We must stand with Israel. Take in the beauty of this place! I want to go!!!
Blessings to you Dear Friends +++
Remember YOU have the God-given RIGHT to do right in this wrong world!
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Dewy Fresh
When my beloved shared his Guidepost devotion with me this morning, I became eager to get to our screen to share it with you. It is last year’s read but dewy fresh to me this morning.
“I used to like the saying “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!” But after an experience our daughter had one year, I’ve changed the words slightly.
Nikki was five then and looking forward to the pet show her kindergarten teacher had announced. She couldn’t wait to show off Purry, our black kitten, and to admire her classmates’ pets as well. Then life dumped a whole crateful of lemons on Nikki in the form of chicken pox. Spotty and itchy, she felt too miserable to enjoy staying home. Even the little “get well” toys we gave her couldn’t sweeten her forced vacation.
When she returned to school, I hoped she wouldn’t be too dejected after hearing about the fun she had missed. Instead, she came home bursting with pride and handed me the cause of her elation. It was a shiny gold foil medallion with two blue construction paper ribbons dangling beneath. The inscription on the foil said, “First Prize for Most Invisible Cat.”
Do you know someone too discouraged today to see a bright side? I suggest that when life gives your friends lemons, you help them make lemonade! Nikki’s teacher provided the “sugar” with a few scrapes of paper.
How can I help?
How can you?
LORD, give us sensitivity and creativity to uplift others. —B.J. Connor
‘Ain’t’ that good?!!
I am praying for the Kirk-Dossett Family today. John was out for his regular walk this Tuesday evening and instead of walking back to the house to join Debbie for supper, he joined JESUS. It has been an engulfing shock to them, so if you will join me in praying for them all. And I still have many, many others on my ‘LORD JESUS, please help list’; as perhaps you do too.
DADDY GOD, thank You for always hearing my prayers. Thank You for the prayer conversations of this morning already; and it is my request to continue them. Debbie, John III, and all the family. Thank You, HOLY SPIRIT, for laying them heavy on my mind, asking for strength for them, for peace, comfort and consolation, carry them, O LORD, through these days and weeks of fresh mourning. Kerri, Dori and Pam – remembering them too; precious women needing individual, for different reasons Your touch in their lives and upon their very beings. Others too, ABBA, fresh on my heart I bring for Your Will to be done. Israel. Protection and peace for them; for the subduing of all their enemies. And, ABBA, I am asking You for mercy on America. We the people, many of us, those who You have saved, we desire this Nation to stand with Israel, to support and help Israel; we do not want America to turn Her back on Israel so I pray that You will overrule the numbers here that are anti-Israel and cause us to be a steadfast ally with and for Israel. And I pray You will stop Iran from getting this weapon of mass destruction. I am mindful that Your Word describes destruction is coming upon this world typical of nuclear warfare but I am asking You for more time to advance Your Gospel; for more people to be saved and for more Christians to get serious about You and obeying Your Commission to us. And for the day before us, thank You that You Got This and we are safe in JESUS name. I pray for each one who comes here to read and to pray that each will sense Your Manifest Presence today, and be corrected, be encouraged, be renewed and revived to good works in Your Name.Thank You, ABBA.
Blessings to you Dear Friends +++
Remember YOU have the God-given RIGHT to do right in this wrong world!
We The People
I did not realize it had been so long since we have visited.
The extended Labor Day weekend was unusual for Hubby and me – we played . . . alone even. Just went and did stuff together – just us. It was fun!
I am starting a Bible Study tomorrow night at 7:00. It’s Men of the Bible. We are scheduled for 6 sessions, each Thursday night. Elisha is our first man. Prayers for my continued prep would be much appreciated. If you live nearby you are welcome to join us! Just EMAIL me for more information.
For today. For this Season in which we are living let us remember:
Psalms: 40:4 Blessed is that man who makes the Lord his trust, and does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
via Ps 40 NKJV – Faith Persevering in Trial – To the – Bible Gateway.
I have folks to bring to the altar today. Perhaps you do as well.
ABBA, thank You for allowing us the privilege of prayer. Thank You for growing us to be a grateful people. Thank You for loving us and making life worth the living. I am remembering a particular family we spent some time chatting with on Monday. You delighted us with that encounter! Thank You for allowing us to be a part of Your pursuit of them and I pray they will run right into You and surrender to Your Will for them, each of them. And Ann, You know the report we desire, we wait for You to reveal Your glory in this. And another test for Another is set to be taken – please no return of the former I pray. And Dori and Kerri and Pam, precious women. Please heal them. And Janet. Comfort for her please and the rest of the procedure to be textbook perfect. And Sharron. That her strength be meet for this day. Alex. Courage to move forward. And some others, ABBA. Many others. You know their names. And each One who comes here to read and join us in prayer, blessings and strength and power to live holy. And speaking of holy – America. Forgive us, JESUS, and save this country. And I ask for peace and safety for Israel and the subduing of Her enemies, America’s enemies too – domestic and foreign. ABBA, You birthed this Nation for Your Glory and the spreading of Your Gospel to the world – forgive us for leaving Your will. Please have mercy on we the people and bring us to repentance. You agreed with Abraham to spare Sodom and Gomorrah if ten righteous could be found; for the sake of the righteous in America – save this blessed Nation I pray and let us co-labor with You, ABBA. For as many that come here to pray and will pray in agreement, allow us the privilege of helping we the people return to You our First Love. Thank You, ABBA, in JESUS name and in the Ministry of the HOLY SPIRIT, thank You.
Blessings, Friends +++
Remember YOU have the God-given RIGHT to do right in this wrong world!
A Nutshell of Filters
The study I told you about on Monday (click HERE if you missed it) is proving to be a most needed study for me. Not only what Mariel had to say but what the HOLY SPIRIT of GOD is personally saying to me.
13 For You formed my inward parts;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
via Psalm 139 NASB – God’s Omnipresence and Omniscience. – Bible Gateway.
I am grateful for my NASB translation as it gave me incentive to go looking for the Hebrew meaning for inward parts. Inward parts equals kidneys. And oh my goodness! take a look at kidneys and the word picture that forms is HUGE! (And I have not even read all the materials!) Too huge for me to fully develop here for you so I’ll give you a nutshell.
We know already kidneys are filters. Right? Right. And we know what filters do. They filter. They filter out harmful wastes and toxins. But that’s not all they do. They also produce necessary, most helpful hormones.
In addition to removing wastes, the kidneys release three important hormones:
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erythropoietin, or EPO, which stimulates the bone marrow to make red blood cells
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renin, which regulates blood pressure
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calcitriol, the active form of vitamin D, which helps maintain calcium for bones and for normal chemical balance in the body
Now look at verse 14. Verse 14 says we know very well that we are fearfully and wonderfully made; that we know very well that we are precious and treasured by GOD; that we give thanks to Him; that we believe all His works are wonderful; that we value the precious ones in our wombs.
Look around. Who do you know who has fully embraced ALL this? Look in the mirror. Have you? Have I? By faith, today I say I am beginning too!
So what’s our problem? Spiritually speaking, you understand. Verse 13 gives us a clue I believe.
Our kidneys (filters) have been corrupted. They don’t filter out the waste and toxins and they don’t produce the life-sustaining ‘hormones’ in quantities needed. By the way, you know hormones are for balancing the body and emotions, don’t you?
Are you getting the picture? Sin has corrupted our kidneys. Our filters. Our hormones.
But the GREAT NEWS is that JESUS has come to set our filters and our hormones in proper working order again! As we yield to the HOLY SPIRIT, He is restoring our filters and our balance. One day we will be fully restored! But for now, the more we yield to the HOLY SPIRIT in obedience, in prayer, in HIS WORD, the better our filters, filter and produce. And the healthier we get! And the safer are the precious ones in the wombs of women.
I am loving this study! Thanks for listening. Happy Wednesday blessings to you, my Friends.
Remember YOU have the God-given RIGHT to do right in this wrong world!
