Come Into The Deep End... with ImHisServant (2)

[LivingLifeHisWay]

Great Topic!!!


Reflections:
What do you put your faith in—a friend, a family member, yourself or Christ?

In Christ my Savior.

Who is holding the reins of your life, you or Christ?

I would say Christ is holding on to the reins of my life but every now and then I do try to take them back. When I take them back and do things MY way is when everything falls apart.

How often do you talk to Jesus in prayer about your burdens, heartaches, or trials?

I talk to Jesus all day long. AND I talk to Him out loud. It's like He's right there next to me. I tell ya if anyone walked into my home they would think I was a nut job. My son Tyler sometimes thinks I'm talking to him.

Power Verses:
Nahum 1:7 “The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in Him.” (KJV)

Philippians 4:6, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” NIV

Hebrews 11:1, “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” NIV

John 14:1, “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.” NIV





Thank you for these verses...they are beautiful!

 

[Maharg]

Thank you for your prayers! I don't know if I have visited that forum or not. I've been in the pregnancy loss support one - is there another one that I didn't see? I'd love to check it out! Thank you!

Here's the link:
http://www.christianforums.com/t4436583-ttcers-unite-a-place-to-chat-2.html

 

[Maharg]

Thank you for the prayers

 

[jenrenee]

Here's the link:
http://www.christianforums.com/t4436583-ttcers-unite-a-place-to-chat-2.html

Thanks! I'm gonna go check it out right now!

 

[Gazelle]

I am strong in the Lord and the power of His might . . .

 

[SunMessenger]

Good Morning All
Have A Blessed Day !
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[woman.at.the.well]

Holding On To Your Faith
By Micca Monda Campbell

“Isaiah 26:3, “You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.” (NIV)

Reflections:
What do you put your faith in—a friend, a family member, yourself or Christ?

Who is holding the reins of your life, you or Christ?

How often do you talk to Jesus in prayer about your burdens, heartaches, or trials?

Power Verses:
Nahum 1:7 “The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in Him.” (KJV)

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus is all I can say to all three reflection questions. Although from time to time I do forget to hold onto, He always gently pulls me back to him and reminds me of Whom to I belong.

That verse from Isaiah is one of my most favorite verses of all and got me through a terrible time at work for a couple of years.

Excellent topic cristianna!

 

[Maharg]

Reflections:
What do you put your faith in—a friend, a family member, yourself or Christ?

Who is holding the reins of your life, you or Christ?

How often do you talk to Jesus in prayer about your burdens, heartaches, or trials?

1. I don't always put my full faith in Christ, but I am learning to more and more. It's very difficult at times. Sometimes it's so much easier to put faith in things that we can see.

2. I think that Christ is holding the reins and that they really are needed at the moment. I don't think I am yet at the stage where I can simply follow my common sense and it is automatically God's will because I am walking do closely to him that his and my will are intertwined. That is certainly how I want it, but at the moment, the reins are still necessary. I am keeping within his will but am finding it hard to trust and to accept the bravery and perseverence that I must develop to carry on being where he has placed me.

3. I talk to Jesus daily, sometimes even more, although I often forget how simple prayer can be and how God answers even very simple direct requests. He has answered three very specific prayers today - one in relation to me doing well in a teaching observation.

Thank you to anyone who has been praying, by the way.

I love the Lord. Isn't it funny how easy it is to forget how powerful and marvellous he is and to end up putting our trust in other things. May we all learn to always trust God first and foremost for everything and eagerly allow him to take complete control of our lives.

 

[LivingLifeHisWay]

May we all learn to always trust God first and foremost for everything and eagerly allow him to take complete control of our lives.

 

[Criada]

Reflections:
What do you put your faith in—a friend, a family member, yourself or Christ?
Christ! He is the only one worthy of our faith!
Who is holding the reins of your life, you or Christ?
Christ again - I'd crash!
How often do you talk to Jesus in prayer about your burdens, heartaches, or trials?
All the time! I am learning to spend more time worshipping Him and not going on about myself - but I'm not there yet!

Great topic! Thanks.

 

[rosiecotton]

Wow, it's Thursday again isn't it!!??
Give me a few minutes and I'll post today's topic. I remember a couple days ago and was going to get it ready, but didn't get to it! Sorry it's late again!

 

[rosiecotton]

Ok, this may be a little longer than normal. But, it is really good, and since it's an interview, I didn't want to cut any of it out.



How's Your Love Life?, Part 5

Series: How's Your Love Life?​

Leslie Basham: What would you do if you were in this woman's situation?
Dorothy: I've been married for 55 years, and my husband has never really met my needs. When I had been married about 20 years, many people said that I should get a divorce; and I said, "That's not God's way."
Leslie Basham: Today we'll hear Dorothy's story. It's Tuesday, February 12; and you're listening to Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Leigh DeMoss. We're in the middle of a series called How's Your Love Life? Nancy's been teaching through 1 Corinthians 13, encouraging us to hold a biblical standard of love. Today we'll hear from a woman who's been listening along with us. She has a lot to say about love and commitment. Here's Nancy to introduce our guest.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss: Dorothy, we were talking just a bit ago, and you shared with me a story that I thought was so precious and such a powerful illustration of the kind of love we've been talking about in this series, the kind of love that's patient and long-suffering. Can you share with these ladies just a little bit of what you were telling me?
Dorothy: Before this meeting today, the Lord had been talking to me. I'd asked Him to show me the things in my heart that stand in the way of real use for Him. He showed me that I am a very impatient person, and it shows in the way that I treat my husband. He has Alzheimer's. I have to repeat things to him several times, and I get really impatient. He never seems to hear me until I sound angry. I just hate it that I sound like that.
I've asked the Lord to help me to learn to have His patience so that I really treat Mel as He wants me to treat him--as He treats him, as He loves him. I've been married for 55 years, and my husband has never really met my needs. When I had been married about 20 years, many people said I should get a divorce; and I said, "That's not God's way." I was convicted that I didn't love him as I ought.
I had gone to this pastor (and this is the first time I ever saw God in another person).
I said to him, "I'm really convicted. I don't love my husband as I ought."
And he said--he just looked at me; and he said, "Jesus is in you, isn't He?"
I said, "Yes."
He said, "He'll love him through you."
So I went home, and I prayed every day. Every morning I said, "Lord, love my husband through me."
And you know, I woke up one morning; and I was in love with him. It was just so amazing that God will do that, that He answers prayer like that. And where I am right now with the Alzheimer's--at this point--I am angry and upset before I respond to him (my husband). I really regret that, and I pray that God will change it.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss: Dorothy, you've taken a huge first step toward dealing with that issue. As I listen to your story, you've loved this man for 55 years--learned to love him with the love of God. You've been faithful. You've had a love that endures and that bears and that perseveres. It sounds like, now, God is giving you a new opportunity, a new test--to grow in a new level of love. (It is) the same love that that pastor told you about 35 years ago--Jesus living in you. And you went home and said, "Jesus, love my husband through me." It sounds to me like that's exactly the way that God wants to work in your life today. Now, in this new situation, you have that same Jesus living in you.
Dorothy: I'm going to start praying again.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss: The opportunity is now fresh for you to say, "Lord, You've loved through me all these years. Now in this test, when my husband is in this difficult physical condition, would You love my husband through me?" And as He's done it all these years, I really believe He will do it for you now.
Dorothy: Thank you.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss: And by the way, older women--do you think you would qualify, Dorothy, as an older woman? Older women are supposed to teach younger women, and many of us in this room are younger than Dorothy. What are they supposed to teach the younger women? How to love their husbands. Dorothy, you just fulfilled the Word of God by sharing out of your life with us. You have a message there that I don't have, and you shared out of your life message.
God wants us not to just spectate when we hear older women share out their lives, but to say, "Lord, what am I supposed to learn?" If older women are supposed to teach, what are younger women supposed to do? Learn! There may be a younger women in this room that God's saying to you, "Your husband doesn't have Alzheimer's, but you're impatient. And you tend to be angry with him." If God is speaking to your heart about that, perhaps, standing in the way of your relationship with Him and your spiritual usefulness, then be quick to say, "Yes, Lord. I agree with You." That's what confession is. And then say, "Change me. I repent. Fill me with Your Spirit. Make me a lover--long-suffering as You are long-suffering with me."
Dorothy, you've shared with us that your husband has Alzheimer's. How long has he been diagnosed with Alzheimer's?
Dorothy: Maybe 6 years--5 or 6 years, I can't remember. But he's still in pretty good shape. The bad days aren't here yet, and that's what scares me. I need God's patience before those days come. He's able to go to a senior center. He's able to come to church. He's able to do most everything for himself, but he can't reason. And his short-term memory is shot. I had to leave him a note today. He asked me where I was going, and I knew he wouldn't remember. I had to tell him approximately what time I would be home. I do those kinds of things, as caretaking at that level, but nothing compared to what it can become.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss: And aren't you glad that you don't need grace today for what it will be (like) a year or 6 years from now?
Dorothy: God provides ...
Nancy Leigh DeMoss: He provides what you need for today.
Dorothy: Right, He'll provide each day what I need, and He only asks us to take one step at a time.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss: And that's exactly what you're doing is taking one step at a time.
Dorothy: That's all I can do.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss: Dorothy, some people would hear about what you're facing; and they would say, "Wow, it's understandable that in a situation like (that) you would be impatient or angry." In fact, a lot of people would say that it's justified to be angry or impatient, but you said that God convicted you that this was not right. How is that?
Dorothy: I think it is understandable in the fleshly realm, but that isn't where I want to live. The Lord wants me to live a spiritual life, and He wants to live in my body. He's perfect, and that's a big challenge.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss: Yet, aren't you glad that He has mercy for us when we're not perfect?
Dorothy: Oh, He is merciful.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss: What do you do when you blow it?
Dorothy: God is so merciful. When I think that He loves us so much. Not only that He died--that it broke the Godhead. The only time They had no fellowship with one another was during the time on the cross. We worry about all of this bombing and all of these things that are going on around us and all that evil. And we shudder. Jesus became all of that to die for us. I'm overwhelmed by His love and His mercy. His mercy is so great (that) He would become what we, even on the human level, abhor. Yet, because He's perfect, we have no idea of the sacrifice He made.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss: It's really His love in you that is motivating you to want to love your husband in that way.
Dorothy: It's His love in us that motivates us to--that's all, we're dead without Him.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss: Amen
Nancy Leigh DeMoss: Thank you, Lord, for the refreshing honesty of this precious sister. How her life illustrates the kind of love that so few wives understand today! Thank You for teaching her all those years ago how to love her husband by faith. You have given her an incredible, supernatural love for her husband.
Now when she asked You if there was anything standing in the way of her relationship with You or her spiritual usefulness, You pointed out to her before she even came to hear this series that there was a lack of love. She was being impatient and angry with her husband.
As we listened to her tell this, all of us feel, naturally, that if we were in her shoes, we would have that same struggle. Our flesh would also want to be impatient and angry. We might not do as well with it as she has. But she doesn't want to just survive. She doesn't want to just cope. She wants to be--not a victim but a victor--in this relationship.
I pray that You would empty her of herself, empty her of that selfish, angry, impatient response. And as each of these situations arise where she does have to repeat herself or minister to her husband in a difficult way, would You fill her with Your love? Thank you that You do live inside her as you live inside each of us who are Your children. And that You can love her husband through her.
Lord, as we've heard her share, You're speaking to our own hearts. We realize there are situations when we are prone to be impatient and angry, when we're not long-suffering. I pray that you will cause us to be as honest as this sister has been, to be quick to agree with You and to repent about our loveless ways--and to go back into our homes, our workplaces, our relationships and to love with the love of Christ that the world may know that we are Your disciples. I pray for Jesus' sake, Amen.

 

[Smileyill]

Is this a true story? If so, 55 years WOW! But I suppose 55 years seems a mere moment to eternity.

 

[cristianna]

What a powerful story and testimony. Thanks for posting rosiecotton!

 

[burn97]

God Bless rosiecotton. That truly shows, that through God, nothing is impossible, no task to simple or to hard.

 

[krys4ever]

Good Morning !
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[burn97]

A Deeper look at Psalm 23: Part 7

March 23, 2007

'For His Name's Sake'
If you want to touch God's heart, use the name he loves
to hear. Call him Father.
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God is the one who heals. He may use a branch of medicine or a branch of a hospital or a branch of a life oak tree, but he is the one who takes the poison out of the system. He is Jehovah-rophe.
He is also Jehovah-nissi, the Lord my banner. . . .
These are just a few of the names of God that describe his character. Study them, for in any given day, you may need each one of them. Let me show you what I mean.
When you're confused about the future, go to your Jehovah-raah, your caring shepherd. When you're anxious about provision, talk to your Jehovah-jireh, the Lord who provides. Are your challenges too great? Seek, the heal of Jehovah-shalom, the Lord is peace. Is your body sick? Are your emotions weak?Jehovah-rophe, the Lord who heals you, will see you now. Do you feel like a soldier stranded behind enemy lines? Take refuge in Jehovah-nissi,the Lord my banner.
Meditating on the names of God reminds you of the character of God. Take these names and bury them in your heart.
God is. . . .
the shepherd who guides,
the Lord who provides,
the voice who brings peace in the storm,
the physician who heals the sick, and
the banner that guides the solider.

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[jenrenee]

Great topic today! It reminded me of this poem:
The Many Names of Christ

To the Artist He is the One altogether lovely.
To the Architect He is the chief corner stone.
To the Baker He is the Living Bread.
To the Banker He is the Hidden Treasure.
To the Biologist He is the Life.
To the Builder He is the sure foundation.
To the Carpenter He is the Door.
To the Doctor He is the Great Physician.
To the Educator He is the Great Teacher.
To the Engineer He is the New and Living Way.
To the Florist He is the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley.
To the Geologist He is the Rock of Ages.
To the Horticulturist He is the True Vine.
To the Judge He is the Righteous Judge, Judge of all Men.
To the Jeweler He is the Pearl of Great Price.
To the Lawyer He is the Counselor, the Lawgiver, the Advocate.
To the Newspaper He is the Good Tidings of Great Joy.
To the Oculist He is the Light of the Eyes.
To the Philanthropist He is the Unspeakable Gift.
To the Philosopher He is the Wisdom of God.
To the Preacher He is the Word of God.
To the Sculptor He is the Living Stone.
To the Servant He is the Good Master.
To the Statesman He is the Desire of all Nations.
To the Student He is the Incarnate Truth.
To the Theologian He is the Author and Finisher of our Faith.
To the Toiler He is the Giver of Rest.
To the Sinner He is the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the
World.
To the Christian He is the Son of the Living God, the Savior, the Redeemer
and the Lord.


Author Unknown

 

[cristianna]

Great topic! What a powerful reminder!

And I really enjoyed reading that poem Jenrenee! Thanks for posting!

 

[LivingLifeHisWay]

I loved reading through all the posts these past few days. Rosie, Burn...loved the topics.

JenRenee: Loved the poem

Krystal: Love the new CFC outfit! ::

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend sisters!