HI all,
Here is my contribution to themed thursdays!!!
I have several great bath LO's!!!
Here is my contribution to themed thursdays!!!
I have several great bath LO's!!!
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
Themed Thursdays for Scrappers
Hi all - well I decided to join in on this -I keep thinking I need to share "new" LO's,
but here are some oldies -
these of our trip to Garmisch, Germany in '95 when my hubby came home for R&R....
Monday, May 21, 2007
Why Should We Pray?
Hi all - well this is from our message church yesterday - I thought it was so great that I wanted to share parts of it with you....
Exodus 33:13-14
13 Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”
14 And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
Exodus 33:13-14
13 Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”
14 And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
Firing Arrows at Heaven
Loading the Bow -
1. The Center of Prayer: To Relate to God
So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Exodus 33:11
In the beginning, God and Adam walked and conversed together in the cool of the day. The Lord greatly desires that intimate fellowship with us that was broken by sin.
How do you pray? Do you see prayer as a duty (only), hurriedly tucked in at the end of the day, a chore crammed in along with all of the other things that you have to get done? Or do you view it as an intimate time with the One who loves you the most, the One who takes delight in you conversations with Him?
Pointing the Arrow -
2. Our Aim in Prayer: To Know God and His Ways (v 13)
So often we pray for things: hurt bodies, hurt feelings, more money. Moses prayer was that he would know God more. He recognized that the way to really know God is by learning HIS way. Moses desire is to grow closer to God, to deepen his relationship with Him by knowing Him more and more in order to please Him, to find His grace. Moses wants to find his delight in his Lord.
How do you pray? Are your prayers simply a list of things that you want God to do for you? Do we turn tings around, wanting Him to please us, so that we would favor Him with our presence and attention? Or is your prayer time a time of asking God to reveal Himself more and more, a time of asking God for the wisdom that is from above to help you understand His holy way, and ultimately, to know Him more?
Hitting the Target -
3. God's Goal for Prayer: To Show His Glory
And he said, "Please show me Your glory." Exodus 33:18
In verse 17, God declares that Moses has found favor with Him and says in effect, "I will do whatever thing you ask of Me." Moses asks to see God's glory. And God complies!
How is God's glory evidenced to us today? The Lord reveals His glory to us through His rich mercy.
WHY SHOULD WE PRAY? Because God WANTS us to. He greatly desires that intimate conversation and relationship with us that He had with Moses.
DOES PRAYER CHANGE GOD? His mercy definitely does. God so LOVES us and wants us to KNOW Him, to understand His ways. He desires that we pray so that He may activate His mercy toward us and reveal His glory through His grace. We can't see His radiance displayed today, but we can see the evidence of His infinite love to us....
This message really touched my heart - to even deepen my prayer life and time I spend with God!!!
1. The Center of Prayer: To Relate to God
So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Exodus 33:11
In the beginning, God and Adam walked and conversed together in the cool of the day. The Lord greatly desires that intimate fellowship with us that was broken by sin.
How do you pray? Do you see prayer as a duty (only), hurriedly tucked in at the end of the day, a chore crammed in along with all of the other things that you have to get done? Or do you view it as an intimate time with the One who loves you the most, the One who takes delight in you conversations with Him?
Pointing the Arrow -
2. Our Aim in Prayer: To Know God and His Ways (v 13)
So often we pray for things: hurt bodies, hurt feelings, more money. Moses prayer was that he would know God more. He recognized that the way to really know God is by learning HIS way. Moses desire is to grow closer to God, to deepen his relationship with Him by knowing Him more and more in order to please Him, to find His grace. Moses wants to find his delight in his Lord.
How do you pray? Are your prayers simply a list of things that you want God to do for you? Do we turn tings around, wanting Him to please us, so that we would favor Him with our presence and attention? Or is your prayer time a time of asking God to reveal Himself more and more, a time of asking God for the wisdom that is from above to help you understand His holy way, and ultimately, to know Him more?
Hitting the Target -
3. God's Goal for Prayer: To Show His Glory
And he said, "Please show me Your glory." Exodus 33:18
In verse 17, God declares that Moses has found favor with Him and says in effect, "I will do whatever thing you ask of Me." Moses asks to see God's glory. And God complies!
How is God's glory evidenced to us today? The Lord reveals His glory to us through His rich mercy.
WHY SHOULD WE PRAY? Because God WANTS us to. He greatly desires that intimate conversation and relationship with us that He had with Moses.
DOES PRAYER CHANGE GOD? His mercy definitely does. God so LOVES us and wants us to KNOW Him, to understand His ways. He desires that we pray so that He may activate His mercy toward us and reveal His glory through His grace. We can't see His radiance displayed today, but we can see the evidence of His infinite love to us....
This message really touched my heart - to even deepen my prayer life and time I spend with God!!!
Monday, May 7, 2007
Personal Purity
Hebrews 4:1-8
1 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; 2 for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification...
7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. 8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given[a] us His Holy Spirit.
This passage was used the last 2 weeks in our messages at church... God has really been using this Scripture passage to get me thinking even more about my life and how I please God or not....
So, I have been thinking of how I can please God even more in my life!!!
Recently, I have been struggling with my scrapbooking and designing. Just not really wanting to do much lately.... Well yesterday, during the message - it hit me that I should start doing scrapbook kits that reflect our Christian walk!!! This would be pleasing to God!!!
Living a life pleasing to God is very important!!! It should be our #1 goal in life. We should seek ways to please HIM everyday, by reading our Bible, praying, listening to music that Praises God. These are a few things that we can do this....
One of my favorite passages is in Deuteronomy 6...
4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one![b] 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
6 “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
This is an active Christian lifestyle!!!
I pray that you actively reflect Christ in your life!!!
1 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; 2 for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification...
7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. 8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given[a] us His Holy Spirit.
This passage was used the last 2 weeks in our messages at church... God has really been using this Scripture passage to get me thinking even more about my life and how I please God or not....
So, I have been thinking of how I can please God even more in my life!!!
Recently, I have been struggling with my scrapbooking and designing. Just not really wanting to do much lately.... Well yesterday, during the message - it hit me that I should start doing scrapbook kits that reflect our Christian walk!!! This would be pleasing to God!!!
Living a life pleasing to God is very important!!! It should be our #1 goal in life. We should seek ways to please HIM everyday, by reading our Bible, praying, listening to music that Praises God. These are a few things that we can do this....
One of my favorite passages is in Deuteronomy 6...
4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one![b] 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
6 “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
This is an active Christian lifestyle!!!
I pray that you actively reflect Christ in your life!!!
Sunday, April 29, 2007
How Do You Pray?
But as for me, my prayer is to You,O LORD, in the acceptable time; O God, in the multitude of Your mercy, Hear me in the truth of Your salvation.
Psalm 69:13
What is your prayer life like? How often do you pray? Who and when do you pray for?
Will you join me in this special prayer time with God???
Tomorrow, May 1, 2007 - I am hoping to share at least my Praise time - with you on my blog!!!
In Christ,
Lori
Psalm 69:13
What is your prayer life like? How often do you pray? Who and when do you pray for?
My favorite Quiet Time habit, one that I consistently continued in was the following...
(I have a journal / notebook with dividers)
Praise - Praise GOD for who He is, what He has done etc... I would read a Psalm a day, and write all of God's attributes from the Psalm
Admit - Acknowledge to God my sins, my failings, etc
Requests - List your requests here - I always started with myself (get down to the nitty-gritty: attitudes, etc), then list your family and other requests you would like to pray for. I did this sheet once a month - adding new things as I went. Then I would do a new sheet every month - to make it look neat....
Thanksgiving - Be specific - give thanks for things God has done for you!!! This is another Praise type section - but it is acknowledging how God has been working in your life!!!
(I have a journal / notebook with dividers)
Praise - Praise GOD for who He is, what He has done etc... I would read a Psalm a day, and write all of God's attributes from the Psalm
Admit - Acknowledge to God my sins, my failings, etc
Requests - List your requests here - I always started with myself (get down to the nitty-gritty: attitudes, etc), then list your family and other requests you would like to pray for. I did this sheet once a month - adding new things as I went. Then I would do a new sheet every month - to make it look neat....
Thanksgiving - Be specific - give thanks for things God has done for you!!! This is another Praise type section - but it is acknowledging how God has been working in your life!!!
Don't forget to read the Bible every day!!!
But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
Psalm 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
Psalm 1:2
Will you join me in this special prayer time with God???
Tomorrow, May 1, 2007 - I am hoping to share at least my Praise time - with you on my blog!!!
In Christ,
Lori
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Do Not Worry
How much time do we spend worrying? Do we worry about money? Do we worry about food? Do we worry about clothes? Do we worry about our homes? Do we worry about our families?
God has a wonderful solution for us....
Matthew 6:25-34
25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
As we are preparing for a major move - I find myself worrying about where we are going to live, will we have a house once we move there, what about flying with pets, etc.
Today - this was a wonderful, gentle reminder - that GOD KNOWS!!! He cares!!! He will take care of us - no matter what obsticles stand in our way!!!
Thank you God for this reminder today!!!
God has a wonderful solution for us....
Matthew 6:25-34
25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
As we are preparing for a major move - I find myself worrying about where we are going to live, will we have a house once we move there, what about flying with pets, etc.
Today - this was a wonderful, gentle reminder - that GOD KNOWS!!! He cares!!! He will take care of us - no matter what obsticles stand in our way!!!
Thank you God for this reminder today!!!
Monday, October 9, 2006
Be At Peace
Hi all - well it has been a busy time for me like always.... I need to plan a good time to write on here...
Well a lot has been happening in our lives this past 1 1/2 weeks. Decisions that need to be made. Major changes in our future, etc. It has left me sort of in a mind-set of wondering what will happen or not happen in the next few months....
Philippians 4:6
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
has been on my heart and mind!!!
I have been drawing on God's strength through everything - I listen to Praise & Worship a lot to keep my focus on Him - so that I don't sit and fret.
Hebrews 12:1-2
1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
We need to keep on keeping on - and the only way we can do this - is by Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith!!! He is the only way we can do all we need to do!!!
So I leave you with this thought - Keep on... Look to Jesus... Be at Peace!!!
In Christ,
Lori
Well a lot has been happening in our lives this past 1 1/2 weeks. Decisions that need to be made. Major changes in our future, etc. It has left me sort of in a mind-set of wondering what will happen or not happen in the next few months....
Philippians 4:6
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
has been on my heart and mind!!!
I have been drawing on God's strength through everything - I listen to Praise & Worship a lot to keep my focus on Him - so that I don't sit and fret.
Hebrews 12:1-2
1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
We need to keep on keeping on - and the only way we can do this - is by Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith!!! He is the only way we can do all we need to do!!!
So I leave you with this thought - Keep on... Look to Jesus... Be at Peace!!!
In Christ,
Lori
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