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What’s Within?

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Psalm 103

1. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name.

I read it and rested on — and all that is within me.

What’s in me, I asked me. The answer was not coming quickly. Other than the answer one would expect a Christian to answer – The HOLY SPIRIT.

It was my beloved who astounded me with the answer. He began with attitudes. He says we all have them within us. He so totally bowled me over with the sobering truth of what is in me. He enumerated emotions that he has seen in me. Some I’m humbled to hear he sees; some I am ashamed to admit.

Attitudes.
Like
eagerness for some things and apathy toward other things (perhaps people too, and not just things)
willingness for  and stubbornness against
love and hate
tenderness and callousness
procrastinating vs impetuous
generous and selfish

Perhaps you could name others.

Now back to  — and all that is within me.
With all that is within me, all my attitudes, wounds, hurts, strengths, weaknesses, prejudices, fears, doubts, knowledge, wisdom, experiences, victories, defeats; with all that is within me I am to bless the LORD.
Let me say it again. Let it sink in. I am to bless the LORD with all those things jumbled, tangled, running, still within me! So are you.

How can that be? How can we bless Him with bad attitudes, wounds, hurts, weaknesses, prejudices, fears, doubts, defeats?
Surrender I think.
Surrender the good. Surrender the bad to the LORDSHIP of JESUS CHRIST.

He can use it all, you know. Really.
The good, ministering to others. And the bad? Well, once we are healed, even the bad will minister in His name.
And what would bless Him more than for us to help others and be made whole ourselves?

And all that is within me, bless His holy name!

And all that is within you too, bless His holy name!

Prayer for the Christian is breathing.

JESUS LOVES YOU +++
Kathie

Christian Living

So Be It

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I think I am ready for 2012 to be a ‘So Be It’ year. The year that will finally be the season for me to be so transformed by the love of JESUS for Him and for others, empowered in love and by love to tell the Truth to every soul who knocks on my door with questions. To be willing to be politically incorrect for JESUS sake. To be willing to run the risk of hurt feelings in order to gain a brother or sister into surrendered fellowship with JESUS CHRIST. Truthfully, it is frightening to approach life this way. But eternity depends on it.

There are just some things in life that are what they are. God said it and that settles it. And whether you or I believe it is irrelevant to the fact that it is Truth. God does not change, nor has or will what He spoke in Eternity Past change. He has been since eternity began – doesn’t that hurt the brain??? Since eternity had no beginning, just perpetual always for always – it is what it is.  And so let me practice: if that offends you, let me say with much love . . . so be it.

Well, that was not so bad but then the questions of the 2012 election, abortion, homosexuality, adultery, fornication, immodesty, un-forgiveness, refusal to reconcile, cheating, lying, refusing truth, robbing God and man, etc., etc. have not been asked yet; have they? And when they are — Oh may I be found faithful!! I covet your prayers!

Truth here! Blogging ‘so be it’ is much easier than face-to-face ‘so be it’ — y’all know that don’t you? I surely do.

I think the crux of this ‘so be it’ is going to hinge on loving folks so much that I am willing to be uncomfortable; willing to let them hate me or at least disrespect my JESUS and me. I covet your prayers for a ‘so be it’ year.

If you’d like for me to pray for a ‘so be it’ for you, send me an email and I will covenant to pray with you.

Hebrews 13:1-3
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
The Changeless Christ

1 Let love of the brethren continue.
2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.
3 Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you yourselves also are in the body.
via Hebrews 13:1-3 NASB – The Changeless Christ – Let love of the – Bible Gateway.

JESUS LOVES YOU,
Kathie

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Back to Work!

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Officially our play days are all but gone!  My beloved gets to go back to the office in the morning. I will miss having him around here underfoot :) It’s been good to relax and lay much of my routines aside for a spell, but tomorrow it’s back to business.

On Sunday my Pastor (Roy Hill) gave a superb sermon. I’d like to share his five major points:

Five Resolutions every Christian should make:

1. Do the things I told Christ I would do on the day He saved me.
2. Love Christ more. And here’s how: Love Him FIRST. Love Him MOST. Love Him DAILY. And there’s more. To do this means DAILY I will spend time in the WORD. DAILY I will seize time for talking to Him. DAILY I will invest time LISTENING to Him.
3. Share my faith. Look at every person I see as someone Jesus died for and when the HOLY SPIRIT prompts and opens the door, TELL THEM JESUS died for them.
4. Be the family member God wants me to be. For me, that’s being a godly wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, or cousin.
5. Be the church member God wants me to be. That means show up and let JESUS show out in me.

And here at the close of day 2, I could have practiced these better BUT tomorrow His mercies are fresh and new and practice makes perfect!! :)

Lamentations 3: 21This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope:
22 It is through the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness.
24 “The LORD is my portion,” saith my soul, “Therefore will I hope in Him.”
25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him.
26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
via Lamentations 3 KJ21 – I am the man that hath seen affliction – Bible Gateway.

JESUS LOVES YOU,
Kathie

Celebrations

2012

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Greetings 2012!
You will only bring to me what my ABBA has purposed. Surprises surely await me but He is already there and we (those of us in CHRIST JESUS) are safe.

ABBA, thank You for the victories of 2011; thank You for my defeats that You turned to victories. Thank You for each dear and beloved IDOK. Thank You that their futures are safe even before we know them. Thank You, JESUS, for who You are and who You are making us to be. We welcome this new year because You are walking it with us. Thank You for family, friends, love, faith, joy, peace and forgiveness; let us not leave any one of them behind but bring each forward, daily. May all our merrymaking be done in holiness. And, ABBA, I pray for mercy and grace and space to repent for those whose merrymaking even now is far from You. Thank You that all my such New Years past are forgiven and under the Blood of CHRIST JESUS my LORD. HOLY SPIRIT, I invite You to get all up in ‘my’ business for 2012 and make it our best year yet; and not just for me but for every willing soul who comes here to read and pray. Amen and amen in the Lovely, Mighty and Holy Name of JESUS, the LORD’s CHRIST.

Let us Brave the Dark with the LIGHT of the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST together,
Kathie