For Thursday, November 4, 2010

It is a wonderful rainy day (Wednesday) in Satsuma! It’s cool and damp and perfect for staying inside with no guilt feelings for not getting out and doing something! I am delighted!!  I think I’ll brew some raspberry zinger tea.  Be right back!

I added a bag of green tea too – so good! And with lemon lavender cookies; I’m all set!

I’m still reading Lioness Arising by Lisa Bevere and today I’d like to share a little of it with you. I’m even giving away a copy of the book to ONE drawing winner. Please see drawing entry requirements at the end of this post.

My friend, Julia’s, favorite verse of Scripture is located at Micah 6:8 and it reads:

⁸He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

And in Lisa’s book she has given me something concise to help me. First and foremost the duty and privilege of man, woman, boy and girl is to One on one worship God daily and to often worship Him corporately with a local body of Christian Believers.  And in between this worship is our secondary duty and privilege in this world. Our purpose in life, if you please. Our mission. What it is that we were designed for; what our passion should be in our ‘three score and ten’ span.

The call of God (as stated in Lisa’s book) upon me, upon you, upon every soul who has been born again is

Ø  Share His Good News Message with the earth  (Tell people JESUS SAVES)

Ø  Love one another

Ø  Care for the widows, orphans, aliens, and the poor

This is our three-fold purpose while we are breathing terrestrial air. It’s concise; it’s concrete; it’s do-able –  in JESUS. In His strength and with His anointing upon us.

Now It’s Your Turn.  Does this three-fold mission bear witness with you?  Do you find it concise and helpful? And if so, how have you (or will you) personalized it to actually carry it out in this season of your life?

Thank You, Father, for Lisa and for the answers You are providing within the pages of her book. I pray You will awaken all Your Lionesses.  That we will be a formidable force against the fortresses of the Evil One in this world in these Last Days doing the mission You have called us to.

Thank You for the election results, we lean upon You to continue the work to bring integrity to this Nation You founded. It is my continued prayer, Father, that You, Holy Spirit, will give this Nation a Third Great Awakening.  I ask for the privilege of seeing it and being a part of it in JESUS NAME.

We pray now for protection of our IDOK Troops, for their well being in all ways and safe returns home; we pray for our Loved Ones whose names are recorded at Praying for These and I personally in this moment thank You for each IDOK and each Reader and I pray You will tend and minister, encourage and anoint each one to love You, worship You, and obey You for JESUS Name sake.  Thank You for Israel and the plans You have for them as a Nation in these days.  I pray for their peace and safety. Amen and amen.

Now. Something new at THE WHITE STONE. I’m conducting a drawing. And the prize is one copy of Lisa Bevere’s Book, Lioness Arising.  How do you qualify for the drawing? Simply respond to  the Now It’s Your Turn Questions by leaving a comment at this post.  I will announce the drawing winner in Monday’s post, November 8, 2010 — so any comments left here at this post before 8:00 PM Sunday, November 7, 2010 will be eligible for the drawing.

Be sure to visit on Monday to see if you are the winner.

Now, just click the words ‘Leave a Comment’ at either the top or the bottom of this post and type your response in the comment window.  Thank you so much for sharing with me. I really am looking forward to reading your comments.

Holy hugs, kt

Drawing winner: Congratulations Mabel!!

Sent: Mon, November 1, 2010 11:01:27 AM
Subject: Re: Milly Langley

Millie Passed away soon after they took her off the ventilator. Pray for peace and mercy for her family. The Lord has a beauty.  Leslie

We can continue serving Millie by praying for her family.

Love and hugs, kt

For Tuesday, November 2, 2010

There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. Matthew 10:26 NIV.

An allegory came to me this morning as I pulled a few weeds from our herb garden.

Pulling a few takes much less time than pulling a lot — timing is important — neglect plus procrastination = weed fertilizer!

Peering at the garden from my standing height on the drive, I saw a sprout or two of unwanted(s).  It was not until I knelt down to pull them that I noticed several more weeds.  When I grasped the leafy stems slightly protruding above the mulch to give them a good yank, a larger root system came out of the ground than I expected.  In fact with some of them what was below the surface was more than was above.

You know I think that goes for good as well as evil in this allegory of mine.

In the soil of my heart are (good) seeds planted by the HOLY SPIRIT and (evil) seeds sown by the flesh, the world and the devil. Each needs a ‘root system’ before putting out shoots.  Which means I need to carefully stand guard over my heart and immediately when a weed-shoot appears, go to my knees petitioning my HEAVENLY GARDNER to come and help me pull out those weeds; and while I’m kneeling there with HIM, I would be wise to invite HIM to look and point out to me any weed sprouts I might have overlooked.  The sooner those weed-sprouts are pulled the better.  The less time we allow wrong attitudes and hostile thoughts to grow in the soil of our hearts, the easier it is to the pull them out and the less chance there is for spreading, multiplying, and making more weeds.

Good fruit or bad weeds (that’s redundant — all weeds are bad, aren’t they?)  produced in the garden of our lives begin in the soil of our hearts; and it’s our duty and our privilege to oversee that soil, to ensure the  nurturing of the good and the plucking up and out of the bad.

Weed fertilizers.

An oxymoron, I hope we will not soon forget. Neglect and procrastination, what every weed craves and needs to yield a bumper crop of misery and regret.

I highly recommend we daily kneel over the gardens of our hearts and invite our ABBA to inspect the soil for malignant, invasive root systems and weed sprouts.

But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop. Luke 8:15 NIV (2010)

ABBA, thank You for this allegory, I pray HOLY SPIRIT in JESUS name that You will enable it to minister and bless my sisters and brothers.

You know my heart for our IDOK Troops, our Praying for These Loved Ones, Israel and the Plans You have for them, my pleas for a  Third Great Awakening in America, to be a part of it, to witness a revival that will change this Nation’s culture,  Tuesday’s elections and every spoken and unspoken request of all our IDOKs as they gather in their respective places to read and pray, correct us, encourage us and transform us I pray. Amen and amen.

Holy hugs, kt

My First Born Grand is 16 today — Happy Birthday, Jeff.  Mamaw loves you more than breathing.