Month: May 2016

The Heart of Home Improvement

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If you are a Christ follower with a broken heart, take solace in knowing that your heart won’t stay broken forever.

Look at this way: If you went home and your house had been destroyed by a storm, you wouldn’t just ignore it and live amongst the rubble. You would repair it and make it livable again.

God does the same thing. Your heart is His home and He’s not only going to repair it, but He’s going to make improvements and additions galore until it is truly fit for a King.

I don’t know about you, but I’m up for remodeling anytime! Thank you, Jesus!

Amen and Ehmen!

Immeasurable, Infinite and Ours

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Oh, how this lifted my spirits today…so much so that I decided to re-blog…I hope you are touched by it as well.

amen and ehmen!

January 3, 2015 6:35 AM

Dear Lord, thank you for waking me up this morning to draw me closer to dear godyou and to remind me just how wide, how long, how high and how deep your love is for me; for all of us. I have admittedly distanced myself off and on over these past few months as I have struggled quietly and internally with the changes in my world. I know that I am not immune to suffering, yet when I need you most, I sometimes do exactly what I have always reminded others not to do. I pull away. I don’t seek your face. I try to live in my own power. At times, I have been swallowed by doubt; not disbelief in you, but doubt that your promises are really for me; that your healing and comfort are for me; that I can really find joy in…

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Heavenly Message

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I was just having a little chat with God and he sweetly whispered this to my spirit: No illness is terminal when you believe in Me. What a heavenly message. Amen and Ehmen.

Collection of hundreds of Free Bible Verse from all over the world.

Collection of hundreds of Free Bible Verses from all over the world.

He Is Working Behind The Scenes

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Having things up in the air in your life can be very stressful, especially if when you lose Giving up is Where Hope beginssight of the fact that God really is in control.

Over the last few weeks, I have sometimes done just that–lost sight amid the craziness and the many unknowns surrounding my work life.

But, in true Father fashion, God just keeps gently pulling me back to Himself and reminding me of all He has done for me. Why, I wonder, do we always forget Him when he never, ever forgets us?

His children have been doing it since the very beginning. Literally, since Genesis! Over the last couple of weeks (I am sure by His design), I have been studying Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers and have often found myself “judging” the Israelites for continuing to grumble to Moses and God. How could they do such when they had seen such miracles–strolling through the Red Sea; eating food from Heaven; drinking water from a rock; defeating enemies that outnumbered them; watching powerful nations fall while they remained safe; having God Himself lead them?

Then, I realized I do the very same thing. Oh, the miracles I have seen; the comfort and reassurance that God has given me, all of my needs met and, still, I grumble and worry.

All I can say is that it is a good thing that our Dad loves us unconditionally and is willing to keep reminding us to be still and know that He is God.

This morning, he reminded me of this special teaching moment that He and I shared back just a few months ago. I am reposting it today to remind myself and my co-workers and friends that our God is always, always working behind the scenes for the good of those of us who love Him! Amen and Ehmen!

Stopped In Their Tracks… 

As I rode along praying from the deepest reaches of my heart, I suddenly became overwhelmed with this feeling that I was in danger. Completely out of the blue, I sensed that there were deer in the …

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It’s NOT A Fairytale!

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If I learned one thing from my first newspaper editor, it was this:

Absolutelyhappily-ever-after

everybody has a story. To prove that to me, he’d often send me down to Main Street

in the small community where I worked and would tell me not to come back
until I had a story.
I never came back without one. In fact, I found some
pretty good ones just by talking to people who stopped into the post office to
drop something in the mail or by the shoe shop to have their shoes repaired by the old guy who had been repairing shoes for going on 50 years.
Indeed, I met many interesting people on Main Street and, to this day, feel indebted to that editor for teaching me this valuable lesson so early in my career.

 

After I became a Christian, I began to examine this pearl of wisdom a little closer. Christians, I found, just like everybody else in the world, have their own individual stories. The difference is that most start out the same…on a dark and stormy night. And ALL end exactly the same…happily ever after!

No fairy tale here, folks. That’s God promise to each and every one of us. If you ask Him into your heart, God Himself becomes your knight in shining armor; your prince; your superhero—absolutely more wonderful and more powerful than anything ever born of the human imagination.

And He and your happily ever after await you just beyond Heaven’s door. My place is saved. Is yours?

 

And The Word of God Says… 

John 3:16

For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

John 1:12

But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Anyone who belongs to Christ is a new person. The past is forgotten, and everything is new.

Revelation 3:20

Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends. (NLT)

A Love Above

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A Love Above

There is a Love

A Love above all others

That is even greater

Than that of a mother’s

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It is a most beautiful

And precious gift

But to receive it,

Your head and hands you must lift

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Oh, dear child, don’t be down-trodden,

And never be afraid

For this is the promise

Our Lord, The Father has made.

–Brenda G. Gibson

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John 3:16  “God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”