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Good morning! The rain has stopped. Praise the Lord that we didn't have any severe storms here. Unfortunately, there w ere severe storms in other places. Let's pray for the people and areas that were affected in GA.  Remember that even though we are not perfect, we can still serve Jesus, and He loves us so much. He loves us just the way we are. Jesus is not waiting for us to be perfect or to clean up our act. Of course, we need to try to please Him and clean ourselves up but He doesn't expect us to be perfect before He loves us. Perfection is not a plan for our lives here on earth. As I said, He loves us just the way we are, but He loves us too much to leave us that way. Bill Pra tt: " God certainly does love you just as you are, but He wants so much more for you and He will not be satisfied with you until you are perfected.  Never use the fact that God loves you as an excuse for maintaining your evil thoughts and behavior.  The good that God desir...

  Read this scripture!!   Good morning to you on this blustery day! We are supposed to get severe storms today. The warm front (it is 70* at 8 AM here in winter) is supposed to meet the cold front and kaboom: severe storms. I am praying that it won't be severe. Lots of rain is fine. We have had enough tornadoes in our area and Lord, please protect all of us and let any severe weather dissipate. We have had a pet training containment system (wireless electric fence) for our dog for probably 6-8 years and never even took it out of the box. Well, yesterday we finally did and set it up and trained our dog for about an hour. We are supposed to train every day for 30 days. In the end, I certainly won't go outside the fence! Our dog won't stay in the yard and brings things home from the neighbors houses. She doesn't do much wrong. She doesn't even chew the items just brings them home. And of course, we have no idea who the items belong to. Anyway, so a-tr...

Good morning and good morning again on this fine Tuesday! I pray that you had a great night. I did. God is so good all the time. I don't really have to remind myself of that but it is so very true. I want to remind the world, though, how awesome and holy God is! “Who among the gods is like you, O Lord? Who is like you— majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders? Exodus 15:11 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name. Bring  an offering and come before him; worship the   Lord in the splendor of his holiness. 1 Chronicles 16:29   Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness;  tremble before him, all the earth. Psalm 96:9     I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and  be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves  unclean by any creature that moves about on the ground .    I am the LORD who brought you up out of Egypt to  be your God; therefore b...

Good morning to you! Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. Ephesians 1:3 If you get a chance, read all the way through Ephesians 1:3-14. God has blessed us extraordinarily. I think that I spelled that right. Anyway, God has blessed us so much. He has a plan for our lives. He is preparing heaven for us. His one and only Son, died on the cross to get rid of our sin, so that we do not have to suffer eternally for our sin. Christ did that for us. If you have never watched The Passion of the Christ movie. You need to. It is very graphic and I have heard that as graphic as it is, it is still not as heinous as the real crucifixion was. But it really hits home about what Jesus did for us. It is very moving. The movie is a depiction of the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem. It was made by Mel Gibson in 2004. It...

Good morning to you this great Sabbath morning! I pray you had a good night. I love M atcha green tea but the caffeine is too much for my body to handle. I f I have it, I must d r ink it early in the morning and I was drinking it at 3:30 in the afternoon. But I really didn't drink all that much. I guess I did. Ugh!! But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always  be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks  you to give the reason for the hope that you have.  But do this with gentleness and respect,   1 Peter 3:15 Let us then approach the throne of grace with  confidence, so that we may receive mercy and  find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4:16 God is so awesome! He is so great and greatly to be praised. He is high and lifted up. He is faithful and true. He hears our prayers and answers them. His answers may be yes, no or maybe. The no and the maybe are answers. We may not look at them as answers ...

Good morning this fine Saturday morning! The sun isn't shining yet but I can't wait until it does. It seems like yesterday was just an icy blur. Although, I don't think is got as icy as it was supposed to. My porch was icy and I know my precious friend's was. She slipped on her porch and down the stairs and her whole body aches. Praise God it wasn't worse! Our comfort zone! We have been talking about that a bit in both of my Bible Studies. What is out of our comfort zone? Praying out loud, going on a mission trip, telling someone about what Jesus has done for us, going to a new job, taking care of children. Whatever your comfort zone is, probably being comfortable at home in your own space, or a job you have had forever, and then going out of it. What do we feel God calling us to do that scares us or might make us uncomfortable? God calls us to get ou t of our comfort zone because then we can totally depend on Him. Humble yourselves before the Lor...

  Good morning on this freezy day! We are supposed to be having an ice storm of sorts. The temperature is supposed to drop with the rain falling and wallah! Ice! Hopefully the roads are warm enough and salted enough that it won't freeze the roads. I do need to go out today and with God's favor I will be able to.  You know that God is good all the time. I have talked about that quite a lot. That is because it is so true. But God just might be showing His favor upon us. Let's see what scripture says. “But now entreat God’s favor, That  He may be gracious to us..." Malachi 1:9a   Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus  Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual  blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,   Ephesians 1:3 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God  and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting  consolation and good hope by grace, comfort your  hearts and e...

  Good morning to you this fine, cool day! May you feel loved and blessed today! May God fill you to overflowing with His love and mercy this day! ‘The Lord is longsuffering and abundant in mercy,  forgiving iniquity and transgression; Numbers 14:18a   Mercy! What is that? First of all, this scripture is from the Old Test a m ent . Mercy is: 1. Compassionate treatment, especially of those under one's power; clemency. 2. A disposition to be kind and forgiving: a heart full of mercy. 3. Something for which to be thankful; a blessing: It was a mercy that no one was hurt. 4. Alleviation of distress; relief: Taking in the refugees was an act of mercy        O Lord, help us have mercy on others as God has mercy on us. How forgiving are we? I never thought of mercy as compassionate treatment but of forgiveness. But in all reality forgiveness is compassionate treatment. Anyway, God has mercy on us everyday. As soon as we...

Good morning to you! I am ready for the beach. How about you? Even though the winter hasn't been bad and I like it, I am ready for the sun, sand and sea. And I have a long time to wait, October, unless we go to our daughter and son-in-law's in Florida before then. But I have something great to look forward to.  I love the beach. I was born in Santa Monica, CA and lived at the farthest 3 hours from the beach all my years in CA except for 14 when I was 4-5 hours away. And then 21 years since living in TN where we are 7 hours away. But when I still lived with my parents the farthest we lived was 20 miles away and the closest was 1 mile away. So, all my life the beach has been special to me. You can really see and feel God's love and closeness there in His creation.  The ocean covers 72 % of the earths surface. And I will bet there is a very high percentage of art work done of the ocean. I guess maybe there is also a high percentage of people who have a passion ...