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Assurance - Promise, Christian Living

Not Holding Out

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 Genesis 16: New American Standard Bible (NASB)
2 So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
via Gen 16:2 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

Do you see right away what went wrong in the happening of verse 2? Go to my maid???

And you know what fostered that debacle? Don’t you?

Accusing God of evil!

Let’s not do that today. Let’s not ‘help’ GOD that way today or tomorrow. Let’s not assume that He is holding out on us even though the relief, the provisions, the blessing we want is long in coming to us.

You will recall that GOD kept His promise (Issac) and that Sarai and Abram’s debacle is still causing havoc today.

May we learn from them!

Numbers 23:19 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
19 God is not a man who lies, or a son of man who changes His mind. Does He speak and not act, or promise and not fulfill?
via Numbers 23:19 – Passage Lookup – Holman Christian Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

Psalm 84: 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.
via Ps 84:11 – Passage Lookup – 21st Century King James Version – BibleGateway.com.

No Good Thing Will He Withhold from them who walk uprightly.  I urge you to ponder that.

Loving you and thanking you for your faithfulness, Kathie

LaJuanna is having a bone marrow test on Tuesday and asked that we pray for her. And her husband, Jim, discovered a potentially serious problem too. She covets our prayers for the both of them.

She also passed along a request to us from her cousin.
Nichole Kittrell is under going tests for  heart problems. And Lance Hoven, 30 year old with multiple medical maladies. Click HERE for full details.

I am continuing to pray for specific unspokens at PFT and I hope you are as well. God is continuing to work Mightily even when we do not see His Hand. Click HERE to call each name to Him.

Assurance - Promise, Christian Living, Forgiveness, Repentance

The Victorious

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First out of bed and before my coffee I was praying. Praying for some of those unspoken specifics listed at PFT. Click HERE to go there.

And then I read my Journey. Some of the very words I had written to ABBA were there on the page; the very circumstance was there on the page.  HE cares, He is listening. Oh, that we would learn to listen.

He speaks to us.

But often we do not hear. We hear not because we are dull of hearing. We are dull of hearing because we have talked, railed, complained and moaned for so long without listening. Without reading His Word, without obeying His Word.

But this is not so with the victorious. They have troubles. They have circumstances abundantly adverse and yet they are not defeated.

Why?

Because they listen. They seek to hear Him. They seek to obey Him.

There is someone close, very close who demonstrates this to me.  When she is assailed with her own flesh or the wicked enemy, she goes to ABBA, not to rail and complain and moan but to listen. She puts the opposition to silence (even her own flesh) by picking up her Bible and opening it for ABBA’s voice. She says He never fails to speak when she shuts up to listen and obey.

My earthly father’s favorite song was Trust and Obey – for there’s no other way to be happy in JESUS but to trust and obey. 

Trust and obey. Said another way – Learning to Listen. 

Isaiah 30: 21 Your ears will hear a word behind you, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left.
via Isaiah 30 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

And when you are blessed enough to hear, let not fickle, unfaithful emotions turn you from what you have heard.  WALK what you heard.

Joyce Meyer said something like this: You have to DO what is RIGHT even when doing what is right still FEELS Wrong.

Isaiah 30:15 For thus the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said, “In repentance and rest you will be saved, In quietness and trust is your strength.” But you were not willing, via Isaiah 30 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

Learning,
Kathie

Melinda has pneumonia, unable to see her sister Betty because of it — both dear women are depending on our prayers.

Christian Living, Forgiveness, Repentance

Lips of my Mind

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I have heard Joyce Meyer say when I am disappointed I must get re-appointed.

And disappointment, the state of being disappointed has been a prevalent theme in my meditations lately. And  when I read I Peter 2:1 this morning, the HOLY SPIRIT surprised me.

May I share it with you?

1 Peter 2  New American Standard Bible (NASB)
1 Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,
via I peter 2 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

And there I stopped with the word slander as He began to teach me a new understanding of disappointed.

Slander. What does slander have to do with being disappointed? I didn’t much at first like what He had to say but I see it now and I’m grateful. 

You see slander has been to me something done openly, broadcasted for any one in earshot to hear. And I am not negating that – it still is. But this morning it is something more. It’s turning those things he/she does or does not do to meet my satisfaction over and over in my head and imagining their motives in the doing or not doing.  As if I could know their motives! And the more I ‘slander’ them within the walls of my mind, the more disappointed I am in them.

Ouch! and Thank you, ABBA.

But He was not done yet.

2 like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,
3 if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.
via I peter 2 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

Oh, desiring the Word. And having tasted the kindness of the Lord.  Have I ever tasted His kindness! His kindnesses have been lavished upon me — every moment I breathe.  You too?

And then the final — the icing on the cake.

6  . . .

AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.”

via I peter 2 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

There was that word: DISAPPOINTED!

Steadfast looking at my JESUS, keeping the Sweet Taste of Him on the ‘lips of my mind’ will keep me from slandering within and will mightily address my disappointments.

Thank you for stopping by — hope you were not disappointed. :)

Thank You, ABBA, for this Word this morning, You know I needed it! And I trust that others who need it will be exercised by it also. Thank You for hearing our prayers for others. There are many.  Thank You for answering us.  Amen and amen in JESUS Name.

I have brought these names before the LORD; hope you will as well. Click HERE for PFT.

In His Holiness alone,
Kathie