So the past few weeks I have been going through some pretty tough situations for me and a lot of times I just throw my hands up and say God I can't do this anymore PLEASE HELP ME! Have you ever had one of those times...you know times when you feel like you are screaming on the inside, or times where you wonder what you did to walk into this mess.
It still amazes me how in those times God is always there with His loving arms and He knows what He's doing - and even though the storm is still raging inside - He sends little things through other people to help us along the way.
Today was one of those days for me - God knew I needed something! He's so smart - guess that's why He's God! As I was sitting at work this morning I remembered a video clip that one of my aunt's had sent me - it was of a Third Day song called Revelation. Have you ever heard it -- well the start of the chorus of the song says "Give me a revelation Show me what to do Cause I've been trying to find my way and I haven't got a clue"
That song is so me right now! So it's then that I know above everything else I'm walking THROUGH this storm and I know that God is going to be there to "Give Me a Revelation!"
Is there something that you need Christ to "Give You A Revelation about?"
Trish D
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
GUEST BLOG --- Bunt?
Bunt? Did you say bunt? Me bunt?
In baseball I have saw games where there was a player at bat who was capable of hitting a homerun. But the coach would give them a signal or tell them to bunt. You see on sports programs or in sport pages it is the homerun hitters or the players hitting triples or doubles, etc. that is talked about. But how long has it been since you watched tv and heard the announcer talk about a player who bunted the ball?
You see, when you bunt the ball in baseball it is great if you can do it and get yourself on base. But, for the most part it is not all about you or your goals you are trying to achieve. But, it is for the benefit of the team. It is you surrendering what you may want or feel you can accomplish on your own for the interest or the best for the team.
In Jeremiah 7:26 the word says about the people that they would not harkin to him, nor incline their ear, they had harden their neck. Then verse 27 says, therefore they shall speak all these words unto them; but they will not harken to thee: thy shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer them.
Say what? Wait! you mean I speak they want hear? I call and they want answer? Wouldn't it be good to have something to show for what I have done? or something that will have people bragging about me and my results because I feel that I am capable of doing really good.
But no, it is not about us. But it is about in natural speaking, it is about the team.
As Jesus said it best, not my will but what you wilt as he was speaking to the father. You see it is a place of surrender that God is calling us to that we surrender our own agenda for the good of the family or team. So listen he maybe calling you to bunt. There may not be any appalause or fan fare, but in simple obedience you go do it for the King, for the team. So don't be discouraged when you are called on to bunt because God is just as proud of you as the long ball hitters. Because, it is the obedience he loves cause you are doing it for the team or greater yet for the kingdom of God.
Charles D.
**A very special thanks to Charles for this great blog! Thanks for the great insight.**
In baseball I have saw games where there was a player at bat who was capable of hitting a homerun. But the coach would give them a signal or tell them to bunt. You see on sports programs or in sport pages it is the homerun hitters or the players hitting triples or doubles, etc. that is talked about. But how long has it been since you watched tv and heard the announcer talk about a player who bunted the ball?
You see, when you bunt the ball in baseball it is great if you can do it and get yourself on base. But, for the most part it is not all about you or your goals you are trying to achieve. But, it is for the benefit of the team. It is you surrendering what you may want or feel you can accomplish on your own for the interest or the best for the team.
In Jeremiah 7:26 the word says about the people that they would not harkin to him, nor incline their ear, they had harden their neck. Then verse 27 says, therefore they shall speak all these words unto them; but they will not harken to thee: thy shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer them.
Say what? Wait! you mean I speak they want hear? I call and they want answer? Wouldn't it be good to have something to show for what I have done? or something that will have people bragging about me and my results because I feel that I am capable of doing really good.
But no, it is not about us. But it is about in natural speaking, it is about the team.
As Jesus said it best, not my will but what you wilt as he was speaking to the father. You see it is a place of surrender that God is calling us to that we surrender our own agenda for the good of the family or team. So listen he maybe calling you to bunt. There may not be any appalause or fan fare, but in simple obedience you go do it for the King, for the team. So don't be discouraged when you are called on to bunt because God is just as proud of you as the long ball hitters. Because, it is the obedience he loves cause you are doing it for the team or greater yet for the kingdom of God.
Charles D.
**A very special thanks to Charles for this great blog! Thanks for the great insight.**
Monday, April 6, 2009
Oh How I Love Jesus
Oh how I love Jesus; Oh how I love Jesus Oh how I love Jesus because He first loved me! I’ll never forsake Him; no I’ll never forsake Him; I’ll never forsake Him; because He first loved me; To me He is so wonderful; To me He is so wonderful; To me He is so wonderful; because He first loved me.
I remember singing this precious little song as I child and doing the motions to it and loving to sing that song, but not really knowing the full meaning. Now I listen to this song or sing this song and I think of how much I love Him because Oh How Much He loves me! Just like the song by John Mark McMillen “How He Loves” -- it says Oh How He Loves Us so – when I think about the words to those two songs my mind goes to one of the most powerful scriptures in the Bible to me. How He loves – Oh how and why I love Jesus. Such a simple message but such a powerful word John 3:16 - “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:17 goes on to say “For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” Oh How He Loves Us – He laid down His life for us – before we were born – while we were yet sinners – Christ died for us!
Oh How I love Jesus – Oh How I love Jesus – Oh How I love Jesus – because He first loved me – He laid down His life for me. This week is Passion Week for the Christian world – yesterday symbolized the day we call “Palm Sunday” when Jesus made His entry into the city on a colt and a parade was given for Him calling Him Hosanna and waving palm branches at Him – by the end of this week – Jesus will have been betrayed by Judas – and He will be beaten and bruised and then He will lay down His life for us – and in 3 days rise again victorious over death, hell, and the grave.
As we go through this week, this “Passion Week” – let us not forget – that Christ – Oh How He loves us – He laid down His life for us! What are we going to do for Him?
Let's Celebrate the Risen Savior!
Trish D
I remember singing this precious little song as I child and doing the motions to it and loving to sing that song, but not really knowing the full meaning. Now I listen to this song or sing this song and I think of how much I love Him because Oh How Much He loves me! Just like the song by John Mark McMillen “How He Loves” -- it says Oh How He Loves Us so – when I think about the words to those two songs my mind goes to one of the most powerful scriptures in the Bible to me. How He loves – Oh how and why I love Jesus. Such a simple message but such a powerful word John 3:16 - “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:17 goes on to say “For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” Oh How He Loves Us – He laid down His life for us – before we were born – while we were yet sinners – Christ died for us!
Oh How I love Jesus – Oh How I love Jesus – Oh How I love Jesus – because He first loved me – He laid down His life for me. This week is Passion Week for the Christian world – yesterday symbolized the day we call “Palm Sunday” when Jesus made His entry into the city on a colt and a parade was given for Him calling Him Hosanna and waving palm branches at Him – by the end of this week – Jesus will have been betrayed by Judas – and He will be beaten and bruised and then He will lay down His life for us – and in 3 days rise again victorious over death, hell, and the grave.
As we go through this week, this “Passion Week” – let us not forget – that Christ – Oh How He loves us – He laid down His life for us! What are we going to do for Him?
Let's Celebrate the Risen Savior!
Trish D
Thursday, April 2, 2009
I GOT CONFIDENCE
When trouble is in my way
I can't tell the night from day
I toss from side to side
Like a ship on a raging tide
I don't worry and I don't fret
God has never failed me yet
Troubles comin' from time to time
But that's all right, 'causeI'm not the worrying kind
Because I, I've got confidence,
God is gonna see me through
No matter what the case may beI know
He's gonna fix it for me
I can't tell the night from day
I toss from side to side
Like a ship on a raging tide
I don't worry and I don't fret
God has never failed me yet
Troubles comin' from time to time
But that's all right, 'causeI'm not the worrying kind
Because I, I've got confidence,
God is gonna see me through
No matter what the case may beI know
He's gonna fix it for me
This is powerful song of how God is going to see us through.
So many times we get caught up on our problems and
we can't see past our troubles. But if we remember that God has everything
in control. He will see us through. Why should we worry and why should be fret because
God is going to see us through. We just have to keep the faith and trust God that
he is able and he will never fail us.
We can rely fully on the confidence that comes from Christ if we just allow Him to be that
confidence for us. We are the ones who struggle with it, Not Him, He is in control, He has a plan.
Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 1:6
BE CONFIDENT IN GOD!
Have a Blessed Weekend
Karen
Monday, March 30, 2009
Call on Jesus
It seems here lately in my life, that the spiritual attacks on my soul have come more often. Sometimes I feel like I can't even catch my breath because I'm getting hit with one thing after another. It's in these times in my life that I know the one thing I need to do is run to my source.
Who is my source you might ask? Well I'll tell you who my source is. He is the Creator of the universe, He knew me before I even was born, He took me out of the dirt and pit I was in called sin and set my feet upon the solid rock. My source is not in man, my source is in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.
One of my favorite songs says it perfectly to me, it's by Nicole C Mullen, the chorus starts by saying "When I call on Jesus, all things are possible!" It's absolute truth -- when I call on Jesus - those spiritual attacks that leave me breathless - they may knock me back -- they may cause me to have battle scars -- but what they can't do is knock me down -- I say that because One day there was a man named Jesus who carried His cross to Calvary -- and He hung between Heaven and earth and He was nailed to a cross, beaten and bruised, For me and FOR YOU! He died so that I can live and when I call on His name -- He can take away the pain - when I call on His name -- He takes care of the situation. My cross is not so heavy when the Lord is carrying it with me!
No matter what you are going through in your life - the simple answer that so many over look is -- the one who can take care of the problem is just waiting on you to call on Him -- so "Call on Jesus!"
Be blessed
Trish D
Who is my source you might ask? Well I'll tell you who my source is. He is the Creator of the universe, He knew me before I even was born, He took me out of the dirt and pit I was in called sin and set my feet upon the solid rock. My source is not in man, my source is in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.
One of my favorite songs says it perfectly to me, it's by Nicole C Mullen, the chorus starts by saying "When I call on Jesus, all things are possible!" It's absolute truth -- when I call on Jesus - those spiritual attacks that leave me breathless - they may knock me back -- they may cause me to have battle scars -- but what they can't do is knock me down -- I say that because One day there was a man named Jesus who carried His cross to Calvary -- and He hung between Heaven and earth and He was nailed to a cross, beaten and bruised, For me and FOR YOU! He died so that I can live and when I call on His name -- He can take away the pain - when I call on His name -- He takes care of the situation. My cross is not so heavy when the Lord is carrying it with me!
No matter what you are going through in your life - the simple answer that so many over look is -- the one who can take care of the problem is just waiting on you to call on Him -- so "Call on Jesus!"
Be blessed
Trish D
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
PRAISE & WORSHIP
Acts 16:23-26 "And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:(24) Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.(25) And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.(26) And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed."
We so often hear of Praise and Worship. Now a days it is very popular in churches in songs that are sung. What does it really mean when we say that we have "praise and worship" in our
church or even in our homes.
Praise and Worship is more then singing a song, enjoying the beat and even lifting our hands
to Heaven while we sing or listen to the song. When we Praise and really mean it from the heart we are elevating ourselves up into God's presence and is the door we enter into for worship. That is why we have Praise and Worship leaders and teams that sing and ushers in the presence and gets the congregations mind focus up on the Lord. The Praise team (if they are anointed and have a sincere heart) leads the way for the presence of God to move among the people and prepare the way for the minister to bring forth the word of God.
The Bible says that God inhabits in the praises of His people (Psalms 22:3). In other words, God "dwells" in the atmosphere of His praise. The psalmist writes, "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name" (Psalms 100:4).
Praise means "to commend, to applaud or magnify." For the Christian, praise to God is an expression of worship, lifting-up and glorifying the Lord. It is an expression of humbling ourselves and centering our attention upon the Lord with heart-felt expressions of love, adoration and thanksgiving. High praises bring our spirit into a pinnacle of fellowship and intimacy between ourselves and God — it magnifies our awareness of our spiritual union with the most high God. Praise transports us into the realm of the supernatural and into the power of God. "Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance" (Psalms 89:15).
So lets start today to Praise and Worship God in our everyday life.
Open up the door to go into his presence and just love on the Lord in your own way.
Be Blessed
Karen D.
We so often hear of Praise and Worship. Now a days it is very popular in churches in songs that are sung. What does it really mean when we say that we have "praise and worship" in our
church or even in our homes.
Praise and Worship is more then singing a song, enjoying the beat and even lifting our hands
to Heaven while we sing or listen to the song. When we Praise and really mean it from the heart we are elevating ourselves up into God's presence and is the door we enter into for worship. That is why we have Praise and Worship leaders and teams that sing and ushers in the presence and gets the congregations mind focus up on the Lord. The Praise team (if they are anointed and have a sincere heart) leads the way for the presence of God to move among the people and prepare the way for the minister to bring forth the word of God.
The Bible says that God inhabits in the praises of His people (Psalms 22:3). In other words, God "dwells" in the atmosphere of His praise. The psalmist writes, "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name" (Psalms 100:4).
Praise means "to commend, to applaud or magnify." For the Christian, praise to God is an expression of worship, lifting-up and glorifying the Lord. It is an expression of humbling ourselves and centering our attention upon the Lord with heart-felt expressions of love, adoration and thanksgiving. High praises bring our spirit into a pinnacle of fellowship and intimacy between ourselves and God — it magnifies our awareness of our spiritual union with the most high God. Praise transports us into the realm of the supernatural and into the power of God. "Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance" (Psalms 89:15).
So lets start today to Praise and Worship God in our everyday life.
Open up the door to go into his presence and just love on the Lord in your own way.
Be Blessed
Karen D.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Don't want to lose my soul
One of my all time favorite songs right now is by TobyMac – it’s called “Lose My Soul”. I love how it starts on his live album – how on the back of his daddy’s real-estate business card as a child it said what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul.
That statement has been ringing in my heart and mind a lot here of late. Part of the chorus says “ I don’t want to gain the whole world and lose my soul don’t want to walk away” I was thinking about that song and I thought, how true those words should be for every believer. Really what does it profit anyone to gain the whole world if there going to lose their soul and spend eternity in hell. I want to spend eternity in the presence of Jehovah – and you know you can’t really ever “spend” eternity because it’s eternity – its infinite! It’s like I heard my cousin Doug preach a few weeks back – when Jesus died on the cross for us – everything we needed was in just one drop of His precious blood that He shed for us. He when He died on Calvary shed way more than just one little drop of blood so why would I want to Lose My Soul when such a great price was paid for it.
Another part of that song says “Lord I’m relying on you; I’m relying on you Lord – cause I don’t want to gain the whole world and lose my soul!”
It’s my prayer that everyone would make up there mind and begin to serve Jesus Christ. After all – why wouldn’t you want to give your soul to a man who loved you so much that He died for you! He lost His life for you to have life – for your soul to choose to live for Him or not!
Even when we have to battle the storms in our lives – the storms are only temporary – but our soul – if we give it over to Christ – is going to live forever!His love is amazing and I don’t know about you but I’m going to spend everyday giving my soul to the one who created it – and letting Him mold me and make me and shape me into what He wants me to be!
Trish D
That statement has been ringing in my heart and mind a lot here of late. Part of the chorus says “ I don’t want to gain the whole world and lose my soul don’t want to walk away” I was thinking about that song and I thought, how true those words should be for every believer. Really what does it profit anyone to gain the whole world if there going to lose their soul and spend eternity in hell. I want to spend eternity in the presence of Jehovah – and you know you can’t really ever “spend” eternity because it’s eternity – its infinite! It’s like I heard my cousin Doug preach a few weeks back – when Jesus died on the cross for us – everything we needed was in just one drop of His precious blood that He shed for us. He when He died on Calvary shed way more than just one little drop of blood so why would I want to Lose My Soul when such a great price was paid for it.
Another part of that song says “Lord I’m relying on you; I’m relying on you Lord – cause I don’t want to gain the whole world and lose my soul!”
It’s my prayer that everyone would make up there mind and begin to serve Jesus Christ. After all – why wouldn’t you want to give your soul to a man who loved you so much that He died for you! He lost His life for you to have life – for your soul to choose to live for Him or not!
Even when we have to battle the storms in our lives – the storms are only temporary – but our soul – if we give it over to Christ – is going to live forever!His love is amazing and I don’t know about you but I’m going to spend everyday giving my soul to the one who created it – and letting Him mold me and make me and shape me into what He wants me to be!
Trish D
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