Thank you sweet sister Mel, and you are very welcome!Praise God!! What a powerful testimony sister!! Thank you for sharing <3
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Thank you sweet sister Mel, and you are very welcome!Praise God!! What a powerful testimony sister!! Thank you for sharing <3
Amen and amen brother Dan!!!Okay, first of all - Thanks for the Birthday Bash! It was awesome!
As far as my day? Well, work forgot the memo on the awesome!LOL...But that is Ok - I celebrate it because I am His and created in Him, by Him, for His purposes and intentions, so with a special HALLELUJAH Attached I worked all the more and had my own internal Bash!!
But now I am off work, and my Birthday is over (so that business is put to rest)LOL ... now I can join you guys in Church.....Don't tell anyone but we are having Church up in here! The milk is turning into meat as the Word becomes alive in us! As we Living it, we begin to encourage it - one with another as born-again Children of God!
When I signed up for CC - This is what I was starving for - Fellowship!
When our spirit flows with the Holy Spirit and we obey - and another spirit flows with the Holy Spirit and obeys - there is power in the room! Wonder working power! And as it is a one-way power it sweeps us up with a force to be reckoned with; even knocking us off OUR feet. Jesus is the river of life that passes by us all in community as we all add our power God has installed in us as transformed lives to that river flow. overwhelmingly He gives us tears of joy and praise increasing our encouragement all the more! Our possessions become a tool for God to use and are not our own, our homes opens up to all God wants to touch base with. It is where God blesses us and moves us in the Words teaching and rebuking and correcting and training as we are touched by the fullness of His ever tender loving grace and care.
This is encouragement! This threads theme has become godly encouragement by simply being in Christ! It is encouragement by definition! It is Church by definition! It is Righteousness by definition!
How can all of these separate things be by the same definition - as encouragement? The Bible says the "fruit" not the "fruits" of the Spirit are....etc etc.. This shows us if we are in Christ we receive them all at once as the flow of the Holy Spirit is the same in character for us all, as we grow into both the experience of the death we went thru with Jesus on a Cross as a fact, and the Redemptive life we are being molded into now..as a powerful fact we will also experientially be trained in by God Himself via Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and circumstances.
It is awesome to see, read, and feel here! Thank you all for being surrendered to Him! Keep it all up, for there are many we do not see - That are watching! And God is showing His love one with another as His Family. It is good to be here.... I can rest with you in Christ!
Okay, first of all - Thanks for the Birthday Bash! It was awesome!
As far as my day? Well, work forgot the memo on the awesome!LOL...But that is Ok - I celebrate it because I am His and created in Him, by Him, for His purposes and intentions, so with a special HALLELUJAH Attached I worked all the more and had my own internal Bash!!
But now I am off work, and my Birthday is over (so that business is put to rest)LOL ... now I can join you guys in Church.....Don't tell anyone but we are having Church up in here! The milk is turning into meat as the Word becomes alive in us! As we Living it, we begin to encourage it - one with another as born-again Children of God!
When I signed up for CC - This is what I was starving for - Fellowship!
When our spirit flows with the Holy Spirit and we obey - and another spirit flows with the Holy Spirit and obeys - there is power in the room! Wonder working power! And as it is a one-way power it sweeps us up with a force to be reckoned with; even knocking us off OUR feet. Jesus is the river of life that passes by us all in community as we all add our power God has installed in us as transformed lives to that river flow. overwhelmingly He gives us tears of joy and praise increasing our encouragement all the more! Our possessions become a tool for God to use and are not our own, our homes opens up to all God wants to touch base with. It is where God blesses us and moves us in the Words teaching and rebuking and correcting and training as we are touched by the fullness of His ever tender loving grace and care.
This is encouragement! This threads theme has become godly encouragement by simply being in Christ! It is encouragement by definition! It is Church by definition! It is Righteousness by definition!
How can all of these separate things be by the same definition - as encouragement? The Bible says the "fruit" not the "fruits" of the Spirit are....etc etc.. This shows us if we are in Christ we receive them all at once as the flow of the Holy Spirit is the same in character for us all, as we grow into both the experience of the death we went thru with Jesus on a Cross as a fact, and the Redemptive life we are being molded into now..as a powerful fact we will also experientially be trained in by God Himself via Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and circumstances.
It is awesome to see, read, and feel here! Thank you all for being surrendered to Him! Keep it all up, for there are many we do not see - That are watching! And God is showing His love one with another as His Family. It is good to be here.... I can rest with you in Christ!
It's 1:50 a.m. here. Been tossing and turning since midnight so I said, heck with it, I'll just get up.. lol
Chloe the catermelon hasn't given birth yet, but her estimated due date is today or tomorrow. Hopefully she'll wait until I get home from grocery shopping later on this morning.. lol
My flag is Samoa sisteralthough I’m Samoan, I currently live in New Zealand
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I know, this is super awesome!! Hehe. Aw sweet sister, Samoa is GREAT and a beautiful islandI've never been to Samoa or New Zealand. Hmmmmmm.............perhaps I should get out more often! LOL!
I've heard New Zealand is beautiful. Not sure where Samoa is. Isn't it fun to be all over the world and yet, able to communicate like this in real time?!!! So fun! You're a blessing!![]()
Correct!! Haha there are many lil islands in the pacific ocean as well. My parents migrated from Samoa to NZ, which you can just see below Australia - where our lovely sister HUFL is fromI found Samoa!!! Wow, such a tiny island! Love it!
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Hey, that’s ok if you don’t last, you know where to find us LOL I slept online just yesterday and didn’t realise til I woke up HahhhhaI'm not sure how much longer I'm gonna last.................it's 1:30 am where I am.![]()
Hello lovely one. How art thou this fine day that the Lord has made?
I have been off work sick most of this week
Today I felt well enough to do some laundry!
First I had to go out for coffee, and breakfast.
That was lovely, but then I forgot my coffee in the car
That was okay, because I really wanted to drink what was left of it
(which was a full half of a large medium roast from my friendly
neighborhood coffee shop) and the trip back out to my car
coincided with the beginning of my doing laundry![]()
I know, this is super awesome!! Hehe. Aw sweet sister, Samoa is GREAT and a beautiful islandyou should definitely take a vacay there! Blue beaches, white sand, great people hehe!
You know we kind of laugh at this, but when I think of how nothing happens in my life without God's approval and He is in Control of every detail, as is Jesus all and in all - I am reminded of what happened to me today:
I went to work and parked my car. I have always been blessed with a decent parking position, which is noteworthy on its own - but today I was left in the vast distance, and I said immediately to God, "But it is my Birthday!" He immediately shared in spirit how I need to be humble and let God establish my steps, so I said, "Yes, You are right, I will make this spot my special spot then!" And I went off to work settled and pleased.
But just before my shift began, I had to go back to put some things I had in my pocket away. As I only had 5 minutes to go before shift started, I opened the door and looked across the way and saw a front row stall open - not a single soul there! "No Way!" I said to myself . I was so far away however, that I doubted I could drive there in time before someone else would steal it, but I said, I have faith Lord, because I prayed (kind of) for a better spot - so I believed He would establish this particular blessing for me as I pursued to re-park.
As I rushed over I was delighted to notice no one else smiting my endeavor by snatching it, and I began to pull in feeling a bit upraised and excited - then suddenly the "BEST SPOT" in the entire parking lot opened up as I was turning into this wonderful "good enough" spot, This best version was awesome! It had painted walk lines on the right that went 3 feet with no cars there so I could open my door freely, and on the left of it it had the same walk way pattern with about 3 feet of room so no one would dent my car either! It also wasn't a handi-cap stall! It was simply the very closest and the one directly in front of the facility - it was the BEST. It was Golden! It made me feel like I was soaring like eagles! So, I zipped over to it, now, fully engulfed in my enthusiasm and thanks - and as I finished putting it into park my 5 minutes were up! I had to go in..
God took a blessing and put His glory stamp on it! He gave me what I could only imagine as great, then He opened up His awesome! His Best versus my "Good enough." And I was humbled and I literally felt His glory and love from it as HIs Spirit testified to mine...I know I am silly you may say....but I know I am not! - I believe God shows me Himself like this in many occasions along the valley road...and I am in Awe of Him for it all! Praise His Name!
LOL that's hilarious! And we're excited that you are excited making us all excited to worship the LORD!!!! LOL![]()
Nice ! God is good!You know we kind of laugh at this, but when I think of how nothing happens in my life without God's approval and He is in Control of every detail, as is Jesus all and in all - I am reminded of what happened to me today:
I went to work and parked my car. I have always been blessed with a decent parking position, which is noteworthy on its own - but today I was left in the vast distance, and I said immediately to God, "But it is my Birthday!" He immediately shared in spirit how I need to be humble and let God establish my steps, so I said, "Yes, You are right, I will make this spot my special spot then!" And I went off to work settled and pleased.
But just before my shift began, I had to go back to put some things I had in my pocket away. As I only had 5 minutes to go before shift started, I opened the door and looked across the way and saw a front row stall open - not a single soul there! "No Way!" I said to myself . I was so far away however, that I doubted I could drive there in time before someone else would steal it, but I said, I have faith Lord, because I prayed (kind of) for a better spot - so I believed He would establish this particular blessing for me as I pursued to re-park.
As I rushed over I was delighted to notice no one else smiting my endeavor by snatching it, and I began to pull in feeling a bit upraised and excited - then suddenly the "BEST SPOT" in the entire parking lot opened up as I was turning into this wonderful "good enough" spot, This best version was awesome! It had painted walk lines on the right that went 3 feet with no cars there so I could open my door freely, and on the left of it it had the same walk way pattern with about 3 feet of room so no one would dent my car either! It also wasn't a handi-cap stall! It was simply the very closest and the one directly in front of the facility - it was the BEST. It was Golden! It made me feel like I was soaring like eagles! So, I zipped over to it, now, fully engulfed in my enthusiasm and thanks - and as I finished putting it into park my 5 minutes were up! I had to go in..
God took a blessing and put His glory stamp on it! He gave me what I could only imagine as great, then He opened up His awesome! His Best versus my "Good enough." And I was humbled and I literally felt His glory and love from it as HIs Spirit testified to mine...I know I am silly you may say....but I know I am not! - I believe God shows me Himself like this in many occasions along the valley road...and I am in Awe of Him for it all! Praise His Name!
What you're saying is NOT strange at all to me!
The things we go through, gives us what others need. We're glorifying God with our testimonies and and testimonies are helping others!
God's ways are so high and above ours............. we stumble with understanding what's going on with us, until He reveals what He is doing.
After stumbling often, I have learned to just simply.................Trust Him.![]()
Oh no doubt Heaven is going to heavenlyI do enjoy the tropics. I've never been to Hawaii. I have been to the Caribbean which has white sand and blue water. So beautiful!
God's creation yet, it's fallen. When I see something beautiful in creation, it just makes me think how incredible the New Heaven and Earth is going to be......................something so celestial, I'm sure!![]()
gorgeous gorgeous, beautiful coats !!!![]()
(((Hugs)))) Lovelythought I'd brave it and come back hehehe.
Hey though, just read what you wrote - Jesus found me as a right state. A preacher encouraged me, "Don't wait to go to Jesus, don't wait until you're cleaned up. See, I thought I had to clean up a bit before 'approaching' Jesus cos He was/ is so Holy. I thought I was too unclean!!!!!! Preacher quoted Nirvana song to me, "Come as you are...." Can't believe I waited so long, or thought I needed to clean myself up before going to The Redeemer and Healer. Shakes me head now... God Bless you lovely[/QUOTE
Yes, God accepts us as we are. He is the one that will do any cleaning up, from the inside out. It doesn't matter that you waited so long. My wife didn't understand about salvation until she was 56 years old. She spent years trying to clean up. Then one day it was explained to her in terms that she could understand. She said that she cried like a baby when she finally realized her salvation. It was a happy day for her.
Amen to this little Gem as well! Tourist - Your Spirit keeps adding to the other spirits flow and look how it is a go! We live in Righteousness , as the fruit is showing as well! Good Stuff Maynard! God accepts us as we are - but He never leaves us there! Amen! Let Redemptive living have its way, Lord, in us all!
For Slave!! Happy Birthday
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God Bless you Slave, hope you're having a nice day.![]()