Friday, October 23, 2015
You are amazing!
You would be amazed at how amazing God thinks you are! Have a wonderful day being the wonderful you God created you to be!
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Isn't it nice to wake up...
Isn't it nice to wake up every morning to God's love and mercy! It's not
just Thursday. It's a brand new day filled with new mercies, renewed
hope and God's unlimited love. Blessings on your day frineds!
Lamentations 3:22-23 MSG
God’s loyal love couldn’t have run out,
his merciful love couldn’t have dried up.
They’re created new every morning.
How great your faithfulness!
I’m sticking with God (I say it over and over).
He’s all I’ve got left.
Lamentations 3:22-23 MSG
God’s loyal love couldn’t have run out,
his merciful love couldn’t have dried up.
They’re created new every morning.
How great your faithfulness!
I’m sticking with God (I say it over and over).
He’s all I’ve got left.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
God Is Still Speaking Today
Just as you have natural ears
to hear the world around you have spiritual ears to hear His voice. It’s as
natural as it is to listen to the sounds and noises in this natural world. You have the potential and
capacity to hear his voice.
You must hear God’s voice or
you will listen to another voice.
God spoke in the Old Testament in the New Testament and He is speaking today.
Wishing you a day filled with hope...
Monday, October 12, 2015
God wants you to hear Him. He is speaking to you. And one way or another He will find a way…
STILL SMALL VOICE IN A LOUD BUSY WORLD - LESSON 5
If you only do life with facts you can only go so far. Even if it works out you will not be satisfied. You are a child of God, you are designed to live in the ways of God not the ways of the world. God's ways are always are higher than our ways. His wisdom is beyond even the wisest person you will ever know.
God wants you to hear Him. He is speaking to you. And one way or another He will find a way. It will save you from many heartaches and hardships. This week's lesson is about some of the ways God speaks and how you can recognize that it is His voice.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Wake up and chase your dreams...
Every morning brings two choices! Continue our sleep with dreaming or wake up and chase our dreams! Good Morning friends, lets go after all God has for us today! After our coffee that is!
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
You just have to look for it!
Monday, October 5, 2015
Don't get it? God does!
Don't get it? God does!
- Take it to Him.
- Trust Him completely.
- Tell Him of your confidence in Him.
- Thank Him for His perfect plan!
Friday, October 2, 2015
Meet Me In The Middle
Everything has a beginning. Everything
has an end and everything has middle.
Have you ever thought about
the word middle? It’s just not really a fun or exciting word, like beginning or
even end. The greeting card rack is full of cards celebrating new beginnings like
a new marriage, a new baby or even a new home. There are even cards wishing you
a happy ending. Some examples are celebrating a graduation or retirement, but
have you ever seen a card wishing you a happy middle experience? My guess is probably
not.
When I think about the word
middle the pictures or thoughts that come to mind are middle aged or mid-life
crisis, middle child, hump day, the place fat likes to live, halfway there on a
road trip (are we ever going to get there) and other not so exciting
imaginings.
Beginnings and endings are
filled with excitement and anticipation of what lies ahead and where we are
going or what we’ve accomplished or where we have arrived. But middles… Sigh, its Wednesday, isn’t it?
Do you start your beginnings,
a New Year, a new day or a new adventure with God but then everything else gets
in the way and you find yourself in the middle out of steam with a clouded
vision wondering what’s the point and is it ever going to end?
Matthew 14:22-23 gives one of
the most fun stories about Jesus in the Bible. Oh I know there are a lot of
theological applications we can make from this account but I suspect this was a
pretty awesome experience for the disciples, remembered, revisited and retold many
times.
It had been a busy and taxing
day for Jesus. He had just learned of John’s beheading and pulled away to be
alone but a huge crowd followed Him there. Jesus saw that many of them were
sick, so He spent the day ministering to them and healing those that were ill
and even performed a miracle so they would not go away hungry. You can imagine
how tired Jesus was so he told the disciples to go on ahead of Him and cross
over to the other side of the sea. The disciples were surely aware that Jesus
was spent and needed time to rest and pray so that got into their boat and
started to cross.
They found themselves in the
middle, far from the shore and it wasn’t smooth sailing. They were battling
waves and high winds and were probably tired from rowing. Isn’t that how life
is when we find ourselves in the middle? Very often we are tired, out of energy
and then comes one of life’s storms. I’m sure they just wanted to get this trip
over. But then something changed. Jesus came to them right there, right then in
the middle of their mess. He didn’t come by boat, angels didn’t airlift him, no
He came walking on the water. God’s word tells us the disciples thought it was
a ghost and were terrified. Guess they hadn’t seen Ghostbusters yet. You know
sometimes we are so caught up in our situation we don’t even recognize Jesus
when He is right there with us.
All of a sudden, the middle
isn’t boring or hard any more. Forget about the wind. Forget about the waves.
Forget about the fact that we still have a way to go. Jesus says, “Hey guys,
don’t be afraid, it’s me.” Can’t you just hear them now? “No way man, is that
really you Lord? Get out of town, you have got to be kidding me.” Then Peter said,
“Hey I want to do that. I want to walk on water.” You know what that is exactly
what He did. No skis, No surfboard, just on his own two feet Peter walks on
water, until he gets to the middle that is. Sometimes it’s in the middle when
we feel like we are sinking. The word says Jesus reached out and caught him; they
got back in the boat and the wind ceased.
Wow, a boring, tedious,
tiring boat ride became an exciting, exhilarating, unforgettable experience. We
are still talking about it today. You know your middles can be like that. When
God shows up there is no telling what is going to happen but I can promise you
it won’t be ordinary because we serve an extraordinary God who will turn our
marginal middles into marvelous moments.
Philippians 1:6 says He who began a good work in you will carry it on to
completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Notice it says He will carry it on. God
is the beginning and the end but He also wants to be there in your middles. Ask
God to meet you in the middle. It might just be the most exciting time of your
life!
There is always Hope in God.
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