Good Evening! So how busy are you? A quick and simple question about making sure you are in the Bible and not wasting time on TV, Facebook, surfing the web, or whatever maybe a time waster. See, it's so easy for us to sit down and spend hours on the computer, or watching useless programs on TV. When we could be studying the Bible or doing things that are better for us.
If you are to busy for God then maybe you need to re-evaluate your priorities. Something that will prove to one how much time in a day, week and month is wasted.... take a 30 day challenge you can choose any one or all 3 plus whatever you may want to do. Take 30 days No TV, No internet, No Facebook. Now I understand that in some cases you may need to be on line for work or ministry needs other than that NO computer/internet/Facebook.
Remember before we had all this technology------- What did we do?
Pray
Read our Bible
Walk
Ride Bikes
Play games with the kids
Sit and talk as a family
Go Soul winning
And the list could go on and on.
This is for anyone, child, teen, adult, ANYONE!
I Corinthians 10:31 "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."
If it keeps you from God it's time to get rid of it!
Friday, October 30, 2015
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Red Birds, Rainbows & Rubies
After posting about Mrs. Evans the other day I got to thinking about a few of her favorite things.... She LOVED Red Birds, Rainbows and Rubies! Yes these are temporal things but we can have favorite things to enjoy!
What are some of your favorite things?
I know for me it's white fluffy clouds, the changing of colors in fall, Red Birds and Roses just to name a few. I took a few of things and made them and "I love you" from God. I don't see Red Birds all the time but when I do I not only think about Mrs. Evans but that God loves me and the little birds.
When I see a white fluffy cloud, I think of the pureness of God and how our lives should be Christ like and we should have a perfectly white clean slate. Which in Heaven we do because God has forgiven my, your, sins and buried them in the deepest see. When you ask the Lord about this or that, he replies, "What sins are you talking about? I don't remember them any more!" Isn't that a wonderful thing!!!
Fall, WOW!! Red, Yellow, Orange, Green, Brown all over the place just showing the beauty of God and his handiwork.
Roses well that is just my favorite flower they can be red, yellow, white if it's a Rose I love it!! They don't have a particular meaning for me except the beauty at the long stem of thorns. As I am typing this I just though a rose is at the long end of thorns but yet it's beautiful and full of fragrance. That's how our lives should be yes we have the thorns of life but our fragrance as Christians should be sweet and savory to the Lord. After all we are his children and we are to live Christ like. So, friend, what are a few of your favorite things and really think about it as far as why they are your favorite. If you'd like to share them with us I'd love to read it in the comments.
Phil 3:13 " Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,"
There's not a particular verse I could find on "favorite things" but there were lots of verse on things. This is one that I've always enjoyed and thought I'd share at the end of this post. The things we have to leave behind won't matter in the end, it's our treasures that are laid up heaven and reaching for those things before us.
So even though we have our favorite things remember our most "favorite" things should be what we are laying up in Heaven. The crowns of soul winning, of faithfulness, of obedience, of loving others, of serving the Lord and to the best of our ability being Christ like. Just a few thoughts for us to think on.
What are some of your favorite things?
I know for me it's white fluffy clouds, the changing of colors in fall, Red Birds and Roses just to name a few. I took a few of things and made them and "I love you" from God. I don't see Red Birds all the time but when I do I not only think about Mrs. Evans but that God loves me and the little birds.
When I see a white fluffy cloud, I think of the pureness of God and how our lives should be Christ like and we should have a perfectly white clean slate. Which in Heaven we do because God has forgiven my, your, sins and buried them in the deepest see. When you ask the Lord about this or that, he replies, "What sins are you talking about? I don't remember them any more!" Isn't that a wonderful thing!!!
Fall, WOW!! Red, Yellow, Orange, Green, Brown all over the place just showing the beauty of God and his handiwork.
Roses well that is just my favorite flower they can be red, yellow, white if it's a Rose I love it!! They don't have a particular meaning for me except the beauty at the long stem of thorns. As I am typing this I just though a rose is at the long end of thorns but yet it's beautiful and full of fragrance. That's how our lives should be yes we have the thorns of life but our fragrance as Christians should be sweet and savory to the Lord. After all we are his children and we are to live Christ like. So, friend, what are a few of your favorite things and really think about it as far as why they are your favorite. If you'd like to share them with us I'd love to read it in the comments.
Phil 3:13 " Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,"
There's not a particular verse I could find on "favorite things" but there were lots of verse on things. This is one that I've always enjoyed and thought I'd share at the end of this post. The things we have to leave behind won't matter in the end, it's our treasures that are laid up heaven and reaching for those things before us.
So even though we have our favorite things remember our most "favorite" things should be what we are laying up in Heaven. The crowns of soul winning, of faithfulness, of obedience, of loving others, of serving the Lord and to the best of our ability being Christ like. Just a few thoughts for us to think on.
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Rejoice in the Lord alway
Philippians 4:4 "Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, rejoice."
How can you and I Rejoice in the Lord always? As I think about this question my thoughts immediately go back to a teacher I had in college, Mrs. Marlene Evans. She seemed to ALWAYS be rejoicing even through her time with cancer, she rejoiced.
Why did she rejoice? Well, these are a few things I have thought of that gave Mrs. Evans a reason to rejoice:
1. She was saved
2. She loved the Lord and wanted to rejoice in Him
3. She was faithful to her Lord
4. She loved not only the Lord but others
5. She didn't let life rule her, she ruled life and made the Best of anything.
These are just a few things that Mrs. Evans, through her life taught me. As we, you and I, face things in life why don't we try to be like Mrs. Evans. One of her favorite verses was Phil. 4:4, in the short time that I knew her; she truly lived this verse. She rejoiced in the Lord and she rejoiced again and again.
So friend how can you rejoice?
In thinking about my life I know I can rejoice in:
1. my salvation
2. my family
3. my church - church family, Pastor and his wife
4. my friends
5. I can rejoice in the fact that I love the Lord and others.
Just to name a few!
How can you and I Rejoice in the Lord always? As I think about this question my thoughts immediately go back to a teacher I had in college, Mrs. Marlene Evans. She seemed to ALWAYS be rejoicing even through her time with cancer, she rejoiced.
Why did she rejoice? Well, these are a few things I have thought of that gave Mrs. Evans a reason to rejoice:
1. She was saved
2. She loved the Lord and wanted to rejoice in Him
3. She was faithful to her Lord
4. She loved not only the Lord but others
5. She didn't let life rule her, she ruled life and made the Best of anything.
These are just a few things that Mrs. Evans, through her life taught me. As we, you and I, face things in life why don't we try to be like Mrs. Evans. One of her favorite verses was Phil. 4:4, in the short time that I knew her; she truly lived this verse. She rejoiced in the Lord and she rejoiced again and again.
So friend how can you rejoice?
In thinking about my life I know I can rejoice in:
1. my salvation
2. my family
3. my church - church family, Pastor and his wife
4. my friends
5. I can rejoice in the fact that I love the Lord and others.
Just to name a few!
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