The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.
William McGill
God is With Us
Tuesday, August 29, 2006,at 6:46 AM
casting crowns- if we are the body
Here is a homemade video of a Casting Crowns song. It is not a video from the group itself but someone truly captured the spirit of the song and I wanted to share it. It's made to look like vintage black and white footage.
IF WE ARE THE BODY?
Enjoy!
Pastora Debbie
Here is a homemade video of a Casting Crowns song. It is not a video from the group itself but someone truly captured the spirit of the song and I wanted to share it. It's made to look like vintage black and white footage.
IF WE ARE THE BODY?
Enjoy!
Pastora Debbie
,at 5:39 AM
Coloring Jesus With the Gifts God Gave You
Don't waste years embellishing your own image. No disrespect, but who needs to see your face? Who doesn't need to see God's?
Tucked away in the cedar chest of my memory is the image of a robust and rather rotund children's Bible class teacher in a small West Texas church. She wore black eyeglasses that peaked on the corners like a masquerade mask. Silver streaked through her black hair like a vein on the wall of a mine. She smelled like my mom's makeup and smiled like a kid on Christmas when she saw us coming to her class. Low-heeled shoes contained her thick ankles, but nothing contained her great passion. Hugs as we entered and hugs as we left. She knew all six of us by name and made class so fun we'd rather miss the ice-cream truck than Sunday school.
Here is why I tell you about her. She enjoyed giving us each a can of crayons and a sketch of Jesus torn from a coloring book. We each had our own can, mind you, reassigned from cupboard duty to classroom. What had held peaches or spinach now held a dozen or so Crayolas. "Take the crayons I gave you," she would instruct, "and color Jesus." And so we would. We didn't illustrate pictures of ourselves; we colored the Son of God. We didn't pirate crayons from other cans; we used what she gave us. This was the fun of it. "Do the best you can with the can you get." No blue for the sky? Make it purple. If Jesus' hair is blond instead of brown, the teacher won't mind. She loaded the can.
Here is why I tell you about her. She enjoyed giving us each a can of crayons and a sketch of Jesus torn from a coloring book. We each had our own can, mind you, reassigned from cupboard duty to classroom. What had held peaches or spinach now held a dozen or so Crayolas. "Take the crayons I gave you," she would instruct, "and color Jesus." And so we would. We didn't illustrate pictures of ourselves; we colored the Son of God. We didn't pirate crayons from other cans; we used what she gave us. This was the fun of it. "Do the best you can with the can you get." No blue for the sky? Make it purple. If Jesus' hair is blond instead of brown, the teacher won't mind. She loaded the can.
She taught us to paint Jesus with our own colors.
God made you to do likewise. He loaded your can. He made you unique. But knowing what he gave you is not enough. You need to understand why he gave it: so you could illustrate Christ. Make a big deal out of him. Beautify his face; adorn his image. Color Christ with the crayons God gave you.
God made you to do likewise. He loaded your can. He made you unique. But knowing what he gave you is not enough. You need to understand why he gave it: so you could illustrate Christ. Make a big deal out of him. Beautify his face; adorn his image. Color Christ with the crayons God gave you.
Don’t waste years embellishing your own image. No disrespect, but who needs to see your face? Who doesn't need to see God's? Besides, God promises no applause for self-promoters. But great reward awaits God-promoters: "Good work! You did your job well" (Matt. 25:23 MSG). My teacher gave us something similar. Judging by her praise for our sketches, you'd think Rembrandt and van Gogh attended her class. One by one she waved the just-colored Christs in the air. "Wonderful work, Max. Wonderful!" I smiled the size of a cantaloupe slice. You will too.
Monday, August 28, 2006,at 10:25 AM
Sometimes we think we know everything and sometimes we pretend we understand God's will when we are set in he middle of situations.
Most times we understand His will especially when we GET through the situations that try us. Then after the trials, the doubts, the questions, we get it, then we understand.
Whatever is unclear in God's will for you, know this, keep walking in His will and clarity will come. The clouds will clear and you'll get it and you'll praise Him for the understanding.
Be comfy and cozy and rest in the fact that until the understanding and the clarity come you know one thing that He is real. He is your God! He is faithful! He will never let you down!
Take Him at His word.
What you have read in His Word should be a comfort that He is faithful and though things seem unclear now, His Word is proof that things will be clear and all will be well.
And right now WE all need to trust Him and remember that He is our Savior in every sense of the word, He saves!! We need His saving!
My Savior My God
Aaron Shust lyrics
Artist: Aaron Shust
Album: Anything Worth Saying
Year: 2005
Title: My Savior My God
I am not skilled to understand
What God has willed, what God has planned
I only know at His right hand
Stands One who is my savior
I take him at His word indeed
Christ died to save me this I read
And in my heart I find a need
For Him to be my Savior
That he would leave His place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Savior
My Savior loves, my Savior lives
My Savior's always there for me
My God He was, my God He is
My God He's always gonna be
Yes, living, dying; let me bring
My strength, my solace from this spring
That He who lives to be my King
Once died to be my Savior
That He would leave his place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Savior
My Savior loves, my Savior lives
My Savior's always there for me
My God He was, My God He is
My God He's always gonna be
Most times we understand His will especially when we GET through the situations that try us. Then after the trials, the doubts, the questions, we get it, then we understand.
Whatever is unclear in God's will for you, know this, keep walking in His will and clarity will come. The clouds will clear and you'll get it and you'll praise Him for the understanding.
Be comfy and cozy and rest in the fact that until the understanding and the clarity come you know one thing that He is real. He is your God! He is faithful! He will never let you down!
Take Him at His word.
What you have read in His Word should be a comfort that He is faithful and though things seem unclear now, His Word is proof that things will be clear and all will be well.
And right now WE all need to trust Him and remember that He is our Savior in every sense of the word, He saves!! We need His saving!
My Savior My God
Aaron Shust lyrics
Artist: Aaron Shust
Album: Anything Worth Saying
Year: 2005
Title: My Savior My God
I am not skilled to understand
What God has willed, what God has planned
I only know at His right hand
Stands One who is my savior
I take him at His word indeed
Christ died to save me this I read
And in my heart I find a need
For Him to be my Savior
That he would leave His place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Savior
My Savior loves, my Savior lives
My Savior's always there for me
My God He was, my God He is
My God He's always gonna be
Yes, living, dying; let me bring
My strength, my solace from this spring
That He who lives to be my King
Once died to be my Savior
That He would leave his place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Savior
My Savior loves, my Savior lives
My Savior's always there for me
My God He was, My God He is
My God He's always gonna be
Wednesday, August 23, 2006,at 11:04 AM
It's so hard to wait sometimes isn't it?
Waiting for a job
Waiting for a word from God
Waiting for a new birth
Waiting for a miracle...
But if you meditate on the fact that waiting is where your peace is, then waiting will bring reassurance because it is in the waiting, in the stillness, in the trust in God, where your answer lies.
When we are impatient the answer is blurred. when we pace with our anxiety God can not get our attention, when we jump the gun we inevitably lose the race.
God speaks to His children in many ways.
God almost always speaks through me in anointed songs
This is one of the Spirit filled songs where God ministers to my heart
I was touched to share with you
Enjoy the lyrics
It is sung by Vicki Yo'he
Pain
The gift nobody longs for still it comes
Somehow leaves us stronger when it's gone..... away
Pray
I try to pray for Your will to be done
But I confess it's never fast enough..... for me
It seems
The hardest part is waiting on You
When what I want
Is just to see your hand move
I want a peace beyond my understanding
I want to feel It fall like rain
In the middle of my hurting
I want to feel Your arms as they surround me
And let me know that it's okay
To be here in this place
Resting in the peace that only comes
In the waiting
Time,
Time to let it go and just believe
Trusting in what no one else but You can see
Free
Freedom from the fears that close me in
When I can't get beyond where I have been
But then again
The silence doesn't mean that I'm alone
As long as I can hear
That I am still Your own
I want a peace beyond my understanding
I want to feel It fall like rain
In the middle of my hurting
I want to feel Your arms as they surround me
And let me know that it's okay
To be here in this place
Resting in the peace that only comes
In the waiting
In the waiting.....
Sometimes we need to be still and wait on the Lord because there is peace in the waiting and there is peace in trusting that our God is looking over each and every one of us- Much love
Pastora Debbie
Waiting for a job
Waiting for a word from God
Waiting for a new birth
Waiting for a miracle...
But if you meditate on the fact that waiting is where your peace is, then waiting will bring reassurance because it is in the waiting, in the stillness, in the trust in God, where your answer lies.
When we are impatient the answer is blurred. when we pace with our anxiety God can not get our attention, when we jump the gun we inevitably lose the race.
God speaks to His children in many ways.
God almost always speaks through me in anointed songs
This is one of the Spirit filled songs where God ministers to my heart
I was touched to share with you
Enjoy the lyrics
It is sung by Vicki Yo'he
Pain
The gift nobody longs for still it comes
Somehow leaves us stronger when it's gone..... away
Pray
I try to pray for Your will to be done
But I confess it's never fast enough..... for me
It seems
The hardest part is waiting on You
When what I want
Is just to see your hand move
I want a peace beyond my understanding
I want to feel It fall like rain
In the middle of my hurting
I want to feel Your arms as they surround me
And let me know that it's okay
To be here in this place
Resting in the peace that only comes
In the waiting
Time,
Time to let it go and just believe
Trusting in what no one else but You can see
Free
Freedom from the fears that close me in
When I can't get beyond where I have been
But then again
The silence doesn't mean that I'm alone
As long as I can hear
That I am still Your own
I want a peace beyond my understanding
I want to feel It fall like rain
In the middle of my hurting
I want to feel Your arms as they surround me
And let me know that it's okay
To be here in this place
Resting in the peace that only comes
In the waiting
In the waiting.....
Sometimes we need to be still and wait on the Lord because there is peace in the waiting and there is peace in trusting that our God is looking over each and every one of us- Much love
Pastora Debbie
Wednesday, August 16, 2006,at 7:30 AM
"A fire shall always be burning on the altar; it shall never go out."
The perpetual fire on the altar represented UNINTERRUPTED offering to and appeal to God on behalf of Israel.
Let us apply this to our lives today
We should ALWAYS have a burning fire to intercede for others and including our own
