tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5358513449336067062012-01-12T14:10:42.745-08:00My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. 2 Corinthians 12:9 Paul asked the Lord three times to remove the thorn in his flesh and the above quote was the Lord's response. Paul acknowledged that the "thorn" helped to keep him from being conceited.She Writeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08630284780116143151noreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535851344933606706.post-79423742193165685892011-10-07T06:37:00.000-07:002011-10-07T06:51:06.858-07:00

How many of us love to make plans? I know that I do. I enjoy having a plan for my day so that I can see some amount of progress as I have reached certain goals. I especially relied on plans when I was teaching. What about plans for my spouse or children? Do I have plans for them too? Indeed! Plans Undone What happens when life doesn't go as planned? Who is to blame? Do we blame anyone for things

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"I'm counting on, I'm counting on God" These are some of the words from the worship song, "Counting on God." I was going to write waiting on God, because I am waiting on God to provide but when I thought about it I felt that the words "Counting on God" actually reveal more of what I am feeling. To me, the words counting on indicate that I know that God will fulfill His promise to provide and

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2 Peter 1:5-8"For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and

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1 Peter 5: 6-11Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the

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How many of us like to make things happen? Waiting is not even a consideration for those of us that like to shake things up and make things happen. Full steam ahead is our one and only speed. You know how it is, you have an idea, you are bound and bent that it is going to happen so....away you go and you make it so. But what does God have to say about this type of behaviour? Did we even

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Ephesians 2: 4-9 NIV"But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to

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Ephesians 1:17-19a (NIV) "I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints and his incomparably great power for us

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As always at this time of year it is the time to remember all that God has done for me (us) by sending his Son Jesus. It is a time to be thankful for the saving grace which God has offered to us by having His Son, Jesus, die for our sins and rise again on the third day. It is the time to look back over the past year and to offer thanks to God for the many blessings which He has provided over

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Have you ever had a deadline looming before you? One you knew about for quite sometime? I have discovered that deadlines have a habit of creeping up on you. I tend to think that I have more time than I actually do have. How about you? Have you felt this way about deadlines? This year we were in our classrooms until December 23. Without the help of my daughter and her boyfriend, as well as

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Now is the time to prepare our hearts for God.Now is the time to be ready for His plan.Now is the time to remember the birth of His Son.Now is the time to let go and let God do His will. Now is the time to give God complete control of my life. Now is the time to surrender my will to His. Now is the time to place complete trust in God's wisdom.Now is the time to love and forgive.Now is the

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Proverbs 5: 1-2 My son, pay attention to my wisdom, listen well to my words of insight, that you may maintain discretion and our lips may preserve knowledge.This week a couple of friends and I began a study of wisdom, from the book of Proverbs. It involves five days of preparation (devotion) before meeting together to discuss what we have learned, wondered about and perhaps felt some confusion

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Disappointment, frustration, anger....these emotions and much more. I am so tired of having these feelings towards our teen. So tired of the angst and anguish of the teen years. Lord, please take these emotions and turn them around. Let me see the good that you would like me to see rather than the anger that I feel towards my teen. Show me how to "bridle" my tongue. Let the memories flood me.

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Public Service Announcement for Write! Canada 2010Word count: 93 wordsWrite! Canada trains, motivates and nurtures Christian writersWriters and aspiring writers, come to Canada's largest Christian writers' conference, Write! Canada, June 17-19, Guelph, Ont. Join us for the 26th annual conference as keynote speaker Dr. Joel A. Freeman encourages us to "Ignite the Creative Side of Our Brains."

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It could have been worse. It could have been better. Two major earthquakes in Haiti and Chile have created devastation and loss of life. We are called to do whatever we can to help those in need. Whether we are able to donate money, our time, our physical abilities, or our knowledge any and all of this will help. Most importantly, we are called to pray. Pray for comfort for those grieving

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So we're coming up to three years since my husband lost his job. He is now in the last stages of his Masters degree, the stage where he is to write his thesis. My observation is that sometimes it's easier to go to work, or to attend a class then it is to stay at home and work on a thesis. He is slowly chipping away at it. And then what? That is the question on my mind a lot these days. Lord,

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On January 12, 2010, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince as well as about a 13 km radius. The lives of Haitians world wide were transformed that day as were the lives of many others who had relatives in Haiti. This poverty stricken country was already suffering and in great need. Now more so than ever. Then, just eight days later, on January 20,

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When things are going wrong and you think that they couldn't get any worse something else happens and you know that they've just gotten worse. You know that you can no longer work out a solution on your own. You need God's help to get out of it. Not only do you need His help, but you have to rely on Him completly because there is nothing else that you can do. Absolutely nothing. When satan

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Could things really get any worse? How many of us have asked ourselves this question. I know that I have, a few times in my life. Sometimes it may seem as though Murphy's Law Rules our lives. Everything that could go wrong does go wrong and then we wonder....if things could get worse. Well...yes, they could and sometimes they do get worse than our existing circumstances. Job must have asked

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God wants us to rely on Him. Totally, rely upon Him. There are many examples in life today, in the past and in the Bible that examplify people and their lives getting "down to the wire." Being boxed in, and with no where else to go and no help in sight is a desperate feeling. All appears to be lost. David felt this, every time Saul tried to take his life. Elijah was convinced that he was

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Jeremiah 29: 11-13"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I wil listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." Can't you see, hear and feel God's grace pouring out through these verses? I know I can. For

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Exodus 16: 1-3The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the LORD'S hand in Egypt. There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the

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Genesis 13: 17-18When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, "If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt." So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea. The Israelites went up out of Egypt armed for battle.Genesis 13: 21-22By day the LORD went ahead of

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When we experience grace first hand we experience forgiveness. The two just go together. When we realize all that grace means in our lives we may be overcome and overwhelmed by forgiveness. God's grace is generous. God's forgiveness is divine.When we realize just how precious His grace is we come face to face with our own humility and we are humbled. How can He be so generous and wipe my

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Genesis 50: 20"You intended to harm me but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives."This morning driving into church a minister on the radio reminded the listeners of Joseph's words which I have quoted from the NIV Bible. It's not the first time that I have pondered Joseph's words to his brothers. I have thought about these words many times over

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Genesis 2:1-4Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. His sister stood

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Genesis 50:15-17When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?" So they sent word to Joseph, saying, "Your father left these instructions before he died, 'This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so

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Genesis 37:3-11Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. He said to them, "Listen to this dream I had: We were binding sheaves of grain out in the fild when suddenly my sheaf rose and stodd upright while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it."His brothers said to him, "Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?" and

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Genesis 18:9-12 "Where is your wife Sarah?" they asked him. "There in the tent," he said.Then the LORD said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son." Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was in behind him. Abraham and Sarah were already old and well advanced in years, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. So Sarah

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Genesis 16:10-12The angel of the LORD also said to her: "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your misery. He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."When I read through the verses above I can't help but to wonder what

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Genesis 16: 1-4Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar; so she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her."Abram agreed to what Sarai said. So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sari his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave

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Have you ever gazed upon your neighbour's lawn and thought that their grass does look greener than your grass. Not only is it greener, but they don't seem to have the problem with the weeds that you do, nor the pot holes etc. I know that I have. Let's take it a bit farther...sometimes we may even look at the lives of others and think that they have it much better than we do. They don't seem to

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Genesis 12: 10-13Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are. When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife. Then they will kill me but will let you live. Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated

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Genesis 12: 1-3 NIVThe LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation and I wil bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will course: and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."Sandy paced

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Well, it's been two years since my husband was laid off. He and I were discussing yesterday that two years ago, we wouldn't have known that we would be where we are today financially. We both admitted that it is only by God's grace and financial intervention that we are still able to make all of our bill payments. Now, we enter a new level. Gone is the lay off package of one year. Gone, as

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Paul talked about having a thorn in his flesh. I've often wondered if his thorn was guilt. Before Paul had his meeting with Jesus, he was Saul of Tarsus: feared by all Christians. Saul would have Christians beat and thrown into jail because of their beliefs. When he was younger, he even held the cloaks for the men that were stoning Stephen to his death.Saul knew that Damascus would be an

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The worship song, Your Grace is Sufficient illustrates 2 Corinthians 12:9 so well. Martin Nystrom wrote the music and the lyrics. I've included the words from the chorus in this post because they hold so much meaning to me. Perhaps you'll find the same for you.Your grace is sufficient for me, Your strength is made perfect when I am weak;All that I cling to I lay at your feet, Your grace is

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