Names!

whole-wheat-pancakes-9735211f39d04cc783639c1bcc53c1a9-3233885327Good morning!

Nehemiah 11

I confess all these names in Nehemiah are not in my vocabulary. Pronouncing them — nope can’t do it. But let me tell you, I appreciate them.
Why?
All those names tell me GOD knows the people attached to the names. Each and every one of them, He knows their name! But that’s not all — He knows your name. He knows my name.

There’s more! Twice in this one chapter, He says this: “468 men of valor” and “123 mighty men of valor”.
Can you imagine GOD calling you a mighty man or woman of valor?
How good is that?!

May this Wednesday be a splendid day for you!

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Until next time, holy hugs, Kathie

We Could

As I read Nehemiah, chapters 8 and 9, 9:2 in part says this: ‘and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers’, and I wondered if many of us do the same. We seem so busy we miss enough respites of quiet to even see our sins much less to seek deliverance from those strongholds handed down in us from generations before us. We could study our spiritual heritage and see the good and the not good; we could give thanks for the holy and denounce and forsake the unholy. The art of quiet, real quiet saturated in peace and jeweled with smiles; based on Scripture, we could have it if we seek it and choose it. 

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Every Number

I have been sitting on this since Sunday, I think. 

This first came to my attention via Instagram. That Planned Parenthood would be offering free abortions during the DNC.  Honestly, I thought surely not; that’s too bizarre to be true, right? 

Later, I learned no, it’s true. Planned Parenthood has Mobile Units set up near the Democratic National Convention.  Reportedly an IUD blow-up will also be displayed in the area. ( In addition to the mobile clinic, another group, Americans for Contraception, plans to erect an 18-foot-tall inflatable intrauterine device, or IUD, named “Freeda Womb,” The Times reported. laurapackardactivist/Instagram)

Are you familiar with IUDs? For years I thought an IUD’s purpose was to keep a woman from conceiving.
It is presented that way but that’s not the whole truth. 
It keeps the baby (yes, I know the term used is fertilized egg) in his or her earliest life stage from being implanted in the mother’s womb. Preventing that little one from continued life and growth. 

How do I know this? Because I ignorantly had one installed; not understanding exactly where it was placed or what it would do.  However, that did not stop me sometime later from praying and asking GOD for a baby – naive me, didn’t even remember the IUD was there.
BUT GOD heard me and my Baby Girl made her way to the lining of my womb just as GOD intended.  The Doctor removed the IUD and informed me that he fully expected me to start to bleed that evening and that I would spontaneously abort. I informed him that was not going to happen. He persisted it would. Even so, he sent me home to stay in bed for the next three days. Which I did.
My Baby Girl will be 48 this year. 

IUDs are a form of abortion. 
I am so thankful for my miracle, that GOD protected my Baby Girl and me. 

Planned Parenthood, the DNC, and Many Others.
A day of reckoning is scheduled, not at the hands of man or woman; BUT GOD, Himself. 

Christians pray, not with anger, not with animosity, but with compassion and willingness to be a vessel GOD can speak and act through to enlighten and guide women from these places of death to LIFE in JESUS, for them and their babies. 

This Land is guilty of the blood of millions of children. I have found it difficult to get an accurate accounting of just how many babies have been killed here by abortion since 1973. 
But this I know, GOD has that number.
He knows every little girl and every little boy whose mortal life was ended by abortion. Moreover, He knows every mother, every daddy, every doctor, every nurse, and every other person who had a hand in each one of those abortions. I am forever grateful my Baby Girl is not one of those numbers. 

Pray, Christians, Pray. 

41“Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.” Matthew 26 source

What temptation? The temptation to do nothing and say nothing when we are given an open door of communication by HOLY SPIRIT. Every woman who has fallen prey to this heinous act of abortion needs to know she can be forgiven, delivered, and sanctified by The LORD of Glory. 

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Until next time, holy hugs, Kathie

Employment

Among the people of the infant church, like it or not, some of them were slaves. They were the property of another. Yet even in that state of subservience, JESUS had set them free in Spirit, even while they remained slaves. And He gave them instructions. Here is one such instruction.

22 Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord. 23 Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men, 24 because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. 25 Whoever does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism. Colossians 3 source

Perhaps today you are not owned by another and JESUS has indeed set you free in Spirit. Perhaps today you are employed; you are an employee and you work for a wage. Here is His instruction to us. We may substitute the word slaves, for employees.

22 Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord. 23 Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men, 24 because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. 25 Whoever does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism. Colossians 3 source

Enjoy your day at work. In HIM you can.  

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