With An Excited Ear To The Door!

Looking at Luke 12:35-40

vs. 36
" . . . be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks."

This life is a tiny bit of the beginning of eternity, Christ could come anytime to take us home.  Live that way!  Try not to become engrossed in what has already happened and fail to be open to what the LORD has ahead.  Be alert for the return of Christ.

Wake-Up Call From An Unexpected Source

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It's Not About Me!

I was thinking today if we could all just "get over ourselves" the LORD would be able to get a lot more done in the Kingdom!

In Honor Giving Preference To One Another

...in honor giving preference to one another.
Romans 12:10


"The place where encouragement is most needed is the home, where our flaws are exposed and our selfishness is most likely to exert itself. But marriage works best when spouses are less selfish, more selfless, and when they understand that it's not about making themselves happy but about making the other happy--in honor preferring one another. It is God's plan, and it works!" -David Jeremiah

Made Me Giggle! ;)

Ha! ;) American pop culture is so pervasive and embarrassing! Just because they say it on tv doesn't mean everyone likes it! My 60 year old eye surgeon was instructing me about how to use the various antibiotic drops he was prescribing after my minor eye surgery the other day. Quite a classy guy, trying to make me feel at home as a foreigner-I appreciated him. Just when I thought he was finished he perked up with an, "oh and by the way (that's for you Fei Lin) when you get up in the night to pee, put them in again." You know, I don't think I've ever actually said that word out loud. ;) ;)

He Still Answers!: What is SMCI?

He Still Answers!: What is SMCI?

The Deeps

I have no master but Thee,
     no law but Thy will,
     no delight but Thyself,
     no wealth but that Thou givest,
     no good but that Thou blessest,
     no peace but that Thou bestowest.
I am nothing but that Thou makest me,
I have nothing but that I receive from thee,
I can be nothing but that grace adorns me.

Quarry me deep, dear LORD,
     and then fill me to overflowing with living water.

The Valley of Vision
A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions

He Still Answers!: Here We Go!

He Still Answers!: Here We Go!

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.