Ouch! This is good. And hard. It's an answer to pray and new fuel for my prayer life.
1/19/12
Abiding
I don't think I'll ever really go beyond chapter fifteen in the book of John. Oh, I've read past it. I've read the bible through and listened to it many times over. I've studied certain parts deeply and have spent years loving it, learning it, getting it INTO me in any way I could. Always, since spring of 1994, the hunger within me has been to KNOW the Lord and His ways and to walk in them.
Abiding in the Vine is always such a precious message and whenever I hear teaching or preaching on it, I'm hooked. I'll try and find some devotional music set to John 15 that I heard recently at www.ihop.org.
During our time at Abba's House we had the chance to meet some neat people. Dr. Lew Sterrett's video blurb on youtube reminds me of the wonderful hour I spent watching a video presentation of his. It really helped me see the relationship between the Creator and the created. I was very affected by it!
Here's a short clip to whet your appetite.
http://youtu.be/K9vhFVgRhgQ
Abiding in the Vine is always such a precious message and whenever I hear teaching or preaching on it, I'm hooked. I'll try and find some devotional music set to John 15 that I heard recently at www.ihop.org.
During our time at Abba's House we had the chance to meet some neat people. Dr. Lew Sterrett's video blurb on youtube reminds me of the wonderful hour I spent watching a video presentation of his. It really helped me see the relationship between the Creator and the created. I was very affected by it!
Here's a short clip to whet your appetite.
http://youtu.be/K9vhFVgRhgQ
11/21/11
Okay...I admit I think a lot about posting all sorts of things for you...things for you to read and think about and things that will add a lot of great fiber to your life. My problem is I'm SO hard pressed for peace and quiet to be able to write out and explain what I'm thinking and why I think you'll like a certain thing. I have the time but the P&Q is not something I have much of these days.
So, for years now I've had all sorts to write you and tell you and things...but I end up posting VERY short posts or just leave them in my edit box. This grieves me very much and while I'm not sure what to do about it yet I thought I would help make myself feel a little better by at least getting THIS info out to you.
It's a message Brent and I listened to last week and honestly it's an answer to nearly two decades of prayer. I hate to say that's all I'll say about it, as I know without much background you're not really sure why to click through and listen...but I love you and I think you won't regret the time it'll take you to listen.
You can click through to the link and read the blurb about the audio sermon/teaching. If it sounds good, or you're just curious I invite you to take a few minutes to at least start it. If you don't want to go any further I understand.
If you do listen and you have lots of thoughts I'd LOVE to hear them. We are so excited about this...and we think you will be too. Click the link below and then scroll down to the free munchies. Both of those are neat but the one called "Satan's Second Strategy - the Picker" is the one I'm eager for you to hear.
Blessings to you and know you are loved!!!!!!!
Hugs,
Kate
http://www.lifemodel.org/list.php?list=11
So, for years now I've had all sorts to write you and tell you and things...but I end up posting VERY short posts or just leave them in my edit box. This grieves me very much and while I'm not sure what to do about it yet I thought I would help make myself feel a little better by at least getting THIS info out to you.
It's a message Brent and I listened to last week and honestly it's an answer to nearly two decades of prayer. I hate to say that's all I'll say about it, as I know without much background you're not really sure why to click through and listen...but I love you and I think you won't regret the time it'll take you to listen.
You can click through to the link and read the blurb about the audio sermon/teaching. If it sounds good, or you're just curious I invite you to take a few minutes to at least start it. If you don't want to go any further I understand.
If you do listen and you have lots of thoughts I'd LOVE to hear them. We are so excited about this...and we think you will be too. Click the link below and then scroll down to the free munchies. Both of those are neat but the one called "Satan's Second Strategy - the Picker" is the one I'm eager for you to hear.
Blessings to you and know you are loved!!!!!!!
Hugs,
Kate
http://www.lifemodel.org/list.php?list=11
10/3/11
To Complain or not to complain?
That is the question.
I just listened to a popular daily radio program with two women talking an awful lot about not getting what we want in life. I thought the life of a person who is born above is going to be full of seeking the will of the One who saves us! So much talk of not getting what we want is wearisome to me. I am not my own; my life is not my own. My life as a wife and mother are not mine to do with as I please. I choose to submit myself to God and follow where He leads and do what He shows and tells. We're to submit our will to His. Not doing that sure would cause a lot to be upset about!!!
The idea that life in Christ is about getting what we want is such an anathema to me. I gave up my rights to myself. It is no longer I who live! I don't have my own agenda, my own set of ideas. Well, I DO but I am more often than not asked to set them aside in order to adjust myself to the Lord's work in my life.
He is the One who brought my husband and me together. When we face hardships and struggles I remember that life is full of them and that they're a technique/method by which the Lord works good things into me. Complaining about our struggles seems SO non-christian.
Not that we do not wrestle. Of course we do. Our life will be full of difficult things, along with wonderful ones. Struggling is good for us.
There is evil and people can choose to do it. Sometimes awful things come. I am not trying to say we are not to GRIEVE. That's a healthy thing. Complaining is evil and rotten and we ought to take ourselves to the Lord and plead for His help to stop it. A thankful heart causes so much to go well in us, even when circumstances are not great.
Challenges do good things in us. I've read my bible and I continue to read it and that is one of the Lord's clear messages to us. Choose to do good. Lean on Him to live the life He says you ought to live. You can't do that on your own any more than you can be the Way to the Father. Only Jesus is the way to the Father. And only by the Lord's help(er) can we live according to His ways.
So anyhow...I don't have time to chat with ladies who gripe about their lot. I'm too busy talking to the Lord in the midst of my challenges, thanking Him that He cares for me and won't leave me. I ask Him to keep teaching me how to love Him in the midst of all this.
Should I really focus on my growth? My goodness. Isn't HE supposed to be the reward, the prize, the POINT? Not my own growth. That's gonna happen if I'm abiding in Him.
I really don't understand all the words and time and money spent trying to make people feel good about being mediocre. I'm a child of the Most High God. I'm an ambassador. He loves me and I love Him. How is ANY whining okay?
Wanting to give up is a totally different story. Not thinking we can handle things...that I get. But to complain about what comes? My response is to run far and stay away from people who struggle with that. I'm just sayin'.
I just listened to a popular daily radio program with two women talking an awful lot about not getting what we want in life. I thought the life of a person who is born above is going to be full of seeking the will of the One who saves us! So much talk of not getting what we want is wearisome to me. I am not my own; my life is not my own. My life as a wife and mother are not mine to do with as I please. I choose to submit myself to God and follow where He leads and do what He shows and tells. We're to submit our will to His. Not doing that sure would cause a lot to be upset about!!!
The idea that life in Christ is about getting what we want is such an anathema to me. I gave up my rights to myself. It is no longer I who live! I don't have my own agenda, my own set of ideas. Well, I DO but I am more often than not asked to set them aside in order to adjust myself to the Lord's work in my life.
He is the One who brought my husband and me together. When we face hardships and struggles I remember that life is full of them and that they're a technique/method by which the Lord works good things into me. Complaining about our struggles seems SO non-christian.
Not that we do not wrestle. Of course we do. Our life will be full of difficult things, along with wonderful ones. Struggling is good for us.
There is evil and people can choose to do it. Sometimes awful things come. I am not trying to say we are not to GRIEVE. That's a healthy thing. Complaining is evil and rotten and we ought to take ourselves to the Lord and plead for His help to stop it. A thankful heart causes so much to go well in us, even when circumstances are not great.
Challenges do good things in us. I've read my bible and I continue to read it and that is one of the Lord's clear messages to us. Choose to do good. Lean on Him to live the life He says you ought to live. You can't do that on your own any more than you can be the Way to the Father. Only Jesus is the way to the Father. And only by the Lord's help(er) can we live according to His ways.
So anyhow...I don't have time to chat with ladies who gripe about their lot. I'm too busy talking to the Lord in the midst of my challenges, thanking Him that He cares for me and won't leave me. I ask Him to keep teaching me how to love Him in the midst of all this.
Should I really focus on my growth? My goodness. Isn't HE supposed to be the reward, the prize, the POINT? Not my own growth. That's gonna happen if I'm abiding in Him.
I really don't understand all the words and time and money spent trying to make people feel good about being mediocre. I'm a child of the Most High God. I'm an ambassador. He loves me and I love Him. How is ANY whining okay?
Wanting to give up is a totally different story. Not thinking we can handle things...that I get. But to complain about what comes? My response is to run far and stay away from people who struggle with that. I'm just sayin'.
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