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Scoot Day 2

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Charles Spurgeon had some counsel for me this morning before I scoot off to jury duty again. Allow me to share just a portion with you for our Tuesday time together.

He said I need to be like JESUS today for myself. Commonly folks counsel us to be like JESUS for others — listen and see if this sits well with you too.

When he says ‘they’ in the following he is addressing we, Christians.

“. . . . if they would be lifted up above the cares and troubles of this world, let them walk even as He walked. There is nothing which can so assist you to walk towards heaven with good speed, as wearing the image of JESUS on your heart to rule all its motions. It is when, by the power of the HOLY SPIRIT, you are enabled to walk with JESUS in His very footsteps, that you are most happy, and most known to be the sons of God. Peter afar off is both unsafe and uneasy.”

(Morning and Evening ISBN 978-1-59856-569-0 Hendrickson Publishers.)

I don’t want to be unsafe or uneasy today.  How about you?

Ephesians 5 (New American Standard Bible)
1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;
2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.
3 But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints;
4 and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
via Ephesians 5 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

And again as yesterday, the HOLY SPIRIT’s counsel to me and you too since you are reading this :) is BE THANKFUL in all things – not FOR all things but IN all things.

So amid all the talking I will be hearing today, I must listen with a thankful heart and speak only what JESUS gives me to speak — no silly talk (ungrateful, griping stuff) just thanks to be walking in the steps of JESUS today.

Let’s pray!

ABBA, thank You that You are with us whatever is before us this day. Thank You for every precious one that comes here to read and pray. And as they do, HOLY SPIRIT, give them a double measure of the sweet presence of JESUS I pray.  And I am mindful of Torkel this morning and so rejoicing that he is home with Darlene now.  Thank You. Thank You for this. I am continuing to bring Megan too and Dawn, Elaine, Karen, Kerri, Ken and Della, Kathy and Joe, DeLois, LaJuanna, Melinda, Dori, our IDOK Troops, the peace and safety of Israel, America and our many needs — all this, ABBA, and more, much more remains on my heart and I trust You with us all in JESUS Name.  Amen and amen.

As you continue in your praying click HERE to be taken to the Praying For These web page.

Thankfully — :) ,
Kathie

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Any body got some weakness this morning?

Here’s good news.

Romans 8: (New American Standard Bible)

Our Victory in Christ

26 In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;

via Ro 8:26 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

The Comforter is here.  He will help you today! He will help you right now, in this very moment. Just ask.

John 16: (Amplified Bible)

33 I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]

via John 16:33 – Passage Lookup – Amplified Bible – BibleGateway.com.

And in your praying today please remember Kathy Cost, she had emergency surgery, prayers requested and needed; and just a quick reminder of some others: Megan, Kerri, Kathy and Joe, Elaine, Dawn, Ken and Della, and others at Praying for These. Click HERE to be taken to the page.

Blessed to bless,
Kathie

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Colossians 3: (Holman Christian Standard Bible) 
17 And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
via Col 3:17 – Passage Lookup – Holman Christian Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

Today.

And today is well underway for many of us. The clock is already ticking away the precious minutes to do the things we are deeming imperative, urgent, important, needful and want to(s).

And in all these imperatives, urgent(s), important(s), needful(s) and want to(s) standing before us today we have ONE criteria to determine if we should do them at all.

Can we invite JESUS to do it along with us?

Yes? Then go for it with all the gusto He gives you.

No? Then shut it down immediately.

That’s my goal — you too? 

With JESUS,
Kathie

Torkel has been moved from the hosptial to rehab — our prayers are still needed and desired; and please remember Julia and Carolyn today — aging Moms with health issues and daughters guiding treatment is hard –;  Storm Victims and getting to a new kind of normal still need our prayers; Megan; Kathy in MS; Kathy and Joe; Teresa’s Dad went home from the hospital — praise there!  Elaine, Karen, Larry and Claudia; Dawn and family; Iris P and others listed at Praying for These.

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Holy Order!

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A busy, beautiful Monday morning hello!

So much to do this glorious day but just have to share a quick word with you from my Morning reading from Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon.

Speaking of the HOLY SPIRIT, he writes in part:

“. . . .who now visits the chaos of your soul, and creates the order of holiness.”

Do you get from this as I do that it is un-holiness that brings chaos to our souls? That it is sin, ours and others, that creates chaos around us and within us?  And it is HIS holiness within us that brings blessed, wonderful ORDER to us? Yes!

Yes, come, LORD JESUS, bring us Your Order.  Oh, HOLY ONE, come in this moment and begin and continue Your holy work of conviction and convincing us and those around us that holiness is the answer we are desperately seeking. Even as You have commanded us, ABBA, we pray to be holy in practice as You have made us in position in CHRIST JESUS.

Matthew 5: (King James Version)
48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
via Matthew 5:48 – Passage Lookup – King James Version – BibleGateway.com.

Psalm 18: (The Message)
16-19 But me he caught—reached all the way from sky to sea; he pulled me out Of that ocean of hate, that enemy chaos, the void in which I was drowning.  They hit me when I was down, but God stuck by me.  He stood me up on a wide-open field; I stood there saved—surprised to be loved! 
via Psalm 18:16 – Passage Lookup – The Message – BibleGateway.com.

Psalm 51: (The Message)
7-15 Soak me in your laundry and I’ll come out clean, scrub me and I’ll have a snow-white life.  Tune me in to foot-tapping songs, set these once-broken bones to dancing.  Don’t look too close for blemishes, give me a clean bill of health.  God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life.  Don’t throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me.  Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails!  Give me a job teaching rebels your ways so the lost can find their way home.  Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God, and I’ll sing anthems to your life-giving ways. Unbutton my lips, dear God; I’ll let loose with your praise.
via Psalm 51:7 – Passage Lookup – The Message – BibleGateway.com.

In your praying today, Dear Friends, please remember Kerri — continuing to ask for calcium balance and healing; Sandi Leon comes to mind here — asking for healing; and Kathy and Joe, still rejoicing over this miracle and looking forward to seeing what ABBA does with it; no doubt prayers would not be wasted on DeLois and family; and Megan, Dawn, Iris P; Torkel – hoping he will go home today, but don’t you know if you were in his place you would want prayers too; young ones, Grace and Lilly – I don’t have fresh word on them but we know JESUS says bring the little ones to Him, so lets do that; and another Kathy comes to mind, she and her family need the touch of JESUS; so does Sharon. And for sure you have others.

Blessed to bless,
Kathie