19 years
This year I've been with Rich for over 19 years. We have come through alot in our lives. Both of us from very chaotic backgrounds. Who would've thought we'd make it to 19 years, have three kids and be living on the edge of the world in Alaska of all places. Sometimes I can remember us as when we first begun; other times in the present. Today we are having our 19th Thanksgiving with three extra persons, than that first Thanksgiving after we married in a one-bedroom apartment across the beach in Pacifica, CA.
During those 19 years a lot of hardship, heartache, and hope.
1989-met Rich and his parents
1990-
1991-
1992-Rich and I went clean and sober (me from Alcohol, Rich from drugs & alcohol)
1993-received the gospel & got married
1994-
1995-studied Wounded Heart which was a turning point in my life (sexual abuse)
1996-
1997-Antonio was born
1998-
1999-moved to Alaska, managed 32 unit apartment
2000-Emily was born
2001-
2002-Elie was born
2003-
2004-
2005-
2006-out of apartment managing job
I have to go back to cooking. I have much to be thankful for even prior to Rich for the years God carried me. It will be interesting to look this over again, and measure the various things that went on in my life.
In thanksgiving let us praise Him!
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Monday, November 20, 2006
Source of Every Blessing
What the Cross Releases
Chapter 10
For all things are yours....And you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.1 Cor. 3:21-23
I think this chapter is one of my favorites out of all of them. :)
Blackaby continues that a fundamental aspect of Paul's understanding of the cross, perhaps summarized best in this verse: "He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" Romans 8:32
What the cross makes available to every believer is everything.
It's as if we stand before God and He points to the cross and says, "What more could I have done for you? The cross contains it all! If I freely gave up My beloved and holy Son for you, doesn't that prove I'll freely give you everything else with Him as well? Doesn't it prove I have adequate resources to give you in Christ, since I already freely gave Him for your sin?
The cross defines everything else in your relationship to God, and it releases everything else in your relationship to God. No wonder Paul was so passionate to proclaim exclusively "the message of the cross" (1Cor.1:17-18). No wonder he said he "determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified."
As you look carefully throughout the New Testament, you'll see again and again that everything coming our way from God is ours through Christ by way of the cross.
Look closely at what Paul is saying. God "has blessed us." In other words, it's already in place.
God purposed to make us holy and blameless before the foundation of the world-with the holiness and blamelessness of Christ that are impossible for us to share without the cross. God, who knows everything, knew in eternity past that we would sin and fall short of His wondrous glory. Yet He also knew before the world was even created that He would provide a way for sinners to be made righteous before Him in Christ!
And that plan and purpose would include not just forgiveness, but the countless, lavish blessings of all righteousness and holiness. What a God! What a Savior!
In Colossians 2:9-10, Paul declares: "For in Him dwells all the fullness of the godhead bodily: --then adds these words about you and me: "and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
"Knowing He has provided for us so completely through the cross, imagine how greatly dishonoring it is to Him when we set all that aside and try to function instead in the flesh.
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue. (2 Peter 1:2-3)
grace = God's undeserved provision for us.
What this grace brings our way through God's enabling power means "all things that pertain to life and godliness." All these things are what God "has given"; He has already supplied everything required for us to live a holy life. Nothing is left out.
May everything God has already provided you through the cross of Christ --- all the resources required for living a holy life that honors Him --- may all this grow and expand and intensify in your life, along with the great peace that always goes with it."
Blackaby continues "yet so often we settle in with our sinful nature and decide we "just can't help it." We think we're bound to function that way, because "that's just how we are." And so we end up canceling God's promises in practical effect.
Will you instead learn to recognize everything God has done for you, and take full advantage of it? Accept His complete provision and ask Him to help you understand and appropriate what He has supplied. Come to Him and say, "O Father in heaven, I know Your promises. I know You have made available everything I need to live a godly life -- I know that all this is already mine. And yet I just don't fully grasp how to implement these blessings. But if You will show me, I will respond."
Are you committed to learning what God's "everything" and His "all things" really mean in every aspect of your life?
God's "all things" includes every circumstances of our lives, no matter how painful. Even in our darkest moments we can read this passage with great humility and brokenness and say, "I know You have called me, Lord, and I do love you with all my heart." As you begin putting that together in your mind and heart, you can say with genuine confidence, "Because of these things, I know God is working all things together for good." Rom. 8:28
The cross is the heartbeat of all this good that God works out even through our toughest circumstances.It's not by circumstances that God told you He loved you. He told you He loved you when His Son died for us. And no combination of difficult or bewildering circumstances will ever change any aspect of that love." Praise God!
Because of the cross, we have "boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus" (Hebrews 10:19). Now we can actually approach god's holy presence by His spirit through prayer. We're encouraged to do exactly that without delay and restriction: "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith" (10:22); "let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need" (4:160How incredible! God has given you the go-ahead to enter the holiest place in existence, His very presence.
As you consistently do that, you honor Him. And don't you suppose it must be terribly dishonoring if we have access to God's Holy Presence, purchased at the cost of the life of His own Son, and yet seldom go there? Surely a moment awaits when God will say to those who did not seek His presence, "Let Me tell you what could have been in your life, if you'd only come. But you didn't. you never came. You treated your prayer life as only a religious requirement. Don't let that tragedy be yours.
What do I need to put in front of the cross so I won't become disoriented to God's love?
The cross & God's love was for such a time as this......
me
my marriage
my children
my family
my job
my friends
my spiritual growth
my maturity
my worries
my health
my ministry
the war in Iraq
school work
migraines
housework
habits
the church.......................................... what's on your list?
What the Cross Releases
Chapter 10
For all things are yours....And you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.1 Cor. 3:21-23
I think this chapter is one of my favorites out of all of them. :)
Blackaby continues that a fundamental aspect of Paul's understanding of the cross, perhaps summarized best in this verse: "He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" Romans 8:32
What the cross makes available to every believer is everything.
It's as if we stand before God and He points to the cross and says, "What more could I have done for you? The cross contains it all! If I freely gave up My beloved and holy Son for you, doesn't that prove I'll freely give you everything else with Him as well? Doesn't it prove I have adequate resources to give you in Christ, since I already freely gave Him for your sin?
The cross defines everything else in your relationship to God, and it releases everything else in your relationship to God. No wonder Paul was so passionate to proclaim exclusively "the message of the cross" (1Cor.1:17-18). No wonder he said he "determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified."
As you look carefully throughout the New Testament, you'll see again and again that everything coming our way from God is ours through Christ by way of the cross.
Look closely at what Paul is saying. God "has blessed us." In other words, it's already in place.
God purposed to make us holy and blameless before the foundation of the world-with the holiness and blamelessness of Christ that are impossible for us to share without the cross. God, who knows everything, knew in eternity past that we would sin and fall short of His wondrous glory. Yet He also knew before the world was even created that He would provide a way for sinners to be made righteous before Him in Christ!
And that plan and purpose would include not just forgiveness, but the countless, lavish blessings of all righteousness and holiness. What a God! What a Savior!
In Colossians 2:9-10, Paul declares: "For in Him dwells all the fullness of the godhead bodily: --then adds these words about you and me: "and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
"Knowing He has provided for us so completely through the cross, imagine how greatly dishonoring it is to Him when we set all that aside and try to function instead in the flesh.
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue. (2 Peter 1:2-3)
grace = God's undeserved provision for us.
What this grace brings our way through God's enabling power means "all things that pertain to life and godliness." All these things are what God "has given"; He has already supplied everything required for us to live a holy life. Nothing is left out.
May everything God has already provided you through the cross of Christ --- all the resources required for living a holy life that honors Him --- may all this grow and expand and intensify in your life, along with the great peace that always goes with it."
Blackaby continues "yet so often we settle in with our sinful nature and decide we "just can't help it." We think we're bound to function that way, because "that's just how we are." And so we end up canceling God's promises in practical effect.
Will you instead learn to recognize everything God has done for you, and take full advantage of it? Accept His complete provision and ask Him to help you understand and appropriate what He has supplied. Come to Him and say, "O Father in heaven, I know Your promises. I know You have made available everything I need to live a godly life -- I know that all this is already mine. And yet I just don't fully grasp how to implement these blessings. But if You will show me, I will respond."
Are you committed to learning what God's "everything" and His "all things" really mean in every aspect of your life?
God's "all things" includes every circumstances of our lives, no matter how painful. Even in our darkest moments we can read this passage with great humility and brokenness and say, "I know You have called me, Lord, and I do love you with all my heart." As you begin putting that together in your mind and heart, you can say with genuine confidence, "Because of these things, I know God is working all things together for good." Rom. 8:28
The cross is the heartbeat of all this good that God works out even through our toughest circumstances.It's not by circumstances that God told you He loved you. He told you He loved you when His Son died for us. And no combination of difficult or bewildering circumstances will ever change any aspect of that love." Praise God!
Because of the cross, we have "boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus" (Hebrews 10:19). Now we can actually approach god's holy presence by His spirit through prayer. We're encouraged to do exactly that without delay and restriction: "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith" (10:22); "let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need" (4:160How incredible! God has given you the go-ahead to enter the holiest place in existence, His very presence.
As you consistently do that, you honor Him. And don't you suppose it must be terribly dishonoring if we have access to God's Holy Presence, purchased at the cost of the life of His own Son, and yet seldom go there? Surely a moment awaits when God will say to those who did not seek His presence, "Let Me tell you what could have been in your life, if you'd only come. But you didn't. you never came. You treated your prayer life as only a religious requirement. Don't let that tragedy be yours.
What do I need to put in front of the cross so I won't become disoriented to God's love?
The cross & God's love was for such a time as this......
me
my marriage
my children
my family
my job
my friends
my spiritual growth
my maturity
my worries
my health
my ministry
the war in Iraq
school work
migraines
housework
habits
the church.......................................... what's on your list?
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Morals
Rejection of God is not an intellectual dilemma. It's a moral one. -- Ravi Zacharaias
That statement was made by Ravi in a series I've been listening to:
2006-11-16
Why Sit Here Until We Die? (part 4 of 4)
2006-11-15
Why Sit Here Until We Die? (part 3 of 4)
2006-11-14
Why Sit Here Until We Die? (part 2 of 4)
2006-11-13
Why Sit Here Until We Die? (part 1 of 4)
It's just 'very powerful' thinking. I was touched most with the risks many have taken before me to preach the gospel, and how I sit comfortable between 4 walls.
In the last session, Ravi talks about us taking risks to preach the gospel. If I sit and do nothing, it is a form of death. He said why not go in and see what God is doing, and join in. This told me maybe I shouldn't try and do things on my own, but follow the church in ministry, etc. I also received a call to help out with youth prison ministry.
Today I read where Rick Warren went to Syria: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52971 I'm not one to argue where God sends someone, but if Rick can go to Syria, why can't I go preach the good news? What stops me?
Lord, what are you doing in my church, in my community, in my state, and country. Where can I help?
I feel You have been stripping layers away from me even as I go through Beth Moore's Daniel Study. I'm on chapter 6, and I just see all the things I have put in my life to flood me from having a relationship with my Lord. Frightfully, I have passed it on to my children. We have a lot of nothing.
Last week in Sunday School God spoke to me about the 'Do not worries' and where to store my treasures in (Heaven) Matthew 6. I should not worry about the cares of this world, what I will eat, drink, or wear, and that's what I have in my storehouses. This has been convicting as I have so much clutter to get rid of.
I feel you are breaking me free, Lord. It's a lot of work ahead, but I see my need for you, and less things. I have built myself a babylon, and need to bring it down a hefty notch.
Thank you for reminding me. I want your redemptive work in me.
I am Yours.
Rejection of God is not an intellectual dilemma. It's a moral one. -- Ravi Zacharaias
That statement was made by Ravi in a series I've been listening to:
2006-11-16
Why Sit Here Until We Die? (part 4 of 4)
2006-11-15
Why Sit Here Until We Die? (part 3 of 4)
2006-11-14
Why Sit Here Until We Die? (part 2 of 4)
2006-11-13
Why Sit Here Until We Die? (part 1 of 4)
It's just 'very powerful' thinking. I was touched most with the risks many have taken before me to preach the gospel, and how I sit comfortable between 4 walls.
In the last session, Ravi talks about us taking risks to preach the gospel. If I sit and do nothing, it is a form of death. He said why not go in and see what God is doing, and join in. This told me maybe I shouldn't try and do things on my own, but follow the church in ministry, etc. I also received a call to help out with youth prison ministry.Today I read where Rick Warren went to Syria: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52971 I'm not one to argue where God sends someone, but if Rick can go to Syria, why can't I go preach the good news? What stops me?
Lord, what are you doing in my church, in my community, in my state, and country. Where can I help?
I feel You have been stripping layers away from me even as I go through Beth Moore's Daniel Study. I'm on chapter 6, and I just see all the things I have put in my life to flood me from having a relationship with my Lord. Frightfully, I have passed it on to my children. We have a lot of nothing.Last week in Sunday School God spoke to me about the 'Do not worries' and where to store my treasures in (Heaven) Matthew 6. I should not worry about the cares of this world, what I will eat, drink, or wear, and that's what I have in my storehouses. This has been convicting as I have so much clutter to get rid of.
I feel you are breaking me free, Lord. It's a lot of work ahead, but I see my need for you, and less things. I have built myself a babylon, and need to bring it down a hefty notch.
Thank you for reminding me. I want your redemptive work in me.
I am Yours.
Monday, November 13, 2006
Experiencing the Cross
Chapter 9 - The Cross Brings Fullness of Life
A New Creation That Stays New
Because I live, you will live also.
John 14:19
Blackaby says Paul was making clear the result of the cross: I myself live by the living presence of the living Christ -- who now dwells within me and lives out His life through me. Paul knew that the experience of being crucified with Christ was completely linked to the experience of being indwelt and empowered and controlled by the risen and living Christ.
If you don't want the cross to be emptied of its meaning and power in your life, if you want to be everything God intends you to be because of the cross, then let all that God accomplished in the cross have full effect in your life. Don't set aside what God has done and try to live apart from full dependence on the living Christ.
When Paul stated in 2 Corinthians that anyone in Christ is a "new creation", with all things becoming new in their lives, the newness he referred to was the living presence of Christ Himself. That's what's new (and stays new) in our lives when we live by the cross.
Don't let anybody ever tell you that the life of holiness is drab, boring, and lifeless. It is not. How could it be? It's the full of the complete, abundant, overflowing life of God. It is full of joy. It is full of victory. It is full of promise and hope. As you follow the way of the cross, you'll see things you've never seen, and hear things you've never heard.
This world and its ways held no appeal for Paul because he was crucified to it. He could see more than the world sees, and what he saw was the glory of the cross of Jesus Christ and the eternal life and hope it brings.
Lord, help me to understand what this really meant for Paul and what it can mean for me.
Our faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Paul wanted to see the impact of the crucified Christ in every area of life for the Corinthians. As we meditate on the Scriptures, allow God to thread the truth of them through your heart, then out from your heart into the rest of your life.
How is the cross affecting my life?
Is my life centered on the cross?Is that the reality -- not just in my 'theology', but in my experience?
Am I experiencing the life of the living Lord?
Or...does the world still have priority in shaping how I spend my time, energy, thoughts, and all that I have?
Am I in any way quenching and resisting His activity in my life, setting aside the grace of God, so that the cross of Christ is made of no effect in me?
Grace and peace be multiplied to you
in the knowledge of God
and of Jesus our Lord,
as His divine power has given to us all things
that pertain to life and godliness,
through the knowledge of Him
who called us by glory and virtue. (2 Peter 1:2-3)
Chapter 9 - The Cross Brings Fullness of Life
A New Creation That Stays New
Because I live, you will live also.
John 14:19
Blackaby says Paul was making clear the result of the cross: I myself live by the living presence of the living Christ -- who now dwells within me and lives out His life through me. Paul knew that the experience of being crucified with Christ was completely linked to the experience of being indwelt and empowered and controlled by the risen and living Christ.
If you don't want the cross to be emptied of its meaning and power in your life, if you want to be everything God intends you to be because of the cross, then let all that God accomplished in the cross have full effect in your life. Don't set aside what God has done and try to live apart from full dependence on the living Christ.
When Paul stated in 2 Corinthians that anyone in Christ is a "new creation", with all things becoming new in their lives, the newness he referred to was the living presence of Christ Himself. That's what's new (and stays new) in our lives when we live by the cross.
Don't let anybody ever tell you that the life of holiness is drab, boring, and lifeless. It is not. How could it be? It's the full of the complete, abundant, overflowing life of God. It is full of joy. It is full of victory. It is full of promise and hope. As you follow the way of the cross, you'll see things you've never seen, and hear things you've never heard.
This world and its ways held no appeal for Paul because he was crucified to it. He could see more than the world sees, and what he saw was the glory of the cross of Jesus Christ and the eternal life and hope it brings.
Lord, help me to understand what this really meant for Paul and what it can mean for me.
Our faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Paul wanted to see the impact of the crucified Christ in every area of life for the Corinthians. As we meditate on the Scriptures, allow God to thread the truth of them through your heart, then out from your heart into the rest of your life.
How is the cross affecting my life?
Is my life centered on the cross?Is that the reality -- not just in my 'theology', but in my experience?
Am I experiencing the life of the living Lord?
Or...does the world still have priority in shaping how I spend my time, energy, thoughts, and all that I have?
Am I in any way quenching and resisting His activity in my life, setting aside the grace of God, so that the cross of Christ is made of no effect in me?
Grace and peace be multiplied to you
in the knowledge of God
and of Jesus our Lord,
as His divine power has given to us all things
that pertain to life and godliness,
through the knowledge of Him
who called us by glory and virtue. (2 Peter 1:2-3)
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Losing Your Life
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. (Matthew 16:25)
Christians are commanded to lose their lives. This means they ought to deliberately release their lives to God and His kingdom. One of the greatest hindrances to you being on mission with God will be your view of what constitutes your “legitimate rights”; that is, those things that you feel you have a right to experience and enjoy. It’s not difficult to turn over to Christ those things that are not a sacrifice or that you would prefer to do without anyway. Rather, it is the things that are good and that are dear to you that may stand between you and God’s will.
It’s good to be near your grown children and grandchildren, for example, but God may want you to go to another city or continent on mission with Him. It’s good to get adequate rest, but you may receive a call of distress in the middle of the night. You may assume that you have a right to certain material things, yet God may ask you to release all of your possessions to Him and His purposes (Matt. 19:21).
Jesus modeled perfectly this attitude toward life. He had a legitimate right to enjoy the comforts of heaven. Yet, He did not look at it as a right He should hold on to, nor did He see leaving all that was His as a sacrifice too costly to make (Phil. 2:5–11). As a result, God highly exalted Him and brought salvation to a broken world. Has the world convinced you that there are certain rights that you must protect? Are you trying to save your life? Have you noticed that in so doing, you are actually losing the life God wants you to have?
Henry Blackaby
Experiencing God day by day
http://www.blackaby.org/
I've always agreed with the Christian's role of 'losing their life' until it involves my own when complaining. Recently I'd been complaining of just so much to do as wife, mom, homeschooler and employee; sometimes uncertain of my role. Yesterday we said goodbye to a church friend's Mom who lived from 1922-2006. She lived through alot of history. Her life is a legacy. I'm reminded again why one must lose their life in order to find it.
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. (Matthew 16:25)
Christians are commanded to lose their lives. This means they ought to deliberately release their lives to God and His kingdom. One of the greatest hindrances to you being on mission with God will be your view of what constitutes your “legitimate rights”; that is, those things that you feel you have a right to experience and enjoy. It’s not difficult to turn over to Christ those things that are not a sacrifice or that you would prefer to do without anyway. Rather, it is the things that are good and that are dear to you that may stand between you and God’s will.
It’s good to be near your grown children and grandchildren, for example, but God may want you to go to another city or continent on mission with Him. It’s good to get adequate rest, but you may receive a call of distress in the middle of the night. You may assume that you have a right to certain material things, yet God may ask you to release all of your possessions to Him and His purposes (Matt. 19:21).
Jesus modeled perfectly this attitude toward life. He had a legitimate right to enjoy the comforts of heaven. Yet, He did not look at it as a right He should hold on to, nor did He see leaving all that was His as a sacrifice too costly to make (Phil. 2:5–11). As a result, God highly exalted Him and brought salvation to a broken world. Has the world convinced you that there are certain rights that you must protect? Are you trying to save your life? Have you noticed that in so doing, you are actually losing the life God wants you to have?
Henry Blackaby
Experiencing God day by day
http://www.blackaby.org/
I've always agreed with the Christian's role of 'losing their life' until it involves my own when complaining. Recently I'd been complaining of just so much to do as wife, mom, homeschooler and employee; sometimes uncertain of my role. Yesterday we said goodbye to a church friend's Mom who lived from 1922-2006. She lived through alot of history. Her life is a legacy. I'm reminded again why one must lose their life in order to find it.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Our Motto
Well, to help fight the defeat of wrestling with why we homeschool, or when we want to complain about chores, unproductive days, etc., we've come up with a mission/purpose statement type slogan to our name. It would be nice if I can find the folder I lost with all my notes, but I guess another time.
Well, to help fight the defeat of wrestling with why we homeschool, or when we want to complain about chores, unproductive days, etc., we've come up with a mission/purpose statement type slogan to our name. It would be nice if I can find the folder I lost with all my notes, but I guess another time.
AnEmEl House
*
Mission
*
Be a LIGHT for God and Others
Have a LOVE for God and Others
LIVE to God and Others
LEARN about God and Others
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This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. Ps. 118:24
Everyday. Every season. No matter the weather, or the reason.
*
*
We have some verses listed to support LIGHT, LOVE, LIVE and LEARN. This has been helpful to check our attitudes when we need to be reminded why we homeschool, serve, etc. A purpose to our doings. The kids seem to like it, and we made a poster with cut outs and verses. A new schedule, and switched some stuff around to hopefully make it an easier school year.
Praise God.
Now I've got to go vote! :)
Titus 3
14 Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order that they may provide for daily necessities and not live unproductive lives.
Hebrews 5
7 During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.
8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered
9 and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him
Psalm 119
14 I rejoice in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches.
15 I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways.
16 I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word.
Joshua 1
7 Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.
8 Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."
Mark 12
29"The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a]
30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'[b] 31The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'[c]There is no commandment greater than these."
Galatians 2
19 "For through the Law I (B)died to the Law, so that I might live to God.
20 "I have been (C)crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but (D)Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in (E)the Son of God, who (F)loved me and (G)gave Himself up for me.
Colossians 3
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Matthew 5
15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
16 In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Friday, November 03, 2006
Beth Moore's Daniel study
We watched this video last night, and it broke me as did session 4. Whew, she doesn't give you enough time to catch up with your emotions. I needed to sob a little more after that prayer. It brings me to my knees. Funny, it seems you get your adrenaline running at the the intro with the lion, and then you've got a lake of tears by the end of the video session. As you can see, the enemy got a good laugh out of me this week. I was moved by many things she said in the 2nd part (page) of the video. We act less than who we are. When we should act as God calls us through His word. We act like we feel (act like we are defiled). Are we planning to let the enemy have victory over using us as unholy? The bride is suppose to be making herself ready [sobs]. Something we should remember daily. How do we not be defiled by all Babylon has to offer? -corruption by pride; ambition to power and position -prioritizing beauty over character -image building. How many images are constantly hitting us throughout the day? We're inundated with so much - overstimulated I thought constantly! Wise up says Beth! She said something along the lines of us already being half way there with all the images we're consumed with daily that all the enemy has to do is convince us to do the unholy thing. This made me think about how I don't pray over my husband enough. He is an inspector and runs all over the city, and is always on the go with work and lunch, and then back to work; in the workplace with lots of folks. When he parks it at home he watches about 2-3 hours of tv. We don't watch tv usually when he is not home. We've got homeschool, chores, etc., to keep us busy. We decide to just watch tv when he's here, or play a board game, or whatever. We try to turn the tv off and have dinner all together. Men handle things differently than women, and so I will not want to watch tv as much as my husband probably needs too. I like it quiet, with a little music. He can be on the computer with the tv on. When I catch him, I will turn the tv off.:) This also made me think of how hard it was for Daniel to continue to live in Babylon, but live the separate life from Babylon. Neb continually referring to Daniel as Belteshazzar; named after Neb's god, etc. Daniel really had to separate himself from that constant 'babylon' identity for so many years as he belonged to God. So many times in our work place, or out with a friend we are a light making a stand for God needing to separate ourselves from the world. HUGE!
We watched this video last night, and it broke me as did session 4. Whew, she doesn't give you enough time to catch up with your emotions. I needed to sob a little more after that prayer. It brings me to my knees. Funny, it seems you get your adrenaline running at the the intro with the lion, and then you've got a lake of tears by the end of the video session. As you can see, the enemy got a good laugh out of me this week. I was moved by many things she said in the 2nd part (page) of the video. We act less than who we are. When we should act as God calls us through His word. We act like we feel (act like we are defiled). Are we planning to let the enemy have victory over using us as unholy? The bride is suppose to be making herself ready [sobs]. Something we should remember daily. How do we not be defiled by all Babylon has to offer? -corruption by pride; ambition to power and position -prioritizing beauty over character -image building. How many images are constantly hitting us throughout the day? We're inundated with so much - overstimulated I thought constantly! Wise up says Beth! She said something along the lines of us already being half way there with all the images we're consumed with daily that all the enemy has to do is convince us to do the unholy thing. This made me think about how I don't pray over my husband enough. He is an inspector and runs all over the city, and is always on the go with work and lunch, and then back to work; in the workplace with lots of folks. When he parks it at home he watches about 2-3 hours of tv. We don't watch tv usually when he is not home. We've got homeschool, chores, etc., to keep us busy. We decide to just watch tv when he's here, or play a board game, or whatever. We try to turn the tv off and have dinner all together. Men handle things differently than women, and so I will not want to watch tv as much as my husband probably needs too. I like it quiet, with a little music. He can be on the computer with the tv on. When I catch him, I will turn the tv off.:) This also made me think of how hard it was for Daniel to continue to live in Babylon, but live the separate life from Babylon. Neb continually referring to Daniel as Belteshazzar; named after Neb's god, etc. Daniel really had to separate himself from that constant 'babylon' identity for so many years as he belonged to God. So many times in our work place, or out with a friend we are a light making a stand for God needing to separate ourselves from the world. HUGE!
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