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Assurance - Promise, Christian Living

Affect and Effect

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What to write; what to write on a Sunday evening for a Monday morning? That’s a good question. What would be better is a good answer. :) Perhaps we will get one.

I hope you all have had some R & R this weekend and have invested some time in worship of our Great LORD and Father.

With a week of week days coming fast upon us, none of us are privy in this moment to every challenge that will confront us; but we are privileged to receive comfort in knowing that our DADDY GOD knows and He has already prepared our means of victory.  I hope we choose to receive His wisdom and comfort.

Saturday I polled my Facebook Friends and followed up with a question for pondering.  I think I’ll share the same with you all.

Saturday 9 AM – “I am curious; taking a poll you might say. How many of my (IDOKS) FB friends read the Bible every day?”

And the follow-up was this: Saturday 12:18 PM “Follow up to my Bible reading poll — just for pondering, not another poll: How many minutes or hours of TV or movies do you watch (excluding Christian programming) a day? Could you, will you divert some of those minutes to reading the Bible?”

Our poll answers directly affect and effect how well we will choose to receive ABBA’s wisdom and comfort leading to victory over our challenges this week.

1 Corinthians 10: New American Standard Bible (NASB)
13  No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.
via 1 Corinthians 10:13 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

James 1 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
1 James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings.
2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
6 But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
7 For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,
8 being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
via James 1 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

PFT – click HERE.

ABBA, thank You for being You and giving us all we need in You to be the US You desire for us. You are so faithful, so good to us.  Thank You.
You know I am thinking about Kerri, wanting You to remove those tumors and heal her; and Carson, he is only three and unless You tell me differently I am asking You to heal him; and Dori and her surgery on Wednesday, I am trusting it is what is needed to give her renewed and better quality of health; I pray this surgery and recovery for her will be textbook perfect and comfort her children as they wait I pray. And Truman comes to mind, You know the plans You have for him, I pray for health and strength to heal and walk in those plans and Beulah too. And those specific unspoken, got those on my mind too.  Thank You for tending them. I don’t want to leave anyone out who has asked us to pray; I am grateful that You won’t forget a one of them. Challenges. We are all going to have them this week.  I just pray in JESUS Name and for His sake that we will be faithful. Thank You, ABBA. Amen and amen.

Privileged to be His handmaiden,
Kathie

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I learned this afternoon that Carson, three-year old son of the Pastor of Dauphin Way Baptist Church, has been taken to St. Jude’s and we have been asked to pray for him and his family. Please click HERE for more details.

Love and thanks, Kathie

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Lifelines

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Another Friday!
They roll around so quickly!

July 8, 2011
A day to celebrate.
Joshua is 12 today.
Oh my goodness – how did 12 years come and go so quickly.
He’s a beautiful lad; brings me much happiness.

I am confident I have shared it before but let me do it again—my life verse as some have coined it.  A verse or verses that at a time or season in your life were a ‘lifeline’ to you; verses that you would call to mind again and again and as you did you found strength to take another breath.  Verses that kept faith alive. Verses that gave you courage to keep on keeping on. And still do.

These are mine:
Psalm 145: New American Standard Bible (NASB)
17 The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
18 The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth.
via Ps 145:17 – 18 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

The particular season that brought these verses to me has gone but the strength, comfort, faith and peace that came with quoting them to myself remains.
So, what are your lifeline verses? Care to share?

So happy to report Dylan is feeling better than was expected one day after surgery; even ate some mashed potatoes today!

LaJuann’s cousin, Floyd Kittrell, will be having open heart surgery in the morning (Friday) and she has asked that we pray for his surgery and recovery.

Allison, Misty and Willow Grace are continuing to improve but all still need prayer.

PFT — click HERE

ABBA, thank You for the privilege and trust we have been given to pray for these. Thank You for progress and good reports, we are delighted to receive them. And we pray for Floyd that his surgery and recovery will be text-book perfect. And I am continuing to remember others — John – that epidural he had today I pray it will bring the relief intended and thank You for Valerie’s new position, I pray she will prosper in it and others will be blessed and grateful for her position. I am still asking that you heal Kerri and Diana. And Kathy and Joe, you know the needs there even better than I and I ask for Your best for them. Randy and Jimmy – it’s been a long road for them and You have been faithful, thank You and I know You will continue, thank You, ABBA. And, we are remembering Willow Grace, Misty, Allison, Betty, Melinda, Elaine, Karen, Janet, Jenny, Carolyn and Julia, Ruth and Cynthia, Larry and Claudia, Ray and DeLois.  Thank You for hearing our hearts for each of these and others we have read. Amen and amen in JESUS Name.

Listening to the Laughter,
Kathie