tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38235567166779294022024-02-08T04:46:08.025-08:00They Will Know We Are Christians By?Mary O---Tally Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14769161343333969863noreply@blogger.comBlogger420125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823556716677929402.post-85268002895379055232015-04-08T18:21:00.000-07:002015-04-08T18:21:06.383-07:00Why Time Travel is a Problem <div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">
My friend and I went and saw the movie Project Almanac and if I had a
time machine like those teenagers in this movie, I would really mess
things up. Although I'm not happy with the outcome of certain events in
my life, a chain reaction triggers this butterfly effect. <br />
<br />
If we
understand timelines, we won’t want to change them. Every time they
changed the timeline some catastrophe happened because it affected other
people. If we changed who we married, we would lose our children. <br />
<br />
It’s rather interesting because I was watching these World War I and II
movies about how a British soldier could have shot Hitler in World War I
when he had a chance as a soldier. But probably another Fascist person
could have been raised up and who knows if they would have been worse
or the same as Hitler. We see that now with ISIS and these jihadist
bombings. <br />
<br />
For instance, when my spouse had his heart attack, a
woman at work got her husband to go to the doctor and he had a clogged
stent so she believes my husband's heart attack saved her husband from
having a heart attack, because he did not want to go to the doctor for
his indigestion. He had a greater “prompting” because of what happened
to my spouse. <br />
<br />
Several of his work friends said they were going
to eat better and exercise. I eat better and most of my children eat
better, and I got a woman who told me from his tissue donation from his
legs that she was a single mother with a child that she now walks. I
have no idea about the rest of his organ donations because he was a
healthy man outside of asthma and his heart. <br />
<br />
What most of us
want to know if we lost a child or spouse early is that they did not die
in vain, and one way is through organ donations.<br />
<br />
I was listening
to a minister talk about how his wife and him just left their jobs and
were going to serve full time in a church when a drunk driver ran a red
light and hit their car. His wife was thrown in the back seat with
several injuries to her skull. Several people in the church came and
prayed at the hospital including several ministers, but she still died. <br />
<br />
What someone told this minister, and the Lord told him is that the Lord
gave his wife a chance to decide if she wanted to stay on earth or
leave. <br />
<br />
This was rather a confirmation of my experience because
both my daughter and I were praying during my husband’s heart attack and
afterwards I was upset because I’ve read enough about people praying
people back to earth (the book 90 Minutes in Heaven) and I always felt
that my spouse ultimately chose to stay in heaven since he has two
children in heaven.<br />
<br />
Another confirmation of this was when I was
praying if I could join my husband about l-l/2 years after he passed
away and I had a dream about my spouse's death and I dreamed that I
died. I was floating up to heaven and there was all this joy and peace
and it was like if I really “wanted to go to heaven I could,” but out of
the blue I prayed, “Not my will, but thine be done.” Then in my dream I
was sent back to earth and was in a lodge full of people. <br />
<br />
I
find as a widow people are always trying to impose their will on me. It
could be friends, former friends, in-laws or children and I think of
that scripture: <br />
<br />
Then he said, "Look, I have come to do your
will." He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into
effect. Hebrews 10:9 <br />
<br />
Jesus gave himself over to the will of God
and we are told to present our body as a living sacrifice – living
sacrifices tend to crawl off the altar! <br />
<br />
And so, dear brothers
and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all
he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice--the kind
he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. Romans
12:1 <br />
<br />
As far as timelines, my late spouse and I talked about how
it was not possible for us ever to meet unless we met the way we did
through a single’s ad. My time clock of wanting to get remarried l-l/2
years after a divorce and for him it was ten months after his divorce,
but he waited for two more months to answer my ad in a magazine, because
a divorce recovery workshop said to “give yourself one year.” <br />
<br />
That timeline brought us together and I look for a person like I had
before that has a similar timeline as far as we are “on the same page in
life.”<br />
<br />
It’s sort of like my new job that took me l-l/2 years to
find. They were looking for a person who had good customer service
skills and believe in being a team player. <br />
<br />
I feel the same way
about marriage. Be a good team player. Those are two important
qualities in life to be kind (good customer service) to each other and
people. We are told that love is kind and is patient. 1 Cor. 13 --Love
is not in a hurry. <br />
<br />
Through faith and patience we inherit the promises and in our patience possess our soul. <br />
<br />
In your patience ye shall possess your souls. Luke 21:19 <br />
<br />
We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through
faith and patience inherit what has been promised. Hebrews 6:12</div>
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Mary O---Tally Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14769161343333969863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823556716677929402.post-80146585321256181162015-03-17T09:52:00.000-07:002015-03-17T09:52:18.516-07:00Women Engineers<div class="yiv5431451409" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426609369819_11601" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
In my high school there was a girl who always liked
Science. She ended up being a Radiologist. I always liked movies about
Science Fiction, so I'm a Sci Fi major....LOL </div>
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I grew up with a
brother and boys so I was always in competition with the boys in the
neighborhood athletically. Grew up between two Catholic families so we
had our own kickball, baseball, and football teams. What I found in
marriage there can be a "healthy" type competition and my son <span class="yiv5431451409" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426609369819_11604">and I used to compete about our college grades since I went to college late in life. </span></div>
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I liked to "pick" my husband's brain because he was an intellectual
when it came to big words. He was a walking encyclopedia and he knew
since I was a Christian a lot longer than him that I knew more of the
Bible. </div>
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I found in time that since my mother had that engineering
personality that if I married someone more like my mother I would be
better off. My dad was more of the romantic and sensitive type and I
found that was not a good match for me. Plus I'm not the "hand holder"
type like most women. I have more of that "fix it mentality." </div>
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I
was asking a guy how we overcome that fix it mentality. My late spouse
and I knew we could not fix each other. Being divorced we learned our
lesson the hard way, but we were always trying to fix each other's
children. So one of my guy friends said that he just learned he had to
"let it go." </div>
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Many people don't want to be fixed they want to be
loved -- no matter what. That when you see all my faults or I see all
your faults that you can still love me. </div>
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I heard a minister say
that God does not love us any more by what we do and God does not love
us any less by what we do. That is because his love is unconditional
based on what Jesus Christ did. </div>
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What many people get confused
about is when it says "faith without works is dead." What we could say
that works is a by-product of faith. Faith works by love, but we are
told now abides faith, hope and love and the greatest is love. </div>
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My relationship with Jesus is based out of love, giving is based out of
love/worship of him, he is the lover of my soul. Same in marriage, my
late spouse was the lover of my soul.</div>
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Many of us go out and try
to fix a problem in our life or fix other people, but we realize that
not everyone wants to be fixed, but everyone wants to be loved.</div>
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Mary O---Tally Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14769161343333969863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823556716677929402.post-65523479904568605852015-02-18T14:16:00.001-08:002015-02-18T14:16:35.901-08:00Why Preacher's Kids Are Sometimes the Worse Kids on the Block<div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">
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Many times ministers tend to be stricter on their own children compared
to the congregation’s children. As far as I was listening to this
radio commentary on Moody and a minister called in and said how
disappointed he was in his son. His son wanted him to perform the
ceremony for him to marry a woman who had two children and she was a
single mother never married.<br />
<br />
The minister said to the other
minister: “Don’t look at him as your son that you are disappointed in –
look at them as any regular couple out there and this will be an in-road
into your new daughter-in-law’s heart. How you treat them will
determine if you are able to minister to them in the future. If you
blow it by not marrying them, then you can blow an opportunity for an
in-road into their hearts for a lifetime.”<br />
<br />
The Bible says that “marriage is honorable in every way.” Hebrews 13:4<br />
<br />
I find that many times it’s easier to mend other people’s fences. My
sister’s husband was a mechanic and for some reason he fixed other
people’s car, but rarely wanted to fix his own car. Same with a nurse I
worked with whose husband was a psychologist and she said that she
wished he followed his own relationship advice at home. My spouse was a
“Mr. Fix it” but it was a lot easier for friends to get him to do
things for them, compared to getting him to do things around our house.
Pastors are notorious for fixing everyone’s problems, but at times they
seem to “neglect” to keep their own fences mended. <br />
<br />
I sort of
got a “kick” out of this song that goes – "The only one that could ever
teach me – was the son of a preacher man, the only one that could ever
reach me, was the son of a preacher man."<br />
<br />
Not all preacher's kids
necessary rebel, I've seen some like Lester Sumrall's and Paul Crouch’s
son that follow in their father’s footsteps, but I can offer some
reasons why we hear stories like Greg Laurie who is a popular evangelist
said that both of his son’s rebelled. <br />
<br />
Sin is very enticing and
when someone is raised with totally a straight and narrow focus where
there is no life outside of church – where day in and day out we are
spending every waking hour at church then life can become a drudgery
after awhile. <br />
<br />
That person has no outside interests – they have
no hobbies they have no other outlet, but all their focus is on going to
church. I have to take “breaks” at times and get way from ministering
to people. I really admire pastors because although some go on
sabbatical, I can’t imagine the pressure on their lives. The Bible says
they deserve “double” honor. <br />
<br />
The elders who direct the affairs
of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose
work is preaching and teaching. 1 Timothy 5:17<br />
<br />
But, some dads
don’t take the time to even go to their children’s sporting events or
find interests that their child wants to do. It’s cramming a life style
down their throats of what they want them to do rather than letting them
find their own way. <br />
<br />
How many of us were raised with fathers
that forced their own political views and opinions on us? Both my
former spouse and I were. Rather than us finding our own path, we were
put on this path that our father thought we should go on. My spouse
followed in his father’s footsteps in being an engineer, and my brother
pretty much followed in my dad’s footsteps, but my sister and I
rebelled. Same with my sister-in-law she rebelled. <br />
<br />
The father
in the Bible actually “let” his son (the prodigal) go his own way and
even handed him his inheritance a head of time. <br />
<br />
Some kids their
dads were so strict they were not allowed to go to prom. My youngest
daughter chose to go to Covenant Christian High School and they had an
“alternative” type prom. <br />
<br />
I have to admit when I went to my one
and only prom in life, it did not go very well. I was 16 years old a
sophomore who went with a junior and I still had my “innocence” and the
guy I went out with thought since he spent all that money. he was going
to get a reward. I actually broke up with him that night, because I did
not have those types of feelings or maturity. <br />
<br />
There is a scripture we can stand on as parents:<br />
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Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6</div>
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Many times ministers tend to be stricter on their own children compared to the congregation’s children. As far as I was listening to this radio commentary on Moody and a minister called in and said how disappointed he was in his son. His son wanted him to perform the ceremony for him to marry a woman who had two children and she was a single mother never married.
The minister said to the other minister: “Don’t look at him as your son that you are disappointed in – look at them as any regular couple out there and this will be an in-road into your new daughter-in-law’s heart. How you treat them will determine if you are able to minister to them in the future. If you blow it by not marrying them, then you can blow an opportunity for an in-road into their hearts for a lifetime.”
The Bible says that “marriage is honorable in every way.” Hebrews 13:4
I find that many times it’s easier to mend other people’s fences. My sister’s husband was a mechanic and for some reason he fixed other people’s car, but rarely wanted to fix his own car. Same with a nurse I worked with whose husband was a psychologist and she said that she wished he followed his own relationship advice at home. My spouse was a “Mr. Fix it” but it was a lot easier for friends to get him to do things for them, compared to getting him to do things around our house. Pastors are notorious for fixing everyone’s problems, but at times they seem to “neglect” to keep their own fences mended.
I sort of got a “kick” out of this song that goes – "The only one that could ever teach me – was the son of a preacher man, the only one that could ever reach me, was the son of a preacher man."
Not all preacher's kids necessary rebel, I've seen some like Lester Sumrall's and Paul Crouch’s son that follow in their father’s footsteps, but I can offer some reasons why we hear stories like Greg Laurie who is a popular evangelist said that both of his son’s rebelled.
Sin is very enticing and when someone is raised with totally a straight and narrow focus where there is no life outside of church – where day in and day out we are spending every waking hour at church then life can become a drudgery after awhile.
That person has no outside interests – they have no hobbies they have no other outlet, but all their focus is on going to church. I have to take “breaks” at times and get way from ministering to people. I really admire pastors because although some go on sabbatical, I can’t imagine the pressure on their lives. The Bible says they deserve “double” honor.
The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching. 1 Timothy 5:17
But, some dads don’t take the time to even go to their children’s sporting events or find interests that their child wants to do. It’s cramming a life style down their throats of what they want them to do rather than letting them find their own way.
How many of us were raised with fathers that forced their own political views and opinions on us? Both my former spouse and I were. Rather than us finding our own path, we were put on this path that our father thought we should go on. My spouse followed in his father’s footsteps in being an engineer, and my brother pretty much followed in my dad’s footsteps, but my sister and I rebelled. Same with my sister-in-law she rebelled.
The father in the Bible actually “let” his son (the prodigal) go his own way and even handed him his inheritance a head of time.
Some kids their dads were so strict they were not allowed to go to prom. My youngest daughter chose to go to Covenant Christian High School and they had an “alternative” type prom.
I have to admit when I went to my one and only prom in life, it did not go very well. I was 16 years old a sophomore who went with a junior and I still had my “innocence” and the guy I went out with thought since he spent all that money. he was going to get a reward. I actually broke up with him that night, because I did not have those types of feelings or maturity.
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Mary O---Tally Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14769161343333969863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823556716677929402.post-52188197933248406392014-11-21T13:53:00.001-08:002014-11-21T13:53:32.297-08:00Defending the Rights of the Underdog<div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">
God tells us to defend the rights of the underdogs. The widows, the
orphans and the poor. There are some attorneys that go into pro-bono
work . When I was a little girl, I always liked that cartoon,
"Underdog." <br />
<br />
Our society of capitalism and free enterprise does
not always lend itself to "looking out for the interests of others" like
the Bible says and the New Testament church, but neither does giving
free handouts. It tells us if a person does not work, he should not
eat. Widows were taken care of by family or by the church, not by the
government. <br />
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For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat." 2 Thess. 3:10 <br />
<br />
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Philips 2:4 <br />
<br />
There was no disparity in the NT because if people had an extra
vacation property, they sold and they gave to the church. Jesus told
the rich man to sell his goods and give to the poor. We know that Jesus
gave regularly to the poor and this was the purpose of the money bag,
although Judas was a kleptomaniac he was stealing from the money bag. <br />
<br />
Jesus was not born of an affluent family: His mother became a widow. <br />
<br />
He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is
that not what it means to know me?" declares the LORD. Jeremiah 22:16<br />
<br />
Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the
cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow. Isaiah 1:17 <br />
<br />
Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Psalm 82:3<br />
<br />
The theme of the Bible is not about how much we give, but the size of
our heart, Jesus praised a widow who gave two mites into the offering,
he said "how they gave out of their abundance, but she gave all her
living."<br />
<br />
I heard someone say recently, "It's not the size of the
church its the size of the church's heart." I spoke to a man who lost
his wife on Christian Mingle and he said he goes to the "Caring Church"
he said how many women reached out to him when he lost his wife at
church. I thought that was sweet that he goes to a church like that.
At times it's hard to get married couples to reach out without one of
the partner's getting jealous. <br />
<br />
Another widow and I have
encountered pastors that are very serving and she has one who lives next
door to her that comes over and mows her grass. She was telling me how
there were moles digging holes in everyone's yards.. She said it was
rather miraculous but the moles bypassed his yard that was in the middle
of everyone's yards! <br />
<br />
I've been to small churches and I've been
to mega churches and I agree it's not how many people go, but it's the
spirit of the church or the Bible study and if they have a loving and
caring (accepting) heart. <br />
<br />
As the scripture quotes it talks about
"pure religion in the site of God" and to keep our self unspotted or
corrupted from the world. I was born a mistake (unplanned). This was
back during rhythm method before birth control. My parents had a girl
and boy and then I came and sort of "rocked the boat" in not being
planned being born late in life. <br />
<br />
I can remember having this
dream I was adopted and it was so real. My mother had to convince me I
was not adopted. I think it was because I was not planned. I have a
friend who met her daughter she gave up for adoption (her first baby)
and the couple who adopted her thanked her for giving them her precious
daughter. <br />
<br />
There are so many people who can't have children and
want to have children. Choosing life is giving another person the
precious opportunity to be blessed. Many adopted children suffer at
times from a complex of being unwanted. <br />
<br />
My late husband adopted
his son and he was very protective of his son after the loss of a
child. It sort of reminds me of that Star Wars episode when Luke
Skywalker is talking about R2-D2 and he says, "I've never seen such
devotion in a droid." I've never met a man more devoted to his son than
my late spouse. He told me once he would go sleep in a rescue shelter
before his son would.<br />
<br />
There seems to be a correlation of choosing to adopt a child and that is what God did for us as Gentiles, he chose us. <br />
<br />
The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in
fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption
to sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." Romans 8:15<br />
<br />
I may
have been a mistake, but according to God, I was chosen before the
foundation of the world. It says he chose us "in love." <br />
<br />
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love Ephesians 1:4</div>
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God tells us to defend the rights of the underdogs. The widows, the orphans and the poor. There are some attorneys that go into pro-bono work . When I was a little girl, I always liked that cartoon, "Underdog."
Our society of capitalism and free enterprise does not always lend itself to "looking out for the interests of others" like the Bible says and the New Testament church, but neither does giving free handouts. It tells us if a person does not work, he should not eat. Widows were taken care of by family or by the church, not by the government.
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat." 2 Thess. 3:10
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Philips 2:4
There was no disparity in the NT because if people had an extra vacation property, they sold and they gave to the church. Jesus told the rich man to sell his goods and give to the poor. We know that Jesus gave regularly to the poor and this was the purpose of the money bag, although Judas was a kleptomaniac he was stealing from the money bag.
Jesus was not born of an affluent family: His mother became a widow.
He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me?" declares the LORD. Jeremiah 22:16
Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow. Isaiah 1:17
Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Psalm 82:3
The theme of the Bible is not about how much we give, but the size of our heart, Jesus praised a widow who gave two mites into the offering, he said "how they gave out of their abundance, but she gave all her living."
I heard someone say recently, "It's not the size of the church its the size of the church's heart." I spoke to a man who lost his wife on Christian Mingle and he said he goes to the "Caring Church" he said how many women reached out to him when he lost his wife at church. I thought that was sweet that he goes to a church like that. At times it's hard to get married couples to reach out without one of the partner's getting jealous.
Another widow and I have encountered pastors that are very serving and she has one who lives next door to her that comes over and mows her grass. She was telling me how there were moles digging holes in everyone's yards.. She said it was rather miraculous but the moles bypassed his yard that was in the middle of everyone's yards!
I've been to small churches and I've been to mega churches and I agree it's not how many people go, but it's the spirit of the church or the Bible study and if they have a loving and caring (accepting) heart.
As the scripture quotes it talks about "pure religion in the site of God" and to keep our self unspotted or corrupted from the world. I was born a mistake (unplanned). This was back during rhythm method before birth control. My parents had a girl and boy and then I came and sort of "rocked the boat" in not being planned being born late in life.
I can remember having this dream I was adopted and it was so real. My mother had to convince me I was not adopted. I think it was because I was not planned. I have a friend who met her daughter she gave up for adoption (her first baby) and the couple who adopted her thanked her for giving them her precious daughter.
There are so many people who can't have children and want to have children. Choosing life is giving another person the precious opportunity to be blessed. Many adopted children suffer at times from a complex of being unwanted.
My late husband adopted his son and he was very protective of his son after the loss of a child. It sort of reminds me of that Star Wars episode when Luke Skywalker is talking about R2-D2 and he says, "I've never seen such devotion in a droid." I've never met a man more devoted to his son than my late spouse. He told me once he would go sleep in a rescue shelter before his son would.
There seems to be a correlation of choosing to adopt a child and that is what God did for us as Gentiles, he chose us.
The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." Romans 8:15
I may have been a mistake, but according to God, I was chosen before the foundation of the world. It says he chose us "in love."
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One of the big problems I had in my 20's is I realized what a "people
pleaser" I had become. I was listening to James Dobson and he talked
about especially women are raised to be more pleasant and have people
pleasing traits. I can remember in high school having a fear of "what
people think of me." The Bible tells us that the "fear of man brings a
snare." <br />
<br />
Fearing people is a dangerous trap, but trusting the Lord means safety. Proverbs 29:25<br />
<br />
We see this with Aaron in the Bible where the Hebrews in the wilderness he claimed "forced him to make the golden calf." <br />
<br />
No one really forces us to do anything, but at times we become a
product of our environment. For me it was growing up with an older
brother and boys in the neighborhood where I did not want to be a
"tattle tale" so I "covered" what they did many times to the point of
lying. I find that men want to lie all the time and at times<br />
I've
caught myself falling into that behavior. <br />
<br />
The Lord spoke to me a
few years ago and said an "oppression' was over my boat and that is the
why we had to fix it so many times because my husband told a
half-truth. I had to break that oppression over it. It was really a
stupid thing and I don't know why he did that, but we are told that
"Satan is the father of lies." <br />
<br />
The only justified lying I can
see n the Bible is to save a life. For instance as far as Corrie ten
Boom hid the Jews during the time of Hitler. If Rahab had to lie about
hiding the spies in Jericho or I have some qualms about Abraham lying
to save his own skin about Sarah being his sister, but that is the only
time I see lying can be justified. But in the case of both Abraham and
his son Issac lying, the heathen king rebuked him for lying. <br />
<br />
I
have this tendency "not to rock the boat" at times, because I did not
want my brother or the boys in my neighborhood to "get the belt" from
their father. I tended to carry this behavior over especially in
marriage in going along with people even if it was wrong. It's like
making excuses for a person who is an alcoholic. I made excuses for a
spouse's wrong behavior. I've seen other women do this all the time.
"I'm sorry he got angry at the dinner party, he was in a bad mood." I
did it for many years so it's easy to recognize the same behavior. <br />
<br />
There is a "reckoning" day like accounting and it came a couple of
years after I was widowed. I was warned by an older widow that if I
went to single groups with divorced people that they tend to bash their
ex-spouses. I told her I was not worried about that because I was
previously divorced. I was going to several single socials where this
was happening and even laughing when a woman was talking about drawing
devil horns on her ex-spouse pictures. But when men started doing it
in front of me, I started getting grieved.<br />
<br />
It's because the "shoe was
now on my foot." A man was making fun of his two ex-wives gaining 40
lbs in marriage and I told him, "Gee I'm glad my husband did not divorce
me over gaining 40 lbs. in marriage." <br />
My day of reckoning came
when the Lord spoke to my spirit, "I want you to correct them about this
behavior.' I was like Jonah, I argued with God for three days that I
did not want to do it. I knew it would not be received well. God also
spoke to my spirit and said, "You are a Pharisee, you dress up in your
nice clothes on Sunday (nice robes) and you want the praises of man over
the praises of God. "Hello sister Mary." <br />
<br />
How can you believe
since you accept glory (praise) from one another but do not seek the
glory that comes from the only God? John 5:44<br />
<br />
Finally, I emailed a
group and the scripture the Lord gave me in Hebrews that we fail the
grace of God when we allow bitterness in our life and that is also
corrupts/contaminates others like Ebola. God does rebuke whom he loves. <br />
<br />
Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of
God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble
you, corrupting many. Hebrews 12:15<br />
<br />
I finally gave the
scripture and I was correct, some received it and some did not. A man
who was making fun of his two ex-wives had two strokes right after this
incident. <br />
<br />
Forgiveness is a strong theme of the Bible and I
really like the example of Joseph. He tested his brothers to see if
they had repented to see if he could trust him, but it says that "he
remembered the dream" He remembered the dream of them bowing before
him. Instead of remembering the pit he was thrown into and their
betrayal. It's good to remember how Jesus has forgiven us. <br />
<br />
It
does not mean that we can continue to trust them, but forgiveness is an
act of our will, it's like love. "I choose to forgive like I choose to
love a person no matter what." When Peter asked how many times we
should forgive he said, "seventy times seven."<br />
<br />
When Peter came
and said to Him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I
forgive him? Up to seven times?" Jesus said to him, "I do not say to
you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. For this reason
the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle
accounts with his slaves. "When he had begun to settle them, one who
owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him. "But since he did not
have the means to repay, his lord commanded him to be sold, along with
his wife and children and all that he had, and repayment to be made.
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One of the big problems I had in my 20's is I realized what a "people pleaser" I had become. I was listening to James Dobson and he talked about especially women are raised to be more pleasant and have people pleasing traits. I can remember in high school having a fear of "what people think of me." The Bible tells us that the "fear of man brings a snare."
Fearing people is a dangerous trap, but trusting the Lord means safety. Proverbs 29:25
We see this with Aaron in the Bible where the Hebrews in the wilderness he claimed "forced him to make the golden calf."
No one really forces us to do anything, but at times we become a product of our environment. For me it was growing up with an older brother and boys in the neighborhood where I did not want to be a "tattle tale" so I "covered" what they did many times to the point of lying. I find that men want to lie all the time and at times I've caught myself falling into that behavior.
The Lord spoke to me a few years ago and said an "oppression' was over my boat and that is the why we had to fix it so many times because my husband told a half-truth. I had to break that oppression over it. It was really a stupid thing and I don't know why he did that, but we are told that "Satan is the father of lies."
The only justified lying I can see n the Bible is to save a life. For instance as far as Corrie ten Boom hid the Jews during the time of Hitler. If Rahab had to lie about hiding the spies in Jericho or I have some qualms about Abraham lying to save his own skin about Sarah being his sister, but that is the only time I see lying can be justified. But in the case of both Abraham and his son Issac lying, the heathen king rebuked him for lying.
I have this tendency "not to rock the boat" at times, because I did not want my brother or the boys in my neighborhood to "get the belt" from their father. I tended to carry this behavior over especially in marriage in going along with people even if it was wrong. It's like making excuses for a person who is an alcoholic. I made excuses for a spouse's wrong behavior. I've seen other women do this all the time. "I'm sorry he got angry at the dinner party, he was in a bad mood." I did it for many years so it's easy to recognize the same behavior.
There is a "reckoning" day like accounting and it came a couple of years after I was widowed. I was warned by an older widow that if I went to single groups with divorced people that they tend to bash their ex-spouses. I told her I was not worried about that because I was previously divorced. I was going to several single socials where this was happening and even laughing when a woman was talking about drawing devil horns on her ex-spouse pictures. But when men started doing it in front of me, I started getting grieved. It's because the "shoe was now on my foot." A man was making fun of his two ex-wives gaining 40 lbs in marriage and I told him, "Gee I'm glad my husband did not divorce me over gaining 40 lbs. in marriage."
My day of reckoning came when the Lord spoke to my spirit, "I want you to correct them about this behavior.' I was like Jonah, I argued with God for three days that I did not want to do it. I knew it would not be received well. God also spoke to my spirit and said, "You are a Pharisee, you dress up in your nice clothes on Sunday (nice robes) and you want the praises of man over the praises of God. "Hello sister Mary."
How can you believe since you accept glory (praise) from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? John 5:44
Finally, I emailed a group and the scripture the Lord gave me in Hebrews that we fail the grace of God when we allow bitterness in our life and that is also corrupts/contaminates others like Ebola. God does rebuke whom he loves.
Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many. Hebrews 12:15
I finally gave the scripture and I was correct, some received it and some did not. A man who was making fun of his two ex-wives had two strokes right after this incident.
Forgiveness is a strong theme of the Bible and I really like the example of Joseph. He tested his brothers to see if they had repented to see if he could trust him, but it says that "he remembered the dream" He remembered the dream of them bowing before him. Instead of remembering the pit he was thrown into and their betrayal. It's good to remember how Jesus has forgiven us.
It does not mean that we can continue to trust them, but forgiveness is an act of our will, it's like love. "I choose to forgive like I choose to love a person no matter what." When Peter asked how many times we should forgive he said, "seventy times seven."
When Peter came and said to Him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves. "When he had begun to settle them, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him. "But since he did not have the means to repay, his lord commanded him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all that he had, and repayment to be made. Matthew 10:21-25" class="_46-i img" height="384" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/s480x480/10351965_10204300029636810_8327595244063453546_n.jpg?oh=3fc909bac6eb7c03caac5120c33e1399&oe=54EB3724&__gda__=1423501275_0f72d2bfca862dd194222eb23569abfd" style="left: -5px; top: 0px;" width="480" /></a></div>
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Mary O---Tally Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14769161343333969863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823556716677929402.post-22808537753093112152014-10-20T12:57:00.000-07:002014-10-20T12:57:01.609-07:00Trample Down Giants Part I <div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">
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David did not sit around and talk about Goliath, a giant, or his
problems like his brothers, and all the army of Israel and Saul. The
whole army of Saul and Saul himself would not face Goliath. They were
all afraid focusing on the giant. David was the sole person who believed his God was bigger
than Goliath. David was a loner.<br />
<br />
When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. 1 Samuel 17:11<br />
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There is a time to “confess our faults” it says one to another and pray
for one another that we may be healed, When I hear about what I’m not
doing right all the time, I get focused on myself and then those giants
they call out my name. <br />
<br />
Confess your sins to each other and pray
for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a
righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. James
5:16 <br />
<br />
It’s hearing about the greater one is inside of us by the
Holy Spirit. It’s getting the focus off of self (deny self and pick up
our cross). <br />
<br />
But you belong to God, my dear children. You have
already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives
in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world. 1 John 4:4 <br />
<br />
Paul talked about a sentence of death and I determined the same thing.
I determined that my spouse had high blood pressure and cholesterol
which he passed away in two months and I was next to go. I had high
blood pressure and cholesterol too. My blood pressure was 155/ I
can’t remember the other number but it probably was some medicine I was
on that had an ill affect on me. There are some problems I can control
and other problems I can't. <br />
<br />
In fact, we expected to die. But as a
result, <u>we stopped relying on ourselves</u> and learned to rely only on
God, who raises the dead. 2 Cor. 1:9 <br />
<br />
Through God’s grace, I
lost a lot of extra weight. We have this one body (or temple) on earth
that God can use. No point in asking God “why” when we put a bunch of
bad food in our body all day long. We pray over our food and eat our
food in faith. There are some things I find very hard to eat “in
faith.” <br />
<br />
Some of us started the race well now we need “finishing
grace.” It may be to eat better at our age, exercise, “do” certain
things and most of all trust God. <br />
<br />
Looking unto Jesus the author
and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him
endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right
hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2 <br />
<br />
David had a “momentum”
going, he killed a bear and a lion and to him Goliath was just like
another animal.<br />
Goliath felt insulted that they sent David (Am I a dog
that you come to me with sticks?).<br />
<br />
David said, “By my God I can run through a troop and leap over a wall.” Psalm 18:29, 2 Samuel 22:30<br />
Paul, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philip 4:13<br />
Jesus said, “With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26</div>
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David did not sit around and talk about Goliath, a giant, or his problems like his brothers, and all the army of Israel and Saul. The whole army of Saul and Saul himself would not face Goliath. They were all afraid. David was the sole person who believed his God was bigger than Goliath. David was a loner.
When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. 1 Samuel 17:11
There is a time to “confess our faults” it says one to another and pray for one another that we may be healed, When I hear about what I’m not doing right all the time, I get focused on myself and then those giants they call out my name.
Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. James 5:16
It’s hearing about the greater one is inside of us by the Holy Spirit. It’s getting the focus off of self (deny self and pick up our cross).
But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world. 1 John 4:4
Paul talked about a sentence of death and I determined the same thing. I determined that my spouse had high blood pressure and cholesterol which he passed away in two months and I was next to go. I had high blood pressure and cholesterol too. My blood pressure was 155/ I can’t remember the other number but it probably was some medicine I was on that had an ill affect on me. There are some problems I can control and other problems I can't.
In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only on God, who raises the dead. 2 Cor. 1:9
Through God’s grace, I lost a lot of extra weight. We have this one body (or temple) on earth that God can use. No point in asking God “why” when we put a bunch of bad food in our body all day long. We pray over our food and eat our food in faith. There are some things I find very hard to eat “in faith.”
Some of us started the race well now we need “finishing grace.” It may be to eat better at our age, exercise, “do” certain things and most of all trust God.
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2
David had a “momentum” going, he killed a bear and a lion and to him Goliath was just like another animal. Goliath felt insulted that they sent David (Am I a dog that you come to me with sticks?).
David said, “By my God I can run through a troop and leap over a wall.” Psalm 18:29, 2 Samuel 22:30
Paul, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philip 4:13
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I’ve heard some ministers call certain teachings a “false
prosperity” message.<span class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6648"> </span>I believe it’s best
to say that God is provisional. <span class="yiv9830836322"> </span>I go into
that more in a later blog.<span class="yiv9830836322"> </span>I like to
tell people on their birthday, “Live long and prosper.” That is because I heard
this message that Spock on Star Trek when they were making the Vulcan sign, he
used a sign very close to a Rabbi blessing since he is Jewish.
</span><br />
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6481" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6145" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Dear friend, I pray that you may
enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is
getting along well. 3 John 1:2 </span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6662">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6663" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The above verse seems to imply that as our soul is
prospering then it filters down to our health and wealth.<span class="yiv9830836322"> </span>Too many focus on things rather than
prosperity being a result of worship. <span class="yiv9830836322"> </span>That we are worshiping God with our giving. <span class="yiv9830836322"> </span>Is Jesus worth my spare change or is God worth
my whole life?<span class="yiv9830836322"> </span></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6664">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6665" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A woman poured out the whole bottle of ointment <span class="yiv9830836322"> </span>(a year’s wages) on Jesus feet.<span class="yiv9830836322"> </span>A widow gave two mites which was all her
living. <span class="yiv9830836322"> </span><span class="yiv9830836322"> </span>What we give represents our life work. Jesus poured out his blood on the cross. </span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6670">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6666" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had a dream about two years ago that an evil man was
stabbing me with a sword and trying to steal money out of my right hand.<span class="yiv9830836322"> </span>I knew that meant that I was going to lose my
job and there was going to be an attack on my finances.<span class="yiv9830836322"> </span>That I had to let go of the money (my job) I
was holding on to it. </span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6667">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6649" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Many of God’s people have been under spiritual attack.<span class="yiv9830836322"> </span>I heard a missionary talk about how they
closed the church down for six months to focus on helping people in their
country because the whole town was under attack – the whole town was under
flood waters.<span class="yiv9830836322"> </span></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6650">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6651" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I started meditating on the fact that the money was in my
right hand and I started to think about God’s right hand. I remember singing a
Psalm, You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your
presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. Psalm 16:11</span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6671">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6668" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What is at God’s right hand? </span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6669" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6672" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You have given me your shield of
victory. Your right hand supports me; your help has made me great.<span class="yiv9830836322"> </span>Psalm 18:35</span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6673" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Your right hand, O LORD, is
glorious in power. Your right hand, O LORD, smashes the enemy. Exodus 15:6</span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6674" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The strong right arm of the LORD is
raised in triumph. The strong right arm of the LORD has done glorious things!
Psalm 118:16</span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6675">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6676" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Jesus sat down at the right hand of God. </span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6677" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6678" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But when this priest had offered
for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
Hebrews 10:12</span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After the Lord Jesus had spoken to
them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God. Mark
16:19 </span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Jesus has been made our wisdom….</span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">God has united you with Christ
Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right
with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin. 1 Cor. 1:30 </span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It says that if God gave his only son, how much more will he
freely give us all things along with </span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Jesus! </span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">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? Romans 8:32</span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was teasing my roommate how it
would be neat if money grew on trees and how my children would tell when
they were small, “Mom just
write a check.“<span class="yiv9830836322"> </span>Of course, we have to
have money in our bank account.</span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When I get money I don’t eat the seed.<span class="yiv9830836322"> </span>I plant the seed so I have a harvest in my spiritual
bank account to make withdrawals.<span class="yiv9830836322"> </span>It’s
sort of like when I got married there were these love deposits my husband made
into the love account as far as I began to trust him and count on him.<span class="yiv9830836322"> </span>He built a history of love deposits in
dating that carried over in marriage in the love bank.</span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When I get to heaven, I don’t want Jesus looking at me and
say, “Hey Mary I’ve got all these blank checks up here with my name on it so
why did you not cash them in?" </span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="yiv9830836322"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="yiv9830836322">Whatever you ask
in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.</span>
"If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.<span class="yiv9830836322"> </span>John 14:13-14 </span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6657" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I've been building up my
heavenly bank account and I want to make withdrawals now.<span class="yiv9830836322"> </span>The only difference is I want to see my money
to believe it where we are to believe and we see it.</span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9830836322" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413331894414_6656" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you believe, you will receive
whatever you ask for in prayer."<span class="yiv9830836322">
</span>Matthew 21:22<span class="yiv9830836322"> </span><span class="yiv9830836322"> </span></span></div>
</div>
Mary O---Tally Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14769161343333969863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823556716677929402.post-60027222816740689572014-10-01T12:58:00.002-07:002014-10-01T12:59:08.667-07:00Ministry to God's Leftovers<div class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_7898">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I’ve had this “glamorous” calling to those people who feel they are
outcasts of society.<span class="yiv6607789572"> </span>It started as a
street ministry when I was 17 years old from reading David Wilkerson’s “Cross
and the Switchblade” and being involved with other people who did the same for
several years, next it was teen prison ministries and lately it has been single,
widow’s and homeless ministries.<span class="yiv6607789572"> </span>I see
it transitioning into nursing home ministries in the future.<span class="yiv6607789572"> </span>I’m having my 18<sup class="yiv6607789572">th</sup> single social
coming up this weekend. </span></div>
<div class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_7899" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br class="yiv6607789572" /></span></div>
<div class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_7900" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Therefore, my brothers and sisters,
make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these
things, you will never stumble, 2 Peter 1:10 </span></div>
<div class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_7901">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br class="yiv6607789572" /></span></div>
<div class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_7902" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I’ve had these jobs starting in my 20’s with lawyers for
about three years, next with physicians for ten years and then educators for
twenty years that have a high income and I was married to a professional civil
engineer.<span class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_13166"> </span></span></div>
<div class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_7903">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br class="yiv6607789572" /></span></div>
<div class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_12795" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is strange though, is I’ve always had a leading that I was
called to minister at church to lower level income people.<span class="yiv6607789572"> </span>My former spouse felt the same way, he liked
working with Boy Scouts and boys of single parent families. </span></div>
<div class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_12796">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br class="yiv6607789572" /></span></div>
<div class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_12797" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We tend to abandon those we consider less successful or weak
in life. <span class="yiv6607789572"> </span>It can be those with mental,
emotional or even physically handicapped. </span></div>
<div class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_12800">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br class="yiv6607789572" /></span></div>
<div class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_12798" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It’s really opposite to what God wants.<span class="yiv6607789572"> </span>God tells us rather than abandoning the weak,
we are supposed to give special grace to our lesser body parts. </span></div>
<div class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_12799" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br class="yiv6607789572" /></span></div>
<div class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_12801" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On the contrary, it is much truer
that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary; <span class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_12802">and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on
these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become
much more presentable,</span> whereas our more presentable members have no need
of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that
member which lacked, 1 Cor. 12:23</span></div>
<div class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_12809">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br class="yiv6607789572" /></span></div>
<div class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_9950">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We hear about Jesus blessing and feeding the five thousand men
which was probably about 20,000 with women and children through the disciples with
the five loaves and two fish, but we don’t know what Jesus did with the leftovers.<span class="yiv6607789572"> </span>One single woman
has been using her garden to feed the homeless. </span></div>
<div class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_12791">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br class="yiv6607789572" /></span></div>
<div class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_9949" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HAVING EYES, DO YOU NOT SEE? AND HAVING EARS, DO YOU NOT HEAR? And do you not remember, <span class="yiv6607789572" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412191567461_9948">when
I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of
broken pieces you picked up?" They said to Him, "Twelve."</span> "When
I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of
broken pieces did you pick up?" And they said to Him, "Seven."… Mark 8:19</span></div>
Mary O---Tally Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14769161343333969863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823556716677929402.post-9897561907953003512014-09-28T12:32:00.002-07:002014-09-28T12:32:48.083-07:00Gaining Ground <div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">
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Is life like a blow out football game? Or is it more like we are
gaining ground through rushing the football, not a large passing game. <br />
<br />
At times, I get very aggravated at life and it seems very slow at
times. Then I look back and I remember where I came from. It's like
Joyce Meyer said, "I'm not where I should be, but thank God I'm not
where I came from." <br />
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<br />
I can
remember at 16 years old I swore/cussed like some sailors. Not
everything that comes out of my mouth is 100% positive, but I can
remember the "f" word was continual out of my mouth. Another one was
controlling my temper at times. It tells us that a person who does not
control his temper is like a city without walls. The list goes on and
on and just in dealing with grief the last seven years, I've made some
strides although progress has been slow. <br />
<br />
There is an example in
the Bible of a Canaanite woman who her daughter was demon possessed.
She had to by-pass the disciples to get to Jesus and even Jesus said it
was not God's timing to help her because he was only called to the Jews.
<br />
<br />
The Canaanite woman was persistent in getting her child set
free. It's very sad that the very gift of a child (blessed is the fruit
of the womb) became a curse in her life. She was living with the devil
. I've spoken to many people who have had sort of a "black sheep" in
the family. <br />
<br />
Sometimes what we love can become a curse in our
lives (he that finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from
the Lord.) Sometimes a marriage or a loved one is like a curse. Because
of her faith, she got her daughter well, even going outside of God's
time table. <br />
<br />
And a Canaanite woman from that region came out and
began to cry out, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my
daughter is cruelly demon-possessed."But He did not answer her a word.
And His disciples came and implored Him, saying, "Send her away, because
she keeps shouting at us." Matthew 15: 22-23<br />
<br />
But she came and
began to bow down before Him, saying, "Lord, help me!" And He answered
and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to
the dogs." But she said, "Yes, Lord; but even the dogs feed on the
crumbs which fall from their masters' table." Then Jesus said to her, "O
woman, your faith is great; it shall be done for you as you wish." And
her daughter was healed at once. 24-28</div>
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<span><span data-reactid=".15"></span></span>Mary O---Tally Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14769161343333969863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823556716677929402.post-60210494878786232022014-09-23T09:19:00.000-07:002014-09-23T09:19:01.713-07:00What is Our Calling? <div class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19491">
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T<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">herefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your
calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never
stumble, 2 Peter 1:10 <span class="p"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Recently, I was listening to a young Christian woman minister talk
about living a purposeful life. It was her testimony and to her the center of her purpose<span class="yiv9908541564"> </span>was ministering in prisons where she became a Christian,
holding Bible studies and she wrote a book in prison.<span class="yiv9908541564"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I can somewhat relate to what she said since I was in full
time street evangelistic ministry and traveling to different churches <span class="yiv9908541564"></span>off and on for seven years, but that was/is
not my “purpose” in life as a Christian to minister. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ministering is more like a vocation and a job. <span class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19522">I've
had ministries change. I always liked Kenneth Hagin, Sr. when he was
alive, and he went from being an evangelist to a pastor and then he was
also over a Bible college. Lester Sumrall had various different
ministries over his life too. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19524">I
was dong street evangelism full time, a radio ministry, singing in
church, then as a lay person children's church, leading worship at a
woman's Bible study, next teen prisons, recently single's, widows and
homeless ministries. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was knocked out of ministering full time due to the
problems of being married to a minister who wanted a divorce.<span class="yiv9908541564"> </span>Same thing happened to another friend of mine
who met her spouse in a Bible college.<span class="yiv9908541564">
</span>Some people can’t handle the pressure of full time ministry, and
character flaws can definitely knock them out of ministry. <span class="yiv9908541564"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I considered my full time ministry became supporting five children
as a single parent, working and going to college to better myself.<span class="yiv9908541564"> </span>For my friend who went to Bible college, her ministry appears to be a
large number of grandchildren. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br class="yiv9908541564" /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19531" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What I believe our purpose is to fellowship with God and
lead others back into relationship and fellowship with God. <span class="yiv9908541564"></span><span class="yiv9908541564"></span>Adam
walked and talked with God.<span class="yiv9908541564"> </span>Enoch walked
with God and was not because God took him.</span></div>
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</span><br />
<div class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19625" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">God is faithful, who has called you
into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 Cor. 1:9 </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">walking in close fellowship with
God. Then one day he disappeared, because God took him. Genesis 5:24 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br class="yiv9908541564" /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19581" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I had this dream about my former spouse.<span class="yiv9908541564"> </span>The first one I met my spouse for the very
first time and I wanted to talked to him again, but I did not have his phone number. I asked several people to see if anyone had his number, but no one did so I had to wait to Sunday to see him again.<span class="yiv9908541564"> </span>The next one was my spouse was
blowing me off for three days and did not talk to me.<span class="yiv9908541564"> </span>I went to his office and I noticed his desk
was moved and I had to search for him.<span class="yiv9908541564"> </span>I
talked to his friends about hanging out that night and my spouse seemed
disinterested.<span class="yiv9908541564"> </span>I remember how rejected I
felt.<span class="yiv9908541564"> </span>I had a third dream like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At first I thought it was the enemy, but then I realized the
dreams were from God. The interpretation of the dream was that is how Jesus
feels when we blow him off until Sunday and we don’t take the time to really
“fellowship” with him.<span class="yiv9908541564"> </span>I can fellowship
with Jesus when I pray, get in the word, worship through a CD or go help a
person in his name, but it’s a “daily” fellowship. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br class="yiv9908541564" /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19577" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We don’t always talk and see our adult children and it seems
the older they get it takes more of an effort to spend time with our children
because of their busy life with their own spouse and kids.<span class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19578"> We can get so busy with "cares of this world" that we don't always spend much time with God. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br class="yiv9908541564" /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As an older Christian, it’s
not good to take for granted the word and things of God. The problem with the
story Jesus gave of the elder brother <span class="yiv9908541564"></span>in
the Bible is he “slaved” for his father so he lost the joy of fellowship of
living in the house with his father.<span class="yiv9908541564"> </span></span><br />
<div class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19576" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br class="yiv9908541564" /><span class="yiv9908541564"></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19590" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19591">Like
the elder brother is that many people can break fellowship with God and
then they lose the "richness" and "deepness" of the joy of their
fellowship. They are like a child that barely ever talks to their
parent, or they are slaving for God out some sense of duty and
obligation rather than a sense of joy. The elder brother became a
judgmental (Pharisee) Christian. </span></span></div>
<div class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19589" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br class="yiv9908541564" /><span class="yiv9908541564"></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19583" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But he became angry and was not willing to go in; and his father came out and began pleading with him. <span class="yiv9908541564"></span><span class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19584">"But
he answered and said to his father, 'Look! For so many years I have
been serving you and I have never neglected a command of yours; and yet
you have never given me a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my
friends;</span> <span class="yiv9908541564"></span>but when
this son of yours came, who has devoured your wealth with prostitutes,
you killed the fattened calf for him.'…Luke 15:28-30 </span></div>
<div class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19588" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br class="yiv9908541564" /><span class="yiv9908541564"></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19587" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19586">It's
very simple to restore fellowship as a Christian which is simply, "Lord
if I have done anything to offend you or grieve the Holy Spirit forgive
me and bring any darkness in my life to your light." </span></span></div>
<div class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19585" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pride is a bondage, we can't afford.</span></div>
<div class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19592" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19541" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It says that "God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble." 1 Peter 5:5 <br class="yiv9908541564" /><span class="yiv9908541564"></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19539" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br class="yiv9908541564" />If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. <span class="yiv9908541564"></span><span class="yiv9908541564" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411485604426_19540">If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a
liar and His word is not in us. 1 John 1-9-10</span></span></div>
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Mary O---Tally Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14769161343333969863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823556716677929402.post-25817736383432636182014-09-16T14:10:00.002-07:002014-09-16T14:10:22.610-07:00The Stones in David's Bag<div class="aboveUnitContent">
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I was listening to the former Rich Mullins sing this song how Jesus had
no stones in his bag to throw at others. When it came to throwing
stones, it seems the only stones Jesus threw were back at the Pharisees
wh<span class="text_exposed_show">o were throwing their own stones. <br /> <br />
David chose five smooth stones. His stones were for the evil giants.
Those stones had been weathered over time to get off the raw edges. At
times there are character flaws that need to be polished off of our
life. Picking up five stones was rather prophetic in killing five
other giants of Gath in David's life.(1 Samuel 21:18 -22) It's sort of
neat to think of our self as as stone that God can use to throw at a
giant (not at good people). <br /> <br /> I was listening on the radio how
pastors have been sued for giving bad advise. It's because some don't
have a counseling degree. Most of the advise I've had was good from a
pastor, but there have been times it was not good. Fortunately, when my
husband and I went to our pastor for blended family advise, he told us
with having only one child, he had no clue how to counsel us. He
suggested we go to a professional Christian counseling so we did for one
year. <br /> <br /> Same thing happened to me when I was in an evangelistic
ministry with my spouse in my 20's, I told several people I had no idea
how to counsel anyone who is divorced since I was not divorced or who
had the loss of a child or spouse to death, because I had not been
through that battle. I could pray for them. Our advise is very limited.
Some people can counsel out of their spirit, not out of the spirit of
God. I don't personally like giving advise. <br /> <br /> People come to
me, including my daughters and roommate for advise on relationships, and
I find it's hard to give good advise. Even though I was in a
successful Christian marriage for 14 years, I don't see how I'm
qualified to dish out advise. I would rather give a person a couple of
"words of wisdom" or scriptures, but I'm not a licensed counselor. <br /> <br />
My mother-in-law and mother were married over 50 years, but I found it
difficult to go to them for advise, although at times I did. I found
that they did not have many solutions to the problem and they were too
"close" to the problem in that was her son and I was my mother's
daughter. They at times side in with the party they favor. <br /> <br />
I've gone to older widows for advise some of them moved on 11 years
after the death of their spouse and some did not move on as far as get
remarried, but most of the time I seek the word and the spirit of God
for his advise through prayer on the people I date. <br /> <br /> If we are
busy fighting people in church, fighting our mates or fighting our
families, that does not leave much energy to fight the world, the flesh
and the devil. David found in even fighting Saul that he had to turn
that over to God, because Saul was much like a fallen away believer, he
could not take matters into his own hands. <br /> <br /> For the whole Law
is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, "You shall love your
neighbor as yourself." But if you bite and devour one another, take care
that you are not consumed by one another. Galatians 5:14-15<br /> <br /> One of the "qualifications" of correcting a person is a spirit of humility and the character trait of an elder:<br /> <br />
Dear brothers and sisters, if another believer is overcome by some sin,
you who are godly should gently and humbly help that person back onto
the right path. And be careful not to fall into the same temptation
yourself. Galatians 6:1 <br /> <br /> make my joy complete by being of the
same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one
purpose. Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility
of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not
merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the
interests of others. Philip 2:2-4<br /> <br /> Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble. 1 Peter 3:8</span></div>
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I was listening to the former Rich Mullins sing this song how Jesus had no stones in his bag to throw at others. When it came to throwing stones, it seems the only stones Jesus threw were back at the Pharisees who were throwing their own stones.
David chose five smooth stones. His stones were for the evil giants. Those stones had been weathered over time to get off the raw edges. At times there are character flaws that need to be polished off of our life. Picking up five stones was rather prophetic in killing five other giants of Gath in David's life.(1 Samuel 21:18 -22) It's sort of neat to think of our self as as stone that God can use to throw at a giant (not at good people).
I was listening on the radio how pastors have been sued for giving bad advise. It's because some don't have a counseling degree. Most of the advise I've had was good from a pastor, but there have been times it was not good. Fortunately, when my husband and I went to our pastor for blended family advise, he told us with having only one child, he had no clue how to counsel us. He suggested we go to a professional Christian counseling so we did for one year.
Same thing happened to me when I was in an evangelistic ministry with my spouse in my 20's, I told several people I had no idea how to counsel anyone who is divorced since I was not divorced or who had the loss of a child or spouse to death, because I had not been through that battle. I could pray for them. Our advise is very limited. Some people can counsel out of their spirit, not out of the spirit of God. I don't personally like giving advise.
People come to me, including my daughters and roommate for advise on relationships, and I find it's hard to give good advise. Even though I was in a successful Christian marriage for 14 years, I don't see how I'm qualified to dish out advise. I would rather give a person a couple of "words of wisdom" or scriptures, but I'm not a licensed counselor.
My mother-in-law and mother were married over 50 years, but I found it difficult to go to them for advise, although at times I did. I found that they did not have many solutions to the problem and they were too "close" to the problem in that was her son and I was my mother's daughter. They at times side in with the party they favor.
I've gone to older widows for advise some of them moved on 11 years after the death of their spouse and some did not move on as far as get remarried, but most of the time I seek the word and the spirit of God for his advise through prayer on the people I date.
If we are busy fighting people in church, fighting our mates or fighting our families, that does not leave much energy to fight the world, the flesh and the devil. David found in even fighting Saul that he had to turn that over to God, because Saul was much like a fallen away believer, he could not take matters into his own hands.
For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another. Galatians 5:14-15
One of the "qualifications" of correcting a person is a spirit of humility and the character trait of an elder:
Dear brothers and sisters, if another believer is overcome by some sin, you who are godly should gently and humbly help that person back onto the right path. And be careful not to fall into the same temptation yourself. Galatians 6:1
make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. Philip 2:2-4
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A minister was recently saying that for some people church is sort of
like Dairy Queen. My dad used to take my brother and me every Sunday
night to Dairy Queen in the convertible car. It was like a “cap” to the
end of the week to give us that treat when we were small. I’m glad I
was very thin back then and I could eat ice cream! It was neat in the
summer going on rides in the convertible. I guess a minister is saying
that church is sort of like a end cap. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I really enjoyed our
“family” time. We also spent a lot of time sitting on our back porch
together in the summer. My favorite sanctuary now is my back porch
swing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was talking to someone recently and they told me when
they go to church, they like to duck in and out because they are in
customer service during the week so they are not interested in
fellowship. It’s really the opposite for me. Even when I was married, I
enjoyed the fellowship afterwards. The church my spouse and I attended
they had coffee and we would stand around and get coffee and fellowship
with other couples in the church right after the service It was a nice
“catch up” with them. I really miss that fellowship with couples. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some people have complained to me that they go to Life Groups, but
can’t get people to socialize much outside of a small study. They said
in other countries people are more “people friendly” but they think in
our society we are too busy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I look to partner at a church.
I’ve done some homeless ministries lately, and I found a small church in
the Fountain Square area that does homeless ministries and nursing home
ministries where I can partner in evangelism. A few years back, I
partnered with a single’s pastor to do worship for a single’s ministry
and socials at my house. He put my phone number down as a contact
person. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I think it was Smith Wigglesworth who said that many
people feed their body three good meals a day and their spirit one cold
snack on Sunday. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I go to church at times I get milk,
vegetables or meat spiritually. I get most of my steak dinners on TBN
and Daystar television. If I go eat a steak dinner at Outback or Texas
Roadhouse for $50 then it’s nothing for me to pay for a steak dinner at a
restaurant. Should it be any different at church? I’m a partner in
the gospel. I think the most my spouse and I ever spent was at Ruth
Chris Steakhouse or Red Lobster for the whole family was $150 or $200 so
I can write a check to church because the whole family got ministered
there. If I go get my nails done it’s around $60 to do that. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s neat to support a person to go to Haiti and bring fresh water
treatment and know we can partner with that person in our finances. I
don’t always get to go, but we can be the one sending. Paul talked
about “my God” will supply all your needs after they partnered with him
in an offering. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But I have received everything in full and have
an abundance; I am amply supplied, having received from Epaphroditus
what you have sent, a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice,
well-pleasing to God. And my God will supply all your needs according
to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus Philip. 4:18-19</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
were many times my spouse and I did not eat out very much, did not take
elaborate vacations, and I never got my nails done because we had six
children at home we were feeding. A lot of it is setting priorities. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where are our priorities at when it comes to what we do, and what we
spend our money on. I know people who golf and it’s $50.00 at times in
green fees. Another one is concerts, they are very expensive. Do we
see God’s ministry as a priority? One of my big expenses is gas for
boating so the last two years I’ve cut down on boating, but I’ve not cut
down on my giving to church. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Anyway to me, church is more like
home base, like my house was at times. At times my house was like a
war zone in raising teenagers or having certain people live in my home. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s always nice to have a “home” base. It’s where we feel safe. When
we play baseball, the object of the game is to get to home base. In
some sports, it’s to get to our field goal. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It sort of reminds
me of the first Star Wars where Princess Leia is trying to carry the
plans of the Death Star back to her home planet of Alderaan, but it gets
blown up. It’s so they can launch an attack on the ship. It’s like
having a launching pad for X-wing fighters. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was in this group
called, “Christ is the Answer” when I was 19 years old, where we did
street evangelism every day. I was on the v-squad they called it where
we witnessed in front of and picketed pornography shops on Friday and
Saturday night. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was always nice to come home back to our
base camp after a full day of street evangelism. I enjoyed being with
250 other evangelists. Most of them were evangelists, we had a few
people who were more called to helps ministry in the kitchen or
mechanics crew.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When we are married, it’s nice when we feel
“safe” at our own home. We go to bed at night and feel safe in our
husband’s arms. Home is a haven where a weary soldier can come back to
and rest after a long day at the office or out in the battlefield. A
weary soldier can’t wait to come home to the US from Iraq. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At
times in the Civil War, people wanted to come back early before they
were released, but they would be deserters. That is one thing nice
about God’s army, is that we don’t shoot or Court Marshall others for
desertion. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I left ministry for quite a few years – pulled out of
the race because of a divorce. Sometimes I’ve pulled myself out
purposely. I did not pull out this time after losing a spouse. At
times, I’m back to those “first works” like it talks about in the book
of Revelation. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do
the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you
and remove your lampstand from its place. Revelation 2:5 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like
the prodigal son, the Father is always looking and waiting for the
wayward son to come home. With Peter, Jesus actually went looking for
Peter and Jesus cooked his disciple’s breakfast. We are told if a
brother bids us to go one mile, we are to go two miles for our brethren.
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If a soldier demands that you carry his gear for a mile, carry it two miles. Matthew 5:41</span></span></div>
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Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we
may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4:16 <span class="p"><br /></span></div>
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<br /><span> One of the problems I run into a lot with some Christian singles is a “self-condemnation/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>self-rejection.”
It makes me think about what journalists criticize Joyce Meyer for her
high self-esteem. It’s because she does not have false humility. <br /> <br />
Right before I was remarried when I was 35 years old, I read that book
"Search for Significance" and it's a book that I probably should kee<span class="text_exposed_show">p
reading over and over. It's about knowing our identification and
significance through Jesus Christ. Not finding our importance through
people, our mates, our jobs (ministries) or things. <br /> <br /> My
manager got rifted and there was a big turnover at my former job and I
was reassigned several times, around 15 people left in one year, then
there was a turnover of a pastor and many people at a church I attended,
next I've lost several family members and my spouse. <br /> <br /> Sooner
or later, I find the only stability in life is building our life around
the revelation of Jesus Christ and who he is (our identification with
him). Jesus said the “gates of hell” will not prevail against his
church and that revelation. <br /> <br /> (He said to them, "But who do you
say that I am?" Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of
the living God." And Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Barjona,
because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who
is in heaven. And I say also to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I
will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
it. Matthew 16:16-18)<br /> <br /> That is where our importance or significance lies. Not in what we do or what people think about us. <br /> <br /> So whenever I hear Christian people putting themselves down or putting others down I think of this scripture: <br /> <br />
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ
Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you
free from the law of sin and of death. Roman 8:1-2</span></div>
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Mary O---Tally Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14769161343333969863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823556716677929402.post-90647354246503374242014-08-12T18:11:00.003-07:002014-08-12T18:11:26.231-07:00The Tears of a Clown (Fighting a Goliath called Depression) <div class="aboveUnitContent">
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It's a blessing making people happy --making people smile especially
children. I love taking children of single parents out on my wave
runners and hear them squeal like a little <span class="text_exposed_show">piggy with delight-- "Wheeeeee"<br /> <br />
I inherited a clown suit from my mother while I was working at
Methodist Hospital, and I would go on the wards and pass out candy to
sick children in my clown suit. I also wore it to outreach at a church I
was attending. For awhile I was thinking about doing clowning. <br /> <br />
Everyone is different with loss and depression can be "different
strokes for different folks." Robin Williams' children were grown so
I'm not sure what exactly was the root or cause of his depression don't
know if empty nest was a contributor. <br /> <br /> Now, even more so with
technology is a feeling of being more and more isolated. I can't even
imagine adding get away from Paparazzi to have a normal life how that
contributes to more isolation. <br /> <br /> My dad had problems with
depression and I know it stemmed from not getting the love he needed
from his mother in feeling rejection. <br /> <br /> When I met my spouse, he
had problems with depression from losing his college sweet heart (his
first marriage) and having a baby die of SIDS. One of the things my
spouse told me is that I brought joy into his life. <br /> <br /> I find it's very neat to bring joy to another person. So at the top of my list is bringing happiness or joy to other people. <br /> <br />
The only problem is that is an external thing. If my happiness is
based on bringing joy or happiness to other people and there is not a
lot of activity going on then that decreases my joy. It tells us "it's
more blessed to give than receive." <br /> <br /> Recently I was going
through a bout of depression for no apparent "reason" on the weekend. I
had a good job interview on Friday. I have a potentially good roommate
from Hong Kong I am happy about to live with me.<br /> <br /> But it was
this "rush" of thoughts and this is the way it went down. Who cares
about a new job---so what? I've already had a good marriage, I've
already been on Mt. Everest, I've already experienced all the joys I
care to experience and there really is nothing left I want to do on this
planet. <br /> <br /> There is nothing worth living for. <br /> <br /> So I was
sitting on my deck when all this negativity came against me and I was
thinking. "God what should I do?" I could go to a movie and I can
escape into fantasy land and get some rush from the movie. Or I can go
shopping, or there is just a lot of things I can be doing." <br /> <br /> I
started singing this song, "Send us the rain Lord, send us the rain,
send us the latter rain" and it was the wave of the Holy Spirit came
into my soul and it healed all those negative thoughts and they left. <br /> <br />
I realized that many times I try to handle depression which is a
spiritual battle in my life and I try to get rid of it in the flesh
rather than letting the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit take care
of the problem. <br /> <br /> And it shall come to pass in that day, that
his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from
off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
Isaiah 10:2 <br /> <br /> What I have learned is not to let my happiness be
based on external stimuli as far as usually on Saturdays I would be like
a zombie from the work week and it took me all Saturday morning just to
snap back from the work week. My late spouse usually worked to at
least noon so my being a zombie was fine, but now I don't have a person
who comes home from work Saturday and is a "kick" in the seat of the
pants. <br /> <br /> I don't have anyone on earth to motivate me to do
better or get up in the morning or keep me going and than I get hit at
times with despair or hopelessness and In my mind it's over -- life is
over. <br /> <br /> But in God's mind and God's plan -- it's not over until
He says it's over! When God says it's over then it's over. I don't
need the devil telling me it's over, I don't need my circumstances
telling me it's over and I don't need anyone to tell me my life is over
-- hang it up -- you got nothing to live for lady! <br /> <br /> I find that
I can call on the presence of the Holy Spirit when these thoughts come
in my mind that tell me that life is over. We are promised that Jesus
said he would not leave us as orphans. He would send the Holy Spirit. <br /> <br />
So I've called on the Holy Spirit because when these discouraging
thoughts hit its like needles hitting my mind. I heard a minister say
that since we are "seated with Christ in heavenly places" that is part
of having the Holy Spirit within us to tap into the vine. <br /> <br />
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so
that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with
the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 2 Cor. 1:3-4<br /> <br />
I had a dream right after I lost my husband that I was choking an evil
man and he was choking me back and than he was doing Chinese torture in
the middle of my mind. I know the torture is those thoughts that my life
is over. <br /> <br /> In Ephesians 6 it tells us to stand on the evil
day, but I find that "standing" can be a long time. I've been standing
now for almost seven years, but I had a warning by God that as Egypt had
seven years of famine and the seven years of famine overpowered the
seven years of plenty, all memory of the good years with my husband
would be overpowered by loss. <br /> <br /> I'm depending on the Holy
Spirit to see me through these times. Elijah had depression and God
sent him a Raven to feed him. Ravens usually eat food not bring food.
Jonah had depression and God sent him a plant to give him an analogy of
Nineveh, but when David got depressed, he encouraged himself in the
Lord. <br /> <br /> As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,
While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" Why are you in
despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in
God, for I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.
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It's a blessing making people happy --making people smile especially children. I love taking children of single parents out on my wave runners and hear them squeal like a little piggy with delight-- "Wheeeeee"
I inherited a clown suit from my mother while I was working at Methodist Hospital, and I would go on the wards and pass out candy to sick children in my clown suit. I also wore it to outreach at a church I was attending. For awhile I was thinking about doing clowning.
Everyone is different with loss and depression can be "different strokes for different folks." Robin Williams' children were grown so I'm not sure what exactly was the root or cause of his depression don't know if empty nest was a contributor.
Now, even more so with technology is a feeling of being more and more isolated. I can't even imagine adding get away from Paparazzi to have a normal life how that contributes to more isolation.
My dad had problems with depression and I know it stemmed from not getting the love he needed from his mother in feeling rejection.
When I met my spouse, he had problems with depression from losing his college sweet heart (his first marriage) and having a baby die of SIDS. One of the things my spouse told me is that I brought joy into his life.
I find it's very neat to bring joy to another person. So at the top of my list is bringing happiness or joy to other people.
The only problem is that is an external thing. If my happiness is based on bringing joy or happiness to other people and there is not a lot of activity going on then that decreases my joy. It tells us "it's more blessed to give than receive."
Recently I was going through a bout of depression for no apparent "reason" on the weekend. I had a good job interview on Friday. I have a potentially good roommate from Hong Kong I am happy about to live with me.
But it was this "rush" of thoughts and this is the way it went down. Who cares about a new job---so what? I've already had a good marriage, I've already been on Mt. Everest, I've already experienced all the joys I care to experience and there really is nothing left I want to do on this planet.
There is nothing worth living for.
So I was sitting on my deck when all this negativity came against me and I was thinking. "God what should I do?" I could go to a movie and I can escape into fantasy land and get some rush from the movie. Or I can go shopping, or there is just a lot of things I can be doing."
I started singing this song, "Send us the rain Lord, send us the rain, send us the latter rain" and it was the wave of the Holy Spirit came into my soul and it healed all those negative thoughts and they left.
I realized that many times I try to handle depression which is a spiritual battle in my life and I try to get rid of it in the flesh rather than letting the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit take care of the problem.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. Isaiah 10:2
What I have learned is not to let my happiness be based on external stimuli as far as usually on Saturdays I would be like a zombie from the work week and it took me all Saturday morning just to snap back from the work week. My late spouse usually worked to at least noon so my being a zombie was fine, but now I don't have a person who comes home from work Saturday and is a "kick" in the seat of the pants.
I don't have anyone on earth to motivate me to do better or get up in the morning or keep me going and than I get hit at times with despair or hopelessness and In my mind it's over -- life is over.
But in God's mind and God's plan -- it's not over until He says it's over! When God says it's over then it's over. I don't need the devil telling me it's over, I don't need my circumstances telling me it's over and I don't need anyone to tell me my life is over -- hang it up -- you got nothing to live for lady!
I find that I can call on the presence of the Holy Spirit when these thoughts come in my mind that tell me that life is over. We are promised that Jesus said he would not leave us as orphans. He would send the Holy Spirit.
So I've called on the Holy Spirit because when these discouraging thoughts hit its like needles hitting my mind. I heard a minister say that since we are "seated with Christ in heavenly places" that is part of having the Holy Spirit within us to tap into the vine.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 2 Cor. 1:3-4
I had a dream right after I lost my husband that I was choking an evil man and he was choking me back and than he was doing Chinese torture in the middle of my mind. I know the torture is those thoughts that my life is over.
In Ephesians 6 it tells us to stand on the evil day, but I find that "standing" can be a long time. I've been standing now for almost seven years, but I had a warning by God that as Egypt had seven years of famine and the seven years of famine overpowered the seven years of plenty, all memory of the good years with my husband would be overpowered by loss.
I'm depending on the Holy Spirit to see me through these times. Elijah had depression and God sent him a Raven to feed him. Ravens usually eat food not bring food. Jonah had depression and God sent him a plant to give him an analogy of Nineveh, but when David got depressed, he encouraged himself in the Lord.
As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me, While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God. Psalm 42:10-11" class="scaledImageFitWidth img" height="398" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/1908079_10203685789441189_2944859606152215490_n.jpg?oh=99b3e9c1c34b8b2452db4ec71e4447e0&oe=54658705&__gda__=1417819022_aa12ec57bdfd7a50ceb97673c12156a7" width="295" /></div>
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I was listening to Sid Roth's, "It's Supernatural"
and a man was talking about how he got hurt at church and the Lord
apologized to him about God's sheep biting him. <br /> <br /> Sheep do bite. Maybe God's children are teethin<span class="text_exposed_show">g or something? Children many times bite when they are getting their teeth. <br /> <br />
For me it was Christian men. I got bit by Christian men who did not
walk in Agape love. I can understand why Paul's instruction in marriage
is "Husband's love your wives." Than he compared it to Christ laying
down his life for the church. It's hard sometimes to find a man who
will put his wife and children above his own needs. <br /> <br /> I had a
relative who built a pulpit for the pastor and when some people
criticized it, he never came back to church. He was a very young
believer at the time. I think it's sad he let a couple of critical
people with Pharisee attitudes run him off. <br /> <br /> I would much
rather see people jump ship (go to another church) than completely not
attend church at all. We are the church (the lively spiritual stones)
that make up the church. But we are also told not to forsake the
assembly of ourselves together as the manner of some is. <br /> <br /> And
let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but
encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is
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Sheep do bite. Maybe God's children are teething or something? Children many times bite when they are getting their teeth.
For me it was Christian men. I got bit by Christian men who did not walk in Agape love. I can understand why Paul's instruction in marriage is "Husband's love your wives." Than he compared it to Christ laying down his life for the church. It's hard sometimes to find a man who will put his wife and children above his own needs.
I had a relative who built a pulpit for the pastor and when some people criticized it, he never came back to church. He was a very young believer at the time. I think it's sad he let a couple of critical people with Pharisee attitudes run him off.
I would much rather see people jump ship (go to another church) than completely not attend church at all. We are the church (the lively spiritual stones) that make up the church. But we are also told not to forsake the assembly of ourselves together as the manner of some is.
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I find life is like a school lesson. It's required that I show up to
class, that I pay attention, and that I learn my lessons. After Adam
and Eve sinned, instead of their covering their shame with
fig leaves, God used animal skins to cover their nakedness. <span class="yiv5087887995" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406587886790_4219"><br class="yiv5087887995" /> <br class="yiv5087887995" />
There are times in life I've made poor decisions. It can be in
choosing a marriage partner, a job, fortunately not a roommate (knock on
wood), where I spend my money, who I choose as friends, and various
other things. <br class="yiv5087887995" /> <br class="yiv5087887995" /> We can make unhealthy choices about what we eat, drink and smoking. There are poor judgment calls. <br class="yiv5087887995" /> <br class="yiv5087887995" />
Michael Jackson made a bad call in getting a doctor to inject him with
drugs. Read the statistics of rock stars. Party like a rock star?
There were many that never made it past their 27th birthday. I had a
high school classmate who developed liver cancer from drinking alcohol
too much. He quit, but it was not soon enough as far as it did
irreversible damage to his liver and he passed away at age 55 years old.
<br class="yiv5087887995" /> <br class="yiv5087887995" /> When I was in my 20's, a former spouse and I were headed
back from full time ministry in Wisconsin and I was driving late through
Atlanta, Georgia. I was behind a semi truck that slowed down and I
wanted to pass it. I hesitated and within a few feet there was an
overturned car in the left hand lane with no emergency vehicle on the
scene. If I would have passed that semi-truck most likely we all would
have been killed, I was 7-months pregnant with twins. <br class="yiv5087887995" /> <br class="yiv5087887995" /> It was
my temptation to be inpatient. Jesus told us to pray, "Father lead us
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lane. Like Joseph Prince said turtles live over 100 years whereas
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I had a similar incident with a semi-truck three years ago as I was
turning left in front of the truck just past an intersection, a young
college student was in a hurry and he clipped the bumper of my SUV. No
one was seriously injured, but I had a "rebuke in my spirit." I heard,
"Why did you turn left in front of the semi truck? Don't you remember
your experience with one in the past? How people get inpatient around
semi trucks?" My insurance got sued and my rates went up. <br class="yiv5087887995" /> <br class="yiv5087887995" />
The Holy Spirit brings "all things to our remembrance." I wish I would
have been more cautious, but recently when a semi truck stopped in
traffic, I made the decision to go down and turn left at a stop light
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But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,
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Whenever I see a rainbow it's the same thing. <br /><br />I was talking to a man recently who was telling me that his father who was a believer passed away suddenly from an incurable blood disease. His whole family prayed, but they still lost him. I told him the same thing happened to my neighbor across the street. Her husband was very healthy at 60 years old, and then had flu-like symptoms and her spouse died in three days in the hospital to a blood disease. He said he also found out he was border line diabetic and he was talking about how his sister was having a hard time getting a job in this economy in South Bend. He said they are both having trouble with believing in the goodness of God. <br /><br />I was listening to this man talk on television how he was in a tornado that hit his home. He plays for the Jacksonville Jaguars football team. He said that he could not "hold on" to his girlfriend tight enough. The tornado picked the whole house up and the five of them in a closet and threw them in fields and he survived after several broken bones, but his girlfriend died of a broken neck. He said that even if he would have broken into his neighbor's house who was not home, and got in their basement, the house collapsed into the basement so they would have not been better off going next door to their neighbor's home. <br /><br />I completely understand because I find it's very hard to hold on to several of my loved ones in life I had to let go to cancer and other deaths. <br /><br />I was thinking about all this tragedy in life and I went into Target and I was asking where their Pharmacy was to fill a prescription for my daughter and the clerk showed me that it's directly in the middle of the store and if I just "looked up" I would have seen the big "Pharmacy" letters in red. <br /><br />It's because I'm looking directly on the Horizon (my line of sight) in front of me. Lot's wife looked behind her -- she did not have faith that God could bring her into a better city. Abraham was trusting God for an eternal city so he and his son continued to live in tents.<br /><br />By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise; for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God. Hebrews 11:9-10<br /><br />They made a movie called "Silver Bells" on the Hallmark Channel and it's about trying to get people to look up more at the wonderful architect in the city and the silver bells were over the door of a church, but no one ever looked up and noticed them but a boy photographer. <br /><br />To really get through this life in tragedy, we have to start "looking up" and not at life and how everything in life is temporary, it's not eternal. Jesus said that "heaven and earth will pass away" --- it's going to happen but his words are eternal. <br /><br />Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear. Matthew 24:25<br /><br />We are told when things start getting worse on this earth we are to look up. <br /><br />Then they will see THE SON OF MAN COMING IN A CLOUD with power and great glory. "But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near. Luke 21:27-28<br /><br />Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Colossians 3:1-3<br /><br />Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. Hebrews 12:1-3Mary O---Tally Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14769161343333969863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823556716677929402.post-29599339298372171242014-07-10T19:04:00.002-07:002014-07-10T19:04:47.811-07:00Life Is Totally Awesome (Not Worrying About the Rules)<div class="thread-body" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1405043383157_17284">
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singing, “It’s totally awesome” His dad said he had bought the new Lego
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If we try to follow all the rules all of the time, a person will be a
miserable person. I've tried it -- living with a perfectionist, working
a job for a perfectionist and being a perfectionist at one time.or
another in life. I find with a perfectionist is that I can do 99 things
right and they will focus on the one thing I do wrong. <br class="yiv0738496993" /> <br class="yiv0738496993" /> Many
people can't seem to wrap their minds around the grace teaching. All we
are saying is that the only reason we are breathing is because of the grace of
God. Every blessing, every talent, and every breath I take is the grace
of God. Paul said he worked harder than anyone, but it was not him, it
was the grace of God in him. <br class="yiv0738496993" /> <br class="yiv0738496993" /> But whatever I am now, it is all
because God poured out his special favor on me--and not without
results. For I have worked harder than any of the other apostles; yet it
was not I but God who was working through me by his grace. 1 Cor. 15:10
<br class="yiv0738496993" /> <br class="yiv0738496993" /> When I left my job I thought it was interesting that I was
not commended on 12 years of staying late on Fridays, working on
vacation and at home authorizing students to register. Starting
with a new school when a lot of procedures and programs were not in
place -- having to call to different departments and get training by the
Graduate Office to figure out what i was doing since there was no
instructional manual. <br class="yiv0738496993" /> <br class="yiv0738496993" /> I was commended on making a couple of
Thanksgiving meals for International students. An idea I believe that
God put in my mind to do in the first place. It's very hard to take
credit for an idea I know that God gave me. <br class="yiv0738496993" /> <br class="yiv0738496993" /> I had to pray
that the old turkey roaster would not conk out that used to be my
mother's since I was getting hit with insecurity that the turkey would
not be good. My manager said it was the best (moist) turkey he
ever tasted. Maybe food is the way to a man's (manager's) heart. <br class="yiv0738496993" /> <br class="yiv0738496993" />
When we go out boating, we have to follow the rules of the DNR, or we
can get a ticket, but than I have my own rules is ten minutes on a wave
runner. Invariably a new person will come or some couple will idle for a
"lover's lane" and then they burn up all the gas while we are sitting
on the beach in the hot sun. <br class="yiv0738496993" /> <br class="yiv0738496993" /> Then I'm praying, "Father I
forgive them their trespasses against me, even as you forgive my
trespasses against you." I seem to be praying that a lot lately...LOL<br class="yiv0738496993" /> <br class="yiv0738496993" />
That is why it says, "the law was a schoolmaster to bring us to
Christ." Galatians 3:24. We are now under the law of love. God is sure
teaching me a lot of patience.<br class="yiv0738496993" /> <br class="yiv0738496993" /> "Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not
dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it
keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices
with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always
perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will
cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is
knowledge, it will pass away. 1 Cor. 13:1-8"<br class="yiv0738496993" /> <br class="yiv0738496993" /> Many people remind
me of robots, including Christians. They just mimic like a parrot what
their pastor said. It’s all from their head, not their heart. The
Berean Jews did not blindly follow what Paul preached. It says that
they “were of more noble character” because they searched the scriptures
daily. <br class="yiv0738496993" /> <br class="yiv0738496993" /> Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than
those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great
eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said
was true. Act 17:11 <br class="yiv0738496993" /> <br class="yiv0738496993" /> When it says that “faith comes by
hearing” and hearing by the word of God. Its talking about first
hearing it with our physical ears and than our spiritual ears. <br class="yiv0738496993" /> <br class="yiv0738496993" />
Many people mentally ascent to the word is that they hear it and than
they don't act on it so it's meant to be heard first, understood by our
spiritual minds (we have been given the mind of Christ) and than acted
on. <br class="yiv0738496993" /> <br class="yiv0738496993" /> We are told in James if we don't act on the word (obey
it) than we deceive ourselves. When I find something in the word, I
like to do it --act on it. It says to feed the poor so I go feed the
poor, it says widows are given to hospitality. I've tried to take
people in my home, but I find if people are not respectful of the rules
of my house than it does not work well for me to take in people in my
home. A person keeps me up all hours of the night talking loud, or
smoking a cigarette outside. Rules are a "safeguard" and we do many
things out of respect or love for another person.<br class="yiv0738496993" /> <br class="yiv0738496993" /> I find it
better when I give and do something out of love (an attitude of my heart)
than a blind obedience. Even dogs and cats seem to have a mind of their
own at times, but they do like praise, affection and attention from
their master. Paul referred to himself as the "love slave" of Jesus
Christ. Romans 1:1<br class="yiv0738496993" /><br class="yiv0738496993" />It says that God "loves" a cheerful giver:<br class="yiv0738496993" /></span><span class="yiv0738496993">The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully<sup> </sup>will also reap bountifully.</span><span class="yiv0738496993" id="yiv0738496993en-ESV-28947"><sup class="yiv0738496993"> </sup>Each
one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under
compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Cor. 9:6-7</span></div>
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Mary O---Tally Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14769161343333969863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823556716677929402.post-2879683602809906702014-07-01T19:06:00.003-07:002014-07-02T13:07:12.412-07:00After Earth<div class="yiv8364741809" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404256249256_37398">
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I had been wanting to watch the movie, “After Earth” with
actor Will Smith and his son. It finally came on cable.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>There are many story lines in the movie I
liked. <span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>It’s about how the earth was
abandoned because everything on earth became hostile to man. </div>
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His father tells him that fear is imaginary, that danger is
real but fear is a choice.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>It’s what
makes him invisible to his alien enemy.<span class="yiv8364741809">
</span>It reminds me of this saying, “Fear knocked on the door, faith answered
and no one was there.” </div>
<br />
The top commandment or theme of the Bible is not what one
might expect.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>Over and over we are told
not to fear.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>Jesus said the same thing
many times.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>He said that they put their
faith and trust in God, put it in him.
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"Don't let your hearts be
troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. John 14:1 </div>
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I talk to many women who have anxiety.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>They have anxiety over a relationship. <span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>What a man does or does not do (their performance). Anxiety over teen or adult kids (their performance). <span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>If it’s dating, it’s when do they introduce
them to their children and family.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>I
find a job interview has a certain amount of anxiety.<span class="yiv8364741809"> Anxiety over paying the bills. </span></div>
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Same
with dating, at times it's become unnatural even for me when I had date
night every Friday night which was going out for dinner with my late
spouse. It’s one reason that some people try meetup
or single social groups to meet people. <span class="yiv8364741809"> </span><span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>I met my spouse through a printed single’s ad
– I already screened 24 people before I met him.</div>
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Now, when I get hit with those anxiety attacks which seem to
be every date, I just remind myself that I’m only dating this man, that
does not mean I’m marrying him.
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I’ve had anxiety attacks through the years when I got up to
lead worship or performed solos in school. <span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>Doing it over and over (practice) help relieve
those butterflies in the stomach.</div>
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“There is nothing to fear but fear itself?” Not all fear is bad, it’s a warning to tell us that there is
a presence of evil. <span class="yiv8364741809"> </span></div>
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When
Elijah came to the widow she was fully expecting to eat the last
portion of food, and then both her son and her were going to die from
famine.
<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>She was at the bottom of the barrel so
to speak, her lowest point and expecting the worse before it happened. <span class="yiv8364741809">What
encourages me, is even though this woman was so negative, God sent her
the best (Elijah) to meet her need and alleviate her fear. First Elijah
spoke to her and than God spoke to her. </span></div>
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But she said, "As the Lord your God lives, I have no bread, only a
handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I
am gathering a few sticks that I may go in and prepare for me and my
son, that we may eat it and die."<span class="yiv8364741809"></span><span class="yiv8364741809">Then
Elijah said to her, "Do not fear; go, do as you have said, but make me a
little bread cake from it first and bring it out to me, and afterward
you may make one for yourself and for your son.</span> <span class="yiv8364741809"></span></div>
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"For
thus says the Lord God of Israel, 'The bowl of flour shall not be
exhausted, nor shall the jar of oil be empty, until the day that the
Lord sends rain on the face of the earth.'"…1 Kings 17:12-14</div>
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The boy in the movie raced across a hostile world to
activate a homing beacon that was in the tail of their aircraft that crashed
landed from space.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>It reminds me a lot
of this current world as far as it can be a hostile environment to man.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span></div>
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Like in Australia there are killer spiders, killer
jellyfish, the great white sharks, killer snakes, mountain lions, Than we are
dealing with evil people at times.</div>
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<div class="yiv8364741809" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal;">
There are some people that remind me of predators and then
some people who remind of parasites.<span class="yiv8364741809">
</span>Parasites live off of other people.<span class="yiv8364741809">
</span>I don’t like to live off of people.<span class="yiv8364741809">
</span>I like to be independent as possible and it’s hard for me to ask people
for help.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>The only thing we are to owe
anyone is love.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv8364741809">
<br class="yiv8364741809" /></div>
<div class="yiv8364741809" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal;">
In one scene the boy is captured by a giant bird, and he
tries to help the mother save her babies, but wild animals kill the
babies.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>Later in turn when the boy is
freezing at night, the bird covers him with her feathers so he will stay
warm.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>Its reminds me of Psalms and how
at times I’ve asked God to “cover me with his wings of protection.” </div>
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He will cover you with his
feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be
your shield and rampart. Psalm 91:4 </div>
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It makes me think how my security as a single woman has been
threatened at times.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>I know the enemy’s
strategy.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>My two former roommates told
me they moved in my house because it was safer than being a single woman for
them on the Westside of town than in the apartments.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>Right when my roommate moved from her
apartment some teenagers stole her suitcases out of her car on Halloween, but I
prayed and she did got everything back.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span></div>
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<div class="yiv8364741809" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal;">
After the fall of man, many things have become hostile to
us.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>Sickness, disease and death broke
out on this planet, Cain killed Abel although God told Cain that evil was
trying to get a hold of him, he would not listen to God. <span class="yiv8364741809"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv8364741809">
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<div class="yiv8364741809" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal;">
Even the animal kingdom is under a curse and dies.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>Its says the whole creation groans until the
unveiling of God’s sons. <span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>Even we groan
at times in these limited physical bodies.<span class="yiv8364741809">
</span>Jesus appeared right through a wall after his resurrection so his body
apparently can travel at the speed of light. </div>
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that the creation itself also will
be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the
children of God. <span class="yiv8364741809">For we know that the whole creation groans
and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.</span> And not only
this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we
ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the
redemption of our body. Romans 8:32</div>
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I liked the part where his wife tells the character played
by Will Smith that his son needs a father, not a commander and chief. <span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>I see the same thing in life where I need God
as my heavenly Father, not as my commander and chief.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv8364741809" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404256249256_37533" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal;">
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God may be God to the unbeliever, but it says he has
sent his spirit into our heart where we cry, “Daddy, Father.”<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>Jesus referred to God as Abba---Heavenly
Father. </div>
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<br class="yiv8364741809" /></div>
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The Spirit you received does not
make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received
brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba,
Father." Romans 8:15</div>
<div class="yiv8364741809" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404256249256_37529" style="margin-left: .5in;">
<br />
Because you are his sons, God sent
the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba,
Father." Galatians 4:6</div>
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<div class="yiv8364741809" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404256249256_37545">
My daughter was looking through some old photo albums and
family pictures and she was saying, “Mom it’s like the relatives have dropped
like flies.”<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>I did not have to deal with
so much loss like my daughters have had to deal with. I’ve seen a change in
climate. <span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>It’s sort of like this harsh
winter, only our society is getting very harsh. </div>
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<div class="yiv8364741809" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal;">
As a young believer, I heard we are to live like Jesus is
coming back today, but plan on that he is not coming back.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>I believe that is good advice as far as how
we conduct our lives.<span class="yiv8364741809"> </span>It talks about
being sober. </div>
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<br class="yiv8364741809" /></div>
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Casting all your anxiety on Him, because
He cares for you. <span class="yiv8364741809">Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your
adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to
devour.</span> But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same
experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the
world 1 Peter 5:8-9 <span class="yiv8364741809"></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="yiv8364741809" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal;">
Everything
on the planet was trying to kill the boy. We are told that Satan knows
his time is short so he is like a prowling lion seeking who he may
destroy but Jesus "is" the lion of the tribe of Judah. </div>
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I
asked the Lord if there was anything I need to change about my life and
I heard in my spirit, "I want you to be bolder." I believe He means
that I need to be bolder
to confess his word. That in times past I was on automatic pilot, but I
need to be bolder in my faith and claim his word, say his word.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The wicked flee though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion. Proverbs 28:1 </span></span></h4>
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<h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I
will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Isaiah 41:10</span></span></h4>
</div>
<div class="yiv8364741809" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1404256249256_37517" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Do not be afraid, little
flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. Luke 12:32</span></span></h4>
</div>
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<h4>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I tell you, my friends, do not be
afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. Luke 12</span></span></h4>
</div>
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If I tell you not to think about pink elephants, than what are you
going to think about? Pink elephants. It sort of reminds me of my
mother baking cookies and after my smelling them, she tells me I can't
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I meet several divorced men that seem to have pink
elephant issues. They will say, "I believed marriage was for a life
time, but after a 35-year marriage and only three years was fun, I'm
only out to have fun, no commitments." </div>
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Kudos they stayed for 35-years in a bad relationship, but does that
mean because of one bad relationship, we are going to have every
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How
much energy does it take to believe something right vs. something wrong?
It's changing our thinking to right believing/right thinking. "As a man thinks in his heart so is he." </div>
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It sort of reminds me of a job. Just because we have one bad manager at work does not mean that there are all bad managers.</div>
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As a single person, I think about certain things all the time. As a
married person, I thought about some of the same things -- sex and
companionship. Sarah and Abraham thought about having children a lot.
Obviously, they decided to try with Sarah's handmaid. </div>
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Eve must
have had a pink elephant issue in thinking about the tree of knowledge
of good and evil. She added a section about "not touching" the tree
that was not spoken by God. </div>
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But the neat thing about being in
God's Plan B is His plan B is still good. Jesus was the second Adam and
the New Covenant was better than the law. I woke up one morning and I
heard in my spirit, "I have you on a detour road since your husband's
death." So I'll take God's detour road over being out of the will of
God. </div>
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Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden
of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. The Lord God commanded the man,
saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; 17but from the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day
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The
woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the
garden, but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is
in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will
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Mary O---Tally Hohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14769161343333969863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3823556716677929402.post-68867208844218773692014-06-06T06:15:00.003-07:002014-06-06T06:25:24.887-07:00A Mule or a Race Horse? <div class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_11876">
<div class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_11875" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_11898"></span><span class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_11874" style="color: black;">Many people like car
racing and we just had the Indy 500 race here. <span class="yiv2067835146"> </span>I like horse racing and I own the movies
Seabiscuit, Secretariat, and Dreamer.<span class="yiv2067835146">
</span>They did not invest that much money in California Chrome compared to
other race horses, same with Seabiscuit. California Chrome has a good chance to
be a Triple Crown winner tomorrow. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I
have always loved horses and so did my sister. We used to ride
together when I was a small girl. My sister married someone who was
raised on a farm and owned a horse, but he did not keep his horse when
he joined the military and had to go to Germany for two years. In
school growing up, I checked out of the library every horse book I could
get my hands on. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I
loved to watch horse movies growing up. I prayed and wished at every
birthday party that I owned a horse. Entered every pony contest at Hooks
drug stores. My parents let me have a bird, dog, cat, fish and a bunny
rabbit but no horse. My former husband was allergic to hay so it would
have been dangerous for us to have horses, but I did get him to go
riding for the first time in his life with me several times in
California, Hawaii and around Indiana. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br class="yiv2067835146" /></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_11864" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I don't have a horse that
eats grass, but I have three motorized horses that eat gas. In junior
high I had a friend who owned barell racing horses and they were a lot
of fun, but she moved away. I just recently have been in contact with an
old high school friend who wants me to come over her house and ride
with her this summer. I like on the movie, "Heaven is for Real" the boy
talked about how Jesus has a horse that is the color of the rainbow. <br class="yiv2067835146" /><span class="yiv2067835146"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146"><br class="yiv2067835146" /></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_11858" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_11860" style="color: black;">The story of Seabiscuit
is interesting too as far as racing War Admiral where the owner claimed he was
a perfect horse.<span class="yiv2067835146"> </span>War Admiral was a Triple
Crown Winner, and yet Seabiscuit had more heart and beat him. <span class="yiv2067835146"> </span>The horse overcame the odds because it raced
from the heart.</span><span class="yiv2067835146"> <span class="yiv2067835146"> </span><span class="yiv2067835146" style="color: black;">I keep that in mind
as a I run the race of life <span class="yiv2067835146"><br class="yiv2067835146" /></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv2067835146" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146"><span class="yiv2067835146" style="color: black;"><span class="yiv2067835146"><br class="yiv2067835146" /></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_11856" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Therefore, since we are surrounded by such
a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the
sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked
out for us,<span class="yiv2067835146"> </span>Hebrews 12:1 <span class="yiv2067835146"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146" style="color: black;"><br class="yiv2067835146" /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_11851" style="color: black;">When I was 12 years old
I heard this sermon at church about how a mule sitting in barn does not make it
a race horse.<span class="yiv2067835146"> </span>It’s in the breeding; you
have to be born a race horse.<span class="yiv2067835146"> </span>Just like
attending church does not make one a Christian, we have to be born again to
enter the kingdom of God.</span><span class="yiv2067835146"></span></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_11846" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146" style="color: black;"><br class="yiv2067835146" /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_13433" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_13432" style="color: black;">I realize that some
people don’t see themselves as a thoroughbred race horse when they have been
born again, but they still think like a mule.<span class="yiv2067835146">
</span>My friend has a mule and <u class="yiv2067835146">they are very stubborn.</u> <span class="yiv2067835146"> </span>(as a man thinks in his heart so is he) </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146" style="color: black;"><br class="yiv2067835146" /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_13435" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_13434" style="color: black;">A woman wrote into a
Christian television program how her husband is looking at pornography and is on
dating sites. Another one said her spouse was caught stealing from
church, and they both wanted to know if they were morally bound to stay with a
person that "claims" to be a Christian, but is continuing in
sin. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146" style="color: black;"><br class="yiv2067835146" /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv2067835146" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146" style="color: black;">I can't believe these
two men are continuing in God's word. God's word will transform us.
Paul said, What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may
increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
Romans 6:1-2</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146" style="color: black;"><br class="yiv2067835146" /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv2067835146" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146" style="color: black;">I’m Mrs. O’Neill, but
I’m not currently enjoying the benefits because my husband is dead.<span class="yiv2067835146"> </span>If we are dead to something than it means it
has no benefit over us.<span class="yiv2067835146"> </span>Sin is not to
rule, reign or dominate us.<span class="yiv2067835146"> </span>We are to
continue in God’s word not sin. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br class="yiv2067835146" /></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv2067835146" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">For sin shall no longer be your master,
because you are not under the law, but under grace. Romans 6:14<span class="yiv2067835146" style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146" style="color: black;"><br class="yiv2067835146" /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv2067835146" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146" style="color: black;">Our sanctification or
holiness is through God's word. Many people focus on the outside and
preach against sin rather than preaching the word (its cure).<span class="yiv2067835146"> </span>It’s the word that penetrates the thoughts and
intents of the heart.<span class="yiv2067835146"> </span>It’s the word that
transforms us. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146" style="color: black;"><br class="yiv2067835146" /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv2067835146" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146" style="color: black;">Sanctify
them (make them holy) by the truth; your word is truth. John 17:17 </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br class="yiv2067835146" /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">For the word of God is alive and active.
Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and
spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12 <span class="yiv2067835146" style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_13382" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_13381" style="color: black;">Jesus told the woman at
the well that the Father is seeking worshipers, True worshipers of God,
worship in spirit and truth ---abiding in God’s word is the truth. <span class="yiv2067835146"> </span>Jesus was full of grace and truth. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_13385" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br class="yiv2067835146" /></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_13387" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yet a time is coming and has now come when
the true worshipers will worship the Father in the <u class="yiv2067835146">Spirit and in truth</u>,
for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. John 4:23 </span></span></div>
<div class="yiv2067835146" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1402057313102_13389" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">For the law was given through Moses; <u class="yiv2067835146">grace
and truth</u> came through Jesus Christ. John 1:17 <span class="yiv2067835146" style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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I was in a funk last weekend, and God always has a way of cheering me
up. I never laughed so hard watching myself in those Galaxy Quest
actors. They were trying to figure out how to make their s<span class="text_exposed_show">paceship work only my spaceship is being single after being happily married. <br /> <br /> Sometimes God uses people to cheer me up, but last weekend it was a movie. He is the “God of all comfort.” (Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 2 Cor. 1:3)<br /> <br />
The part where the actor is trying to maneuver the spaceship through a
mine field and he was shy about getting blown up by mines I can relate
to. Then there are these mean demon looking children that keep saying
over and over, “Rock, Rock, Rock” before a rock monster comes along. <br /> <br />
Sort of reminds me of this dump truck that threw a rock the size of a
baseball at my car window when I went to encourage a friend who lost his
mother.<br /> <br /> I was listening to the news about how they are
killing and persecuting Christians and burning churches in Africa
because Christians don’t fight back. It’s sort of the Hunger Games with
Christians in that region. Maybe the “right to bear arms” is not such
a bad idea?<br /> <br /> Praying, praising, thanking God when things go
bad, fasting, tithing, giving, confessing the word, wearing my armor,
fighting the fight of faith, sanctification and holiness, it’s all a bit
much on top of persecution. God, I want a hall pass from being a
single believer.<br /> <br /> Lord forget the Christianity, can I just be
your child? Can it be about what I am not what I do? Can I be like
those simple good aliens on Galaxy Quest where they have faith and trust
that things will work out? The spaceship works, I've just not figured
out how to use it correctly. <br /> <br /> Maybe they mistrusted the actors
because they only pretended. Can I crawl up in your lap Jesus like
those children you said not to send away to your disciples? <br /> <br /> My
daughter told me, “Mom it’s all going to come out in the wash.” But
the socks get lost in the wash! Either what we go through in life will
break us or it will make us stronger. We may lose our socks. <br /> <br />
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in
the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the
kingdom of God. Acts 14:22<br /> <br /> I heard someone talk about being
victorious in Christ . It’s in Christ. It’s not about our education,
our ability, our intelligence, our stamina in order to make it through
life. <br /> <br /> But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Cor. 15:57<br /> <br />
When it all boils down to it – it’s being for him, to him, through him,
in him, it’s not us. We are co-laborers with God, but we have better
deal as far as God does not need anything from us, we are the ones that
need him. <br /> <br /> For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. Romans 11:36<br /> <br />
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and
we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by
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Two of my daughter’s attended church with me on Mother’s Day. The
pastor had a single professional mother share her testimony. My
daughter said she could relate more to what this pers<span class="text_exposed_show">on shared than a pastor. It’s hard at times to relate to a pastor and his wife as a single mother, divorced or widowed. <br /> <br />
Jesus said “Lazarus come forth.” They had to take off Lazarus grave
clothes and it’s not always easy to take off our bondages in life. <br /> <br />
The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen,
and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave
clothes and let him go." Luke 11:44<br /> <br /> Jesus waited for Lazarus to
die for three days and then raised him from the dead. Mary and Martha
sent word to Jesus, “Lord, Lazarus whom you love is sick.” Next, when
Jesus comes Mary and Martha are saying, “Lord by now he stinks.” <br /> <br />
Yeah Lord, by now my life stinks, dating over 50 stinks and currently
the job market stinks too. I could sure use some of your resurrection
power! <br /> <br /> I heard that 82% of Americans worry about money.<br /> <br />
I'm doing better with less worry in life. I’ve got my former spouse as
an example of his stressing over losing his job. Men are not good
about expressing their feelings. David expressed his feelings to God
and about him in the book of Psalms.<br /> <br /> Most women will tell you
what they think. I had this attitude when we were married, “You can
lump it or leave it” after going through a divorce. I’m glad he never
left me, at least not willingly. <br /> <br /> Feelings are important,
although we should not be ruled by them. There have been many times I
did not feel like going to something and I ended up having the best
time. <br /> <br /> Jesus is actually moved with the feelings of our infirmities<br /> <br />
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling
of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet
without sin. Hebrews 4:15<br /> <br /> It tells us in the last days that men’s hearts will fail them for fear of things coming on this earth.<br /> <br />
Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things
which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Luke 21:26<br /> <br /> Back when I was in my 20's a friend asked me to
fill in at a nursing home and play my guitar. I remember this woman who
kept saying over and over, "Where am I going to sleep tonight?" "What
am I going to eat?" She must have had dementia but I remember thinking,
"Wow I don't want to end up like that when I am older." I've been
around enough chronic worry and fear people. <br /> <br /> I was a chronic
worry wart at the times. I had that nesting urge when I was seven months
pregnant and my spouse made a bad decision to move back to Tulsa,
Oklahoma from Florida, and we ended up homeless.<br /> <br /> A single woman
took us in and we also did not have many baby clothes for our twins,
but than a single man came forward who was going through a divorce and
he had a bunch of girl baby clothes he gave us. <br /> <br /> Things
working out at the most critical time of my life and it broke the
stronghold of worry over my life. It was a trap that I fell into. God
covers our mistakes.<br /> <br /> A man said he was stressing out over his
life and the Lord spoke to his spirit to go to sleep and He would stay
up and worry for him. We are to cast our anxiety on the Lord. <br /> <br />
A couple years ago I was stressing over my children and I heard in my
spirit, "Is my arm short that I cannot save and is my ear short that it
cannot hear?" It’s easier when we put the pressure on God to work in a
loved one’s life instead of trying to correct and change them. I found
that same true in marriage. <br /> <br /> I kept praying in marriage and I
saw a change. I kept a good attitude and did not get bitter that he
was indifferent to meeting my needs when I started going through
disillusionment that sets in after I got married. It’s putting pressure
on God to work on our behalf and takes off the stress off of us. 80%
of third marriages end up in divorce and I figured we were headed for
divorce with having problems with step children full time. Fortunately, I
had a Christian spouse that sought to please the Lord.<br /> <br /> I find
some Christian type teachings brings me into bondage. What it all comes
down in life it is knowing Jesus (being intimately acquainted with
him).<br /> <br /> There is no other name above Jesus. He is the author and
finisher of my faith. Mary focused on her relationship with the Lord
(sitting at his feet) while Martha focused on what she could do for the
Lord (serving). I find I do better when I focus on more of my
relationship with the Lord (my devotion) than my service. My service is
out of my devotion. It’s very similar to marriage is serving my spouse
out of love not out of duty or obligation it’s a joyful serving. <br /> <br /> Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! Psalm 100:2 <br /> <br />
It’s like Paul said, “to know Jesus and him crucified.” David also
spent a lot of time with God in the shepherd field getting to
understand/know the will of God. <br /> <br /> For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 1 Cor. 2:2<br />
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the
fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
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Two of my daughter’s attended church with me on Mother’s Day. The pastor had a single professional mother share her testimony. My daughter said she could relate more to what this person shared than a pastor. It’s hard at times to relate to a pastor and his wife as a single mother, divorced or widowed.
Jesus said “Lazarus come forth.” They had to take off Lazarus grave clothes and it’s not always easy to take off our bondages in life.
The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave clothes and let him go." Luke 11:44
Jesus waited for Lazarus to die for three days and then raised him from the dead. Mary and Martha sent word to Jesus, “Lord, Lazarus whom you love is sick.” Next, when Jesus comes Mary and Martha are saying, “Lord by now he stinks.”
Yeah Lord, by now my life stinks, dating over 50 stinks and currently the job market stinks too. I could sure use some of your resurrection power!
I heard that 82% of Americans worry about money.
I'm doing better with less worry in life. I’ve got my former spouse as an example of his stressing over losing his job. Men are not good about expressing their feelings. David expressed his feelings to God and about him in the book of Psalms.
Most women will tell you what they think. I had this attitude when we were married, “You can lump it or leave it” after going through a divorce. I’m glad he never left me, at least not willingly.
Feelings are important, although we should not be ruled by them. There have been many times I did not feel like going to something and I ended up having the best time.
Jesus is actually moved with the feelings of our infirmities
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Hebrews 4:15
It tells us in the last days that men’s hearts will fail them for fear of things coming on this earth.
Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. Luke 21:26
Back when I was in my 20's a friend asked me to fill in at a nursing home and play my guitar. I remember this woman who kept saying over and over, "Where am I going to sleep tonight?" "What am I going to eat?" She must have had dementia but I remember thinking, "Wow I don't want to end up like that when I am older." I've been around enough chronic worry and fear people.
I was a chronic worry wart at the times. I had that nesting urge when I was seven months pregnant and my spouse made a bad decision to move back to Tulsa, Oklahoma from Florida, and we ended up homeless.
A single woman took us in and we also did not have many baby clothes for our twins, but than a single man came forward who was going through a divorce and he had a bunch of girl baby clothes he gave us.
Things working out at the most critical time of my life and it broke the stronghold of worry over my life. It was a trap that I fell into. God covers our mistakes.
A man said he was stressing out over his life and the Lord spoke to his spirit to go to sleep and He would stay up and worry for him. We are to cast our anxiety on the Lord.
A couple years ago I was stressing over my children and I heard in my spirit, "Is my arm short that I cannot save and is my ear short that it cannot hear?" It’s easier when we put the pressure on God to work in a loved one’s life instead of trying to correct and change them. I found that same true in marriage.
I kept praying in marriage and I saw a change. I kept a good attitude and did not get bitter that he was indifferent to meeting my needs when I started going through disillusionment that sets in after I got married. It’s putting pressure on God to work on our behalf and takes off the stress off of us. 80% of third marriages end up in divorce and I figured we were headed for divorce with having problems with step children full time. Fortunately, I had a Christian spouse that sought to please the Lord.
I find some Christian type teachings brings me into bondage. What it all comes down in life it is knowing Jesus (being intimately acquainted with him).
There is no other name above Jesus. He is the author and finisher of my faith. Mary focused on her relationship with the Lord (sitting at his feet) while Martha focused on what she could do for the Lord (serving). I find I do better when I focus on more of my relationship with the Lord (my devotion) than my service. My service is out of my devotion. It’s very similar to marriage is serving my spouse out of love not out of duty or obligation it’s a joyful serving.
Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! Psalm 100:2
It’s like Paul said, “to know Jesus and him crucified.” David also spent a lot of time with God in the shepherd field getting to understand/know the will of God.
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 1 Cor. 2:2
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<span class="userContent">As a believer, we are called to give and receive blessings. Charles
Stanley did a good teaching recently on how when we go to heaven, we
receive rewards not on what we receive, but<span class="text_exposed_show"> on what we give. <br /> <br />
It's the same now as far as we are told not to be deceived that God is
not mocked, that what we sow, we will reap. Galatians 6:7. We are a
blessing to our family, our jobs and our church. Some places, we can
use our talents more than other places. <br /> <br /> Do not repay evil with
evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing,
because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
1Peter 3:9 <br /> <br /> Although as a widow, I can marry anyone I wish as
long as they are a believer, there are some people that I know when I
have a good relationship than its easier to use my talents than if I'm
in strife and fighting with a spouse. <br /> <br /> When we look for the
positive in people -- look for their strengths and do not focus on
faults and flaws than we are bringing Jesus to others because love
covers a multitude of faults. <br /> <br /> Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.1 Peter 4:8 <br /> Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs. Proverbs 10:12<br /> <br />
Right after I lost my spouse, I wanted to sell my house. I told some
others it was like a weight on my neck. The Lord spoke to my spirit to
go up to my house and say, "My home is blessed." <br /> <br /> Right after
that, I had 17 single socials at my house. It's using our things for
the glory of God. God does not need our stuff, but we can use our
things to bless people. Peter let Jesus use his boat to preach in.
Jesus overfilled his boat so he had to call for other boats. It's so
funny because Peter had been fishing all night and did not catch any
thing. Sometimes it's thinking outside the box. <br /> <br /> And He got
into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a
little way from the land. And He sat down and began teaching the people
from the boat. 4When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, "Put
out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch." 5Simon
answered and said, "Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing,
but I will do as You say and let down the nets."When they had done
this, they enclosed a great quantity of fish, and their nets began to
break. so they signaled to their partners in the other boat for them to
come and help them. And they came and filled both of the boats, so that
they began to sink.… Luke 5:4-6<br /> <br /> As a young Christian I was in a
missionary group where we lived in campers and tents. It was a little
hard to "entertain" people and than I traveled with my spouse who was a
musician living in cheap hotels and people's homes at times. I hated to
"impose" on people. So now it's been nice to actually own something
that I can be a blessing which has included giving to homeless ministry
financially and doing music for them. <br /> <br /> She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy. Proverbs 31:20<br /> <br /> There have been times I've been poor and needy financially. <br /> <br />
My home is blessed, my health is blessed, my things are blessed, my
finances are blessed, my children are blessed, my grandchildren are
blessed, my cattle (dogs, cats, horses) are blessed, God has blessed the
work of my hands, the words of my mouth. Satan complained that God had
blessed the work of Job's hands. I thank you Lord the blood of Jesus
is over my house like it was in Egypt. It's over my life. I am a
blessing everywhere I go. Duet. 28 <br /> <br /> The blessing of the Lord makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow with it. Proverbs 10:22</span></span></div>
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all the ministries I've done since I've been single again, I prefer one
on one evangelism with people. As far as someone calling me to pray
for a loved one who has loss or go talk to them. <br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />Lately,
I was asked to do music for a homeless ministry. Although, two times
I've gotten sick with a stomach
virus so it's been rather an endurance contest to make it there and the
first time I went to serve I got sick the next day after shaking
someone's hand. Sort of reminds me of how Paul had to shake off the
snake into the fire at the island. <br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />It's
also very different as far as getting a couple songs in before 50-75
people eat and run. It reminds me of some of the single socials at my
house I've hosted where some singles
scope out for a partner, and if one does not pop up in thirty minutes
that suits their interest they are gone. Same with a lot of single
Bible studies I've gone to where people don't last very long at them. <br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />It
sort of defeats the purpose of why I do single socials which is to
encourage a fellowship of believers. Jesus complained that the people
were only there for the food when he blessed the food and fed the
5,000. They were not there to hear the word from God. <br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />I've
been diligent to come 15 minutes early to my interviews for jobs. I
actually spoke to someone who was new in town and was late to an
interview and she still got the job. But I make sure I'm doing my part
to dress the part and be there diligently. <br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />I think about that when God came looking for Adam to walk with him in the cool of evening. God I
don't want to miss my appointments with you! <br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />I
had three dreams about
my former husband. I dreamed that I saw him and I really wanted to
talk to him again, but I did not have his phone number and it was the first time we met. No one knew
him so I had to wait till Sunday when I would see him again. </span><br />
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dreamed that he had not come home in three days. I went to his job and I
had to hunt for him since his office had moved and I suggested that we
go out with his work friends and he just blew me off. I had another
dream very similar. I felt so devastated that my spouse blew me off. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At first I thought it was the enemy trying to torment me. </span>Than
I realized the three dreams were from God. That at times I had blown
off God and he had to wait to Sunday to fellowship with me. I remember
how baffled and hurt I was that my husband did not want to talk to
me in three days and that is how Jesus is when I don't fellowship with
him. I've been called into fellowship with the Father through the son.
Its an intimacy and we see it in the Songs of Solomon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">There
have been some battles going on in my life and the biggest one
has been despair (no hope). Thursday, I had people pray about two
interviews for discernment and than both jobs closed in my face, and I
was in a funk because it was not what I was believing or expecting. I
was not expecting two closed doors. Later that afternoon I got an email
for another job interview this week. <br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />I
prayed about what was going on in my life and I came up with the
scripture that I need a new vision in life. I need a new prophetic
vision. The grass has not been greener on the other side as far as I
enjoyed the pastures I was grazing in for marriage. <br clear="none" /><br clear="none" />
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perish for lack of a vision and they also throw off restraint (sin). When we
lose a spouse because of death or divorce, we can lose our vision and hope for
our future, so we need a new vision and a new hope in life. It’s good to have a
vision for our family, our children, our ministry, our future. </span></span></div>
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there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint (perish), but
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I like the blessing from the Lord, the relationship from the Lord, a job
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">That is really what I
look for in life. A church/ministry
where I can be a blessing. A manager/job
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repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with
blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a
blessing. 1 Peter 3:9 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">If the blessings have
stopped, than I look at what is clogging up the blessings in life? Lord is there something I’ve done where the
blessings are not flowing in my life? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Do I need to be more persistent in my prayer and in my confession of my faith in life? </span></span></div>
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