Thankful Thursday [20100930]

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Here we are. The last day of September. Autumn is well on its way. Some are reporting that it's still *hot* in their area. Some are reporting the rains have started. I can claim the rains. It has been unusually warm for us this time of year. However, it has not been hot like in some areas. I for one love Autumn. It's my most favorite season out of all.

Well, my thankfuls. I've had a very busy Summer. In part, due to my massage work in the beginning of Summer. Then, in August, I had a motorcycle accident and was injured. I had to have surgery two weeks ago to correct the knee injury resulting from accident. As some Australians would say, I've been through the wars. I'm now in post surgery recovery. I'm so very thankful it all went very well in surgery and also with my post surgery follow up with the Dr.

I'm most thankful for all the blessings God bestows on me and my husband. He never ceases to amaze me with His grace and mercy.

I know this might sound strange, but, I'm thankful that the bank is taking our house back finally and that God has already provided a place for us to live with our BIG dog, Misa.

It's your turn. What are you thankful for on this Thursday... and everyday? You can choose to use one TT or both.

Do you have any prayer requests or praises to share? Leave me a comment with just one word to describe what you'd like a prayer for or a praise for.

"I Surrender All"

Have you surrendered all to Jesus? If not, why? What's holding you back? What have you to lose in surrendering? You lose the self pity, shame, doubt, fear and all those negativities that satan deceives us with. I've been there! Romans 12:1 says: And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice--the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.

God is waiting for you to just reach out to Him and lay it all at His feet and leave it there with Him. Let Him envelope you with His mercy & grace to fill you and overflow you to spill out around you. His love is so deep and powerful none can compare! Praise be to HIS Holy Name!

Prayer: Dear Jesus, Father God, there's hurting people out there. I lift them to You Father to meet their needs in a way only You can do Father. It is undeniably You who meets our every need. I seek healing in all ways for these hurting people Father. You know each one personally... because You created them. You knew them before they were even known. I lift their souls to You Father pleaded for their mercy. I pray that You use me in whatever way You need to Father. I'm a vessel for You. In Jesus' name, amen!

Next step: Now it's your turn. Will you seek God and surrender your all to Him? Pray to HIM and give your burdens to Him. He will gladly take them. You can't have them back. When you give them to Him, they stay with Him. Stop your self pity and get up... take your bed... go; your faith has healed you. That's what Jesus told those who sought Him for healing. Seek faith in God.

Thankful Thursday #58

This video is my Thankful Thursday. In fact, it's story is my all the time thanksgiving everyday. I just found this video this morning and it seems so apropos for the moment.

May we all accept Christ Jesus as our redemptive savior.

Merry CHRISTmas to ALL!

Be an encourager

Ephesians 4:29 Don’t use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.

I'm so guilty. I found myself being rebuked for my words as I sat and started to chat. I opened my mouth and out came ridicule and judgment against another who had been part of conversation earlier. My words weren't encouraging or helpful. They were condemning.

Lord, I seek to repent from this judgmental attitude. Please forgive me and deliver me from this judgmental spirit! Take it from me LORD. I rebuke it in Jesus' name. Thank You for Your grace and mercy guiding me through this. You're in control and have a purpose for all that takes place. Thank You for all the blessings that come from my daily life. I pray this for all the eyes that fall upon my blog. I pray for Your guidance to teach us to be better Jesus followers.

Colossians 2:1-3 ¹ I want you to know how much I have agonized for you and for the church at Laodicea, and for many other believers who have never met me personally. ² I want them to be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have complete confidence that they understand God’s mysterious plan, which is Christ himself. ³ In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

We cannot be built up in Christ, or grow in him, unless we are first rooted in him, or founded upon him. Being established in the faith, we must abound therein, and improve in it more and more. Quote by Matthew Henry.

I have so much improving to do. What about you?

Prayer: Father God, please tame my tongue and any of my readers who need it as well. I pray that I will be more of an encourager and not a condemner. Thank YOU Father God for the gift of Jesus as my savior who showed me grace and mercy that is Your character. Please impress Your character upon me Father. I love You with all I am and have Father God, Lord Jesus. In Jesus' name, amen

Thankful Thursday -- 10/22/09

Welcome to Thankful Thursday! If you'd like to participate, just click the T.T. button and Read the instructions there. Next write down five things you are thankful for this week.

My list this week:

1. I'm thankful for the grace & mercy God covers me with. To get me through all my rough patches.
2. I'm thankful for what God is doing my marriage.
3. I'm thankful for the reconnection God brought to me with my daughter. Not sure about reconciliation yet. Still relying on God for that.
4. I'm thankful for my church family for the support and encouragement they offer.
   
5. I'm thankful that God is seeing fit to keep a roof over our head for now, food in our bellies, and transportation.

What about you? God would love to hear from you. He loves you where you are.

Part of the Family

Daily Christian Quote
I was homeless, hopeless, and nameless. Then God came to me and took me in, and adopted me as His son. - Steven Curtis Chapman

Ephesians 1:3-6
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

From the beginning of time it was prearranged, predestined, previously determined by God the Father that we would be adopted unto HIM and be accepted into HIS family. That's a promise. All we need to do is accept the free gift of salvation through Jesus Christ.

Being a part of God's family to me is the most precious gift one could ever receive. Anything outside of that is peanuts. If I had not accepted Christ as my savior my life would completely empty; void of "real and true" life. God's love is so precious. To pass it by is a sin in and of itself. Pure disobedience. I'm not ready to accept the consequences of disobedience; hell for eternity.

HIS grace is sufficient. All you have to do is accept His free gift of salvation stepping into His glorious light.

Praise, honor & glory to The Father God in Heaven.

Prayer: Father God, in Jesus' name, I lift up the lost souls who are stuck between Heaven & Hell. I lift them up to You asking that their hearts become softened and that they hear Your call unto Yourself and they that will abide in Your in the safety of Your protecting wings. In Jesus' name, amen.

A cry for mercy

Psalm 80:14-19
14 Come back, we beg you, O God of Heaven’s Armies.
     Look down from heaven and see our plight.
     Take care of this grapevine
15 that you yourself have planted,
     this son you have raised for yourself.
16 For we are chopped up and burned by our enemies.
     May they perish at the sight of your frown.
17 Strengthen the man you love, the son of your choice.
18 Then we will never abandon you again.
     Revive us so we can call on your name once more.
19 Turn us again to yourself, O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies.
     Make your face shine down upon us.
     Only then will we be saved.

What have you done with your grapevine? Have you yielded to God's direction? Are you crying out for mercy?

I love the way Matthew Henry states it:
The Messiah, the Protector and Saviour of the church, is the Man of God's right hand; he is the Arm of the Lord, for all power is given to him. In him is our strength, by which we are enabled to persevere to the end. The vine, therefore, cannot be ruined, nor can any fruitful branch perish; but the unfruitful will be cut off and cast into the fire. The end of our redemption is, that we should serve Him who hath redeemed us, and not go back to our old sins.

Are you serving Him who redeemed you? Or, have you chosen to go back to your old ways? Allow God to be your vine dresser.

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