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Amendment One: North Carolina gay marriage ban passes
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76081.html
North Carolina overwhelmingly voted Tuesday in favor of a state constitutional amendment defining marriage between one man and one woman as the only legal union recognized by the state.
Your right plugger, if all those brave men and women that "VOLUNTEERED" to go fight in the many wars of past...if they had know the sad shape our leaders would have ran this country into the ground....if they had known how the USA citizens would stand by and let it be done....how many of them would have really embraced giving their lives for this country?
On the other hand, God knew what a screwed up bunch we were and are and praise Him for loving us so much that he sent His son to die in our place.
Thank God for choosing me to know Him!
Amen, and all so very true. As for me, in the last election as we often say on here. I voted for McCain for president solely because i thought him to bet the lesser of the two evils running for president. McCain openly said that he was a christian just not of the "born-again variety. Well, in my Bible that tells me that he like so many prefer to pick and choose what scripture they abide by and roll the dice and live life their way.
Im looking at this election as the same.....vote for the least of the two evils. And that vote sure as heck wont go Obamas way!!!!
Anyway. How does any Bible believing , born-again person, vote for a man or woman that so openbasicallyicly, trashes the word of God with their words and actions?!
God have mercy on us!
AMEN to that!....and the sheep continue on to slaughter with blinders on their eyes, plugs in their ears and who knows where there heart is at!
WOW! Great posts one after another from you all tonight. What a pleasure to read the board.
Now I want you all to think about this..............
It's very hard to turn on the news without seeing the media propaganda going on about this subject and it feels like evil is winning.
I say HOLD on there!
Ask yourself why the fraud said what he did today?
It was all politics after THE PEOPLE said NO to Gay Marriage in the recent vote and the screaming from obamafrauds voters started wanting their clown to come out in their favor for their vote!!!
Do you understand what happened here?
The media can twist it all they want the politicians can make it look like EVERYONE wants gay marriage but TRUTH is when VOTED on GOD'S PEOPLE understand how incredibly great God was when he created a Man and a WOMAN.
Look at the MAN & WOMANS body and tell me they aren't made for each other? HELLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
God saw the posts on this board!
God was HONORED HERE!
God knows his people LOVE HIM, RESPECT his WORD, Honor his word instead of CONFORMING to the world!!!
So look at it the RIGHT WAY!
God KNOWS! He read your hearts tonight! AMEN!
For what it is worth...I look at the USA and how our country has changed and I always compare it to the fall of Rome...
When I think about all the young men and women who died at such a young age, never having the opportunity to enjoy life as I, who died believing they were preserving the Great American Dream, it is all I can do to hold back the tears...think of all the mommas and dads who last saw their son/daughter when they boarded that train/airplane to go answer a call and never came back, only breaks one's heart....the great price has been paid, The man/woman laid down their life so I could live peacefully and so very, very many folks have absolutely no appreciation.....When I watch the movie "Saving Private Ryan" and the price which was paid to save one---- always reminds me of the One who died to wash away my sins and not only mine but the sins of all....just as how we have turned away from the ones who paid the price for our freedom so have so very many turned away from the One who paid the price for our sins....
Ya'll have a Great Evening & God Bless
I prayed today that God would remember his believers who are not succumbing to ANY kind of pressure to change our standards here in the USA.
God said Homosexuality is an abomination. Period!
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!!!
Doesn't surprise me. For being a self-labeled "Christian", he has singlehandedly done more to stifle the Christian movement in this country than all of the previous administrations combined - and he has accomplished all of it in just 4 years. True believers need to wake-up to what is happening all around us, and get busy doing what the Lord has instructed us to be doing in these days.
PRAISING GOD
Psalm 100:4
Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him; bless His name
Praise and thanksgiving are part of every level of prayer. They are continuous as we walk in the light. To come before God with thanksgiving is no different than coming before our earthly parents with an attitude of gratitude. Nothing disturbs a parent more than a child who is always demanding, forever complaining, and never satisfied. How would you feel if you've given as much as you can as a parent and your child still wants more, more, more? On the other hand, how would you feel toward the child who snuggles up and says, "Thanks for being who you are. I just love you and I know you're doing the best you can for me." What a great parent-child relationship.
Can you imagine approaching God and demanding, "I want more!"
And He responds, "I gave you My only begotten Son."
"But I want more!"
We ought to start every day by saying, "Thank You, heavenly Father. I deserved eternal damnation, but You gave me eternal life. How may I serve You today?
Praising God is acknowledging His attributes. I try to be aware when I pray that God is the ever-present, all-powerful, all-knowing, loving heavenly Father. I don't praise Him because He needs me to tell Him who He is. He knows who He is. I am the one who needs to keep His divine attributes constantly in my mind. I try to keep the knowledge of God's presence foremost in my thoughts. No matter where I go, He is with me.
I'm always disturbed when I hear people asking God to "be there." It's like we are questioning His omnipresence. The same goes for asking God to be with our missionaries. We have the assurance of Scripture that He will be with them unto the ends of the earth. We can confidently acknowledge that He will neither leave us nor forsake us. We ought to thank God for His presence and ask Him to bring to our minds anything that may be keeping us from having perfect fellowship with Him.
Prayer: Father God, teach me to practice the awareness of Your presence and accept the sufficiency of Your attributes.
http://www.crosswalk.com/devotionals/dailyinchrist
Very well stated!!!
To a progressive they will agree that God's Word does not change but man's interpretation does change. It is a twist on words but that is the way of deception.
Progressive's have the same view of the U.S. Constitution. The words of the U.S. Constitution do not change but man's interpretation of it does change. This is how they worked in the phrase "Separation of Church and State" to mean something completely different from what our nation's founder meant and practiced.
Just as when children are not taught the U.S. Constitution and people no longer know the U.S. Constitution, its meaning is lost and the nation wanders far off course.
When children are not taught the Word of God and people no longer hold dear the Word of God in their hearts, the people find themselves lost in darkness and their hearts lean toward evil.
This is why over the past 100 years progressives have slowly removed the learning of the history and teaching of our U.S. Constitution from schools and universities AND have been removing God from our institutions and schools. Progressives believe a lost generation is ripe for them to shape society into their one world utopia.
God's people know the truth of how this all ends.
This is why it is important to know who you are putting in power over you. Do they believe in absolute truth? Do their deeds bear the fruit of who they are? And more importantly who you think they are? God judges, we have discernment and the Holy Spirit in our lives to search out truth. Pray and "trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding"(Proverbs 3:5)
obamafraud said in the past his position on the issue was evolving.
Problem with that statement is God's word doesn't evolve to see what votes God gets as God is already in charge he doesn't need to be elected as he is already KING much to obamafrauds dislike.
God is just letting clowns like obamafraud think they are in charge.
Amazing I think I'll go find God's word and let it evolve between being right or wrong cause I know better than God right obamafraud?
Sure I do just like you!
God really didn't mean that cause it would make him mean right?
Come on now why yes he created us, the air we breathe is his, but certainly God has to understand when it becomes time to be PC , when it comes time to go with the flow you certainly can't expect you and I not to go with them can you?
Why no obamafraud just follow the pigs as it was told in the Bible. Get in line. Maybe you remember that story eh?
That's what separates you and I ombamafraud.
I'm not in line.
God's word IS the line between what is right or wrong!
God's word doesn't evolve according to culture.
Obama declares support for gay marriage
http://gma.yahoo.com/obama-announces-his-support-for-same-sex-marriage.html
Do you love Jesus? Really?
Or only when it's conveinent to love him?
When it doesn't cost you anything?
Are you willing to do what may cause your own death in order to serve the great I AM?
Only you can answer that for sure.
What I am sure about is the man below already answered my question.
That is exactly what will happen to him is death or doing time in a place just a notch above HELL!
So I ask you..............
Do you not have a minute of your life signing this petition to spare ALL the MINUTES of this man's life who decided to SERVE GOD at ALL COSTS?
Click on link to go to page to sign. Link is in article.
Stop Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani’s Death Sentence
http://aclj.org/iran/jay-sekulow-christian-pastor-youcef-nadarkhani-iran-circumstances-dire
Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani faces the death penalty in Iran because of his Christian beliefs and his refusal to embrace Islam. Now, the Iranian regime has decided to punish Pastor Youcef’s attorney for his work on human rights. Pastor Youcef’s attorney is about to face a lengthy prison term.
The ACLJ has been working with Pastor Youcef's attorney to secure his freedom. Now, with no legal representation in Iran, he is essentially facing the Iranian regime alone – no advocate to keep him alive and to keep the appeals process going.
The U.S. House of Representatives has unanimously passed a resolution calling for Pastor Youcef's release, and now we are asking the Senate to do the same. Join the call for his freedom; please sign our petition now.
Petition to Free Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani
To: The United States Senate
When Iranian officials demanded that Pastor Youcef recant his faith in Jesus Christ or die, he responded, “I cannot.” He has been illegally imprisoned and separated from his wife and two boys for nearly 1,000 days now. Join the global call for his freedom; please unanimously pass the Senate resolution demanding his immediate release.
Read it again. Whole lot of truth right there...........
Think about what Josh says below about surrendering.
Josh messed up his life throwing millions away because of drugs.
Yet, God had MERCY & whole lot of GRACE!
And I mean whole lot of grace cause my best source tells me God is a baseball fan and I'm sure that stung really hard to see Josh throw that away before coming back to TRUE PEACE!
JMO on the baseball fan. LOL!
Alcohol, drugs, the addictions you hear the most about in the media, but what about others who deal with lust? TV? Computer? Anger? Food?
What ever addiction you have read what Josh says and relate that to your problems and remember God is there you just need to reach out to him.
Hamilton plenty thankful for his 4 HR-game
By DAVID GINSBURG AP Sports Writer
Published: May 9, 2012 at 7:00 AM PDT Last Updated: May 9, 2012 at 7:00 AM PDT
BALTIMORE (AP) — Josh Hamilton expects it will take some time before he realizes the significance of becoming the 16th player in baseball history to hit four home runs in a game.
He does, however, appreciate how fortunate he was to be playing baseball at Camden Yards on Tuesday night as a member of the Texas Rangers. Because, before his epic performance against the Baltimore Orioles, Hamilton had to do something even harder than launching a quartet of two-run homers.
He needed to save himself from personal ruin.
Hamilton went from first-round draft pick by Tampa Bay in 1999 to out of baseball altogether because of drug and alcohol addiction.
He recovered and returned to the majors in 2007 with Cincinnati, and was traded to the Texas, where he has become a star — the AL MVP in 2010 — while still battling his addiction. He had a relapse before this season, but is off to a torrid start.
After going 5 for 5 with a career-high eight RBIs and setting an AL record with 18 total bases in the Rangers' 10-3 win, Hamilton reflected on what his life was like before this unforgettable night.
"I think about what God's done in my life, everything I did to mess it up," he said. "To finally surrender everything and pursue that relationship with Christ on a daily basis and understanding when I don't pursue it, I end up messing up. Understanding that what I'm doing and what God's allowed me to do, coming back from everything I went through and allowing me to play the game at the level I play it, it's pretty amazing to think about."
Few players in the game today are playing at Hamilton's level. He's batting .406 and leads the majors with 13 homers and 36 RBIs.
That's impressive, but not as mind-blowing as his heroics against the Orioles.
Hamilton homered off Jake Arrieta in the first and third innings, added another off Zach Phillips in the seventh and topped it off with a one-for-the-books shot against Darren O'Day. During the last at-bat, Hamilton took a mighty hack and missed, lined a foul into right-field seats and then sent an 0-2 pitch over the center-field wall.
"Amazing," Texas manager Ron Washington said. "Josh came out tonight, and he wasn't going to be denied. I know he can't do it every night, but what you saw tonight, he's capable of it."
As he spoke to the media afterward, Hamilton wore a blue T-shirt emblazoned with "BEAST MODE."
On this night, he was a beast with the bat.
"It's like anything else — you do something good or something incredible happens, it takes a little bit for it to sink in," Hamilton said. "I think when I get away from everybody and I have some time to myself, I think it might then."
The last player to hit four home runs in a game was Carlos Delgado on Sept. 25, 2003, for Toronto against Tampa Bay. Two of the 16 players to hit four homers in a game did it before 1900.
"History was witnessed tonight," Washington said.
As he walked to the plate in the eighth inning, Hamilton felt a sense of calm. He had never hit more than two home runs in a game, and he already had three.
"I just went up like it was any other at-bat because if I don't hit one," Hamilton reasoned, "I've still had a really good night."
It got even better after he was circling the bases.
"I can say that was the worst pitch of my life," O'Day said. "Worst pitch of my career, not of my life. Guy's already got three bombs and I had him 0-2 and I throw it right over the middle. I couldn't have soft-tossed it any better to him. I'd like that pitch back for sure. You can't say enough about the day he had."
Nor could Hamilton.
"Obviously it's, other than being in the World Series, the highlight of my big league career," he said. "I was saying after I hit two I've never hit three in a game before, and what a blessing that was. Then to hit four is just an awesome feeling, to see how excited my teammates got.
"It reminds you of when you're in Little League and a little kid, and just the excitement and why we play the game. Things like that. You never know what can happen. It was just an absolute blessing."
So is his career. Hamilton will become a free agent after this season, but that's something he won't deal with until the proper time.
"God gives me peace, man. I pray a lot. I want to be where he wants me to be," Hamilton said. "If that's Texas, I love it in Texas. And you know, I take it as far as day-to-day life, a one-day-at-a-time mentality not only for a recovering addict, but that should be for everybody. It's one day at a time really because tomorrow is not promised and yesterday's gone."
Ameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!
Wherever you are right now, be you alone or with other people. Is there anything that you fear? Is there anything that you dread? Is there anything from the smallest circumstance to the greatest tragedy that has your nerves on edge and you just dont see any way out, you feel hopeless , there seems to be no light at the end of the proverbial tunnel? Folks, sometimes that happens to all of us! God never promised that living the christian life was going to be easy. However, He has promised us that when we turn to Jesus and truly give our lives and burdens and problems over to Him. EVERYTHING is going to be OK! That dont mean that God is going to wipe our problem slate clean, though He very well may. What it means is we have the Holy Spirit of God living in us. The power of the universe that created us, He is living in us! By really and truly putting our complete faith & trust in Jesus, God will honor His word and give us what we need to endure ANYTHING! Trust HIM!
"Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand."
Isaiah 41:10
"He gives strength to the weary, and to him who lacks might He increases power."
Isaiah 40:29
"The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the defense of my life; whom shall I dread?"
Psalm 27:1
"The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold."
Psalms 18:2
TY. Bonnie and her Husband JR are special people that have been put to the test so many times from physical problems yet they keep on serving God as God shines though them. They have a gift for reading God's word relating it to our times. I enjoy them very much.
Done brother!
Safe and blessed travels God will provide!
SPECIAL PRAYER REQUEST
Dear Friends,
Tomorrow, we at long last begin our journey from Tennessee to Palacios, Texas, right on the coast of Matagorda Bay, on the Gulf of Mexico. We are planting ourselves midway between all but two of our grandchildren so that we can become “professional grandparents”. We plan to do everything we can to spoil them all rotten and then send them home to their parents, like all good grandparents should! For the time being, we will be living in our 38-foot motor home until we find a place to buy or a piece of property to buy where we can build our “dream cottage”. We figure we’ll probably be in the motor home for about a year. At some point, we may “upgrade” for size – and get either a motor home with slides or a fifth wheel. The longest we’ve stayed in the motor home has been three weeks, and we were very happy… but those narrow walls could begin to close in after a while. We’ll just have to wait and see.
At any rate, we ask for your prayers for a safe journey. We are going to take our time – probably taking three days to get there. At our request, we’ve been given the “primo” spot in the RV park… we can have our morning coffee sitting outside our door, overlooking the Bay which will be about 15 feet away! The park will be pretty well deserted except for the occasional weekend visitors, so there will be plenty of peace and quiet… something we long for after the past year of trial… after trial… after trial. Hopefully, we will be able to concentrate on serving you better through the ministry, and also seeing the ministry grow. We look forward for many opportunities that we know Jesus has in store for us. Being close to our grandchildren and being able to serve the Lord in the way that we want to have become the greatest desires of our hearts.
Please keep us in prayer for the trip, and for a wonderful year to come.
God bless you all,
J.R. & Bonnie
PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW ADDRESS:
Dogwood Ministries, Inc.
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JESUS - A DIVINE AFTERTHOUGHT? - Galatians 3:6-25
Galatians 3:6-25
About four thousand years ago, God made a promise to Abraham. Around five hundred years later, He gave the Law to Israel through Moses. About fifteen hundred years after that, God sent His Son to redeem the world. Was Jesus a “Divine afterthought”? Did God finally "throw in the towel" after realizing that man could never live up to the requirements of the Law? After watching Israel fail again and again, not to mention the individual failures of all the people, did God finally say, "Okay, I have to do something to help these people. I guess I'll have to send my Son, since nothing else has worked."
No! From the moment the world was formed, the plan for the redemption of our souls was laid in place. It's revealed time and again in scripture, beginning in Genesis 3:14-15, when God cursed the serpent. And here, in this part of his letter to the Galatians, Paul addresses another time when God spoke His promise of a Redeemer – this time to Abraham.
The Jews believed that they were the promised "seed" of Abraham (Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 24:7). However, here, in verse 16, Paul shows the Galatians that God said "seed", not "seeds"… ONE "seed"… Jesus would be the One who would bless the world – “all nations", not just the Jews.
God also promised Abraham that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars in the sky (Genesis 15:5), but there aren't that many Jews, are there? Again, God was not referring just to Israel, or just to the Jews. God was speaking of "the children of the promise” – every person whose "faith is accredited as righteousness"… every person whose faith lies in Jesus Christ alone for salvation is a "child of the promise” – a descendant of Abraham.
So, was Jesus a "divine afterthought"? No! His redemptive sacrifice was the very means by which Abraham knew he would be saved two thousand years before Jesus was born! Abraham KNEW that a Redeemer would come (John 8:56). God told Abraham that there would be a Redeemer, and Abraham believed God – and his faith in Jesus' sacrifice that would happen two thousand years in his future saved him… not right at that moment, because until Jesus actually was crucified, no one was saved. However, there were thousands of people who – like Abraham – had faith in the coming Messiah, and awaited Jesus’ sacrifice in a “holding place” beyond the tomb, knowing the day would come when He would break them free from that holding place and welcome them to heaven.
The point? God didn't make a "big bang" and throw the world into motion, then sit back and "roll with the punches", doing what He had to do in reaction to the things that mankind did. Rather, He set His plan in motion with the very first part of creation that He spoke into existence. He made the promise to Abraham – a promise that includes all who believe in Jesus. He gave the Law to Moses, to show the world what sin is, and to reveal to each of us how impossible it is for us to achieve perfection. Then He sent His Son to be the final sacrifice – pouring out His grace on us… we who are incapable of keeping the whole Law… so that we might have the ugliness of our imperfection covered by His perfect shed blood and spend eternity with Him.
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REMEMBER THE POOR – Galatians 2:10
All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
Paul had been sent to preach the gospel message to the Gentiles in the countries surrounding Israel. Many, if not most, of Paul's converts were, if not wealthy, at least quite comfortable financially. The Christians in Jerusalem, however, were not so well off. In fact, they had come upon hard times due to a famine. Knowing this, Paul was constant in his seeking of donations of funds that he sent to the church leaders in Jerusalem to be distributed to those in need. Paul was eager to help the poor, to see that no one went without food or clothing or shelter.
Are our churches so generous today? Are Christians as willing today to make sure others have food, clothing, shelter, transportation? If so, why do we have so many people who are homeless? In the U.S., approximately 78% of the people call themselves "Christian". If each one of these people had a heart like Paul, not one person in the United States would be homeless… not one child would go hungry… not one person would have to wear rags.
If that were accomplished, that same spirit of giving could spread from every person in this country to all the countries in the world where poverty is the norm, where many of those who are considered poor in this country would be considered rich.
If you live in the U.S. and want a wake-up call, talk to someone who lives in one of the poorer countries in Africa… countries where children die by the thousands from malaria – a disease that could be cured with one of the least expensive drugs in existence – quinine… where having a bed and blanket of your own is a luxury… or where you’re considered “well off” if you have your own bathroom and a real floor in your one-room apartment rather than dirt… and where you never know from day to day whether you’ll have electricity or whether violence will break out nearby, making it dangerous for you to even go to the grocery store or to work!
Unfortunately, most of us consider giving like this: We clean out our closets and take all the things we wouldn't be caught dead in to mission efforts or the Salvation Army. We buy some groceries – a whole load of things we wouldn't think of putting on our own tables – and give them to the food pantry. We make sure our own children have the best clothing, the best toys, the nicest houses, the newest cars, and – if it doesn't get in the way of our budget – throw a few dollars into the pot for those less fortunate than ourselves. Think about this… how much would it help someone else if you gave up HBO and gave what you're paying the cable company to a mission every month? That's just one thing. There are thousands of other things that you and I can and should do to help those in need, and not just financially. How about volunteering to teach an adult literacy class? Could it be that your efforts might result in one person moving from poverty to prosperity simply by learning to read?
Jesus said that the poor would always be with us, and He didn't lie. How much are you doing to make sure that the poor have what they need – both financially and through giving of your time and effort? How often do you remember the poor?
"I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me." Matthew 25:40
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SOWING AND REAPING
Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap
The Scriptures are full of warnings about self-deception. James 1:26 reminds us that we deceive ourselves when we think we are religious but do not bridle our tongue. There is nothing that grieves God more than when we bad-mouth people instead of building them up with our speech. We are never to use our tongues to put others down. Instead we are to edify one another in what we say and thereby give grace to those who hear us. If your tongue is out of control, you're fooling yourself to believe that you have your spiritual life together.
We also deceive ourselves when we think we will not reap what we sow (Galatians 6:7). As Christians we sometimes think we are exempt from this principle, but we are not. Even though our sins are forgiven, we will have to live with the results and consequences of our thoughts, words and actions whether good or bad.
Since I was privileged to be raised on a farm, I witnessed every year the law of cause and effect. If we didn't sow good seed in the spring, we didn't reap a good crop in the fall. If we didn't feed the sheep, they died. Our young people have difficulty grasping this simple sow-and-reap truth. Living from weekend to weekend or party to party, they fail to prepare themselves for the future.
Your life may be measured by what you reap, but it is determined by what you sow. For example, if you want a friend, be a friend. What you get out of life is what you put into it.
Prayer: Lord, guard me from the self-deception of thinking You will always cover for me or pull me out of the jams I get myself into. Help me learn to sow what I hope to reap.
http://www.crosswalk.com/devotionals/dailyinchrist
No matter what crosses our path this day. Regardless of how stressed we become, what darkness shows it face, how hopeless or lonely we may feel because of the least or greatest of circumstances. Please dont forget, if we are truly born-again, the power of the universe, almighty GOD! He is with us! God has promised us that He will never leave or forsake us. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, we are NEVER without their love & compassion & help, even in our darkest hour. So, if or when trouble & problems & pain confronts us. Let us Stop in our tracks at that very instance and cry out to Jesus & give HIM our complete faith & trust with the confidence that the Holy Spirit of God living within us will NEVER let us down! Letting the circumstances of life defeat us is in fact letting satan have his way with us...Think about it!
"Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, the God who is our salvation."
Psalm 68:19
"Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen."
Ephesians 3:20-21
"In all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us."
Romans 8:37
"My God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus."
Philippians 4:19
Good morning...TN. is treating me just fine. After 24 years of n/e PA. winters and to have just lived the mild winter they had here this year..of course it was warmer than usual here..i feel like ive died and gone to heaven!...LOL!
Glenna is doing much better, she is out and about some but all she went thru took a toll on her at 83. Thanks for asking!
When things are said so right on it gets me excited to read people who get it. So yes that AMEN part can get a bit extreme. LOL!
LOL, weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Gregster!
WHAT GOD WANTS DONE
Philippians 4:6
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God
When you feel anxious in a task or a relationship, your anxiety may be signaling the uncertainty of a goal you have chosen. You are hoping something will happen, but you have no guarantee that it will. You can control some of the factors, but not all of them.
For example, a teenager may believe that her happiness at school depends on her parents allowing her to attend a school dance. Not knowing how they will respond, she is anxious. If they say no, she will be angry because her goal is blocked. But if she knows all along that there is no possible chance of them saying yes, she will be depressed because her goal will not be achieved.
When you base your future success on something that can never happen, you have an impossible, hopeless goal. Your depression is a signal that your goal, no matter how spiritual or noble, may never be reached. Some forms of depression can be caused by chemical imbalances. But if there is no physical cause for the depression, then that depression is the expression of hopelessness.
No God-given goal can be blocked, uncertain or impossible. With God all things are possible. If God issued a command that could not be obeyed, it would undermine His authority. If God wants it done, it can be done.
The real question is: What does God want done? The answer? He wants us to be what He has called us to be. And if that's what God wants done, no situations or circumstances of life can keep you from being the engineer, homemaker, parent, or leader God has called you to be.
Prayer: Lord, help me keep my eyes on what You want done in my life, not on the seemingly impossible hindrances that keep me from growing in You.
http://www.crosswalk.com/devotionals/dailyinchrist
Contentment & the Ole devil....he knows how to work on us..when I look at folks that are suffering, who are in need, who are broken hearted, who struggle just to get through the day I can not help but count my BLESSINGS and see how well off ole Plugger really is....However, if Ole Plugger looks at those who have way more than he, who fly everywhere they go rather than drive, who have the big house, who have the really nice auto, fancy cloths, etc, etc, etc....then Ole Plugger gets feeling sorry for himself, Ole Plugger no longer counts his BLESSING rather he falls into self-pitty and once this happens the battle is all but lost...The devil works all kinds of tricks on us..
A thought for folks....when you get down and out, no matter what it is, just look next door (so to speak) and you will see someone who is worse than you...."this has never failed me"
OK!! My 2 cents worth
OH Tenac...how is Tenn. treating you? And how is the ederly lady doing....back sometime ago you ak for prayers for her and I have been curious as to how she is coming along....
Being content with our lives, accepting the hand we are dealt day by day is a most powerful statement of our born-again profession. Being satisfied with what God has provided for us speaks volumes to where our walk with Christ is at. Being content says that we acknowledge that sovereign God is in control of EVERYTHING including our lives & our circumstances. As believers contentment shows that God has us right where He wants us or at least headed in the right direction. Being content tells the world and satan that no matter how much we are lacking in the material world or how much persecution we endure or however bad our circumstances may become. GOD IS IN CONTROL! Think about it!
But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
John 4:14
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:13
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Matthew 5:6
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23
Double up that Amen!
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