Friday, March 19, 2010

 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the Heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.  Even before He made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in His eyes.  God decided in advance to adopt us into His own Family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. This is what He wanted to do, and it gave Him great pleasure.  So we praise God for the glorious grace He has poured out on us who belong to His dear Son.  He is so rich in kindness and grace that He purchased our freedom with the blood of His Son and forgave our sins.  He has showered His kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.  God has now revealed to us His mysterious plan regarding Christ, a plan to fulfill His own good pleasure.  And this is the plan: At the right time He will bring everything together under the authority of Christ—everything in heaven and on earth. Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for He chose us in advance, and He makes everything work out according to His plan.

[Ephesians 1:3-11]

MY GOD…

Good Afternoon Beloved,

HAPPY FRIDAY! …AWWWW… I gotta do it.. gotta break out praisin’ Morris!  What an absolutely amazingly beautiful day!  I’m lovin’ the weather, but even more, I’m lovin’ what God is doing in me!  He is just so good to me.  In all my phases, facets, moods, temperatures.. glorious and inglorious.. He is just too beautiful for words!  I feel refreshed and invigorated.  I bless God for His bountiful blessings, that He has poured on me.  I wish I could properly articulate what I’m feeling right now as I listen to Trent Cory singing about the awesomeness of God.  I had never heard of this powerful worshipper before last night.  I was asked to sing with a choir in another branch of Zion.  The song selections were phenomenal.  I went to help out and to be a blessing, and I was the one blessed! 

My God knows just what we need, exactly when we need it.  Lest we forget, we are children of the most high God engaged in a spiritual battle for the children of man.  The battle can get hot at times.  We may feel as though we’re on the front line, but even front-liners are given reprieves and pulled back to recuperate.  If we are constantly “giving out” without replenishing ourselves, we leave ourselves open and vulnerable for attack… from within as well as without.  Spiritual blessings… basically God touching us in places no human hand could ever reach… He chose us… He showered His blessing on us… He forgave us … He has a plan for us… He gave us an inheritance and He will bring everything together… Whoa! … As the psalmist, brother Cory said so beautifully… oh what a wonder You are God!

… and that Beloved is Good News!

Y Stress? … U Blessed!

Have A Fabulous Day and a Wonderful Weekend!

Do it big for Daddy!

Regina

Awesome Wonder

Words and Music by Trent Cory and James Burt
Copyright 2004 PrayzHouse Publishing

Verse 1

Provider, Defender, Master of the Universe,
You know me,
You are an awesome wonder,
(Repeat)
Oh what a wonder You are,
Oh You are an awesome wonder,
(Repeat)

Verse 2

You know me, my weakness,
You know just where I hurt the most,
That’s why, I call You healer,
(Repeat)
Oh what a healer You are,
Oh You are an awesome healer
(Repeat)

Verse 3

Your kingdom, established,
You rule the heavens and the earth,
In my life, You are an awesome ruler,
(repeat)
Oh what a ruler You are,
Oh You are an awesome ruler

Vamp

Reign In Me
(Repeat)
Rule in me
(Repeat)

“Awesome Wonder”, Trent Cory

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

“Awesome Wonder”, Roger & Sam Grandison

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh86T1pcHw4

“Awesome Wonder”, Kurt Carr & The Kurt Carr Singers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCGoxPT6db8

“My Life, My Love, My All”, Kurt Franklin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmmYnmP2ehE

Live in such a way that those who know you but don’t know God, will come to know God because they know you. 

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

 
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusts in Him.

[Psalm 34:8]

“ummmm-ummm GOOD”
 

Good Afternoon Beloved,

Ever wonder why some of the most delicious foods are bad for you?  Even some of our healthy treats have been recently under attack (remember the tainted pistachios and peanuts?).  I read an article not too long ago warning of the danger of drinking too much water!  It leads our heart to wonder, “well, what can we eat and drink?”.  I’ve decided to take heed to the warnings, and pray over everything that goes into my mouth.  Food is a subject that the bible has a lot to say about.  It seemed to be a central theme in much of the ‘happenings’ in biblical times.  Wedding feasts, passover feasts, ‘we have a guest in our home’ feasts … there seemed to be a feast for just about every occasion.  Those folks loved to eat!  Sounds like us.  Think of how many of our holidays are centered around food… Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Easter, Memorial Day, Forth of July etc. etc.   Even in the business world, food has become a major selling point for many a meeting.  A question I’m hearing more and more, “is there gonna be food?” .  Many of us are learning healthier ways to cook and eat and that is really good.  The thing is that no matter how healthy, if it isn’t appetizing, chances are it won’t be eaten.  Our family is on a lower sodium diet.  It just makes sense.  If one member of the family can’t eat certain foods, we modify our dinners accordingly.  The change was so natural, and the foods taste so good that we don’t even notice what is missing.  The funny thing is, that when we eat out, we notice the difference and things taste really salty at times.  They didn’t add more… we are the ones who changed.  Hey, tastes change.  I remember my mother telling me when I was a kid, that one day I wouldn’t be so crazy about candy… she was right.  Now, I can take it or leave it.  The one flavor that actually gets sweeter with time is Jesus.  The closer we get to Him the sweeter He gets.  The better we know Him, the more we understand His ways.  We can smell His aroma through the pages of scripture.  Each book gives us a different view of the same Savior…

In GENESIS, Jesus is the Ram at Abraham’s altar
In EXODUS, He’s the Passover Lamb
In LEVITICUS, He’s the High Priest
In NUMBERS, He’s the Cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night
In DEUTERONOMY, He’s the City of our Refuge
In JOSHUA, He’s the Scarlet Thread out by Rahab’s window
In JUDGES, He is our King
In RUTH, He is our Kinsman Redeemer
In 1st and 2nd SAMUEL, He’s our Trusted Prophet
In KINGS and CHRONICLES, He’s our Reigning King
In EZRA, He is our Faithful Scribe
In NEHEMIAH, He’s the Rebuilder of everything that is broken
In ESTHER, He is the Mordecai sitting faithful at the gate
In JOB, He’s our Redeemer that ever liveth
In PSALMS, He is my Shepherd
In PROVERBS and ECCLESIASTES, He’s our Wisdom
In the SONG OF SOLOMON, He’s the Beautiful Bridegroom
In ISAIAH, He’s the Suffering Servant
In JEREMIAH and LAMENTATIONS, Jesus is that Weeping Prophet
In EZEKIEL, He’s the Wonderful Four-Faced Man
In DANIEL, He is the Fourth Man in the midst of a fiery furnace
In HOSEA, He is my Love that is forever faithful
In JOEL, He baptizes us with the Holy Spirit
In AMOS, He’s our Burden Bearer
In OBADIAH, He’s our Savior
In JONAH, He is the Great Foreign Missionary
In MICAH, He is the Messenger with beautiful feet
In NAHUM, He is the Avenger
In HABAKKUK, He is the Watchman that is ever praying for revival
In ZEPHANIAH, He is the Lord mighty to save
In HAGGAI, He is the Restorer of our lost heritage
In ZECHARIAH, He is our Fountain
In MALACHI, He is the Son of Righteousness with healing in His wings
In MATTHEW, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God
In MARK, He’s the Miracle Worker
In LUKE, He’s the Son of Man
In JOHN, He is the door by which everyone of us must enter
In ACTS, He is the Shining Light that appears to Saul on the Damascus road
In ROMANS, He is our Justifier
In 1st CORINTHIANS, He is our Resurrection
In 2nd CORINTHIANS, He is our Sin Bearer
In GALATIANS, He redeems us from the law
In EPHESIANS, He is our Unsearchable Riches
In PHILIPPIANS, He supplies our every need
In COLOSSIANS, He’s the Fullness of the Godhead Bodily
In 1st and 2nd THESSALONIANS, He is our Soon Coming King
In 1st and 2nd TIMOTHY, He is the Mediator between God and man
In TITUS, He is our Blessed Hope
In PHILEMON, He is a Friend that sticks closer than a brother
In HEBREWS, He’s the Blood of the everlasting covenant
In JAMES, it is the Lord that heals the sick
In 1st and 2nd PETER, He is the Chief Shepherd
In 1st, 2nd, and 3rd JOHN, it is Jesus who has the tenderness of love
In JUDE, He is the Lord coming with 10,000 saints
And in REVELATION, He is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords

 

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

My pastor often tells a story, about his two daughters when they were little.  He could tell them before Sunday morning service, that he was going to take them to 7-Eleven for Slurpee’s after church.  Angel was about 4, Genesis was about 2 or 3.  They would begin to dance and sing, “We’re going to the Slurpee store!.. We’re going get Slurpee’s!! “.  Angel would come up to me and say,“Ms. Regina, my daddy gonna buy me a Slurpee!” They were excited…for something that had not even happened.  Why?… because their daddy promised it to them, and they had faith that what daddy said… daddy would do… hmmmm…. the same is even more true for our Heavenly Daddy.  See, what those precious babies did not know, was that their family was struggling financially.  There was much going on.  The trip to the “Slurpee” store was a sacrifice, that could be cancelled, if it came a choice between gas to get home, and their Slurpee’s.  Our Heavenly Father is quite different though.  As a matter of fact, “the earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof [1 Corinthians 10:26]“…. no danger of God ever being in the position of being “all tapped out”.  He is Creator, and He has promised you a lot more than a Slurpee… but if that’s all you want, He can give you that…. according to your faith (as long as it not something illegal, immoral or un-Godly)…. so be it.  The possibilities are endless. .. every now and then, we need a reminder that Jesus is sweeter than honey in the honeycomb!

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. [Proverbs 16:24 ]

….. such good news!

Cartoonist’s Comment:

All of God’s promises throughout the Bible are fulfilled in Jesus. The grace of God has been made freely available to us through the blood of Jesus.