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We Got No Business

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It has been a productive Monday as I sit to write for our Tuesday time together. At this writing Larry continues to improve. The 10 days to two weeks on the liver transplant recovery floor as of today is looking like a 5 day stay instead.  The mercy and grace of God is incomprehensible but we are receiving His goodness and rejoicing.  Again thank you for your prayers and your continued ones.

My Journey gave me some good reading this morning.  May I share a portion with you?

“Some of us turn to relationships, hoping the love of another person will determine whether or not we’re lovable. Some of us turn toward careers or other types of achievement to determine who we are and whether or not we’re valuable. Some of us let our past determine our identity–what people have said about us and what the world says about us, whether we’re attractive, or successful, or valuable.  We pretty much let anything and anyone else but God define who we are.

Author Chris Tiegreen has this to say: “Our identity is not made up of the ideas we have formed over the years; it’s made up of whatever God says about us. If He says we are His children then we are, whether we feel like it or not. When He says we are precious to Him, then we are, even if we don’t consider ourselves very precious.

. . . If God says you’re His beloved child, seated with Him in heavenly places, treasured as a specimen of His redemption and glory, cleansed of all sin, and gifted for divine works, you have no business contradicting Him” (indeed, March/April 2006). “

No business contradicting Him.

May I tell you that I am LIKING that a LOT?! I want it to stick with me and make changes in me.  Perhaps you would like the same.  Just a little more from Journey and I’m finished sharing from it for today.

“Ask God to show you what’s true about yourself. Ask Him to let His opinion of you speak louder than the world, louder than your past successes and failures, and louder than what you feel. Read through the New Testament and look for how God’s Word describes the redeemed, and choose to believe what God says is true about you.”

Ephesians 2: (New American Standard Bible)
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
via Ephesians 2:4-7 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

I visited briefly tonight with LaJuanna at her Mother’s visitation. Please pray for the Kotis/Hinton family – the funeral is tomorrow (Tuesday.) Simply put, we have been asked to pray for Susan’s family. For more details click HERE. And there are many others. I am still praying for Megan, Kerri and her family, Kathy and Joe, Elaine, Karen, Dori, and others listed at PFT web page. Click HERE to go there. 

ABBA, thank You again for this ministry, all these dear people, I pray for them to be encouraged and to come to know more assuredly who they are in You; for You to be the ONE who defines us. And we come with each of these named here and on the web page, asking for grace and mercy and help of every kind needed in JESUS Name. Amen and amen.

Blessings!
Kathie

Assurance - Promise, Christian Living, Guests

NOT

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It’s a lovely Wednesday morning.

Some Scripture reading, some praying, some stretching, and a cup of coffee — not a bad way to start this another Scoot Day. :)

Colossians 2: (New American Standard Bible)
10 and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority; 
via Col 2:10 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

At first read I found the latter part of the verse most comforting; probably because of where I am going again today — Circuit Court. But Charles Spurgeon addressed the verse with me too.  And in part he said:

“All, all,all are yours, ” saith He, ” be ye satisfied with favor and full of the goodness of the LORD.” Oh! how sweet thus to behold JESUS, and to call upon Him with the certain confidence that in seeking the interposition of His love or power, we are but asking for that which He has already faithfully promised.”

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

 Spurgeon had just been saying to his readers that we are complete in JESUS. There is nothing lacking in Him, in us. Not wisdom. Not direction. Not instruction. Not power or protection. Not surety. Not love. Not comfort. Not mercy. Not immutability. Nothing! Nothing is missing. Nothing you or I need today to reflect Him today is missing in us.

You and I are without excuse today. But even more than that we are NOT ALONE!

I have prayed for you all this morning and for our Praying for These list. I ask that you pray too. For me. For each other. For this IDOK community. For our PFT list. Click HERE to be taken to the PFT web page.

Until + + +,
Kathie

Christian Living, Guests

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