Good morning to all on this wonderful Tuesday morning. Waine and I are in Atlanta having spent a wonderful weekend with Kai and Hailee and their parents. Hailee will be 1 years old on 5/31/11 and to look at these two tykes and see how fast they grow is just amazing. Our oldest grandchild, Mackenzie will be starting high school in the fall and I was reminiscing the trips we used to take with her when she was Kai and Hailee's age. Time does march on and I for one need to stop and smell the roses to appreciate the abundance of health, wealth and happiness that God has bestowed on me and my family! ET is still on this side of Jordan and fighting. Please continue to keep him and his family in your prayers. Continue to pray for JKS and her healing. Pray for all those that are in need of jobs that God would bless them richly. I heard a sermon by Creflo Dollar. He indicated that there was life in abundance in the Garden until SIN was allowed in. SIN creates CHAOS and there is no abundance in CHAOS so look very carefully in your life for the SIN and CHAOS;there will be noabundance in the presense of SIN and CHAOS. Things that make you go "Hmmm".
I am continuing my journey in Jeremiah 2: 20 - 37, "Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, ‘I will not serve You!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute. I had planted you like a choice vine of sound and reliable stock. How then did you turn against Me into a corrupt, wild vine? Although you wash yourself with soap and use an abundance of cleansing powder, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Sovereign LORD. “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? See how you behaved in the valley; consider what you have done. You are a swift she-camel running here and there, a wild donkey accustomed to the desert, sniffing the wind in her craving— in her heat who can restrain her? Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves; at mating time they will find her. Do not run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you said, ‘It’s no use! I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’ “As a thief is disgraced when he is caught, so the people of Israel are disgraced— they, their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets. They say to wood, ‘You are my father,’ and to stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to me and not their faces; yet when they are in trouble, they say, ‘Come and save us!’ Where then are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them come if they can save you when you are in trouble! For you, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns. “Why do you bring charges against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD. “In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravenous lion. “You of this generation, consider the Word of the LORD: “Have I been a desert to Israel or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to you no more’? Does a young woman forget her jewelry, a bride her wedding ornaments? Yet my people have forgotten Me, days without number. How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women can learn from your ways. On your clothes is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all this you say, ‘I am innocent; He is not angry with me.’ But I will pass judgment on you because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’ Why do you go about so much, changing your ways? You will be disappointed by Egypt as you were by Assyria. You will also leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not be helped by them." Amen and amen!
Although the rebuke is for the children on Israel, the rebuke is germane to all of us. We all have an opportunity to serve God who loves us. Indeed He created us and bestows His abundance on us but we would rather worship any thing but the One God who created us. Indeed we would rather "worship" anything other than the true God, from Whom all things flow. Some value and worship power. They are consumed with it and wield it to their own satisfaction regardless of how many people they hurt. Some people worship money even though there is ample evidence that all things material fade and go by the wayside. Some people worship physical beauty. They by it; they lop off portions of themselves and yet age still advances. Some people worship stupidity and wear it like a badge of honor. They walk around and solicit the assent of others to their plight. Some people walk around and WORSHIP the idea that THERE IS NO GOD. Think about it--if there is no God then you don't have to declare it. You just want YOU on the throne of your life. So be it.
Having experienced the love of God on a daily basis, I am confused why others cannot see this Great Being for what He is--He is love and His standard is to love Him first and then of ourselves. His goal is to remove SIN and CHAOS from our lives so that we can experience the Life Abundant that was created, created, created for us. Put simply, if you find yourself in CHAOS then rebuke it and claim the order that comes through the love of God. Many things are a manifestation of CHAOS - illness, poverty, drug addiction, stupidity, obesity, negativity, self aggrandisement, narcissism, adultery--just evaluate if you find yourself in CHAOS and if so, look for the SIN in your life. When find that SIN then PRAY in JESUS NAME and the SIN will flee because SIN cannot be in the same place in which the NAME of Jesus is uttered. I want to live the life of abudance that is talked about in the Bible so I claim it in Jesus name.
Now may the LORD bless you and keep you; may the LORD make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; may the LORD turn His face toward you and give you peace.
Stephanie
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