Before I go on I must correct something from yesterday, sometimes when I am typing my fingers get ahead of my brain and that happened yesterday....I wrote: It is absolutely wondrous to me that all we have to do is read Gods word and we can live a wonderful life. I should have written, after the highlighted part," and apply," okay so now we can proceed. I really do not want to lead anyone astray!
God is so good and I need to tell you a story about my yesterday. I have loaned my car to a friend and so I am walking to work...for me to walk to work I must cross a creek...okay this isn't a problem, except when it rains...when you fill a glass with water...the water gets higher in the glass as you fill it...that also happens in the creeks. The water gets higher. So yesterday morning after a night of rain, the creek was pretty high, but I figured I could find a place that was shallow enough to cross...so I walked down the creek a little bit and then still not finding a place to cross, I came upon a tree that had fallen across the creek. So I climbed up on it...I was standing on that downed tree and was literally talking to God saying...you know God we can do this...so me and God started to cross the creek on this log. I was sort of walking side ways. Just little steps. Side to side. And I was singing and praising God as I went. Well I thought to myself that I needed to turn around...so now I am still talking to God and singing as I am turning around and as I was just about around, for about a half of a second I took my mind off of God and had stopped singing and KERSPLASH! I was in the creek up to my armpits! The water was a little cool....so I got out of it as quickly as I could and giggling to my self and realizing that I had taken my mind off the Lord for just that split second and that was why I fell in...a few bruises and slightly pulled muscles, but I went to the healing room at church last evening and I am feeling a whole lot better. Long story short...keep your eyes on the Lord...do not take them off of the Lord...and you won't fall into the creek!
Now we will get back to our notes...isn't God just amazing? I think so.
When we are young we frequently see that most children want to be like everyone else. They really don't want to stand out. They kind of want to just blend in, not necessarily become invisible, but definitely to not stand out! Now this may be okay when we are young, but as we grow and mature it is important to realize that we were created by the Lord to stand out...to be special. So do not hide, and try not to blend in. Not that I am saying to wear fluorescent orange...I am saying allow God to work thru you....if you feel God calling you to do something or to say something to some one...then mind the Lord! Do it! And I know it's not always easy...but you can do it. When God does instruct us to do something...if we don't do it, we are causing our own blessing to not increase, not that God is taking away blessings, God wouldn't do this. But we ourselves are sort of tying Gods hand on us. We need to listen to and obey the Lord.
Back to something I was going over yesterday...Don't minimize the blessings you can give and don't minimize the blessing you receive. Appreciate what God does for you and embrace the desires that God places in your heart to share with others....
We can either be pitiful or we can be powerful...but we can't be both! What are you going to be? This is a conscious choice, remember our God is so good that He gave us the ability to choose! So choose wisely. Let's look at Galatians 6:7
7 Make no mistake, God is not mocked. A person will harvest what they plant.
This is definitely something to consider. A person will harvest what the sow. WOW. Do you all realize what this says?
Tomorrow we are going to finish up with my last section of notes. So for today, go and be powerful not pitiful and find someone to bless!
God is so good and I need to tell you a story about my yesterday. I have loaned my car to a friend and so I am walking to work...for me to walk to work I must cross a creek...okay this isn't a problem, except when it rains...when you fill a glass with water...the water gets higher in the glass as you fill it...that also happens in the creeks. The water gets higher. So yesterday morning after a night of rain, the creek was pretty high, but I figured I could find a place that was shallow enough to cross...so I walked down the creek a little bit and then still not finding a place to cross, I came upon a tree that had fallen across the creek. So I climbed up on it...I was standing on that downed tree and was literally talking to God saying...you know God we can do this...so me and God started to cross the creek on this log. I was sort of walking side ways. Just little steps. Side to side. And I was singing and praising God as I went. Well I thought to myself that I needed to turn around...so now I am still talking to God and singing as I am turning around and as I was just about around, for about a half of a second I took my mind off of God and had stopped singing and KERSPLASH! I was in the creek up to my armpits! The water was a little cool....so I got out of it as quickly as I could and giggling to my self and realizing that I had taken my mind off the Lord for just that split second and that was why I fell in...a few bruises and slightly pulled muscles, but I went to the healing room at church last evening and I am feeling a whole lot better. Long story short...keep your eyes on the Lord...do not take them off of the Lord...and you won't fall into the creek!
Now we will get back to our notes...isn't God just amazing? I think so.
When we are young we frequently see that most children want to be like everyone else. They really don't want to stand out. They kind of want to just blend in, not necessarily become invisible, but definitely to not stand out! Now this may be okay when we are young, but as we grow and mature it is important to realize that we were created by the Lord to stand out...to be special. So do not hide, and try not to blend in. Not that I am saying to wear fluorescent orange...I am saying allow God to work thru you....if you feel God calling you to do something or to say something to some one...then mind the Lord! Do it! And I know it's not always easy...but you can do it. When God does instruct us to do something...if we don't do it, we are causing our own blessing to not increase, not that God is taking away blessings, God wouldn't do this. But we ourselves are sort of tying Gods hand on us. We need to listen to and obey the Lord.
Back to something I was going over yesterday...Don't minimize the blessings you can give and don't minimize the blessing you receive. Appreciate what God does for you and embrace the desires that God places in your heart to share with others....
We can either be pitiful or we can be powerful...but we can't be both! What are you going to be? This is a conscious choice, remember our God is so good that He gave us the ability to choose! So choose wisely. Let's look at Galatians 6:7
7 Make no mistake, God is not mocked. A person will harvest what they plant.
This is definitely something to consider. A person will harvest what the sow. WOW. Do you all realize what this says?
Tomorrow we are going to finish up with my last section of notes. So for today, go and be powerful not pitiful and find someone to bless!
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