The Bridegroom's Voice: Constant Conversation W/GOD July 18th

July 18^th 2011

AWE- ALMIGHTY GOD!

Make My Life Excellent In You-Constant In Your Courage!

I, Kimberly Ann McCarthy will diligently pursue You, Father God, this day as my constant connection, conversation and courage. Be my excellence today Lord Jesus, choice by choice I hope huge to step out in Your right living by Your Truth. Followship will be my heart's desire as I purposefully and diligently pursue Your Kingdom plan-purposes and deny my selfishness.

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Twitterverse! We will diligently Pursue #AWE-GOD today as our constant connection-conversation-courage! So Be It! AMEN! @worldprayr

Be our excellence today Lord Jesus! Moment To Choice we hope huge to step out in Your Truth!

#Prayer Jesus may followship be our heart's desire today! May we purposefully-diligently pursue Your Kingdom plan as we deny our selfishness!

My love has not stood the trials-tests of time, but our AWE-GOD's love, it has-it will. His love will always BE! #BGV

AMEN RT @faithclubdotnet: #Jesus #truth Proverbs30:5 "#God keeps every promise he makes. He is like a shield for all who seek his protection

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Holy Spirit Rain Down On Us This Monday Morning. Change Our Hearts! How We Need Your Touch At The Beginning Of This Week! Be Our Best Friend And Guide And Direct Our Lives Today!

God's Love for me is a huge gift of courage-strength and an absolute potential for great boldness as I step out in my day in complete faith in Him! #BGV

I love that God's devotion to us is a love that includes a never ending flow of His Peace! #AWE-GOD we need Your peace today!

God's love for us never quits! I can't even count the number of times my love has failed when it was tested! http://www.thebridegroomscafe.com/lltalkit2.htm #BGV

I love how God picks us out of our foolishness, pulling us forward into His wisdom. This is true love. Do I have it yet? No! Do I want it! Yes!

When I have been disciplined by God, it was huge growth for me and a place of peace unsurpassed by human expectation.

I think incorrectly about discipline because I know the truth is when God disciplines me, He is loving me at His best! http://www.thebridegroomscafe.com/lltalkit2.htm #BGV

Don't be crushed in heart by God's discipline, He never means to break our spirit, only to shape our will! Submit to God. http://www.thebridegroomscafe.com/lltalkit2.htm #BGV

God's love displays itself in safe-keeping- His love provides security and is a sanctuary for us always-forever! http://www.thebridegroomscafe.com/lltalkit2.htm #BGV

1 John 4:7-14 I have had a "little view" of God's Love, this verse gives me a "HUGE view" of God's love.

Excerpts-Thoughts From The Bridegroom's Voice

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Week One: The Bridegroom Speaks About Love

The Groomsman's Journal : Reflecting, Meditating and Responding

I Must Decrease - God Must Increase In Me!

My Thoughts:

July 17^th 2011 My Thoughts: From Week One:

God's Love is dynamic, it is active and full of life and is a forceful goodness in me and through me!
There is so much in our human condition that fails us! God's love will not fail us! My love has not stood the trials-tests of time, but our AWE-GOD's love, it has-it will. His love will always BE!
God's Love for me is a huge gift of courage-strength and an absolute potential for great boldness as I step out in my day in complete faith in Him!
The strength of God's love is it's strands of courage- strength-power that He weaves into it, the very nature of #AWE-GOD is a bold-tough love!
braided it with cords of strength, potential and hope
I love that God's devotion to us is a love that includes a never ending flow of His Peace! #AWE-GOD we need Your peace today! #BGV

Jeremiah 31:3

3 The Lord appeared from of old to me [Israel], saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn you and continued My faithfulness to you.

Jeremiah 31:2-4

This is the way God put it: "They found grace out in the desert, these people who survived the killing. Israel, out looking for a place to rest,3 met God out looking for them!" God told them, "I've never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love! 4 And so now I'll start over with you and build you up again, dear virgin Israel. You'll resume your singing, grabbing tambourines and joining the dance.

My Thoughts About This Verse:

God's love for us never quits! I can't even count the number of times my love has failed when it was tested! God is so willing to forgive and forget about our foolish failures and I love that He always picks up right where we are at and pulls us forward into His wisdom. This is true love. Do I have it yet? No! Do I want it! Yes!

Hebrews 8:5-7

And have you [completely] forgotten the divine word of appeal and encouragement in which you are reasoned with and addressed as sons? My son, do not think lightly or scorn to submit to the correction and discipline of the Lord, nor lose courage and give up and faint when you are reproved or corrected by Him;6 For the Lord corrects and disciplines everyone whom He loves, and He punishes, even scourges, every son whom He accepts and welcomes to His heart and cherishes.7 You must submit to and endure [correction] for discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not [thus] train and correct and discipline?

So don't feel sorry for yourselves. Or have you forgotten how good parents treat children, and that God regards you as his children? My dear child, don't shrug off God's discipline, but don't be crushed by it either. 6 It's the child he loves that he disciplines; the child he embraces, he also corrects. 7 God is educating you; that's why you must never drop out. He's treating you as dear children. This trouble you're in isn't punishment; it's training, 8 the normal experience of children. Only irresponsible parents leave children to fend for themselves. Would you prefer an irresponsible God? 9 We respect our own parents for training and not spoiling us, so why not embrace God's training so we can truly live? 10 While we were children, our parents did what seemed best to them. But God is doing what is best for us, training us to live God's holy best.

My Thoughts About This Verse:

Discipline and Love are not synonymous in our human culture. God is made to look like an angry God at times. We don't understand the discipline of God or a understand the concept that a loving God will discipline us or that discipline is love in action. It is though, because the times I have been disciplined by God have turned out to be the best times of growth for me and a place of peace that is unsurpassed by human expectation. I think incorrectly about discipline because I know the truth is when God disciplines me, He is loving me at His best! Don't be crushed in heart by God's discipline, He never means to break our spirit, only to shape our will! Submit to God!

Revelations 3:8-14

know your [record of] works and what you are doing. See! I have set before you a door wide open which no one is able to shut; I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept My Word and guarded My message and have not renounced or denied My name.9 Take note! I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews and are not, but lie--behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet and learn and acknowledge that I have loved you. 10 Because you have guarded and kept My word of patient endurance [have held fast the lesson of My patience with the expectant endurance that I give you], I also will keep you [safe] from the hour of trial (testing) which is coming on the whole world to try those who dwell upon the earth.11 I am coming quickly; hold fast what you have, so that no one may rob you and deprive you of your crown.12 He who overcomes (is victorious), I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary of My God; he shall never be put out of it or go out of it, and I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which descends from My God out of heaven, and My own new name. 13 He who can hear, let him listen to and heed what the Spirit says to the assemblies (churches).14 And to the angel (messenger) of the assembly (church) in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the trusty and faithful and true Witness, the Origin and Beginning and Author of God's creation:

8 "I see what you've done. Now see what I've done. I've opened a door before you that no one can slam shut. You don't have much strength, I know that; you used what you had to keep my Word. You didn't deny me when times were rough.

9 "And watch as I take those who call themselves true believers but are nothing of the kind, pretenders whose true membership is in the club of Satan-watch as I strip off their pretensions and they're forced to acknowledge it's you that I've loved. 10 "Because you kept my Word in passionate patience, I'll keep you safe in the time of testing that will be here soon, and all over the earth, every man, woman, and child put to the test.11 "I'm on my way; I'll be there soon. Keep a tight grip on what you have so no one distracts you and steals your crown. 12 "I'll make each conqueror a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, a permanent position of honor. Then I'll write names on you, the pillars: the Name of my God, the Name of God's City-the new Jerusalem coming down out of Heaven-and my new Name. 13 "Are your ears awake? Listen. Listen to the Wind Words, the Spirit blowing through the churches."Laodicea 14 Write to Laodicea, to the Angel of the church. God's Yes, the Faithful and Accurate Witness, the First of God's creation, says:

My Thoughts About This Verse:

God's Love Is Huge! God's love can do things that man's love cannot even begin to hope to do. God's love opens doors for us that no man can open! His love protects and keeps us and grows us through times of testing. His love displays itself in the safe-keeping it provides for us always and forever! It is me God loves and He has proved it and will continue to prove it according to His great Kingdom purposes at work in me. I have seen God's love in action! I have seen Him open a door that no man could open! Very Cool! #AWE-GOD!

1 John 4:7-14

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is (springs) from God; and he who loves [his fellowmen] is begotten (born) of God and is coming [progressively] to know and understand God [to perceive and recognize and get a better and clearer knowledge of Him].8 He who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love.9 In this the love of God was made manifest (displayed) where we are concerned: in that God sent His Son, the only begotten or unique [Son], into the world so that we might live through Him.10 In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation (the atoning sacrifice) for our sins.11 Beloved, if God loved us so [very much], we also ought to love one another.12 No man has at any time [yet] seen God. But if we love one another, God abides (lives and remains) in us and His love (that love which is essentially His) is brought to completion (to its full maturity, runs its full course, is perfected) in us!13 By this we come to know (perceive, recognize, and understand) that we abide (live and remain) in Him and He in us: because He has given (imparted) to us of His [Holy] Spirit.14 And [besides] we ourselves have seen (have deliberately and steadfastly contemplated) and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son [as the] Savior of the world.

7 My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God.8 The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love-so you can't know him if you don't love.9 This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him.10 This is the kind of love we are talking about-not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God. 11 My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other.12 No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us-perfect love! 13 This is how we know we're living steadily and deeply in him, and he in us: He's given us life from his life, from his very own Spirit.14 Also, we've seen for ourselves and continue to state openly that the Father sent his Son as Savior of the world.

My Thoughts About This Verse:

When we choose to love, we are not doing so in our own strength, the love of God is in us and works through us! It is so cool to know that when we love others, God's love is also in us, working through us and running it course. We never love alone, God loves through us. How cool is that! Especially knowing the quality of His Love! When we love others, God's love comes alive in us, lives in us! I can hardly comprehend what that might look like in me or understand the power of that truth! Even thinking about the fact that God's love, His love in action was to send His only Son to die for me, it completely blows what I know out of the water! I have had a little view of God's Love, this verse gives me a HUGE view of God's love. I know I probably won't ever comprehend the full scope of God's love on this side of heaven. I just humbly receive it!

God's Holy Spirit gives life, strength, boldness to the condition of our human love, helping us to endure in His love! Thank you Father God for Your love, I pray You reveal yourself to me daily and help me to walk in the strength of Your love, may it cover my human condition with Your supernatural character!

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Jesus may followship be our heart's desire today! May we purposefully-diligently pursue Your Kingdom plan as we deny our selfishness saying no to cultural excess and Yes to Kingdom living

Thank you Father God for Your love, I pray You reveal yourself to me daily and help me to walk in the strength of Your love, may it cover my human condition with Your supernatural character!

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Kimberly, your reward is before you!

Isaiah 40:10 Behold, the Lord God shall come with a strong hand, And His arm (z'roah in Hebrew) shall rule for Him; Behold, His reward is with Him, And His work before Him.

Revelation 22:12 "And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.

Isaiah tells us that the LORD'S Arm shall rule for Him and that He is coming with reward -- and a similar passage in Revelation declares that the Lord Yeshua (Jesus) is coming to reward His saints.

We live this earthly life recognizing that we are "strangers and pilgrims" [Hebrews 11:13] in this world -- but are working now in full expectation of a heavenly future. C.S. Lewis once wrote, "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world!"

We know we were made for another world, where the treasure we have stored while working here will neither rust nor corrode, nor be stolen. If you're looking for a pat on the back now [not that praises shouldn't be given or received], you've missed the point of ministry.

This reminds me of a story. There was a husband and wife who served many years in the ministry as missionaries in a far away land. As they returned to the States, the arriving ship was greeted by a brass band. Their initial thought was that this was an arranged greeting to honor them -- but soon discovered that a dignitary was also on the ship. They collected their luggage and booked a cheap motel room. While sitting on the bed, the husband started to cry and said, "We've served God for many years. We've got no money, no house, and when we've returned home, there's not even anyone to meet us!" His wife looked at him and said, "Hon, we're not home yet!"

Kimberly, we're not home yet! Don't believe for a minute that your work in this world is going unseen in Heaven. "For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister." [Hebrews 6:10] Let's be earnestly seeking His praise that when we see Him face to face, He may say to all of us, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant!" A true homecoming...and a true reward!

Your family in the Lord with much agape love, George, Rivka, Elianna & Obadiah

Negev Desert, Israel

My Thoughts About This:

You know all of us servants of God grow through that! Our human condition wants for us to be recognized for what we do, patted on the back. I love that verse, it really helps to get that verse in my heart and know that God does not forget my work for and unto Him. Very cool thought, you know truth really does bring freedom! AWE-GOD!

Exhortation- The Shepherd's Communicated Love-Wisdom!

Honestly, I am just going with the flow of the Holy Spirit. My will is broken. I feel a passion for going to Georgia, God really spoke to me last week. Took a whole week off from everything I usually do for God, not even one tweet went out!! God showed me that He wanted me to take my obedience past the will, He wanted me to go with a complete obedience, with my will engaged yes, but also with my heart, soul, mind and spirit engaged... Undivided! Complete Obedience! It was an interesting week for me! But God.... He always prevails! Always!

Deuteronomy 28:1-2,7,9,12-14

Blessings for Obedience

1 If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2 All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God: 3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. 7 The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

9 The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the LORD your God and walk in his ways. 10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will fear you.

12 The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. 13 The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. 14 Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.

What gives us conviction of sin is not the number of sins we have committed; it is the sight of the holiness of God. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Exhortation- The Shepherd's Communicated Love-Wisdom!

Psalm 34:19

The righteous person may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all;

AWE-GOD! Very cool! You know it was not a coincidence that you had a big failure on the very week when we were moving into increased presence online! I think we can safely say, we are stepping right into the flow of God's Purpose and the enemy was not happy with that. BUT GOD, He made a miraculous way for us to win that battle waged by our enemy and when we stay strong in faith like you and Oscar did great things happen when we are in Holy Alliance with God! Many are the trials of God's servant-warriors, but God delivers us out of them all and the cool thing is we grow in faith and stature through every one of them! God is so great and we are all so blessed to be a part of this online campus team... all for Jesus! Have a great week everyone! Yeah God!

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"I will praise you with an upright heart as I learn your righteous laws." Psalm 119:7 NIV

McCARTHY FAMILY PRAYER

Ephesians 3: 14-21 Draw Us (BOB, KIM, BRAD, BONNIE, KIELE, RYANNE, CHRIS, SUMMER, NOAH, KENNETH, TINA) To You That We Might Walk With You This Day And Forever!

I know that Psalm 119 was put in the Bible as a truthful reminder for us that we need to be in the Bible. The Word of God is powerful in our lives and as you can tell from reading my notes from Psalm 119, we truly need to be in the Word. Please continue to make room for God's Word in your life my precious family, because we so need it to succeed in this life and to make the right decisions, from our life moments to our choices, with the wisdom, knowledge, discernment and guidance of God! Praying for us today! Love you! Hope all is good with you!

Listening To Psalm 119- Praying For Our Family:

Blessed are we when we (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) walk according to God's Truth. God gives precepts to be fully obeyed. We must desire for our lives to be fully in accord with God's Law.
How can we keep our way pure? By living according to God' Word. Hide God's Word in our heart and we will not sin against Him.
Recount all the laws that come from God's Word. Mediate on God's precepts and consider His ways. We (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) Do not neglect God's word.
Open our (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) eyes that we may see the wondrous things in Your Word. Our soul should be consumed for longing God's Word.
Remove scorn and contempt from us (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina). Servants Meditate on God's Word, delight in God's Word and keep God's Word as our counselors. Teach us Your Word and help us (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) to understand it and we will mediate on Your wonders.
When our soul is weary from sorrow, strengthen us by Your Word. Keep us (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) from deceitful ways, may we chose the way of truth and hold fast Your statutes.
Help us to run in the path of God's commands. Teach us (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) to follow Your way. Give us understanding and we will keep your law, obey You with all our hearts.
Holy Spirit! Direct us and turn our (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) hearts toward your Truth and not toward selfish gain.
Holy Spirit! Turn our (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) eyes away from worthless things and cultural excess to God's Word and the heart treasure of His Spirit.
Fulfill your promises so you may be respected. Take away disgrace from us. Preserve our (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) lives in your righteousness.
Jesus may your unfailing be with us when the enemy taunts us. We put our (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) hope in your Word, we will obey you forever.
We (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) seek out your precepts and speak of them before others. We delight in Your Word because we love it.
Remember your word to Your servant-warriors- give us hope-comfort in our suffering. Your promises safeguard our lives!
Remember the ancient laws of God and find comfort in them. Your Word is the theme of our song, we remember You and we will keep your law.
We (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) will obey You. You are our portion and we promise to obey Your Words. We seek your face with all our hearts.
Lord, we will consider our ways and then turn our steps toward your Word. The wicked try to bind us up, we will not forget Your Word. Teach us (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) knowledge and good judgment, because we believe in Your Word. You are good and what You do is good, teach us Your Way, Your Truth and Your Life.
I keep your precepts with all my heart, it is good to be tested because we learn Your Truth. Your Word is more precious to me than all gold.
Give us (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) understanding to learn Your commands. We put our hope in Your Word. You Laws are righteous. Let your compassion come to us that we may live with Your law as our delight.
The enemy wrongs us without cause, but we (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) still turn to your word, keeping our hearts blameless by it.
We put our hope in Your Word, We do not forget your truth as we wait for you to punish those who persecute us.
All your commands are trustworthy, help me because men persecute me without cause, but I have not forsaken the statutes of your mouth.
Your Word is eternal, stands firm in the heavens and your faithfulness endures throughout all generations.
Your laws endure until this day and we (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) delight in them so we do not perish in our tribulations. The wicked wait to destroy us, but we ponder Your Word.
Your commands are boundless, How we love Your Word! Your commands make us wiser than our enemies.
I have understanding, more and more when I meditate on Your Word. I have not departed from Your Word, Your Ways… I (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) gain understanding from your precepts, therefore I hate every wrong path. Your word is a lamp to my feet, a light to my path.
I have suffered much, preserve my life through Your Living Word. The wicked set a snare for me, but I do not stray from Your Word, Your Word is my heritage forever and I will keep it to the end.
You are our refuge and our shield, We put my hope in Your Word. Sustain us (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) according to Your Promise and We will live.
Uphold me and I will be delivered, I will always have regard for Your Word. All the wicked You discard like dross and my flesh trembles in fear of you, I stand in AWE of You.
Do not leave me to my oppressors, don't let the arrogant oppress me, my eyes fail looking for Your salvation, Your righteous promise.
I am Your servant, give me discernment, that I may understand Your Word. I consider all your precepts right, therefore I hate every wrong path.
Your statutes are wonderful, therefore We (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) obey them. They give understanding to the simple. You have mercy on all those who love Your name.
Let no sin rule over me (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina), redeem me from the oppression of men that I may obey You. Streams of tears flow from my eyes, for Your law is not obeyed.
Your laws are right, Righteous are you Lord and they are fully trustworthy. My enemy ignores your word, your promises have been thoroughly tested and I love them.
Your righteousness are everlasting. Your statues are forever right, give me understanding that I may live. I put my hope in your word, my eyes stay open in the watches of my night that I might meditate on your word.
You established your Word to live forever. Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek out your word. Preserve our (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) lives according to Your truth.
People persecute me without cause, but my heart trembles at your word. I hate falsehood, love your law.
Great peace have they (Bob, Kim, Brad, Bonnie, Ky, Ry, Chris, Summer, Noah, Kenneth, Tina) that love your law and nothing can make them stumble. All our ways are known to God. Cry out to Him for understanding.
May our lips be overwhelmed in praise as God teaches us His Word. Long for the salvation of God and let His law be Your delight, may they sustain You.

A Seasoned Servant Of God Has Encouraged Me Today

Deb Ray! Thanks!

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His Eye Is On The Sparrow

Psalm 19: The Message Bible

11-14 There's more: God's Word warns us of danger

and directs us to hidden treasure.

Otherwise how will we find our way?

Or know when we play the fool?

Clean the slate, God, so we can start the day fresh!

Keep me from stupid sins,

from thinking I can take over your work;

Then I can start this day sun-washed,

scrubbed clean of the grime of sin.

These are the words in my mouth;

these are what I chew on and pray.

Accept them when I place them

on the morning altar,

O God, my Altar-Rock,

God, Priest-of-My-Altar.

My Thoughts About These Verses As I Listen To The Holy Spirit:

I really like that! Clean the slate Lord God, so I can start this day fresh and new. I like that too, the suggestion that stupid sins are when we try to "fix it", when we don't believe God can do it and we take control. When we don't wait on God, give Him the time He needs to work and we impatiently and impulsively light our own fires and walk by the light of a man made fire!

A Minute With Maxwell

Goal Setting:

Used by any person who wants to achieve. If you have had a conversation with someone about success, this word has to come in the conversation. This word is essential to success. You must kow what you are doing, where you are going and what is happening. You have to have steps towards success. Goal setting is steps pointed into a direction to a desired achieved goal. Lay out your goals-steps and start walking!

My Thoughts About This:

The 1^st thought that came in my mind as I listened to this today was the scripture that says the steps of a Godly person are ordered by the Lord, therefore I believe goal setting starts with a conversation with God!

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Genesis of Wisdom

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and all who follow His precepts have good understanding. To Him belongs eternal praise." Psalm 111:10

The fear of the Lord is foundational to the attaining of Almighty God's wisdom. It is out of holy reverence that heaven opens its doors of understanding. The creation will never begin to understand the Creator until there is a coming to minds over who is superior and who is the author of salvation.

Once there is capitulation to Christ, surrender to your Savior, which positions you to receive His good gifts, chief of which is wisdom. Your holy heavenly Father rewards respect and awe with wisdom from above. However, the cavalier takes Christ for granted and loses sound judgment. But, the fear of the Lord is your foundation for wise living. It is in these humble beginnings that wisdom originates.

God's wisdom is found in God's word. His precepts are meant to protrude from your mind like road signs on a highway. Sometimes you need to exit for fuel and rest, but other times it is wise to change directions and invite others to join you. To know God, so as to walk upright before Him, is the greatest of all applied sciences. Hence, wisdom is much more than knowledge, otherwise education alone would be the answer to all human suffering. Wisdom confesses Christ as Wisdom.

"It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption" (I Corinthians 1:30).

It is the life of Christ who models wisdom personified. It is the Holy Spirit who gives illumination and understanding to Holy Scripture. And it is your heavenly Father who invites you to ask for wisdom, so that you can live an obedient in Him. The attaining of wisdom is for aligning your life around the attributes of Almighty God.

You learn to apply what the Lord thinks not only to your life, but for the benefit of others as well. It is not all about you becoming a wise person; rather it is about your life glorifying God to others. Wisdom is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. It is a bridge to obedience. You gain understanding and insight, so that you can be a radical follower of Jesus and a beacon to others.

Practical godliness is a test of wisdom. So use your wisdom to mediate broken relationships, to foresee problems, to serve the team, to love your family and to point people to Jesus. Wisdom places faith in Christ out front and humbly decreases attention away from self. Therefore, use wisdom to gain understanding, obey God and lead people into a growing relationship with Christ. To Him alone belongs eternal praise for His gift of wisdom!

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise" (Psalm 111:10).

How can I grow in my fear of the Lord and grow in God's wisdom?

Related Readings: Job 28:28; Psalm 25:12-14; Proverbs 1:7; 9:10; Acts 9:31

A Seasoned Servant Of God Has Encouraged Me Today

Pastor Elliott

Numbers 20:9-12

9 So Moses took the staff from the Lord's presence just as He had commanded him.

10 Moses and Aaron summoned the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, "Listen, you rebels! Must we bring water out of this rock for you?"

11 Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.

12 But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land I have given them."

Dear Bob and Kim,

How many times do you think you have prevented God's blessings on your life due to a lack of faith? I can't even imagine how many times have I changed what God told me to do or not do, thinking I had a better way than what His Word made very plain and simple. Forgive me, Lord, for limiting your power in my life.

Thank God this is a new day. Today I resolve "to trust and obey for there for there is no other way to be happy in Jesus".

Pastor Elliott

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