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As I was driving across the Bay on Tuesday mulling over recent days a picture formed on the wall of my mind and I want to share it with you.  I want to share it because I really believe the Holy Spirit of God gave it to me for me and for you.  I believe it will help us.

When we first begin to bring our thoughts into captivity unto Christ; you know what thoughts I am speaking about.  Those thoughts that Scripture calls fiery darts; those that begin with ‘what if’; those thoughts that can send us into an emotional heap – those kind! And so when we first begin (or maybe, begin again) to resist those thoughts rather than laying in an emotional heap beneath them, it can FEEL like we are standing before the mouth of hell with a tea cup of water trying to put out the fire. And as we are about to pitch that tea cup of water on the fire, we are hit with more fiery darts, like: ‘What’s the use? Who do you think you are? And what good do you think this is going to do?  This is too much, you can’t win this.  You can’t put this fire out with a tea cup! And then what he hopes to be the clincher: You know if God really loved you, He would not allow you to suffer this way!’  Please refuse to listen to that trash!  Please don’t give up.  Let us keep on keeping on with our tea cup of water pouring every drop we got on those raging fires and the Holy Spirit WILL come in and He WILL turn our tea cup of water into a FLOOD and He WILL extinguish those flames.  And YOUR victory will be oh so sweet!!

Here are some verses to put in our tea cups.
Psalm 27: (New King James Version)
 13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living.        
What a confession is this one!  The Psalmist knew unless he believed, he would loose heart, he knew he had to keep on keeping on with his ‘tea cup’ until he SAW the Goodness of the LORD in his ‘here and now’.
 14 Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD!  Look at that promise!  If we will wait on HIM (and the wait means trust, rest upon, lean back on; curl up in His Lap, so to speak, and rest our head on His Heart), HE shall, not maybe, but SHALL strengthen us.
Hebrews 13: (New King James Version)
5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” 6 So we may boldly say: “The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”
Deuteronomy 31: (New King James Version)
6 Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.”
Philippians 4: (King James Version)
 19 But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Psalm 37:(New King James Version)
 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down;
         For the LORD upholds him with His hand.
Amen! Stuff is going to happen and we are going to get cut and bruised and wounded BUT we shall NOT be utterly cast down!! AMEN!
 25 I have been young, and now am old;
         Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,
         Nor his descendants begging bread.
I’ve seen the time that this one got me through some really lean times but in HIM we knew we would NOT starve.  And today you and I can know, we may not always be comfortable but in HIM we will get through any hardship, even debt and financial losses. Amen!  And this one.  Now this one in years passed I wrote it and others out on index cards and taped them over my kitchen sink, the bathroom mirror and various other places, as well as carried them around with me so I could read them again and again.  Sound radical?  Maybe so but when one is desperate, desperate measures get the job done.  And at the time I didn’t even know Beth Moore.  :) I’ve since learned she does the same.
This one I particularly like in the NASB  Psalm 145:
17 The LORD is righteous in all His ways  And kind in all His deeds.
18 The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth.
This one said to me that even though what I was experiencing was not right and certainly was not kind that my GOD was Right and He was Kind even though He was allowing me to stay and stay and stay in that season.  If I had not chosen to believe those two verses moment by moment, I don’t believe I would not have kept on loving Him in that season of my life.
Today we may want to pick up 17, 18 AND 19 to put in our tea cup.
  19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He will also hear their cry and will save them.
As I complete this writing I am so excited about it that I am having to curtail myself to keep from posting it early.   I so want you to have His Word to sustain you, encourage you and lift you higher than you have imagined.  I love you all, my dear, dear IDOKs.

A P.S. from later in the day from page 209, day 4, week 9 (The Patriarchs by Beth Moore): Remember, the goal of all true discipline is to disciple.  God never chastises His child past the point of teaching.  He never punishes just to punish.
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ABBA, You are faithful to us.  Thank You.  Thank You so much for this Word today.  Thank You that it is truth.  Thank You that it really, really works.  Thank You that we really, really can have victory; that we do not have to live beneath loads of anxiety; that those fires of adversity can be put out.  Thank You.   . . .   Thank You for our IDOK Troops and we pray for their safety and protection.  We pray they will come home safe and sound.   And as to the present situation regarding sending more troops we hardly know what to pray, so we pray for Your Will to be done; Your will to be done in war and peace.  And we pray too for the rest of our people on this list; we want only Your Best for each of them and we ask You Holy Spirit to help them receive ABBA’s Best in Jesus Name. Amen and amen.

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Revelation 2:17 — His Ministry to you,
Kathie

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Soul Rest

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Psalm 62:1-2 “My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from Him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress, I will never be shaken.”   (NIV)
What more could I add to that?  That’ll preach, won’t it?   But I did a little research anyway with my online Hebrew Lexicon for the Hebrew words for our English words: soul and rest.
Soul is transliterated Nephesh and it is – appetite, mind, desire, emotion, passion, the seat of emotions, passion.
And rest is manowach coming from the word nuwach.  Manowach is a resting place, a state or condition of rest, repose.  Nuwach is to settle down, remain, and to abandon.
This is what I see here, when my soul, that is my appetites, is abandoned to God alone, then I shall not be shaken.
If my appetites or my emotions are all over the page and are not settled into God, then I am like a reed in the wind – just getting the stew beat out of me.
So if this is describing us this morning, let us check our appetites, our desires, our minds, and our emotions, are we abandoned to God alone?
Yes?
Then we will have a sweet day even when sour things come at us. 

No, not abandon to Father?
Well, we know what’s coming, don’t we?
In Him alone, we have Soul Rest.
Thank You, Father, for this ministry.  Thank You for this Word this morning.  We need it.  I want my appetites, all of them abandoned to You.  I want to want nothing that You don’t want for me. I’m not there I think but I am asking You, Holy Spirit, to get me there.   . . .
Thank You, that You are You and You make no mistakes and Your love for us NEVER fails.  We pray to grow more and more like You.  And we are continuing to pray for each one listed.   As our eyes looked at each name, there are some really serious situations, some physical, some emotional, and the most serious ones I think, the rebellious, the wayward soul – souls having not rested themselves in You alone, these are the most serious I think. Yet we pray for them all, for each to be blessed and favored; for each to release themselves to You and find that You are completely faithful to heal spirits, souls, and bodies.
And we pray for our IDOK Troops to be protected and come home safe.  . . .
Thank You for each one that has come home safely – we pray so will the rest of them.

Thank You for our IDOKs and Readers – You know each, You see their faces, You see their hearts, their desires, You know what they need today and I pray they shall have it this very day.  As each of them wakes I pray they will say Good Morning to You first and remain in fellowship with You all day until they sleep again.  And it is in Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen and amen

Revelation 2:17 – His Ministry to you,
Kathie

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One Thousand

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Word-Press tells me that today’s post is number 1000.

One thousand posts.

That is staggering to me. Especially to know that the numbering here is incomplete.  When The White Stone moved from Blogspot to Word-Press some of the devotions did not export (even after several attempts), so there remain 656 posts over there. And finally, there are other devotions stored on discs and flash drives that were written before blogging days.  Oh well. Even so, that’s a lot of words. Perhaps it’s enough; at least for a while.

I do have a project that bears much attention. I agreed to teach a study class (in addition to my Sunday School class) at First Baptist Satsuma beginning September 8, 2011, and I don’t have the first note written. All I know so far is the title – Women of Scripture.  I turned in this description today:

Women of Scripture
A few of us Scripture Girls are getting together on Thursday nights from 7:00 to 8:00, September 8, 2011 – October 13, 2011 – for a look-see at some of the Women of the Bible. Perhaps a little time with Rahab, Deborah, and some others will do us some good. So are you in?   Don’t let me do all this studying by myself – see you there. :) Kathie Thompson

So for the month of August and perhaps longer, I think I’ll chew some of my own words again — there’s plenty to choose from — and re-post them for us.

Rather than this detracting from our praying perhaps it will enhance it, so please do not stop sending your requests to me.

Here’s our First CPC (Copy, Paste and Chew-again) ***unedited – as all CPCs will be***
(click HERE to read the CPC at its original post)

Three Times! 
Psalm 46 (NKJV)
1 God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear,
Even though the earth be removed,
And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 Though its waters roar and be troubled,
Though the mountains shake with its swelling.
Selah
4 There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God,
The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High.
5 God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved;
God shall help her, just at the break of dawn.
6 The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved;
He uttered His voice, the earth melted.
7 The LORD of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah
8 Come, behold the works of the LORD,
Who has made desolations in the earth.
9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;
He burns the chariot in the fire.
10 Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!
11 The LORD of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah
Did you notice that three times in eleven verses God said He is our refuge?  Do you think He wants us to get it? I am reaching way back this morning, all the way to high school English grammar classes, or was the junior high?  Whatever — bear with me here.  Do you remember learning about superlatives?  Good, better, best. Crabby, crabbier, crabbiest. Cuddly cuddlier cuddliest.  deep deeper deepest.  zippy zippier zippiest.  holy holier holiest.  However, I am told the Hebrew and Greek languages do not have such superlatives, so when Father wants to say something to the greatest degree of emphasis, He says it three times: holy, holy, holy.  Get it?  HE IS OUR REFUGE!  Selah.
You will also note the word Selah is used three times in these eleven verses.  Perhaps we should take note of that too.  I have been told for years that Selah means ‘pause and calmly think about that’.  I have also been told that in poetry it denotes an interlude, a pause.  But I like what I found this morning.
Selah, [celah], is from the primary Hebrew root word [calah] which literally means ‘to hang,’ and by implication to measure (weigh). This is readily understood because, in Biblical history, money, food, and other valuables were ‘weighed’ by hanging or suspending them on a type of balance (the equivalent of our measuring scale) to determine their value.
So seeing that this Hebrew word [calah] means to ‘measure,’ as in weighing something in the balances, we better understand how the word Selah [celah], which is derived from it, is illustrating that we should measure or value what has been said.  Taken from URL address:http://www.mountainretreatorg.net/faq/selah.html

So this is what I think.  To the highest degree of emphasis, Father has said: ‘I AM your refuge and I want you to weigh this.  I want you to see how heavy I am with this toward you.’  Do we see here that He is serious?  And that we are to NOT take it lightly – HE IS OUR REFUGE.  ACT LIKE IT!  So what would acting like it, look like in you (and me) today? Selah!

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Revelation 2:17 – His Ministry to you,
Kathie

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Hungry?

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Matthew 21:18 Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry.
via Matt 21 NIV – Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King As – Bible Gateway.

Did you notice JESUS was hungry? The GOD MAN was hungry. That signal that goes off in the brain that tells you your stomach is empty, that gnawing in your gut –  that happened to HIM!

Does that comfort you? It should. It should comfort us, encourage us, and give us strength to know that JESUS knows the effect hunger has upon us as humans.  He knows that gnawing in the gut. He knows the emptiness. He knows that compelling want to be satisfied. He knows the options paraded before us when we are hungry. He knows them all.

Food hunger. Happens to us every day. Happens all over the world. Some places severely.
And there are other hungers. Those happen all over the world too. Some places severely.
So what are you hungry for today?

Breakfast? Peace? Quiet? Bills to be paid? Pain to go away? A Word of hope?

GOD allowed Himself to be hungry in all the ways we are hungry, so He could lead us to fullness. But for us to be filled, we have to follow Him. We have to refuse to reach for what is forbidden and wait for what has been given in righteousness. He knows about that too, the waiting — the fig tree only had leaves that morning, no fruit.  But that’s a whole other lesson.

Happy, productive Monday to ya.

Click HERE and pray.  It’s Monday, who of us would not covet the prayers of our sisters and brothers? I do. :)

ABBA, none of us are without some kind of hunger this morning and I bring myself and all my sisters and brothers who will come with me to You to be filled in JESUS name.  To be filled and healed. Amen and amen.

Revelation 2:17 — His Ministry to you,
Kathie