Tag Archives: Faith

A Trip To The Manger…

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Let us in these days before Christmas take a trip in prayer to the empty manger…

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Let us kneel down in the prickly straw, feel the cold drafty air up on us…

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and smell the somewhat stink of the animals’ living space.

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 Let us see within our hearts those places most in need of Our Savior.

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Within this posture of receiving let us wait in joyful expectancy and holy longing for the coming of the Messiah more deeply into our hearts.

So that in the holy hush of Christmas with hopeful hearts of “YES”…

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we may walk forward to receive and be transformed, believe and be set free, adore and soar to the heavenly heights…

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Receive, Believe, and Adore.

The King of Kings Friendship Award…

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King of Kings Friendship Award

Thank you Anne at for the wonderful King Of Kings Friendship Award …what an  honor…what a blessing.

And truly an affirmation that we are all connected in this Body of Christ in a real way.  And are serving Him by being missionaries of the internet…flooding cyberspace with good and wholesome words that have the potential to encourage faith and rekindle hope.  Thank  you for this Godly pat on the back.

To read more about the King of Kings Friendship Award, please go to

http://freedomborn.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/the-king-of-kings-friendship-award/

The Wrong Person at the Wrong Time?…or the RIght Person at the Wrong TIme?

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Do you often think…I must have been the wrong person at the wrong time?!…

But when we are the right person at someone else’s wrong time….

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and GIVE from the HEART…

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We become the hands of Christ…

bringing wholeness into the brokenness.

The needy are all about us…

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They come in all shapes and sizes of woundedness.

Let our gifts this Christmas come from the heart…bringing wholeness to the broken.

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Let us find ourselves to be the “Right” person at someone else’s “Wrong” time.

Enjoy this 10 minute video that will inspire and transform your heart. You will not be disappointed.

“Give and gifts will be given to you;  a good measure, packed together, shaken down and overflowing, will be poured into your lap.  For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you. ”  Luke 6:38

Mission Impossible?….Not At All!

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“God has created me to do Him some definite service:  He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another.  I have my mission – I may never know it in this life, but I will be told it in the next. “

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“I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons.  He has not created me for naught.  I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it –if I do but keep His commandments.  Therefore I shall trust Him,  Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away.  If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him.  If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him.  He does nothing in vain.  He knows what He is about.  He may take away my friends.  He may throw me among strangers.  He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide my future from me — still He knows what He is about. ”  Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

“Lord you have probed me,  you know me:  you know when I sit and stand; you understand my thoughts from afar.  My travels and my rest you mark;  with all my ways you are familiar.  Even before a word is on my tongue, Lord, you  know it all.  Behind and before you encircle me and rest your hand upon me.  Such knowledge is beyond me, far too lofty for me to reach.” Ps 139:1-6

May you walk in your mission this day….grounded in the love of God.

My readers…you are in my prayers, fromtheheartof j

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The King Has Chosen You…

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Recently I read…”We should act in everything as if an exalted king has chosen us”…

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An exalted king has chosen us!

Let us don robes of splendor adorned in virtue…

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Let us hold our heads high in belonging and our vision cast upwards in hope.

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Let our gaze be sure and steady in charity and compassion for the oppressed.

Let our voice be a strong but gentle breeze reflecting the Word written within.

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Let our gait be steady in the shadow of the King’s steps, following wherever He leads.

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Let our shoulders be broad to receive the cares of the downtrodden about us…all to bring to the King.

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Let our actions be fueled by the power of Love, reflecting a beauty that attracts others into the courts of the King.

Let the joy of the Lord be before us and what we leave behind us.

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All wrapped in that peace that transcends all human understanding.

We ARE royalty. Have we come to discover and live this truth?

The King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, He is our Papa.

The Prince of Peace, the Saviour of the World, He is our Brother.

The Counselor, the Teacher, the Advocate, the Power of Love, He lives within us.

The King has chosen us! We are royalty.

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We must live our Royalty. One with the King!

“But you are a “chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises” of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.” 1 Pet 2:9

YES…YES…YES…

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Every YES we utter contains no’s…

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If I say YES to God…

to live a life of faith, hope, and charity…

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I say no to to a life of doubt, despair, and selfishness.

Why is it the no’s seem to creep into my YES?

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Why do the no’s try to whittle away the strength and the authority of my YES?

It is a fallen world. We are fallen people.

While in this world we must do battle against these persistent no’s.

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Yet, His grace is sufficient.

Let us daily, even hourly if in the midst of a battle, renew our YES with trust and confidence in God’s love and mercy.

Let our YES drown out the no’s in the world and in our hearts.

Let not our no’s speak defeat…

Let our YES shout victory!

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YES is more powerful than no.

“Do I make my plans according to human considerations, so that with me it is “yes, yes” and “no, no”?  As God is faithful, our word to you is not “yes” and “no”.  For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed to you by us, Silvanus and Timothy and me, was not “yes” and “no” but “yes” has been in him.  For however many are the promises of God, their YES is in him; therefore the Amen from us also goes through him to God for glory.” 2 Cor 17-20

Parched Lives No More…

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Sundays are for resting…

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Jumping off the crazy spin of life.

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Settling into the “He looked at everything and said this is good and on the seventh day He rested” rest.

Allowing our lives to be watered with the great YES that gave us life…

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Entering into the streams of ever flowing thanksgiving and alloing it to water the past week, the gift of the day and the rest given, and all that the week ahead contains.

Sundays heal our parched lives.

Remember…keep holy the Sabbath.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matt 11:28

Signposts…

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A wise person once told me…

“Leave every place behind better than you found it.  Leave a bit of beauty.”

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In a world that mars Beauty by twisting the beautiful into the ugly and promoting the ugly as beautiful.

Our vision has become distorted.  Deceit saturates truth.

But the Love of God is written on our hearts…

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 And the strength of the Spirit within can bring forth beauty and truth through us.

Leaving bits of beauty behind…

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Untangles the knots of the enemy’s destruction.

Bits of Beauty can be as simple as…

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A smile, a kind word, a hug, a generous act, a song, a single flower…

Bits of beauty left behind paves the way…

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A signpost on the road to heaven.

Be a Beauty signpost this weekend.  Leave bits of beauty behind you for others on this trail home.

“From Zion God shines forth, perfect in beauty.” Ps 50:2

Song in the Heart…Part II…

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There is a tribe in East Africa where the birth of a child is marked not on the day of the physical birth, but the first time the child is a thought in the mother’s mind.

Aware of her intention to conceive a child with a particular father, the mother goes off alone and sits under a tree.

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There under the tree she sits and listens until she can hear the song of the child she hopes to conceive.

Once she has heard it…

She goes back to her village and teaches it to the father so they can sing it together as they make love, inviting the child to join them.

The mother sings this song to the baby in her womb. She teaches it to the old women and midwives of the village so that at the miracle of birth the child is greeted with this song.

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This song is taught to all the villagers so when the child falls or hurts himself they sing this song to comfort.

This song becomes part of the marriage ceremony and at the end of life, loved ones gather around the deathbed and sing this song for the last time.

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If all creation sings God’s praise, then we too sing praise from the depths of who we are. We do have a song in our hearts….we came into this world in a love song of heavenly praise. Discover your song. Assist others to do the same. We will be a symphony of praise to the Lord.

“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, as in all wisdom you teach and admonish one another, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.”  Col 3: 16

Hangover?…

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Thanksgiving Hangover?…Great!…Please read on…

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Turkey leftovers stored in fridge for turkey sandwiches later…

The “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing” sighs after the last bite of pecan pie have ushered us into the official hustle and bustle of the holiday race.

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Quick thank you’s have sped us into frenzied gift buying.

Is this really what it is all about?

Was our giving thanks only as deep as the ladle in the turkey gravy?

In 1621 an incredible first chapter for our country was written…

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The truth that all good things come from above and the recognition of this erupted into the first Thanksgiving.

Abraham Lincoln many years later in 1863 grounded us in the soil of this gratitude by declaring Thanksgiving a national holiday.

Where are we now?

Let us live a Hangover of Thanksgiving and Praise.

One heart at a time living a hangover of thanksgiving and praise can cause many to look upwards and beyond.

Want to transform the world?

Slow down and walk in thanksgiving and praise.

Paul knew the secret (Acts 16:23-34)…

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It was praise and thanksgiving that broke open the prison bars.

Please join me in living the Thanksgiving hangover.

“Enter the temple gates with praise, its courts with thanksgiving.  Give thanks to God, bless his name; good indeed is the Lord, whose love endures forever, whose faithfulness lasts through every age. ” Ps 100: 4-5