To my Wife on her Birthday!

HAPPY B DAY SWEETIE! I've waited all year to tell you that and the time has come today to celebrate your Love, Life, Devotion, and Beauty both inside and out. 
Age together has brought our relationship to levels that I wouldn't know without you. I do not exaggerate when I say your the best, it's just true.
I would again like you to know that:
Your smile inspires me,
Your eyes own me,
Your face has a brilliance that rivals the sun,
Your kiss assures me,
Your touch melts me,
Your voice sooth's me,
Our offspring blesses us and others,
Your kindness and compassion humbles me,
Your forgiving me gives hope,
Your encouragement challenges me,
And your Unconditional Love motivates me,
Your presence in my life has honored me.
Your waking with me starts my day out with joy,
Your working with me has increased my accomplishments,
Sharing a meal together brightens my day,
Sharing a conversation with you settles my soul.
Your beautiful, smart, fun, you complete me.
Your faith is an encouragement to me, as is your application of being a Biblical wife.
It's easy to follow the command to "Love thy Wife" with you, and it's easy to "give thanks in everything" because of you.
There are no words to describe all the passion that you have lifted me to, in everything that has to do with this life we share.
You have made this "life" a heaven on earth for me here, with Love, Joy, and Peace in the Holy Spirit.
There is no gift (aside from Christ) that has been given to me greater than your Love, and never will be.
When we first met I didn't think that I could ever Love you more, but now the error of my understanding has been erased and Love is ever growing, every increasing.
As the song says "I love you more today than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow" is true and this course will continue throughout the rest of our lives.
I basque in your love, I grow in the glow of your countenance, I sigh at the sound of your voice, and I rest in your embrace.
You are too modest to confirm any of this, which is why your heart is so pure.
God bless and keep.
I Love you Elise
always and all ways,
forever and forever,
Moi
"Ps I love you......you......you.........you!"
The Beatles

A thought for the day!

Remember this!

You only "get up" once in the morning each day. Make sure that the "side of the bed" you get out on is your best. Scripture says that "Joy comes in the morning", don't waste that possibility with discontentment or complaint. Your "attitude" when you "rise" will "set" your "thought, words and deeds," for the day. The way you "rise" will either inspire others or discourage them, especially if there is a wife lying next to you, or children in the home.

Make waking up a fun time for all.

So as the children's praise song goes:

"Rise and shine and give God the glory-glory, Rise and shine and give God the glory-glory!"

What? It didn't happen that way this morning? Well "Lord willing", you will be given tomorrow to change all that, and the rest of the day to think about it today.

Love and Joy are both decisions and experiences that are made in the heart and carried out by expression to others.

Love God,

Love your wife/husband/family,

Love others as yourself, thus satisfying all the commands of God.

Love

J&E in Tn

His will be done..........in life and death.

One of the joys that we experience through Jesus Christ and an intimate relationship with Him!
Since the time I was Redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb His Word became not only "Revelational but also Experiential". A factor not always functional in the personal relationships of most believers now a day.
This event was added to my "Book of Divine Interventions" last night, and it came by God's Word being hidden in my heart not just over the years but "refreshed" by my "eating the Bread of Life" during our daily chores that day.
Romans 10:17
Now faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God."
Faith is the "Cornerstone" to any relationship with God, as the Scriptures say: "anything outside of faith is sin."
So "we" must believe all that the Bible offers us in order to "walk by faith." That is the goal of every Christian claiming the Name of Jesus, to walk as He did and to let the Holy Spirit "reproduce" through us "those works" that He (Jesus) did, and greater things.
I believe that this fact is the command of God to us who believe only on the fact that the Word says it and by faith we believe and claim it. Now it doesn't matter what YOU think on the matter, it only MATTERS what God says on the subject. Your experiences (or lack thereof) doesn't "write" the Word of God, but God's Word "writes" our experiences. This has nothing to do with "seeking a sign." It has all to do with "living by faith the promises of Scripture."

So where am I going with this???????

I believe that for every "situation" that we experience here on earth there is the appropriate Scripture, and there by Prayer, to be applied for us to "Honor God's Word" and "Claim a Victory" according with God's will for us, that day by faith. At the very least "to seek and find out what His will is."

After an intense day of working outside in the sun, going inside and trying to re-hydrate, I was slammed with a very strong malady. Aching stiff joints, a hot flush, and general sapping fatigue. As I prepared to go to bed early this scripture came to mind:
1 Corinthians 6:19
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
I immediately realized that I am just "sharing" God's temple with Him. A great joy came over me "receiving" this promise because " whether we live or we die, we are the Lords."
That Scripture just freed my spirit to rejoice in the promises of Christ that I am His and this body is only a temporary vessel.
Being healed is a great intervention by God in the flesh but the hard part is accepting that "not being healed: is to be home (our real home) with Him.
Whether or not we live or die we are the Lords.
My heart turned to praising God with great anticipation to see what "His Will is." Of course it was to stay so I could write this as here I am doing so.

The point?????

As Christians we have been promised "all the victories" that were sealed for us by the "Blood of Christ" and the "promises of God."
That's a surety!
The big problem comes by your answer to the question: What do you desire most?
This mortal life?
Eternal life come to pass?
Or actually praying by faith to "know His will" either way and rejoicing in it?
"Your body is the temple of God", you only "reside" here for a while. You are sojourning in a land not yours and we are supposed to be "seeking" the one whose builder and maker is God.
God not only wanted us to surrender our sin's and sinful lives, but also our hearts and wills to serve Him in all matters, including life and death.
Real freedom comes from knowing that Our Father in Heaven has our best in His heart always and all ways, whether life or death.
Brothers and Sisters in Christ we can't loose.
Lets live everyday like we have the victory.........over all life both temporal and eternal.
Now that gives real joy!
Love
J&E in Tn

You are precious!

Sunday morning revelation:

Did you ever consider why mankind is so precious, valuable? Why all our efforts as "man" strive for continuance, preservation. I believe that it's found in Genesis 2:7. In this intimate account of man being created by God it was made obvious for the first time to me.

God didn't "form" man out of some precious mineral such as diamond, or metal such as gold or silver, in fact He didn't form us out of anything in His creation that has value.

He formed us out of the "dust of the ground." The most basic and simple commodity in creation. A very humble beginning. Not like the other parts of creation that He spoke into existence with His Word, calling then forth from things that did not exist, but with the humble "forming" from the dust.

So then what did He do to give us this preciousness, priceless value that we have all inherited?

Genesis 2:7

"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

"He breathed into mans nostrils the breath of life."

No other object did God do this for.

All other creatures were "called" into existence/life, man was "formed" by Gods hands, (the first personal intimate touch of God in the creation process), then "breathed" into life, (the first and only time God brought to life anything in His creation by the breath of life that was His), making man (and only man) "in His image and likeness."

For no other reason than that you are valuable.

For no other reason than that you are precious.

Because He created us so, in His image and likeness, formed with His own hands, breathed in by His own breath of life, we have value above all the rest of creation.

He declares you priceless, precious, and beyond value, something that no one can take, bully, demean, from you, as you have within you His breath of life and His fingerprints on your being.

If you ever "felt" that you weren't important, or that no one cares for your life or situation this is proof otherwise.

God loves you so much as to redeem you with the sacrifice of His Son so that His "fingerprints and breath of life" will return to Him.

God bless and keep,

Love

J&E in Tn

He chose us.

Just realizing how blessed we are who have taken part in the Lords "harvest". Loved by God, bought with the price of Jesus Christ, called to Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit, now part of the Family of God. We always hear the preaching about "the harvest is great but the laborers are few" but seldom hear about the blessings of "being the one harvested." Christ, perfecting the harvest of the seed (us) by "winnowing" out the chaff of our lives and empowering us to be conformed into His image and likeness.

What an amazing blessing to be taken out of our sin by the Creator of all that exists, and just for coming out by His promise, to be "washed and cleansed" white as snow, our sins forgiven. On top of that we receive a "position" in His ranks of believers to serve Him, and then He empowers us to do the things He asks us to with the power of he Holy Spirit. Not leaving us on our own but "working through us" to do His will. When we need to pray He says "pray in the Holy Spirit. When we need strength He is our strength in weakness. When we are hungry He is our "meat" and when we thirst He is the "living waters."

He promises to "meet our needs" and to do more than we can think or ask.

All this because, from before the beginning, He loved us with an Unconditional Love, even though He knew our sin and rebellion against Him, but Love never fails, and God can not fail because God is Love. This kind of Love has been available for all men for all of time, past, present and future.

"He stands at the door and knocks" with forgiveness and position to all who will "answer the calling."

We did and we have not been disappointed but blessed.

Love

J&E in Tn

More on Unconditional Love and Life

Everything that can be done during our short time here needs doing. Sounds like a simple application but it's not. 
I think the first effort on that list is to have an intimate relationship with God through Jesus Christ so we can learn to Love Unconditionally. This is the first and most difficult item to accomplish. Why? Because it's an exercise that is "life long", a continuing growing process with endless blessings for both the giver and the receiver, this "growing" with God and in His Unconditional Love.
If we follow the First Commandment with passion:
Matthew 22:36-40
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Following these verses automatically means that you have an intimate relationship with God through Jesus Christ so the foundation is already built to "grow" the Unconditional Love on.
Then the Second Commandment will naturally follow which is the carrying out of Unconditional Love that you received from God to others.
Practicing this will not only make us "hearers of the Word but doers of the Word", a healthy position to be in spiritually and physically. We then can "Love as Jesus Loves" thereby fulfilling all Scripture and bringing "glory to our Father in Heaven."
God can use believers like that to bring His Kingdom "on earth as it is in Heaven."
This being in place and growing daily will help doing the rest of the "need to do" list of life go smoother and more efficiently.
God bless and keep.
Love
J&E in Tn

Being "One with God"

Your Christian experience will only be as miraculous as your faith is to walk in the Spirit (Holy Spirit)! Faith in Jesus Christ was never meant to be a ritual of liturgical motions, but a becoming of One with Jesus Christ and our Father in Heaven. We have been given the best example of a perfect Father, and the best example of a Brother in Jesus Christ. in fact it was so important that Jesus prayed the Father about that "oneness."

John 17: 20-23

20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

"And the glory thou has given me I have given them", "that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me". The world knows the truth by witnessing that we are one with Jesus and with our Father because we share the Fathers glory through Jesus Christ the same way He did. "The Truth shall (not maybe, but shall,) set you free!"

So this begs the question to be asked: "are you free today?"

Is your "Oneness" with God making you free more and more each new day?

Does the reward of being One with God cause your "faith" to grow" in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ daily?

Is your "Christian" experience ALIVE like it's portrayed in Scripture to be?

Do you uses up all your grace fighting your own demons instead of putting them to rest in the finished work of Jesus Christ, His death and resurrection?

Is there an abundance enough of grace to make a joyful noise unto the Lord of the earth, regardless of whether you are "happy, glad, sad or mad"?

Being one with God, and Jesus comes with the blessing of being in His presence which should bring "joy unspeakable and full of glory". How can that cause any other reaction then throwing ones hands up into the air and singing the Hallelujah course from the heart?

If your Christian experience is not somehow acclimating to a higher form every day then you need to pray about becoming deeper in oneness with Jesus and the Father.

I have found that "let God be True and every man a liar" to be just so, and those that esteem His Word as Truth will be set free to a greater degree as their "walk" with Him deepens. If we select areas in His Word to deem "unnecessary" or "false" because the "times have changed", then we will miss the "hand of God" in our lives to it's fullest application because of lack of faith. How do we get faith? "Now faith comes by hearing and that by hearing the Word of God." To "hear God's Word" is to is to "obey God's Word!" There are only two choices: obey, or disobey! If you are not doing the first one (obeying) then you are automatically doing the second one.

Remember that God never maid His Word an option in anyone's life. It's the same for both the Jew and the Gentile. We all know that the word Gentile covers everyone else on the planet outside the Jewish race. Regardless of religious faction, race, creed, color, ect.

Resurrection Celebration Day is a good time to "reconfigure" our "Walking in the Spirit" application of Christianity to bring us deeper in our "oneness" with God our Father through the Lord Jesus Christ.

God bless and sanctify through Jesus Christ.

Love

J&E in Tn