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

[Savedsis]

Even when we are working, I have had many conversations with Eric that even in the kitchen, when we are working we should have an attitude of worship about us. Everything we do should be in worship, dedicated to God, after all, He gave it to us didn't He? Worship so is not about just songs....it is living....it is by what we say and what we think, how we act. These are all actions of Worship
Mat 15:8 "All of you praise me with your words, but you never really think about me.
Mat 15:9 It is useless for you to worship me, when you teach rules made up by humans."
Mat 15:10 Jesus called the crowd together and said, "Pay attention and try to understand what I mean.
Mat 15:11 The food that you put into your mouth doesn't make you unclean and unfit to worship God. The bad words that come out of your mouth are what make you unclean."

In everything we do and say we should honor and magnify our Lord, thus it is worshipping Him. Isn't this wonderful??

Sennaria

Yes, He is worthy to be praised...I will bless the Lord at all times....Praise the Lord...

 

[ForHisGlory]

Hey did I miss something? Is Gina ok?

 

[~InHisHands~]

Gina is fine. She is simply on holiday for the week with her husband. She has some of girls holding down the fort til she gets back. That's all. ~Smiles~

 

[Sennaria]

I shall be headed out soon and won't be back until Friday, so I hope everyone doesn't mind, but I wanted to take the opportunity to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving (whether you live in US or not as we should always live each day with thanks)

Take care and be blessed

Sennaria

 

[~InHisHands~]

Who is doing tomorrow's subject?

 

[ForHisGlory]

Gina is fine. She is simply on holiday for the week with her husband. She has some of girls holding down the fort til she gets back. That's all. ~Smiles~

I'm glad to hear nothing's wrong. I hope she has a good week off.

 

[J21]

Who is doing tomorrow's subject?

Hiya InHisHands....
Gina asked if I would do something on Thanksgiving for your Thanksgiving Day holiday. [ your Thursday/my Friday I believe. ]
I will be posting it later on tonight. It will deal with the characteristics of a thankful heart.
I must head off now as I'm running a tad late to get to a High School Presentation Day with my darling daughter.
God bless.

 

[~InHisHands~]

J21:
Thank you dear. I just wanted to make sure tomorrow was covered. Have fun!

 

[ImHisServant]

I have a spare moment to check in I'm on dial up and it is very slow

This trip is SO awesome so far!! It is just so beautiful here in Arkansas in the Ozark Mountains!! I Love It!! My husband's brother has 3 children... the oldest is 7 months older then Kelly and the youngest is 3 months younger then Spencer... they are both boys. Then they have a girl that is 2 years younger then Kelly. After seeing how wonderful it is with them all playing and getting along... it makes me long to be with family, I only have my mom in Florida - and she needs me... but that is the only family now that I have there. My side of the family lives in Indiana... but the kids/cousins on my side are high school age or grown... soooooo I'm playing around with thoughts of moving to Arkansas.

That would be a ways off though... we'd have to sell the house and all. But it would be nice to do it after this school year as Kelly is going into the 6th grade.

I know Rick's parents would be so happy - but we don't want to get their hopes up so we are not saying anything to anybody right now... so shhhhh... you are the only ones outside of Rick and I that know we are considering this.

I'm not sure if I can get on again during my time here... so have a blessed and wonderful Thanksgiving.

Thanks for covering for me in my absence. You are doing a wonderful job - great topics as always.

Love ya and miss ya -

Gina

 

[~InHisHands~]

Glad you're having a good time and we miss you. Just relax and enjoy. We got your back! ~Hugs~

 

[J21]

Gina has asked me to do something for Thanksgiving, which we don't have as a holiday here in Australia, but is something I think we all need to do [ and I know you all do] every day of the year. With the time difference between here and the US, I hope I 've posted it at the right time. *embarrassed*

The lips may say much that is heard but the heart, which God sees, is where our true attitude should grow.
What makes up a thankful ‘Thanksgiving’, and everyday thankful heart? These 4 main points are based on a radio sermon years ago by Michael Youseff, whom I enjoy listening to. I feel they're spot on in being required as the foundation of truly thankful, grateful thinking.
Determination:
Many in the world around us are blindly oblivious to the fact that we have a loving benevolent God, who provides not just our daily needs but also at times, the desires of our hearts. We can choose to be like them, and receive, receive, receive or even just take it for granted that as Christians, “Well,God gives…that’s the deal!” Or we can determine that we will not be like those around us. Even when we’re in the local Taco Bell, we can determine that we will bow our heads prayerfully acknowledging He who gives not just Turkey and trimmings fourth Thursday in November, but mid-week junk food for a relaxing night off cooking.
Jesus healed many people during His earthly ministry, yet how many had the determination of heart to thank Him? Only one leper out of 10 that He healed returned to thank Him, that one determining that He was worthy of sincere, heartfelt thankfulness. That one leper was not even of Jesus’ Jewish faith, yet he delighted in saying “Thank you”, whilst the Jews who had been healed just went on their way. He was a determined Samaritan with his heart truly in the right place of ‘attitude’.
Promptness:
The heart with the right attitude to thankfulness should never procrastinate about thanking the Lord for all He does, has done, and will do. Yes, we need to look to the future just as the Lord has…He knew us all before Time and to the very end of it as well. We need to thank Him as soon as we can,
assured that He is always near enough to hear .
Did He give you a peaceful night’s sleep with no disturbances? Thank Him when you awaken.
Did He provide guidance for you in some area? Thank Him as soon as He reveals the way through it, out of it or around it.
Or if you are stuck in something that you’d rather not be and you have to be there a bit, like Joseph in Egypt, thank Him for being with you in every minute of it and for the chance to be taught, strengthened, or used as an example in your faith to others through it.
Did He have your family in His protective hands as they went about this day? Thank Him as each one returns to the nest after being away.
Never put off saying “Thank You” for blessings experienced in this minute, this hour, this day or this night.
Intensity:
I hear that in Texas, the handshakes are pretty big… just like their steaks and hats. How big and strong are our handshakes thanking our Father for being such a loving, forgiving, giving and personal God?
They don’t need to be of ear-splitting decibels…our feelings and thoughts and desire to reveal to Him how truly thankful we are can be done as quietly as a Church mouse who is thankful for the warmth from winter’s gripping cold. Express in both word and deed that you know you have received from our heavenly Father a new way of living and the assurance of eternal life with Him which was and is, freely given to whosoever will accept it. How intensely grateful are we because of that?
He was beyond intense in His giving….we need to be intense in our gratefulness to Him.
Finally, the last point is this
Humility:
How humble are we? If there is a group task and many of the others were slackening off but we picked up their slack, do we want the end result to be recognised as ‘our’ effort, so that we’re ‘rightly’ recognised over them?
Do we “put ourselves out there” so that people see how adept, wonderful whatever, we want them to see?
Or do we do as that one healed leper did, coming back to give a humble, quiet and grateful thanks to the One who had healed Him, accepting silently that he alone was “doing the right thing” and not using it to score points from Jesus off the other nine? Humbly doing what he knew was deserved and then going quietly on his way, telling others of this great Healer called Jesus?
The Son of God came humbly to earth, making Himself lower than the angels to walk amongst us as a man, then went on in all humility to become the sacrifice for each one of us who deserved it not.
I personally believe He was thankful to the Father for allowing Him to do this for us…for God choosing Him as the triune sacrificial Lamb to take away the sin of the world. Just as we who are parents would be thankful to be chosen to be substituted for our child if they were to endure the pain of being forever cast in darkness with no way out. And He endured it all with a humble and obedient heart.

We need to humbly thank God in all circumstances for absolutely everything. Yes, at times, it can be very hard and painful to do.
How can we thank Him in ALL circumstances people may say?
By having the right heart attitude. It’s there beating away inside to remind us that with each beat, we need to be pushing out the right attitude, true thankfulness, which is far healthier than one of discontent or complacency . Remaining thankful in knowing that even to its final beat, we who believe have been promised that we will not know death but will enter His Court in Heaven…I can imagine with both thanksgiving and praise.
Go into this and every day with the right heart attitude of thankfulness. He loves both the attitude and you.

 

[~InHisHands~]

J21:
That was awesome and no time is the wrong time to get a word from the Lord. Thank you. ~Hugs~

 

[~InHisHands~]

Friday 24, 2006
Good Things Verses Godly Things​

Because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Romans 8:14​

The best way to see that we are maturing in our walk with Christ is when we can discern the difference between good things and God things. The people of Israel journeyed out of Egypt by following a cloud that led them by day. They could only move as fast as the cloud moved. If they went ahead of the cloud they went out of God's presence. If they lagged behind the also lost God's presence. We must have discernment to know when God is leading us in a matter or if it is simply just a good idea. There are a lot of things we can get involved in. The more successful we become the greater the temptations are to enter into things where God has not called us. I think a while back I did this very thing by entering into a college program to do something that God did not want me to do. It seemed like the right thing to do at the time, though. However, things went wrong and I ended up losing money and never got to complete the course. The problem was this: I wanted to get out of the situation I was in at my present job. I wanted to do something else that wouldn't allow me to be as fruitful as a christian. Since I wasn't going to take the route where God was present and would remain present, it failed. According to my study this morning this is because it was an idea that was simply a good idea but, it wasn't birthed by the Holy Spirit. I realized when it was over why it happened. God showed me several things at my present job that was quite the eye opener. God can and will communicate with us when we are stepping out of his will. We just have to learn to be able to listen and to see. As sons and daughters of God, we are called to be led by the Holy Spirit. This requires that we be dependent on God which many of us really do not want to do. It requires listening, waiting, and moving only when God's spirit tells us to move. Workplace people especially are action people. We know how to get things done but, sometimes our greatest strengths can be our greatest weaknesses. Today ask God to make you a Romans 8:14 man or woman who is led by the Spirit of God. Pray that you won't lag behind or get too far ahead of him. Ask God to reveal whether or not something is just a good thing or a God thing. My coming to CF and staying at CF was a God thing.​

 

[J4Jesus]

Hi ImHisServant
Just stopped by to say hope you are having a great weekend.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone and God bless you

 

[~InHisHands~]

~Sighs~

 

[J21]

That's it InHisHands...exactly.
We can be stumbling around in the desert wilderness for quite a while because we lose sight of , or think that we know the best way to get to the Land of Milk and Honey. No need to enquire of anyone else. It'll be fine!
Or we can pray to, wait on and keep our ego, our eyes and our hearts focused on the One who truly knows the best time and best way for putting into motion different parts of His plan for each of His children. He has the map for each one of us to get to the Promised Land.

Workplace people especially are action people. We know how to get things done but, sometimes our greatest strengths can be our greatest weaknesses.

I can attest to the fact that it's not just 'workpace' people who exhibit this ...it's quite a prevalent thing in many 'stay at home mums'...believe me.

 

[~InHisHands~]

I'm sure it is hon. I kinda wondered if I shouldn't have worded that differently. As I was writing that I was thinking about that. Cuz mom's do know how to get things done.

I apologize now if that one lone word offended anyone. If need be I can go back and change it.
But I will agree with J21 on that. Sorry.

 

[Sennaria]

Thank you ladies, both days of word were very insightful and timely.

 

[rosiecotton]

This can sometimes me hard to know the difference. There have been times I've done something that I truly thought God wanted me to. It was a good thing, and even something involving church. But, it still didn't work out. So then it gets hard to determine if something is truly from God. I guess I just pray, and trust Him to show me. And if I hear wrong, just move on.

 

[~InHisHands~]

The thing is rosie...each time something turns out to be wrong...pay attention to the things going on around you as things are starting to go wrong. God will tell you what is wrong and what you're supposed to do. It's quite an experience. You learn to listen this way.