Even though Willow Grace will stay in the hospital for a while, she is doing well – still as the HOLY SPIRIT reminds you, please keep praying for her and her Mom and Dad, Misty and Greg.
Remember Allison too; surgery went well, praying for complete recovery.
Betty is home, but prayers still needed.
Gracelyn has a daddy now who loves her.
So many praises with continued prayer!

Yeah! We are looking at a long weekend coming up.

July 4.
America’s Independence

Oh, my goodness could I go off into a long spiel with that. And I just might.

Shall we Praise JESUS for the many wonderful privileges we yet enjoy here in America and be available as a vessel of the HOLY SPIRIT to pour His goodness back into this Land?

The quickest way to lose our independence is to refuse to be dependent upon the LORD CHRIST who is our only hope of Eternal Freedom, now and forever.

Galatians 5 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
1 It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.
via Galatians 5 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

I read on Sunday evening a word by Charles Spurgeon: “for there cannot be faith in the heart unless there be holiness in the life.” – and I am still thinking about it.  (quote from Charles Spurgeon’s Book Morning and Evening, page 357.)

And tonight in Bible Study at First Baptist Satsuma I was way focal – bordered on too far, perhaps, when I in essence said that it is a shame (ridiculous, if you will) that unrepentant sinners can come to church year after year and remain comfortable in their sins.

And somehow in my mind it’s all related.
Independence
Freedom
Bondage
Dependence
America
The Christian Church
JESUS – The GREATEST Liberator

As long as Christian Churches continue to be houses of music and sermons that leave unrepentant sinners feeling comfortable to come and sit week after week, and week after week go back out those sanctuary doors to return to this:

19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions,  21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
via Galatians 5 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

none of us are living in the Freedom JESUS died to give us and America will continue to decay.

This I know: I don’t want Readers to be able to come to this screen, time after time after time and not be changed.  If that be the case, I have failed exceedingly as the LORD’s handmaiden and I pray He will convict and chasten me until I am changed.

If I could pray only one thing for America I would pray that the HOLY SPIRIT would come in such a great outpouring of Himself upon people, that sinner and saint alike would be broken and set free from the bondage of sin and flesh.

The Message Bible paraphrases it this way:
John 16:The Message (MSG)
8-11″When he comes, he’ll expose the error of the godless world’s view of sin, righteousness, and judgment: He’ll show them that their refusal to believe in Me is their basic sin; that righteousness comes from above, where I am with the Father, out of their sight and control; that judgment takes place as the ruler of this godless world is brought to trial and convicted. via John 16:8 – Passage Lookup – The Message – BibleGateway.com. 

Oh I long to see active and vibrant holiness in people who profess the Name of JESUS as Savior and most of all in the woman whose face I see in the mirror.

Well, it is officially Friday, July 1, 2011 – I better get some shut-eye time.

ABBA, I know You are working, I am counting on You to complete what You have begun in all of us. Amen and amen in JESUS name.

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See you soon,
Kathie