It is December in Michigan and the snow has begun! Makes you want to curl up with a good book!! Recently in my reading I found these Biblical affirmations listed:
"They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." Isaiah 40:31
"If God be for us (me), who can be against us (me)?" Romans 8:31
"He who has begun a good work in you will complete it." Philippians 1:6
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Philippians 4:13
"These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full." John 15:11
"With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26
"Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Matthew 28:20
I was familiar with all of these verses and found that many were ones I memorized as a young child in church. Thank God for pastors that teach their people scripture and see that they memorize them. How many times have one or more of these passages ministered to you when you needed them?
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Healing Truths to Remember
Healing Truths to Remember. . . When the Hurt Runs Deep (Kay Arthur)
1. If God has allowed pain in our lives, He has allowed it for a purpose--a good purpose, because He is a good God.
2. Deep and genuine healing will always be tied to an accurate knowledge of God's sovereignty and character. The clearer our understanding of who God is, the more profound our healing will be.
3. Because God is love, and because God rules over all, everything that comes into our lives is filtered through His sovereign fingers of love.
4. Because God is all-knowing, He knows the very source of your deepest pain--and He understands exactly how to touch it, heal it, and use it to bring about your highest good.
5. No hurt is so strong that it can separate you from His love. Your hurt is not intended to drive you from God but to God.
6. Nothing that has ever happened to you has escaped God's notice. You can trust that He will bring to account everyone who has hurt you, in His time and in His way.
7. Deep hurt can happen to upright, blameless people; it is not always deserved or earned.
8. When we sin, we will find ourselves facing the consequences. But when we submit to God in repentance and seek His help, we can get through those consequences and step on the path to hope and healing.
9. Wherever you are, whoever you are, whatever you have done, there is hope because there is God. He is a God of hope; redemption is His business.
10. God's grace is brought to fullness in our lives as we release our hurt and draw on His power in our weakness.
11. Deep, exhausting, unrelenting hurt can bring you to the end of yourself--to complete and total dependence on God--which is the best place you could ever be.
12. Whether your hurts have been caused by someone else's actions or by your own sins and failures, healing begins at the cross--the greatest expression of God's love for you.
1. If God has allowed pain in our lives, He has allowed it for a purpose--a good purpose, because He is a good God.
2. Deep and genuine healing will always be tied to an accurate knowledge of God's sovereignty and character. The clearer our understanding of who God is, the more profound our healing will be.
3. Because God is love, and because God rules over all, everything that comes into our lives is filtered through His sovereign fingers of love.
4. Because God is all-knowing, He knows the very source of your deepest pain--and He understands exactly how to touch it, heal it, and use it to bring about your highest good.
5. No hurt is so strong that it can separate you from His love. Your hurt is not intended to drive you from God but to God.
6. Nothing that has ever happened to you has escaped God's notice. You can trust that He will bring to account everyone who has hurt you, in His time and in His way.
7. Deep hurt can happen to upright, blameless people; it is not always deserved or earned.
8. When we sin, we will find ourselves facing the consequences. But when we submit to God in repentance and seek His help, we can get through those consequences and step on the path to hope and healing.
9. Wherever you are, whoever you are, whatever you have done, there is hope because there is God. He is a God of hope; redemption is His business.
10. God's grace is brought to fullness in our lives as we release our hurt and draw on His power in our weakness.
11. Deep, exhausting, unrelenting hurt can bring you to the end of yourself--to complete and total dependence on God--which is the best place you could ever be.
12. Whether your hurts have been caused by someone else's actions or by your own sins and failures, healing begins at the cross--the greatest expression of God's love for you.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Choosing to SEE
I just finished Mary Beth Chapman's book, Choosing to SEE. It was an excellent book detailing events of her life leading up to and in the days following the accident that took her young daughter's life. What a great book on trusting and believing God when the worst things happen in your life. I would recommend this to anyone, especially to those who might be going through a major life crisis. May God be praised!!
Friday, October 15, 2010
Football
I enjoyed watching another of our grandson's football games tonight--along with my husband, daughter, and his siblings. The weather has been beautiful and with a warm coat, scarf, blankets, etc. it is very enjoyable and not too cold.
We do spend a lot of time with grandchildren's sports--it is fun and relaxing too. Fall baseball is now over but practices for spring baseball and travel teams are already starting!!!
My husband and I are working on cleaning and sorting things in our huge barn. It is really a pole building. We are trying to do an hour a day (during the week). It is really like eating an elephant but we can see some progress. We are giving away, burning, dumping, and taking scrap metal off for $$. Hopefully this will get rid of a lot of stuff and we will have much free space for children to play and working on projects in there. (painting, fixing things etc)
I am reading a book called The Perfect love by a lady named Ruth Myers. I am really being blessed by some of what she shares. Ruth and her husband are on staff with the Navigators and served many years as a missionary. "If you want real love, ideal love, limitless love, God's heart is where to find it. It's the only love big enough to meet the God-sized needs of your life."
Inexpressible, indescribable, inexhaustible, incomparable, limitless, overflowing, intensely personal, all-surpassing, all understanding, always higher, always deeper, forever faithful, forever honoring, forever protecting, more than satisfying, more than wonderful, altogether strong, altogether tender, ever long, ever delighting. . . Where can you find the kind of love you truly need?
We do spend a lot of time with grandchildren's sports--it is fun and relaxing too. Fall baseball is now over but practices for spring baseball and travel teams are already starting!!!
My husband and I are working on cleaning and sorting things in our huge barn. It is really a pole building. We are trying to do an hour a day (during the week). It is really like eating an elephant but we can see some progress. We are giving away, burning, dumping, and taking scrap metal off for $$. Hopefully this will get rid of a lot of stuff and we will have much free space for children to play and working on projects in there. (painting, fixing things etc)
I am reading a book called The Perfect love by a lady named Ruth Myers. I am really being blessed by some of what she shares. Ruth and her husband are on staff with the Navigators and served many years as a missionary. "If you want real love, ideal love, limitless love, God's heart is where to find it. It's the only love big enough to meet the God-sized needs of your life."
Inexpressible, indescribable, inexhaustible, incomparable, limitless, overflowing, intensely personal, all-surpassing, all understanding, always higher, always deeper, forever faithful, forever honoring, forever protecting, more than satisfying, more than wonderful, altogether strong, altogether tender, ever long, ever delighting. . . Where can you find the kind of love you truly need?
Friday, October 8, 2010
Unconditional Love
From Postcards From Heaven--Claire Cloninger
Dear child of mine,
As you were growing up in this imperfect world, you learned that if you were a good little child, you would be loved. This is the kind of love the world is famous for. It is called "conditional love" because it comes with conditions--with strings attached. It is love you must work and strive and struggle to earn. But it is not real love. It is a counterfeit--a cheap forgery of a priceless masterpiece.
My love is real and unconditional. It cannot be earned. Try to understand this truth, for it will deeply affect the way you live your life: You cannot make me love you more by anything you do or do not do. And you cannot make me love you less by anything you do or do not do.
Take a minute and read those two sentences again. If you are willing to allow my deep, true, unconditional love to seep down into your wounded spirit, that love will make you whole. And from the endless stream of love I shall put within you, true repenance will flow. Then you will love a good life, not in order to make me love you, but because I already do love you! You will be set free to live with joy and abandon. You will be released to love others with this same kind of love.
Does it sound too good to be true? Dare to believe it. Open your heart to receive it. You will never be the same.
Unconditionally,
GOD
"This is what real love is: It is not our love for God; it is God's love for us in sending his Son to be the way to take away our sins." 1 John 4:10
Dear child of mine,
As you were growing up in this imperfect world, you learned that if you were a good little child, you would be loved. This is the kind of love the world is famous for. It is called "conditional love" because it comes with conditions--with strings attached. It is love you must work and strive and struggle to earn. But it is not real love. It is a counterfeit--a cheap forgery of a priceless masterpiece.
My love is real and unconditional. It cannot be earned. Try to understand this truth, for it will deeply affect the way you live your life: You cannot make me love you more by anything you do or do not do. And you cannot make me love you less by anything you do or do not do.
Take a minute and read those two sentences again. If you are willing to allow my deep, true, unconditional love to seep down into your wounded spirit, that love will make you whole. And from the endless stream of love I shall put within you, true repenance will flow. Then you will love a good life, not in order to make me love you, but because I already do love you! You will be set free to live with joy and abandon. You will be released to love others with this same kind of love.
Does it sound too good to be true? Dare to believe it. Open your heart to receive it. You will never be the same.
Unconditionally,
GOD
"This is what real love is: It is not our love for God; it is God's love for us in sending his Son to be the way to take away our sins." 1 John 4:10
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Ten Things Kids Need to Hear
Ten Things Kids Need to Hear (from mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, teachers, adults in their lives) Cheri Fuller
1. It's such a blessing to be your mom (grandma)
2. If more kids were like you, the world would be a better place.
3. I believe in you and love you!
4. I appreciate your attitude.
5. You're learning and making progress.
6. You're on the right track now.
7. You did a great job at __________.
8. You have lots of potential and God has given you some fine talents.
9. I know this is difficult, but I can tell you're trying!
10. You're going to go far in l ife. God has a bright future and hope for you. (Jeremiah 29:11)
1. It's such a blessing to be your mom (grandma)
2. If more kids were like you, the world would be a better place.
3. I believe in you and love you!
4. I appreciate your attitude.
5. You're learning and making progress.
6. You're on the right track now.
7. You did a great job at __________.
8. You have lots of potential and God has given you some fine talents.
9. I know this is difficult, but I can tell you're trying!
10. You're going to go far in l ife. God has a bright future and hope for you. (Jeremiah 29:11)
Monday, September 20, 2010
Trusting God
At the women's conference I attended this weekend, one of Elizabeth George's sessions was on Trusting God based on Romans 8:28. She spoke of all things being the good things, the bad things, the big things, and the little things. When you have difficulty with others, remember there are only people in your life that God puts there! Get your eyes off the people and on God. God knew before the foundation of the world everything that was going to happen to you. "All things" includes all things!! God is in ALL of our circumstances. NOTHING can ultimately work against us. Amen--so be it!!
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