I knew a young co-worker whose mother was dying of kidney failure and she had to determine if she would give a kidney to save her life. She did not want to give her kidney because there was no guarantee that her mother would still live and she wanted to have a productive life with children and giving one of her kidneys would put her at a risk in a pregnancy.
God paid the ultimate sacrifice for us in that he gave his blood for his kids!
God paid the ultimate sacrifice for us in that he gave his blood for his kids!
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:17
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Roman 8:32
It’s an entitlement that we have a cell phone with pictures and texting. Children who borrow a car and trash it out, using all the gas, wanting money, wearing my clothes, taking my makeup, paying for private school, college, clothes and extras in college. It's all what I owe them. What happens as a parent is I know some parents that cut their adult children totally off. It’s cutting the umbilical cord and I believe it has to happen or those baby birds will drive you into the ground. As far as saying “no” to your children. Baby birds get too fat to stay in the nest and the mother eagle will put thorns in their nest to get them to fly. If they don’t fly and they are lazy they can fall to the ground and the predators will eat them. God compares us to eagles.He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Roman 8:32
They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint Isaiah 40:32
In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye, like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them on its pinions. Duet 32:10-11
All five of my children at one time during their life as a teenager drove the 1986 Pontiac Grand Am car. Some referred to it as the ghetto Grand Am and the last daughter sometimes would have her friends push her through the drive through at Taco Bell if it would break down or if the electric window did not roll down she had to open the door to order fast food. Still, with the ghetto Grand Am, my children had it nicer than many 3rd world countries because they had the opportunity to work and drive a car. In some countries some women don’t have the opportunity to go to school. My heavenly Father is very good to me, but I recognize like my kids there are times that I have to wait on God to meet my needs as an upgrade from the ghetto Grand Am I currently driving emotionally as a single person in life. Get out of the spirit of entitlement.
Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. Psalm 27:14
I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope. Psalm 130:5
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 1 Cor. 13:4
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James 1:4
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James 1:4
I'm not sure my kids were always very patient with driving the ghetto Grand Am in wanting a better car. I'm not very patient when it comes to the flesh in being widowed either and wanting another companion.
My son told me how many students at IU their parents bought them a BMW car when he was attending college in Bloomington, Indiana. I told him at that time as a single parent, I would not be buying him a BMW! Since my son has been on his own with a good job, he has not gone out and bought a BMW car with his own money.
I’ve learned in life I have to cast my worry and cares on the Lord when it comes to what adult children do. Not worrying if my adult children are doing right or how they are living their life. I’m not going to be the “meddling” mother. It’s called meddling in other people’s affairs. What my relatives and adult children do is not my business. At one time in life I had a relative in life that was telephoning me every day wanting to know what my husband was eating, if he was sleeping good, and what he was wearing. I was very patient with my meddling widowed mother-in-law at the time. When we are married we have to "leave and cleave" to our husband or wife. In like manner, we are married to Jesus and we have do what Jesus wants us to do above all others in life. Who is my mother, father, sister, or brother? Who are my kids and relatives now?
My son told me how many students at IU their parents bought them a BMW car when he was attending college in Bloomington, Indiana. I told him at that time as a single parent, I would not be buying him a BMW! Since my son has been on his own with a good job, he has not gone out and bought a BMW car with his own money.
I’ve learned in life I have to cast my worry and cares on the Lord when it comes to what adult children do. Not worrying if my adult children are doing right or how they are living their life. I’m not going to be the “meddling” mother. It’s called meddling in other people’s affairs. What my relatives and adult children do is not my business. At one time in life I had a relative in life that was telephoning me every day wanting to know what my husband was eating, if he was sleeping good, and what he was wearing. I was very patient with my meddling widowed mother-in-law at the time. When we are married we have to "leave and cleave" to our husband or wife. In like manner, we are married to Jesus and we have do what Jesus wants us to do above all others in life. Who is my mother, father, sister, or brother? Who are my kids and relatives now?
While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. Someone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.” He replied to him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother. Matthew 12:46-50
What other Christians do is not my business. What I do is not my relatives or my children's business. I have to be about my own Father’s business. About my heavenly Father’s business. I’ve taking over Jesus work on earth since he went to the Father. Jesus was busy going about his Father’s business. Not as a carpenter for Joseph, but for his heavenly Father. Now he has entrusted me with blank checks and those blank checks are his name. When my daughter went to Australia she left me was a package of checks she signed to pay bills for her and I have a bunch of blank checks and it’s called the name of Jesus and I’m entrusted to use those checks now. As the body of Christ we are his arms and legs.
And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. John 14:13
Then Peter said, "Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk." Acts 3:6
Then Peter said, "Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk." Acts 3:6
The scripture above says when I ask in Jesus name it’s to bring glory to the Father.
As a Christian, we are now priests and we take the time to “minister” to the Lord. Mary sat at the feet of Jesus and apparently Jesus was more pleased with her listening to him than Martha running around fretting about serving him. I’m not against serving the Lord and doing a lot of things, but many times we forget the God of the ministry and get caught up in the ministry rather than loving the person of the ministry. The problem with Martha is she served the Lord, but she was fretting at the same time.
"Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her." Luke 10:41-42
He has made us a Kingdom of priests for God his Father. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen. Revelation 1:6
When you love a person, you enjoy being in their presence and spending time with them. When we love Jesus we enjoy spending time in his presence and ministering to him. I had a loving Christian marriage for 14 years where we spent time praying together, reading the word together, going to church, sharing God's word with others, becoming one soul in enjoying each other's companionship and than ministering to each other in a sexual union. Many people seek the sexual union, but they have not become one heart first. I seek to find a man to become one heart with again first before a physical union. The Bible talks about being one spirit with the Lord.
But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. 1 Cor. 6:17
I have a friend who ran into Peyton Manning at the Slippery Noodle Inn recently and was very excited about seeing him there. We should be as excited about reading God's word, going to church and ministering to other people as we are about seeing Peyton Manning or a dignitary at a restaurant. We are serving the living God, the creator of the universe. If we are in love with Jesus and honor his word, we will enjoy spending time with Jesus like we honor getting Peyton Manning's autograph. God's word is his autograph. His words are spirit and life and health to our flesh.
The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. John 6:63
Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; for they are life to those who find them and health to a man's whole body. Proverbs 4:22
Since I've had other widowed relatives (a mother, sister and former mother-in-law), I have examples before me on how I don't want to live. I remember one relative that had five locks on her front door and bars on her window worried about someone breaking into her house. I choose not to worry and fret about my life. I choose not to live in fear during the famine of a bad economy and losing my husband's income and hoard up my money in not sponsoring single socials at my home. As the widow that shared her oil and bread with Elijah, I like breaking bread daily with my friends in sharing God's word and his spirit and I've found that the encouragement of God never runs out. He keeps giving me more oil and bread to share with others until the Lord sends his rain on my life.
Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD gives rain on the land.'" 1 King 17:13-14
Sometimes others are bothered that I talk about my deceased husband, but I'm not talking about a dead person. I'm talking about a living person. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is not a God of the dead he is the the God of the living.
Mat 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
The disciples tried to put Jesus under a guilt trip about their struggles and Jesus stood up and said, “Peace be still.” He already said we will go over to the other side of the lake, but they did not trust his word. We are to put our trust in God's word and his provision.
But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. 1 Cor. 6:17
I have a friend who ran into Peyton Manning at the Slippery Noodle Inn recently and was very excited about seeing him there. We should be as excited about reading God's word, going to church and ministering to other people as we are about seeing Peyton Manning or a dignitary at a restaurant. We are serving the living God, the creator of the universe. If we are in love with Jesus and honor his word, we will enjoy spending time with Jesus like we honor getting Peyton Manning's autograph. God's word is his autograph. His words are spirit and life and health to our flesh.
The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. John 6:63
Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; for they are life to those who find them and health to a man's whole body. Proverbs 4:22
Since I've had other widowed relatives (a mother, sister and former mother-in-law), I have examples before me on how I don't want to live. I remember one relative that had five locks on her front door and bars on her window worried about someone breaking into her house. I choose not to worry and fret about my life. I choose not to live in fear during the famine of a bad economy and losing my husband's income and hoard up my money in not sponsoring single socials at my home. As the widow that shared her oil and bread with Elijah, I like breaking bread daily with my friends in sharing God's word and his spirit and I've found that the encouragement of God never runs out. He keeps giving me more oil and bread to share with others until the Lord sends his rain on my life.
Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD gives rain on the land.'" 1 King 17:13-14
Sometimes others are bothered that I talk about my deceased husband, but I'm not talking about a dead person. I'm talking about a living person. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is not a God of the dead he is the the God of the living.
Mat 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
The disciples tried to put Jesus under a guilt trip about their struggles and Jesus stood up and said, “Peace be still.” He already said we will go over to the other side of the lake, but they did not trust his word. We are to put our trust in God's word and his provision.
v. 35 That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, "Let us go over to the other side." Vv. 38: Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care if we drown?" v. 39 He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, "Quiet! Be still!" Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. Mark 4:38-39
God wants us free from worry, care and axiety! We are not meant to bear those burdens of life about family, our needs, or what others do, but to cast our anxieties and worries on Jesus.
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7
Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall. Psalm 55:2
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:34
Do not fret because of evil men or be envious of the wicked Proverbs 24:19
Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. Psalm 37:7
Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret--it leads only to evil. Psalm 37:8
If We Are the Body by Casting Crowns
If We Are the Body by Casting Crowns
It's crowded in worship today
As she slips in
Trying to fade into the faces
The girls' teasing laughter is carrying farther than they know
Farther than they know
But if we are the Body
Why aren't His arms reaching
Why aren't His hands healing
Why aren't His words teaching
And if we are the Body
Why aren't His feet going
Why is His love not showing them there is a way
There is a way
A traveler is far away from home
He sheds his coat
And quietly sinks into the back row
The weight of their judgmental glances tells him that his chances
Are better out on the road
But if we are the Body
Why aren't His arms reaching
Why aren't His hands healing
Why aren't His words teaching
And if we are the Body
Why aren't His feet going
Why is His love not showing them there is a way
Jesus paid much too high a price
For us to pick and choose who should come
And we are the Body of Christ
If we are the body
Why aren't His arms reaching
Why aren't His hands healing
Why aren't His words teaching
And if we are the body
Why aren't His feet going
Why is His love not showing them there is a way
Jesus is the way
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