Good morning to all on this glorious Wednesday morning. Still cold here with snow on the ground. I got a virus from one of the rug rats I took care of on Monday and felt very much under the weather last night but thanks to the loving care of my husband I feel much better this morning. Please continue to pray for ET and his family and also pray for our son Freddie and his family. Freddie will be moving to Atlanta for his new job. Please pray that God will sell their Florida home in this down market and that he and his family will get out of the house what they put in. Also pray that his wife will get a job. She has a Master's degree in clinical counseling. She runs an assisted living facility now. This morning's BLOG has three (3) distinct parts. Don't miss any of it although long.
Now I want to share a truly inspirational story with you that was shared by one of my friends. I have copied her email below and you will be blessed. My prayer is that we can get an African American artist to also pick up the song and that it will get world wide coverage. The title of her email was "Out of the Mouth of Babes".
"As we are beginning to celebrate the Christmas season, I think this video is a great way to start. Please read the story, then click on the website below, and watch the video. This powerful message will help guide your focus and heart for this Christmas season. Beautiful !!!
Here is the story behind the song:
While at the mall a couple of years ago, my then four year old nephew, Spencer, saw kids lined up to see Santa Claus. Having been taught as a toddler that Christmas is the holiday that Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, he asked his mom, "Where's the line to see Jesus?" My sister mentioned this to my dad, who immediately became inspired and jotted words down to a song in just a few minutes. After putting music to the words, and doing a quick recording at home, he received a great response from friends. He sent the song off to Nashville without much response, except for a Christian song writer who suggested adding a bridge at the end of the first chorus. My dad then asked if I wanted to record the song to see what we could do with it. I listened to the song, made a few changes to the words to make it flow better, and we headed to Shock City Studios. It was at the studio where Chris, owner and producer, rewrote the 2nd verse and part of the chorus. With goosebumps and emotions high, we were all hopeful and felt like we had something special. The demo was recorded in just under 2 hours and sent off again to Nashville .... still no response. Then 2 weeks before Christmas last year, my cousins, Greg and Robbie, decided to do a video to see what we could accomplish on YouTube. The first day we had 3000 hits and it soared from there. We received e-mails, phone calls, Facebook messages from people all over asking for the music, CDs, iTunes, anything .... we had nothing. After a couple of meetings with Chris following the amazing response, we got serious. We headed back into the studio this past spring, this time with guitars, drums, bass, pianos, choirs -- the real deal -- and here we are today. We set up iTunes, put a website together, and were loving that thousands upon thousands of Christians have come together remembering the true meaning of Christmas. Out of the mouths of babes comes profound truths that many adults cannot understand. Merry Christmas everyone. Click on this for the beautiful song.
http://www.youtube.com/user/beckykelleySTL
Wasn't that wonderful? God blesses us continuously! I am continuing my journey in Romans 9 verses 19-33 "One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist His will?” But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the One who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?" Does not the Potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use? What if God, although choosing to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the objects of His wrath—prepared for destruction? What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the objects of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory? Even us, whom He also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My people’ who are not My people; and I will call her ‘My loved one’ who is not My loved one,” and, “In the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God." Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved. For the Lord will carry out His sentence on earth with speed and finality.” It is just as Isaiah said previously: “Unless the Lord Almighty had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.”What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal. Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. As it is written: See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.” Amen!
My husband, Waine, and I have this running dialogue of why God chooses to do some things and not others; or why God allows things to happen. I am of the ilk that He can do whatever He wants because He is the Creator and I am His clay. I don't need to know why--I need to trust and obey. TRUST that He has only GOOD planned for my life and OBEY His commandment to LOVE HIM with all of my heart and being and then to LOVE you as I love myself. If I focus on these two commandments daily then I am free to experience all the GOODNESS that He has in store for me this day. God has already smiled on me this day with the Utube video I just shared with you and I am in firm belief that this video is going to touch the world because its genisis was PURE--as it says in Matthews 18:4 "Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven." This is what Paul is getting at! The Promise was given to Abraham not because of his ethnicity, culture or gender. The Promise was given to Abraham because of his faith. It is our individual faith that makes us one with God through Christ. We don't have to over think it. We just have to trust and obey. I personally know what that means. When others would write the "end of your story" you must boldly assert that only God has the Power to write the end of your story! Believe me when I tell you, when God writes the end of a story it is one for the ages and you will be fulfilled for ever more. Just give your heart to Jesus and be saved from the confusion of this world.
Where is the line for Jesus today? Hallelujah and amen!
Stephanie
No comments:
Post a Comment