Showing posts with label New Years Resolutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Years Resolutions. Show all posts
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
What!? How could that be, Mary? Now what’s the right thing for me to do? Just wondering about Joe's thoughts.
Reminds me of...
"Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up." ~ James 4:10
Joseph worked hard, was poor, and he’s engaged. One day his babe had this uber-fantastic, outrageous story about being pregnant but never had relations with any man. In fact, God is the dad here. For real.
So Joseph was going to put her way without shaming her at all. Then Joe hears from a real angel and obeys God by taking Mary has his bride. Man, was she like 14 or 15 years of age.
Joe got rad-blessed cuz he cooperated with God’s plan. Mary did too. The shepherds stunk in their dirty job, but they did to.. cuz they cooperated with God’s plan.
No midwife, no ER, or even a hospital or Inn. There was a barn of sorts, some animals, shepherds, a bright star.. man, what a setting. Mary treasured up all the words she heard and pondered them in her heart. She was a woman of the word, not a woman of the world.
God still has the last word in Christmas.
Wanna be blessed out of your Christmas stockings? Cooperate with the highest authority like Joe, celebrate what’s really good like the angels, and contemplate the truth of God’s word ...just like Mary did. #Joshua1:8
God loves you more than gobs! Whom He chooses and uses -- those are the ones who simply turn and trust in the Lord. Come to Him right now, just like you are.
What kind of birthday party guests are the shepherds? Smelly and all? They made their way and then saw the baby in a manger. They told people about the Good News! They went back home and told everybody. They gossiped the gospel. The Angels celebrated too. Hey, God knows what He’s doing -- still does. Are you bless-able? God’s grace has been shown to all people.
(Yeah, I like tree pics -- I consider those bait to get your attention so you'll read the Bible Message)
God chose to use and bless this couple. They got blessed cuz they believed -- they were totally bless-able. Let's all live like that!
Monday, January 11, 2016
What happened to those resolutions? Did you make any new ones?
"Come now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit'— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, 'If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.' As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin." James 4:13-17
"The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps." Proverbs 16:9
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11
"And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful." Colossians 3:14-15
"The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps." Proverbs 16:9
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11
"And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful." Colossians 3:14-15
One of the best things about ‘resolutions’.. is breaking em. Not that I have this year ..yet ..or really want to, but...
Posted by Fish For Souls Evangelism™ - Kurt von Schleicher on Monday, January 11, 2016
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Out with the old and in with a New Year! Have you suffered some loss during this last year?
Have you been mourning with such deep sorrow inside? Been suffering in bereavement and mourning? Perhaps you've been rejected ..or just feel that way cuz of how the circumstances now look. Have ya felt depressed or in despair? Please don't hurt yourself or any others. There is help available for you.
Please gain God's perspective ..via biblical believing prayer, praise, gratitude, and proper worship.. yes, a perspective from where Christ is seated up above it all. He sees your whole life start to end and understands how you feel. Listen, no loss or difficulty, no matter how painful, has to be the end of your experience here forwards ..on to victory. Keep going on with Him. God sees it ALL - and He allows some trials in the life of believers, knowing what's best for all people around em. He deeply cares and knows what he is doing. Yearn for Him, and burn with passion for Him who has so much compassion for you and your loved ones.
Trust Him. Who else are you going to trust with your future? What do you have to lose? Zip!
He is looking down from above, loves you so much He just can't take His eyes off of you. And yes, He is able to see your life from conception.. from your pre-birth beginning to very end. He can see the dark valleys, the pain, and the mountains of your life. Perhaps His angles are kinda wondering how you will face the present challenge you are going through. Will you be stopped in your growth and just give up, defeated? Or will you move forward in righteousness ..in a meaningful relationship with God on to and through the next challenge? You can do this through the Jesus Christ of the Bible. He is there for you. He will restore, comfort, touch and even tie up all the loose ends for you. Your life can improve and be used to comfort others as you persevere in faith.
The Lord has the keys of death and the keys of Hates. Death was defeated by His Cross. He now lives as the Keeper of the keys. No non-believer will ever get by Him undetected. People can ignore the Savior here now, but no one will be able to ignore Him there - the Judge. When you die, your eternal destiny is fixed. No changing or salvation for any of us post physical death. Jesus is the Resurrection and the life - He is the only way for us to get into heaven. Acknowledge your sinfulness and simply repent (ditch it, have a change of mind about it).
Jesus is only Way in.. the Truth and the Life and He wants you safe forever. Bible teaches that in the last days there will be distress of nations with no way out. Perplexing. Stressful - I can't make your problems go away. See God for who He really is and see what he says. But don't lose hope now. When in trouble, sickness or pain take it to Jesus. God loves you with an everlasting love. He can minister and be glorified through you. I'm thinkin' about how Mary and Martha in the Bible must have felt when their brother Lazarus of Bethany got sick and died (cuz of Adam's sin). Looked bad but Jesus delayed. He waited days to go there.. but fixed that unfixable mess anyways. His delays aren't his denials. He has made everything beautiful in His time. He did better than they asked of Him. He went above and beyond their request of him.
"For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.." ~ Jer. 29:11
It's time for a NEW START! "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." 2 Cor. 5:17
Going forward have zero trepidation or anxiety in your advancing, believer. "The Lord Himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you.." Deut. 31:8 facebook.com/shareJesus
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Perhaps ya still need some basic New Year’s Resolutions that you know you’ll feel glad about in 2016
If you feel you're lackin' a bit, just go ahead and borrow some of my resolutions.
Almost here. Wishin' you a very blessed and Happy New Year. Welcome #2015 http://t.co/kNApifDPXY
— Kurt von Schleicher (@kurtwvs) December 27, 2014
"Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.” I ain’t talkin’ about self-righteous, snooty or religious hyper-spiritual know-it-alls here.
In a very social media kinda world why does God say, "Do not be misled: ‘Bad company corrupts good character.’" It’s cuz so many people are daily being misled in a destructive lame direction. Duh.
"As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.”
"The godly people in the land are my true heroes! I take pleasure in them! Those who chase after other gods will be filled with sorrow. I will not take part in their sacrifices..” Hang tight with Jesus, and fellowship with growing (real) Christians instead of with the hypocritical type. This year let loving seed-sowers-of-truth and winsome soul-winners who love to pray... rub off on you.
Feelin’ so SO grateful for my wise friends. Thank you! facebook.com/shareJesus
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
What's your take on New Years and on all the Resolutions that go along with it?
May I Say, Please Have a Happy, Way-Blessed, Really Wonderful New Year in 2014... I So Hope It's Your Best One Yet! Really Want That For You and Yours.
Bein' raised for many years in what seemed to me (don't get me wrong or be offended at all..) to be a dead kinda church that simply refused to expositionally, verse by verse minister n teach through the Bible as God tells leaders and pastors to do.. I learned well the message of Religion which said… Be better, do better and you might earn the favor of God.
It's New Years Eve today, and I've got some minutes free just to jot down a few ideas that I hope will challenge and edifying you. I don't know what is going on over there in your hometown, but we have lots of Missouri Tigers in town this week (almost got run over by a bunch of them after practice ended – yup, there I was in the middle of em with all their big numbered jerseys on. Tall guys. Big, Running past me. Had to laugh. Felt like I was down close to the cars at a North Texas NASCAR race).
I hope they win. Perhaps this is Coach Gary Pinkel's top wish or New Years Resolution. Dunno. Did get to chat with, n help him a pinch recently. Nice guy. Like me, you can just imagine how he must feel now and pre-kickoff. It's a big game here in the South. And besides him, you know that many others have made ..and will make New Years Resolutions today.
Want ya to know.. I personally like prayerful determination, Spirit-led-goal-setting, discipline and confidence, but because of my upbringing.. I just don't get so thrilled about resolutions or determination if they leave out full dependence on the God of the Bible, the Lord Jesus Christ. I figure if He ain't Lord of all, He ain't Lord at all…in my life.
But I so want Him to be. Let's let the Lord be the Lord today and every day.
You know how.. many people today say that they for sure can pull it off, but how much of it can they? How can they alone.. pull it off ..that which is truly wonderful or really excellent?
Can you and i really pull off what's good or fruitful on our own? Personally, me likes to get some help with pullin' stuff off in the will of God. And I want to challenge you to do that as well regarding the will of God for you.
I never look down on people who make resolutions—they just want to do better. But the Bible doesn't really say that we believer should make resolutions at the beginning of a new year, but God does urge us to examine our lives regularly, and to seek the Lord's help in becoming and doing better for His glory.
The Word of God admonishes us with this: "Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord" Lamentations 3:40.
Jesus in John 15:5 declares, "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing."
Huh! You can do how much? Isn't it the Lord who gives us our next breath and the ability to breathe?
Huh! You can do how much? Isn't it the Lord who gives us our next breath and the ability to breathe?
"Come now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit'— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, 'If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.' As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin." James 4:13-17
"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want." Psalm 23:1
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11
It's of course good to plan, but know that God has the best plan. Now, juxtaposed to these words of truth above, and just for the fun of it.. let's check out some humorous New Years Resolutions that I know I can sure relate to..ones that make a good point. Perhaps you will enjoy them as well.
EXERCISE
2007: I will get my weight down below 180.
2008: I will watch my calories until I get below 190.
2009: I will strictly follow my new diet until I get below 200.
2010: I will try to develop a realistic attitude about my weight.
2011: I will work out five days a week.
2012: I will work out three days a week.
2013: I will try to drive past a gym at least once a week.
FINANCES
2007: I will not spend my money frivolously.
2008: I will pay off my bank loan promptly.
2009: I will pay off my bank loans promptly.
2010: I will begin making a strong effort to be out of debt by 2011.
2011: I will be totally out of debt by 2012.
2012: I will try to pay off the debt interest by 2013.
2013: I will try to be out of the country by 2014.
Funny huh. Our intentions can be good, but we can fail even after we give it our very best. Now here is a bit of what God says about confidence.
"I can do all things through him who strengthens me." Philippians 4:13 esv
"For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control." 2 Timothy 1:7
"So we can confidently say, ''The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?" Hebrews 13:6
"Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised." Hebrews 10:35-36
"In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths." Proverbs 3:6
"In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths." Proverbs 3:6
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16
How do I want to encourage you .....you know, when it will seem like the whole world will be out there tonight partying their brains out? So many feel empty, guilty, afraid, forgotten, lonely, but tonight it will look like they all are having so much fun. Don't get me wrong, some indeed will be having fun. And some will be enjoying sin for a season, but it's so short-lived and the wages of it are death.
How? Well, I want to encourage you with these six things.. to (1.) Know God in a personal way and pray in faith to Him through Jesus His Son, asking for His kinda wisdom that's far superior, for His knowledge, His insight and His discernment (See James 1:5). And to (2.) Deny your fleshly nature and the world system that tells you to do what it tells you to do. Instead pray in the Spirit for the right application steps that come from the Word on how you will go about fulfilling the specific goals that the Lord gives to you regarding balance, His Great Commandment and Great Commission. Then (3.) Rely moment by moment on the Holy Spirit of God's to quicken, direct, anoint, strength, and help you pull it all off right ..in His perfect timing. Also (4.) Find a spiritual-minded, mature, born again accountability partner of the same gender who will listen to you, counsel perhaps, and even help to guide you with this good stuff. Please (5.) Don't become discouraged with yourself if there are occasional failures on your part. Just be quick to confess and repent if you sin, and then get back up again. Brush yourself off, and walk on with Jesus as Lord again avoiding places of temptation and people that love to fall into it. Never listen to the enemy Mr Lu-Cifer (the devil) or allow his loser-crowd (of fallen angels or even lost people who influence in a negative way). Don't let them point the finger to condemn you into quitting on the Lord. They like to push you to sin saying How will just a little bit hurt you? Come on, everyone is doing it…but then afterwards he likes to point his finger at you and say, Look at you hypocrite screw-up. You are such a shameful failure, so don't even call yourself a believer anymore and quit try to walk with God cuz you have proven that you can't do it. You've blow it too bad this time, and man, you call yourself a Christian do you? How totally lame you are.
No, just agree and say I can't do it ..on my own independantly, but I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me..all things that God wants and calls me to do by His Spirit. Yes, just listen to God's Word and His Spirit - they always agree with each other. Then, (6.) Obey the Lord and never become proud over any victories, or rebellious against His delegated or direct authority. Don't let the Prideful one, Satan, get you all puffed up, self-confident or vain in your thinking, but resist hi and walk on in God's will and remember to give God the glory when He gives you success in any area, or uses you in any way.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Things To Do To Have A Horrible New Year
How be you so far in this new year? Are you ready for a new President in the White House or do you prefer not to think about that? You know that He and his staff will indeed need our prayers just the same.
It's been a little rainy here in Dallas today. I hear that ice is hanging on the branches of bodark trees not too far north of us here in Texas, so we might get some of that visiting us later on.
Liney and I are really looking forward to a new year in Jesus. God has been answering some of our prayers. It's exciting. We can't control a lot of things that will happen in this nation, but there are some things we can control with self-control. I can control myself, my attitude, my behavior, yes make the right decisions with God's help. Please pray we won't miss Him in anything. We want Jesus to be Lord of all. Are there prayer requests and goals you have for this year? Would you care to share some of those? Do feel free to let us know how you are doing? We will be glad to call out your family's names to the Lord (of course, keeping all your needs private if that is what you want, or get others to pray with us).
"I've anchored in Jesus, the storms of life I'll brave; I've anchored in Jesus, I'll fear no wind or wave. I've anchored in Jesus, for He hath power to save; I've anchored to the Rock of Ages!" —Lewis Edgar Jones
Things To Do To Have A Horrible New Year
That's kind of a silly title huh. Of course I hope you will not have a miserable new year--not even for one day.
And that's why I'm writing this thing. We each can consider the decisions we could potentially make early on ..that would help us to insure that we will have an extremely bad or good year. It's up to us. We each will decide, no matter what happens circumstantially. Some people want to get in Christ and sow to the Spirit rather than to the flesh—they want to know what to avoid in advance, and what to trust God for.
Perhaps last year was really hard for you and your family. Maybe you lost a loved one, broke up with your boy or girlfriend, saw your stock investments take a dive, experienced a divorce, were kicked out of your place of employment or your dwelling. I'm so sorry for that if it was a year of pain for you!
You've more than likely been hurt in your past by a person, an organization etc—who hasn't been? Maybe you've suffered some reversals, some major set-backs, some unexpected trials, some severe testings, or embarrassing failures. Lots of people have.
Whatever it was, it's time to make sure that all our sins are under the blood of Christ; to confess and find forgiveness if needed, to get back up again, to forget the past and press on advancing forwards in the Spirit and in love of Christ. This can be the year that you brush yourself off, forgive other hard-to-love-people and stand up against all the wiles of the real enemy to experience growth and victory like never before. This can be the year that God uses you to reap a harvest as you lead someone or some people into the Kingdom!
But if you think otherwise and really want to experience a miserable year, you could opt to…
1. Worry a whole lot.. even though Jesus in the Bible commanded: "I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on" (Lk.
2. Fix your attention on self and ways to get rich quick. You could lounge around in your underwear, bathrobe and fuzzy slippers all day, and attend some webinars about how to buy eight homes only to sell them next week for a profit of $300,000. You could join some new pyramid company where they teach you how to get others working for you so you won't have to.
Wrote this in 2009.. and then lost have of it. Sorry.
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