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Gutsy?

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1 Kings 18

I love, love, love the boldness of Elijah in this chapter 18!

Let me share why with you.
Ahab is king and a bad king he is. In my humble opinion mean and scared as a snake. 
But nonetheless king  – with all the powers of the office. 
And he’s shall we say so upset with Elijah that he wants him dead — graveyard dead.

Elijah knows this. 
Does that stop him from confronting Ahab? 
Nope.

Read with me.

15 Elijah said, “As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.” 
16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
17 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is this you, you troubler of Israel?” 
18 He said, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house have, because you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and you have followed the Baals. 
19 Now then send and gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, together with 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
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Pretty gutsy, don’t you think? 
I’d like to be that gutsy! 

But I am also mindful gutsy can fail. 
Gutsy can get full of gutsy and crumble. 
The Bible puts it take heed lest you fall — I think. 
Let me look that up. 
1 Corinthians 10:12 

Perhaps you will use the link and read the verse in context.

GOD responded to Elijah. 
Do you know the story? 
Elijah vs the prophets of Baal. 
I hope you will read the Chapter — GOD was faithful! 

GOD also brings rain by the chapter’s end too.

If you read on into Chapter 19, Elijah keeps saying he’s the only prophet left. 
His gutsy didn’t last. 
And by the way, he was not the only Prophet left. 
1 Kings 19:18 tells how many others had not bowed the knee to Baal. 

Take heed lest we fall. 
We are not alone. 
GOD always has a People. 
Let us pray for one another and seek each other out as the days grow darker — amen?

1 Corinthians, 2021, Just Chatty Today, Questions

Just Thinking — out loud

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I saw a Facebook post, now I am thinking. 
It is true negative comments from others or our own negative thoughts stick with us and it takes a whole lot of positive affirmations to erase even one engrained negative BUT
it does not have to be this way. 
Victory is possible!

No brag here. Just fact.
I don’t worry about if I am a good mom. 
For one thing, I am a mom, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother. 
I should have learned some stuff by now!

And by the Grace of GOD, I have! 

No, I am not perfect at any of those roles but because of JESUS, I am good at it. 

How does any human come to a place of confidence about anything? 

The accolades of others are not a sufficient, lasting way. Why?
When we are insecure there cannot come enough human affirmation to take us the long haul. 

There’s a reason humans are insecure. 
We innately know we are not enough.

But we don’t have to remain in that not enough mind or being!
WE CAN BELIEVE GOD!

We can acknowledge to Him and to ourselves that we are hell-deserving, depraved sinners in need of a Savior.
We can yield to THIS SAVIOR and we can receive THE MIND of CHRIST.   1 Corinthians 2:16 
The CHRIST who is accepted.
The CHRIST who is secure.
The CHRIST who is able.
The CHRIST who is all knowledge, intelligence, goodness, kindness, righteousness — HOLY PERFECTION personified.
AND WE CAN LEARN FROM HIM.
And He will impart grace and strength to us to learn. 
And as we learn we come to know in Him we are a good mom.
A good whoever He has brought us along to be. 

But let us not kid ourselves – living consistently in the flesh will NEVER grow us into a God-pleasing mom (parent), child, sibling, spouse, writer, builder, artist, teacher, preacher, etc., etc. 

I could save this for tomorrow but I’m not. 
And I may take tomorrow off —
I’ll be 70 then —- LORD willing!

1 Corinthians, 2021

Ignorance is not Bliss

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I think I shall be quick today. 

Good Wednesday morning to you.

1 Corinthians 12 begins with the Apostle Paul penning for The LORD that He (and Paul) does not want the people of Corinth (or you and me) to go on being ignorant. 

How would we today like a sermon to start off that way? 
Some of us would be okay with that as we do not want to be ignorant of The LORD’s Ways. 

Verse 2.
 2 You know that when you were pagans, no matter how you felt you were being led, you were being led astray to idols, which can’t speak at all.  source 

When we and they were pagans, before we received The LORD’s Salvation, no matter how we felt about it, we were being led away, astray from GOD to idols. 

If we are not being led by GOD, we are being led AWAY from Him. 
It’s as simple as that  — and we don’t need to go on being ignorant of that.