tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24386090949384113442024-03-05T16:50:08.430-06:00The TrekLa_tigresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101095788439199059noreply@blogger.comBlogger365125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438609094938411344.post-80214486431397289572018-07-29T17:17:00.001-05:002018-07-29T17:17:58.299-05:00ThrillingToday the word is thrilling...<br />
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it been a thrilling time the 50 days trying to write something meaningful.... I am taking a break, well let me be honest I might not write again here. If I do those of you who follow my blog will see it and those on Facebook will see the link to it... until then,,,<br />
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God Bless You All!<br />
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<br />La_tigresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101095788439199059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438609094938411344.post-58575783252684760202018-07-28T12:00:00.000-05:002018-07-28T12:00:02.278-05:00Keen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.7pt;">Definition of </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.7pt;">keen</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">1a</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;"> <b>: </b>intellectually
alert <b>: </b>having or characteristic of a quick penetrating
mind </span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">b</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;"> <b>: </b>extremely sensitive
in perception </span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">c</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;"> <b>: </b>sharply <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contest#h1"><span style="color: windowtext;">contested</span></a> </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">2a </span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">(1) <b>: </b>showing a quick
and <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ardent"><span style="color: windowtext;">ardent</span></a> responsiveness <b>: </b><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enthusiastic"><span style="color: windowtext; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">enthusiastic</span></a> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">(2) <b>: </b><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eager"><span style="color: windowtext; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">eager</span></a> </span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">b</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;"> <i>of emotion or feeling</i> <b>: </b><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intense"><span style="color: windowtext; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">intense</span></a></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">3: </span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;"><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wonderful"><span style="color: windowtext; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">wonderful</span></a>, <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/excellent"><span style="color: windowtext; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">excellent</span></a> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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or point <b>: </b><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sharp"><span style="color: windowtext; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">sharp</span></a> </span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">b</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;"> <b>: </b>affecting one as if
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sense </span><b><span style="color: #3b3e41; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">: </span></b><span style="color: #3b3e41; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">very enthusiastic or excited about </span></div>
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This word is not found in any of the translations of the bible that I would use on a regular basis. I did find it in a few of the paraphrased versions like the J.B. Phillips and The Message. When looking at the definition "eager" is a synonym for the word so there is the definition I will go with today.</div>
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<span class="text Phil-3-20" id="en-NKJV-29442" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"For <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29442E" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29442E" title="See cross-reference E">E</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>our citizenship is in heaven, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29442F" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29442F" title="See cross-reference F">F</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>from which we also <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29442G" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29442G" title="See cross-reference G">G</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, </span><span class="text Phil-3-21" id="en-NKJV-29443" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">who will transform our lowly body that it may be <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29443I" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29443I" title="See cross-reference I">I</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>conformed to His glorious body, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29443J" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29443J" title="See cross-reference J">J</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>according to the working by which He is able even to <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29443K" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29443K" title="See cross-reference K">K</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>subdue all things to Himself." Philippians 3:20-21</span></blockquote>
I saw a post on Facebook yesterday that kind of upset me even though I know the character of the person who said it and I understand where they are coming from.... Here is the post...<br />
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Why did I mention this post when the verse above speaks to be eager to be transformed and Christ subduing all things to Himself... If you look at the scriptures prior to those:<br />
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<span class="text Phil-3-17" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Brethren, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29439AE" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29439AE" title="See cross-reference AE">AE</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29439AF" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29439AF" title="See cross-reference AF">AF</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>you have us for a pattern. </span><span class="text Phil-3-18" id="en-NKJV-29440" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">that they are</i> <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29440AG" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29440AG" title="See cross-reference AG">AG</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>the enemies of the cross of Christ: </span><span class="text Phil-3-19" id="en-NKJV-29441" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">whose end <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">is</i> destruction, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29441AI" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29441AI" title="See cross-reference AI">AI</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>whose god <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">is their</i> belly, and <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29441AJ" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29441AJ" title="See cross-reference AJ">AJ</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">whose</i> glory <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">is</i> in their shame—<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29441AK" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29441AK" title="See cross-reference AK">AK</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>who set their mind on earthly things. Philippians 3:17-19</span></blockquote>
Paul is saying to look at him and others who have set a pattern not the enemies of the cross of Christ. I am in no way saying that the person who posted this is one of those people. They need my love and prayers as much as anyone else... But I eagerly wait for a time when I don't have to feel belittled for being a Christian by my friends, I long for a time when my praying is not ridiculed, I long for a time when Christians will stop being hypocrites (even me). I am eager for Christ to return so that there will be peace in the world and we can live life for a 1000 years as it was supposed to be in the beginning.<br />
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As I eagerly wait for the Lord's return, I want to live an abundant life here. I have friends who challenge my Christianity, I am eagerly wishing to show them the Christ I know, because it seems they haven't seen the real Christ! I long to witness to the world and put forth the "Word of Truth" even if I don't do it well because I know that God said this about His Word...<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">void</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">in the thing </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">for which I sent it." Isaiah 55:11</span></blockquote>
I am eager for heaven, I also want to see where this life leads me. I want to eagerly share the gospel with my friends and family, which I hope leads to all of us eagerly waiting for the Lords return.<br />
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I hope I am making sense... not sure I am today!<br />
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Thanks for Reading. God Bless You All!<br />
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<span class="text 1Tim-2-3" id="en-NKJV-29720" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">For this <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">is</i> <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29720C" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29720C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>good and acceptable in the sight <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29720D" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29720D" title="See cross-reference D">D</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>of God our Savior,</span><span class="text 1Tim-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29721" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29721E" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29721E" title="See cross-reference E">E</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>who desires all men to be saved <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29721F" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29721F" title="See cross-reference F">F</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>and to come to the knowledge of the truth.</span><span class="text 1Tim-2-5" id="en-NKJV-29722" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29722G" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29722G" title="See cross-reference G">G</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>For <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">there is</i> one God and <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29722H" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29722H" title="See cross-reference H">H</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>one Mediator between God and men, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">the</i> Man Christ Jesus,</span><span class="text 1Tim-2-6" id="en-NKJV-29723" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29723I" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29723I" title="See cross-reference I">I</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time,</span><span class="text 1Tim-2-7" id="en-NKJV-29724" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29724J" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29724J" title="See cross-reference J">J</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am speaking the truth in Christ <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">and</i> not lying—<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29724K" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29724K" title="See cross-reference K">K</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. 1 Timothy 2:3-7</span></blockquote>
I know that a ransom and a bounty are not really the same thing but I am going to treat them as such. Jesus paid the bounty for our wayward hearts to be turned to God. No one in this world is forced to turn their hearts around and give them over to God. Yet He still paid the bounty for us. And once we accept the gift the bounty becomes the ransom, or the retribution for our sins.<br />
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After I accept the payment I can live on in this world the way I want to. God would hope that it would be in a manner that is pleasing to Him, but He still doesn't "force" that on us. Paul says...<br />
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<span class="text Rom-6-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">What shall we say then? <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28070A" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28070A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? </span><span class="text Rom-6-2" id="en-NKJV-28071" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Certainly not! How shall we who <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28071B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28071B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>died to sin live any longer in it? </span><span class="text Rom-6-3" id="en-NKJV-28072" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Or do you not know that <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28072C" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28072C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28072D" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28072D" title="See cross-reference D">D</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>were baptized into His death? </span><span class="text Rom-6-4" id="en-NKJV-28073" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Therefore we were <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28073E" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28073E" title="See cross-reference E">E</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>buried with Him through baptism into death, that <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28073F" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28073F" title="See cross-reference F">F</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>just as Christ was raised from the dead by <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28073G" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28073G" title="See cross-reference G">G</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>the glory of the Father, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28073H" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28073H" title="See cross-reference H">H</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>even so we also should walk in newness of life. Romans 6: 1-4</span></blockquote>
We should want to live a life that is pleasing to God, in honor of the unimaginable gift that was given to us. I lived a season away from God, He wasn't the one who "left", I was! I knew He was still right there with me, and I knew He saw me, I even prayed to Him sometimes. I just didn't live a life even remotely pleasing to Him or myself for that matter. It wasn't that I was living terribly bad, I just was not where I needed to be with God. I let my relationship with Him fall away.<br />
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My life today is still not where I would like it to be in regard to Christ, I am working on it. I am trying to live a life that is worthy of the sacrifice that was made, even though I don't have to and could never meet the requirements. That is why Christ paid the bounty and my retribution for me! I am so Thankful He did!<br />
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<br />La_tigresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101095788439199059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438609094938411344.post-71050463715559326882018-07-25T09:38:00.000-05:002018-07-25T09:38:11.364-05:00Secure<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are so many different ways to think of the word secure. I can talk about being secure in my salvation, secure in the way I think about myself, or feeling safe and secure in my home... the list could go on. </div>
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This is an easy word to talk about and yet at times it is so hard to feel secure. There is one way I have felt secure and never doubted, and that is the security I feel in my salvation. I can say I have never doubted that I am saved, and will spend eternity with my Lord. I have doubted that I am worthy to do the work He has set before me or doubted my own faith to let Him have control of my life, I have never doubt His word that I am His and will live with Him eternally. It has been 46 years since I gave my life to Christ, I have not always lived like it but I have never doubted what He did for me. </div>
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I have on the other hand not been secure in other things, that has already been established in many of my other posts. I don't trust others or myself very much, so how could I be secure. I am not paranoid, but I am very watchful, even of those closest to me. Because in my life those closest to me have usually been the ones to hurt me (and others) the most. What needs to happen is for me to get my act together and be secure in myself so the others are no longer an issue. </div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Let your</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> conduct <i>be</i> without covetousness; <i>be</i> content
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “The <span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> <i>is</i> my helper; I
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Have you ever heard or seen the acronym F.R.O.G: "Fully Rely On God"? If I would do this I should be able to say everyday in every way... <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “The <span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> <i>is</i> my helper; I will not fear. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What can man do to me?”</span><br />
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I need to get to the point that I am secure enough to do that... working on it!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">For we are </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29240C" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29240C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10</span></blockquote>
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Does this Mooka look secure in the Tipple??? If you know what I am talking about then you must know about Zentangle! </blockquote>
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Have you ever heard the phrase... "can we agree to disagree"? That is the way I feel when I write this blog. I know there are people who read this that do not agree with the statements I make, there are also some who do agree. I hope and pray that maybe at least when it comes to believing in Christ that the words I write may help those that don't believe to have a small question that grows into belief. That wasn't the originally intention for this blog though... </div>
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I started this blog 4 years ago because I want to do something I thought was of worth to me and would help me share who I am with the world, not that the world wants to know but I needed to begin to open up. I was also asking my students to write blogs and I thought I needed to do it also. I try and put my faith into my writing because everything I do I should do to the Glory of God. I think that some who agree with me are shocked when something about God doesn't show up in my post. Those ideas of God and His character, His love, and His mercy come from my love of Him and my spiritual gift of teaching... a teacher can never stop teaching until they take their last breath... and they may still continue to teach after that!!! Teachers do you AGREE? </div>
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So my question for all of you today... Please answer in the comments below, so I can know what my audience (the 20 to 30) who read daily think and believe! </div>
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Do you agree that Christ lived a perfect life fully God and fully man... laid down His life willing for the world because he loved the world... was buried and on the 3rd day rose from the dead... He was seen by many people then ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father... and He is coming again and we (believers) will live forever with Him in Heaven because of all He did for us? </blockquote>
That is a powerful statement because He is a powerful God. I have nothing to do with that except that I believe it! Do you? Can we agree about that statement's truth? Just so you know I have scriptures to back it up... here are a few for you:<br />
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<span class="text 1Cor-15-3" id="en-NKJV-28722" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span>For <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28722F" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28722F" title="See cross-reference F">F</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>I delivered to you first of all that <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28722G" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28722G" title="See cross-reference G">G</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>which I also received: that Christ died for our sins <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28722H" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28722H" title="See cross-reference H">H</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>according to the Scriptures, </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-4" id="en-NKJV-28723" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28723I" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28723I" title="See cross-reference I">I</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>according to the Scriptures, </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-5" id="en-NKJV-28724" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">and that He was seen by Cephas, then <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28724K" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28724K" title="See cross-reference K">K</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>by the twelve. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-6" id="en-NKJV-28725" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-7" id="en-NKJV-28726" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">After that He was seen by James, then <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28726L" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28726L" title="See cross-reference L">L</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>by all the apostles. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-8" id="en-NKJV-28727" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.</span> </blockquote>
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<br />La_tigresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101095788439199059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438609094938411344.post-39075280223062151752018-07-23T15:50:00.000-05:002018-07-23T15:50:46.263-05:00Jovial<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3e41; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.64px;">Jovial: markedly good-humored especially as evidenced by cheerfulness and conviviality </span></blockquote>
I have to admit I had to look up conviviality... or convivial<br />
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<span class="mw_t_bc" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3b3e41; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 0.64px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3e41; font-family: "open sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.64px;">relating to, occupied with, or fond of feasting, drinking, and good company</span> </blockquote>
So it seems to me that this word has to do with being cheerful and enjoying the company of others, maybe large gatherings. In the beginning of the Church actually in the beginning of life as Israel became a nation... God instituted gatherings or "parties" that were design to worship Him. These feast were to help Israel remember all God had done for them, to allow them time to reflect on their individual lives, and to enjoy the company of friends and family as they worshiped their God.<br />
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It was no different in the beginning of the church, those times to gather meant fellowship, worship, food, and fun. They shared a meal almost every time they gathered to worship and hear the message God sent their way. It was a way for them to learn from God and enjoy the company of their fellow bothers and sisters in Christ.<br />
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The Bible says:<br />
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<span class="text Heb-10-24" id="en-NKJV-30158" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, </span><span class="text Heb-10-25" id="en-NKJV-30159" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">is</i> the manner of some, but exhorting <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">one another,</i> and <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30159B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30159B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>so much the more as you see <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30159C" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30159C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>the Day approaching. " Hebrews 10:24-25</span></blockquote>
I believe that being together with brother's and sisters in Christ helps us to grow and be productive members of the body of Christ. We should be cheerful and good-humored so we can build up the other members of the body. We were not meant to be alone.<br />
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With that in mind, Christ also teaches us a lesson about how we should live our lives with and without the "group". So many times Jesus is with His disciples teaching them about the ways to love and honor God as well as loving and respecting each other. He had gatherings that 5000 men attended and was comfortable in that group. Shortly, after that gathering he left with His disciples only, so His group became smaller. A little after that He went to the mountain alone to pray. On the night of His betrayal, Christ started the day with throngs of people worshiping Him in the streets, then had dinner with His disciples. He left the dinner with 11 of His disciples to go to the garden and pray, He asked 3 of them to come deeper into the garden with Him. He left them there, asking them to pray with Him as He went alone deeper into the garden. There are times when we need to be in a group and be jovial! there are times when we need to get alone, and remember, that in those times when Jesus chose to separated Himself, He was not alone. In those times, His Father and the spirit were right there with Him. They are right there with us as we are alone, Jesus is there too!<br />
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I think being jovial, and getting out with friends is very important. I also believe there is a time maybe even a season when being alone is what is needed. Paul spent at least 3 years alone learning from Christ after his conversion...<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">For </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29070P" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29070P" title="See cross-reference P">P</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I neither received it from man, nor was I taught </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">it,</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> but </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">it came</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29070Q" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29070Q" title="See cross-reference Q">Q</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">through the revelation of Jesus Christ.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="text Gal-1-17" id="en-NKJV-29075" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">who were</i> apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus. </span><span class="text Gal-1-18" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Then after three years <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29076AA" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29076AA" title="See cross-reference AA">AA</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and remained with him fifteen days. </span><span class="text Gal-1-19" id="en-NKJV-29077" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">But <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29077AB" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29077AB" title="See cross-reference AB">AB</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>I saw none of the other apostles except <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29077AC" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29077AC" title="See cross-reference AC">AC</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>James, the Lord’s brother.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> Galatians 1:11, 17-19</span></blockquote>
So being alone is a good thing if it is being used in the right way. I would love to be jovial, I am not that type of person. I can be in a crowd or group, I can even go to a party, but I feel so out of place. I do spend time with others.... sometimes. I need to do it more often. If you can be jovial go for it, but also remember some alone time is needed also!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I will sing to the Lord, Because He has dealt </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">bountiful</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">ly with me. Psalm 13:6</span></blockquote>
God gives to us with a generous heart and is bountiful in all that He does for us. He love is wonderfully abundant and we should praise Him for all that He does for us. Yes, it is hard to remember this all the time, that is something we should strive for.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">it</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> more </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">abundant</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">ly. John 10:10</span></blockquote>
His word tells us that our abundant life can be stolen by a thief... Satan. He messes with Christians all the time trying to keep us from being joyful, peaceful, and loving. He doesn't want us to be a witness to the bountiful love of our Lord. He wants us to live a defeated life, one that is no good to us or anyone else. So many times this happens to be. I have a melancholy spirit, much like I think David did. Someone told me the other day that they thought all creative people are that way. I would agree, my emotions and spirit tend to drive my "art" and music. I need God's Spirit to have more control in my life so I can live abundantly and show His love and generosity to the world through my life and "art"! <br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">But this </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I say:</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">bountiful</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">ly will also reap </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">bountiful</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">ly. 2 Corinthians 9:6</span></blockquote>
There is something we can do to help the abundant life to flow more in our lives... We need to sow (plant), love, goodness, joy, peace, happiness, and gentleness into the lives around us and as a result we will reap the same things only more bountifully!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">pressed</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">down</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you." Luke 6:38</span></blockquote>
God owns everything in the world, He created or allowed it to be created for our good. He wants our lives to be filled with the good things of this world. I want to live an abundant life. What about you? I think if we start loving others we can live that abundant life. I for one am tired of Satan messing with my life... I have to start telling Him to leave me alone realizing that He is NOT the author and finisher of my faith and should not be able to steal my bounty!<br />
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La_tigresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101095788439199059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438609094938411344.post-63189743266624561132018-07-21T09:06:00.000-05:002018-07-21T09:08:44.145-05:00CreativeI have written about this word a number of times. God created us in His image, He was creative and as a result so are we. I think in the course of our lives, of growing up some of us lose that. We need to learn to nurture it in our children and let it flow.<br />
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I am a teacher, I believe in constructivism, before you say that isn't a word...<br />
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In my mine constructive learning involves creativity. Children who can be creative can can learn from the world around them in a very different way. Many times as adults we want to put children in a box called "little adult" which makes them lose the creative fire in themselves. We want them to always sit still and be quite when learning, but that is not how children (or anyone) learn. We learn from doing! We learn visually, verbally, and kinesthetically! People use all of these learning styles to one degree or another, one is usually more predominate. We need to allow children to keep the spark of creativity by allowing them to explore learning in this way. I think if we allow this we will have more creative future adults.<br />
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This does not mean that we always have to let them run around and cause disturbances in a classroom (or other places) because they are kids. They do need to learn some boundaries, they also need to have time to be creative... As Miss Frizzle would say...<br />
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I try to be creative everyday in some way. Just as I try to learn something new everyday. Today will be no different... I spent some time right before writing this block practicing and learning about lettering. There are a lot of "zentangle" patterns that I have never tried, I will work on some of those when I can. I want my mind to expand in my retirement not to stop working! So I plan to be creative. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.7pt;">Definition of </span><span style="color: black; font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 0.7pt;">support</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.7pt;"> (verb)<br /><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">supported</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">; <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">supporting</span><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">1: </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">to hold
up or in position <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">: </span>serve
as a foundation or prop for </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">2: </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">to take
sides with <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">: </span></span><span style="color: black; font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">favor</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">3: </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">to
provide evidence for <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">: </span></span><span style="color: black; font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">verify</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">4: </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">to pay
the costs of <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">: </span></span><span style="color: black; font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">maintain</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">5: </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">to keep
going <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">: </span></span><span style="color: black; font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">sustain</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">6: </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">to
provide help or encouragement to<br /><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.7pt;">Definition of </span><span style="color: black; font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 0.7pt;">support</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.7pt;"> (noun)</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">1: </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">the act
of supporting <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">: </span>the
condition of being supported<br /><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2: </span></span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">someone
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Supporting, anyway you look at this word it means to help in some way or fashion, from being a foundation to just a little nudge of help. When Paul was teaching in Rome he had these words to say...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text"><span style="color: black;">For if the first fruit <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">is</i> holy, the lump <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">is</i> also <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">holy;</i> and
if the root <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">is</i> holy, so <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">are</i> the branches. </span><span id="en-NKJV-28227" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">And if some of the branches were broken off, and
you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became
a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, </span><span id="en-NKJV-28228" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">do not boast against the branches. <u>But if you do boast, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">remember that</i> you do not support the
root, but the root <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">supports</i> you.</u></span>
You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” </span><span id="en-NKJV-28230" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Well <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">said.</i> Because
of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be
haughty, but fear. </span><span id="en-NKJV-28231" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not
spare you either. </span><span id="en-NKJV-28232" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Therefore, consider the goodness and severity of God: on those
who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">His</i> goodness. Otherwise you also
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These verses are talking about the Gentiles (us) being allowed into the family of God. There were branches broken off because of unbelief, those in Israel who did not believe that Jesus is the Son of God. The wild olive tree were the Gentiles who were believing in faith. They had not been witness to the events but believed anyway. Paul was reminding them that the root, the foundation was Jesus and that they had nothing to do with their salvation, He did. They could still be cutoff if they did not live in His goodness. That doesn't mean that they no longer would have salvation but that they would not have or feel the support of the root any longer. <br />
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God does not need us to do anything here on the earth. He does not need our support. He is our support. Yet, I think he wants us to be willing to "support" His family, to be willing to be the tool He uses to provide the support He gives. That may be in the form of just a prayer, a kind word, maybe buying groceries for a needy person, or just giving a hug. Whatever way you help God support someone, it helps to deepen your graft into the tree, where the root can support you more.<br />
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I hope this makes sense... I really didn't know where to go with this word, because it is one of those obvious words... There is a negative side to supporting someone but I didn't want to go there.<br />
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<br />La_tigresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101095788439199059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438609094938411344.post-42717900688332371142018-07-19T08:24:00.000-05:002018-07-19T08:24:06.445-05:00BeautifulTwo days in a row... not exactly the same word but... I promise the words are randomly generated...really they are! 😊<div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Praise the Lord! For </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">it is</i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> good to sing praises to our God; For </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">it is </i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">pleasant, </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">and</i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> praise is </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">beautiful</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">. Psalm 147:1</span></span></blockquote>
Praise is beautiful! When I was doing the word a day thing a few years ago I pick <a href="http://wordquotedrawingdaily.blogspot.com/2013/01/symphony.html" target="_blank">symphony</a> as a word (those were not random). I wrote about how everyone is different and as such, every heart beat is different. I know that my friends who are in the health profession can attest to that. God hears the heart beats of every person on this earth at the same time, and all of those heartbeats come together in harmony to make a wonderful symphony of praise to God! You might wonder if even the "evil" or non-christian heartbeats reach God and the answer would be YES! He longs for ever heart to beat for Him and until that heartbeat stops He will listen intently to its rhythm.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">The Lord is not slack concerning </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">His</i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">to</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">ward us, not willing that any should perish but that </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">all</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> should </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">come </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">to</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">repentance</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">. 2 Peter 3:9</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">He has made everything </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">beautiful</span><span style="background-color: white;"> in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11</span></span></blockquote>
He has made everything beautiful in its time.... even me? Yes would be the answer to that question. I need to believe that more. Not to think I am beautiful or anything in a conceited way, but to remember He doesn't make junk! Everything in this world has beauty of some kind... this is probably going to sound crazy, but that pile of poo on the ground will decay and fertilize the ground in a way that maybe a beautiful flower or some luscious green grass will grow. As a result the poo has become beautiful...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-13-45" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls,</span> </span><span class="text Matt-13-46" id="en-NKJV-23586" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">who, when he had found</span> <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-23586AU" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-23586AU" title="See cross-reference AU">AU</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it." Matthew 13:45-46</span></span></span></blockquote>
I believe this parable could have two meanings... in light of the previous verse from Ecclesiastes... "He has put eternity in their hearts"... we seek something to fill the God shaped hole in our lives... when we find it we will do anything to get it! In light of God, he also seeks us, He wants our beautiful hearts to beat for Him, and he will search for us until He finds us.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">beautiful</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!” Romans 10:15</span></span></blockquote>
People in ministry are beautiful... that doesn't just mean those who preach or teach... all those who bring God's word and love to the world are beautiful. Opening minds and hearts to the beauty of God and His wonderful gift of eternal peace, makes them beautiful. I am so glad there are people like that in this world.<br />
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La_tigresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101095788439199059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438609094938411344.post-47498962025175641752018-07-18T08:31:00.001-05:002018-07-18T08:31:27.991-05:00GlamorousHave you ever started doing something and then realized it isn't really something you want to do??? This is only word number 41 of the 100 words... it seems like I should be done now! This word is not helping the feeling!<br />
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I thought you were not supposed to use a form of the word in the definition of the word... That was what I was taught anyway...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Glamorous<span class="mw_t_bc" style="background-color: white; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; letter-spacing: 0.64px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="color: #3b3e41;">:</b> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; letter-spacing: 0.64px;">full of </span>glamour<span style="background-color: white; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; letter-spacing: 0.64px;"> </span><span class="mw_t_bc" style="background-color: white; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; letter-spacing: 0.64px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; letter-spacing: 0.64px;">excitingly attractive </span></span></blockquote>
So here is how I would have written this definition....<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Glamorous</span><span class="mw_t_bc" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; letter-spacing: 0.64px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #3b3e41;">:</span> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; letter-spacing: 0.64px;">full of an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness; full of romantic, exciting, and often misleading attractiveness</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; letter-spacing: 0.64px;"><span style="color: #3b3e41; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">;</span><span style="color: #3b3e41; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> full of a magic spell</span></span></blockquote>
All I did was take the definition of glamour and fit it into the definition of Glamorous; so, when we tell someone that are glamorous we are really saying you have fake or misleading beauty! And Glamour Magazine is full of ideas on how to be glamorous. Can you tell glamorous is not a word I use often, or even like? I think we give to much power to the outward appearance of people. Not that being beautiful or looking good is a bad thing, but who we are is NOT what is on the outside, or at least it shouldn't be.<br />
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<span class="text Isa-53-2" id="en-NKJV-18714" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Isa-53-2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">And as a root out of dry ground.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Isa-53-2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">He has no form or comeliness;</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Isa-53-2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">And when we see Him,</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Isa-53-2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">There is</i> no beauty that we should desire Him.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Isa-53-3" id="en-NKJV-18715" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; left: -4.4em; line-height: 22px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-18715B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-18715B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>He is despised and rejected by men,</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Isa-53-3" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">A Man of sorrows and <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-18715C" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-18715C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>acquainted with grief.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Isa-53-3" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">And we hid, as it were, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">our</i> faces from Him;</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Isa-53-3" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">He was despised, and <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-18715D" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-18715D" title="See cross-reference D">D</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>we did not esteem Him. Isaiah 53:2-3</span></blockquote>
Jesus was not buff (no form), He did not stand out from the crowds (comeliness), and He was not good looking (beauty) by that day's standard. According to these verses he was an average person.<br />
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When the Jews decided they wanted a king, that God was not enough to lead and protect them, that they wanted to be like the other nations... they chose Saul...<br />
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<span class="text 1Sam-9-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">There was a man of Benjamin whose name <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">was</i> <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-7393A" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-7393A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>Kish the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power. </span><span class="text 1Sam-9-2" id="en-NKJV-7394" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span>And he had a choice and handsome son whose name <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">was</i> Saul. <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">There was</i> not a more handsome person than he among the children of Israel. <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-7394B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-7394B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>From his shoulders upward <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">he was</i> taller than any of the people.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">1 Samuel 9:1-2</span></blockquote>
He was taller than any other person and was good looking. But when God chose a king for them he was...<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">But the </span><span class="small-caps divine-name" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> said to Samuel, </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-7603K" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-7603K" title="See cross-reference K">K</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">refused him. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">For</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> does</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> not </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">see</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> as man sees; for man </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-7603M" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-7603M" title="See cross-reference M">M</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">looks at the outward appearance, but the </span><span class="small-caps divine-name" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> looks at the </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-7603N" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-7603N" title="See cross-reference N">N</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">heart.” </span> </blockquote>
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David was "good-looking" but in a boyish way. I think the difference in these two is their attitude toward their looks and their God. Saul knew he was big, strong, and handsome... David loved the Lord and didn't worry about what people thought of him. Saul knew the Lord but didn't "know" or trust Him, David was a friend of God!<br />
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I know a lot of Beautiful people! I am going to name some here, I am not name dropping or praising them, they are beautiful outwardly... the thing is I think they are also wonderfully beautiful on the inside and if you have or do ever meet them you will see that also. My daughter is beautiful, just like my mother was, she has a good heart. <a href="http://nitawhitaker.com/" target="_blank">Nita Whitaker</a> is beautiful, I graduated from High School with her, she has a beautiful voice, and a wonderful attitude. Shelby is another person I know, that I am naming (she will probably want to kill me), because she is beautiful outwardly and she should be modeling... but her outward beauty is nothing compared to the beauty she holds in her true being... I could continue to name beautiful people but I don't want to jeopardize my friendships (T)...<br />
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Beauty is wonderful, God made all things beautiful! Even a platypus is beautiful in some way. He doesn't look on the outward beauty of a person. That glamorous shell is nothing compared to the inward beauty of a person. There are so many people in this world that are glamorous on the outside but they are so very horrid on the inside. So, looks can be very deceiving!<br />
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I know I am not "beautiful" outwardly, I have been told that many times! I think I have a good attitude, once I let it show. Those walls I have built are strong and hard to knock down... I want to be able to show the Love of my Lord, to all around me, and share His goodness and beauty with the world. Maybe some day...<br />
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Thanks for reading! God Bless You All!<br />
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Enjoy this song sung by Nita Whitaker, it is one of my favorites....<br />
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This was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the word for today. If we think about it John was wishing for a world just like the world that is promised in the millennial reign of Christ. There will be a heaven and hell still but there will be peace, no religion, no possessions, and no death or sickness. I wonder if he knew that was what he was describing. It is a possibility, he was an intelligent man.<br />
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I can't wait for that time, I am so tired of the wars and battles that are fought today. Not just the big ones that effect our lives on a global scale, but all the little ones we face personally everyday. I am not going to post Revelations 20, it is long and you can ready it by following <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+20&version=NKJV" target="_blank">this link </a>if you want too. At the end of the 1000 years Satan will be allowed to try to turn the hearts of man again... and then will be defeated completely by Jesus. Like I said I can't wait for there to be peace.<br />
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Before the reign of Christ happens there will a time that we either face Jesus because of death or because He calls us out of this world before the time of tribulation. Then what will that be like, what will I do when I come face to face with my Lord and creator. The Bible does give us a hint...<br />
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<span class="text Rev-19-9" id="en-NKJV-31027" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Then he said to me, “Write: <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-31027O" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-31027O" title="See cross-reference O">O</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>‘Blessed <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">are</i> those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’ ” And he said to me, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-31027P" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-31027P" title="See cross-reference P">P</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>“These are the true sayings of God.” </span><span class="text Rev-19-10" id="en-NKJV-31028" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">And <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-31028Q" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-31028Q" title="See cross-reference Q">Q</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-31028R" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-31028R" title="See cross-reference R">R</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>“See <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">that you do</i> not <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">do that!</i> I am your <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-31028S" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-31028S" title="See cross-reference S">S</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>fellow servant, and of your brethren <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-31028T" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-31028T" title="See cross-reference T">T</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-31028U" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-31028U" title="See cross-reference U">U</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Revelation 19:9-10</span></blockquote>
If John, Jesus' closest disciple, fell at His feet and worshiped Him then I am very certain we will also. It seems here to me Jesus is saying "dude, get up... I am a servant just like you, worship my Father not Me!" Our Lord is so cool!<br />
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<span class="text Rev-5-11" id="en-NKJV-30791" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">"Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, </span><span class="text Rev-5-12" id="en-NKJV-30792" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">saying with a loud voice:</span></div>
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<span class="text Rev-5-12" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Rev-5-12" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">To receive power and riches and wisdom,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="text Rev-5-12" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">And strength and honor and glory and blessing!" </span>Revelation 5:11-12</div>
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We will worship... everyone will bow to Christ!<br />
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<span class="text Phil-2-9" id="en-NKJV-29401" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"Therefore God also <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29401Q" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29401Q" title="See cross-reference Q">Q</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>has highly exalted Him and <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29401R" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29401R" title="See cross-reference R">R</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>given Him the name which is above every name, </span><span class="text Phil-2-10" id="en-NKJV-29402" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, </span><span class="text Phil-2-11" id="en-NKJV-29403" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">and <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29403T" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29403T" title="See cross-reference T">T</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">that</i> every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">is</i> Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Philippians 2:9-11</span></blockquote>
Our imaginations can run wild at times, we imagine all sorts of things. Imagining what life will be like with Christ is limitless, timeless, and awesome. I can only imagine what life will be like... much better than here for sure, it will be the world John Lennon spoke of... a world of peace and harmony in the presence of our King, Lord, and God!<br />
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Thanks for reading. God Bless You All!<br />
La_tigresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101095788439199059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438609094938411344.post-63379303361987683422018-07-16T08:18:00.001-05:002018-07-16T08:20:40.044-05:00Reassuring<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Have you ever had
someone with good intentions and well-meaning try to comfort or reassure you
and it be more of a hindrance or seem to cause more issues? I know that I have,
and I have been that person I am sure many times. It can be frustrating to say
the least on both sides of this situation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Bible version I use
does not use the word reassure, a synonym would be comfort I think so I am
going with that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">There is only one thing
that is always reassuring at any point in our lives, and even then, to us it
might not seem as though it really accomplishes that goal. The Word of God is
our comfort, it reassures us and will bring us hope. We only must learn to use
it or allow it to work in the correct way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples
of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please <i>his</i> neighbor
for <i>his</i> good, leading to edification. For even
Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, “The reproaches of
those who reproached You fell on Me.” For whatever things were
written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience
and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. Now may the God of patience
and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ
Jesus, that you may with one mind <i>and</i> one mouth
glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 15:1-6</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I know these verses
speak first about "we who are strong" or "adult"
Christians; I mean mature, maturity in a Christian can be found in any age.
Those who are strong should provide comfort and bear the hesitations or doubt
of those who are weak, but it goes on to say that the word was written for
hope. That when we are like-minded, even if it is awkward, then the patience
and comfort of the Lord through His Word will help us. As a result, we can
Glorify God!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">With the
Bible being alive and speaking in different ways
at different times, by its design (isn't God awesome); sometimes it must stomp
on toes before it can comfort. That is part of edification. See in those verses, there is a very important word.... "learning"! We have to learn from the Word, that is why it was written. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Then there is patience, then
there is comfort. I think that order is important. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into
various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But
let patience have <i>its</i> perfect work, that you may
be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.</span><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If any of
you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and
without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in
faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and
tossed by the wind. </span><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For let not that man suppose
that he will receive anything from the Lord; <i>he is</i> a
double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. James 1:2-8</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I learned at a young age
not to ask for patience in my prayers, because I would get it, but it comes
from trials. To grow as a Christian and to be a comfort or to be
comforted we need patience, and we need to not doubt our God. We can't expect very thing to be simple. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I guess my point is not simple either... If we want to be comforted, or if I want to be a comfort it comes from God's Word. We need to study and allow it to work in our lives in a way that leads to our edification and the edification of others. That may cause us trials before it causes comfort, but no one ever said it would be a cake walk. We should remember that through His Word, God teaches us and allows us to learn to live an abundant life. The key is allowing it to happen... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">One Comfort I have is that God is on my side even if it takes a while to remember it... </span></span><br />
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<br />La_tigresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101095788439199059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438609094938411344.post-36421794191189060132018-07-15T08:07:00.002-05:002018-07-15T08:15:18.537-05:00Rewarding <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Last night, I had the
pleasure of doing something for a friend. I wanted them to get a blessing from
me, but I was the one that was rewarded... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Many times, we look at
the things we do, or others do as obligations. I am not obligated to do anything for anyone. In my mind obligation requires that I have too. It is demanded, at
least for me it does. When we want to be a blessing or do things because we
want to then it is not an obligation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I think when God tells
us to love to others, to use our spiritual gifts, to read His word, to pray, or
to give, He wants us not to give it out of obligation but because it is what we
want to do to bless Him and others. As a result, I think that He rewards those
behaviors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">11 </span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which
is laid, which is Jesus Christ. </span><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">12 </span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Now if
anyone builds on this foundation <i>with</i> gold, silver, precious
stones, wood, hay, straw, </span><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">13 </span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">each one’s
work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will
be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it
is. 1 Corinthians 3:11-13</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I believe that when we
do things to get something in return, or we do them out of obligation our
rewards are different. When we do something like give a gift to get a gift,
there is the reward for giving. If you expect something in return, when you get
it, that is the reward. If you do things because you want to with a heart of
unselfishness you get a reward that cannot be taken away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before
men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your
Father in heaven. Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a
trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets,
that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have
their reward. But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left
hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable deed may be
in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I want to receive my
reward later if I get any at all. The things I do and the people I
"try" to bless mean a lot to me, I do it because I want to not
because I am obligated. I want to have rewarding experiences of giving and
sharing of being blessed because I had fun doing it, not because I am getting
something in return. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Life can be so rewarding
if we stop look for ways to be rewarded. Learn to do things because it is
right, or you want too, not because you must! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />La_tigresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101095788439199059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438609094938411344.post-68478104410076451532018-07-14T07:11:00.001-05:002018-07-14T07:11:23.794-05:00Victory<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span class="text 1John-5-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="chapternum" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; bottom: -0.1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;"> </span>Whoever believes that <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30626A" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30626A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>Jesus is the Christ is <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30626B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30626B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him. </span><span class="text 1John-5-2" id="en-NKJV-30627" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30627C" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30627C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>keep His commandments. </span><span class="text 1John-5-3" id="en-NKJV-30628" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30628E" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30628E" title="See cross-reference E">E</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>His commandments are not burdensome. </span><span class="text 1John-5-4" id="en-NKJV-30629" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>For <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30629F" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30629F" title="See cross-reference F">F</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30629G" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30629G" title="See cross-reference G">G</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>has overcome the world—our faith. </i></span><span class="text 1John-5-5" id="en-NKJV-30630" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Who is he who overcomes the world, but <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30630H" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30630H" title="See cross-reference H">H</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? 1 John 5:1-5</span></blockquote>
Our faith overcomes the world... that is what the verse says... in context it is talking about keeping the commandments and loves others. I believe the commandments spoken of are the two that Christ gave as He walked on the earth...<br />
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<span class="text Matt-22-34" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-23907Z" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-23907Z" title="See cross-reference Z">Z</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. </span><span class="text Matt-22-35" id="en-NKJV-23908" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Then one of them, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-23908AA" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-23908AA" title="See cross-reference AA">AA</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>a lawyer, asked <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Him a question,</i> testing Him, and saying,</span><span class="text Matt-22-36" id="en-NKJV-23909" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span>“Teacher, which <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">is</i> the great commandment in the law?”</span></div>
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Our faith is made strong but loving the Lord with all our heart, soul, and mind, and loving others as we love ourselves. Then the faith we have helps us have victory to overcome the world.<br />
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We can have minor victories through out our lives here on earth, but the ultimate victory is over death and Satan in the end. I get to live eternally with my Lord and Savior because I have faith in His victory on the cross and death. That is the ultimate VICTORY!<br />
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It is hard to stand steadfast and strong in the face of life at times. It can hit you hard from so many directions and Satan is good at drudging up the past making standing so much harder. Satan is a jerk, he messes with my ability to see my life clearly to often.</div>
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I know some of you are thinking WAIT!... your a Christian, Satan shouldn't be getting to you like that... hmmmm tell that to Job! Satan can't touch my life, but he can manipulate my circumstances and bombard me with my past through outside sources, just like he did Job. Satan used Job's family, possessions, and even his friends, to cause him to become unstable, I am glad he could stand mostly unwavering. I can't!</div>
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I can get in a tail speed faster than anyone I know. Sometimes it only takes one thing to make me collapse into a puddle of unworthy mud in my mind. Satan has so many things at his disposal to do this... I try to fight back. I write this blog, I read the Bible, I pray, I quote scripture, I sing.... Sometimes nothing helps! Let me rephrase that... Sometimes I can't feel, see, or acknowledge, the help! </div>
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For the past few months I have been dealing with a lot of the very stuff that causes me to waver. I never doubt my God or that He can help me through it... it is myself I doubt, my worthiness of His help. A feeling that I don't deserve anything of worth. I do because I am a child of the King! He wants to give me all that I could ever need and then some. He wants me to live abundantly.... So why can't I!<br />
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I know now that this season probably isn't going away by itself, or through my working on it alone. I am going to have to find someone to talk to, yet here is the bad part of doing that... I don't trust people. I let people get to "know" me, I love all people, but I don't trust... That is part of the issues Satan sends my way... he reminds me how many people have destroyed my trust!<br />
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I will rise over this, it will take some time. I hope you can be unwavering in your love for God, your love for others, and in understanding yourself! The last one is my problem... but I am working on it... Be Strong and unwavering!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">But </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">sanctify </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">the Lord God in your hearts, and always </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30440V" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30440V" title="See cross-reference V">V</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">be</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> ready to </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">give</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30440W" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30440W" title="See cross-reference W">W</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; I Peter 3:15</span></blockquote>
There are many things that we believe right or wrong. We have the right, the free will, to believe in anything we want to believe in, I have written many times about what I believe. I believe it is important to stand up for your belief system and be proud (not in an egotistical way) of your beliefs. As the verse above states, I (we) am to be ready to give a defense to anyone who asks about our reason for the hope we have, who asks about what we believe. You didn't really ask but I will tell you anyway.<br />
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I believe God created the Heavens and the earth, the whole universe. I do not believe that this world came into existence just by a big bang... someone (God) made that big bang happen. I also believe that since the earth was created by God and He created Man not child, that he created the earth to seem older than it is...<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">While as yet He had not made the earth or the fields, Or the primal </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">dust</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> of the world. Proverbs 8:26</span></blockquote>
I believe that because of man's sin and ability to take things too far God flooded the earth and killed all mankind and animals except for Noah, his family, and the animals saved on the ark. There is evidence of a great flood in the earth itself, even though God's word says it happen and that is enough for me to believe it.<br />
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<span class="text Gen-7-17" id="en-NKJV-177" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. </span><span class="text Gen-7-18" id="en-NKJV-178" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-178U" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-178U" title="See cross-reference U">U</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters. </span><span class="text Gen-7-19" id="en-NKJV-179" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered. </span><span class="text Gen-7-20" id="en-NKJV-180" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. </span><span class="text Gen-7-21" id="en-NKJV-181" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. </span><span class="text Gen-7-22" id="en-NKJV-182" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">All in <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-182W" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-182W" title="See cross-reference W">W</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>whose nostrils <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">was</i> the breath of the spirit of life, all that <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">was</i> on the dry <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">land,</i> died. </span><span class="text Gen-7-23" id="en-NKJV-183" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-183X" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-183X" title="See cross-reference X">X</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>Noah and those who <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">were</i> with him in the ark remained <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">alive.</i> </span><span class="text Gen-7-24" id="en-NKJV-184" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days. Genesis 7:17-24</span></blockquote>
I believe that Israel was chosen by God to be His people. He raise them as children through the desert with Moses teaching them His will and His statutes. They like all children rebelled many times, they wanted to exercise their "free will" and have what they wanted. They threw tantrums just like children do and cause God to "disown" them. A parent never totally disowns a child, at least I don't think they can, there is always going to be a connection. God sent them to captivity and for a while it seemed that was going to work, they came back to their land willing to serve, it didn't last long. All the while God knew He had to do something more, He already told them what it was...<br />
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I believe God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to this earth to save all mankind from themselves. He was born of a virgin, lived a perfect life, and called twelve men to be His disciples. He taught them all that God tried to teach the Israelis but they did not heed. Jesus had a few issues along the way and many tried to do away with Him, but it wasn't His time. Jesus knew what was going to happen and He told His disciples to be prepared. Then His day came and He was crucified and the sins of the world were placed on Him, He cried out...<br />
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I believe that on the third day after His Crucifixion, Christ rose victorious over sin and death. He is sitting at the right hand of the Father (God).<br />
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I believe Jesus promised to come back to set up a kingdom here on earth. And because of His gift of life we will live for 1000 years in peace.<br />
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I believe all people of all the earth and of all time will be judged by Christ, as a result they will be eternally separated from God in Hell or live eternally with Him in Heaven.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text John-14-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“Let</span> <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26670A" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26670A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.</span> </span><span class="text John-14-2" id="en-NKJV-26671" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">In My Father’s house are many</span> <span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">mansions; if <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">it were</i> not <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">so,</i></span> <span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">I would have told you.</span> <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26671B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26671B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">I go to prepare a place for you.</span> </span><span class="text John-14-3" id="en-NKJV-26672" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">And if I go and prepare a place for you,</span> <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26672C" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26672C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">I will come again and receive you to Myself; that</span> <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26672D" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26672D" title="See cross-reference D">D</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">where I am, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">there</i> you may be also. John 14:1-3</span></span> </span></blockquote>
I believe that if you believe these ten words, this one statement about Christ and His sacrifice you can live eternally with Him...<br />
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Of course this is not all I believe, there are to many things to share just about God that I believe, but these are important to me because they show why I have a hope. God provides for His people, and I am one of those people. He loves all and wish that none should perish, and neither do I. If you don't know Christ as your savior, please consider that today, and if you do, please reach out and share the gospel with your friends, family, and even random people you meet.<br />
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A smile can be deceiving also. I can be smiling and be so very angry at someone, or can be so depressed it is hard for me to manage the smile, but I do it anyway. Even if a person is smiling, I think not assuming all is well is a good thing.<br />
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There isn't much more I can say about smiling. There are only 3 times the word is mentioned in the Bible (NKJV), once in 1 Samuel, and twice in Job....<br />
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<span class="text Job-9-25" id="en-NKJV-13077" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">“Now <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-13077O" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-13077O" title="See cross-reference O">O</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>my days are swifter than a runner; </span><span class="text Job-9-25" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">They flee away, they see no good. </span><span class="text Job-9-26" id="en-NKJV-13078" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">They pass by like swift ships, </span><span class="text Job-9-26" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Like an eagle swooping on its prey. </span><span class="text Job-9-27" id="en-NKJV-13079" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, </span><span class="text Job-9-27" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">I will put off my sad face and wear a smile,’ </span><span class="text Job-9-28" id="en-NKJV-13080" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">I am afraid of all my sufferings; </span><span class="text Job-9-28" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">I know that You <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-13080S" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-13080S" title="See cross-reference S">S</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>will not hold me innocent." Job 9:25-28</span></blockquote>
If anyone had a reason not to smile, Job was that person. I don't believe God expects us to be happy all the time and to show a smile on our faces all the time. If He did I don't think people like Job, David, and Jeremiah would be in the Bible. I also don't believe that we should wear a frown all the time either. There are some Christians I know that never smile... and that is sad.<br />
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I pray that even when I am happy, joyous, depressed, or anxious that I can show my true feelings, smiling when I should and not smiling when I should. I know right now sometimes I mess it up...<br />
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A few months ago, when I was teaching Sunday School, this word was the topic basically. The premise of the lesson was that there are many awesome things in this world but by far, God is the truly Awesome one.<br />
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Have you ever thought about the universe and it's splendor. All those stars, and planets suspended in the vastness called space. God created all of that... and guess what we can name the stars anything we want to, God already has names for them...<br />
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God is bigger than the universe, He can hold it in His hand....<br />
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<span class="text Isa-40-12" id="en-NKJV-18433" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, </span><span class="text Isa-40-12" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Measured heaven with a span </span><span class="text Isa-40-12" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">And calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? </span><span class="text Isa-40-12" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Weighed the mountains in scales </span><span class="text Isa-40-12" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">And the hills in a balance? Isaiah 40:12</span></blockquote>
Not only can he hold the universe in His hand but all the water can be held there also. Not only that but he has the name of every person who every believed He is God written on the palm of those same hands.<br />
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In these verses He is speaking of Zion which is representative of His people. His hands must be massive.<br />
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I could go on telling about things that make Him awesome, I want to leave you some to ponder... He is just Awesome... <br />
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Thanks for reading. God Bless You All!<br />
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I love to look at, make, and share art. I am by no means an artist, I do like to create things. God in His nature is creative, He created or allowed things to be created in this world as we know it. He is Masterful at all He does, there is no error in Him or His creation. When man has something to do with creation then things get messed up.<br />
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One of the thoughts that came to my mind today is about how God took His time in creation. Don't you think if He wanted too, He could have spoke the word and everything could have been created on the first day? He could have been done with it all, but He took time to do things in a thoughtful and layered manner. Each day, the creation completed built upon the previous. He laid a foundation and built all things on that foundation so that we could live a life He meant for us to live.<br />
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I am not going to put the whole chapters of Genesis 1 and 2 here I will share several verses, I would suggest if you have never read it or it has been a while that you stop and read it now.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Then God said, </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-3G" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-3G" title="See cross-reference G">G</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“Let there be </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-3H" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-3H" title="See cross-reference H">H</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">light”;</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Then God said, </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-6J" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-6J" title="See cross-reference J">J</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“Let there be a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">firmament in the midst of the waters, </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Then God said, </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-9M" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-9M" title="See cross-reference M">M</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Then God said, “Let the earth </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-11O" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-11O" title="See cross-reference O">O</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">bring forth grass, </span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Then God said, “Let there be </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-14Q" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-14Q" title="See cross-reference Q">Q</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; </span></blockquote>
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<span class="versenum" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">firmament of the heavens.” </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span class="versenum" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Then God said, </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26Z" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26Z" title="See cross-reference Z">Z</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; </span> </blockquote>
There are some words that are common in all these verses. "Then God said," In all creation God spoke the words and from His words something was created. What ever He spoke came into existence by His mere words, He was masterful in His speech and therefore masterful in His creation. Then He comes to day 6...<br />
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On day 6 God not only spoke "Let Us make man in our own image, according to Our likeness;" but He got hands on with this part of creation. He didn't just speak, this was more important to Him, He needed His fingerprints to be part of this creation. Man was a likeness of Him, it was special, it needed a Masterful touch...<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"And the </span><span class="small-caps divine-name" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> God formed man </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">of</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> the </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-38H" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-38H" title="See cross-reference H">H</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">dust of the ground, and </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-38I" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-38I" title="See cross-reference I">I</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">breathed into his </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-38J" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-38J" title="See cross-reference J">J</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">nostrils the breath of life; and </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-38K" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-38K" title="See cross-reference K">K</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">man became a living being." Genesis 2:7</span></blockquote>
Then He realized man needed someone just like He "needed" man. Do you think God needs us? I do, I think He wants a relationship with us, if He didn't He didn't have to create us or anything else. Anyway, God created woman, not just from Adam, but also by hand... special and masterfully done to the pleasure of Adam.<br />
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<span class="text Gen-2-21" id="en-NKJV-52" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"And the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> God caused a <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-52AA" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-52AA" title="See cross-reference AA">AA</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. </span><span class="text Gen-2-22" id="en-NKJV-53" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Then the rib which the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> God had taken from man He made into a woman, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-53AB" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-53AB" title="See cross-reference AB">AB</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>and He <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-53AC" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-53AC" title="See cross-reference AC">AC</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>brought her to the man." Genesis 2:21-22</span></blockquote>
God could have just spoke and man would have appeared but He took His time and put His hands in the dirt and created man. Like a potter with clay, he formed Adam, and gave Him breath, then created Eve just as masterfully. What is even more important is that God is still forming each of us, He has known us before we were ever born, He fashioned us in our mother's womb. He gave us breath, a thought came to mind when I wrote this statement... think about a child being born, the infant has been alive in the womb, sheltered from the world, when it is born... the child needs to breathe as a result of the birth and this breath it cries... I believe right before that cry, God reaches down and gives that breath to that child. He has a plan for us all. I am so glad He masterfully created the world, man, woman, all people, all creation. Thank-you Lord for your masterful creations!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">But now, O Lord, You </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">are</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> our Father; We </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">are</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> the clay, and You our </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">potter</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">; And all we </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">are</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> the work of Your hand. Isaiah 64:8</span></blockquote>
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Thanks for reading. God Bless You All!<br />
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It is hard doing this every day, finding ways to use these words in light of God's Word. Paul told Timothy that ministry was good but it wasn't going to be easy...</div>
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<span class="text 1Tim-4-6" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29754D" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29754D" title="See cross-reference D">D</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed. </span><span class="text 1Tim-4-7" id="en-NKJV-29755" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">But <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29755E" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29755E" title="See cross-reference E">E</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>reject profane and old wives’ fables, and <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29755F" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29755F" title="See cross-reference F">F</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>exercise yourself toward godliness. </span><span class="text 1Tim-4-8" id="en-NKJV-29756" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">For <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29756G" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29756G" title="See cross-reference G">G</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29756H" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29756H" title="See cross-reference H">H</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come. </span><span class="text 1Tim-4-9" id="en-NKJV-29757" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">This <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">is</i> a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance. </span><span class="text 1Tim-4-10" id="en-NKJV-29758" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">For to this <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">end</i> we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29758I" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29758I" title="See cross-reference I">I</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>who is <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">the </i>Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.</span><span class="text 1Tim-4-11" id="en-NKJV-29759" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span>These things command and teach. I Timothy 4:6-11</span></blockquote>
If it wasn't easy for them it is definitely not going to be easy for me. Not that I could even imagine myself ministering any where near the way they did, or being a minister at all. I use that word minister but I am not a "preacher" I just try to speak out about God and share testimony of Him.<br />
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So in the passage above the word profitable can be interchangeable with favorable. So godliness is favorable for all things. Being like God, imitating His attributes, is favorable for all things. It is a promise that if we are godly we will have life now and in the future. So, if we are supposed to be godly how do we do that, what are the attributes of God we can manifest? Knowing that some of them we can never show, but some we must!<br />
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God is Infinite. This one means He always was, always is, and always will be. God was not created He is the creator. Nothing exists without His hand in it. We can have part of this through salvation, in that we will live eternally.<br />
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God is Immutable. He is never changing and yet in some ways He is always changing. Does that make sense? God's love, His attributes, His character, His plans, and promises never change. He changes in me, in light of the situations I am going through He becomes what I need, a friend, a father, a disciplinarian, or my God.<br />
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God is Self-Sufficient. He needs nothing from any source but Himself. We can be self-sufficient to a point, but we all are in need of help form time to time. God will always be that help when we need it.<br />
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God is Omnipotent. He is all powerful, I am not. He has the power to move mountains, and He said if I had the faith of a small mustard seed I could too. I must have no faith at all... He is my power and those small little hills I think I am moving by myself, He is right there doing it for me.<br />
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God is Omniscient. He knows everything, he has all knowledge and wisdom. He gives it to us a little at a time, because we could not handle it all... this made me think of a line from the movie "A Few Good Men"... Please excuse the language in the clip.<br />
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We can't handle the truth... at least not all of it at once. God knows just how much we can handle and will show us what we need if we trust Him.<br />
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God is Omnipresent. I would loved to be able to twinkle my nose like "Bewitched" and be anywhere I wanted to be. It would be awesome... the thing is God doesn't have to do that, He is everywhere all the time. I cannot imagine that...<br />
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God is Wise. Here we can begin to share attributes with God. The Bible says to seek wisdom because it is good and with it comes understanding. Wisdom is not "book" knowledge, it comes from trial and era in us. We learn from mistakes and other events in our lives and in return we get wisdom.<br />
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God is Faithful. We need to be faithful too. To God first, then to those God has put in our paths.<br />
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God is Good. In Him there is no bad and can be no bad. He is just and good. We need to be good also, to bad we can't be good all the time. We sin, it is in our nature.<br />
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God is Just. He treats everyone fairly and without prejudice. To bad I can't say the same for us. We are not just, we judge and have no right to. Oh that we could see people the way God does and not worry about the differences that are really minor.<br />
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God is Merciful. He is so merciful in that while we were so bad He has forgiven us. His mercy is undeserved yet He gives it anyway. He expects us to be merciful to others, to forgive. To not try and get even...<br />
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God is Gracious. Grace is undeserved also, we should perish and be eternally separated from God but in His grace we are saved from that separation. We need to show grace to others. We all have done things to hurt others and grace was given to us, how much more should we give it to others.<br />
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God is Loving. God is Love. I don't believe we can truly love others without having God in our lives. At least not the way God intended us to love. Love one another as I have loved you is what Jesus said... Love!<br />
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God is Holy. Well, here is one we should strive for but will never attain this side of heaven. I still need to try.<br />
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God is Glorious! He is Awesome. He deserves our praise. I am only glorious in the fact that I am His masterpiece that He is creating one day at a time. When I reach my final form, and He is finished changing me, I will be glorious too! I still will not be able to out shine His splendor.<br />
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So, to be godly I need to have the attributes of God. If I have those attributes then I will be favorable, and that will help me to live a life now that is pleasing to God and myself. I will also have an eternal life that will be pleasing. Not sure if I got my point across... I hope so.<br />
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A few years ago a friend of mine lost her battle with cancer. It took a huge toil on her life. She was a good mother, wife, friend, and she loved the Lord. I miss her! It left me with a question, and I am sure that it will make some of you think why would a Christian ask it...</div>
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If I come to the end of my life and I find that there is nothing after it (no heaven or hell, just end), will this life I have lived be enough? And since I believe there is an afterwards... will I have lived my life in the light of how God wanted me to live?</div>
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Will I leave a legacy that will bless others or have I cause so much hurt that people will be glad for me to be gone? Will people miss me when I am gone? Have I given all I should have given being a human, not just as a Christian? I think that there are basic things that all people should do, Christian or not, the bible says we know in ourselves what those things are. We know at our core how to treat people and make life better for ourselves and others around us. We just chose not to. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">If you then, </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">being</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">evil</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! Matthew 7:11</span></blockquote>
Have I loved people that have come into my life? Have I given all I have for the betterment of the world? Have I done anything of worth?<br />
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<span class="text Jas-4-13" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; </span><span class="text Jas-4-14" id="en-NKJV-30352" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">whereas you do not know what <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">will happen</i> tomorrow. For what <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">is</i> your life? <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30352A" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30352A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. </span><span class="text Jas-4-15" id="en-NKJV-30353" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Instead you <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ought</i> to say, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30353B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30353B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>“If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that." James 4:13-15</span></blockquote>
My life is a vapor, I am here for a specific amount of time and then it is over... at the end what will I have left behind, is there any worth that I will take forward with me?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="text">“For we are God’s fellow workers; you are
God’s field, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">you are</i> God’s
building. </span><span class="text"><b><sup> </sup></b></span><span class="text">According
to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the
foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds
on it. <span id="en-NKJV-28422" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is
laid, which is Jesus Christ. </span><span id="en-NKJV-28423" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Now if anyone builds on
this foundation <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">with</i> gold,
silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, </span><span id="en-NKJV-28424" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">each one’s work will
become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be
revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. </span><span id="en-NKJV-28425" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">If anyone’s work which he has built on <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">it</i> endures, he will receive a reward. </span><span id="en-NKJV-28426" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he
himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.</span> Do you not know that you
are the temple of God and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">that</i> the
Spirit of God dwells in you? </span><span id="en-NKJV-28428" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">If anyone defiles
the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">temple</i> you are.</span>” I Corinthians 3: 9-17</span></div>
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These are legitimate questions to ask, I shouldn't worry about them though. I should try to live my life the way I need to, to leave a legacy I will be proud to leave. I know there are many people who think these thoughts should not even cross a Christian's mind, but I think they should. Life is like a race, am I giving my all, or am I just limping along not caring whether or not I win. Or am I not even trying because I know my best is not good enough? <br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I have fought the good fight, I have finished the </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">race</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7</span></blockquote>
How will I finish my race? How will you finish yours? We have a say in this, we determine the legacy we leave. I want mine to be one of love and compassion for others, I might need to work on it a little harder...<br />
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Sorry, if this doesn't make any sense...<br />
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Thanks for reading. God Bless You all.<br />
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I thought of these songs as I was working on this post... I hope you can get a message from them.<br />
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La_tigresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101095788439199059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438609094938411344.post-3532202608109554222018-07-05T09:09:00.000-05:002018-07-05T09:09:12.284-05:00UP!First thought when I saw the word for today...<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans", "Comic Sans MS", arial; font-size: 14.4px;">Oh, the Grand old Duke of York</span><br style="font-family: "Comic Sans", "Comic Sans MS", arial; font-size: 14.4px;" /><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans", "Comic Sans MS", arial; font-size: 14.4px;">He had ten thousand men</span><br style="font-family: "Comic Sans", "Comic Sans MS", arial; font-size: 14.4px;" /><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans", "Comic Sans MS", arial; font-size: 14.4px;">He marched them up the hill</span><br style="font-family: "Comic Sans", "Comic Sans MS", arial; font-size: 14.4px;" /><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans", "Comic Sans MS", arial; font-size: 14.4px;">And marched them down again</span><br style="font-family: "Comic Sans", "Comic Sans MS", arial; font-size: 14.4px;" /><br style="font-family: "Comic Sans", "Comic Sans MS", arial; font-size: 14.4px;" /><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans", "Comic Sans MS", arial; font-size: 14.4px;">And when you’re up, you’re up</span><br style="font-family: "Comic Sans", "Comic Sans MS", arial; font-size: 14.4px;" /><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans", "Comic Sans MS", arial; font-size: 14.4px;">And when you’re down, you’re down</span><br style="font-family: "Comic Sans", "Comic Sans MS", arial; font-size: 14.4px;" /><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans", "Comic Sans MS", arial; font-size: 14.4px;">And when you’re only half-way down</span><br style="font-family: "Comic Sans", "Comic Sans MS", arial; font-size: 14.4px;" /><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans", "Comic Sans MS", arial; font-size: 14.4px;">You’re neither up nor down!</span></span></blockquote>
I have to admit only the chorus was what I thought of... Anyway... Up!<br />
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Here is a question for you... Does a Christian have to be "up" all the time? Are we supposed to always be happy? When is it appropriate to pretend to be "up"?<br />
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There are people in this world who would say that to the world a Christian should always look and seem happy. We should always have a smile on our face and should always be joyful. I am sorry, I am a human being and that is not possible, at least not for me. I can feign happiness, smiles, and joy at times, but it usually ends up showing that I am not truly happy, I am not smiling on the inside, or I am less than joyful.<br />
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I have said it many times David was not always joyful, he was depressed quite often. I am sure there were times when he tried to hide his sadness, but I know there had to be times when he couldn't. James says...<br />
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<span class="text Jas-1-2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">My brethren, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30269B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30269B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>count it all joy <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30269C" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30269C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>when you fall into various trials, </span><span class="text Jas-1-3" id="en-NKJV-30270" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. James 1:2-3</span></blockquote>
So, be joyful for trials... seems counterintuitive! Being joyfully doesn't always have to produce a smile. If I am not smiling it doesn't mean I am not up! I don't know where I really wanted to go with this but...<br />
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I want to say, you never know what someone is going through. It may be all they can do just to get out of bed in the morning, putting a smile on their face is far from their minds. Then there are other days that the same person can jump out of bed ready to defeat the world and rise victorious over their troubles. Don't judge a person up-ness by their facial expression or their stance. If you see someone who looks "down", pray for them. If you think they are open to comfort, comfort them. Sometimes people don't smile so they can give their face a rest... yep that is my reason for not smiling... my face needs to rest a lot!<br />
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Truthfully, right now, I am depressed a lot. I have been feigning smiles, joy, and happiness a lot. I am working through stuff and it will get better. Yes, prayer would be appreciated, but I don't always ask for it. God knows my heart and He has my back, He has something He is trying to teach me and I am trying to learn it, whatever it may be. Until then, I am as up as I can be, I am pushing through and I am not giving up!<br />
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Thanks for reading! God Bless You All!<br />
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This is the 1st Christian Song that came up when I put Up in the search box on YouTube :)<br />
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<br />La_tigresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101095788439199059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438609094938411344.post-69970764212523091022018-07-04T07:39:00.000-05:002018-07-04T07:39:17.877-05:00OpenThere were 20 different definitions for Open, in the Merriam- Webster Dictionary, with each of those having 3 of 4 sub-definitions. Open means open, whether and inanimate object or a person. It doesn't matter how many different ways they can be open, open they are. What does being open look like for a Christian? Can we or rather should we be open at all? Is there a time when we should not be open?<br />
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You might think in light of some of the verse in the Bible that God expects us to be more closed than open, for example:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">And </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28248C" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28248C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">do not be conformed to this world, but </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28248D" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28248D" title="See cross-reference D">D</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28248E" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28248E" title="See cross-reference E">E</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">prove what </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">is</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2</span></blockquote>
This seems to say not to be open to the world and the issues it causes. We would be right in believing that God wants His followers to keep the world outside and to transform from the inside through His Spirit. We don't have to do as the world to win the world. We need to be set apart, and different. So when should we be open?<br />
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<span class="text 1Cor-9-19" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">For though I am <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28560AB" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28560AB" title="See cross-reference AB">AB</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>free from all <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">men,</i> <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28560AC" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28560AC" title="See cross-reference AC">AC</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>I have made myself a servant to all, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28560AD" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28560AD" title="See cross-reference AD">AD</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>that I might win the more; </span><span class="text 1Cor-9-20" id="en-NKJV-28561" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">and <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28561AE" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28561AE" title="See cross-reference AE">AE</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">who are</i> under the law, as under the law, that I might win those <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">who are</i> under the law; </span><span class="text 1Cor-9-21" id="en-NKJV-28562" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">to <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28562AG" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28562AG" title="See cross-reference AG">AG</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>those <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">who are </i>without law, as without law <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28562AH" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28562AH" title="See cross-reference AH">AH</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>(not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">who are</i> without law; </span><span class="text 1Cor-9-22" id="en-NKJV-28563" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28563AJ" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28563AJ" title="See cross-reference AJ">AJ</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>I have become all things to all <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">men,</i> <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-28563AK" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-28563AK" title="See cross-reference AK">AK</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>that I might by all means save some. </span><span class="text 1Cor-9-23" id="en-NKJV-28564" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Now this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be partaker of it with <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">you. I Corinthians 9:19-23</i></span></blockquote>
I think that God wants us to be open to people. To become what we need to be to be a witness. In this case I also believe that a witness is a servant, not as in someone who waits on someone but a person who honors and respects all people with compassion. Even the "hard" to love. We have to become a person that others can respond to. If I put up a barrier to someone because of the way they are dressed, the way they smell, the tattoos they have, or their religious, political, or moral stances, then I am not being open to them. I can not be a witness to them. Also, being open doesn't mean you agree with them, just that you can accept them and love them.<br />
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Paul never said he agreed with the way the people lived, he just became "like" them. As a witness you don't go into a bar and start preaching, telling people how wrong they are for drinking and wasting their time and money. You will win no one, in fact you would probably be kicked out. If on the other hand, if you went in the bar sat and talked to people while not drinking (or having a drink since it is over indulgence that is the problem), building a relationship with a person or two, then you are opening yourself to the possibilities of being a witness to them. You might be able to take that relationship outside the doors of the bar to a coffee shop or a restaurant and lead that person to Christ.<br />
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All Christians are called to be missionaries or evangelist. I know in the minds of many a missionary is someone who goes to a far off place to live and spread the gospel, that is not always the case. And an evangelist is someone like Billy Graham, who preached to 1000s of people at a time and 100s came to know the Lord each time he spoke. That isn't the case either.<br />
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<span class="text Matt-28-18" id="en-NKJV-24214" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-24214N" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-24214N" title="See cross-reference N">N</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-28-19" id="en-NKJV-24215" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Go</span> <span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">therefore and</span> <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-24215P" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-24215P" title="See cross-reference P">P</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</span> </span><span class="text Matt-28-20" id="en-NKJV-24216" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am</span> <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-24216R" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-24216R" title="See cross-reference R">R</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">with you always, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">even</i> to the end of the age.”</span> Amen. Matthew 28:18-20</span></blockquote>
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<span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"But you shall receive power</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26932L" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26932L" title="See cross-reference L">L</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26932M" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26932M" title="See cross-reference M">M</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">you shall be</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26932N" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26932N" title="See cross-reference N">N</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Samaria, and to the</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26932O" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26932O" title="See cross-reference O">O</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">end of the earth." Acts 1:8</span></blockquote>
These verses spell out the mission work God wants His disciples to do. It starts at home, in your Jerusalem, and spreads from there. There are two definitions for evangelism, the first having to do with being a witness for Christ, the other is <i>"</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #3b3e41; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; letter-spacing: 0.64px;"><i>militant or crusading zeal"</i> . </span>I don't know about you but I want to on fire for Christ in a way that draws others to Him. What other reason is there for me to be here on the earth? So, in order to follow what God wants me to do, be a witness for Him, I have to be open to all kinds of people. I have to be willing to build relationships with people no matter what they look like, smell like, or what religious, political, or moral views they may have. I need to be able to...<br />
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<span class="text 1Pet-3-13" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"And who <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">is</i> he who will harm you if you become followers of what is good? </span><span class="text 1Pet-3-14" id="en-NKJV-30439" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">you are </i>blessed. <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30439U" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30439U" title="See cross-reference U">U</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="oblique" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“And do not be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.”</span> </span><span class="text 1Pet-3-15" id="en-NKJV-30440" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and <b><u>always <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30440V" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30440V" title="See cross-reference V">V</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">be</i> ready to <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">give</i> a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30440W" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30440W" title="See cross-reference W">W</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>hope that is in you,</u></b> with meekness and fear; </span><span class="text 1Pet-3-16" id="en-NKJV-30441" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. </span><span class="text 1Pet-3-17" id="en-NKJV-30442" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">For <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">it is</i> better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil." I Peter 3:13-17</span></blockquote>
I need to be open to the possibilities that God sends my way every day, open to the people around me for opportunities to build relationships and share who Christ is to us. Open to other Christians who may need guidance or help through some rough spots. I need to open my mind and heart to the love of Christ and let it show through my life openly.<br />
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La_tigresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04101095788439199059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438609094938411344.post-44209988203400363192018-07-03T08:45:00.002-05:002018-07-03T08:45:35.160-05:00YummyI am sure we all know what this word means.... And yes I am going to use it in the light of God's word...<br />
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<span class="text Ps-34-8" id="en-NKJV-14397" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">"Oh, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-14397F" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-14397F" title="See cross-reference F">F</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>taste and see that the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">is</i> good; </span><span class="text Ps-34-8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Blessed <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">is</i> the man <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">who</i> trusts in Him!" Psalm 34:8</span></blockquote>
Have you ever been remembering something from your childhood, it made you feel as though you could smell the same smells and taste the same good foods? I think it should be the same way with our thoughts of God and the good he has brought us. Those good memories of childhood, God gave you because he allow you to live them, the Food he gives you daily, the friends you share coffee with, His word you are able to study and enjoy, all these should leave a good taste in your mouth so that you can reflect on it later and remember those things. Does this make sense?<br />
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<span class="text John-6-32" id="en-NKJV-26290" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"Then Jesus said to them, <span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but</span> <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26290Y" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26290Y" title="See cross-reference Y">Y</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">My Father gives you the true bread from heaven.</span> </span><span class="text John-6-33" id="en-NKJV-26291" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” John 6:32-33</span></span></blockquote>
In the wilderness, God provided food for Israel, in the form of heavenly bread called Manna. The people complained about it and wanted other things along the way to eat. God provided that also. They were never satisfied, because they were not seeing it as the food God wanted them to see it as. Spiritual provision, from a loving and caring God. One who would supply all their needs according to His riches, which by the way are all the cattle on a thousand hills and then some. They could not wrap their minds around this fact, that the one true God could be all they would ever need.<br />
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Needless to say, we don't always either. God sent the true bread of life and the only true vine to earth, to be broken and poured out for us. Yet, in our busy lives we forget to stop and enjoy the goodness of those things. It is good to remember Christ when you take communion, some churches provide that everyday, some once a week, some once a month... I think you get the idea, but I think God wants use to remember Christ and His "Yummy-ness" every day, at least once, maybe at every meal... whenever you can. Now, I know someone may have taken offense at my use of the word yummy there, but in light of the verse from Psalms above it fits doesn't it... "taste and see that the LORD is good!!! Wasn't what Jesus did for you and I good? Wasn't it tasty?<br />
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God provides for our daily physical needs, He is good. God provided for our eternal spiritual need through Christ's sacrifice, He is good. He is providing for our eternal life, He is good. So, if yummy is to food like good is to God then, God is yummy! I know many of you still think less of me for this but, I have to go with what I believe... and right now God is Yummy!<br />
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