“I Can’t Believe You Just Said That”

I’ve heard this many times and I agree that it is plausible and could become part of my life. I haven’t mastered it yet. I’m thinking I need to get rid of the past garbage I clung to and grasped with fateful hurt. My prayer this month for myself.

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Humans are emotional creatures + Humans are egocentric creatures = Humans often get their feelings hurt.  It’s a pretty simple formula.

The fact that we are emotional shouldn’t bother us.  Sometimes we tend to think so since they can occasional cloud good judgment, but emotions are not bad.  God created emotive creatures so that we have an added dimension to our love, compassion, understanding, empathy, etc.  Relationally, this makes us inherently superior to any of his other creatures.

The fact that we are egocentric doesn’t have to be as bad as it sounds, because it too is somewhat natural.  It isn’t wrong to care for yourself.  Taking care of your body, taking care of your mental health, taking care of your own spiritual life are all part of God’s intention for us to be good managers of the most individually specific blessings he’s entrusted to us.

However, when emotions run…

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Music blesses all

Thankful for music!  It blesses even the grumpy people, and tames the wild beast. The beast in us and the beast in the wild. 

click the link above and enjoy this blessing in the hospital.

note the dancers, the smiles, the movements of enjoying, everyone is engaged!

What a blessing to share our talents, gifts, and love from Jesus!  Give thanks today for music and our Lord.

Smile at someone they need it.

Knots

I have had knots, nots, and stomach knots.

 

Does this prayer sound like you as well?

Blessings, Marsha

Under His Wings

English: A fire in Yellowstone, Wyoming, United States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Under God’s Wings

After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park , forest rangers began their trek up a mountain to assess the inferno’s damage. One ranger found a bird literally petrified in ashes, perched statuesquely on the ground at the base of a tree. Somewhat sickened by the eerie sight, he knocked over the bird with a stick. When he gently struck it, three tiny chicks scurried from under their dead mother’s wings. The loving mother, keenly aware of impending disaster, had carried her offspring to the base of the tree and had gathered them under her wings, instinctively knowing that the toxic smoke would rise. She could have flown to safety but had refused to abandon her babies. Then the blaze had arrived and the heat had scorched her small body, the mother had remained steadfast…because she had been willing to die, so those under the cover of her wings would live.

‘He will cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you will find refuge. (Psalm 91:4)

Have you ever hidden under God’s wings? I sure have, a blue zillion times. I remember hiding under God’s wings when I was scared, and embarassed in school when people made fun of me and i didn’t even understand what the word they used meant. Of course, I never told, I just cried and hid in Jesus. That was my safety valve or I would have tried to fight them all and that would have been worse.

Share one of your times and we can all see what great things God does!

Blessings, Marsha

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Jesus is the only way to salvation, heaven and peace.

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Another favorite hymn, and my type of humor.  I have been away from here too long, I learned some awesome things while gone.

Picture reads: I want to be so full of Christ that when a mosquito bites me he flies away singing, “There is Power in the blood!”

Each drop from the cross was for each one of us. He loved us before we were even created, knew us in the womb, was there when we were born,  and will be within us till we reach heaven and then we will praise him forever, in a newly transformed body.  I

The power of the blood is able to overcome the evil one.

Blessings, Marsha

P.S. I tried to enlarge the picture but was unable to. Learning curve.

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Why do you hate gays?

Please, read the entire article. It is such a blessing, I hope for everyone.

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In this current political climate, gay marriage supporters and Christians often find themselves on opposite sides of the issue. In Facebook discussions or on comment threads especially where you don’t know those with whom you are disagreeing, it can get ugly and personal. I know that in discussions I’ve had, it sometimes feel like we are enemies.  Some of the one-sentence, against gay-marriage Facebook forwards can truly push gay people further from the reality of Jesus’ heart of love.  Whether or not this is truly the case, many gay people feel like we hate them.  This is bad.  Very, very bad.

If you are serious about being biblical, this is my challenge for you, Christian reader. When you find yourself in a heated situation, please treat the gays in your life as enemies. (No, you didn’t read that wrong.) As believers, there are commands about how to interact with our…

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Trees of the Field…

Some of this is my attempt at poetry on a subject well known and some of it is a song we sing. I hope you enjoy the combination.

And The Trees of the Field Shall… 

The voice and the breath of God moves thru the Trees of the Field. They grow upright into His peace, His place. Their branches and leaves remain open, praising, upward and holy so that He may be able to flow in them, thru them, and infiltrate them. His presence completely surrounds them!

Their growth is high, as leaves and fruit are high above the ground, above the filth and dust where the evil one lives.  That which is not good falls off, and returns to the ground, their dead fruit is given to the dark.  Their dead branches turn down to look at the dust because they are too dark and heavy with death to reach up and seek God. 

The Trees of the Fields shame is looking down, their praise is looking up. Their roots grow deep and firm in Him that they may be established and stand, not letting weeds, rot and every heavy evil weigh them down to destroy them. 

They remain high and lifted up to God. They love their creator and show it in their beauty. They raise their branches toward heaven. 

I look up and raise my hands to the heavens. I clap my hands in praise and joy! I know God surrounds me and infiltrates me and I know I bend in the wind. Sometimes, I do look down and find evil weighing me down! I look up and see Jesus at the right hand of Gods’ throne, sitting there interceding for me. I love my creator and pray that I shall be like the trees of the field and grow beside the still water and be strong.

Isa 55:12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap [their] hands.

AMEN,

Marsha

“Therefore,…we have confidence

“Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus… let us draw near toward with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings.” Hebrews 10: 19, 22 NIV.

This tells me I can walk right up to God where Jesus is sitting on the right hand and speak to the Most Holy because of Jesus’s blood. I love that I can do that. Abba, my King, thank you for being so accessible to those who know your son!

James 4:7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Isn’t it also wonderful that we have such an easy way to resist the devil?  Just submit to God. Submitting to God every second of every minute is the way I have to do it.

Blessings,  Marsha

CHANGE!?? ha ha

Have you ever thought to ask God for a word for the year? I heard the guest speaker at a women’s event say she had asked for a word from God each year. So quietly in my mind I asked God what word would he give me for this year? I almost laughed out loud (which would have interrupted the speaker) because the word I heard was “CHANGE!”  Then I told God I didn’t think that was very funny actually, because I hate change! He laughed and said, “I know, that is why you need to work on it more.” I still think it is funny and makes me smile when I get stuck in an event or thought that is CHANGE!

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