And so we begin this morning by coloring the world MAHOGANY.
You can find many mahogany stylings by other artists simply by clicking on the capitalized link.
Here is the shade we are all working with:
Here is my interpretation of the shade:
It is time to SHARE MY WORLD WITH YOU AGAIN. That capitalized link will get you into a whole world of learning how to share your world and a ton of examples about how to do it from Cee’s many subscribers. But before you go, here are the weekly questions from Cee and my shares concerning them.
What household chore do you absolutely hate doing?
I am decidedly not a big fan of raking or weeding the garden beds. I am OK if my lawn and gardens will not make the next issue of Better Homes and Gardens.
What was the last URL that you bookmarked?
You Tube Buffalo Herd: Our Riches At Christ’s Expense
Close your eyes. Listen to your body. What part of your body is seeking attention? What is it telling you?
My neck and my shoulders are telling me, “You need a neck massage.”
Would you rather have a two-bedroom apartment in a big city of your choosing or a mansion in the country side in the state or country where you currently live?
Can the mansion be a three bedroom log cabin in the countryside? If so I’ll take that.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I am grateful for a wonderful team of church staff, and visiting lay ministers who helped with the incredible amount of ministry our church did last week.
This week I am looking forward to visiting with my daughter Melanie and her husband James who are up in Winchendon with me for their vacation.
Yesterday the morning Scripture I was sent to was from Psalm 46:10.
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”
Here are some more thoughts from that time of meditation on being still.
The voice of God says, “Be still and know that I am God. Let My heart overcome your heart.
Do not try to still your own emotions.Neither base your life in how you feel. Instead let My heart overcome your heart by just focusing on Me.
A wind is coming that will blow and scatter emotions. Those who try to stand in their feelings will be blown away like the chaff. Those who anchor to ME will not be moved. Their emotions will not move.
Be still. This move of God is not about the stirring of emotions but about the stirring of the spirit.”
It is that time of the day when you just want to MAGENTAIZE your day isn’t it? Don’t you just wish everything was this color right now?
Imagine if your coffee was magenta, or your computer screen. What a lovely world it would be!
Well if you want to see things that are legit magenta you will have to click the capitalized link above or look below at my magenta offerings.
The Strength You Never Knew You Had. – http://wp.me/peHXC-4jG
We are continuing our study through the Book of Romans. Currently we are in Romans 1:20 speaking to the invisible qualities or attributes of God. If you have missed any of our conversations on this subject you can catch up with them on THE ROAD THROUGH ROMANS PAGE.
Romans 1:20 reads,
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
We have spoken to God’s: Wisdom, Infinitude, Sovereignty, Holiness, Trinity and Omniscience.
Today we are speaking to God’s faithfulness. Watch this.
But where does creation display God’s faithfulness? In lots of places. Faithfulness itself is the idea that God functions according to certain character traits that do not change. These traits make God dependable or faithful. Because God is like this He has set in motion a creation that also operates according to certain “character traits” or laws that do not change. For instance:
The law of gravity is something we can depend on. What goes up must come down.
The law of seed time and harvest is something we can depend on. Summer will follow winter. Winter will follow summer and so on and so on…
The creation reveals to us that the character of the One behind it must be steady and faithful.
It’s Worship Wednesday here at Lillie-put. Will you join me in creating a culture of worship? Write you own Wroship Wednesday post and link to mine here. Let’s build a virtual web of worship!
You can find out more about Sidewalk prophets and their current tour HERE
Today Cee has asked us to show her THE ROUGH SPACES IN OUR PHOTOGRAPHY.
You can click the capitalized link to see how rough others had it. Here is my gallery…
Will you just abide with Him? It is the solution!
Over the last two months God has been speaking to me about abiding in Him. I have been meditating on this and probably not as much as I should have hence why He is still speaking to me about it. The more I abide in Him the more He will abide in me is what His words says.
A couple of weeks ago a man in our church, who often gives a word of prophesy, spoke to me after church one Sunday and this is what he had to say.
“Debby, God gave me this word today but I didn’t felt led to speak it to the church but I’m going to tell you.” He says chuckling a little. I instantly heard in my spirit this is just for you Deb.
So he goes on to say, “You know we are to take every thought captive, right?”
I said, “Yeah.”
“Well…
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Today we are going to pick back up on a thread we dropped a few weeks ago. That is our verse by verse study through the Book of Romans. If you need to refresh on what we were speaking about you can find those conversations on THE ROAD THROUGH ROMANS PAGE.
Today we are dealing once again with one of the invisible qualities of God that are revealed in the creation. As Romans 1:20 says,
“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”
We have so far spoken about God’s: Holiness, Infinitude, Wisdom, Sovereignty and Trinity.
Today we are going to be speaking about God’s omniscience. That is the fact that God knows everything. Watch this.
The Word of God testifies to God’s all-knowingness in many places. Psalm 139 for instance:
“You have searched me, Lord,
and you know me.
2You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely.
5You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
7Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
12even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.”
Beyond the testimony of the Bible, though, a careful consideration of the creation itself testifies to God’s omniscience.
If we consider that the world and the universe were created by God we must come to the conclusion that He must understand all He has created in order to create it. Creation as an act, in all its wonder, demands not just a superior intellect but nothing short of the knowledge of all that was and is and ever shall be.
