Monthly Archives: October 2011

A Quick Hello, Celebrations, Guests

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If my earlier post did not give you quite enough to read try Kimberly’s Post for today. Click HERE.  It’s entitled Day Four: The God of More than Just My Pajamas  Interesting title, huh?

And Oh My Goodness!! Let me share with you what I stumbled upon this morning at Kimberly’s Blog!  It gives me reason to Take Heart!! There is a Blog World brimming with women who love JESUS. That encourages me!! How about you?

And special blogging is going on this month, all 31 days of October. Please click HERE and check out one page listing 721 blogs offering us wonderful reading and encouragement and helpful hints and ideas for living, parenting, beauty, all things woman, the holidays, baking and much more! No, I have not visited each one but there must be something for everyone! I don’t know about you, but I think this is wildly great!!

And so, if you find something that blesses you at one or more of these 721 blog locations, would you be willing to share that with me (via email) and allow me to post it for all of us to enjoy? That would be so fun!

Keep up the good doings,
Braving the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie

Assurance - Promise, Christian Living, KWT Paraphrasing, Salvation

Nuff Said

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For God so loved YOU that He gave His only begotten Son that if YOU will believe in Him, He WILL save YOU. John 3:16 kwt paraphrase

Romans 5:8 Amplified Bible (AMP)
8 But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.
via Romans 5:8 AMP – But God shows and clearly proves His – Bible Gateway.

1 Peter 5:7 Amplified Bible (AMP)
7 Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.
via 1 Peter 5:7 AMP – Casting the whole of your care all your – Bible Gateway.

Hebrews 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money [including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions] and be satisfied with your present [circumstances and with what you have]; for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!]
via Hebrews 13:5 AMP – Let your character or moral disposition – Bible Gateway.

Click HERE and pray, please.

Brave the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie

Christian Living

Box of Cookies

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Practice makes perfect – we’ve all heard it. And to some degree we believe it. And to the degree we believe it, we will practice it.

Like so with Scripture.

Romans 6 was not fun to teach this morning. It says and therefore I had to say that we  in CHRIST JESUS are dead to sin and alive unto God (that part we like but what follows is) therefore we can no longer live in the practice of sin. And I used a couple of examples and now I have to practice them.

I said some have said I can’t eat just one cookie, if I eat one I have to eat the whole box. I had to say that’s a lie. We don’t HAVE to eat the whole box. We eat more than we need (cookies or whatever the fancy or staple is) because we WANT to eat them, not because we HAVE to. See what I mean? Not fun! Not fun at all!!

BUT the good news is we don’t HAVE to eat the whole box because every man, woman, boy and girl who is IN CHRIST JESUS, has within us the Resurrection Power of God. And since He who is within was able to raise JESUS CHRIST from the dead, He in us can say no to a box of cookies. And here’s the sticky part — if we don’t call upon Him for His Strength to say NO to boxes of cookies or unwholesome movies or outbursts of anger that wound others, or compromising holy principles, or gossip, or unforgiveness, or coveting, or well you see what I mean. If we don’t call upon Him for His Strength to say NO, it’s not because we can’t, it’s because we don’t WANT to.  NOW THAT STINGS!

Am I, did I advocate that we can be sinless in practice in this life? ABSOLUTELY NOT! But I did bring to point that even though we will not be sinless this side of Heaven, we can sin less today than we did yesterday, if we want to. And if we don’t want to? Well, we better check to make sure we have actually said YES to JESUS in saving faith.

It was a hard lesson. So what will I do with it now? Well, for now, I’m gonna put this ‘Box of Cookies’ to automatic post and I’m going to ignore all those good things that need to be done and go to bed – not because I want to but because obedience and love for JESUS commands that I rest the temple in which HE by HIS SPIRIT resides.

1 Corinthians 6:19 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
via 1 Corinthians 6:19 NASB – Or do you not know that your body is a – Bible Gateway.

Click HERE and pray this fine Monday morning :)  and be vigilant to
Brave the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie