"Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; Gen 3 v 18:
I am not a gardener...never have been....my mun and dad both loved it, so did my older sister....I will admire any one's garden, but don't like nor want to do the work.
Give me some wool and a pair of knitting needles or a crochet hook and I will fill in my day easy...
Well, more than 6 months ago, now, I broke my arm......it has not healed, the bone has not come together, and I will need an operation. And it is still broken and it hurts!
The little bit of garden we do have....I looked after. We have concrete paths around the house, to save work, and would you believe there are weeds all in the cracks.
Man...are they hard to get out....with one hand!
I try to do 10 minutes a day, and just before my accident, I had it all cleared, but, you should see it now!
I could cry! My arm hurts.....
This morning I looked at all the weeds and looked at the sky and asked God..."Why?
Why did we need weeds?...Couldn't it have been something else?"
I have to wait almost 3 months before I can have the operation....meanwhile....pain killers are the go!
I am now apologizing to God....He knows best!
In his word it always says...."And it came to pass..."
This tantrum I am having will also pass....
Thank You Lord for being so patient with me!
Bless you,
Yaddy
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
Obedience is saying "Yes Lord"
Luke 9:61, “Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house”
John 14:21, “He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me”
No matter where Jesus went in the region around the Sea of Galilee during His public ministry, He caused quite a stir.
But most importantly, the people who had observed Him firsthand...... were moved and motivated to action.
If you read carefully through the New Testament you would find that Jesus often told and spoke in parables to illustrate how people received and responded to His teaching.
In Mark 1:18 we see obedience from the fishermen who followed Jesus.
In Mark 1:27 we see the amazement of people who marveled of His power over demons.
Then in Mark 1:31 we see service from Peter’s mother-in-law who served the Lord.
In Mark 1:45 we see those who saw Jesus in action proclaiming to others what He had done. In Matthew 13:1-9,
His disciples asked, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
In reply Jesus quoted the prophet Isaiah, “For the hearts of this people have gown dull. Their ears are hard to hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them” (Matthew 13:15; Isaiah 6:10).
Most parents are very familiar with the words from their children, “I’ll do it in a minute, but first …” As God’s children;
He often receives a similar response from us.
This important truth in the life of Janice is illustrated as follows:
"I’ll never forget my inner battle one morning, as I was on my knees scrubbing the kitchen floor.
It began with a strong impression from the Lord that I should visit a young mother named Carol.
So, I decided to do it later that day. “But first I must finish this floor,” I said to myself.
Then the inner prompting began to feel more urgent. “As soon as I finish the floor, I’ll go straight over to Carol’s,” I promised the Lord.
But deep inside, I knew He meant now, before the floor was finished!
A real battle of the will took place.
I admitted that countless opportunities had been lost because of things I wanted to do first.
Finally I said, “Okay, Lord, I’ll go now!”
When Carol opened her door, she said tearfully, “How did you know I needed you right now”
I didn’t, but God did, and my surrender to Him played a part in Carol’s eventual surrender to Christ as her Saviour."
In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus taught that some things can wait, which includes half-scrubbed floors and a host of other things; however, a ripe harvest can’t wait!
Are we being obedient to His call for your life?
God chooses to use us, because we are the ones most suited to minister to the people in our arena of influence.
It is not by chance you/we have the relatives, friends, job, and church family that you/we do.
God led us wherever we are, for a reason.
Pray today that the Lord will begin showing you the destiny He has for you. Ask Him to help you be obedient to His will for your life. Are you willing to serve Him whatever the cost? It is this unswerving obedience and faithful service to the Lord that God richly blesses.
Thank you Mikey.
Bless you,
Yaddy
John 14:21, “He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me”
No matter where Jesus went in the region around the Sea of Galilee during His public ministry, He caused quite a stir.
But most importantly, the people who had observed Him firsthand...... were moved and motivated to action.
If you read carefully through the New Testament you would find that Jesus often told and spoke in parables to illustrate how people received and responded to His teaching.
In Mark 1:18 we see obedience from the fishermen who followed Jesus.
In Mark 1:27 we see the amazement of people who marveled of His power over demons.
Then in Mark 1:31 we see service from Peter’s mother-in-law who served the Lord.
In Mark 1:45 we see those who saw Jesus in action proclaiming to others what He had done. In Matthew 13:1-9,
His disciples asked, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
In reply Jesus quoted the prophet Isaiah, “For the hearts of this people have gown dull. Their ears are hard to hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them” (Matthew 13:15; Isaiah 6:10).
Most parents are very familiar with the words from their children, “I’ll do it in a minute, but first …” As God’s children;
He often receives a similar response from us.
This important truth in the life of Janice is illustrated as follows:
"I’ll never forget my inner battle one morning, as I was on my knees scrubbing the kitchen floor.
It began with a strong impression from the Lord that I should visit a young mother named Carol.
So, I decided to do it later that day. “But first I must finish this floor,” I said to myself.
Then the inner prompting began to feel more urgent. “As soon as I finish the floor, I’ll go straight over to Carol’s,” I promised the Lord.
But deep inside, I knew He meant now, before the floor was finished!
A real battle of the will took place.
I admitted that countless opportunities had been lost because of things I wanted to do first.
Finally I said, “Okay, Lord, I’ll go now!”
When Carol opened her door, she said tearfully, “How did you know I needed you right now”
I didn’t, but God did, and my surrender to Him played a part in Carol’s eventual surrender to Christ as her Saviour."
In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus taught that some things can wait, which includes half-scrubbed floors and a host of other things; however, a ripe harvest can’t wait!
Are we being obedient to His call for your life?
God chooses to use us, because we are the ones most suited to minister to the people in our arena of influence.
It is not by chance you/we have the relatives, friends, job, and church family that you/we do.
God led us wherever we are, for a reason.
Pray today that the Lord will begin showing you the destiny He has for you. Ask Him to help you be obedient to His will for your life. Are you willing to serve Him whatever the cost? It is this unswerving obedience and faithful service to the Lord that God richly blesses.
Thank you Mikey.
Bless you,
Yaddy
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Is it an illusion?
I am asking a question......"What is a real person?"
I think a real person is some one who faces up to everything that happens in life and resists
every temptation to escape!
Professional people who work in mental health will say that, one way in which our mental and
emotional wellbeing can be measured is by "how" we face up to real life and reality.
I suppose I could go one further and say that reality is truth....
good truth and bad truth....ugly truth and pleasant truth....
From one Bible translation it says..."If we refuse to admit we are sinners....then we live in a world of
illusion and truth becomes a stranger to us" or "If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us." (1John 1v 8)
So.....if we refuse to face the truth....... any truth......Biblical truth......something inside us dies!
Of course we could always bury our head in the sand and ignore it all!
But where does that than leave us?
So....what am I? A realist? or a retreatist.....some one who runs away from life.
One thing is for sure....realists get to places.
Dear Jesus,
Help me to face everything that comes my way and not to "dodge" the issues no matter how threatening they are...Thank You Jesus, Amen
Bless you
Yaddy
I think a real person is some one who faces up to everything that happens in life and resists
every temptation to escape!
Professional people who work in mental health will say that, one way in which our mental and
emotional wellbeing can be measured is by "how" we face up to real life and reality.
I suppose I could go one further and say that reality is truth....
good truth and bad truth....ugly truth and pleasant truth....
From one Bible translation it says..."If we refuse to admit we are sinners....then we live in a world of
illusion and truth becomes a stranger to us" or "If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us." (1John 1v 8)
So.....if we refuse to face the truth....... any truth......Biblical truth......something inside us dies!
Of course we could always bury our head in the sand and ignore it all!
But where does that than leave us?
So....what am I? A realist? or a retreatist.....some one who runs away from life.
One thing is for sure....realists get to places.
Dear Jesus,
Help me to face everything that comes my way and not to "dodge" the issues no matter how threatening they are...Thank You Jesus, Amen
Bless you
Yaddy
Thursday, March 8, 2012
NO Way through!
Sometimes it can be so hard, to face reality, but we cannot escape it!
I know lots and lots of people do "try" to do so, as often as they can, but it is a useless exercise!
Every time we begin a new path that we believe will take us "away"from anything unpleasant,
there is a sign that says "DEAD END"
But.....what is Reality?
According to my dictionary it is 'what is real'- and- 'the way things are'
So, we can no more escape from reality than we can jump out of our skin, so to speak!
And those who do try to escape, well we know it as 'escapism'
Advertising is a kind of escapism you know....The Island in the sun......that holiday you have always wanted to take.... so....take it NOW!!!....kinda thing?
Now, don't get me wrong....taking a holiday is fine, but, if the reason is to 'escape' from something instead of taking a well earned rest and break....well..... enough said....right?
If we turn to God, we can face reality with confidence and grace.....no matter how 'unpleasant'
that reality might be. We should never fear reality, and if we are whole in God, we won't.
Bless you
Yaddy
I know lots and lots of people do "try" to do so, as often as they can, but it is a useless exercise!
Every time we begin a new path that we believe will take us "away"from anything unpleasant,
there is a sign that says "DEAD END"
But.....what is Reality?
According to my dictionary it is 'what is real'- and- 'the way things are'
So, we can no more escape from reality than we can jump out of our skin, so to speak!
And those who do try to escape, well we know it as 'escapism'
Advertising is a kind of escapism you know....The Island in the sun......that holiday you have always wanted to take.... so....take it NOW!!!....kinda thing?
Now, don't get me wrong....taking a holiday is fine, but, if the reason is to 'escape' from something instead of taking a well earned rest and break....well..... enough said....right?
If we turn to God, we can face reality with confidence and grace.....no matter how 'unpleasant'
that reality might be. We should never fear reality, and if we are whole in God, we won't.
Bless you
Yaddy
Sunday, February 19, 2012
The story of Moses..
Do
you all KNOW the story of Moses?
So,
seeing the Israeli women had so many babies and a lot of boy babies, the
Pharaoh decided they must all be killed. Moses mum had two other children
already, a daughter Miriam and a son, who had not been killed, as not all the
boys were killed because the midwives told the Pharaoh, the Jewish women gave
birth so quick, they hardly needed the midwifes to come and help them.
(Ex: 1 v 19: The midwives said to Pharaoh,
"Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are
vigorous and give birth before the midwife can get to them.")
Moses’
mum decided she would try and save her son, so she made a basket and set him
adrift on the river Nile. She told her daughter Miriam, to keep an eye on the
basket, and see what would happen.
Miriam
did as she was told and saw that the royal princess, Pharaoh’s daughter, saw
the basket, got one of her servants to fish it out of the river, and just
then…..Miriam showed herself and offered to the princess that she knew a woman
who could look after the baby till he was old enough to be weaned….And that is
what happened. Miriam fetched her mother…
Who
was only too happy to feed and rear her own son, even though the princess did not
KNOW this was her son.
So
Miriam and her mother took little Moses home again. And….she got paid for doing
it!
We
read in Hebrew ch 11 verses 23-25
By faith
Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because
they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king's
edict.
By faith
Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's
daughter, choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than
to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,…etc…
(and continue
reading in the book of Hebrews)
Now….here is what
I am getting at……the Bible does not say how old Moses was when his mother took
him back to the princess in the Pagan palace of the pharaoh.
When he was weaned….( not very old….right?)
But, as we just
read in the book of Hebrews……
BY FAITH…..Moses refused to be called the son of
Pharaoh’s daughter…….
How much….do you think……must his parents have
taught him all about “the word” as they knew it?
What does this say to our world today?
I have heard so
many parents say….”Oh, I will leave it up to the teachers, to teach my child
all he/she needs to know!”
That is completely wrong….it is not up to the
teachers to teach your child everything! They are only there to educate them,
so they can learn to read and write and learn how to handle the reading and
writing.
According to the Bible….it is up to the parents to
teach the children all they can about all they want their child to learn…
Remember…when you have a new born baby….you start
off with virtually an empty mind that you want to fill with whatever YOU want
to fill it with….
As a parent it is your responsibility, what goes
into that new little Mind…
This is what the Bible says!
And….. according to what we read in the Bible….Moses’
parents did a bonzer job…..
Bless you
Yaddy
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Layman's 10 commandments.
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(Someone has written these beautiful words. Must read and try to understand the deep meaning of it. They are like the ten commandments to follow in life all the time.)
1] Prayer is not a "spare wheel" that you pull out when in trouble, but it is a "steering wheel" that directs the right path throughout.
2] A Car's WINDSHIELD is so large & the Rear view Mirror is so small? Because our PAST is not as important as our FUTURE. So, Look Ahead and Move on.
3] Friendship is like a BOOK. It takes few seconds to burn, but it takes years to write.
4] All things in life are temporary. If going well, enjoy it, they will not last forever. If going wrong, don't worry, they can't last long either.
5] Old Friends are Gold! New Friends are Diamond! If you get a Diamond, don't forget the Gold! Because to hold a Diamond, you always need a Base of Gold!
6] Often when we lose hope and think this is the end, GOD smiles from above and says, "Relax, sweetheart, it's just a bend, not the end!
7] When GOD solves your problems, you have faith in HIS abilities; when GOD doesn't solve your problems HE has faith in your abilities.
8] A blind person asked St. Anthony: "Can there be anything worse than losing eye sight?" He replied: "Yes, losing your vision!"
9] When you pray for others, God listens to you and blesses them, and sometimes, when you are safe and happy, remember that someone has prayed for you.
10] WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES, it takes away today's PEACE.
Bless you....
Yaddy
Friday, February 3, 2012
NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD......
As a bitter cold breeze blasts away on a mother of three as she trudges through snow ...her strength is only the sheer resolve to do whatever it takes to "be there" for her girls. The symptoms started slow but the coughing grew deeper and the fever higher...she knew she had to get them to "hope". But it seems thousands will be infected ... it's hopeless" "How did it happen, Doctor?" “?Some virus…who knows”
Mummy, my feet are so cold" the little girl cried, "I know honey”? Trying to be strong but scared to death, the mother cries "Oh God please Help"
Another town but an even more desperate situation eternity at stake...
"Pastor; attendance is down; giving is down, what are we going to do?" The Board member continues, "Families are hurting, we've have two families that are about to lose their homes, another three families on the verge of divorce, changes need to be made, but where do we start?"Across town, a desperate father....
His eyes glazed over, gun in one hand a stiff drink in the other....holding a picture up of his kids, tears streaming down his cheeks, "Every other weekend; are your stinking kidding me?" Hopelessness invading his thoughts, "it will never be the same" raising the gun to his forehead he cries out "OH GOD, PLEASE FORGIVE ME"
Divorce, drugs, layoffs, crime, selfish lives all going astray ...spreading like wildfire with no end in sight.
But.....kneeling at the altar, a faithful servant of God begins to cry, "Father, Your word promises that if we ask, seek and knock; that You will open the door, Lord, before you call me home, I'm here asking for this one thing that You have laid upon my heart...Will You pour out your Spirit upon this area and all these people that I know and Love. Will you arise and cause all your enemies to scatter? Father, Your Word says No one comes to You unless You draw them and Father that is what I'm asking ....will you please begin to draw all men unto Yourself right here in this town, right here in this Church?"
Putting the Gun down back at his side and lifting back up the picture...God began to answer this desperate Father's plea.....a knock at the door sobered him alert.. "Herb, it's me Jim...I know you’re in there? Can I come in?" As the door opened, "Herb, God has laid you on my heart and I just had to come over and share...I've got some great news... My wife and I have been talking with your wife and she has agreed to counselling...she has agreed to postpone the divorce"Sitting in his study at Home, a Pastor puts down his pad of notes...getting on his knees, he starts to pray, "Dear God, what is it that you want to say?" The floodgates of tears poured down his cheek as He heard these Words "What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus" The Pastor recognizing that something was happening, heard that still small voice........
"What can wash away my sin, nothing but the blood of Jesus."
A spark from yesteryear began to arise, he'd seen this before. Jesus was asking to take His rightful place..."If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto myself"
Mummy, my feet are so cold" the little girl cried, "I know honey”? Trying to be strong but scared to death, the mother cries "Oh God please Help"
Another town but an even more desperate situation eternity at stake...
"Pastor; attendance is down; giving is down, what are we going to do?" The Board member continues, "Families are hurting, we've have two families that are about to lose their homes, another three families on the verge of divorce, changes need to be made, but where do we start?"Across town, a desperate father....
His eyes glazed over, gun in one hand a stiff drink in the other....holding a picture up of his kids, tears streaming down his cheeks, "Every other weekend; are your stinking kidding me?" Hopelessness invading his thoughts, "it will never be the same" raising the gun to his forehead he cries out "OH GOD, PLEASE FORGIVE ME"
Divorce, drugs, layoffs, crime, selfish lives all going astray ...spreading like wildfire with no end in sight.
But.....kneeling at the altar, a faithful servant of God begins to cry, "Father, Your word promises that if we ask, seek and knock; that You will open the door, Lord, before you call me home, I'm here asking for this one thing that You have laid upon my heart...Will You pour out your Spirit upon this area and all these people that I know and Love. Will you arise and cause all your enemies to scatter? Father, Your Word says No one comes to You unless You draw them and Father that is what I'm asking ....will you please begin to draw all men unto Yourself right here in this town, right here in this Church?"
"Doctor, Doctor” a nurse shouted, “Something amazing is happening!" "What?” The Doctor replied.
“?There's a man… who has come into our Emergency Room" "What is wrong with Him?” "Nothing, he said he's is here to help" "HELP…Help how?" "He wants to donate blood, and get this...He said he had heard of the virus that was spreading and that he believed his blood was immune. We tested his Blood and he was right, there is something about his Blood that is overcoming the virus. Just one drop is all it takes, it will help thousands"
Putting the Gun down back at his side and lifting back up the picture...God began to answer this desperate Father's plea.....a knock at the door sobered him alert.. "Herb, it's me Jim...I know you’re in there? Can I come in?" As the door opened, "Herb, God has laid you on my heart and I just had to come over and share...I've got some great news... My wife and I have been talking with your wife and she has agreed to counselling...she has agreed to postpone the divorce"Sitting in his study at Home, a Pastor puts down his pad of notes...getting on his knees, he starts to pray, "Dear God, what is it that you want to say?" The floodgates of tears poured down his cheek as He heard these Words "What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus" The Pastor recognizing that something was happening, heard that still small voice........
"What can wash away my sin, nothing but the blood of Jesus."
A spark from yesteryear began to arise, he'd seen this before. Jesus was asking to take His rightful place..."If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto myself"
Many today are facing desperate situations of all kinds. If you’re one who is facing such a time I have great news for you. Jesus Christ has promised no matter what your situation is, no matter how bad it looks or how lost you are, whosoever believes upon Him shall not perish but have everlasting life!! That is how powerful His blood is!
Thanks Tim Cameron Bless you...
Yaddy
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