Do you ever feel like you're in the dark sometimes? Like you'd really like to know the reasons behind certain events, but they remain elusive? We studied Joseph's life in church recently and I was reminded once again that it's not our job to know everything {nor our privilege}. BUT, some things are revealed to us and the verse I've chosen to memorize now will be a great reminder to me of that.
Audrey, Ohio
Deuteronomy 29:29 ESV
The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Keep pressing on~His Word brings so much peace into our hearts!
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Pardon?
This past Sunday we talked about the great forgiveness Jesus extended to us from the cross. One illustration that was shared recalled a man on death row who refused a presidential pardon {after murdering a federal worker}. This sort of refusal had never before occurred, so the courts had to decide whether or not he had a choice to receive the pardon. This is what they ruled:
"A pardon rejected is no pardon at all; unless the recipient of the pardon accepts the pardon, then the pardon cannot be applied."
God extends the same type of pardon to you through Jesus' sacrifice, but have you accepted it? Will you accept it? Because "the pardon cannot be applied" unless it is accepted. He loves you so much.
"A pardon rejected is no pardon at all; unless the recipient of the pardon accepts the pardon, then the pardon cannot be applied."
God extends the same type of pardon to you through Jesus' sacrifice, but have you accepted it? Will you accept it? Because "the pardon cannot be applied" unless it is accepted. He loves you so much.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
2012 Scripture Memory Verse 2
I so hope you are already seeing fruit from hiding God's Word in your heart. I am overwhelmed again this morning at the profound way God's Word never grows stale or stagnant ~ it is always ready to teach us something new or remind us of a truth we once learned but need to learn again, or perhaps is the encouragement we need for the moment we are in.
We have just finished studying some lessons from the life of Joseph {at church} and the suggested memory verse is what I'm taking in this time around. Here it is:
Audrey, Ohio Genesis 50:20 ESV (version) As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
May your eyes be open to see God's blessings today!
PS-You can choose your own verse to memorize, or join me in memorizing Genesis 50:20 if it resonates with you. You need only to work on memorizing your choice, though, and not those of anyone else :) We'll continue to choose a scripture on the 1st and 15th of each month throughout 2012 ~ feel free to invite friends and family to join us; they can begin right where we're at with no need to catch-up. Using index cards in a spiral is a great way to keep your memory verses all in one place and makes it handy to carry them with you so you can be meditating/thinking upon them while you are away from home.
We have just finished studying some lessons from the life of Joseph {at church} and the suggested memory verse is what I'm taking in this time around. Here it is:
Audrey, Ohio Genesis 50:20 ESV (version) As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
May your eyes be open to see God's blessings today!
PS-You can choose your own verse to memorize, or join me in memorizing Genesis 50:20 if it resonates with you. You need only to work on memorizing your choice, though, and not those of anyone else :) We'll continue to choose a scripture on the 1st and 15th of each month throughout 2012 ~ feel free to invite friends and family to join us; they can begin right where we're at with no need to catch-up. Using index cards in a spiral is a great way to keep your memory verses all in one place and makes it handy to carry them with you so you can be meditating/thinking upon them while you are away from home.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Scripture Memory for 2012, anyone???
January was a month to review my memory verses and really be sure I had them since I knew I'd be saying them to a siesta at the Siesta Scripture Memory Team Celebration {aka SSMTC} on January 21st.
Then along comes February...there is no event to encourage memorization of Scriptures at the end of this year, however I cannot believe I made it through the last three years on my own strength. My word, it has been a ride!
SO, I will begin my 4th year of memorizing God's Word~I would LOVE for YOU to join me!! I'm going to follow the method I've used over the last few years with Beth Moore's blog ~ I'll sign in on the 1st and 15th of each month with my verse, its location and translation and you can leave your verse {of your own choosing} in the same manner as a comment.
Obviously, I'm a little late for the 1st of February, but the verse I chose came from the teaching Beth brought at the SSMTC. We learned so much through 2 John and were challenged to memorize verse 8. Since I don't want to lose any spiritual ground that I've fought to gain, I find it so appropriate!
Here's mine:
Audrey, Ohio
2 John 8 ESV
Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.
So 2012, bring it on, but know we'll be ready with our sword {of the Spirit~the Word of God} in the right hand and our shield {of faith-Ephesians 6:16-17} in the left!
Then along comes February...there is no event to encourage memorization of Scriptures at the end of this year, however I cannot believe I made it through the last three years on my own strength. My word, it has been a ride!
SO, I will begin my 4th year of memorizing God's Word~I would LOVE for YOU to join me!! I'm going to follow the method I've used over the last few years with Beth Moore's blog ~ I'll sign in on the 1st and 15th of each month with my verse, its location and translation and you can leave your verse {of your own choosing} in the same manner as a comment.
Obviously, I'm a little late for the 1st of February, but the verse I chose came from the teaching Beth brought at the SSMTC. We learned so much through 2 John and were challenged to memorize verse 8. Since I don't want to lose any spiritual ground that I've fought to gain, I find it so appropriate!
Here's mine:
Audrey, Ohio
2 John 8 ESV
Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.
So 2012, bring it on, but know we'll be ready with our sword {of the Spirit~the Word of God} in the right hand and our shield {of faith-Ephesians 6:16-17} in the left!
Friday, February 3, 2012
Any sugar cookie lovers out there???
I've been looking {very casually...definitely NOT hunting} for a good cut-out sugar cookie recipe and this is one I will definitely use again. The icing was a great recipe, too. Both were found on allrecipes.com "Thick Cut-Outs" and "Sugar Cookie Icing"
We had extra icing, so we went a little crazy...
Here's Isaiah's Cowboy he created from different cookie cutters, as well as his dinosaurs and basketball
And Ezekiel's Cowboy created a similar way, with his star and puppy
And our names :) The two flowers turned out really well~the purple one was the first cookie I decorated and it turned out the best!
I'm looking forward to making Valentine's cookies next week!!!
We had extra icing, so we went a little crazy...
Here's Isaiah's Cowboy he created from different cookie cutters, as well as his dinosaurs and basketball
And Ezekiel's Cowboy created a similar way, with his star and puppy
And our names :) The two flowers turned out really well~the purple one was the first cookie I decorated and it turned out the best!
I'm looking forward to making Valentine's cookies next week!!!
2011 Re-Cap...2012 Resuscitation
This here space has been long neglected and although the reasons are good, I'm hoping to resuscitate my little corner of the blogging world.
Before I can move forward though, I feel like I need to finish what I started. I finished my commitment of memorizing Scripture with hundreds of other siestas through Beth Moore's Living Proof Ministries blog. Many of us got together in Houston, Texas, over January 20-21, to celebrate this accomplishment that only God's strength and enlarging of our mental faculties made possible. While I failed to post my verses I was working on here, I did post them on Beth's blog {that was one of the requirements of the challenge}. But to have a record of what the Lord enabled my mind to dwell many, many minutes on, here are the remainders:
May 15 ~ 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV "Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body."
June 1 ~ Acts 3:19-20 TNIV "Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, and that He may send the Messiah, who has been appointed for you--even Jesus."
June 15 ~ Ephesians 1:4 HCSB "For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight."
July 1 ~ Ephesians 1:7-8 HCSB "We have redemption in Him through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding."
July 15 ~ Ephesians 1:11-12 HCSB "We have also received an inheritance in Him, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will, so that we who had already put our hope in the Messiah might bring praise to His glory."
August 1 ~ Ephesians 1:17-19 HCSB "I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, would give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the perception of your mind may be enlightened so you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the glorious riches of His inheritance among the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of His power to us who believe, according to the working of His vast strength."
August 15 ~ Psalm 103:13-14 NLT "The LORD is like a father to His children, tender and compassionate to those who fear Him. For He knows how weak we are; He remembers we are only dust."1 Corinthians 2:9 NLT "This is what the Scriptures mean when they say, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him."
September 1 ~ Exodus 14:14 TNIV "The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still."
September 15 ~ Deuteronomy 23:14 NIV "The LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that He will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you."
October 1 & 15 ~ Isaiah 55:6-11 TNIV "Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and He will have mercy on them, and to our God, for He will freely pardon. "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is My Word that goes out from My mouth: It will not return to Me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent It."
November 1 ~ Matthew 13:11-12 TNIV "{Jesus} replied, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Those who have will be given more, and they will have an abundance. As for those who do not have, even what they have will be taken from them.""
November 15 & December 1 ~ Hebrews 10:19-25 TNIV "Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, His body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching."
December 15 ~ John 6:67-69 TNIV "You do not want to leave, too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve. Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that You are the Holy One of God."
May we press on, learning and doing the Word of God, and may He find us faithful!
Before I can move forward though, I feel like I need to finish what I started. I finished my commitment of memorizing Scripture with hundreds of other siestas through Beth Moore's Living Proof Ministries blog. Many of us got together in Houston, Texas, over January 20-21, to celebrate this accomplishment that only God's strength and enlarging of our mental faculties made possible. While I failed to post my verses I was working on here, I did post them on Beth's blog {that was one of the requirements of the challenge}. But to have a record of what the Lord enabled my mind to dwell many, many minutes on, here are the remainders:
May 15 ~ 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV "Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body."
June 1 ~ Acts 3:19-20 TNIV "Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, and that He may send the Messiah, who has been appointed for you--even Jesus."
June 15 ~ Ephesians 1:4 HCSB "For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight."
July 1 ~ Ephesians 1:7-8 HCSB "We have redemption in Him through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding."
July 15 ~ Ephesians 1:11-12 HCSB "We have also received an inheritance in Him, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will, so that we who had already put our hope in the Messiah might bring praise to His glory."
August 1 ~ Ephesians 1:17-19 HCSB "I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, would give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the perception of your mind may be enlightened so you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the glorious riches of His inheritance among the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of His power to us who believe, according to the working of His vast strength."
August 15 ~ Psalm 103:13-14 NLT "The LORD is like a father to His children, tender and compassionate to those who fear Him. For He knows how weak we are; He remembers we are only dust."1 Corinthians 2:9 NLT "This is what the Scriptures mean when they say, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him."
September 1 ~ Exodus 14:14 TNIV "The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still."
September 15 ~ Deuteronomy 23:14 NIV "The LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that He will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you."
October 1 & 15 ~ Isaiah 55:6-11 TNIV "Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and He will have mercy on them, and to our God, for He will freely pardon. "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is My Word that goes out from My mouth: It will not return to Me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent It."
November 1 ~ Matthew 13:11-12 TNIV "{Jesus} replied, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Those who have will be given more, and they will have an abundance. As for those who do not have, even what they have will be taken from them.""
November 15 & December 1 ~ Hebrews 10:19-25 TNIV "Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, His body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching."
December 15 ~ John 6:67-69 TNIV "You do not want to leave, too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve. Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that You are the Holy One of God."
May we press on, learning and doing the Word of God, and may He find us faithful!
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