Monthly Archives: January 2015
Daily Prompt: Unsafe Containers
I thought this was a great analogy.
Unsafe Containers
After hitting “try another prompt” multiple times this is the daily prompt I chose to write about today it was originally posted on from June 3, 2014.
Which emotion(s) — joy, envy, rage, pity, or something else — do you find to be the hardest to contain?
As I think about this question I am acutely aware of how many unsafe containers I have had in my life before coming to know Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior! Every single emotion listed as well as others not listed I have lived through and sometimes the spillage was beyond my control. I bet many of you know exactly what I’m talking about, don’t you? What I have noticed is that the more mature my walk with Christ becomes the safer my containers become resulting in less spillage.
Oh, believe me I’m not saying I don’t experience these emotions anymore because I do after…
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Like the Magi
“I feel like the magi, wandering, following some distant star in hopes that it will bring me to a place, however poor, that will connect history with legacy.” JE Lillie
Do you ever feel like this?
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Now That’s Funny
Nancy Merrill has challenged us to make her laugh with a post that shows :HUMOR
Discover the funny at
https://nadiamerrillphotography.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/a-photo-a-week-challenge-humor/
Here is something to laugh about:
Pastor Wrinkles wild and crazy days as a youth pastor are gone but not forgotten. Someday I may even receive a reward in Heaven for being willing to wear this costume at a youth convention in front of 1100 teenagers.
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs 17:22
Tinkie Winkie Lives!
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
Come on it’s funny!
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e. e. cummings
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This Place Called Prayer
Prayer is the place where the mystical power of God meets the practical action of man. JE Lillie
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A Word A Week: Cross
Sue has challenged us with the word :CROSS this week.
Discover how others have met the challenge at
http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-cross/
This seems like a challenge right up my alley. I am wholly indebted to the cross of Christ. My life is lived in light of the cross of Calvary! I am nothing without His cross or his resurrection!
Beams cross at the Guiness factory in Dublin
Crossing Windmill blades at Zaanse Schans
“…the cross is part of salvation. Jesus didn’t purchase Christianity without a cross and Christians cannot live Christianity without a cross.” JE Lillie
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Where All the Trouble Comes From
“All of man’s troubles stem from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Blaise Pascal
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Oasis
Check this out! Are you an oasis for God’s presence?
I saw a couple of my blogging buddies pick up on this daily prompt, and I thought I would jump in too.
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.
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One thing that fascinates me of late is the idea of the incarnation. Of course we have just come through the season where we celebrate Christ’s incarnation, His taking on human flesh and walking our streets and wearing our frailty. (Phil 2:6-9)
But there is another facet to incarnation that intrigues me.
The Bible teaches us that when we give our lives and hearts to Him, He indwells us – He comes to live in us. Our life becomes a home for the Holy Lord…
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Pastor Wrinkles: Paying the Asking Price Pt. 4
Today we are concluding this series from Luke Chapter 14 on Paying the Asking Price. If you have missed any of our previous discussions go to:
https://josephelonlillie.com/2015/01/04/pastor-wrinkles-paying-the-asking-price/
https://josephelonlillie.com/2015/01/06/the-place-to-pay-the-price/
https://josephelonlillie.com/2015/01/06/pastor-wrinkles-pay-the-asking-price-pt-2/
https://josephelonlillie.com/2015/01/07/pastor-wrinkles-paying-the-asking-price-pt-3/
Now on to our conclusion
Whatever your rhema Word (see pt. 2 for the discussion on rhema) is this year. Whatever God is telling you about your future there is going to be a price for that future with Jesus.
The cost might be forgiving someone who has wronged you terribly. The cost might be giving up a relationship that holds you back from getting closer to Jesus. The cost might be swallowing your pride and reentering a relationship you know is good for you. The cost might be more giving if you are stingy or it could be less giving if you are codependent. The cost might be inconveniencing yourself and your family in order to serve God in some ministry. It might be getting a new job or it might be sucking it up and being joyful in the job you’ve got.
I can tell you this the cost is never fun to pay. The longer you look at it and ponder whether or not you should pay it the less you will want to. But when you bite the bullet and pay the price whatever it is, you open up your life to God’s blessing and you open up your life to see the rhema word fulfilled successfully.
Moondustwriter, a blogger friend of mine, wrote these words on a recent poetry forum
Worth Giving
“Give your life away”
was all the message
had to say
it seems a cold hard voice
that makes me take
the sacrificial choice
But as you offer up your hand
another life has the
opportunity to stand. http://moondustwriter.com/2014/12/28/worth-giving-sundaydevotion-poem/
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The choice can seem hard. But once it is made the blessings begin to flow and what you will receive is ultimately worth far more than anything you give away. To quote and old adage, “you cannot out-give God.” To quote an even older Scripture “Give and it shall be given you full measure pressed down shaken together and overflowing.” Luke 6:38
What choice is God leading you to today?
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Weather or Not
Cee has been very Black & White with us about the: WEATHER with her challenge this week.
To see WEATHER or not her other contributors have anything to add go to
http://ceenphotography.com/cees-black-white-challenge/
Rough winter 2
When snow falls, nature listens. ~Antoinette van Kleeff
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ~J.B. Priestley
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