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Hello Friends,
It was not my intent to leave you in the middle of Luke.
Forgive me, please.
We are about to wrap up this year of 2024 and what a year it has been!
Not one I shall soon forget. GOD has been GOOD!
My beloved is continuing to recover here at home after a recent hospital stay, our family was here, and we loved on one another and rejoiced. Our hearts are full of gladness and our bodies are way tired! 😊
Shall we now turn our hearts to reflection and focus on our Heavenly Father and the adventures He will bring across our paths in 2025? Shall we in this coming week make provisions to leave behind the sins that have easily beset us this year?
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us. 2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. Hebrews 12 LINK to source
Shall we receive courage from The Holy ONE to forgive more easily, to let us lay not our heads on pillows to sleep with malice poisoning our minds? Shall we listen carefully and hear our family and friends with the benefit of the doubt? Shall we listen to HOLY SPIRIT and respond to Him quickly and favorably? These are just a few of the things coming to mind tonight.
Until next time, holy hugs, Kathie
Sugar and Flour
Approximate reading time: 2 minutes.
People I love dearly, including myself, 🥰 I have heard say, ‘I just can’t resist it; if it’s in front of me, I am going to eat it or drink it.’ We must repent of this. 
As Christians, we say that we have the Spirit of Almighty GOD living within us. The same Spirit of GOD who is so powerful that He raised JESUS from the dead.
Graveyard dead, y’all.
I mean His heart was not beating, respiration had ceased, there was no oxygen in His lungs, and His body was in full repose for THREE DAYS! This was the state of JESUS our Savior and Father GOD raised His body from complete deadness to Living, Breathing again!
And we as Christians say we cannot resist a bag of potato chips or one more piece of cake? How can we deny Him like this?! How can we do this in the sight of so great a cloud of witnesses? Hebrews 12:1-3. I can only think it is ignorance at best and at worst . . . something else.
Please join me in repentance! Please see with me that for us to consistently place empty, excessive, non-nutritious calories, and even harmful substances into our bodies denies the power of GOD that we say we have living within us. Yes, I am mindful that Scripture speaks of occasional feasting . . . it also teaches frequent fasting. How can GOD deliver, rescue, and redeem us from hell and damnation and be so weak He cannot give us victory over a second plate of boneless chicken wings? Don’t you see with me that we must NOW, today begin to live in victory? If we do not, what evidence do we have to offer people around us who do not know JESUS?
Let me say it this way: We must love The LORD our GOD more than we love sugar and flour.
I read this to my beloved and he replied that it’s not just food and drink, this could be applied to anything in our lives. I wonder if he meant football and golf?
23 Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men,24 because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. 25 Whoever does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism. Colossians 3 Source
