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Judgment

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Day 1 – clean clothes
Day 2 – candles, highly fragrant and made in the USA ones.
Day 3 – Online Helpers like the Fly Lady.  Click Here.
Day 4 – space heaters
Day 5 – Judgment

Yes. You read it right. Judgment. I am happy dance grateful for judgment.  I have come to understand that when a man or woman says ‘don’t judge me’ they are really saying ‘don’t tell me I did wrong’.

I would so like to say Dear One perish the thought! There is no need for me to judge, nor can I.
GOD already has.
It is recorded in His Word – the judgment is written there for us to read and believe for ourselves.

But that’s not what I am happy dance grateful about. Would you like to know?
Good.
Cause I really want to share it.
I am happy dance grateful that I am no longer afraid of judgment. Moreover, I am delighted to look my sins square in the face and hear them declared worthy of judgment. Why?
Because the next thing I hear is that JESUS PAID IT ALL for me and because I have accepted His sacrifice, I am free of guilt and condemnation.

I am happy dance grateful that nothing I think, say, or do is hidden from Father and He, the HOLY SPIRIT, is ever-present to nudge me, prod me, remind me, whatever it takes to get me to agree, and lay that unholy thought or deed at the foot of JESUS’ cross and be fully clean and un-condemned.

Oh yes! I’ll gladly take moments of horrendous painful judgment to receive the full pardon offered by JESUS CHRIST!!
Yes! Yes! HOLY SPIRIT tell me, convince me when I am wrong when I have sinned against You.  I invite You to judge my thoughts and my deeds continuously. And, if You use the mouth of one of my brothers or sisters to speak that correction, thank You, LORD. Thank You that they and You love me enough to tell me. Amen and Amen in JESUS’ Name.

Romans 8: Amplified Bible (AMP)
1THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit.
via Romans 8:1-3 AMP – THEREFORE there is now no condemnation – Bible Gateway.

Hebrews 12:8 Amplified Bible (AMP)
8 Now if you are exempt from correction and left without discipline in which all [of God’s children] share, then you are illegitimate offspring and not true sons [at all].
via Hebrews 12:8 AMP – Now if you are exempt from correction – Bible Gateway.

John 5:23-25 Amplified Bible (AMP)
23 So that all men may give honor (reverence, homage) to the Son just as they give honor to the Father. [In fact] whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, Who has sent Him.
24 I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, the person whose ears are open to My words [who listens to My message] and believes and trusts in and clings to and relies on Him Who sent Me has (possesses now) eternal life. And he does not come into judgment [does not incur sentence of judgment, will not come under condemnation], but he has already passed over out of death into life.
25 Believe Me when I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, the time is coming and is here now when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear it shall live.
via John 5:23-25 AMP – So that all men may give honor – Bible Gateway.

So now do you see why I am happy dance grateful for JUDGMENT? Now, aren’t you too?

Brave the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie

Christian Living, Giving Thanks

Space Heaters

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Day 1 – clean clothes
Day 2 – candles, highly fragrant and made in the USA ones.
Day 3 – Online Helpers like the Fly Lady.  Click Here.

Day 4 – space heaters

I am grateful for space heaters that give you just enough heat on a crisp morning when it’s too early in the year to turn on the heat pump.  There is a rule written about that somewhere for lower Alabama, right? :)

And speaking of seasons.

2 Timothy 4:1-3 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
1 I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His Kingdom:
2 preach the Word; be instant in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears, they shall heap to themselves teachers in accordance with their own lusts.
via 2 Timothy 4:1-3 KJ21 – I charge thee therefore before God and – Bible Gateway.

In this ‘season’ of this 21st Century in which we live it is time for us to ‘turn up the heat’. To be space heaters in our own little corner of the world. to give people the warmth of JESUS’ love and yes the knowledge that there is a ‘great heat’ coming for all who refuse to live holy.

Y’all have a wonderful weekend and be ye thankful. :)

Keep Braving the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie

A Quick Hello, Celebrations, Christian Living

War Efforts

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John 8: 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews who believed in Him, “If ye continue in My Word, then are ye My disciples indeed.
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
via John 8:31-33 KJ21 – Then said Jesus to those Jews who – Bible Gateway.

I might as well be up front with you.

I don’t like Halloween.
Actually I hate Halloween as it is traditionally celebrated with tricks and witches and the like. In the circles I travel we try to put another spin on it and hopefully give an alternative that is fun and perhaps even redemptive.  LORD willing that is what I will be doing tonight.

So my Journey devotional this morning was fitting and I’d like to share a thought from it with you. Let me just quote a bit of it.

“Satan fights mightily to weaken marriages, discourage believers, distract ministers, tear apart churches and destroy testimonies.”

Any of that cover any of us?
Any of us married?
Any of us a believer in JESUS CHRIST?
Any of us have a pastor?
Any of us a member of a local church?
Any of us have a personal testimony that we walk with God?

Yes, on any point?

Then Journey‘s question this morning is for you (and me).

“Are you aware of the spiritual battles going on in your home, in your church? Prayer and truth are our primary weapons in spiritual warfare. Are you using them?”

And actually I am late this morning in my ‘war efforts’ so I’m gonna move from here to there. Please you all be praying too. Click HERE for names.

Keep braving the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathi

Assurance - Promise, Christian Living

Vowels

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A E I O U and sometimes Y — is that right?

I was reminded this morning as my hubby was reading one of his morning devotionals to me that where we position a vowel in a word changes more than just the word.

Got.

I got to go to work.
I got to iron clothes.
I got to mop the floor.

Change that o to an e and see what happens.

I GET to go to work today. That comes from the mouth of one whose heart is grateful to have a means of gainful employment to provide for her/his family.

I GET to iron clothes. Can only be spoken by one who appreciates such things as this:  I have an iron. I have a roof over my head wherein that iron is housed. Moreover I have clothes to wear – clean clothes even, or they would not need pressing.

I GET to mop the floor. Again. I have a floor. I have eyes that can see the need to clean. I have arms and legs that can actually perform the task.

See what I mean?
You try it.
What do you GOT to do that you really are blessed to GET to do?

Hebrews 12:28 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
28 Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; via Hebrews 12:28 NASB – Therefore since we receive a kingdom – Bible Gateway.

Click HERE and pray – it’s a ‘service’ that ABBA seeing in secret will reward openly.

Keep braving the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie