I love celebrations. I love to jump up and down and exclaim the joys of life.
So might I encourage you today to do a little jumping. And before you start jumping why don’t you do a little reading in the book of Luke.
I try every year to read this book of the Bible to again remind, renew and encourage my heart of the story of Jesus birth and ministry.
After all it is worth the greatest of celebrations and our family plans to celebrate and jump for joy this year.
Join us as we jump and proclaim what it means to have Jesus as our Lord and Savior and the willingness of the Father to send His only Son to pay the huge cost of His life so that we can jump and celebrate forever. Walk with the Father today, Read His Word and Do a lot of Stomping of the feet.
God Bless you All this Christmas!
Monday, December 15, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Walking with the Father and Laughing
This is just too funny!
I have been told I look like a woman on some TV show, Joanna Kerns from Growing Pains a lot and I have been told by my vet that I look like Paula Deen. Oh My! Friday at my hang out, the Patio (my favorite tea place) a lady was sitting at a table and asked me where I got my jeans.
She looked rather well to do if you know what I mean. I looked at the back of my jeans and said “they are Riders” and I didn’t say but I should have said they came from Wal mart and cost $12.99. She replied they sure make good copies of expensive jeans. She proceeded to acknowledge my cute hair cut and wanted to know where I got it cut. And then the big announcement “You look like you are from Texas.” Okay, so I am beginning to wonder what is happening here. Did I need a good laugh? I now know I am a famous actress, cook and from Texas!! I pray today that if you need a laugh or to be encouraged to walk with Father then smile with me and say, Yee Haw, a child of the Father by the grace of God and may I look like him today as I smile and greet those who cross my path.
I have been told I look like a woman on some TV show, Joanna Kerns from Growing Pains a lot and I have been told by my vet that I look like Paula Deen. Oh My! Friday at my hang out, the Patio (my favorite tea place) a lady was sitting at a table and asked me where I got my jeans.
She looked rather well to do if you know what I mean. I looked at the back of my jeans and said “they are Riders” and I didn’t say but I should have said they came from Wal mart and cost $12.99. She replied they sure make good copies of expensive jeans. She proceeded to acknowledge my cute hair cut and wanted to know where I got it cut. And then the big announcement “You look like you are from Texas.” Okay, so I am beginning to wonder what is happening here. Did I need a good laugh? I now know I am a famous actress, cook and from Texas!! I pray today that if you need a laugh or to be encouraged to walk with Father then smile with me and say, Yee Haw, a child of the Father by the grace of God and may I look like him today as I smile and greet those who cross my path.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Walking with the Father and renewing your mind
Ephesians 4:17-24 (ESV)
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way you learned Christ!-- assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
It is so easy this time of year to take a vacation from our walk with God and get into the world thing and yes I mean decorations, presents, commitments, parties, staying up way too late, eating food we later regret, complaining, arguing, not getting along with others, blaming others for our problems and yes do I need to add more to the list? I write this out of my own convictions for this time of year. I have lived long enough now to know the battle rages around this time to know the importance of renewing the mind daily as there is much competition for doing the best thing and that is my time with God. If there ever is a time you need to do this it is now before the world tells you what you have to do instead of slowing down to hear the voice of God. I am sitting in my favorite leather chair with an undecorated house and much to be done for Christmas and stopping to think the most important thing I can do this morning is meet with the one whose birthday we celebrate. Much is going on in my life to bring before the Father, much prayer needs to be offer for friends who have contacted me with serious family needs but most of all I just need to sit and renew my mind and think upon who came and died for me. Might I encourage you today to start your day with Him and walk with Him throughout the day! Don’t let your heart become harden to the things of God with trying to finish your to do list. Make Him the first thing on your to do list and watch what happens afterward. Your spirit will be soften, you will be walking in the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. and your goals and direction will be different. Your light will shine as bright as the many trees sparkling around our world. Might these words cause us all to ponder as we back out of the driveway for the miles we have to travel.
“Let us encourage one another...”
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way you learned Christ!-- assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
It is so easy this time of year to take a vacation from our walk with God and get into the world thing and yes I mean decorations, presents, commitments, parties, staying up way too late, eating food we later regret, complaining, arguing, not getting along with others, blaming others for our problems and yes do I need to add more to the list? I write this out of my own convictions for this time of year. I have lived long enough now to know the battle rages around this time to know the importance of renewing the mind daily as there is much competition for doing the best thing and that is my time with God. If there ever is a time you need to do this it is now before the world tells you what you have to do instead of slowing down to hear the voice of God. I am sitting in my favorite leather chair with an undecorated house and much to be done for Christmas and stopping to think the most important thing I can do this morning is meet with the one whose birthday we celebrate. Much is going on in my life to bring before the Father, much prayer needs to be offer for friends who have contacted me with serious family needs but most of all I just need to sit and renew my mind and think upon who came and died for me. Might I encourage you today to start your day with Him and walk with Him throughout the day! Don’t let your heart become harden to the things of God with trying to finish your to do list. Make Him the first thing on your to do list and watch what happens afterward. Your spirit will be soften, you will be walking in the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. and your goals and direction will be different. Your light will shine as bright as the many trees sparkling around our world. Might these words cause us all to ponder as we back out of the driveway for the miles we have to travel.
“Let us encourage one another...”
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