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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.

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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

Assurance - Promise

Selah

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Psalm 3     21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
3 But Thou, O LORD, art a shield for me, my glory and the lifter up of mine head.
4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and He heard me from His holy hill. Selah
8 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD. Thy blessing is upon Thy people. Selah
via Psalm 3 – Passage Lookup – 21st Century King James Version – BibleGateway.com.

Selah.
Yes. Stop and think about that all day.

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You are loved,
Kathie

Assurance - Promise, Christian Living, Forgiveness, Repentance, Salvation

The Sting

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It’s Tuesday night and I’m pretty well spent for the day but wanted to at least post a Wednesday morning hello.

Numbers 21:New International Version (NIV)
The Bronze Snake
4 They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way;
5 they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!”
6 Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.
7 The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
8 The LORD said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”
9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.
via Numbers 21:4-9 – Passage Lookup – New International Version – BibleGateway.com.

First thing with these verses — but the people grew impatient on the way;

And their impatience was a springboard to murmuring, complaining and accusing their Leader and their God.

Impatience is a dangerous flesh fit.  In some cases it’s a real killer.

Isn’t it interesting that for the people of Israel to live they had to look upon the very image that was killing them?

Perhaps we would do well to look our impatience (or whatever sin that is so easily besetting us — Hebrews 12:1) in the face, see it for the fiery serpent it is and call out to JESUS, saying even as the Israelites did: “We sinned … “.

We can be sure He will forgive us and empower us to live.

I think I shall retire for the night on that, knowing that He is able to do even more than I can think or ask (Ephesians 3:20).  Perhaps these thoughts will lighten your Wednesday.  What a blessing that would be to both of us!!

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ABBA, thank You.  Thank You for promised rest to our weary frames and power to overcome our flesh, the world and Satan. I pray for our IDOKs each and every one at each of their whereabouts for each to abide in Your peace, comfort, wisdom, and an ever-increasing hunger and thirst to KNOW You. We are mindful of many needs and we entrust them to You in JESUS Name. Amen and amen.

Blessed to be a handmaiden of the LORD,
Kathie