Good Afternoon!
And, it sure is! Sun Shine and 55 degrees. How much better can it get, especially since it hasn't been anything like that since last October.
It is my hope by this weekend to make my opening remarks about a new path for me under the umbrella of Faith Enterprises. Very excited. It has been a long time since I actually got this enthusiastic. In looking back, I have been in care taking modes for ten years. And, now having been steadfast, Jesus has shed some light on a new path. TBA
Which leads us to a verse I learned back in college. I was the oldest student at both Ft. Wayne Bible College and University of St. Francis. The reason I share that is because I had to certainly learn about steadfastness. Many times I wanted to give up. In the last ten years I was sure I probably should just lay back and retire. And, yet, I kept going. What is steadfastness. The dictionary says - Firmly fixed or established. Constant; unswerving. No wavering or being fickle.
God's Word says in Isaiah 26: 3
"You will keep in perfect peace him (her) whose mind is steadfast, because he (she) trusts in you."
I remember memorizing that verse and over these 3 decades plus, I have had to refer to that verse several times. If I felt wishy-washy or all over the place, I new somewhere my fixed position had washed away. We all have different lifestyles and things we are responsible for. We all worry at times and wonder if God is going to answer that prayer about so and so. Staying steadfast and fixed, unswerving takes prayer each and every day. As we have learned God doesn't always answer a prayer immediately, but I do believe He answers them in His time. Steadfastness means - stay fixed in your trust by praying like it is as critical as oxygen to breath.
"In order to reach your greatest potential view your prayer life as critical as it is for the need of oxygen!" (Pastor Stuart Kruse)
So the bottom line is if you want perfect peace, then stay fixed (steadfast) and unnerved in your prayer life. Trust God will grant you peace because you trust in Him.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Sunday, March 23, 2014
WHAT ARE YOU PURSUING?
When you think about it, we are pursuing something almost all day long. What I have to do to plan supper, get those things out and decide what time we eat etc. You need to call someone. You have housework, or a client to call back. Some like to think I know where every bathroom is between here and Florida. We are looking for employment, a new friends telephone number, getting a grandchild something for their birthday. Should I volunteer for church greeter, the kids department, parking attendant, sound technician, part time job. . .you get my drift.
We can probably say we make a lot of those decisions on our own. What would happen if I didn't put anything in front of Jesus on any given day. What if I said. . ."Lord Jesus, I am considering doing such and such, is this what you want me to do?" "Would it bring honor, glory, and truth to You and me to do this?"
I propose that if you seek a pursuit let Him shed the light on it if He wants it. If He does not, He'll change your heart's desire.
Psalm 37 4: 7. But in particular 4: Delight yourself also in the Lord and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.
I also like 5 because it talks about how do we do this. . .Commit your way to the Lord (roll and repose each care of your load on Him); trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) also in Him and He will bring it to pass.
Keeping in mind here, that if you have a pursuit and it seems really real to you, then process it with the Lord. That is what He wants every day fro us anyway. I have experienced Him changing my mind and desire about that pursuit. I am also convicted to tell you that I have gone on and done what I wanted to do. No big surprise to some of you. It turned out badly. Not doing that anymore.
In these very cautious and precarious days, it is time for us to Pursuit only Him, and anything in between.
PROCESS IT ALWAYS WITH YOUR ONE AND ONLY COUNSELOR! JESUS CHRIST!
We can probably say we make a lot of those decisions on our own. What would happen if I didn't put anything in front of Jesus on any given day. What if I said. . ."Lord Jesus, I am considering doing such and such, is this what you want me to do?" "Would it bring honor, glory, and truth to You and me to do this?"
I propose that if you seek a pursuit let Him shed the light on it if He wants it. If He does not, He'll change your heart's desire.
Psalm 37 4: 7. But in particular 4: Delight yourself also in the Lord and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.
I also like 5 because it talks about how do we do this. . .Commit your way to the Lord (roll and repose each care of your load on Him); trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) also in Him and He will bring it to pass.
Keeping in mind here, that if you have a pursuit and it seems really real to you, then process it with the Lord. That is what He wants every day fro us anyway. I have experienced Him changing my mind and desire about that pursuit. I am also convicted to tell you that I have gone on and done what I wanted to do. No big surprise to some of you. It turned out badly. Not doing that anymore.
In these very cautious and precarious days, it is time for us to Pursuit only Him, and anything in between.
PROCESS IT ALWAYS WITH YOUR ONE AND ONLY COUNSELOR! JESUS CHRIST!
Saturday, March 15, 2014
HERE IS TO US ALL!
II CORINTHIANS 5: 17
Therefore if any person is (in-grafted) in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come.
Behold, the fresh and new is coming! Believing and Receiving is but a milometer apart!
Take it all in, and enjoy!
Sunday, March 9, 2014
THE BIGGEST WORD WE KNOW!
Is BELIEVE! Do you believe when you sit down in that chair it will be there when you sit?
Do you believe the sun comes up every day? At least here or somewhere it does? Do you believe you are loved by the Lord God Jehovah? And, most of all Do You Believe that He works ALL things together for good to them that are called according to His purpose? Romans 8: 28
I will hear the most famous line that goes with that, a million times. "Well, I sure hope He does!"
Wow! So what would you want a personally signed letter that He will promise to bring that situation together for good that you have prayed for - for ten years, maybe 30 years?
We are all guilty on that one. I am saying nothing new here. We are all impatient and want to tell God What, When, and Where!
I mentioned this on my business Facebook awhile back. . .When my good friend Anna said to me "God's Got It!", that was the cement, the glue, the "stuff" I needed to be reminded that BELIEVE is a permanent marker on my life. In Jesus Calling the devotional book, not too many days ago, it said make friends with your problems and see me fit them all together for good. After thinking on that awhile I could see that we do tend to get rattled and distracted by problems. I have met some people that actually freeze up emotionally when things get over the top. We BELIEVE we have to do something, or we BELIEVE God won't do what is needed quick enough.
Our real commitment here is to really embrace our problems, turn them over to Jesus and BELIEVE He will fit them, fix them and work them all together for good. RELAX! Uhhh! I hear that sigh you just made. No, really. I have had two months of coming to terms with this very concept. I have been a Christian for a long time. Yes, I have read the Bible many times. Yes, I have even applied His Word to my life. But, this time I smile, because this one I finally get, experienced it, and had no choice but to SEE IT! Be careful. God brings things around as many times as is need be until we get it. He got me through this last month when i thought I would burst at the seams. Medical crisis after medical crisis with friends, ourselves, two funerals and the death of our beloved Dakota. Three snow storms and clean up just to get to all these things. I turned it into a daily mantra. God's Got It! He has the light on my path, all I have to do is take His hand and walk it. BELIEVE, and don't make Him bring that circumstance around for the 18th time.
God's Got It! Spring is officially on it's way. Whew!
Do you believe the sun comes up every day? At least here or somewhere it does? Do you believe you are loved by the Lord God Jehovah? And, most of all Do You Believe that He works ALL things together for good to them that are called according to His purpose? Romans 8: 28
I will hear the most famous line that goes with that, a million times. "Well, I sure hope He does!"
Wow! So what would you want a personally signed letter that He will promise to bring that situation together for good that you have prayed for - for ten years, maybe 30 years?
We are all guilty on that one. I am saying nothing new here. We are all impatient and want to tell God What, When, and Where!
I mentioned this on my business Facebook awhile back. . .When my good friend Anna said to me "God's Got It!", that was the cement, the glue, the "stuff" I needed to be reminded that BELIEVE is a permanent marker on my life. In Jesus Calling the devotional book, not too many days ago, it said make friends with your problems and see me fit them all together for good. After thinking on that awhile I could see that we do tend to get rattled and distracted by problems. I have met some people that actually freeze up emotionally when things get over the top. We BELIEVE we have to do something, or we BELIEVE God won't do what is needed quick enough.
Our real commitment here is to really embrace our problems, turn them over to Jesus and BELIEVE He will fit them, fix them and work them all together for good. RELAX! Uhhh! I hear that sigh you just made. No, really. I have had two months of coming to terms with this very concept. I have been a Christian for a long time. Yes, I have read the Bible many times. Yes, I have even applied His Word to my life. But, this time I smile, because this one I finally get, experienced it, and had no choice but to SEE IT! Be careful. God brings things around as many times as is need be until we get it. He got me through this last month when i thought I would burst at the seams. Medical crisis after medical crisis with friends, ourselves, two funerals and the death of our beloved Dakota. Three snow storms and clean up just to get to all these things. I turned it into a daily mantra. God's Got It! He has the light on my path, all I have to do is take His hand and walk it. BELIEVE, and don't make Him bring that circumstance around for the 18th time.
Sunday, March 2, 2014
JESUS CALLING!
It has certainly been a very rocky road this past week. With still so many mixed emotional sadness's, I would like to share something from my devotional. . .Jesus Calling!
A single mother wrote this devotional book. Her mother read her journal and told her she should put these thoughts from her mind (she felt Jesus was saying to her) into a book.
From February 26th -
I AM LEADING YOU, STEP BY STEP, through your life. Hold my hand in trusting dependence, letting Me guide you through this day. Your future looks uncertain and feels flimsy - even precarious. That is how it should be. Secret Things belong to the Lord, and future things are secret things. When you try to figure out the future, you are grasping at things that are Mine. This, like all forms of worry, is an act of rebellion: doubting My promises to care for you.
Whenever you find yourself worrying about the future, repent to Me. I will show you the next step forward, and the one after that, and the one after that. Relax and enjoy the journey in My Presence, trusting Me to open up the way before you as you go.
Deuteronomy 29: 29 and Psalm 32: 8
Psalm 32: 8
I (the Lord) will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.
I also work hard at remembering Deut. 31: 8 Where I read about how He goes before me, and He walks with me in whatever my life is leading. So, that tells me He's Got It! And, even though it seems really precarious, He's Got it! Good stuff. Take it all in. You can trust it, you can trust Him.
A single mother wrote this devotional book. Her mother read her journal and told her she should put these thoughts from her mind (she felt Jesus was saying to her) into a book.
From February 26th -
I AM LEADING YOU, STEP BY STEP, through your life. Hold my hand in trusting dependence, letting Me guide you through this day. Your future looks uncertain and feels flimsy - even precarious. That is how it should be. Secret Things belong to the Lord, and future things are secret things. When you try to figure out the future, you are grasping at things that are Mine. This, like all forms of worry, is an act of rebellion: doubting My promises to care for you.
Whenever you find yourself worrying about the future, repent to Me. I will show you the next step forward, and the one after that, and the one after that. Relax and enjoy the journey in My Presence, trusting Me to open up the way before you as you go.
Deuteronomy 29: 29 and Psalm 32: 8
Psalm 32: 8
I (the Lord) will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.
I also work hard at remembering Deut. 31: 8 Where I read about how He goes before me, and He walks with me in whatever my life is leading. So, that tells me He's Got It! And, even though it seems really precarious, He's Got it! Good stuff. Take it all in. You can trust it, you can trust Him.
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