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Look Away

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Sunday morning sermon. Text was found in Hebrews. And in a stray moment my eyes wandered to chapter 12 and verse 2. Two words caught my eye and I knew I’d be here writing to us before the day was out.

First, the two words: 2 looking away

Now the passage is familiar to me so I knew what was coming and words started streaming. 

Looking away. What do I need to look away from?

I pretty much know the answer to that. I can give you a list. I probably have given you a list in all these years that we have been meeting at this screen. 

This I would suggest: I mostly need to look away from ME!

I must become less self-aware so I can be more HIM aware!

The Him who is the Initiator and Completer of . . . trusting

The Initiator of trusting! That was not ME! This life of trusting faith did not begin with me so how in the world would I think it could continue focused on me. Well, I really don’t think that, but I act like that sometime. 

So He, Yeshua. Also known as JESUS in this Western World. He is the One who started me on this faith walk and He is the One who will complete it! It was good reading it again this morning. It’s good reading every time I read it. 

So what’s the rest of it?

Hebrews 12:2 (CJB)

2 looking away to the Initiator and Completer of that trusting, Yeshua — who, in exchange for obtaining the joy set before him, endured execution on a stake as a criminal, scorning the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

And since He is seated there, I have the privilege and the responsibility to look away from myself here to HIM there! And in Him I will find every good thing needed to finish this earthly journey well; and as we said in Sunday School this morning, be ushered into the Throne Room of Heaven someday to SEE HIM face to face! Oh what a day that will be!! 
Sleep On It!

 

A Quick Hello, Christian Living

Pick a Seat

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Water and pressure accomplished the results you see here. img_8905 I wouldn’t resist the picture and now the analogy. :)

26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. Ephesians  5 (source) 

JT was the handler of the power washer to clean our backyard chairs. The Holy Spirit of God, when we will be submissive, is the Power in the Water of the Word to cleanse people.

The difference in the chairs is remarkable, wouldn’t you say? So is the difference in a soul continually washed with the Water of the Word applied by the Power of the Holy Spirit.

Let us pick a seat. Which do we want to be? The one on the left or the one on the right?

I hope we are continuing to pray for We the People in Jesus Name. img_8861

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Groanings

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David encouraged himself in the LORD. I Samuel 30:6

At this address in Scripture, David and his men returned from battle finding no wives, no children and a charred camp. In their grief his men were ready to stone him. But David encouraged himself in the LORD.

6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. source 

We must do the same.

Proverbs 29:18 (CJB)

18 Without a prophetic vision, the people throw off all restraint;
    but he who keeps Torah is happy.

Though others throw off restraint, we must not. Through others reject the Law and the Spirit of GOD, we must not.

I know my FATHER is the Answer. I know obedience to His Word solves every problem. Yet people are blind.  HOLY SPIRIT, I pray for blinded eyes to open. 

The enemy is at work. He is accelerating his program; souls are trapped, some willingly, some duped.  . . .  for the devil has come down to you in great anger, knowing that he has little time.” source

I want to pray publicly here with you. I want us to come together devoted to prayer, strong in Spirit, strong in faith, strong in hope and courage, but tonight I can only rely on The Groanings of our Great Comforter. 

26 Similarly, the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we don’t know how to pray the way we should. But the Spirit himself pleads on our behalf with groanings too deep for words; (Romans 8:26)

Homes of Prayer – – –
Kathie 

 

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NO SIN GOES UNPUNISHED.
EITHER WE BEAR IT OR JESUS DOES FOR US; AND WE GET TO CHOOSE WHO DOES THE BEARING. 

Christian Living, The Loft

The Loft – Fall Recipes

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Fall Recipes is our topic at loftThe Loft today.

I’ve been thinking pumpkin for weeks now. Mainly because I have some img_8687canned organic pumpkin that needs using.

And I’ve been thinking about cooler temps, sweaters, (that’s about all we are going to need in Lower Alabama, unless it gets really cold), pots of chili, Mexican cornbread, fireplaces and hot cocoa. The older I get the more I enjoy the Fall. Cool nights and warm covers, family gatherings with food, chatter and laughter. Mix all these things in generous portions and you have my recipe for a Happy Fall! I suspect, however, that is not the recipe expected for sharing at The Loft today.

My chili recipe is not really a recipe, I just throw what I got that resembles chili ingredients in the pot till it feels right and we eat it. I’m not kidding.

Soup!
Oh, I do that the same way. Hmm!

How about Carrot Cake? JT always uses a recipe for that. He’s so exact. He has made it for years and each time he gets out that recipe and follows it exactly. He’s so cute!

Carrot Cake
by Betty Downey (she’s a long time friend, now spending all her time with JESUS)
SIFT TOGETHER:
2 cups plain flour
2 t. baking soda
1 t. salt
2 cups sugar
2 t. cinnamon
ADD:
1 ½ cups cooking oil
4 large eggs (one at a time)
3 cups grated carrots
BEAT BY HAND FOR 15 MINUTES (not kidding! He sets a timer and beats that batter a full 15 minutes!)

Pour into 3 greased 8″ cake pans, bottoms lined with wax paper (comes out easier this way)
Bake at 350 degrees until cake tester comes out clean

Prepare ICING:
Cream together room temperature 8 oz. creamed cheese & 1 stick of butter
Then Add in
1 box confectioner’s sugar (slowly)
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 cup chopped nuts
2 t. milk if needed
Mix till creamy.  Lick the beaters while you wait for the cake layers to cool, then frost the cake. Store cake in Frig until you are ready to serve.

That’s it!

Happy Autumn is coming!

Until then + + + Kathie 
The Blood of Jesus is Enough

NO SIN GOES UNPUNISHED.
EITHER WE BEAR IT OR JESUS DOES FOR US; AND WE GET TO CHOOSE WHO DOES THE BEARING.