So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.  That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

What a statement!  Some of us lose it when the cable goes out! … Not you, but some people I heard about somewhere on the planet.  Paul went through, indescribable agony, but in his heart and mind, he had one thing that kept him… a WORD from the Lord!  He knew that he could not die until he went to Rome.  Paul was human.  I’m sure he felt how we would have felt in his position, but his trust was in the God of his salvation.  His encounter with Jesus on the road that day forever sealed in his mind his destiny.  He became a servant of the Living God.  This was a man who was looked upon as a great intellectual, upper class in his society.  He was well respected, revered and feared, but at one point he made the statement that:

“…Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ…” {Philippians 3:8}

We will get to the other side… no matter what “beast” tries to attach itself to us or hinder us.  Shake it off.  Our mission will be accomplished.  Smash through every stumbling block, speak to every mountain, lay aside every weight until your purpose is fulfilled.  Some go through more than others.  That is why it is essential that we pray for one another and help each other.  

“…For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.”
[Ecclesiastes 4:10]

What is a “successful” life?  In God’s eyes, it is finishing the task He gave us.  Together, with the help of our beautiful Savior, we will make it!

 

 

 
 

 

Thursday, March 19, 2009

As Jesus and the disciples continued on their way to Jerusalem, they came to a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home.  Her sister, Mary, sat at the Lord’s feet, listening to what He taught. But Martha was distracted by the big dinner she was preparing. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, doesn’t it seem unfair to You that my sister just sits here while I do all the work? Tell her to come and help me.”  But the Lord said to her, “My dear Martha, you are worried and upset over all these details! There is only one thing worth being concerned about. Mary has discovered it, and it will not be taken away from her.”

Luke 10:38-41

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Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receives whomsoever I send receives Me; and he that receives Me receives Him that sent Me. When Jesus had thus said, He was troubled in Spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray Me. Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom He spake.  Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom He spake.  He then lying on Jesus’ breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it? Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when He had dipped the sop, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.

John 13:20-26

“Chillin’ With Jesus”

Good Afternoon Beloved,

This thought has been in my heart all morning.  I’ve been thinking how many people spend so many years afraid of God and misinterpreting His Word.  This is nothing new.  I grew up around seasoned saints who taught us to fear and reverence God.  Nothing wrong with that, in fact we could use a little more reverence.  However, that school of thought, while sincerely trying to keep us from blaspheming God, and ending up with a one-way ticket to a very real lake of fire, it inadvertently did something else.  It made us so afraid of God that we could not enjoy Him.  His Holiness demands obedience; His Heart desires love and fellowship.  If we can ever get the two in harmony with our spirit, we would be the greatest treasures ever, and exactly what God intended when He created us in the first place.  God is powerful, He is magnificent, He is great, He created every living creature on the face of the earth and placed within that creature the ability to reproduce after its kind.  It is amazing that a man and a woman can come together, and produce a child with traits, not only of both of them, but other people in their family.  Not only that, but this same couple can have multiple children of different shapes, sizes, facial structures, temperaments,  coloring, etc.  That is what God wants to… children of different colors, shapes, sizes, temperaments, hair textures, that have His nature.  People who He can look at and say, “Now THAT one is MINE!”.  Whew! God is beyond amazing.  A friend of mine had a really inspired thought.  She said that, “Science is the study of God… they just don’t know it”…(thanks Tina).  Everywhere they try to go, He is there.  When they try to go around Him, they only end up frustrating themselves, and calling the phenomenon “inexplicable”.  Well, the “Inexplicable”… He is our Lord, our King, our Savior, our Sovereign, our Shelter, our Strong Tower, our Kinsmen Redeemer, our Waymaker, our Peace, our Counselor, our Doctor, our Lawyer

… our Brother….. our Friend.

…. and that Beloved is Good News!

U Blessed

Have A Fabulous Day

Regina

“At Your Feet”, Clint Brown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpH8EG6EQk8

“I Have A Friend”, (by Clint Brown, performed by Lewis Warren Jr.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixiTB7JdJ-w 

“The Password (JESUS)”, Canton Jones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn0SIdn3-_U

Strong Tower -Proverbs 18:10 6 of 115   The name of the Lord is Jesus. Through the name of Jesus we are protected from the enemy.

Lion of Judah -Deuteronomy 28:7 7 of 115

Carry Your Books? -1 Peter 5:7 30 of 115   Don’t try to carry the weight of all of your problems yourself. Roll that care over on to Jesus.

Walk In The Light -1 John 1:7 50 of 115