Motivational Speech

Motivation is what gets you started.
Habit keeps you going.

Current Impression

One loud and repeating theme.

I can do nothing. I can do all things through Christ. Apart from Him, I am nothing.

When you cannot affect an outcome, when you cannot drink, when your words fall to the ground or get lost inside another ones head doing what you can only imagine, but not doing what you want... then it is time to turn from your idols, it is time to turn again to the One Who Saves.

Wretchedness. Why do I come when there is no where else to turn? Why do I come when there is no one else but You? You have saved a wretched woman and yet Your wooing me again brings a renewed sense of awe in Your ability to work in my life... and an awe at why You would even set Your love upon me. It is Your goodness that leads me to repentance. It is Your goodness that turns me to you.

You are the One who brought me up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage... now please take the Egypt out of me, the idols and the worship that they demand. Fill me with this praise:

"Sing to the Lord,
For He has triumphed gloriously!
The horse and the rider
He has thrown into the sea!"

Jesus, no matter how small others make you I pray that my life would magnify You!

In Your precious name I ask.

Remaining Thankful

Right now, it is so important that I keep my head on straight. Every moment threatens to swallow me whole. I don't even want to be blogging right now, but alas, I can't run away. My head is spinning with questions and words from without and within! Quiet packed up and moved on and even this, though work, seems like a selfish endeavor. I sit, I hear the talk, the attack of words and noise on my senses? How can I be such a sissy. There are people in India who have probably never heard one moment of time without noise and people? How tender I am. How useless.

I have to remember to be thankful, I have to remember that this is what I wanted. I have to remember that this isn't about me. I can't compare my load to others. I have to carry what has been laid upon me by the One who shares the yoke with me, the One who leads.

Lord, forgive me for being discontent and impatient. Forgive me for rolling my eyes and feeling tired of those I hold most dear. I am such a spoiled servant, please help me to humble myself and to bear with joy all the trials that you have set before me, because truth be told, my trials are another woman's easy day. Strengthen me I pray. Help me to grow in the grace and knowledge and wisdom of Your precious Spirit, Lord. Thank you for another day.

In Jesus name I ask.

Standing Up For What Is Right!

I have so much respect for this woman! We Americans have enjoyed our freedoms for too long. We have fallen asleep in the face of a giant. We pretend that the giant isn't hungry for our very lives. Read Daniel, Read Revelation! Read Ezekiel. God's people must pray!

Wake up brothers and sisters, beg God for mercy through His son Jesus!

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It's just one little cookie!

Grandparents and their cookies...
cookies are not evil but rebellion is. How many grandparents are in submission to the Lord? How many parents struggle daily to walk the narrow path only to have cookies shoved down their children's throats by well meaning grandparents? "It's just a cookie hunny, you need to lighten up!" All the while heavy sighing and rolling their eyes.

Oh, my God, humble me. Please help me not to consider sin as "just one cookie", just one little indulgence that can be over looked or lightened up about. Help Your people, who call themselves by Your name come under Your banner to know the difference between right and wrong and not be so tangled up in our own little sins that we can't see sin for what it is.

Food, sex, work ethic, prayer, speech, whatever. Let us submit ourselves to You, fill us with the ability to know the Good and love the Good, to strive after it and to hate the things that would seek to enslave us.

Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent.

Pr 1:23 "Turn to my reproof; Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.

Do we think that He will pour out His spirit on us if we do not turn to His reproof? That would be rediculous! He goes on to say in vs. 26 that He will laugh at our calamity and mock when dread comes. I think that we had better heed His reproof.

Psalm 119: 45
And I will walk at liberty, For I seek your precepts.

and

Psalm 119: 47
I shall delight in Your commandments, Which I love.

Lord Praise your name through Your blessed Son Jesus! Conform me to His image for Your Glory! May Your name be praised!
In His name I ask these things.

Another Day, More Mercy

This day of fretting, this day of worry, just another day wasted.

Gracious God of Heaven, Father of Truth and Life,

THANK YOU, thank you

Shore up this little heart, remind me of Thy great works, of THY GREATNESS, still me with Your Word.


Amen.