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with me today  to Heart 2 Heart. Below is an excerpt. When you have read here go THERE.

Today I Will Make A Difference


Such wisdom can be found reading any of Max Lucado’s books and I got this via email today. I had to share it because I believe someone else needs to hear it besides me. Enjoy!

Today I Will Make a Difference

Today I will make a difference. I will begin by controlling my thoughts. A person is the product of his thoughts. I want to be happy and hopeful. Therefore, I will have thoughts that are happy and hopeful. I refuse to be victimized by my circumstances. I will not let petty inconveniences such as stoplights, long lines, and traffic jams be my masters. I will avoid negativism and gossip. Optimism will be my companion, and victory will be my hallmark. Today I will make a difference.

Be sure to pop on over to Heart 2 Heart for the rest. And perhaps you will check out some other of Kat’s postings.

A brief update and I will call this a post for Monday.

Summer is going well. GRANDS and I are enjoying each others’ company. I’m not getting a lot of writing time as you are well aware; not doing a lot of reading either but I believe a lot of ‘spiritual gardening’ is going on. I believe Jesus in me is making a difference.

Please continue to keep up your praying for our PFT and for me, if you will. I have some ‘wonder if I should-s’ and some ‘could it be-s’ taking up some thought and prayer space. A prayer or two for me to clearly discern ABBA’s Will would not be wasted. Much JESUS love and thank you-s to you all.

We have the God-given Right to do right in this wrong World,

Christian Living

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

Mouse Clicking

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Some clicks of the mouse are fatal. That one hasty, unguarded click just cuts you off, closes down the page and there’s no going back. Can you relate? When the page is gone and the back arrow is no longer an option, well … all you can do is start over. Call that original page up again and wait for it to load.

This is a hurry up society. And I am as guilty as the next, probably more so. Some years ago when I was building a website, those in the know, counseled me it was wise to construct the page so it would take no longer than 10 seconds to fully load because people would not wait any longer than that to see the page. Truth? Today, 10 seconds is too long. More truth? Unless I am REALLY interested in the page, I won’t wait longer than 2 to 3 seconds – how sad is that???

And it is that got to have it now, cannot – will not wait clicking, that is undermining our lives, families, churches, and our Nation. Just who do we think we are that we have to have now? That we cannot wait? Will not wait? That we cannot give it some thought (SOME PRAYER) before we leap? Would just another second to be sure before we click that mouse be so intolerable?  Well, would it?

What’s that old adage? Haste makes waste. Is that the truth or what?!  Be it the click of the mouse on a webpage or sin? The hasty web-click steals time. Sin steals much more!!

Think a second before you buy that purse on credit you can’t afford.
Think a second before you say that string of words.
Think a second before you get all flattered at that married man’s attention.
Think a second before you pass on that information – even as a prayer request.
Think a second before you _______________________.

I am counseling myself to slow down a second or two before I go clicking my mouse here and there. Perhaps slowing down a second or two in some other areas would save lives, families, churches and our Nation a whole lot of waste.

Whatcha think?

Anything you need to slow down a bit before you waste something precious?

Romans 12: New American Standard Bible (NASB)
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
3 For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.
via Romans 12:2-4 NASB – And do not be conformed to this world – Bible Gateway.

Prayer is breathing for the Christian.

JESUS LOVES YOU,
Kathie