The Rumor

The effective and well practiced use of the rumor is one of the greatest tools of the enemy. Gently dropped properly at the right moment from the right lips, it effectively to stop ears, stops giving, stops prayer. It is to be defended against, it is to be deliberately rejected. I am conscious of this today especially as I fear too oft I have been the author and the victim.  

Lord, forgive me. Lord, protect your work. Lord, enable me to recognize and deal with the wiles of the enemy especially as he would attack in this way.

Amen. 

The LORD's Point of View

"To obey is better than sacrifice..."

Are You Ruined?

Just because once you were a round peg someone tried to force into a square hole doesn't necessarily mean you are a bad risk!

Weapons

It only takes a flicker of light
to completely break the power of the darkness...

A Fine Line Seperates An Opinion From A Judgement--A line we must not cross!

In essentials, unity;

in non-essentials, liberty;

in all things, charity.

Unknown

"Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother's way."

Romans 14:13

"Don't Tear Apart The Work of God Over What You Eat!"

The LORD knew I personally needed Romans 14.

Thanks Lord

A Quote From Experience

I think we would be much better off if we criticized less

and prayed more.

Join me?

Thoughts from "Chinese Diamonds For the King Of Kings"

On Faith...

"If we cannot trust God when the circumstances seem against us,we are not trusting him at all."

C.H. Spurgeon

Words I Wish I'd Said #1

"Jesus told me to go. He never said I would come back. 

Isn't this the life of a Christian?"

--Celso, a 70 year old Colombian evangelist reaching Marxists guerillas in the jungles of Columbia

Today I Was Reminded ...

"Life is not a game, and it's not about me! "

I Think These Verses Also Apply to Facebook, Blogging and MSN

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Ephsians 4:29

 

Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:16

He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

Proverbs 18:13

 

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Proverbs 18:21

Tears For the Lost

We met a lovely young couple today.  They are on the way to start ta new life together... they want to spend it for Jesus. Somewhere in the talk of travel, life and the future there were tears for lost souls, tears for a lost nation, tears out of a desire to know God's will and to it. 

I think surrendered hearts are the only ones in which God can plant those tears. I think God will use them. I was glad to know them. They lifted my heart in hope.

It's All Bigger Than Me . . .

"Who can find a virtuous woman?
         For her price is far above rubies.
The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her,
        So that he shall have no need of spoil.
She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life."
                       Proverbs 31:10-12

In such a wife the heart of her husband may safely confide, for he finds in her love and unselfish affection treasure so vast, that, let his circumstances be as they may, he can never be in poverty.  Her influence is for good and not evil all the days of her life.  It is a lovely picture of the mutual relationship of Christ and the Church: the latter owning Him as Head and delighting to love and serve Him; while He finds His joy in her and beholds in her an inheritance of untold value?

Notes On Proverbs
H.A. Ironside

"But made himself of no reputation..." (Christ-Our Example)

Recently, I have had some interesting questions pushed my way...

I think I need to ask the LORD to help me in understanding "testimony and reputation."  It seems one we are to guard.  One we are to surrender. 

If I am to obey, I need to know the difference.

Relationships That Work

"... be of one mind, united in thought & purpose."

1 Corinthians 1:10b

how big is a man's soul?

Geoffrey Bull, missionary to the Tibetans at the time of Mao's long march was talking to a Tibetan farmer one night:

Suddenly the old fellow turned to me and murmured half confidentially: "I want to ask you a question, I somehow don't like asking those lama fellows.  Do you think you can answer me?" Without waiting for my reply he went on, speaking with increasing seriousness.  At last it came.  "How big is a man's soul?" he said quietly.  I looked into the fire and then into his worn and quizzical face.  "A soul," I replied, "is measured like the wind, not by its length and breadth, or even its height, but by its power."  Only as a soul is linked with the Eternal Spirit of the living and True God can it grow to any size.  How often I had thought of that arresting phrase, "Hell is no vastness, it is full of little rotting souls."  I suppose if we viewed the lake of fire materially, it would be no bigger than a pinhead and yet able to contain all the millions who have shrivelled themselves in alienation from their Creator and Redeemer. Eventually we broke up.  The ploughing and the sowing were not easy.  I wondered just how much the old chap understood.  I wondered, too, just how big my own soul might really be.

An Excerpt from: When Iron Gates Yield
By Geoffrey T. Bull

Moody Press Chicago

A Wife Thinking...

Consider why you don't let him lead...? 

Perhaps lack of faith in your husband to lead you well is really a lack of faith in God.  We obey God because we trust He really knows best.  Do you trust the Spirit to work in your husband? Consider...

You can believe he is supposed to lead you,
you can believe he is able to lead you
and still not allow him to lead you...

If you are not, please allow me to encourage you to let the Spirit to lead your husband... step out in faith and surrender and follow! It's the best choice and for me, it has been a lovely life... looking forward to the rest-for you and for me!

Matt. 21:21  "If you have faith, doubt not..."