Happy Fourth-Be Joyful Always

-

Happy Fourth
While Merriman Webster refers to independence as:
"not subject to control by others",
we as believers need to think of it as being
"in" the dependence mode and controlled by the Holy Spirit!

July 3
I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Isaiah 38:5

"No matter where we are, God is as close as a prayer."

Billy Graham

July 4
Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him. Psalm 37:7

"Wait patiently for the Lord. He will give you what's best-in His time!"
Henry G. Bosch

Boo thought: Very Timely message as AOL has kicked me off once again.
I believe no weapon formed against us will prosper and God works all things together for good for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose, so I will allow this snafoo to bring to fruition even something grander for the Lord.
Prayerfully a new web site will be done soon and include online Bible Study, recommended books, music and recipes!
July 5
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
Matthew 22:37
"Our minds are to be as fully yielded to God as our hearts and souls."
David McCasland

July 6
Search me O God, and know my heart. Psalm 139:23
"Praying for selfish gain turns God against our requests. " Leith Anderson

Psalms Now 75 & 76
We praise You, O God
Even in the midst of this world's wickedness, we celebrate Your majesty and power.
For You are here, O God. You are here to save; You are here also to judge.
Even while the godless trumpet their rebellion,
You hold the world in the palm of Your hand.
Should You close Your hand in anger, O God, their doom is sealed, their boasts ended forever.

Your fainthearted servants need not be dismayed, O God.
Even the rebelliousness of these obstinate creatures can serve to further Your purposes.
We need not fear the distortions of those who defy and oppose You.
We need only renew our relationship with You, rededicate our lives to Your objectives,
and continue to celebrate You presence and Your power in our world.

Popular posts from this blog

She Fought the Good Fight

-
Image
February 27 Bible Gateway's verse yesterday was: This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him . 1 John 4:9 A fitting verse for the day my everyday friend, soul sister, monster of the faith and mischievous partner in crime, Kaye, left this world behind and headed to her heavenly home. My husband was able to be by her bedside and said he knew she heard the words of our faith that he shared. Her sweet daughter held the phone up to her ear so I could say good-bye and the brightest single star you have ever seen shown through my bedroom window as she exited this earth! Yesterday, my heart literally ached so badly that I told the Lord, "Take me too!" Wouldn't she have been surprised if I had snuck up on her in heaven and said, "Thought you were going somewhere without me, did ya." When we received the call she was ready to go, I called out to the Lord for comfort and He led me to the Bible Gat
Read more

Marriage Matters #1

-
Image
One of life's deepest hurts is when the one you love is unfaithful. Forty years ago, I remember an older friend, whose wife had been unfaithful and left him for another man saying to me..."Boo, I hope you never experience having the person you love and are married to, living 8 blocks away loving someone else." Deep hurt. They divorced. The wife of another friend of ours was having an affair with a fellow church member and a neighbor of theirs who lived 5 blocks away. She moved in with this man and our friend said one evening he was walking by the house where they were living together and saw them sitting at a table having a candlelight dinner. Ugh. The torment. I've always said it would be aweful to find out the person you were married to and  loved deeply loved another.  Hmm. We are the bride of Christ.  Is He our first love? 2 Peter 2:14 says: They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed
Read more

Are You Sinking... Being Tossed About?

-
Image
  A text came in from our neighbor recently, on a cold blustery day, when I was home with a stomach bug and awful headache. He said, "My canoe blew off our dock and has floated over to your shore."  And I'm thinking..."And you want me to do what?" I explained my husband was at work, but could help in the afternoon. I went to the window and could see the boat being tossed back and forth along our shore line. One minute it was close to our main dock and the next the winds had shifted and it was 200 feet in the opposite direction.  What I then realized is it had been taking on water. A text came again that he was in his car and driving around to our property.  Climbing out of my night shirt, I put on warm ups, UGGS boots and a hooded coat and limped outside to see how I could help. When I arrived to the shore line, the neighbor had tossed a 3 prong hook tied to a rope into the boat and was pulling it to the shore with one hand.  He had recently had hand surgery and
Read more