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Tuesday, 04 November 2008

You Are God Alone
You are not a god
Created by human hands
You are not a god
Dependant on any mortal man
You are not a god
In need of anything we can give
By Your plan, that’s just the way it is

You are God alone
From before time began
You were on Your throne
Your are God alone
And right now
In the good times and bad
You are on Your throne
You are God alone

You’re the only God
Whose power none can contend
You’re the only God
Whose name and praise will never end
You’re the only God
Who’s worthy of everything we can give
You are God
And that’s just the way it is

Unchangeable
Unshakable
Unstoppable
That’s what You are

Titus 3:5 He Saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that being justified through His grace we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Friday, 06 June 2008

From the fullness of His grace we have all received one blessing after another. John 1:16

Friday, 28 March 2008

Faith

What is it that I don't believe God can do? If I honestly believed He is the God of the impossible, then my prayer life would be a lot different than what it is.

Living a life of faith...I only see dimly what kind of life that is like...however, I want to see more clearly. I believe, Lord. Help my unbelief.

Monday, 10 March 2008

Ok, it's not normal for me to say this...but I am done with the snow! Let spring come, please!!!!!!!!

Weekend in review:

Grocery bill to restock shelves....$181.00

Snowbound with our kids.... priceless

Thanks for the great weekend - fun times!

Tuesday, 19 February 2008

I love this quote, "Learning is not obtained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." Abigail Adams Faith of the First Ladies

It's important not to let our minds get lazy or sluggish.

"Do not let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ."

Friday, 18 January 2008

Today is what I've been given...

Know therefore, that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindess to a thousandth generation with those who love HIm and keep His commandments;

...what does the Lord require from you,

but to fear the Lord your God,

to walk in His ways, and love Him,

and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart

and with all your soul

and to keep the Lord's commandments

and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good... Duet. 7:9, 10:12

Sunday, 13 January 2008

Extreme God

Our God is an extreme God -

He can do exceedingly abundantly above even that in which we hope dare to ask for...

PRAY BIG! BIGGER! Wait and watch with clean hands and a pure heart to what He is going to do in and through you and around you!

Get on your knees - pray fervently...

Tuesday, 08 January 2008

And the rooster still cockadoodledoos...

Saturday, 15 December 2007

Tuesday, 11 December 2007

Be Still and Know that I am God...

"Noisiness makes perfect sense.

You can identify exactly where the rattling noises come from.

Do you remember Alice in Wonderland,

how Alice was either too big or too small?

Because she was never quite the right size, she was continually disoriented.

We all have that problem.

We are the wrong size.

We imagine ourselves to be independent and autonomous :

proud hearts.

We become engrossed in monstrous trivialities of our own devising.

We pursue grandiosities and glories.

One of the symptoms of the disease is that we become noisy inside.

....vainglory.

Or, in Macbeth's bitter words:

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,

that struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot,

full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Of course, this doesn't seem like much of a problem while we busily telemarket our pride to ourselves and others. "I just want respect...I don't want much. IF only I had better health, a little more money, a more meaningful job, nicer clothes...then I'd be statisfied. Doesn't God want me to feel good? I want to have more self-confidence, to believe in myself...I want MY WAY, I WANT THE GOODIES,. I WANT GLORY. I WANT GOD TO DO MY WILL. I WANT TO BE GOD....Doesn't everybody?

Our slavery to the corruption that is in the world by lust seems so plausible. Our restless disorientation seems so natural, so desirable. But it's noisy. The noise tips us off to what's going on. The static of anxiety, irritation, despondency, or ambition makes sense from within the logic of a proud heart. If you are not proud, then quietness and composure make sense."

Seeing With NeEw Eyes David Powlison