li>He gives us the Holy Spirit to
protect us, who will lead us to all truth</li>
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our Heavenly Father, and just like we long to hear from our children, God longs
to hear from us. Just as we long to have
our children want to spend time with us when they’re grown, He wants us to want
to spend time with Him. Just as we are pleased when our children do right and “make
us proud,” God is pleased when we honor Him, but loves us just as fiercely even
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So, ladies, every morning, remember that you’re a
child. Go to your Father and get the
help you need for the day. Relish in the
fact that He loves you unconditionally.
Accept that you’re a child that is dependent…believe it or not, that is
very liberating. So, live, laugh, love,
and let God be your Abba, Father!<o:p></o:p></div>
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And there are many children besides me. <br />
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never felt so loved before. <br />
I could never ask for more. <br />
He loves me like I was His only child.
God really loves me. <br />
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He loves me like I was His only child. <br />
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He never favors me above the rest. <br />
But I can't help but feel that I am blessed. <br />
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First Things First. That’s the saying, right? That’s the recipe for success when we start a
project and set out to make the plan – we all have heard someone say, “first
things first.” When we want to organize
and set up a new home, we use that same phrase.
Sounds almost redundant really, to say first things first – but, there
is a reason; we don’t always want to do the things that are most important
first – we want to do what we like to do or want to do first. It is a lesson to ourselves to remind us that
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The truth is, we always do first things first. By that I mean that we always do what is
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what is really first in your life – look at your day, what did you choose to do
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These are the things that we must do as part of our responsibility. I know that there are irresponsible
individuals who ignore their responsibilities and just move on to choice – but this
should be the next thing that determines our time and schedule. We know that we must be at work at a certain
time, have our children at school at a specific time, have certain tasks accomplished
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said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with
all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And
the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law
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The very fact that putting the Lord first is a commandment
proves that it is a choice – if it came naturally, we would not need to be told
to do it. You notice that we are not
commanded to eat – that comes naturally, when we are hungry – we eat! When we’re cold, we cover up, when we’re hot,
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Love, while we like to believe it is an emotion, is also a
choice. It is easy to love those with
whom we get along, people that we have a lot in common with, people who share
our views and values, our sense of humor, our ideals – but what about the
unlovely, the grumpy, those uncharitable?
It is not easy to love “those” people, yet, we are commanded to love our
neighbours as we love ourselves…that is a tall order!<o:p></o:p></div>
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If indeed we put first things first –it will make a marked
difference in every aspect of our lives.
Imagine how life changing it is that Jesus said that on those 2 commandments,
Loving God and loving others, hang ALL the law and prophets! There are well over 600 commandments in the
Bible, and yet if we put the law of love first we’ll be keeping all of them!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We know that God so loved the world that He gave His only
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Does not dishonor others<o:p></o:p></div>
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Is not self-seeking or easily angered<o:p></o:p></div>
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Does not keep record of wrongs<o:p></o:p></div>
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Doesn’t delight in evil<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rejoices in truth<o:p></o:p></div>
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Always protects, trusts, hopes, and perseveres<o:p></o:p></div>
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Love never fails<o:p></o:p></div>
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“<b><i>Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God
dwelleth in him, and he in God.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>16 And we have known
and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in
love dwelleth in God, and God in him. We love him, because he first loved us.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>20 If a man say, I
love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his
brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>21 And this
commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>1 ¶ Whosoever
believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth
him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>2 By this we know
that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>3 For this is the
love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not
grievous.</i></b>” I John 4:15 -5:3<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, first things first? Receive the gift of Salvation
purchased for us by the blood of Christ – that is the greatest gift of love
ever given, and upon receiving that love we are then capable of giving true
love - the love of God that works in us and allows us to love others. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Will you receive that gift of love that Christ purchased for
us when He died on the cross? Will you
choose to love the Lord evidenced by your obedience to Him?<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is my prayer that you understand that this is written
with love for you and especially for our Saviour that laid down His life for
you and for me so that we could be with Him forever in eternity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“<b><i>Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon
us, that we should be called the sons of God…</i></b>”
1 John 3:1<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Tender Touchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046422854121330770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767100173868700880.post-54355537166955493252016-06-01T11:52:00.002-07:002016-06-01T15:40:20.693-07:00Empty Nest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When birds build their
nests, they instinctively know that they will have to build a new nest, or
remodel their nest for a place to abide when the birds fly the coupe. One of the things that many women struggle
with is what we call the “empty nest syndrome.”
As an empty nester for over 10 years, I know the syndrome well. Fortunately, I have learned to build a new
nest instead of sorrowing over the fact that my baby nest is empty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I believe that one of the reasons women do struggle so much
is because we, unlike our bird friends, do not prepare or even consider that we
will have a need for a different type of nest.
From the minute, our babies are
conceived they are in our hearts to stay – nothing separates us from the love
that we have for our children. However,
every step in life is a step towards our children leaving the nest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">They leave the womb</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">They sleep in their own beds</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">They begin to crawl and walk</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">They go to school, get involved in sports and
get jobs</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">They learn to drive</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">They go to college</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">They get married and establish their own homes</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Isn’t it amazing that it can be reduced to just 7 simple
points? Of course at first, our children are so completely
dependent on us – for everything! Little
by little, they eat on their own, they go potty on their own, they learn to
read and think on their own, they spend more and more time away from us – and
yet, we are never ready to let them go!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, how can we fix this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, first of all, no matter how prepared we are we will
still miss our “babies” and always fondly remember the cute little munchkins
and miss that special time in our lives.
So, just to be clear, this is in no way any kind of lesson on how to
“not be sad” when our kids move away…that ain’t gonna happen! But – what I am
trying to accomplish is to help other ladies have a fulfilling life so that the
emptiness is an accepted and anticipated life with a prepared nest. So, here
goes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--> Make sure
you have a walk with God and ask Him to direct your thoughts, to comfort your
heart, and to fill the emptiness you feel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Always, always, always remember that you and
your husband were sweethearts before the kids, you married and became one, and
when the kids are gone it will be the two of you once again – so keep the
romance alive!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Have a ministry that you love and are willing to
invest your time and talents to grow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Have a good communicating relationship with your
kids<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Spend time listening to them without always have
to correct their opinions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Support and encourage them in their plans and
dreams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Pray, pray, pray for them and let them know
you’re praying for them – so get requests from them. (and I don’t mean that every time they tell
you something you don’t like that you respond by saying, “I am praying for you”
so that they feel judged more than loved and covered by God’s protection and
guidance)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Make plans for things you’d like to do when you
have no kids in your home – and as the time approaches, begin to prepare for
implementation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Pray and ask God to give you grace for your new
life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->When the last one leaves, go on a vacation with
your hubby to establish your new life without kids<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now, with all of that said, please remember that it is never
easy to let your kids go…and the further they go, the harder it is. The Lord was very gracious to us in allowing us to have all of our married
children close to us for the first many years that our kids were married. Then, in 2008, things changed! Our youngest son and his family moved from
California, and being our nearest neighbor, all the way to North Carolina! Honestly, the day we took them to the airport
and had to say “goodbye” still brings tears to my eyes. For the first several months, every time I
spoke to them on the phone I cried because my heart yearned so deeply to have
them near. In time, the Lord helped me
to appreciate the precious time we do spend together, and I am so thankful that
He has allowed us to visit them at the very least once a year for 10 days or
so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For the last several years we have lived 90 miles away from
our 3 other children families, and my husband has been great at making sure we
could visit them very regularly – and so even though they were not living in
our neighborhood, or serving together with us in church, we have been able to
have our children in our lives in spite of the miles. Last night we said our very tearful and sad goodbyes
as another one of our kids’ families is moving to North Carolina to begin a new
chapter as staff members at a very good church there. In my heart, I am happy for their life
choices, but feel so sad that they will be so far away! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The empty nest is an adjustment because we feel a loss and
by definition “empty” is a sad word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Empty: containing nothing; having none of the usual or
appropriate contents; <span class="oneclick-link">destitute</span> <span class="oneclick-link">of</span> <span class="oneclick-link">people</span> <span class="oneclick-link">or</span> <span class="oneclick-link">human</span> <span class="oneclick-link">activity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="oneclick-link"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, remember that the first point
in helping adjust is to have that walk with God? I promise you that as you walk closely with
your precious Lord, He will keep every promise He has given!</span></span></div>
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<span class="oneclick-link"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Blessed are ye that hunger now:
for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.” Luke 6:21<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.” Isaiah 66:13</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Tender Touchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046422854121330770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767100173868700880.post-18390134729318559422016-03-09T09:31:00.000-08:002016-05-10T12:27:17.074-07:00What Was I Looking For? …a continued thought<div class="MsoNormal">
How I love God’s Word.
For years I have always considered, believed, counted on, and depended
completely on God’s Word – every day for everything. Continuing from my posting yesterday, this year in my goal to “Seek” I have
approached my Bible with a desire to truly search and seek God. Of course at different stages of our lives,
and through various paths along our journey as we read the Bible we seek
different things, and we view things differently.</div>
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When I first got saved I sought truth and knowledge. I wanted to be a good wife, and a good
mother, a good church member – and I sought the Bible to help me to try to be
all of those things. I wanted to know what the Bible said, and I wanted to
learn the truth. For many years I had an
idea about who I thought God was, what I thought He might want, and viewed life
on my own terms. Sadly, I believe that
many Christians view the Bible that same way – through their own terms. More and more I find people searching for
loop holes so they can adapt to this world instead of fully relying on the Bible and the guidance of the Holy
Spirit to lead and direct their choices.<o:p></o:p></div>
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During the trials in my life I sought the Bible for
comfort; and what a comfort it has proven and continues to be for me. Over and over again the Lord met my needs
through His precious Word. There is not
a person alive that could convince me that the Bible is not alive – for indeed
the Bible is the Living Word of God! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Now, while I know that the Bible was written for us –
certainly God did not need to write things down to remember them – as He is all
knowing, BUT – what I have realized is that I have always used the Word of God
to see how it will benefit ME – even in my Bible reading I have remained
self-centered. In every Bible story I
looked for what I could do to get the blessing, to get the success, to get the
goods for me – rather than instead looking at all that God does, what He has
done, how marvelous He is. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This year, as I seek the Lord, with every Bible story
instead of looking at what this person did and what that person got – the Lord is showing me
what He did. Let me illustrate. In the story of David and Goliath. When reading and teaching that account, I always taught the kids about David’s faith in God – which is a good thing,
but I believe instead I should have taught the kids to focus on the fact that <b><u>God did that</u></b> – God used a kid
and a single stone to take down a giant!
When I face a crisis – instead of trying to be like David, how about I
trust that God can do what needs to be done by whatever means He so chooses? I
believe that honors the Lord much more than striving to do what other men have
done. Parents, I hope you will incorporate this thought as you teach your children - teach them to look for and seek Christ in every thing - not man. Let's raise kids to have faith in God, and to seek Him for the answers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In Romans 15:4, the Bible says “<i><b>For whatsoever things were
written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and
comfort of the scriptures might <u>have hope</u></b>.</i>”
This shows me that the Bible is written to teach me and show me my
source of hope – The Lord, Jesus Christ.
Jesus said, “<b><i>Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal
life: and they are they which testify of me.</i></b>”
John 5:39. Jesus made it abundantly clear that the Scriptures teach of
Him and that in “all the Scriptures” we should be learning of Him in Luke 24:27,
“<b><i>And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto </i><u><i>them in all the scriptures the things
concerning himself</i></u></b><i>.</i>”<o:p></o:p></div>
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if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.</b>” Jesus said this speaking of Himself, of His
hanging on the cross, His death, burial, and resurrection – however, I believe
that as we continue to lift Him up, He will draw all men to Himself. It is our prayer to reach the lost in this world by giving
them the Gospel of Jesus Christ! “<b><i>For I
am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto
salvation to every one that believeth;</i></b>…”
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This year, 2016, my theme, my goal is to “seek” Jesus, the Lord, in everything. Now, I know that I am a Christian and have sought the Lord for nearly 31 years. I am thankful that through the years, I have grown closer to the Lord, and He has done so many amazing things in me, through me, and most especially FOR me! This year, in my “seeking” the Lord has shown me what probably every other Christian knows and I have just been too self-focused to notice. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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Then, you can further only imagine what I felt when I got home to receive a phone call from my husband’s dying grandmother telling me that she felt well enough that day to go out and that she was impressed upon to buy me a Bible! Can you imagine getting saved, and then finding out that while you were asking the Lord to save you, that He was using an 80-year old, terminally ill grandmother to buy you a Bible? Wow!<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><br />
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The Bible is not about man…it is about God, God the Father, God, the Son, and God, The Holy Spirit! The story of creation is not about Adam and Eve – it is about how God created them! The story of Adam and Eve’s fall is not about me – it is about God’s provision to pay for sin! Noah and the Ark – is about showing us God’s mighty power! Every story in the Bible is to show us God and His greatness! Jesus said, <u>“Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.” </u> <u>John 5:39</u>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I hear people speak of doing things to gain favor, but Jesus was saying, was teaching here that while we are searching for eternal life – God is showing us the answer, the testimony of Jesus. The whole Bible is a testimony of what Jesus has done!</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I know that in most stories we will see a type of Christ, we will see a picture of the death, burial, and resurrection, but I still was looking at the men rather than the Saviour. I would try to be like the men in the Bible so I could get the outcome that I hoped for. The Lord has shown me, that each of these accounts, show what God can do. In every person’s life – the answer was and is Jesus, and what He can do in spite of us. In every biblical account – our awe should be in the realization that <u>Jesus did that!</u></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He created, He knows everything, He is everywhere, He is alone worthy to be glorified…I am saying things I’ve always said, but they have new meaning. You see, now instead of looking at David and how he used a sling – it is God using a willing vessel to get His will done. We are just so bent on looking at what we can see! I know that sounds ridiculous – but “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Every account in the Bible is evidence of Jesus, that He is God, that He is the One that has the solutions! </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying, <u>Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee</u>. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him. And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.” </i>Luke 8:38-40</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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The Tender Touchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046422854121330770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767100173868700880.post-91236230611495900832016-01-25T22:51:00.000-08:002016-01-25T22:51:04.405-08:00Fulfilled<div class="MsoNormal">
It seems that so many Christians today want to all but
discard the Old Testament. When we
practice a principle, or hold a standard based on verses from the Old Testament
we hear, “oh, but that is the Old Testament.”
Yet, in the verses I have quoted below – we see that Jesus taught us
that He did not come to destroy the law, but rather to fulfill it. I believe that teaches us that the demands
the law made in punishment were fulfilled when Jesus died on the cross. However, I believe it also teaches us that
while the punishment for breaking the law was paid, it does not mean that we
don’t have to observe or obey the law.
As an example, in the law when a child disobeyed they were to be
publicly punished, stoned to death. Now,
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God intends for us to use the Old Testament,
because It testifies of Jesus. The
disciples used the Old Testament to preach the gospel and the world was turned
upside down. The law demanded perfection, absolute obedience for one trying to earn God’s favor, and death for disobedience. Jesus fulfilled all of those when He <i>"did
always those things that pleased the Father</i>," <i>"He was obedient unto death, even the death of the cross</i>," and He
indeed died for our sins… then He arose victorious over sin! <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Tender Touchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046422854121330770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767100173868700880.post-87832843411849204852016-01-19T19:40:00.001-08:002016-01-19T20:04:30.016-08:00SEEK<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2015 was the first year I can remember that God gave me a
verse to claim as my theme verse for the year.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Luke 1:38, <i>“And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto
me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.</i>”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">With that He also gave me a word, “believe,”
and a song – “I Believe God.”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Now, I am
sure He gave me all of those to equip me as we have stepped out by faith
leaving everyone and everything behind us to go on deputation as US Missionary
Church Planters!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Over and over again
throughout the year the Lord used His Word, His Song, and “Believe” to help and
encourage me.</span></span></div>
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word. I spent several days praying about
it and asking the Lord to give me a theme word for 2016. His answer?
Seek! I spent a good portion of
the afternoon yesterday studying the meaning, the several (over 233) times it
is used in the Bible, and exactly how and what we are to seek. Wow!
It is amazing how this little word can pack such a punch!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to go in search of, to try, to try to find, try to obtain, try to attempt, to
go to, to ask for, to search or explore, to make inquiry. These all seem like a good thing to implement
in my day – every day. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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for “seek,” and again I found that applying this to my thought patterns and
responses will help me in my daily walk with God. </span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek the Kingdom of God</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek His Righteousness</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek Peace</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek His Face</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek the law</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek His precepts</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek good</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek ye out of the Book of the
Lord</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek judgment</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek by prayer</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek by supplications</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek ye the lost</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek Meekness</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek His strength</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek to dwell in the house of
the Lord</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek to behold His beauty</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek God</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek all the commandments</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek the Will of the Father</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seek to enter in at the strait
gate</span></span></li>
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differences add another layer, a different dimension, and further opportunity
for growth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In my further quest, I asked the Lord for a verse – what one
Scripture should be my theme for this year.
I have prayed and sought the Lord for which one verse, as there are so
many!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I considered these verses listed below for my theme verse, and have decided
to memorize each one of them!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of
God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing:
as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will,
but the will of the Father which hath sent me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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105:4 Seek the LORD, and his strength:
seek his face evermore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Psalms 63:1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek
thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and
thirsty land, where no water is;<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
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my song, the Lord has placed on my heart a song I have loved for so many years - it was the school theme verse the year my oldest son graduated from high school. This song served as a prayer of my heart for not only myself, but for my children, that they would be able to sing this song with all their heart to the Lord!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With my
whole heart I humbly seek You;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Now use my life, O Lord, I pray.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I yield my stubborn will completely;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">May Your commandments light my way.</span></div>
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<u style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Chorus</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">My life, Lord, is Yours to control;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I give You my heart and my soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I'll seek Your will, never mine,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rich treasure to find.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Give wisdom to choices I make</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Along ev'ry path that I take,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">So when I complete life's race</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Well done," You will say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Your Word has promised me the vict'ry,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And all I need to do is claim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Your strength to soar with wings as eagles,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To walk, to run, and not to faint. </span><u style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Chorus</u></div>
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Scripture, and song. I encourage you to
spend time with God and ask Him to help you find a word, a verse, a song to
enhance your daily walk and relationship with God. I am already helped! I hope this may help you too!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you choose to join me – please let me know, so we can encourage
each other.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The Tender Touchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046422854121330770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767100173868700880.post-18790863634405770702016-01-18T12:11:00.001-08:002017-01-20T08:18:53.980-08:00Are You One of the Nine?<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This past year, and currently, we are on deputation as USA
Church Planters. The Lord has burdened
our hearts to plant churches in areas where the gospel is not being
preached. This experience has allowed us
to travel to over 90 different churches to present the ministry in 11 different
states so far! We are living differently
than we ever have in that we have no home of our own, we are traveling
constantly, and living out of suitcases!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The great joy in all of this has been that we have been able
to see God do so many miracles! Miracles
for us in answered prayer and provision, and miracles in the lives of others as
we hear their testimonies and how God has worked in their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The title of this posting is, “Are You One of the Nine?” Jesus asked this question in Luke 17:17, “<i>And
Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? <b><u>but where are the nine</u></b>?</i>”
You see, He had just cleansed 10 people, but only one came back to thank
Him. I pondered this question because we
see so many folks make a profession for Christ, and then there are a select few
whose life change after salvation is awe inspiring for the glory of God!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today, there are two specific testimonies that stand out in
my heart – I believe that in both these cases, these Christians are like the “one”
who went back to thank God…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The first testimony on my heart is that of one of my
grandsons, Corban. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He just turned 9 and
has such a tremendous zeal for reaching the lost! Everywhere he goes he asks those he comes in
contact with the simple question, “Do you know Jesus?” He will proceed to give them the gospel and
warn them of the danger if they reject the salvation that Jesus purchased with
His own blood on the Cross of Calvary!
Over the Christmas holiday we had the joy of spending time with our
youngest son and daughter-in-law in North Carolina, (Corban is their son), and
it brought us such joy to see the Lord working in our grandson’s life and
heart! He received a new Bible for
Christmas, and one day he had the choice of going out in the rain and cold to
shop (not a boy’s favorite thing) or stay home and play with his new gifts he
received at Christmas. At first he
wanted to stay home, but then he remembered his new Bible, and decided he
wanted to go and take his Bible along so that he could witness to the folks he
would meet along the way! Wow! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The second testimony that has, to me, shown the great power
of the gospel comes from a gal I met at a church we recently visited. I met this young wife and asked her how long
she had been attending the church, which I typically ask folks at churches we
visit. This opens the door for me to ask
about their salvation, and ultimately a possibility to present the gospel if
they are not yet saved. As she began to
share her testimony, I could see the excitement, joy, and love that she has for
the Lord. You see, she had been in the
entertainment industry – on </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the road to success as she had several contracts </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">with a major cable premium station (HBO, Starz, etc.), and she met the man that
would become her husband; He was a saved man and began inviting her to church. At first,
she resisted, believing, in her words, that "the building would collapse" if she
entered! After she attended the church
for six months she received the Lord as her Saviour. The work He did in her heart was miraculous! She immediately cancelled all her contracts
because she said that it is impossible to be in the industry without having to
make some type of compromise – “even using the Lord’s Name in vain as part of
the script is still using His name in vain…and I couldn’t do it!” She has since been able to reach others that
worked with her in the entertainment industry for Christ and even has a very unique
ministry to reach them with the Gospel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In both these cases, the gospel changed their lives in such
a way that I am sure not only pleases the Lord
but also prompts others to see that God does miracles even today! I would hope to be as these “ones” and not as
the other “nine.” What about you? If you’ve trusted the Lord as your Saviour, and have been healed by His stripes, are you one of
the ones that return to the Lord to thank
Him? Do you show the Lord your love and
appreciation for Him and the salvation He purchased for you with His
blood? Or…are you one of the nine?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If in your heart you realize that perhaps you have been like
one of the nine, it is not too late today to go to the Lord and thank Him for
all He has done and to begin showing your love and appreciation for Him with
your life. “<b><i>And thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and
with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.</i></b>” Mark 12:30-31
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Have a wonderful day!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "californian fb" , serif;">Thank You, Lord for all You,ve done</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "californian fb" , serif;">I realize I need You all the time</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "californian fb" , serif;">Thank You for dying on the cross to take my place</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "californian fb" , serif;">Father,
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "californian fb" , serif;">Saviour,
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "californian fb" , serif;">Thank You, Lord for all You've done</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "californian fb" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "californian fb" , serif;">I realize, I realize, I need You all the time</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 13.3pt; line-height: 119%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This past week we had the extreme joy of celebrating my in-law's 65th Wedding Anniversary! In August my parents just celebrated their 59th Anniversary and in just a few weeks my husband and I will celebrate our 37th! We are very blessed with a wonderful heritage of marital longevity. My grandparents were married 68 years when my grandpa went to heaven, and my husband's grandparents were blessed to see 57 years together. </span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLqi1wai_3Lj-iWtoUGr-8bGjVoOQsfUAq5QcUd7oQb5pc-3m8lE4M5d7V4sv5AnXEzmroCO2vbV995_27ONa_ioQPS2mn9a1QsTQw2k0mDutdaE9WW4V2Tmh1MsjwoHseAN6eOrwmVoM/s1600/11794072_10153541670117354_5040647983672874952_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLqi1wai_3Lj-iWtoUGr-8bGjVoOQsfUAq5QcUd7oQb5pc-3m8lE4M5d7V4sv5AnXEzmroCO2vbV995_27ONa_ioQPS2mn9a1QsTQw2k0mDutdaE9WW4V2Tmh1MsjwoHseAN6eOrwmVoM/s200/11794072_10153541670117354_5040647983672874952_o.jpg" width="148" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 13.3pt; line-height: 119%;">I am thankful for the example of marriage that both my husband and I have been privileged to witness in our lives that helped set a pattern for us to follow. As first generation Christians, my husband and I have earnestly sought to pattern our lives by biblical principles in marriage and for that we are so very thankful. The love that we share in Christ and with each other surpasses the love we felt the day we got married - and believe me, on that day in 1975, I was certain that I could not love my husband any more than I did at the time. I can now say that the depth of the love that we share is beyond what I ever imagined was even possible!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.3pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-default-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-latin-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I am thankful that our children have been able to see that their dad and I love the Lord, each other, and that together we love each one of them -we are a unit, indeed "one." It is our prayer that they will enjoy the same type of blessed marriage that their dad and I share...we have prayed this way since they were quite young. We are thankful for the mates they have chosen and thank the Lord for answering our prayers for our children's marriages. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.3pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-default-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-latin-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My husband asked me to write a poem to honor his parents for their 65th anniversary. I am sharing it with you here today because I believe that in these lines are many nuggets that help form a long lasting, loving, and happy marriage. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.3pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-default-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-latin-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-ligatures: none;">Dear Dad and Mom,<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.3pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-default-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-latin-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-ligatures: none;">‘Twas a fateful day so long ago</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.3pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-default-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-latin-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-ligatures: none;">With dreams so high and worries so low</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.3pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-default-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-latin-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-ligatures: none;">Together you vowed to our Father above</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.3pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-default-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-latin-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-ligatures: none;">For the rest of your lives each other to love</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.3pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-default-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-latin-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-ligatures: none;">Through these many years and the test of time</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.3pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-default-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-latin-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-ligatures: none;">You regarded your promises one day at a time</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.3pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-default-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-latin-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-ligatures: none;">We thank you for the pattern, your example to us</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.3pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-default-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-latin-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-ligatures: none;">As parents you taught us and helped us to grow</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.3pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-default-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-latin-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-ligatures: none;">And so on this anniversary known to some as “Sky Blue”</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.3pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-default-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-latin-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-ligatures: none;">Symbolizing limitless love that’s been shared by you two</span></div>
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The Tender Touchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046422854121330770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767100173868700880.post-11282384545138765412015-08-11T20:32:00.001-07:002016-08-12T10:49:29.971-07:00Strangers and Pilgrims<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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As many of you may know, we are now in our 6<sup>th</sup>
month on deputation as USA Church Planters – missionaries to America!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before we began this adventurous journey the
Lord worked mightily in my heart to prepare me and to confirm in my heart that
this is what He wants for us to do.</div>
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My husband and I are not your typical missionaries on
deputation – we are grandparents!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
would even venture to call us “old!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
husband often sites Caleb’s spirit as one he shares “…and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me
alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this
word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and
now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As yet I am as strong this day as I was in
the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength
now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. Now therefore give me this
mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day…” Joshua 14:6, 10, 11, 12; and it
is true – my husband is full of energy and faith, and willingly puts forth
every effort to do the work God has called him to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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For a woman, this is a different decision than it is for a
man that has a vision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me it truly
has been a matter of realizing that my love for the Lord and the lost souls He
died to save are worth leaving my family, my home, and my church family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know – if it was up to me I would have
moved into one house, stayed at one church, and been happy all my days…but God
indeed has a different plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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He began by showing me the state of our nation and just how
far we have moved from the country that proudly printed “In God We Trust” on
our currency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He broke my heart for the
next generation that is being trained to be secular humanists and faithless beings
not realizing a need for our Saviour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of
course that next generation includes my precious 15 grandchildren…what will
they face?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord showed me the depth
of the burden that the Lord placed on my husband’s heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the Lord showed me these truths and placed
this burden on my heart, I knew beyond any shadow of doubt that He wants us to
be USA missionaries, church planters, doing all we can to reach this lost and
dying world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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As He began moving my heart in this way, He moved my heart
to be in tune with Mary in Luke 1:38, “And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of
the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As I read that verse and already knew that God was leading us to begin
this journey I replied as Mary did and surrendered to do what He has called us to to do, knowing it
was not going to be easy, but definitely a privilege and the right thing to do!</div>
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And so, here we are on deputation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are in our 6<sup>th</sup> month and we
have been in nearly 70 churches, better than half have verbally stated they
will support us, and a good number of those have actually begun supporting us,
for which we are thankful, humbled, and earnestly desirous to be a worthy
investment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we are traveling the Lord
is teaching me and showing me many new things and allowing me to see ministry
and life as a Christian, a missionary from a different perspective.</div>
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</span>That is how the Christians in the Bible saw themselves. “<b><i>These all died
in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and
were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were
strangers and pilgrims on the earth</i></b>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hebrews
11:13 And now that we are on deputation I understand that verse so much more clearly
than before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everywhere we go we are
visitors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every church we attend, though
we definitely experience the sense of unity in the Spirit, we also know that we
are not a part of that family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every
mission home we are privileged to sojourn becomes a temporary home for us – a
place where we “live” for a few days at a time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My husband and I have determined that we are at home when we’re together
– and we enjoy the time we spend at a guest home, a hotel, a mission’s home –
but we know that none of these is our actual home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are simply pilgrims passing through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are strangers everywhere we go – but we
have a reason and a purpose for every place we go!</div>
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As I have grasped that truth, I realize also that Peter
“beseeched” or begged us (Christians – those that are born again having
received Christ as their Saviour) to be strangers and pilgrims – to not feel at
home with the fleshly lusts that war against our soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This present generation is at home with their
fleshly lusts – in fact – they embrace them and are not only persuaded to
accept them, they are persuading others as well!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For every “weakness” (sin), there is an
advocacy group encouraging acceptance!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<b><i>Dearly
beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts,
which war against the soul</i></b>” 1 Peter 2:11</div>
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Peter goes on and explains how we do this…</div>
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“<b><i>Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that,
whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by [your] good works,
which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. </i></b></div>
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<b><i>Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s
sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them
that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of
them that do well.</i></b></div>
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</i></b><br />
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<b><i>For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put
to silence the ignorance of foolish men: As free, and not using your liberty
for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.</i></b>” I Peter 2:12-16</div>
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And he sums it all up here…</div>
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“<b><i>Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the
king.</i></b>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I Peter 2:17</div>
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And the way we get there is to realize that we are strangers
and pilgrims here, and for now we are to abide in Christ, dwell in Him – and
not count this world that is at enmity with God as our home…we are strangers
and pilgrims.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Lord, thank you for allowing me to serve You on deputation and
to experience being a stranger and a pilgrim in this world; and Lord, help me to
never lose sight of the fact that this world is not my home, I’m just passing
through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christian, I hope that you too
will realize that this world is not our home – we’re strangers and pilgrims.</div>
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Have a wonderful day!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Today, in most social media circles, is known as #tbt (throw
back Thursday).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With that in </span></div>
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mind this
morning I have been pondering the days when I was the young mom with 4 little
ones in tow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a wife and mother I
truly felt I was in my element – it was the life I had always dreamed of having
and I was indeed living my dream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly,
those years pass so quickly and for some reason – we don’t really ever dream of
what our life will be post children in the home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think very many women dream of what
their life will be when they’re a grandma!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This year has been a year of, once again, many changes for
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My husband and I are </span></div>
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currently on
deputation as BIMI Missionaries to the USA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are church planters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
what God has called us to do and I say that with no hesitation or doubt – I KNOW
this is God’s will and I am honored and blessed that He would allow us to serve
Him in any capacity, but I do especially feel blessed that He would entrust
this ministry to my husband and me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I could write numerous (and probably should) blog postings
about how God has blessed us thus far in our travels on deputation; but, today
I am thinking especially of the blessed time I’ve had in being able to spend
extended periods of time with our children because basically, right now, we are
homeless (this is said with a smile and the constant reminder that “this world
is not home, I’m just a passing through; my treasures are laid up, somewhere
beyond the blue…”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This morning while at my daughter's I watched as the little
guy she watches began saying “up, up” so he could get out of the high chair and
it immediately brought me back to when my first born son was a little guy and
he would say “dow” (for down), only he said it not only when he wanted to get
out of the high chair, he also said it any time he wanted to be held.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suppose it was because when he was in his
high chair and I asked him if he wanted to get down, I would then pick him up
from the high chair, and give a big hug and squeeze before I would put him
down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Last week, after candidate school at BIMI, (which was
amazing btw), we were able to spend some time with our youngest son and family,
and to meet our newest grandson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
there it was such a blessing to watch as their little ones, especially the
2-year old twins, at times just wanted to be held by their daddy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a mom, it warms my heart to see that all my
children are in happy, loving, and godly marriages seeking and striving to
train their children to the glory of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As a grammie, it warms my heart to see my grandchildren do anything –
seeing them is heartwarming in and of itself!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As I watched the babies longing to be held, and seeing how just being in
their daddy’s (or mommy’s) arms gave them the comfort and security and love
they were seeking reminded me of my heavenly Father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that He is pleased when we come to Him
in childlike faith; He tells us numerous time in His Word that He is with us,
to fear not, and He has reminded us that He is always with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has also stated that to Him, greatness is
when we humble ourselves like a little child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><i>"</i></span><i>For I the
LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help
thee</i>." -Isaiah 41:13<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>"<i>Fear thou
not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen
thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my
righteousness.</i>" -Isaiah 41:10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> “<i>…and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the
end of the world. Amen</i>.” Matthew 28:20</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"<i>Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same<b>
is greatest</b> in the kingdom of heaven.</i>" -Matthew 18:4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So, on this #tbt, I am thankful for the memory of my own
children and the joy it was to my heart when they were completely comforted and
happy just knowing mommy and daddy were there to hold them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am thankful for the precious picture of
watching my now adult children fulfill that same need for my grands…and I am
especially thankful that God gave me that picture to remind me that I can and
should behave that same way with Him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Today, if you are having any type of struggle, trial,
difficulty, if you feel lonely, or if you just need a hug – see yourself as the
child that Jesus Himself held on His lap, and humble yourself before Him –
because to God that is great!</span></div>
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The Tender Touchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046422854121330770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767100173868700880.post-29603744216784251982015-03-18T17:25:00.001-07:002015-03-18T17:40:05.491-07:00Living By Faith<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When you read what I am about to say you are probably going
to think I am the slowest Christian ever!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Until yesterday I never considered that "having faith" is actually a
commandment!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus said, “And Jesus
answering saith unto them, <b>Have faith in God.</b>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mark 11:22<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said it in another
way also in John 14:1, “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God,
<b>believe also in me</b>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I hear people say how they try to believe, they try to have
faith, they wish they could have faith – yet Jesus told us to have faith!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is really a tough one, because we never
consider believing in something as a choice – it is something we do or don’t do
– but not something we think about choosing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The truth is – we do choose what we are going to believe!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is where our deceitful hearts get us –
because we make belief choices on what we think or how we feel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that many will say that you can’t be
told to believe something you don’t believe, but the only reason you don’t believe
something is because it goes against what you want to accept.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those that choose to believe abortion is okay
have convinced themselves that the baby is a fetus, a blob of cells, an
inconvenience, and they choose to believe it is their right to make a choice
whether or not they will continue their pregnancy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Common sense should convince everyone to
realize that if an abortion means a baby won’t be born, it is ending a life
– yet those who want that “right” or “freedom” reject that belief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is hard to imagine that it is legal to end
a life simply because it is an inconvenience because people have chosen to believe <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Now, with all of that said – when we do not have faith, when
we do not believe in Jesus, we are disobeying the Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is so very convicting to me, because how
often do we worry, or find ourselves stressed out over something every
day?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realize that I am more of a
sinner than it would appear!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
earnestly seeking to live my life by faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I know I am completely dependent upon the Lord – as we all are, whether
we realize it or not; but how easy it is to waiver in faith when we can’t see
how things will work out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In my journey to please the Lord, it is my earnest desire to
“have faith in God” and I certainly have a measure of faith – but I know that
too often I waiver and look at the circumstances instead of the Saviour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that “…without faith it is impossible
to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he
is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hebrews 11:4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My song for today is “Living By Faith”</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I care not today what the morrow may bring,<br />
If shadow or sunshine or rain,<br />
The Lord I know ruleth o’er everything,<br />
And all of my worries are vain. </span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Refrain:<br />
Living by faith in Jesus above,<br />
Trusting, confiding in His great love;<br />
From all harm safe in His sheltering arm,<br />
I’m living by faith and feel no alarm.</span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Though tempests may blow and the storm clouds arise,<br />
Obscuring the brightness of life,<br />
I’m never alarmed at the overcast skies—<br />
The Master looks on at the strife.</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I know that He safely will carry me through,<br />
No matter what evils betide;<br />
Why should I then care though the tempest may blow,<br />
If Jesus walks close to my side.</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our Lord will return for His loved ones someday,<br />
Our troubles will then all be o’er;<br />
The Master so gently will lead us away,<br />
Beyond that blest heavenly shore.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Have Faith in God – it is a commandment!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, I pray that we’ll choose to live by
faith – God has a promise for those that make that obedient choice – “…he is a
rewarder of them…”</span></div>
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and <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">see the salvation of the LORD</span>,
which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day,
ye shall see them again no more for ever.”</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Exodus <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>14:13</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Years ago, shortly after we became Christians, we found
ourselves in a predicament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My husband,
a business man, had created a partnership with an unsaved man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shortly into the venture he realized that
this was not a wise move.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man,
though inexperienced, refused to take heed to my husband’s concerns about the
way he was handling the business even though my husband had been in his own
business for several years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To make
things worse, my husband realized that he was unequally yoked and therefore
doing something God warned against.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
began to pray and ask God to help us out of this situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We didn’t know how to get out of it but as we prayed we
trusted God and waited for Him to remedy the situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was amazing to us that within 2 weeks of
our prayer the Lord worked to dissolve the partnership!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>“Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves,
stand ye still, and <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">see the salvation of
the LORD </span>with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to
morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you. “</b> 2Chronicles 20:17</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>2 Chronicles 20:17 has been a special verse to us because it
was a very personal answer to prayer to us at a time that once again seemed
frightfully impossible!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My husband, as a
designer/builder, had done a project for a man that owned a commercial building
where he leased offices to several businesses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He hired my husband to do design work and drawings, and then kept making changes
making the project take longer than originally planned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the man lost a client he decided to try
to recover his financial loss by filing a lawsuit against my husband!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was suing us for way more money than we
could ever make!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the contract
agreement, the lawsuit would be settled via arbitration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man’s case was compelling as the job did
take longer than planned, and he did lose a client, but my husband kept
impeccable records and chronicled every phone call and change order – still my
husband’s own lawyer was skeptical!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
husband knew he did nothing wrong, yet, it was nerve racking, so you can imagine
what a blessing it was to read this verse the day before the meeting with the
arbitrator... especially the part of the
verse that says, “...fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them; for
the Lord will be with you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My husband
drove up to the appointment confident in the Lord and His promise, and told his
lawyer that he believed the case would go our way because of what He read in God's Word and
because others were praying for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
am sure the lawyer thought my husband was crazy…until the verdict arrived a
couple weeks later finding my husband not guilty of any wrong doing!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We prayed and then stood still waiting on God; we trusted the Lord (did not fear)
and we saw the salvation of the Lord!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I firmly believe that God is able to fix ALL problems, that
He is able to meet every need, and that He is the answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With that said, I have to admit, that not
everyone’s problems get fixed, and certainly there are people that have needs,
and not everybody has the answers to their questions or predicaments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may ask how I can believe what I do even
though so many people don’t have the fix, need, or answer as I just
stated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The answer to that question, I believe, is
found in the verses I quoted above.</span></div>
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are afraid when they do not trust God, and sadly are even afraid to trust God – so instead of standing still and
waiting on God – they become anxious and get in God’s way trying to do or fix
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</span>Sometimes we try to fight a battle that belongs to God and end up fighting against God Himself!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we are not set on trusting God, we are
unwilling to stand still – we want to fight, wage a battle, and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">then </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">instead of
allowing God to win the battle, we lose the fight.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In essence, we miss the privilege of seeing the salvation of
the Lord when we do not believe God; when we don’t believe He is able, or that He
will do what He says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we really
believe, we live it, we practice it, we depend on it, and we do it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trust is established by relationship –so
develop a relationship with Christ, trust in Him, and I wholeheartedly promise you that He
will do what He has said He will do!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
will be able to see the salvation of the Lord now – today!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The salvation of our souls is of the Lord – He did the work
when He shed His blood and died on the cross for our sins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Jesus said “it is finished” He meant it –
the job was done!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do not have do work
to earn salvation, it is a free gift to us because “God so loved the world that
He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John
3:16</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Eventually, everyone will see the salvation of the Lord
our God – but I would rather see it by faith and experience now, than to
realize too late that I had wasted my time fearing and fighting something when I could have
had the victory. We can have that victory by simply trusting the Lord, standing still, and waiting for Him to show me, lead me, and yes, even fight for me - remember that He even died for us so that we could have eternal life!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Everyone will see the salvation one day, but sadly not everyone will experience it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the
nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaiah 52:10</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“And all flesh shall see the salvation of God. “ Luke 3:6</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>It is my prayer that for you seeing the salvation of the
Lord will be now rather than later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
you fear not (because of your faith in God), stand still, and wait on God, when you believe Him and allow Him
to fight the battles - you will see His salvation!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, That he
would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with
might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by
faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend
with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And to know the love of Christ, which passeth
knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Now unto him
that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think,
according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by
Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ephesians 3:14-21</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Have a wonderful day! </span></div>
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at the end of the year I begin to pray and make goals for the upcoming New Year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At church we have Vision Sunday where we
encourage our folks to get a vision for the New Year as well.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">At church we hand out goal sheets, prayer pages, Bible
reading schedules, budget sheets – all tools to help with their walk with
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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Bible reading schedule</b></u> – so that you can strive to read the Bible through in a
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Bible is God’s love letter to
us, His instruction manual for us to follow, and a lot of lessons to help us
understand the many things we’ll face in this life time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God’s Word contains the principles we need to
follow in order to make the best decisions throughout our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also a Book promises to us from God,
our Heavenly Father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is history,
prophecy, and our overall answer Book.<span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></u></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><u>The Prayer pages</u></b> are also for our
benefit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We take for granted the
ultimate privilege we have in prayer to take all our needs before the King of
Kings and Lord of Lords.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can boldly
go to the Father, to the Throne of Grace and make our requests known unto
Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through prayer, God has promised to
perform many miracles.</span></span></li>
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big part of our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though we should
never make money our main goal in life – the truth is that “where our treasure
is, there will our heart be also.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
other words, what we truly treasure in life is evidenced by how we spend our
money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People don’t like it when
churches talk about money – but Jesus spoke about money a lot because He knew
that the love of money is the root of all evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He did not want us to be dependent on money – but rather on Him. “Lay
not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt,
and where thieves break through and steal:”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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said, when I set my New Year goals I have one standing goal – to read my Bible
through at least once per year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
started that the first year I was saved because the day I was saved, when I got
home, my phone rang almost as soon as I walked in the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was Nanna, my husband’s grandmother,
calling me to tell me that she had purchased me a Bible!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was a saved woman – at the time she was
dying of cancer and the Holy Spirit impressed on her heart to buy me a Bible
during the very hour I was praying asking the Lord to save me!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was a huge statement to me that told me
that God wanted me to have and read the Bible – why else would He send a dying
woman out to buy ME a Bible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had 7
grandchildren, yet the Lord told her to buy it for me!</span></span></div>
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comfort in the times of my storms</span></span></li>
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guide when I didn’t know what to do</span></span></li>
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teacher as I sought to raise my kids</span></span></li>
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help when I felt lost</span></span></li>
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companion when I felt alone</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">my
source for wisdom, knowledge, and understanding</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">my
strength in times of weakness</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">my
shield against oppression</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">my
joy in times of sorrow</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">my
hiding place when I wanted to be alone</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">my
safety zone when I am afraid</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">my
answer</span></span></li>
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I could go on and on – and truly my prayer is that you too will turn to God’s
Word for all of these things and more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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I look back at goals I set in past years many of those goals are not relevant
to my life at all right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, setting
new goals on an annual basis is a good thing – only this year my list is much
shorter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact my goal for 2015 can be
summed up in one verse:</span></span></div>
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Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>be it unto me according to thy word</u></b>.” Luke 1:38</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I know I have surrendered my life to God – I
remember the very day I went forward at a church invitation and surrendered to
do whatever the Lord wanted with my life; I didn’t know what He wanted me to
do, or even all that it meant – I only knew that He was working on my heart </span></span></div>
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I said that and it sounds wonderful – but I can’t tell you how many times God
has called on me to do something and I didn’t immediately surrender!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love the song “My Life Lord is Yours to
Control” but the truth is while we all may love that song, and find it a
beautiful song to sing– we all don’t really let God control our lives – we like
to be in control and we like to make excuses about how and why we haven’t given
God our lives to control -we just can’t do it, or we say “we’re just not there
yet” in our Christian walk. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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blank for anything or any time you find yourself unwilling to do what you know
God wants you to do.</span></span></div>
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year my one goal is to be fully surrendered to God – “behold the handmaid of
the Lord, be it unto me according to thy word”</span></span></div>
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me that has 3 meanings specifically</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>I am
God’s servant</u></b> (behold the handmaid of the Lord) – I am God’s servant,
He purchased me with His blood and so I consider myself a slave and it is not
up to me to question God, it is up to me to do what He says, follow where He
leads, seek His will in every decision I make</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I will trust God’s Word</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> – “be it unto me
according to thy word” Again that means to not only obey, but also, I will accept
what God wants for my life even if or when it is hard for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Mary said that she was accepting what
the angel told her concerning the child she was going to bear, it was not
especially desirable that she would be considered an unwed mother, or that she might lose her fiance; yet, she was
willing to accept what God wanted even though it was going to be a hard
thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She realized that it was a
tremendous privilege to be called of God to do anything!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I Believe, truly Believe God</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we truly believe something it is evidenced
by our actions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I truly believe
something it affects my behavior, my attitude, my choices, my thoughts –
everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">my husband (far right) USA Church Planter, Lighthouse Baptist Church Planters</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On
the Sunday that we became members of Lancaster Baptist Church and missionaries
being sent out of their church, it was their Vision Sunday –it was a big deal(to me anyway), as
it meant we would no longer be members of our home church; it meant that we
were really going to leave our church, our home, and our possessions to go on
deputation and become full-time church planters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As many of you that know me know,
it was a very emotional day for me. As I spent a lot of time in prayer for all
the changes that we would face in our lives, the Lord placed Luke 1:38 on my
heart as my verse, and He gave me a song as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, the morning of that Vision service I
wrote in my Bible the following:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My goal for 2015,
“Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it unto me according to thy Word.”</span></i></span></li>
<li><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My theme song for
2015 is, “I Believe God" <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You
can imagine how my heart was stirred when the special music, the one special
they sang for the service, was the very song the Lord had placed on my heart for
2015, “I Believe God.” What a blessing it was to me to know that God wanted to
confirm in my heart that He recognized our step of faith, and that He acknowledged
my “offering” of surrender to Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tears
flowed down my cheeks as I heard these words:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I
Believe God</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Some place their trust in the wisdom of another</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Some search for light in the dark</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But like a child, I have come with simple faith</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the only One who could change my heart</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Chorus</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I Believe God, I believe His Word is true</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For I’ve seen what He can do when I call upon His name</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I believe God, so let the world say what they will</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I will choose to serve Him still, knowing He will never
change</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I believe God</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Verse 2:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some say
this life is the only thing that matters</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Some say we live and then we die </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But I’m convinced that eternity awaits </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So with every breath, I will testify…(chorus)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Tag:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>so loved
this world He gave His only Son to die</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ladies, won’t you consider truly
surrendering to God – truly trusting Him and joining me in saying, “Behold the
handmaid of the Lord, be it unto me according to thy word?” – won’t you say
with me, “I Believe God?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pray you
will make it a goal to grow closer to our Saviour this year, and that you’ll
spend more time than ever before in His Word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I can promise you that you will be blessed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Have a wonderful day!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Years ago, shortly after we were saved, we were faced
with a difficult decision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My husband
had designed and built a beautiful custom home for our family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was over 3000 sq. ft. on a decent sized
parcel of land, in a very nice neighborhood in San Jose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The decision we were faced with was whether
we should keep the house and continue to commute to church and school, and
struggle to keep the house and the kids in Christian school, or to sell the
house to move closer to the church and have an easier budget to work with to
keep the kids in Christian school.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I remember sitting in church hearing the preacher talk
about when God takes things from you – he said it is either because it is not
good for you, He has something better for you, or as in the case of the Levites
– because you belong to Him, you don’t get the “inheritance” as the other
children of Israel did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we sat there,
my husband and I both knew in our hearts, that, that was our case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We knew that God wanted us for Him –that we
were His, and that we would not have, down here, what others had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish I could say I was overjoyed and
honored – but in truth, we looked at each other and said, “Well, that’s us.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As young Christians, we didn’t realize the honor God
was bestowing upon us in asking us to give up our house, and we didn’t understand that it would mean “always” and
“in every situation;” we really thought it was just concerning our house. We
decided, that night, it was more important to keep our kids in Christian school
than try to keep the house so… that week we listed the house.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Since that time, that same scenario has repeated itself
– we have “our dream” and then the Lord moves us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know why it took me so long to
realize that God was revealing to us, all those many years ago, His plan for
our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only today I realize today what
a tremendous honor we have in serving our Lord; in being His as a gift to His
children to minister to them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nu 18:6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the
Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for
the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Jos 18:7 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>But
the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their
inheritance</u></b>:”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As I ponder the truth that we won't have our own church building, our own church family, or our own home to own,
as we tried to do last year; I realize it is because the Lord has a “GREATER VISION”
for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We thought we could stay in one place as a base to
work from- we had hoped we could continue to plant churches and have each one
sent from our first church plant – but that was not God’s plan. God’s plan is a
greater plan – He has a greater vision.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I thought of Paul and how his bonds allowed him to
further spread the gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am sure
that he was not pleased that it looked like he was a criminal in prison – but
God chose those bonds in his life so that the gospel could spread further.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Philippians 1:13<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <i>
</i></span><i>So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all
other places;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>18<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What then? notwithstanding, every way,
whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice,
yea, and will rejoice.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In our life God chose bonds (not of prison) as well
and He made it very clear that He wanted us to serve Him as full-time
missionaries planting churches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
bonds he placed in our lives led us to a door that opened so that the gospel
could be spread further!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know how
that worked for Paul – and I believe that is the case for us as well. I
understand the truth is God is moving us for the furtherance of the
Gospel!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As I sat as a guest in a church the other night and saw
the church family interacting with each other, the beautiful facility in which
they were meeting, and joy of being able to see fruit of their work staying
with them – I must admit I felt a little sad realizing that in our calling we
will not be able to enjoy that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are
as the Levites – we belong to God, we have a job to do and we don’t have
the same inheritance as some others;our privilege of serving God is
our inheritance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As I thought about the truth of what I was feeling and
what God was showing me, I suddenly felt ashamed at myself and at the same time
I realized in my heart that in truth, I would rather have Jesus than those things. What a
privilege that God would choose us to be His – and that our inheritance is the
fact that we are His!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our inheritance is
the royal priesthood that God told us about in I Peter 2:9, “But ye are a
chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that
ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness
into his marvellous light:” That brought tremendous joy to my heart!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So, early in our journey on deputation as a church
planter’s wife and missionary I have found this song to have a new meaning to
me. “I’d Rather Have Jesus.” This is a song that people love to sing – but are
these words your truth?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I’d
Rather Have Jesus – The Lyrics</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
I’d rather have Jesus than silver or gold;<br />
I’d rather be His than have riches untold;<br />
I’d rather have Jesus than houses or lands, <br />
I’d rather be led by His nail pierced hand.<br />
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<i>Than to be a king of a vast domain<br />
Or be held in sin’s dread sway,<br />
I’d rather have Jesus than anything<br />
This world affords today.</i><br />
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I’d rather have Jesus than men’s applause;<br />
I’d rather be faithful to His dear cause;<br />
I’d rather have Jesus than world-wide fame,<br />
I’d rather be true to His holy name.<br />
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He’s fairer than lilies of rarest bloom;<br />
He’s sweeter than honey from out of the comb;<br />
He’s all that my hungering spirit needs,<br />
I’d rather have Jesus and let Him lead. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It
is with great joy that we embark on our new journey and joining so many of our
heroes that have gone before us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank
you Father for entrusting us with this ministry – may we honor and glorify you
in all that we do!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today this song is
the truth of my heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pray that you
may know this joy as well – for truly “<i>For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of whom the
whole family in heaven and earth is named, That he would grant you, according
to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the
inner man;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That Christ may dwell in your
hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,May be able to
comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and
height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might
be filled with all the fulness of God.</i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ephesians 3:14-19</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Have
a wonderful day!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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The Tender Touchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046422854121330770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767100173868700880.post-46267512513169358312014-10-14T09:56:00.000-07:002015-03-23T12:52:46.030-07:00To Have and To Hold<!--[if !mso]>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> "I, Terrie, take you, David, for my lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, from this day forward until death do us part. I hereby promise to love, honor, and obey you all the days of my life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 119%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>With this ring I thee wed, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow. In sickness and in health, in poverty or in wealth, till death do us part."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 119%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On the eve of my 21</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 7.7921pt; line-height: 119%;"><sup>st</sup></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 119%;"> birthday I quoted those very words before God, our family, and friends to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On that day, the ceremony was a means to an end…I got to be your wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was very serious about being a good wife to you and loving you with all that was in me – but I can’t say that I was exactly “serious” as I said them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 119%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now that we’ve been married just about 36 years – I understand these vows from the experiences we’ve lived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we were to “renew” our vows – this is how I would say them today.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;">I, Terrie, have had the privilege of being your wife for these past 36 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am thankful for every moment we’ve had each other to hold<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- during our times of riches and being poor -our riches, not necessarily financial – but a far greater richness as we’ve shared in God’s blessings;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and in our poor times when having and holding each other was all that we had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Having you to hold made the worse times better, and the better times the best times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I am thankful that we’ve had each other to hold on to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as we enjoyed great health, and when we were faced with sickness; I’m thankful that I’ve had you to hold me during these past couple years of sick times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I promised to love you till death do us part when I already loved you as much as I thought possible at the time – but now I realize that the love I felt then could not touch the depths of the love that we share today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I promise to continue loving you, honoring you, and yes, even obeying you all the days I have left on this earth – for I know that each day that I live my love for you will only grow stronger.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;">During
the month of October our pastor (my husband) has been preaching on the
subject of "Being Faithful in Marriage." The theme for the year has
been "...be thou faithful unto death." Revelation 2:10. The verse for
the month of October has been, "This is a great mystery: but I speak
concerning Christ and the church." Ephesians 5:32</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;">I gave the "vows" posted above </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;">to my husband</span> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;">on Saturday, October 11</span> for our 36th anniversary which is today, October 14, 2014. The Lord had burned in my heart the meaning of the words "to have and to hold" that we said in our wedding vows. On Sunday, October 12, we were having "Marriage Day" at church and I wanted my husband to know what was on my heart. After my husband received my vows the Lord impressed on his heart that we could share our vow renewal before our church as he taught on the subject of marriage and its meaning. As we renewed our vows before our church family - I read the vows that are posted here today. It was a very tender moment in our service as my husband then in turn also renewed his vows to me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;">Marriage is a picture of our relationship with Christ after salvation. Ephesians 5:21-28 teaches, <i>"Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself."</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;">With that in mind, the Lord brought to my attention that the very idea of "to have and to hold" is exactly what He does for us. "<i>And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one."</i> John 10:28-30</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;">Do you see the connection? When we get saved, we are in the Lord's hand and no one can undo that! When we get married, we have each other to hold on to during every facet of our lives, and with God's love in the center it will not be undone. Marriage, as God designed it, is a beautiful picture of two being one - because </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;">on our own </span>we are not complete.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;">Perhaps you are not married and may feel that this has no application to your life today - but you can be the bride of Christ, and have the beauty of a full and loving relationship with Christ - the relationship with Christ is what carries through every step of our life. This is what the Lord desires for you - He wants you to be His bride; He gave Himself so that you could have eternal life with Him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;">Won't you receive His gift of salvation today? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11.7pt; line-height: 107%;"> "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." Revelation 22:17<br /> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"<i>So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon,
son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord;
thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He saith to him again the second time, Simon,
son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I
love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?
Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And
he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee.
Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and
walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch
forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou
wouldest not. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This spake he, signifying
by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto
him, Follow me</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 21:15 – 19</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Scripture quoted above is very familiar passage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve read it many times and to be honest I’ve
never fully understood it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not
trying to say I fully understand it now – because honestly I’m sure there is
much more the Lord can teach me through His Word; but, I saw something today
that I’ve never considered before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Remember that Peter was the one disciple that told Jesus that
he was willing to lay down his life for Him?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i>“Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered
him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me
afterwards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter said unto him, Lord,
why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy
life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow,
till thou hast denied me thrice.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John
13:36-38</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When Jesus was taken to ultimately be crucified Peter
started out strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He pulled out his
sword and cut off one of the men’s ears – but later when Jesus was indeed
captured, Peter did just as Jesus said – he denied Christ three times!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know that Peter was truly sorry for what
he did – he wept bitterly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We never see a time that Jesus and Peter discussed what
happened – (John 21:15-19) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is the first
conversational exchange between Jesus and Peter we see after the
Resurrection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that when Jesus
is talking to Peter here He is asking him if he will still say that he loves
Jesus with Agape (unconditional) love – Peter then willingly admits that his
love has proven to be conditional – when times got tough he denied Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter’s heart was breaking as he was
admitting his weakness – he was grieved when Jesus asked him 3 times to realize
his own weakness – but then He told Peter that ultimately he would give his
life to honor the Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jesus is, without condemning Peter, showing him the
consequences of his past proud position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Peter is humbling himself to the Lord by admitting that he did not prove
himself to be all that he had aforetime proclaimed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when Jesus is instructing Peter to feed
his lambs, the young Christians, and then further instructs Peter to feed His sheep
– He is letting Peter know that He is putting His trust in him to be a leader,
a teacher, someone that Jesus Himself considers worthy and qualified to care
for His own precious lambs and sheep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The difference between a lamb and a sheep is their age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lamb is a sheep that is under a year old,
one that has not yet produced any offspring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jesus further proceeds to let Peter know that when he was
young he was leading his own way – that he was proudly proclaiming what he
would and would not do – in the future Peter would indeed stretch forth his
hands – showing humility, and would have done to him something that he wouldn’t
want to be done – but because of his stand for Christ he would indeed glorify
God and lay down his life for Him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I find this so amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have read that passage well over 50 times and have never seen that
before!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, as I came to this
realization, I was overcome with God’s amazing grace!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter had boldly followed the Lord and
thought that he was “all in;” he was sure that he would lay down his life for
the Lord – but when it came down to it he denied the Lord and even cursed!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a horrible realization! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I am sure that when he saw the Lord he felt shame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loved the Lord with his own love and
failed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God, in this short passage,
helped Peter to deal with his pride, humble himself before the Lord, and
encouraged Peter to know that God wanted to use him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He let him know that in the end – he wouldn’t
fail the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While God was asking
about agape love, and Peter was sadly stating the he could now only admit to
philos (brotherly) love, God was telling him that he had something to feed to
others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God let Peter know that while he
was unable or not ready to follow the Lord before- he would indeed follow Him
in the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In John 13 Peter wasn’t
ready, in John 21 – Jesus said, “follow me.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God knows when we’re ready.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So often we feel shame or disappointment in ourselves
because we ride waves of highs and lows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We’re riding high on faith, and then scared when our faith is
tried.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m reminded that the Bible says,
<i>“For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is
written, The just shall live by faith.</i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Romans
1:17<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Faith to faith…when I read that I think of “believing about
this” (whatever the current lesson or situation has taught me) – and then when
the next trial comes we gain a new faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We need to understand what happens from faith to faith – it is testing,
trials, sometimes doubt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each test,
trial, and lesson gives us a new faith – a new way of “believing about this”
than what we previously believed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter
believed he was ready to die- but through his testing he realized that Jesus
was right – he wasn’t ready.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, after
he realized his weakness, and admitted his short comings – he grew in faith and
was then ready.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a lesson I have
learned from this - and hope that in some small way I can convey to you what
God has shown me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What I see in the Scripture is Peter going from faith to
faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see Jesus showing His agape love
and Peter showing his philos love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see
God’s acceptance, forgiveness, encouragement, and greatness. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a mighty God we serve!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, how I love Jesus and pray you will
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The Tender Touchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046422854121330770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8767100173868700880.post-90912226235750620252014-02-19T12:07:00.003-08:002016-02-19T11:19:27.487-08:00I Want To Be A Battle Axe<div class="MsoNormal">
You may ask, why in the world would I want to be a battle axe? I know the term “battle axe” is
used negatively towards the wife. It indicates that the woman is fierce with
strong opinions. This morning in my
Bible reading, as I read Jeremiah 51, I decided that I want to be a battle axe!</div>
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“<i>Every man is brutish
by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his
molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, the
work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. The portion
of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is
the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name. <b><u>Thou art my battle axe </u></b>and weapons of war<b>: for with thee</b> <b>will I</b> break in pieces
the nations, and <b>with thee</b> will I
destroy kingdoms; <b>And with thee</b> <b>will I</b> break in pieces the horse and his rider; and <b>with thee</b> will I break in pieces the
chariot and his rider; <b>With thee also</b> <b>will I</b> break in pieces
man and woman; and <b>with thee</b> <b>will I
</b>break in pieces old and young; and <b>with
thee</b> <b>will I</b> break in pieces the young man and the maid; <b> I will also</b> break in pieces <b>with thee</b> the shepherd and his flock; <b>and with thee</b> <b>will I</b> break in pieces
the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and <b>with
thee</b> <b>will I</b> break in pieces captains and rulers. <b>And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea
all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD</b></i>.” Jeremiah 51:17-24<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Lord is telling the portion of Judah that they are His
battle axe and 11 times He says, “<b>With
thee will I" </b>destroy, break in pieces, and render to all the inhabitants of
Chaldea of all their evil. As I read
that I thought of how we are the bride and Christ is the groom, and maybe it’s
a stretch – but I thought of how we, as the bride, can, as we’re used of God,
destroy evil in this world. Not by
waging war, but by soul winning, by giving the Gospel to a lost and dying world
by fulfilling the Great Commission. God
wants for us to do His will. He said over
and over, “with thee will I” accomplish My plan and purpose- my righteousness.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I also thought about how that, as a wife that is a battle axe, I can help my husband. As a pastor his
goal is to be used of God to make a difference in this world, reach the lost,
help Christians to grow in grace so that they too can reach the lost – and as
his wife I can either help him or deter him.
Every wife is either an asset or a liability to her husband. As a battle axe, with you, he can conquer the
world by fulfilling the role God has for him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I want to be a fierce woman that is a warrior when it comes
to helping my husband – that is what I was made to do! I am of the strong opinion that my
husband can be used of God to fulfill the vision God has given him! I was
made to be a help meet for him so that he can bring glory to God. The best way I can do that is by being “with
him.” “And the LORD God said, It is not
good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”
Genesis 2:18<br />
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So, ladies, are you with me?
Who wants to be a battle axe for the Lord so that it can be said of you, “<b>with
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I hope that many of you will determine to be a battle
axe! Have a wonderful day!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Last night I was at the grocery store with my daughter picking up
dessert. We had been to the Homecoming where one of my granddaughters,
Miss Jaclynn, was one of the princesses; she represented the kindergarten
class. We enjoyed the evening and had promised the kids that we would get
a treat after the ceremony – so we were at Safeway picking up good
old-fashioned apple pie and of course vanilla ice cream<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">:) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">As we were shopping, I received a phone call from one of my
sons. When I answered the phone all I could hear was crying, inconsolable
crying. At first I thought that it was a “pocket dialed” call, but then I
realized that the crying voice was trying to say something. I continued
to say, “Hello” louder, and louder! I couldn't discern if the crying
voice was one of the grand kids or my daughter-in-law…so panic set in! I
immediately feared that something so terrible had happened to one of the kids
or my son – so I began to grow more and more concerned…and it was very evident
to those around me as my voice grew louder and louder still! Finally, my
son got on the phone and said, “Jaydon, I think Grammie is starting to panic
there, I better talk to her.” Whew! And Praise the
Lord! Apparently, our grandson was having a hard time and just wanted to
talk to Grammie and Papa so he could feel better. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As all this was happening I really didn't care how loud I was, and
I didn't notice anyone around me, and I really didn't care if they did – it wasn't a thought in my mind at all! My daughter however was the
unfortunate soul that did see and notice everyone staring at her mother…oops!
During this whole episode I gave it no thought. I wasn't embarrassed, and
if people looked at me I didn't notice. My very sweet and loving daughter
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">When we stepped out of the store she laughingly said, “Mom, do you
know how loud you were talking? Here let me show you. No, wait, I’ll wait
till we get in the car because I don’t want to draw attention out here in the
parking lot as everyone would hear me!” When we got in the car, she
began to detail how everyone looked at me, the level and tone of my panicked
voice, and of course she then embellished the story for my husband's sake by
saying how she tried to elude me…but in the end, as I thought about it, I
realized that if it were to happen again I would probably do the same thing
because honestly –I just didn't care about what those people thought; I care so
much more about what could have happened to my family! I did care that my
daughter had to be seen with me during my moment of "panic."
We laughed as she described how the people across the bakery by the deli
counter all stopped their conversations to watch me crescendo "hello"
with heightened fear!<o:p></o:p></span><u1:p></u1:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The truth is when we are enveloped in what we are passionate
about; we don’t let minor details of how people look at us, or what they might
be thinking deter our passion. Oh that we would be that way about serving
the Lord and reaching the lost! I am not saying that we should go to grocery
stores and yell so that people stare at us like we’re weird on purpose, but, I
do think we shouldn't let people’s opinions quiet us from giving out the Gospel
or stop us from doing what God wants us to do. Sometimes we need to be
zealous – about good things and we should care so much that we don't care about
what people might think.<o:p></o:p></span><u1:p></u1:p></span></div>
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