"God shed His Grace on Thee"

We live in such a time that Christianity would seem to be coming a thing of the past. The vanity and the arrogancy our humand condition is pathetic. Flesh and blood government thinks itself invincible somehow. Humility is not honored, truth and honesty are a joke, and morality is passe'.

Today we have a National Day of Prayer, which was instituted on 1952 ! ! Wow ! So we gather at our Nation's Capitol to READ the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Perhaps we should call this day "National Day of READ". Just kidding. We are all so Thankful for the "Prayers" in the Body of Christ. There WILL be prayer this year at City Halls, Parks etc. throughout our nation , and even Prayers in helicoptors flying over various sections of our nation.

At a time such as this, I'm reminded to Pray all the more fervrently for friends and acquaintances who have not yet found Life in Christ Jesus.

For some time two scriptures keep coming to my mind :
Hebrews 4:2, " For unto us was the
Gospel preached, as well as unto them:
but the Word preached did not profit
them, not being mixed with FAITH in
them that heard it. "

11 Thessalonians 2: 11
"...and for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they might believe
a lie. "

"...and firm our souls with self control, Thy Liberty and Law " ( part of a stanza from "America" as close as I can remember , so pretinent today.)

Higher

"My ways are Higher than your ways, my thoughts higher than your thoughts" says Almighty God in His Word. "Call onto Me and I will answer and show you Great and Mighty things that you don't know."
Can we even begin to comprehend "God", His Power His Glory ? The person who wrote the song "How Great Thou Art ", must have caught a small glimpse of this.

Our astronomers, our scientists, our archaeologists, biologists, physicists, certainly at some point have realized the vanity of consideration in thinking we know so much as an inth of the creative knowledge of Almighty God.

God is Amazing, beyond our thoughts. This whole universe was created by Him. The sun , the moon , the stars, not to mention our humanity. In each of His Children runs the thread of His Holy Spirit , and by the Spirit of God in each of us, we connect. We automatically know each of our brothers and sisters, just as God knows His Own.

We talk of "solar energy", "wind energy", "atomic energy", the speed of sound, the speed of light, wow ! God created these energys. We have not yet and probably never will attain to the "speed of Light". Interesting. When you even begin to approach such high speeds, dimensions begin to change. This becomes even more interesting , when we consider that according to the Gospel of John, Jesus IS "the light that came into this world", the Light that "dispels all darkness" . I choose to travel with God ! uh huh.

God must laugh, and according to His Word He does, in Psalms 2, verses two and four it says : "The Kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against His anointed".......and in verse four: " He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision..."

Does God know, oh yes, He knows and He knows and He knows........all of it from begining to end.
Who is God? God IS, that's who He is. All Power, All Glory, All knowing , that's God.
How Blessed are we to know that He IS indeed our All in All .

I want to go higher.

A Song

To The Throne of God

You Live in our Praises
Lord, how can this be ?
We bring our praise
Oh Lord to Thee.

To the Throne of God
And back again.
You amaze me Lord.

Lord how You know me,
How Great is Your Love.
Your way of compassion
Is so far above me.

To the Throne of God
And back again,
You amaze me Lord .

When I can't comprehend,
Your Mercy you send.
You see my needs ,
And Provide for me.

To The Throne of God,
And back again,
You amaze me Lord.

Hi again Church

I remember back when, in my day,in the Lutheran Church when we had a dedicated Pastor. He started an Evangelism Comittee of six people . I need to mention here, that two of these comittee people were not saved. One was my husband, who also was a Church Elder. Anyway , the comittee would go to homes of Church MEMBERS to present the "Born Again " mandate from the Bible. This was a great idea. Today,how many Pastors do you find going to seek out the "Lost ''' sheep in the "Church " ? Ezekial 34:4

That was in the 1970's. The Charismatic Movement was born during this time. Altho the movement was not accepted by the Lutheran Church and others, it did bring about an Evangelism Explosion. At this time I was a Sunday School Superintendent, (small church), and the Lord led me with great enlightment during out 15 minute Opening Devotion Time on Sunday. I was given really amazing presentations and the Sunday School was filling with kids.

I had been enlightened to the working of The Holy Spirit through Pentecostal friends. I kept it "under wraps" though. It was unacceptable in the Lutheran Church.
The Lord also led me into banner making and hand printing "scripture posters" as well. The results, because of the "Hand of the Lord " upon me, were amazing, to say the least.

Well, word gets around, and at one point I was admonished by the Pastor who told me that "some Charismatics were found at his sister's Church and they were asked to leave." OK, so finally after months of prayer, and trials, I left that church. I realized again what a destructive force in the Church are "the Doctrines of Men"

Amazing, "unsaved" men evangelizing and holding the office of Elder in the Church and yet how "wrong " to let The Holy Spirit : our empowerer, our enabler, our teacher, our gift giver and our encourager in !
Excuse me, The Holy Spirit Proclaims those things of Jesus Christ hmmmmmmmmmmm.

much needed

There's a quiet place
I like to be,
Where the Lord imparts
His Way to me.

A place where I can
safely lay,
Out my thoughts.
A Place to Pray .

He gives assurance
that He sees
And works things out
just for me.

To help me over, through,
or in,
Any problem, trial, sorrow
or sin.
Thank You Lord

Hello..Church ??

Has anyone bothered to ask the Lord lately: Are we doing Ok Lord ? Show us TODAY, your way for us, Your Plan Lord.

Today women or men who receive Christ and get Saved look for a Church. Often a close friend or Christian relatve brings them into their Church. THe Church seems ill prpared to deal with them. Why ? Perhaps one of the reasons is "Doctrines of Men"
Perhaps the Church has gotten set in Her ways. Most people , like myself , through experience pretty much discern "the order of the day".

The Lutheran Church proceeds thusly : Calm down, shhhhh, others don't understand your being "saved" Lay low.

The Baptists thusly: Is he/she really saved ? Do they meet our 12 point criteria ? If they do maybe they qualify to give
a testimony. Hey don't we have five District meetings this week and 3 Conventions?

The Assemblies of God thusly : Hmm if they'll act like us , talk like us, walk like us and dress like us.......maybe.
Nursery and Potluck for the women. Men's Fellowship breakfast, and weekend retreat for the men.

Catholics thusly: "Hierarchy is Us", Protocol is god.

So we could go on and on . What do we do ? My Bible says that Christ is the Head of the Church, Jesus Christ that is. An Us ? We are the Body of Christ, functioning as the head directs. What description fits your Church ?:

Elitist, Secular, Exclusive, Big Business,
Small Business, Sexist, Territorial,
Self Righteous,Grapevine, Intimidating
Controling, Cultish ??????

Perhaps you are Blessed and have a wonderful Church, but this is not so for many.

HELLO...Church ? Get back to Your First Love. REVELATION 2: 4