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Date: Monday -July 5th , 2021
New Life Christian
Church - Spring Hill (7-4-2021) BAPTISM
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Baptism was a beautiful thing; we had multiple unplanned baptisms directly
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Meditation
Opportunities - Biblegateway.com Daily Verse
Isaiah 12:4 (EXB - EXPANDED BIBLE)
4 ·At that
time [L In that day] you will
say, “Praise the Lord and ·worship him [L call on his name]. ·Tell
everyone [L Make known among the
nations/peoples] what he has done
and ·how great he is [L announce that his name is
exalted/lifted up].
Meditation
Opportunities Daily Devotion @Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)
“Be on the lookout for all that I have prepared for you.”
Romans 8:38-39 For I am convinced that neither death nor life,
neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to
separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Psalm 56:3-4 When I am afraid, I will trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I
trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me?
Isaiah 43:19 “See, when I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive
it? I am making a way in the desert and
streams in the wasteland.”
Motivation Movers
& Touches to the Soul (YouTube.Com)
Tasha Layton //
Into The Sea (It's Gonna Be Ok)
for KING &
COUNTRY - God Only Knows
Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)
Thank you, Lord, for this new day and thank you for this day of
overdue rest.
Happy blessed Monday, July 5th here in my here and
now. Prayers and blessings that you have
found peace and rest and whatever fun you choose to celebrate this U.S. holiday
weekend. I did nothing but slept in. Then got up early this day to carry my laundry
off to a laundry mat because my 13month old washer has been down waiting for
the technicians to make it to my house.
I have to say since the pandemic so many who have had trades
that keep the world going just are not available anymore. They either advertise they have a business
and just never call back when you try to reach them or like a doctor’s
appointment you have wait weeks to get someone to come fix something.
So, depressing that they do not make anything to last yet over
charge you and then things have something go wrong a month outside the warranty.
Yes Tasha: it is going to be okay through all that out of our
control to prevent or even that which we just mess up and make our own messes. Although I hate taking my dirty laundry out
of my home; it could be so much worse.
As I think about the news, I received this morning when my
granddaughter was watching fireworks last night some mean drunk thrown out of
the place where she was watching fireworks.
Not only trashed her car but drove down the road and wrecked and I am not
real sure if anyone that got hurt. But
she is devastated.
A kid who has been working her way through high school and
college two, three jobs just bought her car and was enjoying the moment of the
world while on summer break from classes.
I wish I could protect her and all our kids from such stupid
unnecessary damage that will change her and so many for life. But the truth is the world and all of us
in are really jacked up at times.
Sad but true just being in the wrong place at the wrong
time. So many that are feeling the
heaviness of this world are drinking too much, drugging too much, and taking
all their hurt and pain out around anything and anyone that walks in their
path.
We all have growing pains there is no doubt; some of us and I have
lost some really beautiful souls in this world that could only get by if the
medicated themselves and when they finally figured out, they did not need
it. The damage was already too late to
reverse.
You say Lord we are enough, and I know even somedays knowing how
much I believe and love I too struggle with what is the point or purpose when
it seems we try our best, but we cannot see the seeds we pay forward in
planting even start to grow.
Today I am a little off.
I think it is from that deep tissue medical massage I took on Friday I
didn’t drink enough water yet to flush my system. So, it is very easy for me to ripple the down
flowing spirit to come out in truth.
God truly only knows what we are going through or have been
through be it in feelings over what we work hard for, and others take from us
or just how at times we cannot find who we really are in this world, and we get
caught up trying to be what everyone in the world says we should be.
Building that image and letting others manage who we are and
saying we want something different but never doing anything to change and make
it happen.
One thing is for sure if we truly rely on the image that the
world creates us to be than its all one big act and the curtain eventually will
fall and there will be nothing on the other side.
We are not what we own, what we acquire, what we do! We are not what we look like on the outside
we are created with a greater purpose and meant to love and be loved.
I guess from experience what that really means in truth; God
only knows as well.
Easy to get downtrodden and want to give up when we loss 20
steps falling behind at the hands of others and losing them or losing what we
have worked so hard to come forward.
So hard to keep getting back up and do that new thing or at times even
peak open the curtain to see what it could be.
I pray be it for me and the funk of feeling something is really
missing and just having a hard time getting back in my rhythm working out and
meeting that personal goal I have had in my minds-eye. To the let down of fooling myself and believing
too much and having some sub conscious expectation different outcomes will
really come to life. All the while I
know its not my place to worry or even get caught up. It belongs to the same God who allowed us to
come to this world as when or if he will heal any of us for anything going
on. Or when he will let life transpire
further or the day comes, we have to pay up for all we ignored or thought
we had in control.
I am not sure where I am going, I will always remember where I
have been. Doing my best to never
expect anything even if I wish things were different for so many. And even on the days that I do too much,
and I am reminded I am not that 20-year-old that can bulldoze my way through
getting things done and if I fall and it hurts, I just get back up and brush
off and start again.
I am weary being the padding and the cushion. Tired of hearing stories I am to believe and
seeing something else. Tired of the
good and innocent of this world getting steam rolled over and although knowing
I made it okay even when it hurt.
What is meant to be will.
Life is not a performance!
It may seem that way for so many but when we say we are Children of God
and in a place to do good for anyone and everyone that truly needs it. We should never be worried about putting on a
show. Yet no matter how good a
person we are in many situations we just cannot get away from it.
I believe whatever is going on with me will get worked out with
the man upstairs. I serve a God of the
universe and although I don’t get some of the unspoken layers that seem to have
me twisted lately. I know when he says
move. I move when he puts up the detours
and roadblocks I listen and take them.
I don’t like political agenda’s and I will be the first to say I
have a hard time being told what to do or handling disrespect from anyone one
in any situation. I am not perfect
in fact I have so many flaws I am sure I would make a great connect the dots
activity. But I am beyond blessed and
I know everything, and everyone connected to me is as well. Even in the hard times, even when it hurts,
I will still call you out Jesus and praise you.
Because you know firsthand what pain and sorrow really is.
So even when I or anyone in my family, anyone of my friends or
anyone I am blessed to connect no matter what.
I you Lord are the maker of all things and will see us through making
what is taken away so much better.
I cannot explain it, as I am blessed beyond deserving. Yet I get tired at the hands and feet of my choices
for or from others. I am waiting, I
cannot do this life on my own, yet I will never settle again. No matter what! Heal and turn lives around Jesus. That is your calling and if mine is to serve
somehow some way. Then show up and show
me how.
Until then thank you for the news that could have been so much
worse, for the early mornings taking my laundry out for the world to see. Or watching it come to life from so many I
know.
Wash it and all of us clean Jesus. Let the curtain fall and reveal the truth
and lead the way for your movement and stop the madness and all that man does. Stop the madness I create myself by getting caught
up or just being that gullible believing soul.
No matter what thank you for loving us and giving us life and
freedom of choice and will through it all.
May we find our way to glow and grow forward even when it is becoming
dark.
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