Peace of Jesus to you all! Hope you all had a great day today and enjoyed God's many blessings! I'm very much grateful that after our going out to eat with his brothers and sisters again to celebrate another birthday amongst us, we escaped an accident - praised be God! Thanks to our Guardian Angels for their help, too! It was scary, but we're okay and nothing happened! Deil called and said that Monica, her neighbor who will be bringing her here tomorrow and to go shopping etc, will be bringing soup that she made! I'm looking forward to seeing them both! I plan to make some homemade Tom and Jerry's! Got that recipe years ago from Deil! Buying the cartons in the stores are expensive for the little bit you get!
I love reading about your blessings - as we keep this thread always positive and giving God the credit where it's due!
If everyone thought alike, no one would have to do much thinking.
Lord, bless me with the strength of my convictions and the ability
to disagree when necessary without being disagreeable.
Scripture for the day:
"Through Christ you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the
dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are set on God." ~1
Peter 1:21
Meditation for the day:
God's miracle-working power is as manifest today as it was in the past.
It still works miracles of change in lives and miracles of healing in
troubled minds. When a person trusts wholly in God and leaves to God
the choosing of the day and hour, there is God's miracle-working power
becoming manifest in that person's life. We can trust in God and have
boundless faith in God's power to make us whole again.
Prayer for the day:
I pray that I may feel sure that there is nothing that God cannot
accomplish in changing my life. I pray that I may have faith in God's
miracle-working power.
Here's some Food for Thought:
PERSPECTIVE
By Sally I Kennedy
"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised
is faithful." Hebrews 10:23
Sorting through fifty years of stuff was an incredible journey back in
time through our parents' earthly sojourn. My sister and I were
sitting on the living room sofa, which still had the arm covers on it.
Boxes of photos and letters and saved treasures were mounded up around
us. We always joked about there being a lot to go through after Dad
died, especially that attic!
We talked and cried, and it was evident how my sister sees and
remembers things about our Dad one way, while I remember another. We
were kids who grew up in the same family, yet viewed and related to
our mom and dad in different ways.
Our dad was the same person always. Whether with my sister or with me,
he was still "Daddy". Our different views of him did not change who he
was at all. It was just our perspective.
That may be how God's klds, brothers and sisters in the church, view
and relate to God. Individually. Perhaps the views and relationships
to God are from very different perspectives.
Yet God is ALWAYS the same, unswerving and unchanging. Faithful. El
Shaddai. El Elyon Adonai. The much loved hymn, Great Is Thy
Faithfulness, says there is no shadow of turning with Him. He is the
same yesterday, today, and forever.
Isn't it SO wonderful that in our lives, where everything is
constantly changing, there is something/Someone who is not? It is a
great comfort to me; a foundation on which to safely build and live.
Yes, that is good news.
Who Is Jesus ?
To the ARTIST He is the One Altogether lovely
To the ARCHITECT He is the Chief Cornerstone
To the BAKER He is the Living Bread
To the BANKER He is the Hidden Treasure
To the BIOLOGIST He is the Life
To the BUILDER He is the Sure Foundation
To the CARPENTER He is the Door
To the DOCTOR He is the Great Physician
To the EDUCATOR He is the Great Teacher
To the ENGINEER He is the New and Living Way
To the FLORIST He is the Rose of Sharon
To the GARDENER He is the Lily of the Valley
To the GEOLOGIST He is the Rock of Ages
To the HORTICULTURIST He is the True Vine
To the JUDGE He is the Judge of All Men
To the JURY He is the Righteous Judge
To the JEWELER He is the Pearl of Great Price
To the LAWYER He is The Advocate
To the NEWSPAPER He is the Good Tidings of Great Joy
To the OCULTIST He is the Light Of The Eyes
To the PHILANTHROPIST He is the Unspeakable Gift
To the PHILOSOPHER He is the Wisdom of God
To the SCULPTOR He is the Living Stone
To the SERVANT He is the Good Master
To the STATESMAN He is the Desire of All Nations
To the STUDENT He is Incarnate Truth
To the THEOLOGIAN He is the author and Finisher of Our Faith
To the TOILER He is the Great Rest
To the SINNER He is the Lamb of God that Takes Away the Sins of the World
PEACE OF HEART
Almighty and Eternal God,
Give me, I beseech You,
the great gift of inward peace.
Command the winds and storms
of my unruly passions.
Subdue, by Your grace, my proneness to love created things too much.
Give me a love of suffering for Your sake.
make me forbearing and kind to others,
that I may avoid quarrels and contentions.
And teach me constantly to seek after
and to acquire that perfect resignation
to Your Holy Will
which alone brings interior peace.
Amen.
Unceasing Prayer Dear Father, who answers our prayers, Help me to be
steadfast in my praying to you, even to stay awake that I may pray! Fill my
life with thanksgiving to you. O God, I pray for all your servants
everywhere that you may open a door for us to proclaim your Word, to declare
the now-public secret - Christ crucified, glorified, and coming - and to
make the message clear, as we ought to speak. In the name of Jesus I ask you
to fill our lives with your holy life and to claim all our motives and deeds
as your own. Amen.
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