Tuesday, March 24, 2009

BE BLESSED!

"I AM Too blessed to be stressed!"

The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor.
The one who kneels to the Lord can stand up to anything.

Love and peace be with you forever!

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Beautiful Promise - 3

Greetings!

Here are more beautiful promises from our Creator and Father in Heaven!
Spoken to you and me... then, now and forever!

Isaiah 43:1-2
But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, 
And He who formed you, O Israel: 
"Fear not, for I have redeemed you; 
I have called you by your name; You are Mine. 

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; 
And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. 
When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you.

Have a blessed day!! 

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Where Has the Spirit Placed You?

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all. 
  1 C O R I N T H I A N S   1 2 : 7          

  
By Henry T. Blackaby and Richard Blackaby 
  
The moment you are born again you receive the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the gift. God doesn’t give you some thing, He gives you Himself. The Holy Spirit is God. As He lives out His life through you, you have almighty God dwelling within you, carrying out His purposes. The Spirit will manifest Himself through your life, not for your good alone, but for the benefit of those around you. 
  
The Spirit will lead you to a church body where He can minister through you to each person in that body. God does not add you to a church body so you can be an observer. The Spirit has an assignment for you within the body, and He will equip you by His presence for this work. 
  
In the Old Testament, God gave specific assignments to His servants and then placed His Spirit upon them to enable them to accomplish their work. In the New Testament, God placed each member as a vital part of a living body.  He placed His Spirit within each believer and manifested Himself through the believer to encourage and equip every other member of the body.  What an exciting commission from God!  Today the Holy Spirit equips believers because He has given each of His servants a task. 
  
How is the presence of the Holy Spirit in your life benefiting those around you?  God has equipped you with exactly what is needed for your edification of the body in which He has placed you.  If you allow the Holy Spirit to work freely within you, others will be blessed as a result.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Slipping Away

Here is another poem by a beautiful child of God, Kathleen Higham


Slipping Away


When I was young, I crawled
Then with help, I walked
Along the way, words came
And amazingly, I talked.

Somewhere I began to run
The years passed frantically by
Losing myself in the race
Till I stopped, wondered why?

Where did the time go?
My life is slipping away
Everything has become a blur
A blink turns into a day.

Having never mastered patience
Waiting anxiously for tomorrow
But, one day I dreaded it
When to me came much sorrow.


Now every second spins the hand
The clock that won’t be still
Time is slipping, slipping away
For life has lost its thrill.

Then quietly I call to Him
My God who sifts the sand
Growing old, it matters not
Each moment He has planned.

I find that I am running again
Running to Him, I sigh
Time is certainly slipping away
But it doesn’t matter why.

Every second spins the hand
And this weary heart can see
My God who sifts the sand
Never slipped away from me.


Kathleen Higham