tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60036046957993522632024-03-18T23:56:38.012-05:00Redeemed & RootedAmyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07861336100373921677noreply@blogger.comBlogger207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003604695799352263.post-43172689907029666872013-09-06T09:58:00.000-05:002013-09-06T09:58:12.296-05:00Salvation/Sozo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Have you accepted Jesus? Have you received the gift that he gave you and taken it as your own?<br />
If you have accepted Jesus into your heart, you have received SO much more then a one way ticket to Heaven!<br />
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Take a look at what the word Saved means~<br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction<ol type="a">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">one (from injury or peril)<ol type="1">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">to save a suffering one (from perishing), i.e. one suffering from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">to save in the technical biblical sense<ol type="1">
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">negatively 1b</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment 1b</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of the Messianic deliverance</li>
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Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07861336100373921677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003604695799352263.post-28796627365469726242013-09-06T09:53:00.001-05:002013-09-06T09:53:38.039-05:00Because of HIM we are righteous. He's so amazing. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Isaiah 53:3-11</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text Isa-53-3" id="en-NKJV-18715" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">3 </span>He is despised and rejected by men,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-3" style="position: relative;">A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-3" style="position: relative;">And we hid, as it were, <i>our</i> faces from Him;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-3" style="position: relative;">He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text Isa-53-4" id="en-NKJV-18716" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">4 </span>Surely He has borne our griefs</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-4" style="position: relative;">And carried our sorrows;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-4" style="position: relative;">Yet we esteemed Him stricken,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-4" style="position: relative;">Smitten by God, and afflicted.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-5" id="en-NKJV-18717" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">5 </span>But He <i>was</i> wounded for our transgressions,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-5" style="position: relative;"><i>He was</i> bruised for our iniquities;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-5" style="position: relative;">The chastisement for our peace <i>was</i> upon Him,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-5" style="position: relative;">And by His stripes we are healed.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-6" id="en-NKJV-18718" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">6 </span>All we like sheep have gone astray;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-6" style="position: relative;">We have turned, every one, to his own way;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-6" style="position: relative;">And the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text Isa-53-7" id="en-NKJV-18719" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">7 </span>He was oppressed and He was afflicted,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-7" style="position: relative;">Yet He opened not His mouth;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-7" style="position: relative;">He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-7" style="position: relative;">And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-7" style="position: relative;">So He opened not His mouth.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-8" id="en-NKJV-18720" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">8 </span>He was taken from prison and from judgment,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-8" style="position: relative;">And who will declare His generation?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-8" style="position: relative;">For He was cut off from the land of the living;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-8" style="position: relative;">For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-9" id="en-NKJV-18721" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">9 </span>And they<span class="footnote" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18721a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2053:3-11&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18721a" style="color: #b37162; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> made His grave with the wicked—</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-9" style="position: relative;">But with the rich at His death,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-9" style="position: relative;">Because He had done no violence,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-9" style="position: relative;">Nor <i>was any</i> deceit in His mouth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text Isa-53-10" id="en-NKJV-18722" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">10 </span>Yet it pleased the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> to bruise Him;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-10" style="position: relative;">He has put <i>Him</i> to grief.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-10" style="position: relative;">When You make His soul an offering for sin,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-10" style="position: relative;">He shall see <i>His</i> seed, He shall prolong <i>His</i> days,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-10" style="position: relative;">And the pleasure of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> shall prosper in His hand.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-11" id="en-NKJV-18723" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: block; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;">11 </span>He shall see the labor of His soul,<span class="footnote" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18723b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]">[<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2053:3-11&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18723b" style="color: #b37162; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> <i>and</i> be satisfied.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-11" style="position: relative;">By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-53-11" style="position: relative;">For He shall bear their iniquities.</span></span></div>
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Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07861336100373921677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003604695799352263.post-83415336141936542932013-09-06T09:48:00.000-05:002013-09-06T09:48:19.266-05:00A teaching on taking Communion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I put this together a few months back and thought I should really get it on my blog.<br />
Growing up going to church, then going back in my thirties I had been taking communion for a long time without really understanding why I was taking it.<br />
I kinda thought I was just taking it to "remind" myself of what Jesus did for me. I didn't think there was any real meaning behind it.<br />
I was wrong.<br />
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I was never really taught how to discern the Lords body.<br />
I thought I would share with you all what I have learned, so you too can participate in the blessings of discerning the Lords body.<br />
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If you are interested, please read on! :)<br />
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">God’s
nature is to heal.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><u>(</u>Yes, It really is. I too was taught that sometimes God gives us sickness to teach us things, or "allows" sickness in our lives, etc, etc..... that is wrong teaching, it is what Satan wants us to believe so we don't have faith for healing!)</span></div>
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<b>Jesus said that when we see him, we
see the father. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">John 14:9<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span class="text"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">9 </span></sup></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jesus said to him,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Have
I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen
Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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When Jesus walked the earth, most of his
miracles were in the area of healing. The bible says that Jesus went about doing
good and healing <b>ALL</b> who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Acts 10:38<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span class="text"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">38 </span></sup></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit
and with power, who went about doing good and healing <u>all</u> who were
oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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He did not
walk on water all the time, HE did not calm the storms all the time, but he healed
ALL the time!<o:p></o:p></div>
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When God
brought the children of Israel out of Egypt to bring them into the promise
land, he made sure that NONE of them were sick.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Psalm 105:37<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span class="text"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">37 </span></sup></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He
also brought them out with silver and gold,</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
<span class="text">and</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="text"><i>there was</i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="text">none feeble among His tribes.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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God’s word said that NONE were feeble; they
were all healed, healthy, and WHOLE. That was and is still God’s will for his
people today! <b>All healed, healthy and whole!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">So, if it’s God’s will, why is there
still believers that are sick?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The bible
gives ONE reason. </span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Paul says in
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1 Corinthians 11:29-30<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span class="text"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">29 </span></sup></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner</span></span><span class="text"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">[</span></sup></span><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Cor%2011:29&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28630a" title="See footnote a"><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">a</span></sup></b></a><span class="text"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">]</span></sup></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">eats and drinks judgment to himself, <u>not</u>
discerning the Lord’s</span></span><span class="text"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">[</span></sup></span><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Cor%2011:29&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28630b" title="See footnote b"><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">b</span></sup></b></a><span class="text"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">]</span></sup></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">body.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><sup><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">0 </span></sup></b><u><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For this reason many<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>are</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>weak and sick among you, and many
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Paul said-
FOR THIS REASON~<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>NOT
DISCERNING THE LORDS BODY.</u><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Failure
to know why they were partaking when
they came to the table.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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So that
means, If we do discern the Lord’s body, we WILL walk in His health and
wholeness!<o:p></o:p></div>
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God does not
want us to put our trust in natural means to stay healthy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2 Corinthians 10:4<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span class="text"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">4 </span></sup></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the weapons of our warfare</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">are</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not
carnal</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Trust in GOD
to keep you healthy, and God has ordained the Holy Communion as a key channel
of health and wholeness for his people. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Communion<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<u>Discerning
the Lords body<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">This has been
taught wrong in the church. We were taught that discerning meant we are too not
partake if we have sins in our life.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Paul was not
saying that we should not take if we are unworthy; rather he was saying do not
partake in an unworthy manner!!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The
Corinthians partook unworthily because they did not recognize that the broken
body of the Lord was meant to bring them health and wholeness.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">They treated
it as a ritual and missed out on the blessing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">If your
attitude is “It’s just a piece of bread” then that’s what it WILL be. </span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Paul yelled
at them because when they came to the Lords table, those who were hungry rushed
for their turn, and others guzzled the wine until they became drunk. They were
not discerning the Power of the Lord’s broken body.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jesus wants
us to take the bread and believe that His body was broken so that our bodies
can be made well, and when we discern it that way, we are partaking worthily. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Communion<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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Jesus told us
to “ remember” him by partaking of his body and blood.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I say to you,</span></span><span class="text"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">[<b><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2022:15-20&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-25883a" title="See footnote a"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-themecolor: text1;">a</span></a></b>]</span></sup></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
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<span class="text"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">19 </span></sup></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And He took bread, gave thanks and broke</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it,</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and
gave</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to them, saying,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“This
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cup after supper, saying,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“This cup</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="woj"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Yet we esteemed Him stricken,<br />
Smitten by God, and afflicted.<br />
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<i>He was</i> bruised for our iniquities;<br />
The chastisement for our peace <i>was</i> upon Him,<br />
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</span><span class="text"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">3 </span></sup></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who
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<span class="text"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">26 </span></sup></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed</span></span><span class="text"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">[</span></sup></span><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt%2026:26&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-24081a" title="See footnote a"><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">a</span></sup></b></a><span class="text"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">]</span></sup></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and broke</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it,</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and gave</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to the disciples and said,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Take,
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Jesus Body
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impartation or transfusion you want from Jesus! He is living in you!!! If you have him imparted in you, and he is
full of health and healing, YOU are full of health and healing! When you touch
someone they receive HIM, which is healing and deliverance. )<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="text"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></sup></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup,
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OFTEN. If you’re ill, take it like medicine. More than once a day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07861336100373921677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003604695799352263.post-23604857505818108622013-07-29T16:07:00.000-05:002013-07-29T16:07:58.561-05:00Salvation/Healing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">am probably about to open up a big can of worms here, but that is OK! Sometimes it's good to make people think about what they have been taught.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I just feel that I need to share what I have learned.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have been a follower of Jesus for about 11 years? Maybe 12. I grew up going to a Lutheran church, made my first communion and confirmation and never knew who Jesus really was until I was in my thirties. Pretty sad reality.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anyway, For about 10 years, I had no idea that it was God's will for us to be healed. I mean physically and mentally, here on earth yes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I had always heard " IF it's God's will" Or when people would pray they would say, " Lord, if it's your will for this person to be healed, please heal them".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Three years ago I had cancer. I had wonderful support from my church, lots of love, they came around me and my family and they were the church! However, I do remember some of them praying, " IF it's your will for Amy to be healed"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or " God, if it's your will for Amy to have a feeding tube". </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I didn't know any differently.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the last year I learned that it IS ALWAYS God's will for us to be Healed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wow. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I know it's a huge discussion and some don't believe it, and that's OK, I'm not trying to start a debate, but there are people who actually don't know this, who have never in their life heard this! I was one of them! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sometimes we need to search things out for ourselves. Sometimes we don't care enough to do that, until we get sick, or someone we know gets a life threatening illness. They you start asking questions and wondering things.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am healed of my cancer. But when I had it, I didn't know he wanted me healed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let me share something with you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you look up a passage, say this one~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Romans 10:9</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">New King James Version (NKJV)</span></div>
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<span class="text Rom-10-9" id="en-NKJV-28198"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">9 </span>that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then you go to this website.....</span><br />
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<a href="http://classic.studylight.org/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">http://classic.studylight.org/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and you go to the Interlinear bible on the side and click on it. Put in the verse.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You will see it there, and you can click on the word "Saved". Do that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Guess what it says?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is what SAVED means........</span><br />
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<li>to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction<ol type="a">
<li>one (from injury or peril)<ol type="1">
<li>to save a suffering one (from perishing), i.e. <b>one suffering from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health</b></li>
<li>to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue</li>
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<li>to save in the technical biblical sense<ol type="1">
<li>negatively 1b</li>
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<li>to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment 1b</li>
<li>to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of the Messianic deliverance</li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What does this mean? Jesus didn't just die so you can be forgiven of your sins and go to Heaven. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He also died for you to be Healthy. Whole. Well. Restored.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This was quite a shocker to me. A good shocker!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 30px;">The little Greek word sozo in the New Testament means three things at once: to save, to heal and to set free. Depending on the context it is rendered as one or the other. But we miss out in the translation the fact that all three are part and parcel of the same deal: namely that Christ purchased all three for us by His blood shed on the cross.</span><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 30px;">This is consistent with what Isaiah says:</span><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 30px;">(Isa 53:5 NIV) But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.</span><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 30px;">Sozo appears 120 times in the New Testament. Here are a few examples:</span><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><b style="line-height: 30px;">Salvation</b><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 30px;">(Luke 19:10 NIV) For the Son of Man came to seek and to save (sozo) what was lost."</span><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 30px;">(John 3:17 NIV) For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save (sozo) the world through him.</span><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 30px;">(Rom 10:9 NIV) That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved (sozo).</span><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><b style="line-height: 30px;">Healing</b><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 30px;">(Mat 9:21 NIV) She said to herself, "If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed (sozo)."</span><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 30px;">(Luke 17:19 NIV) Then he said to him, "Rise and go; your faith has made you well (sozo)."</span><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 30px;">(Luke 18:42 NIV) Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight; your faith has healed (sozo) you."</span><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><b style="line-height: 30px;">Deliverance</b><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 30px;">(Luke 8:36 NIV) Those who had seen it told the people how the demon-possessed man had been cured (sozo).</span><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 30px;">(2 Tim 4:18 NIV) The Lord will rescue (sozo) me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.</span><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><br style="line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 30px;">(Jude 1:5 NIV) Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord delivered (sozo) his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;">Give credit where credit is due for that........</span><br />
<a href="http://witness4christ.net/blog/sozo--salvation-healing-and-deliverance-all-in-one-package"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;">http://witness4christ.net/blog/sozo--salvation-healing-and-deliverance-all-in-one-package</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, when you are sick, don't accept it as God's will. It's NOT. He wants you well. He wants you healed. It is ALWAYS his will for you to be healed. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Praise Jesus for his body and blood!!!!! :)</span><br />
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Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07861336100373921677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003604695799352263.post-28881656105163254572013-02-11T10:36:00.001-06:002013-02-11T10:36:52.671-06:00Van in the ditch<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">W</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">ho would have ever thought my van in a ditch would be something that makes me giggle and smile?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It didn't really have the same effect on my husband, but that's because God wasn't speaking to him 10 min before I put the van in the subdivision ditch. :)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is a story that I can't help but share and my blog is a perfect place to share it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Last year in Jan 2012 I chose a word for the year and it was TRUST. Actually, I didn't chose the word, God did. I may have blogged about that too.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">2012 was a magnificent year of growth in the lord for me. Not saying I have "arrived" but I learned a lot and grew alot and God was on me alot throughout the year to share things in my blog but I was scared what people would think. How SILLY is that????? He has shown me recently to GET OVER IT because none of it is about me anyway! lol. ( In the most loving way a daddy could of course!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have been doing a bible study the last few months on hearing God's voice.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Believe it or not, Christianity is NOT all about going to church, or reading your bible, or following laws, but about having a relationship with a LIVING, LOVING God that cares deeply for us!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So, some mornings I will journal , ask him what he wants to tell me and I will write what he wants to tell me.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Keep that in the back of your mind for a bit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So, I have had this neck pain, I don't know probably for about 15 to 20 years? I honestly don't remember anymore when it started. It could have stemmed from a car accident when I was 21, it may have nothing to do with it, it really doesn't matter, the fact is that I have neck pain. lol. I have been to TMJ doctors, regular doctors, Chiropractors, acupuncture, massage, physical therapy, you name it. Nothing really ever helped.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have been learning a lot this past year about God's will to have us healed, About Jesus dying for our healing, (healed by his stripes!) and learning to trust God for answering prayers and manifesting healings.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's takes a lot of faith for this type of thing!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have gone up for prayer numerous times for my neck and went home with pain, but God still told me, TRUST.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have learned about praying for others for healing and had a hard time believing in the prayers, how can I pray for others to be healed when I am not even healed myself. One morning at church God told me something and I wrote it down, (it had NOTHING to do with the sermon) he said, "Start praying IN FAITH for other peoples healings and your neck healing will manifest. OK God. But I'm scared to pray for people. This has never been a strong suit of mine. I always choke praying out loud and want to run and hide before I pray in front of people. lol. Why? Because I was afraid I'd look stupid. This was a HUGE hurdle for me. Just huge. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Recently God started telling me in my journal time to once again TRUST him. That If I walk through the fear and go up to pray for people he will meet me there and help me pray for their needs. Our church has a 24 week training to learn to disciple others. I went through that. After you go through that, On some Sundays the pastor will call up the graduates to the alter and then open the alter for prayer and we will pray for people. Well, after I graduated I was afraid to go pray for people. This past week God kept telling me, Trust him. On Sunday, on the way to church he said, <i>"Today is the day Amy" </i>Well, at church they didn't do it as usual. Usually they have prayer BEFORE the pastor speaks, so I thought I heard God wrong on the way to church. I was actually relieved. lol. But at the end of service, he did ask us to come up. I did not give myself a chance to make excuses, I took myself right up there. I prayed for people. I did just fine. God MET me there just like he said he would. :) <span style="font-size: large;">( and it feels really good to pray for <span style="font-size: large;">others!)</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So..........back to my van<span style="font-size: large;"> story. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> In Dec I was introduc<span style="font-size: large;">ed to another Chiropractor, that said he could <span style="font-size: large;">me. I was desperate for this pain to be gone. My husband was not thrilled with more money towards a chiro<span style="font-size: large;">practor, but I didn't know what else to do, so he agreed to i<span style="font-size: large;">t. This Chir<span style="font-size: large;">opractor said I must come three times a week for at <span style="font-size: large;">least six months to see change, an<span style="font-size: large;">d then you must come after that to "maintain<span style="font-size: large;">" your spine and adjustments. <span style="font-size: large;">Alot of time and money that I don't have. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This morning I was writing in my journal and God was speaking on some other things, and he said, <i>" I know you want to know about the Chiropractor".</i> So God said to me, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>" See how you trusted me at church yesterday and went up to pray and I came through for you? You need to learn to trust in other areas. You don't need the Chiropractor. I am the greatest Chiropractor, physician, I AM. I am anything you NEED me to be. </i> ( remember now, I wear a necklace that says Jehovah Rapha, my healer) He says, <i>It's OK to go, but you don't need to. Put your foot forward to trust me."</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">SO..........I get done journaling and get my shoes on to go to my Chiropractor appointment. lol. Do you know where this is going yet?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I drive 30 seconds down the road, my van starts slipping and sliding and next thing you know, I'm in the ditch. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I laugh. Ok, I'm not going to the Chiropractor. lol. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I didn't get hurt, my van was not damaged, (yes, it's still in the ditch) But God spoke. He's gentle. Never harms or hurts us. I think he has a sense of humor, AND he knows sometimes I need more the a word to get something through my thick skull. lol.. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">He wants to show people that he still heals today. He wants to use me to show you that. So watch my blog for the day my pain is gone because I WILL be writing about it. :) Maybe it will be today. Maybe not. But I am going to have faith that the healing will manifest itself, and HE will get ALL the glory. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">God's amazing. He amazes me over and over again friends. You really should get to know him. <b>H<span style="font-size: large;">E LOVES YOU.</span></b></span></span><br />
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Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07861336100373921677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003604695799352263.post-29154624208372699662013-01-02T14:28:00.001-06:002013-01-02T14:28:32.055-06:00Lies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Do you know that Satan is a liar? Do you know that he likes to put lies in our head, and when we come into agreement with them, and believe them, he succeeds at destroying us?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><sup>He likes to get into our heads and tell us lies that deceive us. This is something that I have learned this past year, that some things I believed, were just simply not true!</sup></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><sup>With becoming a new creation comes taking care of our body. Our temple where God lives. This does not mean becoming obsessive over every bite we put in our mouth, and making exercise something we can't live without. Eating right and exercising are both important and good for us, but both can also be made into an idol too. An idol is anything that we put before God. That we put more of our thoughts and time into then God. </sup></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><sup>It's easy for other things to slip into that place where God belongs. One of the things that had become an idol in my life was food. </sup></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><sup>I like to eat. When I am happy, I eat. When I am depressed, I eat. When I need comfort, I eat. </sup></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><sup>Food was what I went to, for anything, instead of God. </sup></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><sup>I always thought that I "deserved" food. Especially junk food. That was a LIE.</sup></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><sup>The lie that I was believing was that I deserve junk food, because it's good, and everyone else can eat it. I deserve it because it makes me feel good. </sup></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><sup>But did it really? Maybe for the moment I was eating it, but in reality, it was making me feel tired, and lazy, and moody, and fat! But it was so easy to fall for that twisted lie.</sup></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><sup>God revealed truth to me, and it set me free from that bondage of food. The truth is, I deserve to be healthy. I can choose LIFE. I can choose health. </sup></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><sup>So, the choice is ours, I can listen to God and his truth and what HE says I deserve, or I can listen to Satan and his lies, and what he says I deserve.</sup></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><sup>People try to fill that void in there life with anything they can that will make them feel good. Be it food, drugs, other people, exercise, anything they can get that good feeling from, when in reality, all we need is God. He's just waiting for us with his arms open wide to fill all our empty spaces. </sup></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><sup>I hope to share with you some truths in future posts of who you are, and get rid of some lies that Satan has been telling you. </sup></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><sup>For today, just know and believe that you are loved, and God wants you to choose life. That you deserve life. </sup></span></span><br />
<sup><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is a second part to the verse John 10:10 and that is~</span></span></sup><br />
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<sup><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"I have come that they may ha<span style="font-size: large;">ve life, and have it to the FULL".<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></span></sup><br />
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Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07861336100373921677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003604695799352263.post-58094252481312290952013-01-02T14:05:00.000-06:002013-01-02T14:05:03.388-06:00New everyday.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I think I'm going to have to run with this New Year theme. I decided to pick up the blog again, and <span style="font-size: large;">run</span> with it for the new year, and mentally it's easier to start anew and fresh when it's a new year. But in reality, we are all new creations in Christ EVERYDAY. Why? Because he's an awesome loving God and doesn't look at our past. His grace and mercy is new EVERY morning. How awesome is that?!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This past year has been a whirlwind for me and my faith, and I've grown a ton and learned SO much and I hope to share some of that in the coming days.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There's a few verses that I think are good for the new year, but even if you read this post in June, they are still good verses for starting over. </span></span><br />
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<span class="text Isa-43-16" id="en-NIV1984-18522"><sup class="versenum"></sup>This is what the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> says—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-43-16">he who made a way through the sea,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-43-16">a path through the mighty waters,</span></span><br /><br /><span class="text Isa-43-18" id="en-NIV1984-18524"><sup class="versenum"> </sup>“Forget the former things;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-43-18">do not dwell on the past.</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-43-19" id="en-NIV1984-18525"><sup class="versenum"> </sup>See, I am doing a new thing!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-43-19">Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-43-19">I am making a way in the desert</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-43-19">and streams in the wasteland.</span></span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I hope that these verses help you in knowing that you really are a new creation in Christ, every single day. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Our daddy is always doing something new in us!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So, even if yesterday you failed on what you planned on doing for the new year, it's OK. Start again today. Get back up, and start over because it's a new day! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Do you know that God doesn't "remind" you of what you did wrong yesterday? Or the day before that, or the day before that?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you are hearing condemnation of what you did in the past, even 3 hours ago, that is not God. That's Satan. You are forgiven of your sins , past, present, and future by what Jesus did on the cross for you. If the God of the universe forgives you, you need to forgive yourself. Brush yourself off, and start over. When you have Christ living in you, you have the power to succeed!!</span></span><br />
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Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07861336100373921677noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003604695799352263.post-87168345863498842422012-12-31T10:35:00.001-06:002012-12-31T10:35:17.608-06:00I'm baaaack!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #741b47;">I have been so slacking on this blog!!! So, it's going to be a new year tomorrow, and I think that is a perfect time to make a new start to the blog. :)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #741b47;">There is a lot to share from the last year! But at the moment I don't have time to write a book! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #741b47;">I will start with something a new friend of mine posted on facebook............It's something I really take to heart, and you should too!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span class="userContent">"Put your best foot forward". So, we've all heard this growing up, right? But what the heck does it mean? <br /> <br />
Well, let's think about this. If the suggestion is to put your best
foot forward, wouldn't that imply that there is a less-than-best option?
Of course it does! We always have an option to apply the "best" of us or
simply offer up "what's left of us". <br /> <br /> The best of you is where you hold your d<span class="text_exposed_show">reams,
goals, aspirations and wishes. What's left of you is where you store up
your hurt feelings, let downs, insecurities, fears and unbalanced
thinking. <br /> <br /> The very best of me is solid, strong, intelligent,
level headed, full of joy and possess a core so focused, that nothing
can shake my foundation. My best foot forward, would be to claim those
parts of myself and step toward my future with a zest and zeal to
achieve greatness. To apply what's left of me, would be to do the same
ole things, like Ive always done them and hope, that by some small
chance...success might budge its way into the picture. Here we find the
definition of Insanity..Doing the same thing over and over, and
expecting different results.<br /> <br /> Today is a brand new day; a brand
new chance at a brand new life. Consider breaking away from what you've
always done. Break away from the Insanity and put your best foot
forward.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">T<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">his is so fitting to the way I am feeling these days, and really looking forward to a new year and a new start with Christ once again!! :)</span></span><br />
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Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07861336100373921677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003604695799352263.post-82786547583704567812012-02-25T12:45:00.000-06:002012-02-25T12:45:57.453-06:00A great devotional to share. :)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Just Because You Love Him</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">"Jesus 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."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Matthew 22:37-38 </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">There's no doubt about it, when we serve The LORD we are BLESSED. When we obey Him and keep His WORD, we enjoy greater joy and success in our lives than we could ever experience any other way.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Even so, however, that's not the reason we serve Him. That's not our motivation for obeying Him and believing His WORD. We do all those things—and do them gladly—just because we love Him. Because He laid down His life for us, we willingly give Him our all.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We should all have the attitude of the outlaw biker I heard about years ago. He came to a friend of mine when he was still a sinner and said, "I understand you pray for the sick and my son has cancer. Will you pray for him?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">My friend agreed and when he prayed, The LORD healed that little boy. Shortly thereafter, the biker came back and said, "I'm here to give my life to God. He healed my boy, and anyone who would do that for me, I want to serve for the rest of my life."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">You and I might not have had the same experience that biker had, but we're in the same position, nonetheless. As born-again children of God, every one of us has been saved from a spiritual cancer that had doomed us to hell. We've been delivered out of the kingdom of darkness and brought into light. We've been loosed from the bondage of death and given God's free gift of eternal life.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">What's more, not one of us earned it. Not one of us deserved it. We all received our deliverance just like that biker did—not on our own merits, but in total dependence on the mercy and love of God.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">In light of what He has done for us, we owe Him our service. We owe Him our lives and our love.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We ought not be saying, "OK, LORD, I'll do what You're telling me to do because I believe I'll be BLESSED if I do. But I'm warning You, if THE BLESSING doesn't come, I'm not doing it anymore."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">No! If we'll just meditate on what God has already done for us, and let the truth of the sacrifice He's already made for us dawn in our hearts, we'll be so in love with Him, we'll jump at every opportunity to serve Him. We'll want to obey Him. We'll say as Psalm 40:8 says, "I delight to do thy will, O my God...."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Of course, THE BLESSING will follow, as it always does, and because we walk by faith, we'll expect it. But as much as we enjoy it, we'll get far more pleasure simply from serving Jesus. We'll do everything we do for Him just because of love.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div></div>Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07861336100373921677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003604695799352263.post-58882835790044665542012-02-21T08:53:00.000-06:002012-02-21T08:53:47.968-06:00What are you thinking?!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">God is trying to get his point across on something. I just love how he works, he never ceases to amaze me! Yesterday, I wrote about the evil one and his lies. God was just laying it on my heart to not only speak those words to my friend, but to put it on my blog for someone else that needed it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">On Monday nights I go sit under a teaching of gal who knows her Jesus. Rhea has become a precious friend and mentor to me. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">She said she had a sermon all planned out for us, but that wasn't what God had planned.:) He wanted her to speak to us about our minds and how we guard them.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">She said a lot of similar things to what I wrote about yesterday, only she's tons better at teaching it then I am. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I wanted to add on to what I wrote yesterday because she shared too much good stuff not to!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday I shared that we need not beleive Satan's lies, but to beleive God's truths and promises.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Rhea gave some great verses that go along with this so I have to share.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Proverbs 23:7~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">What we think about, what we set our minds on, is what we become. If we think on the lies, we become what the lies say we are. We live it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We need to be purposeful/diligent about what we are thinking.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Proverbs 4:23~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">What do you think about during the day?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Rhea had a good word~ " <strong>Think on something that brings you LIFE, not DEATH!"</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #741b47;">We need to set our minds on TRUTH</span>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Don't give the enemy access! I am preaching to myself here! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We need to line up our thinking with the word of God. If we don't know the word of God we need to get into it and get to know it, and get to know him, that's how we ward off the devil and his lies! We replace it with TRUTH!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">There is a verse that I NEED to carry around with me. I have it laminated on my fridge and in my purse, and now I will have one pasted in my car!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are <u>noble</u>, whatever things are <u>just</u>, whatever things are <u>pure</u>, whatever things are <u>lovely</u>, whatever things are of <u>good report</u>, if there is any <u>virtue</u> and if there is anything <u>praiseworthy</u>--meditate on these things.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">When I/you have bad thoughts, (LIES) come into your head, we need to line it up with God's word.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Go through the verse.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Is what your thinking TRUTH?</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Is it NOBLE?</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Is it JUST?</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Is it PURE?</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">How about LOVELY?</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Chances are the thought doesn't match up and you need to cast it out and think on something that IS true, like some of the things I posted yesterday.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Rhea suggested buying a God's promises book and just meditating on some of those verses. What a great idea and easy to do!</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Don't meditate on lies, or what other people have spoken over you. It is NOT TRUTH.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">In the end, all that matters is what GOD thinks of you and says about you, and he adores and loves you so much!</span></div></div>Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07861336100373921677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003604695799352263.post-62264052234887630552012-02-20T13:34:00.001-06:002012-02-20T13:35:53.957-06:00Addiction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I knew one of these days God would get me back on this blog.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This morning I was texting with a person that is important to me. This person has an addiction, a bondage to something.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When I was texting, God told me, someone else needs this message too. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What is addiction?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">-compulsive need for and use of something habit-forming.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">-a state of being bound usually by compulsion </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">-the tenure or service of a villein, serf, or </span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">slave </span></i><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Many of us have addictions or bondages to things and we don't even realize it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There are many things that we can be addicted to or in bondage to, some examples would be alcohol, smoking, drugs, gambling, food, video games, internet, sex, shopping, work, exercise, we can even be addicted to people. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If it's something that you can't seem to live without, it's most likely an addiction.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sure, there are some things that may not seem so bad, but there are some that are very destructive, not only to ourselves but to other people in our life too. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Things that we don't really WANT in our life, but we deal with it anyway. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>When we have an addiction we hear lies.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> lies in our minds. Lies like, "You will never be rid of this", " this is what life has for you", " You've tried to quit before and failed", "what's the point?", " Your a loser", " You NEED it" " God forgot about you", " it runs in the family", "just give in", "just give up", "things will never change". </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Do you know that these are lies from the <b>pit of hell</b>?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">God sent his son so that we could live in freedom. Free from addictions, bondage, slavery to things.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong>He wants us to be set free.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you accept Jesus as your savior and Lord of your life, you don't have to live that way.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">You need to live like you are a child of the king most high, like you are loved like no other, like you have power to overcome. Because you do.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">You need to start believing what God says about you and who you are and stop listening to the lies.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It's the evil ones job to make us miserable and sick in this lifetime. He hates us. He wants us to suffer and he does a good job of setting us up, and deceiving us into thinking his lies are truth.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But they are NOT truth. You need to go to the word and find out who you are to God and get that IN you.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here is a small list of who you are to God.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>A victor.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Sheltered.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: #741b47;">Precious.</span></strong></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>God's child.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Redeemed and forgiven by the blood of Jesus.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Loved.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Accepted.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Beautiful.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Free from condemnation.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Given a spirit of power.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Chosen.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>God's temple.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>God's workmanship.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>More then a conqueror.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>An ambassador for Christ.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Redeemed from the curse of sin, sickness and poverty.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Delivered from the power of darkness.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">These are the truths that you need to believe instead of the lies that Satan whispers in your ear day after day after day.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Satan wants you to be miserable and stuck.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Jesus wants you to be happy and free!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you are bound, chained to something, seek JESUS. He wants to set you free.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Get out your bible and spend time soaking up the promises of God and learning who he is and how special you are to him and how much he loves and adores you.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Jesus can satisfy your every need and desire. You don't need anything else.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">He is waiting for you with open arms.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Forget the lies. Listen to the one who loves you.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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After you go through something like cancer, and REALLY realize how quickly our lives can be taken from us, or our loved ones can be taken from us, you start to think a bit differently.<br />
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People we love become more important to us. Memories become more important. Living for TODAY becomes much more important. I don't take life for granted anymore like I used to. Yes, I still have days that I'm crabby, or bad days, but a lot of times, God will bring to mind that I have TODAY. I am not promised a tomorrow and to snap out of my mood and be thankful! Appreciate people and what I have.<br />
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Don't wait for tomorrow to do things because tomorrow may never come. Enjoy your TODAY.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">What if? What if that was his only gift? His son, to save us from hell. <strong>Would that be enough for us?</strong></span></div></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Day after day we sin against our holy God, and yet, he gives us the gift of his son and all we have to do is receive the gift.</span></div></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This was a tough devotional this morning for me because he mentioned how we pray for our children's health, and <u>how we pray for cancer to be removed from our bodies.</u></span></div></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">As most of my friends and prayer warriors know, I've been having chest issues. Chest tightness, wheezing, shortness of breath, and of course, anxiety.</span></div></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday I had a CT scan done of my lungs. This morning I see a pulmonologist. Of course I've been praying for just that, <em><span style="color: #36ac9d;">"Please God, let it just be my asthma, or my anxiety/panic attacks acting up again."</span></em></span></div></div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">But the question is, if he doesn't answer our prayers for healing, IS GRACE ENOUGH?</span></div></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">At the end of the devotional he said, Make a list of how God has given you <strong><span style="color: #741b47;">GRACE UPON GRACE</span></strong>. Above and beyond the Grace of saving us from hell.</span></div></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Since i was already making my thankful list , I just added more to it this morning............</span></div></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">62. My health. Cancer removed from my body.</span></span></div></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">63. God's word to read, to get to know him better.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">64. My husband.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">65. My four beautiful children</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">66. Warm house</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">67. Food</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">68. Hot coffee</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">69. Two sweet little dogs that love me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">70. Beautiful Christmas tree to look at.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">71. A loving daddy who is healthy at almost 81 years young.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">72. Friends who truly care about me and love me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">73. Acquaintances who do nice things and care.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">74. Kevin's Job</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">75. A sister who loves me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">76. Brothers that love me too. :)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">77. The gift of being a mommy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">78. A van to drive.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">79. People who speak God's truth into my life.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">80. Books to read.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">81. The ability to home school.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">82. Beautiful sunshine.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">83. Microwavable heating pads to warm my cold feet.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">84. Hot showers/running water</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">85. Chocolate</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">86. Gracie and Autumn and their love for doing art projects and making huge messes.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">87. peanut butter pie</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">88. Paper and pens.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">89. God making a way for me to purchase a bible I wanted.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">90. Gracie coming to sit by me when she wakes up in the morning.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">91. Tired husbands who lay on the couch in the morning.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">92. Running into Sarah at Starbucks yesterday.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">93. Prayer. That we can talk to God whenever we want to.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">94. Friends that pray for me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">95. Cell phones.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">96. Washing Machines.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">97. Dishwashers. (Because I can hear then both running and doing my job for me)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">98. Emails from friends.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">99. Christian music</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Speaking of Christian music...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4dKcStaGxTU?fs=1" width="459"></iframe></div></div></div>Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07861336100373921677noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003604695799352263.post-8335038131413455162011-11-25T13:19:00.002-06:002011-11-29T00:43:11.319-06:00Thankfulness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I've been slacking on getting this up on my blog. I've been writing in my 1,000 gifts journal and have not had time to get it on my blog............I'll post a few.......</span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1. Jesus Christ. My savior</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2. Waking up my kids in the morning and seeing them all snuggled together.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3. My beautiful daugther Autumn.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. Ben coming up and giving me hugs and a kiss on my arm.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5. Henry, my dog, following me everywhere and sitting with me all day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6. Gracie walking Brutus around on a leash.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">7. Gods word to read.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">8. Hot coffee. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">9. Toast with Jelly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">10.Warm sunshine on my face.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">11.Relaxing music.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">12. Watching my kids out the kitchen window.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">13. Texts from my son.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">14. My husbands patience with me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">15. Beautiful trees and farmers field out my window.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">16. Emails from my husband.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">17. Frozen thin mint cookies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">18. My sister.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">19. Sunshine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">20. My daddy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">21. How my son Jake helps clean the house.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">22. Morning quiet time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">23. Happy dogs riding in cars.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">24. Knowing people are praying for me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">25. Spending time alone with hubby.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">26. Sisters that stay with our kids when we need to go to Mayo.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">27. Comfy chairs at Starbucks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">28. Starbucks. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">29. Showers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">30. Nice hotel rooms.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">31. The Lords word saying, " I will bless you".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">32. Gracie doing artwork.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">33. Jake coming home from school.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">34. Monday night bible study.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">35. My girlfriends.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">36. My church family.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">37. Watching my kids play outside.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">38. Friends visiting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">39. Precious words from Mary.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">40. When my son Jake leaves for school and tells his brother, " Be good ok? and be nice to your sisters".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">41. Kevin cleaning the house.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">42. Kids on each side of me, snuggling on the couch.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">43. Thoughtful people.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">44. Hearing birds in the morning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">45. My family. Being able to spend time with them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">46. My dad, coming over to visit during the week. Everything he does. Who he is.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">47. A warm house.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">48. Left over stuffing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">49. Christmas trees.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">50. Joy tea.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I have had a continuous struggle with fear my entire life. I know I have written about fear several times, and told my story about losing my mom at 11 to cancer, and always fearing I would get it, and I did. I feared it to the detail of even how my mom wanted a house, and they bought a lot, and then built it, and then she ended up dying. When we were going to buy this house we live in now, I had fears, that maybe we shouldn't buy this "dream house" of mine because then surely I will get cancer. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Well I did.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I had coffee with a very spirit filled women last week and she brought a verse to my attention that I had previously made note of months ago and forgot.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: #999999;">Job 3:25</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And what I dreaded has happened to me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Some may take that verse differently, and verses sure can be taken out of context. But we all know that Satan hates us and wants us to fear, be sick and die.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Joyce Meyers had something on her status the other day, I think it was a few days after I had coffee with my friend and her status said this~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><em><strong>"When we allow fear to rule us, we unwittingly receive what Satan has planned for our lives instead of what God has planned."</strong></em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Isn't that a bold statement? But to me it rings SO true. Satan steals my joy every single time I decide to listen to his lies and fear cancer coming back.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I was prayed over that day at lunch, and I was told to rebuke Satan every time that liar comes at me with the whispers about my future.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I put scriptures on little cards to read and pray when I feel fear. Fear is not of God.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">One good one that I put on a card is ~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">2 Timothy 1:7</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">My friend said look of every scripture on fear and write them down. Study it. The more I use scripture the less Satan will use that fear against me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This morning I took my kids to their homeschool class. After I got them all in their classes, I had about 10 min before my study started so I went in the book store. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I have to tell you how God shows how much he cares, even in our little worries.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The group I go to, I usually don't know what the topic is going to be about unless I look it up online, I just show up and get surprised as to what they are going to talk about. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So I went to the book store and bought this book ~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Then I go find my seat in our group and there is papers laying there on the table on what the speaker is talking about today. Here's the paper.........</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Then, I pick up my youngest from her class, she hands me her paper and her little project she made. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">It's a stick with a red piece of yarn tied to it, and on one side it just says her name. Gracie. That's all I saw.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Then later, I flipped it over and guess what it says on the back? This is when my tears started flowing.......</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">God was speaking to me today, every step of the way this morning when I walked into church.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">When I met with the friend over coffee, she gave me scripture about Jesus strips for our healing.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I've posted before about how my calender showed one day, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><strong>" I am the God who heals"</strong></span> on a day I was feeling worry.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">How good is he? He knows what my anxiety is. He knows what Satan likes to make me fear about, and he's showing me, <strong>He's here. </strong></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Is it like he's reading my mind? </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Yep. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Because he is, he knows our thoughts. He knows how to send comfort and peace when we need it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I love that about God. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I feel thankful to have a relationship with God. There's no one that can know me or love me or comfort me like him. :)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Praise be to my Jehovah-Shalom. </strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div>Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07861336100373921677noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003604695799352263.post-47125773282696614252011-10-20T08:03:00.002-05:002011-11-29T00:41:56.852-06:00It all leads back to sin.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday my nephew posted something on facebook. Here is what he said~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>"With millions of Christians praying for God to help them with their marriages, wouldn't you expect their divorce rates to be a bit lower than other people's? But atheists/agnostics are in 1st place with 21% followed by 24% of 'other' Christians and 27% of Evangelical Christians. I'd be interested in hearing any ideas why."</em></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"></span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Yesterday I responded, but not prayerfully. Today I have a better answer for him. This morning I was praying, (not about this specific issue at all actually,) I got to my devotional and God led me right back to the book of 1 John, which is where I've been reading after I'm done with my devotional reading. God knows that I have not yet "thrown off" a continual sin, so he's bringing me back to the same passages over and over, until I do it. I love how he so mercifully does this. He isn't slamming down his commands on me, he <strong>gently </strong> brings me back to certain scriptures and <em>reminds</em> me of what I am or am not doing. Just like a parent has to keep reminding their children to do something over and over until they get it, I am God's child and he's doing the same with me. :)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">To claim that we live for him and belong to him but then go out and live for ourselves is hypocrisy.</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #990000; font-size: large;">Christ will expose and judge such deceit.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">As for my nephews question. It comes down to <span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>sin</strong></span>.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #990000; font-size: large;">It can be the death of marriages for sure.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: black; font-size: large;">We who say we are Christians, followers of Christ, are witnesses to those who don't know him.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">This is why many unbelievers stay unbelievers, because those of us who call ourselves Christians are not living a life that glorifies Jesus. We are not shining his light. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">It just convicts me more and more that I need to use the power of the holy spirit to throw off my sinful nature because I am supposed to be shining Christ in my life.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">It makes me sad to think that I, one who calls myself a Christian and a follower of Christ may be showing darkness instead of light.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;"><strong>I pray that God changes that in me.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">When it comes to marriage, or any relationship it's the same.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">If we claim to live for Christ, but then live for our self and our own selfish needs and desires instead of the other persons, we are hypocrites.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">Imagine if we lived in our marriage completely selfless and for the other person, if we did things to make the other person happy instead of ourselves, would their be divorce? I don't think so.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">That is how Jesus lived. Sacrificially. For others. <u>IF</u> we are followers of him, we are to lay down our lives, live for others not ourselves. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">My dear nephew, it's not that God is not answering those prayers for their marriages. It's that people are living for themselves, they are not living the example Christ set. Of course we are human and we will <strong>never</strong> be perfect on this earth. But when we accept Christ as our savior,<u> (which we need because we are so sinful, and we could never make it to heaven because of that)</u> when we really accept him and ask him to be our savior he gives us the holy spirit and the power of the holy spirit lives in us to help us live more like Jesus.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">So us Christians, we need to live in the Grace and power that God has given us to have good marriages. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">:)</span> </div></div>Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07861336100373921677noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003604695799352263.post-79499051116787764112011-10-03T13:56:00.002-05:002011-11-30T02:23:31.389-06:00I Surrender.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was reading a </span><a href="http://devotions.proverbs31.org/2011/10/the-trust-factor.html"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">devotional </span></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">this morning that I got in my mail. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <em><strong><span style="color: #c27ba0;">"Do you trust me Amy?"</span></strong></em></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here it is~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">"So I have a choice to make. Will I believe that God’s plans are better than my own? Will I risk stepping out of my comfort zone? Do I believe the growing pains I’ll face will be worth the blessings that will come?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <em><strong><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Do I trust God to really take care of me?"</span></strong></em></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've been writing about it in my last few entries, that God has been speaking me to tons about my many sins, and things he wants me to run from and never look back like Lots wife.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some things I have already begun doing, not perfectly of course, but I started! One thing I was holding on to was my shopping. Not just my shopping but all the shopping for the family.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have never been good with money and tend to overspend. I've blogged about it before. It's one of those continuous battles I face that the evil one doesn't want me free from.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">This morning I wrote my husband a letter (yes I did give it him) and let him know that I am ready to "surrender" my beloved shopping to him. (That's a good indication right there it's an IDOL for me, </span><em style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">beloved</em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">?")</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Shopping is my release. When I am stressed, I shop. When I am sad, I shop, when the kids and I need to get out of house, We shop! Yeah, that's a problem.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I told him I want to live for God and put God first, and I want to give God our first fruits and our first 10%, and that isn't going to happen with me doing the shopping. So I have to let it go.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I not only have to let that go, but I have to let go of my supplements. Now if you've had cancer, you will know this is some scary business. Since I had cancer I have been taking many many supplements a day to keep the cancer away. I've been trying to prolong my life by myself. That's a pretty big task considering I am not God. But that is where her writing spoke to me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <em><strong><span style="color: #d5a6bd;">Do I trust him or NOT?</span></strong></em></span><br />
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</span></strong></em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> If I worship him as God, and I pray to him hoping for answers, then I must trust him right? Do I believe he is who he says he is?? I taught my kids this morning that God is Sovereign, that he controls everything, Do I believe that? So if he wants me to live, I'll live whether I take those supplements or not right? If he wants me to get cancer again and die, I will. Period. Why is it so hard for me to let go and let him be God?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do I believe that </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoC1ec-lYps"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">he loves me</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">? That he loves my husband and my kids, and my daddy? Yes I do. Then I need to believe he will only allow the best for me, even if it means giving up some things I love, or things I put my faith in? As I'm sitting here writing, I can hear my kids CD with kids singing the song.......How great is our God by Chris Tomlin.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">How appropriate is that to be playing in the back ground?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">How Great IS our God? How much does he love us? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> He loved us enough to to die for us.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Can you think on that in simple terms if that is possible? If your spouse, friend, or even a complete stranger gave their life for you, for something you did wrong, would you feel you owed them something?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I feel I owe him something. My life.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">As a living sacrifice to show him that I appreciate what he did for me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here's a beautiful song saying it all...........</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There is no love,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sweeter than the love</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You pour on me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There is no song,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sweeter than the song</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you sing to me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There is no place that</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I would rather be… than here</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">At your feet laying down everything.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All to you, I Surrender…</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Everything, Every part of me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All to you, I Surrender…</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All of my dreams, All of me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If worship's like perfume, I'll pour</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mine out on you.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For there is none deserving of my</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Love like you.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So take my hand and draw</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">me into you.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I want to be swept away,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">lost in love for you.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All to you, I Surrender…</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Everything, Every part of me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All to you, I Surrender…</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All of my dreams, All of me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I surrender, I surrender</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(Cause I trust you God)</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">O, I surrender.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(All my hope is in you)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And I surrender.(I place all my trust)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">O' I surrender (to you God)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">O' I surrender (cause your ways are far better than mine)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">OOOOoooo I Surrender… yea yea</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All to you, all to you, yea, yea</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">O I Surrender, I surrender</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I surrender (all to you my God)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">O I Surrender, I surrender</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I surrender…OOooooh…</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">No turning back, I've</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">made up my mind.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'm giving all of my life this time</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You're love makes it worth it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You're love makes it worth it all.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You're love makes it worth it all.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You're love makes it worth it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You're love makes it worth it all.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You're love makes it worth it all.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All to you, I Surrender…</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Everything, Every part of me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All to you, I Surrender…</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All of my dreams, and All of me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You're love makes it worth it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You're love makes it worth it all.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You're love makes it worth it all.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">This is Doctor Moore checking my neck for lumps. Thankfully, none there! :)</span></div><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The last picture, I asked for, and he so graciously said sure! It's funny, when I first met this man, he was all business, not personable at all, just looked at my PET told me what he could do for me and that was it. But the more visits I have, the sweeter he gets and I can tell he really does care about his patients.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I thank God for this man, someone so devoted to caring for other people's lives. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">and I thank God for healing me through Mr. Moore</span>.</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div>Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07861336100373921677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003604695799352263.post-78147398419060811982011-09-29T08:18:00.000-05:002011-09-29T08:18:08.672-05:00More of him.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I don't know why, but sometimes I just feel led to share what I am learning along the way here. I'm sure by sharing my thoughts and being such an open book, sometimes I may not make myself look real good but I am OK with that.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I think God wants me to share my faults and airheadedness with others so they know they are not alone.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was with some of our church family last night, and I realized how much we are all on different levels. Some are so advanced in their faith and knowledge of our Lord, and not just knowledge, but true heartfelt understanding and love for our Jesus. Then there's others, like me, who all along have thought the love I had for God was good, and in my mind, I did love him, but in reality I wasn't doing much of loving him at all.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The wonderful thing about our God is that he gives LOTS of Grace and Mercy and Love. He knows us. He forgives us when we ask for it. I am so thankful of that.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I think back to blogging in the spring when I went for a walk in the morning and I was walking toward the sunshine at 5:30am and it was so bright and warm and it just felt so good. I just remember the feeling I had that I didn't want to turn around and walk the other way, or go in the house, I just wanted to bask in that sunshine. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">That's how it is with Jesus. The closer you get to him, the more time you spend with him, the more you want, and the more you love him.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">He loves to bless us and give us favor.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was reading this morning, Psalm 34</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">God will deliver us from fear, save us from our troubles, guard and deliver us, show us goodness, supply our needs, listen when we talk to him and redeem us.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">But the following statement was, to receive these things, we must do our part.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>What is our part?</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Crying out to him, trusting him, fearing him, refraining from lying, turn from evil, do good.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">So it's not a one way relationship here. Yes, <strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">He loves us</span></strong>. No matter what. He died for us, and you don't die for someone if you don't love them A LOT. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">But when we do our part in the relationship with the Lord, he blesses us more. He gives us favor.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I want that.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">God's been<strong><em> really</em></strong> working in my life the last few months, really convicting me of things and opening my eyes to things, and helping me understand things that I didn't before. He's giving me wisdom that I prayed for. It's a bit scary. lol.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jesus' light is not only warm and inviting and feels good, but sometimes his light shines nice and bright and uncovers some really ugly sin in our hearts.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">There's a verse that I heard this week that struck me pretty deep. The New king James version is this~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Psalm 66:18</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">If I regard iniquity in my heart,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">The Lord will not hear.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here's a few different versions of the verse~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">If I had cherished sin in my heart, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">the Lord would not have listened;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Or</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">All believers, come here and listen, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">let me tell you what God did for me. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">I called out to him with my mouth, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">If I had been cozy with evil, </span></u></em></strong></div><strong><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">But he most surely did listen, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">he came on the double when he heard my prayer. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Blessed be God: he didn't turn a deaf ear, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">he stayed with me, loyal in his love. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The verse is saying, if you have sin in your heart, if you become cozy with it, living with it daily and accepting it as OK, <strong><span style="color: #999999;">God turns his ear from you.</span></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">That scares me. I do NOT want God to turn his ear from me and not hear my prayers. Will he still love me? Yes he will. But sin can put a wedge between us and God. He's a holy God and can't be around or tolerate sin.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">No, we can't EVER be perfect in this life here on earth. But we can sure be more aware of our sin and not allow the sin he shows us to dwell in us.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have sins that dwell. They've been dwelling for a long time, and it's time I get rid of them. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jesus died so that I could be a victor not a victim.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The bible says we are more then a conqueror in Christ.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><strong>We need to make the decision to put Christ FIRST in our lives.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We need to stay in position where we receive his favor and blessings, that position is a repentant heart. Loving him, making him LORD of our life, and repenting of our sins DAILY.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I want God's favor and blessings. I don't want to live insignificantly for Jesus. I want to be his hands and feet and face and let him be seen through me. I can't do that and continue to have unrepented sin in my heart.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was reading in 1 John Tuesday morning and recorded some verses.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #d5a6bd; font-size: large;">1 John 1:6-7</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #d5a6bd; font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #d5a6bd; font-size: large;"> <strong><em>If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.</em></strong> But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The commentary says~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just as darkness cannot exist in the presence of light, sin cannot exist in the presence of a holy God.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">If we want to have a relationship with God, we MUST put aside our sinful way of living.</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">To claim that we belong to him, but then go out and live for ourselves is hypocrisy</span></u></em></strong>. Christ WILL expose and judge such deceit. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">What we need to think about is, what does<strong><em> living for ourselves</em></strong> really mean? It means, we are not putting him first. We are not living for him. We have idols in our heart. We love other things more then we love God and put those things before him. It could be anything that you choose to love more then God.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Things God has shown me lately as Idols are~ my own comfort and convenience are idols for me. Wanting to be able to relax when I want, do what I want, not having to clean up after others all the time. A clean house is an idol for me. Being accepted by others, another idol...........</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">For some, it may be money, or sports, or exercise, or their looks, anything can be an Idol to us, something we put before God. It's got to go!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">They are Idols of our heart and God wants to be first.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Remember, we will have to stand before him one day and give an account. <strong><u>He IS coming back</u></strong>. What will you have to say when you stand before the mighty king? I sure don't want to have to hang my head and say I'm sorry that I thought "I" was more important then the King of Kings.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We are to have no other God's before us.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Yet you have forsaken Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer deliver you. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Back to 1 john 1:6-7 that I posted above, We can't love God and court sin at the same time.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em>When we commit our lives to Christ, by accepting him as our LORD and savior,</em></strong> and thus identify ourselves with him, <em><strong>his death becomes ours. We need to die to self</strong></em>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>If that is not happening, maybe we never really accepted him as LORD.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's something I've been thinking about a lot lately about myself and my own relationship with him.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f1c232;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f1c232;">We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. <em><strong>Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.</strong></em> But if anyone obeys his word, love for God[a] is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: <strong><em>Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did. </em></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: #93c47d;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: large;">No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Well first she talked about how people would rather <em><strong>"SEE"</strong></em> a sermon, then <strong>"<em>HEAR"</em></strong> a sermon. In other words, the gospel being<em> <strong>LIVED OUT</strong></em>, not just someone talking about how wonderful Jesus is, or saying they are a Christian, but<strong> </strong><em><strong>LIVING</strong> </em>it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #c27ba0; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Not <em>preaching him</em>, but <em><strong>LIVING</strong></em> him.........</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> Hmmmm, funny she's talking about that when I just got my wake up slap in the morning. ;)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The rest of the night she spoke on the book of Ruth. If you don't know the story, you need to get your bible out and read it. It's a great book of the bible. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">How the story was told last night was that Elimelech and Naomi who were from Bethlehem, took their family, (themselves and their two sons Mahlon and Killion) to live in the country of Moab. At that time that was probably not the best decision because Moab was a place of disobedience and Idolatry. The two sons married Moabite women (Ruth and Orpah) which was another no-no.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Naomi ended up losing her husband and her two sons. They all died. So she was left with her two daugther in laws.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Things were just bad for Naomi and eventually, she heard that <strong>God came to the aid of his people</strong> back in Bethlehem, she wanted to go back home again.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The speaker kind of used Moab as a "place" we go when we are not following God. A bad place, full of sin and disobedience and Idolatry.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Could be anywhere or anything for us. Whatever our particular sin is that keeps us away from following the Lord, that's our Moab.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Instead of living in a place like Bethlehem, where you know God is providing and things are good, you "visit" a place like Moab, and sometimes you stay there, sometimes for a long time.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">For me, My Moab would be, not laying down my will, not living in God's. So of course, this struck me as a powerful talk from the Lord. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The speaker said, If you are in Moab, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">Are you ready and willing to head back to Bethlehem??</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Are you ready to rise up from the place you are living in?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">She asked for those who were to stand.............. <strong>I should have stood up</strong>. I knew what I learned in the morning yesterday, and I Knew what I needed to do. I needed to stand, and I needed to be prayed for, that God will help me through this process. I need to head on back to Bethlehem.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">At the end of the night, they asked the new people to fill out a card and when you filled it out, you hand it in, and they give you a free cd of a teaching. I picked one, out of the girls hand, not looking at what they were. I put it in my CD player in the van on the way home.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">You KNOW what it was about. I didn't even get to finish it yet, but what I did listen to of it was ~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Ephesians 4:17-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So I tell you this, and <u><strong>insist </strong></u>on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">She says to live a life WORTHY of the calling. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">"If you wanna know why you don't have abundance, you have to choose to let him change you. <strong><em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Who will you serve</span></em></strong>?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">(remember, I was wondering why I didn't have fruit?)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We can't be on the fence. We can either serve God or serve man. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>I should have stood up</em></strong>. Cause I'm ready to get out of Moab and I'm running back to Bethlehem.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e69138;">I am feeling peace today</span><span style="color: #f6b26b;">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">This morning I felt my soul singing as God finally gave me the wisdom I've been seeking.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I know I've expressed on my blog before about God answering prayers or speaking to me, but I love to share it because he is so real and so involved in our puny lives if we look for him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So the last month or so God's been doing some serious chiseling away, and frankly, I didn't like it very much.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I've been on antidepressants for about 20 years for anxiety, <strike> I</strike> God decided about 4 or so months ago that it was time for me to be off of the meds. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">It was a slow weaning process with lots of headaches and dizziness and just plain stinky. I survived, and thankfully my family survived it too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I think I am over all the withdrawal symptoms now, whew. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, after with drawls were over, something even more <span style="background-color: white; color: #6aa84f;">ugly</span> came from not taking the meds. It was, the real Me, my "inner self", my heart............my <span style="color: #6aa84f;">ugly, broken, selfish, heart. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">This is not a person that I wanted to meet, and I'm pretty sure my husband and kids didn't either. Not to say that I was never crabby before, but this was different.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The bouts of anxiety I have are nothing compared to the crabby girl I became.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">My patience was thin, My tolerance of pretty much anything was real low, everything made me crabby, or yell, or pout, or cry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Sounds like a simple solution of get back on the meds right? I thought, " If I have all these symptoms, I must need the medicine."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Thankfully, I have a mom, who is strong in her faith, someone who's been through anxiety/panic/depression before, who had the guts to say to me, <strong><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">" You don't need them". </span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Of course I thought , who is she? Is she crazy? What does she know? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Then I picked up a book, </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0802458025/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><img alt="Will Medicine Stop the Pain?: Finding God's Healing for Depression, Anxiety, and Other Troubling Emotions" border="0" height="300" id="prodImage" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415DE09YSVL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" width="300" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">and in this book, she explained that our anxiety and or depression is not always from a chemical imbalance, that sometimes, it's from..............our <em><span style="color: #cc0000;">heart.</span></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">That we need to look at what is going on in our hearts, (meaning sin) and take care of it and the problems will fade away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So, I began on a journey, one that I really didn't want to be on. lol.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">My crabbiness really didn't get any better. Most days I'd be crabby about 10 min after someone would interfere with my quiet time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I finally started wondering, really, what is my problem anyway? I mean, I am a Christian. I have been for about eight years, so if I'm a Christian women then why don't I have the </span><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+5%3A22-23&version=NIV"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">fruit of the spirit</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> to prove it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I searched scriptures every morning. I seriously killed my brain reading books, bibles, commentaries, even asked sisters in Christ what the deal was. I came up with nothing. Nothing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">My pastor did two sermons, in the last few weeks about sin. ( Of course, just another coincidence). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The first one, which was the 4th of Sept he talked about ~Christ living in us........</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Because of Jesus that we can live a holy life...........</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Was I reflecting Christ? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Sinfulness is ALWAYS about selfishness............</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">He talked about the tongue, and how if you can bring destruction with your words~ fear for your soul.........</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">A heart turned toward God gives Grace........</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Gospel says to die to self..............</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">If we live selfishly, we are betraying the gospel of Christ............</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Of course during this sermon, I was not feeling well. At all. I almost felt the need to get up and get out of there. (This sickness started before the sermon so I'm quite sure it was the evil one trying to keep me from hearing what I needed to hear)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So, of course, now I'm MORE frustrated that he was talking to ME. Everything he said was true, and it was all me. It was one of those sermons where your sitting there thinking, <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">"what does Tommy know about my heart and did he write this sermon especially for ME?"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So back to more bible reading.........book reading, searching for answers, praying............asking friends..........Nothing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Nothing.................really God? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Then a week's break of a sermon with a guest pastor talking about God and how much he loves us and how we can look at him like our "daddy", good heart warming sermon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Still crabby..............still frustrated..............still searching for answers to why I don't have the fruit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I google "sin" and I find great info on how to kill it. I print it all. Make a Sin binder........I'm feelin a bit better.......I'm going to figure this all out.......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">This weeks sermon~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Again, speaking right to me. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">You can know the doctrine.</span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> You can read the bible and know the verses.</span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> You can call yourself a Christ follower.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Examine ourselves..............</span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">live wisely, not foolishly...........</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We have an "idea" of ourselves, but that is not REALLY who we are inside....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Look carefully how you walk...........</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Don't be foolish but understand what the will of God is.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">To find God's will~ Kill mine.</span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Lay down what I want.</span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Until we yield ours, we can't find his.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Take all my wants and desires and lay them down..............................</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">His will is perfect for us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Tommy said, " It scares us because we have not grasped the truth that God the father wants more for us then we do".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So I walk out of church, go home and be crabby. Why? Because I don't get it. Because I'm frustrated.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">When I look at myself, when I examine the Amy within, I am not laying down my will.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> I don't know how, or what that means...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I do all these wrong things, my heart is ugly. <em>Am I even saved??!</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So last night, I email my pastor out of frustration. My poor friend Tommy............I just let it all out. All my frustrations and questions.............why didn't anyone have any answers for me and was he planning on explaining the "how to's" next weeks sermon? lol</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> (Which by the way is our "friends day" for people to come check out our church, so please come! Unless, you don't like convicting sermons, then you may want to stay home. lol)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So, last night, I pull out a book, (that a frind from church gave me over a year ago and I never read it) out of my kitchen hutch (where I stash important things that I am not using), and I open it up and start reading it. It's about Agape love.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I start reading about this women and how she was so moody and crabby and her thoughts controlled her, and..........Is this book about <span style="color: #674ea7;"><em><strong>me</strong></em></span>?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The random page I'm reading leads me to Chapter 14, Which is "Eight steps to survival". It's eight steps to surviving, from......................Sin............</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I decided since this is not my book and I shouldn't write and highlight in it to make copies of the entire chapter. So I did that last night.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Then this morning I began reading it............</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">and <strong>the fog cleared</strong>..............</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Finally! Praise Jesus, God finally broke through the steel trap and I understand!!!!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The reason that I did not have God's fruit was <u><strong><span style="color: #990000;">because I was not laying down my will! I was not laying my life down for him.</span></strong></u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Boy, do I feel like an idiot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">All these years, thinking I am living for Christ, and I was living for ME! I thought I was following him, but really, I was following no one but my own selfish stupid will!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I can't help but throw my hands up and say, Why? Why didn't anyone explain this to me years ago? OR........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Why was I so blind to this but yet thought I loved God?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Laying down your life/will for God is not about morning devotions. It's not about going to church on Sundays, it's not about doing bible studies, It's not about ANY of that!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">(These <em>ARE</em> good things, that we <em>should</em> be doing, they do help you grow, but they are not what brings forth the fruit)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">It's about giving up EVERYTHING you want, for EVERYTHING HE WANTS. It's about letting your dreams, your plans, your wants.........your comfort..............<span style="color: #cc0000;">DIE.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><em><strong><u>Like he did.........On the cross..........for you and I.</u></strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">What does that look like?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Being a living sacrifice for God. Basically instead of killing an animal as a sin sacrifice like they did in the old testament, you are IT, but you are alive. lol. You sacrifice yourself, your life, while your living.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We Deny ourselves~ denying our "justified" feelings, our rights, our frustrations, our offenses, and our hurts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We set aside our our own thoughts, emotions and desires. We <em>deny ourselves</em>, our will, and <em>live God's will.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We cannot be God's disciples unless we are willing to lay everything down. We don't have to "feel" like it, but we are willing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">When we are mad, or upset and want to blow up at someone, or ignore them, or stonewall them, or pay them back for their wrongs, we need to ask ourselves~</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">"Am I really more concerned with doing God's will in my life then I am my own happiness?"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">What would Jesus do in this situation?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We have to be WILLING to to obey God's will, no matter what he tells us to do, no matter how we feel, no matter what we think, no matter what we want. We are to get up and be willing to do exactly what God has asked us to do. (<em>THEN</em> we start to look like Christ!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">God is asking us to set aside our own emotional responses and choose to act totally out of faith.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We have to TRUST God that when we follow HIS will, he will fill us with his peace and strength, and FRUIT. If we trust him, give it to him, and let him flow through us, not let our emotions flow through us, but HIM, He shines. Jesus shows through in us. His light shines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">That if we let <em><strong>HIM</strong></em> live through us, we will produce the fruit. Can I get a big AMEN here sisters??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><strong><em>This</em></strong> is how Christians shine Jesus light, this is how we become more like him, we allow him to live through us, by laying down our will.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><em><strong>This</strong></em> is how marriages are saved.......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><em><strong>This </strong></em>is how others come to Christ..........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Now, I'm sure not saying this is going to be an easy task for me, I know very well it's not. So if you just read this, please lift me up in prayer! Daily! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">But I feel a relief that my eyes have finally been opened to really understand what It means to lay my life and my will down, and do God's will. To carry my cross, to die to self..............</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">to be <a href="http://www.iamsecond.com/">SECOND</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Second to God and second to everyone else..........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The song. At your feet, by Casting Crowns. We've been listening to this song at bible study for weeks, sure, I love the song and enjoyed worshipping him with it, but now, this song has so much more meaning to me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I lay my life down.......at HIS feet.</span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yT6lFcM-Fv8?fs=1" width="459"></iframe></div>Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07861336100373921677noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003604695799352263.post-70685655309346607992011-09-01T07:59:00.000-05:002011-09-01T07:59:33.884-05:00Children are gifts.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div closure_uid_uiqxs1="136" closure_uid_vz8t03="138" style="text-align: center;"><span closure_uid_uiqxs1="107" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">This morning I was doing my usual waste of time checking facebook and have been seeing lots of posts yesterday and today about kids going back to school that just plain make me sad for the kids.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Things like this~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_uiqxs1="174" closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span closure_uid_uiqxs1="168" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Twas the night before school started, when all through the town, the parents were cheering, it was a riotous sound! By eight, kids were washed & tucked into bed . . when memories of homework filled them with dread! New pencils, new folders, new notebooks, too! New teachers/new friends, their anxiety grew! The parents just giggled when they learned of this fright & shouted GO TO BED, IT'S A SCHOOL NIGHT!..."</span></span></div><div closure_uid_uiqxs1="173" closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_uiqxs1="171" closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And.........</span></span></div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_uiqxs1="181" closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><span class="messageBody" closure_uid_vz8t03="123" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span closure_uid_uiqxs1="172" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Back to reality! No more beach, pools and hearing mom every five seconds!!!"</span></span></div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><span class="messageBody" closure_uid_vz8t03="123" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">And mom's talking about new schedules, new lives, time to themselves.............</span></span></div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><span class="messageBody" closure_uid_vz8t03="123" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I am not judging, my heart is just aching for the children......What about the children and their hearts and souls??</span></span></div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><span class="messageBody" closure_uid_vz8t03="123" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Why is it that parents are more concerned about "their" time, and serving others, and training others, when they have these little souls that need them?</span></span></div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><span class="messageBody" closure_uid_vz8t03="123" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I am so confused by this mentality.</span></span></div><div closure_uid_uiqxs1="186" closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><span class="messageBody" closure_uid_vz8t03="123" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span closure_uid_uiqxs1="184" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><u>I am not saying if you send your kids to school there is something wrong with that</u>, but when I see parents that can't wait to get rid of their kids and get back to their own lives, that makes me so sad inside.</span></span></div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><span class="messageBody" closure_uid_vz8t03="123" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">God gave us these children, they are little gifts, not something that is an inconvenience to us and a pain for us to take care of and we'd rather just ship them off somewhere else so we don't have to deal with it.</span></span></div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><span class="messageBody" closure_uid_vz8t03="123" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span closure_uid_uiqxs1="187" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I wonder how that makes God feel that we think his gifts are a burden and we'd rather shoo them off somewhere else so we can get on with our important lives. Honestly, what could be more important then training up these little people and loving on them, and giving up our precious time for them?</span></span></div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><span class="messageBody" closure_uid_vz8t03="123" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Is anything more important then these gifts?</span></span></div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><span class="messageBody" closure_uid_vz8t03="123" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The world is just so messed up. It's heartbreaking to me.</span></span></div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><span class="messageBody" closure_uid_vz8t03="123" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Before you think I am on a high horse because I home school, please remember, my oldest son went off to public high school today. I watched him walk to the bus stop with tear filled eyes, wishing he wanted to home school. </span></span></div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><span class="messageBody" closure_uid_vz8t03="123" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span closure_uid_uiqxs1="188" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I am not a high and mighty mom sitting here thinking I am all that. Most days I am feeling like a failure of a mom. But my heart breaks when I hear mom's just happy to move on with their lives. Happy that their kids are off to spend 8 hours with someone else.</span></span></div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><span class="messageBody" closure_uid_vz8t03="123" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I fully agree with the words of Ann Voskamp ~</span></span></div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_uiqxs1="189" closure_uid_vz8t03="111" style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="messageBody" closure_uid_vz8t03="123" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">"So to say from the outset, that I do not think in any way that homeschooling makes a family virtuous — and there are other very good options to homeschooling.</span></span><span class="messageBody" closure_uid_vz8t03="123" data-ft="{"type":3}"></span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em></em></span></div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="155" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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</em></div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="126" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>"the problem today is that ‘parenthood is no longer lasting as long as childhood‘ — that our children need parents to be intimately involved, moment-by-moment, not till they are only four years old and leave home for school and possible peer dependency, but they need us to be parents until they are fourteen years old and older…. “We need to hold on to our children and help them hold on to us. We need to hold on to them until our work is done,” writes Dr. Neufeld“We need to hold on, not to hold them back but so that they can venture forth.”</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em></em></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: center;"><em><br />
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</em></div><div closure_uid_uiqxs1="191" closure_uid_vz8t03="127" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>Where two or three are gathered, there He is also. What I love most about the homeschooling lifestyle is that we are all together, in all our glorious mess, day in and day out. We are not time-torn or fragmented. We are gathered. There is no dichotomy between God and secular: we are making a one-piece life. This works for us. We are real, transparent, and growing –sometimes painfully– with each other, season upon season, and God is in the center, bathing us sin-scraped ones with His Grace. That’s rich."</em></span></div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="127" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="127" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Our children are only young for such a short time. </span></div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="127" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">My prayer is that moms and dads would take these children for the gifts that they are and love them every second of their little lives. That they would want to pour their lives into these babies while they can. The rest can wait. You will have "your time" when they are grown.</span></div><div closure_uid_vz8t03="127" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div>Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07861336100373921677noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003604695799352263.post-56610525177708022342011-08-31T19:53:00.000-05:002011-08-31T19:53:43.508-05:00He speaks through others<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div closure_uid_my8erf="137"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I just have to share.</span></div><br />
<div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">About an hour ago, I was on the couch, with my husband. Crying. Feeling utterly overwhelmed. Trying to figure out how I am going to organize, get ready, do school, be mom, be a wife, keep up with the kids, the house, the cleaning, the laundry, devotions, dishes, dogs..............How do I do it all alone?</span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I took my pity party to the computer and opened up this blog~</span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><br />
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</div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span closure_uid_my8erf="156" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and <em closure_uid_my8erf="159"><strong>He</strong></em> spoke.</span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span closure_uid_my8erf="161" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Your not alone. Your feelings are normal. Everything is OK and will be OK. Calm down. Look at <strong><em>Me</em></strong>. Keep your eyes on <em><strong>Me</strong></em>. Be thankful. Rest in <em><strong>Me</strong></em>. </span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span closure_uid_my8erf="167" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh God.</span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's hard.</span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span closure_uid_my8erf="168" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The last few weeks I've been trying to "figure it all out" , how will I do school, what do we need to change with our schedules to make it work, how do I organize, what circ do we use, how do I get Ben to behave, what am I doing wrong, why am I not a better wife and mother, Is there enough hours in the day for all I need to do? </span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span closure_uid_my8erf="168" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Am I enough? </span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span closure_uid_my8erf="168" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Can I do it all?</span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">God never fails me. </span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This morning my devotional said~</span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Weak ones like me must live by faith......</span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">depending on him.......</span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span closure_uid_my8erf="169" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>to get me through the day.</u></span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span closure_uid_my8erf="170" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He wants me to lean on <strong><em>HIM</em></strong> continually......</span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span closure_uid_my8erf="171" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">trusting <em><strong>him</strong></em> to guide and strengthen me............</span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and what do I do? Turn around and try to figure it all out myself. Ask my husband for help.......</span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span closure_uid_my8erf="172" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When who I need is <em><strong>HIM</strong></em>.</span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><span closure_uid_my8erf="173" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I need constant reminders, who I need is <em><strong>HIM</strong></em>. Only <strong><em>HE</em></strong> can give me what I need on a daily basis.</span></div><div closure_uid_my8erf="134"><br />
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