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Warning! A tough one but I’m bound to post it.

The amazing Grace of God.

Why do humans reject His grace?

Two reasons I think.

One.
Unbelief.
Not willing to believe it’s true.

Two.
Pride.
Not willing to change.

For you see to ACCEPT the Grace of God we must admit we NEED the grace of God and we can only NEED the grace of God if we have SINNED against GOD.

And even the vilest of practicing sinners when confronted with the Grace of God know to ACCEPT this gift of grace requires CHANGE.  And in some that required CHANGE is more than they are willing to do.

How sad is that?!

So I am convinced that ALL refusals to stop practicing behavior that violates Scripture is because we either do not believe the Scripture or we don’t care what God says – we are hell-bent to do it our own way.

Are you familiar with ‘thumbing your nose’ at someone?  Well, that’s what refusing the Grace of God is in the FACE of GOD. In truth that is a mild illustration — refusing Him is much more vile than that gesture.

Know anybody like that?

Oh may it not be the reflection in the mirror.

Exodus 20

Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

The Ten Commandments

1 Then God spoke all these words:

2 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

3 Do not have other gods besides Me.

4 Do not make an idol  for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.

5 You must not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers’ sin, to the third and fourth [generations] of those who hate Me,

6 but showing faithful love to a thousand [generations] of those who love Me and keep My commands.

7 Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will punish anyone who misuses His name.

8 Remember to dedicate the Sabbath day: 

9 You are to labor six days and do all your work, 

10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the foreigner who is within your gates. 

11 For the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy.

12 Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

13 Do not murder.

14 Do not commit adultery.

15 Do not steal.

16 Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.

17 Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.   via Ex 20 – Passage Lookup – Holman Christian Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

Broken – bent  any of these lately?

Then HIS GRACE is need.

1 John 1: Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. via I john 1:9 – Passage Lookup – Holman Christian Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

ACCEPT OR REJECT – pick one.

Only a Handmaiden of the KING,
Kathie

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.

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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