Hi there, everyone.

I don't get on here as often as I want to or perhaps should.  This blogging stuff is sort of like keeping a journal with the added element of it being there for everyone to read.  Hopefully as I "blog"or "journal" people are encouraged and uplifted by what's written here.  The Bible calls it edifying so my prayer is that you will find this entry edifying and uplifting to your day.  God is good and always has our best interests at heart.  It also amazes me, yet shouldn't, how a person can hear a sermon on Sunday (this week's sermon was on pride) and then throughout the week find themselves dealing with the very topic of the week's sermon.  Satan knows where to attack and just this morning I found pride rearing it's ugly head, however, the good thing is that I was able to recognize it for what it was and deal with it immediately before God and ask for forgiveness for it and help not to go there again.  Imagine though what might have occurred had I not heard that sermon on Sunday.  I am so thankful to God that He inspires our preachers through the Holy Spirit to preach and teach as He leads.  I often find that Satan will seek to attack us in just the area we've heard about but if we've listened and learned then we have the resources available to counterattack and thus the Lord has fought the battle and won.  I have also been reassured of God's continual care for us and for that I am truly grateful.  He takes care of us even when perhaps our own folly has gotten us into uncomfortable circumstances.  Anyway, just a thought for what it is worth.  Have a truly blessed day!!!

I've just been browsing through some of the blog sites of people I know and am very touched by the depth of some of the comments and ideas on them.  It never ceases to amaze me how we who call ourselves children of God act like anything but.  I think particularly of God's instructions to the church in comparison to a body.  How many times we read that piece of scripture and agree wholeheartedly with it and then go on with our daily lives without any effort to achieve that goal.  We often say we will never achieve perfection here on earth and that is true but it's time to stop using that "reason" as an excuse for not trying to work towards the "body life" as God intended us to.  I believe that none of what God writes in His Word would be there unless it was achieveable.  The Word says that we can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens us.  It also says that what is impossible with men is possible with God.  So why do we not use God as the Resource He is and wants to be in our lives to work towards those characteristics of the body of believers?  If we were as quick to praise as we are to find fault and "assume" things about people and situations and groups how much different our churches would be!  Some time ago our pastor preached about revival and more recently our associate pastor spoke about a form of revival and both said the same thing.  If it doesn't happen in the individual heart, it won't happen in the collective heart of the church.  My daily prayer for our church is that God would work in us individually that we would learn to live the body life He intended for us.  It is only in that that we are able to look at our brothers and sisters in Christ, our leadership, anyone who serves in the church with the love of the Father.Oh, Lord let it begin in me.  This has become my "persistant" prayer for the little body of believers that I call my home church. United we stand, divided we fall or as God said A house divided against itself will fall.  Please don't get the idea that I think the church is about to fall.  My prayers are preventative prayers for my church family.  Lord, please preserve all churches from that ever happening. 

Well, here I am. It has been such a long time since I've been on here, not for want of being here but just seeming to have so much to do that I can't fit it in.  But when it is 5 a.m, and you can't sleep this seems like a good thing to do.  This week has been very full for me:  up at 5:30 everyday and then after getting Barry off to work, heading off to work myself.  I am filling in for our pastor's wife as she is on holiday for three weeks, a very deserved and much needed rest.  As I come in contact with people on my job of making deliveries to different stores, I realize how very unhappy most people are today whether it is the job, personal life etc.  I find myself determined to be cheerful wherever I go and to greet everyone with a good morning.  I can't stay long at each place because I must deliver and on to the next place but if I can bring even a moment of happiness into someone's life for just those few moments then this is a good thing I'm thinking.  As I drive to the city each day I spend that time praying.  There is so much to pray about.  The list never gets shorter.  I have seen some amazing answers to pray and yet should we be amazed when we have a God who can do anything.  We should be in awe but never amazed when God does what He says He will do.  Ask and ye shall receive....the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.  Sometimes in a situation we would like to see change and cannot do anything from a human standpoint, prayer is the only weapon we have.  But, oh, what a powerful weapon it is.  I have seen moving this year in lives that from a human view look pretty hopeless, but someone was praying (sometimes it was me) and slowly change had come.  I have realized this past few months how we need to be praying for one another especially when the burden seems more than a person can manage on their own.  The Bible is clear that we must bear one another's burdens.  It really isn't hard to understand what that means.  Just think of the greatest burden you've had to bear and the feelings you were left with, or maybe despair or hopelessness or whatever and then picture your friend feeling the same way about their burden.  Then you will know your responsibility in and understand what it means to bear the burden as if it were your own.  One also needs to think about how God brought you through and pray with the assurance that God will bring your friend through also.  I have been enjoying reading my Bible so much and I'm learning so much about God that it just seems to jump out at me as I read.  I'm reading in Ezekiel right now and I really wonder how God can keep on loving us as He does when we are so disobedient sometimes.  All He wants is the recognition He deserves.  Why do we find it so hard to do?  But thanks be to God that above all He loves us so deeply that He keeps urging us through His Holy Spirit to live a life worthy of the calling!!!  That's all for now.  God bless all who read this and may you be encouraged in the faith today.

 

Katydid 

Hi everyone

It's been a long time since I've written anything on here.  It isn't that I haven't wanted to but I've been busy typing up commentary on a power point presentation that I have been working on.  I started it a year ago and haven't finished it yet.  It's a potentially controversial presentation and I'm afraid I let Satan have his way too long in preventing me from finishing it.  I have set a goal to have it done by the end of June.  Yesterday and the day before I spent a good part of the day writing and then typing the commentary to accompany each slide.  That is all done now and will probably need some editing once I finish the remainder of the slides.  I want to try to keep the presention to an hour, an hour and a half at the most so once I get it all done I will practice it and see how long it takes.   I plan to present it to a small group of people for input as to length, content etc.  Please pray for me.  I felt the leading of the Holy  Spirit to address this topic and as I said earlier I gave in to Satan's attacks and wasn't going to finish it let alone start.  I now know that I have to at least finish what I started.  It may never get presented anywhere because of the sensitivity of the topic however, that is for the Lord to decide.  Pray for me, please.  I'll appreciate it and will let everyone know when the topic is complete.  Until then may God bless you real good.  Katydid7