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Promises for our Day

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Day 63
303 days remaining after today.

Psalm 32:8  (NIV)

8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
    I will counsel you with my loving eye on you. [source]

Who of GOD’s children does not need this encouragement today? These promises?!

I will instruct you. 
Surely there is something today about which we need instruction. (If nothing else, what to do with this stuff :) yes I am still dealing with the stuff)

And teach you
Not only does He give us instruction but He teaches us how to operate those instructions! How good is that? That is so much better than a lecture of instructions from someone who leaves you then to figure out the rest on your own.

In the way you should go
He NEVER leads us astray. His path for each of us, individually, is perfectly suited for us; for our strengths and our weaknesses, our passions and our dislikes. He chooses the path for us that will bring out the best in us; our part is to believe and follow.

I will counsel you 
And not just any counsel, but counsel we can trust because that counsel comes from the One who always perfectly loves us; always keeps His loving eye on us.

Psalm 32:8  (NIV)

8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
    I will counsel you with my loving eye on you. [source]

Keep it close today.

Until Next Time ~ ~ ~ Kathie
Your Prayer requests welcomed

Christian Living

How Huge is That?

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Day 61
305 days remaining after today.

First off never allow it to escape your mind that YESHUA came here 100% man, 100% GOD.

Let it comfort and fortify you that He gets it! He knows what it is to be human!

Where am I going with this?

First let me tell you where it started.

I picked up my Journey Magazine, March edition, because I couldn’t find my February and because it is the last day of February I chose to read Cafe Connection, an extra feature, not one of the daily devotions for the month of March. Beth Moore is the writer of this particular feature and she wrote of the LORD as He was saying on the cross, “Father, into Your hands I entrust My spirit.”  That is HUGE, y’all. Huge!

Get this: JESUS had never died before!  Have you ever had to do something you have never done before? Of course you have. Have you ever wondered how am I going to do this? Yep. Me too. The answer for us is the same as for JESUS. By Faith!

I told you it was HUGE!

There on the cross when His blood was nearly spent, YESHUA knew it was time, time for Him to die. Time for His inhaling, exhaling, hearing, seeing, tasting, feeling, touching – all those human body things to cease. His human journey was ending. You see the SON chose to trust the FATHER. He chose to believe that when He closed His eyes and His human heart stopped pumping that His Spirit would continue to live and that in three days His body and Spirit would come together again. JESUS chose to trust the FATHER to make it happen. That’s faith, Folks. Simple Faith. Just believe the FATHER.

Our human journeys shall come to an end as well. He gets that! He did it already! The way we will: by faith. Father, into Your hands I entrust My spirit.

Whatever it is. Whatever we are facing today – He knows! He’s done it! We can trust Him!

Hebrews 7:25-27  (CJB)

25 and consequently, he is totally able to deliver those who approach God through him; since he is alive forever and thus forever able to intercede on their behalf. 26 This is the kind of cohen gadol that meets our need — holy, without evil, without stain, set apart from sinners and raised higher than the heavens; 27 one who does not have the daily necessity, like the other cohanim g’dolim, of offering up sacrifices first for their own sins and only then for those of the people; because he offered one sacrifice, once and for all, by offering up himself.  [source]

Hebrews 11:6 (KJV)

6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. [source]

John 8:29 (KJV)

29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. [source]

Until Next Time ~ ~ ~ Kathie
Your Prayer requests welcomed

Christian Living, KWT Paraphrasing

Keep it. Share it. Trash it!

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Day 56
310 days remaining after today.

I am fresh here at my temporary desk img_6515from prayer journaling in one of my favorite places on earth: our still in the process quiet room. I am here with thoughts yet to be sorted within the lines of this screen.

I was praying about the stuff in this house. Lots of stuff, more stuff than we have used in many a year, stuff and more stuff that I have grumbled over more times than is holy (you know what I mean). This morning I prayed differently, acknowledging that obviously I had been going about this the wrong way. So we (I say We because I’m pretty sure it was not me alone here that) came to this kind of praying: ‘The stuff in this house needs a home; either here in this home, in someone else’s home or in a trash bin somewhere so I pray for You to help us sort this stuff in our house.’ And that did it!  I was off with if my house needs this so do I. The stuff in me needs sorting.

And since thoughts birth actions, lets begin there. Some of my thoughts I need to keep, ponder, expand, let them ripen until they are ready to share or not (some thoughts never need to be shared :) if you know what I mean); some just need to be trashed at the onset. And there you have the key to sorting stuff – in the house or the sanctuary. 

Keep it. Share it. Trash it! 

Item by item we must decide: does this need a home inside these four walls? Or is there someone else that would REALLY benefit from it? Or is it just trash, period? 

There is a Scripture that came to mind when this post was embryonic. . . . and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Here’s the whole of it:

 3 For although we do live in the world, we do not wage war in a worldly way; 4 because the weapons we use to wage war are not worldly. On the contrary, they have God’s power for demolishing strongholds. We demolish arguments 5 and every arrogance that raises itself up against the knowledge of God; we take every thought captive and make it obey the Messiah. 6 And when you have become completely obedient, then we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience. [source]

For though I live in a cluttered house, I do not handle it in a messy way – I handle it beginning today with real weapons that will be effective – the weapon of prayer over my stuff, all my stuff! I could take those verses one by one and paraphrase to fit this sorting business but perhaps you’d like a try at it. 

Who would have thought you could take 2 Corinthians 10: 3-6 and find a message for cleaning house?  HE DID! :)

Happy Thursday my Friends! 

Until Next Time ~ ~ ~ Kathie
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Christian Living, Copy Paste Chew Again

Another Look at Toddlers & English 101

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Day 46
320 days remaining after today.

I’d like to cut, copy and paste a devotion I wrote in 2007 and share it with you again today. I titled it Toddlers and English 101. It helped me then; it helps me now. Perhaps it will you too.

IDOK DEVOTION for Monday, August 27, 2007

Pray for the Peace of Israel

It has been a back to back weekend and today may be short – a little rest is in order.

As Jerry and I were driving to Sunday morning service I was reminiscing other Sundays, lessons taught, comments made and etc. On the movie screen of my memories, I saw myself as immature and silly – even embarrassing. And before I could change scenes it was if the Holy Spirit began to correct and instruct me. He played another scene for me – a little girl learning to walk. She held on for the longest time to the coffee table and the sofa, gingerly inching her way around and then finally letting go she took a wobbly step, halted to balance herself and then a big smile; a wobbly step, halt and a big smile. And on and on she went. And me, what was I doing? Watching with glee, clapping and cheering. It was as if Father gently said, you watched your babies (and now your grand-babies) grow and every little step, every accomplishment was celebrated, even the tiniest achievement was applauded — remember? You would not have dreamed of being embarrassed by their efforts, nor would you have described their efforts as silly or immature. Why are you accessing your spiritual advances any differently? Why can you not humbly applaud those steps you made? I do.
And with that my thoughts turned to you, my dear IDOK Family. And I wondered if you have done the same; if you have criticized yourself as you remember your spiritual journey from infancy to where you are today? Have you looked back with embarrassment? Have you criticized your progress? Have you bemoaned that as a toddler you could not complete English 101?
Don’t!
Humbly applaud every step you have taken toward Jesus; humbly applaud every courageous step you have taken in Bible Study, in sharing The Word with others, every word of encouragement you have spoken to another, every unclean joke you refused to listen to, every gossip session you refused to take part in, every television program you turned off because of the unholy content, every movie theater you walked out of for the same reason – etc. Etc. Humbly applaud your progress and keep going – keep on keeping on!

Father, thank You. Thank You for Your Daily Words to us. Thank You for your encouragement, thank You for the applause, help us accept with humility and gratitude, for we know any steps to maturity in You we owe to You. Thank You. . . . And we bring those we love for whatever is needed today and thank You that we can come and receive Your help. . . . And our IDOK Troops we have them on our hearts too – wherever they are and whatever they need, You have for them and we ask You Holy Spirit to help them depend upon You. And we pray for their protection in mind and body and spirit and we pray that each of them will come home safe and sound and more in love with You than when they deployed. And all this we ask solely on the merits of Jesus our Lord.

10 “He found his people in desert country,
in a howling, wasted wilderness.
He protected him and cared for him,
guarded him like the pupil of his eye,
11 like an eagle that stirs up her nest,
hovers over her young,
spreads out her wings, takes them
and carries them as she flies. Deuteronomy 32:10-11[source] 

Philippians 1:6 And I am sure of this: that the One who began a good work among you will keep it growing until it is completed on the Day of the Messiah Yeshua. [source]

2 Peter 3:17 But you, dear friends, since you know this in advance, guard yourselves; so that you will not be led away by the errors of the wicked and fall from your own secure position.18 And keep growing in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Deliverer, Yeshua the Messiah. To him be the glory, both now and forever! Amen. [source]

Until Next Time ~ ~ ~ Kathie
Your Prayer requests welcomed