WE CAN’T HAVE BOTH While pondering what to write this week, I thought about my brothers and sisters in Christ, I heard were striving desperately to “get closer to God” by all of their activities. Wow! Really? Doing things will get us closer to God? When pondering those words, I remembered Luke 10:38-42, the story of Martha and Mary. The passage below is taken from the Amplified Bible. 38 Now while they were on their way, Jesus entered a village [called…
IT IS 2020…HAPPY NEW YEAR! Thank you to all of my readers who have been with me over the years through my joys and pains! We have discovered together how Awesome our Lord, Papa, and the Holy Spirit truly are! Thank you to my husband who encouraged me to write in the first place even when I was mentally and emotionally sick. And, thank you to my brother, George Monk, who has edited my blogs and encouraged me through my…
We are preparing to move into a new year; are you ready? Our Father wants us to know this will be a new year of: Enduring some physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges, more than we ever had before. Saying goodbye to old things and old people who have hidden us in darkness rather than freeing us to live in the Light. Forgiving people and ourselves who caused the pain of yesterday to make room for new joys of today….
For to us a Child shall be born, to us a Son shall be given; and the government shall be upon His shoulders, and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 Our Father has given to us Himself, in the person of His Son Jesus Christ! Have you received His Amazing Gift into your heart? And, are you allowing His Amazing Gift to live His Life in you and through you? We discovered in our last blog that our Lord Jesus Christ is a Wonderful Counselor who…
For to us a Child shall be born, to us a Son shall be given; and the government shall be upon His shoulders, and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 JESUS A CHILD IS BORN JESUS A SON IS GIVEN We learned from our last blog that Jesus Christ was born a child and matured into a Son with power and authority to rule in the earth. He ruled over…
For to us a Child shall be born, to us a Son shall be given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6-7 Amplified I just love this season of the year when we reflect on this beautiful truth concerning the birth and life of our Lord. History testifies Jesus wasn’t born in December as most of us might know but…
IN Everything Give Thanks: for this is the WILL of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. I Thessalonians 5:18 As I read this scripture above, one word jumps off the page, “IN.” I don’t know about you but I haven’t given the Lord thanks “IN” everything, situation, or circumstances I have walked through. Matter of fact, it has taken me years not to grumble, pout, wish away, pray away, murmur, or complain my way through them. I often…
Over the past few weeks in our series, Happily Ever After, we have talked about marriage and the myth we believed that marriage was created to complete us and make us whole. Hopefully, as we have explored this more fully, we now realize that marriage wasn’t created to complete us but to complement us. Only Jesus has and can make us whole! However, it was created for us to have partners and intimate companions to share our lives with…
Now the Lord God said, “It is not good (beneficial) for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper [one who balances him—a counterpart who is] suitable and complementary for him.” Genesis 2:18 Amplified From our previous blogs, we have discovered our purpose in being created, first, as Mature Sons for our Father to love and enjoy fellowship with, second, for our Lord Jesus Christ as His Bride and part of His family, and third, as a Holy Habitation for the Holy Spirit to live through and fulfill all the plans and…
In our last blog, we discussed how many of us grew up thinking and believing that marriage was created by our Father to make us happy, complete, and fulfilled. We discovered that marriage was never designed to complete us or fulfill the most intimate needs of our hearts… Jesus was. We also realized the strategies of the flesh only cause death, frustration, anger, rejection, and distrust in our relationships when our spouse doesn’t meet our expectations. To ‘Live Happily…