Monthly Archives: January 2015
Unimportant Roads
How often the plans of God are inscrutable! He many times leads us to success and importance using seemingly unimportant roads- JE Lillie
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Mirror, Mirror…
Just remember, all we see is not all there is.
We’ve all heard the line, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest one of all, from the wickedly vain queen in Snow White. And many of us have had problems with what we see reflected there.
So, let’s get the physical out of the way first.
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed (Psalm 139:13-16). There you have it; God made you to be perfect. But perfect in His sight…
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Caddo’s Seven Word Sunday 1-11-15
JOY IS THE KEYNOTE OF…THE (SPIRITUAL) DISCIPLINES.- RICHARD FOSTER, CELEBRATION OF DISCIPLINE, P.2
Let’s just pretend that the word in parentheses doesn’t count. It isn’t in the text but I thought it helpful in clarifying what I was writing about.
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Dwell Deep
“It is good for thee to dwell deep that thou mayest feel and understand the spirits of people” John Woolman
If this is true, that means my level of compassion is tied to my level of dwelling and faithfulness in my relationship with God.
What do you think?
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Superficial
Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a PRIMARY SPIRITUAL PROBLEM!- Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline, p1
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A 24/7 Sanctuary
He is our oasis!
The Daily Prompt: Oasis
A sanctuary is a place you can escape to, to catch your breath and remember who you are. Write about the place you go to when everything is a bit too much.
When everything is a bit too much I like to be in my church sanctuary especially after a prayer meeting so I can rest in the lingering presence of the Lord. Being in the sanctuary when no one else is there allows my mind to surrender my emotions to the Holy Spirit in turn I receive a sweet peace, a peace like no other. This peace goes beyond all understanding and the comfort from it is such that I wish I didn’t have to leave. But since I don’t live at the church and I can’t access the sanctuary at will my sanctuary would be at my bedside on my knees.
Although, after thinking about it I would have to say my oasis is not…
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Pastor Wrinkles: Another Journey Begins
Hello Dear readers. Pastor Wrinkles (that would be me) is off on another journey into the interior. Over the next few weeks I am praying into the strategies God has for ministry in 2015. I can already see the outline of some mighty battles ahead which speak to me of pain and perhaps loss but beyond that I also see victory.
Here are a few of the Scriptures I am going to be meditating much on over the next days:
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. Heb. 12, 1-3
5In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6Who, being in very naturea God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very natureb of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
9Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father. Phil. 2:5-11
I am praying about strategies and about weaknesses in my own life that need to be shored up. In addition to these Scripture passages I will be reading Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline.
I will share quotes from this book and insights with you as they come.
Read on…
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The Shadow Lands: Weekly Photo Challenge
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Shadowed.”
Here are my offerings:
In the shadow of Guiness
The deep wilds
Ponies of Guiness
Derry Nights
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Uncle Tom and the Gift Of Tongues
The Daily Post has asked us to…Describe a memory or encounter in which you considered your faith, religion, spirituality — or lack of — for the first time.
You can see how others met this challenge at
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/in-good-faith/
As a boy of thirteen I had an intense spiritual hunger. I suppose I had always leaned toward the spirit world. Growing up the first books I remember borrowing from the town library were stories of the Greek gods and the writings of Uri Geller and other famous psychics.
I don’t remember a time when I didn’t believe in the supernatural or in a higher power but my search for that higher power began in earnest at the end of my eighth grade year. I remember telling my mother that I thought some day I would become a minister. She scoffed at the idea because at that point no one in our immediate family even really believed in the biblical God. My grandparents were believers but they didn’t wear their religion on their sleeves or anything like that and their pastor at the time was more in tune with Universalism than Christianity.
I met a girl in school whose family members were committed Jehovah’s Witnesses and she began witnessing. Through a series of events my parents found out and insisted that if I was really interested in church then I was going to go with my Uncle Tom. They thought he was crazy but at least they knew he was harmless and crazy.
So began my journey into the Christian faith and away from the neo-paganism I had known. The story is long and convoluted but suffice it to say the first time I heard someone deliver a message in tongues and another person give the interpretation, I was hooked. Uncle Tom and the gift of tongues showed me the way to a real personal and supernatural relationship with God through Jesus Christ. God can and will use anything to bring a seeking soul to Himself.
Lillie-Put 