THE FATHER'S LOVE LETTER

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/TffkAILd6EU" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Thanks you my Abba!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Happy Father's Day!</div></div>

THE FATHER'S LOVE LETTER

Thanks you my Abba! Happy Father's Day!

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THE GOSPEL IN 4 MINUTES

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/K48-Li7lIfA" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Please take just 4 minutes to watch this fabulous and eternal truth in a fresh way!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">GREAT video!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">May you be blessed!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Happy Sunday!</div></div>

THE GOSPEL IN 4 MINUTES

Please take just 4 minutes to watch this fabulous and eternal truth in a fresh way! GREAT video! May you be blessed!!! Happy Sunday!

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NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP...

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4-WxsKHG5KGJ6ahDKfZVkQas5ZKp7Mm5Rx-yM0CyPyse53SujiyMMotLQe1orXOwfs8N5V_4lFFo5BWS-PgA1RKSCij52JBe0NLDmVM5WEuUEmgBa9OEle1MX2yGOi0obss33t0xch5s/s1600/Do+you+Pray+before+you+go+to+sleep+6-1-14-stonegableblog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4-WxsKHG5KGJ6ahDKfZVkQas5ZKp7Mm5Rx-yM0CyPyse53SujiyMMotLQe1orXOwfs8N5V_4lFFo5BWS-PgA1RKSCij52JBe0NLDmVM5WEuUEmgBa9OEle1MX2yGOi0obss33t0xch5s/s1600/Do+you+Pray+before+you+go+to+sleep+6-1-14-stonegableblog.jpg" width="271" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I remember saying my nightly prayers as a little girl. Every night... without fail! They were part of the nightly routine... brush teeth, wash face, say prayers!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Somewhere between being a young teenager and a college student nightly prayers just faded away. I'm not sure why. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Up until today I have not prayed at night on a regular basis. But that is about to change...</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><a name="more"></a>Now my nightly routine goes like this...<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Brush teeth, wash face...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm usually exhausted and fall into bed half asleep before my head hit s the pillow or I fall asleep watching the news or the cooking channel. Praying is not foremost in my mind.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Let's pretend for just a minute...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Let's pretend that you are hosting a big family dinner. Family comes to your home from all over. You have gone all out and prepared a fabulous, delicious meal! Everyone happily partakes of your home, hospitality and effort.  Then they leave... all of them without saying a word... not one word! No thank you! No, honest compliments on the great dinner... no good byes! No hugs!  No I love yous...they just leave! How would you feel?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Maybe that is how God has felt all these years when I don't have the time, energy or inclination to just say thank you and good night!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Starting tonight I am making the effort to talk to God, even for just a little bit, before I go to sleep... every night! Without fail, God willing!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I want to tell Him thank you for at least one thing... I want to pray for one person that crossed my path... I want to tell Him I love Him... and tell Him why! Then I can commit my night and life into His nail-pierced hands and rest!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">How about you?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> If you are not regularly praying at night why don't you join me! Let's start a new nightly routine that ends with a little prayer time with our Father!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP...

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PRINTABLE CHALK ART~ SUNDAY SCRIPTURE

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfdO0mE3LP5xRyJfJwfcHjzPu2j5CUREexwiL-Y5UJCPnEqb0qcHiD9fi2v0ZcX3MN_jieOXjkwIAKG1PC30fiLXCJ7ajJ5m8FmIUPq3QaKZEIt-w5DXVvcdo36-dk4Y05mPPuknZoJAI/s1600/If+My+People...+2+Chronicles+7+14-stonegableblog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfdO0mE3LP5xRyJfJwfcHjzPu2j5CUREexwiL-Y5UJCPnEqb0qcHiD9fi2v0ZcX3MN_jieOXjkwIAKG1PC30fiLXCJ7ajJ5m8FmIUPq3QaKZEIt-w5DXVvcdo36-dk4Y05mPPuknZoJAI/s1600/If+My+People...+2+Chronicles+7+14-stonegableblog.jpg" width="364" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Memorial Day is the time to REMEMBER all of the men and women who have served and protected this country so bravely. Especially those who have given the ultimate sacrifice!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This Memorial Day I hope you will also pray for our country. That's why I have made a printable chalkboard art of 2 Cronicles 7:14.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">To get a printable copy click<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://app.box.com/s/nnnekraxek725hslpv91" target="_blank">HERE</a></span>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Please pray for our country and do what pleases God so he will hear from heaven, forgive our sins and heal our land.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A big THANK YOU to all who have served, and the families that have supported our service men and women and special prayers for the fallen and their families!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">GOD BLESS YOU!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

PRINTABLE CHALK ART~ SUNDAY SCRIPTURE

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THE BLESSING CIRCLE

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Qw04ic8FJuobst6HMdfdfP0qYA313aFgwQfIyfXf76wnbKDY-MaeIFWp-Cgk_TOYZmHd117o_m0r1rFDdpWmGm_GUKo4TKPN9p0FZWaFjDDAIQDEN9y3PoWtVJT4nCyMjtpuVh67VgA/s1600/SS-+The+Blessing+Circle-stonegableblog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Qw04ic8FJuobst6HMdfdfP0qYA313aFgwQfIyfXf76wnbKDY-MaeIFWp-Cgk_TOYZmHd117o_m0r1rFDdpWmGm_GUKo4TKPN9p0FZWaFjDDAIQDEN9y3PoWtVJT4nCyMjtpuVh67VgA/s1600/SS-+The+Blessing+Circle-stonegableblog.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Last week I attended a dinner for one of my favorite ministries <a href="http://www.hope-international.com/index.php?gclid=CNPR2MK4tb4CFYw7OgodWFwApw" target="_blank">HOPE INTERNATIONAL</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">One of the speakers said... "You are blessed to be a blessing". And I was struck by the truth and weightiness of that statement.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">YOU ARE BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Lets look at what the word blessing means and how it applies to us...</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">To see what the word blessing means we need to look at it's Hebrew roots. The word blessing is...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">BERAKHAH.. pronounced "bra-KHAH.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It carries the idea "to kneel".</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Every word in the Hebrew language is related to an image or action, something a person can sense. There is no abstract imagery in the Hebrew language</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The word blessing is the idea of bowing or kneeling down in gratitude for something someone has done for you.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">So, a blessing is an act that someone does for you that causes you to be grateful to them.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And where do blessings come from?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">EVERY GOOD AND PERFECT GIFT COMES DOWN FROM ABOVE, COMING DOWN FROM THE FATHER OF HEAVENLY LIGHTS,  WHO DOES NOT CHANGE LIKE SHIFTING SHADOWS. James 1:17</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">There are so many verses in the bible that talk of God being the source of blessings... "good and perfect gifts".</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In James 1:17 God is called "the Father of Heavenly lights". Light in this verse is a very Hebraic term for "life and goodness" and also it lets us know that God made the heavens... something God called "good".</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">James then goes on to say "who does not change like shifting shadows", letting the readers know that God's character does not change. He is the source of blessings and always will be. It is in His nature to "bless".</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">So every good thing you have comes from God the Father. Your life, your breath, you health, you family, your food, your home, your job, your children, your pets, you clothing, your education, you talents, your wholesome passions, your car, you money, you hobbies, your SALVATION... the sun, the rain, the breeze, and on and on!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you are reading this you are blessed. You probably own a computer or ipad or cell phone! A blessing most of the world can't even conceive!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You are continually being blessed by God!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">YOU ARE BLESSED!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And the reaction all of the blessed of the world should be to "bow the knee" to the Father! We, the blessed, should be thankful.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The apostle Paul says in Ephesians 5:20...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"ALWAYS GIVING THANKS TO GOD FOR EVERYTHING"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">God wants us to be aware of His benevolent hand... and love and grace and kindness and mercy that He is filled with for us. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And our reaction should always be a spirit of thanks and gratitude. Make sure you let your Father know know by thanking Him for His blessings!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Proverbs, the teaching of the wise to make the young and wise even wiser, says...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"THE ONE WHO BLESSES OTHERS IS ABUNDANTLY BLESSED"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">We are to take and use our blessing not only for our welfare, but for others too!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">We are to let the river of abundant blessings from God flow through us so we can splash blessing on those that are near and far!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It works like a circle... God blesses you and you thank Him and bless others and God blesses you and you thank Him and bless others... and on and on!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Don't let blessings stop with you... be a blessing!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A smile can be a blessing or a kind word or a sweet act or money for a godly cause, or housing someone when they are down and out... start with those around you and then widen your "circle"!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Blessings are to flow and be shared. I can't think of a better way of  blessing God, kneeling in thanks, than to spread His blessings in His name to others!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Are you a blessing? Is your life a blessing circle?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Today be a blessing to someone as a way of thanking God for what He has done for you!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

THE BLESSING CIRCLE

Last week I attended a dinner for one of my favorite ministries HOPE INTERNATIONAL . One of the speakers said... "You are blessed to be...

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THE PROVERBIAL WOMAN ON MOTHER'S DAY

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdMoUpWyQ5q4eROiouD9NDbrc2O9SvpWww5eQLIDCQ7mTbOAv5A3JUYKrfXooYJaiDu70GTWaGZlaLDK1g-wzp73lNjLMPI92jvazebE4J0XGLcBqnOcgvAP-1Qc1VBdGAe4JNV8CTdDk/s1600/Mother's+Day+2011+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdMoUpWyQ5q4eROiouD9NDbrc2O9SvpWww5eQLIDCQ7mTbOAv5A3JUYKrfXooYJaiDu70GTWaGZlaLDK1g-wzp73lNjLMPI92jvazebE4J0XGLcBqnOcgvAP-1Qc1VBdGAe4JNV8CTdDk/s1600/Mother's+Day+2011+2.jpg" width="468" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Let's look at the woman of Proverbs 31 and see if you might know her!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is how she might look today...</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">An excellent wife, who can find her?</div><div style="text-align: center;">For her worth is far above jewels.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>A wife that is virtuous has strong moral courage and is as hard to find as a diamond.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The heart of her husband trusts her,</div><div style="text-align: center;">And he will have no lack of gain.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Her husband trusts her with everything in him and knows that he lacks nothing with this woman at his side.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She does him good and not evil all the days of his life.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>She thinks of him when she does everything and looks out for his good. It is NOT all about her!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;">She looks for wool and flax.</div><div style="text-align: center;">And works with with her hands in delight.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>She is industrious and is happy to work.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She is like merchant ships;</div><div style="text-align: center;">She brings food from afar.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>She shops around, knows how to get a bargain and bring it home!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She rises also while it is still night,</div><div style="text-align: center;">And gives food to her household.,</div><div style="text-align: center;">And portions to her maidens.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>She takes care of those in her house.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She considers a field and buys it:</div><div style="text-align: center;">From her earnings she plants a vineyard.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>She is smart and has a good mind for business. She uses her resources so that she has a good return on them.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She girds herself with strength,</div><div style="text-align: center;">And makes her arms strong.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>She is self sufficient and strong.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She senses that her gain is good;</div><div style="text-align: center;">Her lamp does not go out at night,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>She keeps track of her money and is not lazy.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She stretches out her hands to the distaff,</div><div style="text-align: center;">And her hands grasp the spindle.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>She works with proficiency and is good at what she does.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She extends her hand to the poor;</div><div style="text-align: center;">And she stretches out her hands to the needy.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>She finds way to meet the needs of others. She helps those less fortunate than her.</i><br /><br /><br />She is not afraid of the snow for her household,<br />For all her household are clothed in scarlet.<br /><i>She know that her family will be clean and well dressed because of her care for them.</i><br /><br /><br />She makes coverings for herself;<br />Her clothing is fine linen and purple.<br /><i>She takes good care of herself and dresses modestly and beautifully.</i><br /><br /><br />She makes linen garment and sells them,<br />And supplies belts to the tradesmen.<br /><i>She uses her time and talents and resources to bring money into her household.</i><br /><br /><br />Strength and dignity are her clothing,<br />And she smiles at the future.<br /><i>Her character is more than skin deep! </i><br /><i>She runs her life and her household so they have security for the future!</i><br /><br /><br />She open her mouth in wisdom,<br />And the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.<br /><i>She is not a gossip and is not silly. When she talks she is wise and kind and has productive things to say.</i><br /><br /><br />She looks well to her household,<br />And does not eat the bread of idleness.<br /><i>She has a well kept household and keeps it that way. She is not lazy. She does not fill up her day with idle persuits.</i><br /><br /><br />Her children rise up and bless her,<br />And her husband also, and he praises her, saying:<br />"Many daughters have done nobly,<br />But you excel them all".<br /><i>Her children love and respect her. And so does her husband.</i><br /><i>He thinks she is the best wife in the world!</i><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain,<br />But the woman who fears the Lord, she is to be praied.<br /><i>Womanly wiles are not real and beauty fades, but the woman who loves and obeys the Lord is worth her weight in gold!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">To all Mothers, Grandmothers, Aunts, Sisters, Daughters and all those who love a child...<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY</span><br /><br />May we strive to be Proverb 31 Women!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

THE PROVERBIAL WOMAN ON MOTHER'S DAY

Let's look at the woman of Proverbs 31 and see if you might know her! Here is how she might look today... An excellent wife, who can fin...

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FREE PRINTABLE CHALKBOARD SCRIPTURE ART

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP8AxnVfRcNUSc0vd7HGGztUl800d_CUqDvSc7D9b0FqeP_VDpmW3LEe1gqX5rojpGphalOuW-CglznmF4XjPsNBT5I9YLJtGkJ8zTd1-H7RR4Q7dh1cJuI_8YRXWjPNzmZ6260t72KNc/s1600/Walk+in+the+manner+-stonegableblog.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP8AxnVfRcNUSc0vd7HGGztUl800d_CUqDvSc7D9b0FqeP_VDpmW3LEe1gqX5rojpGphalOuW-CglznmF4XjPsNBT5I9YLJtGkJ8zTd1-H7RR4Q7dh1cJuI_8YRXWjPNzmZ6260t72KNc/s1600/Walk+in+the+manner+-stonegableblog.png" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Do you have a life verse? A verse in the bible that sums up the desire of your heart for your life?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I do... it's Colossians 1:10.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I've made my life verse into Chalkboard Art and I'm sharing with you!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You can make a printable copy by clicking <a href="https://app.box.com/s/knd11vqa0gpnouk6k7nu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span></a>. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Happy Sunday!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

FREE PRINTABLE CHALKBOARD SCRIPTURE ART

Do you have a life verse? A verse in the bible that sums up the desire of your heart for your life? I do... it's Colossians 1:10. I'...

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BRINGING FRIENDS TO THE THRONE OF GRACE

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiOGOrAHtVrPbBPGHiCDpn66Y-hBed6R1GW1LssuRE7zAfsT96CEwPEt2yfgD4s5JKLbbtTFCYXaoJm3IA19cHDnlZXEZLL0NuA8sV-2HJ544k-gqVrjlWnz7uRbljPpXxYKXIHnAElMQ/s1600/Bringing+Friends+to+the+throne+of+Grace-stonegableblog.com.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiOGOrAHtVrPbBPGHiCDpn66Y-hBed6R1GW1LssuRE7zAfsT96CEwPEt2yfgD4s5JKLbbtTFCYXaoJm3IA19cHDnlZXEZLL0NuA8sV-2HJ544k-gqVrjlWnz7uRbljPpXxYKXIHnAElMQ/s1600/Bringing+Friends+to+the+throne+of+Grace-stonegableblog.com.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Ancient home in Israel</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">What do you do when illness or tragedy or troubles or anxiety or difficulties strike someone you know?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It could be friend, or family member or even a person you hear about!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Let me tell you a story about a man with a debilitating illness and how his friends helped him in a time of his great need...</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">This story struck me deep in my heart when I first read about it years ago and to this day it is still on my mind...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Our story takes place in Capernaum, a town right on the seashore of the sea of Galilee. A town that was the home base of Jesus during his three year ministry.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Jesus, by the time of this story, had reached rock star status in all of Israel and surrounding areas for his healing and teaching.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">On one particular day, he was at the home of Peter and a great, huge crowd had gathered. Jesus was inside "speaking the word". </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">While Jesus was preaching four men came to the house bringing their paralyzed friend on a pallet.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Upon arriving at the house they couldn't get close to the door, because of the great crowds that came to hear Jesus.</div><div style="text-align: center;">What happened next was astonishing! Those four men were not deterred by the crowds.  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Listen to what they did...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And being unable to get to Him (Jesus) because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.</span> Mark 2:4</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Can you just see it?  Can you see these men scrambling up onto the roof of this ancient, seaside home.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The roof was probably made of a cross section of rough timber beams covered with a thick coating of mud plaster. Grass would actually grow on the top of the roof. The roofs were sturdy enough that people would sleep on then and also worship there.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I wonder if Jesus and the multitudes inside could hear all the commotion above as the men dissembled the roof ? As the men dug the dried mud with their hands to make an opening large enough for a man and his pallet to be lowered through it did much of the debris fall on Jesus and the people inside?  What was the reaction of the all the people?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I love to think of bible stories and their real life details! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Because of the tenacious action of the four men the paralytic had his audience with Jesus and was healed! And because of the healing, the once paralyzed man walked away praising God!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">What an amazing story!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">But here is what touches me so deeply... these men carried their friend in need to the only One who could do something about his condition. They brought their paralyzed friend to Jesus.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Every time I pray for someone... a friend, a precious family member or just someone in need that I hear about... I am carrying them to Jesus also! I can so relate to the men who dug through that mud roof to get to Jesus.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It is a privilege to carry someone, by intercessory prayer, to the Throne of Grace!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Hebrews 4: 14-16 says...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son Of God, let us hold fast to our confession.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">LET US THEREFORE, COME BOLDLY TO THE THRONE OF OUR GRACIOUS GOD THAT WE MAY FIND MERCY AND GRACE IN OUR TIME OF NEED.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I think what the men did for their parlayed friend was very bold!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And James 5:16 says...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayers of a righteous man can accomplish much.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Talking to God about others in need is biggest and best thing we can do for them! Pray and continue to pray. Visually see yourself on top of that roof, digging away the mud so you can lower your friend, or precious family member or someone in need carefully down to lovingly place them at the feet of Jesus! And keep doing it! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Don't give up!!! What if the friends of the paralyzed man stopped taking him to Jesus because they could not get near the door? The man would have never been healed! They would let nothing stop them... not the crowds, not the roof, nothing!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Don't underestimate the power of prayer... your prayer and the faith you have in the ONE you are praying to can literally move mountains! Believe in Jesus... the Healer... the Son of God... and His miracle ability! Look for His hand in the situation you are praying about. Expect miracles!!! It may not be the miracle you want, but He is faithful to answer prayer in His perfect way! Trust that... trust Him!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Who are you bringing to Jesus on a pallet today?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Thank you to all the many many people who carried me to the Throne of Grace during my long illness. I literally felt your prayers through God's constancy in my time of trouble!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I am feeling very much my old self! What a blessing you! Thank you for so much. May God bless you as you have blessed me!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">   </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

BRINGING FRIENDS TO THE THRONE OF GRACE

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EASTER 2014

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">WHY DO YOU SEEK THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">HE IS NOT HERE, BUT HAS RISEN!</span><br />Luke 24<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">HE IS RISEN, HALLELUJAH!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Happy and Blessed Easter!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/qKSe9PE002o" width="420"></iframe></div></div>

EASTER 2014

WHY DO YOU SEEK THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD? HE IS NOT HERE, BUT HAS RISEN! Luke 24 HE IS RISEN, HALLELUJAH! Happy and Blessed Easter!

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DO YOU KNOW MY KING?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/yzqTFNfeDnE" width="560"></iframe></div><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">This is my all time FAVORITE video! Please watch this beautiful video!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I weep every time I see it...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Today is Palm Sunday... a day that marks the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem as the King Of Kings!<br /><br />He was ready... but the world was not!<br /><br /><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;">Do YOU  Know My King... I pray you do!</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div></div></div>

DO YOU KNOW MY KING?

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HE IS RISEN FREE PRINTABLE

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5PKs55xuMLYGbZXOn_iBtEqHpImUKtAlxA5340fp4NNEVNHyZyiz2cVAIxCk6vHYJLQxN8KEr6Q3p8kf9cH7-iRrfoje0u_xeqcPN2aDZECL2Qv3uo8jTq6f0gn13dkdrqnM1umHTpy8/s1600/I+KNOW+MY+REDEEMER+LIVES-stonegableblog.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5PKs55xuMLYGbZXOn_iBtEqHpImUKtAlxA5340fp4NNEVNHyZyiz2cVAIxCk6vHYJLQxN8KEr6Q3p8kf9cH7-iRrfoje0u_xeqcPN2aDZECL2Qv3uo8jTq6f0gn13dkdrqnM1umHTpy8/s1600/I+KNOW+MY+REDEEMER+LIVES-stonegableblog.png" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">These are two of my very favorite verses, now put together in Chalkboard Art form for you  and ready to be printed off and framed...</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><a name="more"></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm framing mine today and putting it in my living room. Perfect for lent!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Click <a href="https://app.box.com/s/3dfo2w3k9tzn80poz9d0" target="_blank">HERE</a> for a printable copy suitable for a 4 x 6 or 5 x 7.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">May you be blessed today! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hallelujah, He is risen indeed!</span></div></div>

HE IS RISEN FREE PRINTABLE

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THE ANCIENT OF DAYS

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCMthpQnW-kS7smI2J82Fe3LTLdeSqy6LK-BkCSlsgG6Kf3fG2gRpklGv8fC97e5hOALIAx6ZlOR3QfGWgy-1wyXunX4Hh4mlbA-BKDGj6rtGUVC43FWBW2V4nNY1ePbwVxQ6FpxD8qyx8/s1600/SS+3-23-14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCMthpQnW-kS7smI2J82Fe3LTLdeSqy6LK-BkCSlsgG6Kf3fG2gRpklGv8fC97e5hOALIAx6ZlOR3QfGWgy-1wyXunX4Hh4mlbA-BKDGj6rtGUVC43FWBW2V4nNY1ePbwVxQ6FpxD8qyx8/s1600/SS+3-23-14.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />One of my favorite names for God is "Ancient of Days". It's a very timeworn name, which first appears in the Book of Daniel, Chapter 7.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The date is 553 BC. Daniel has a dream and a vision given by God about the Gentile nations of the world and God's dealing with them. It is a dream of prophesy.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Part of Daniel's dream gives him a look into heaven... and what a sight he sees!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Let's set the heavely scene and discover this beautiful name for God... Ancient Of Days...</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">In heaven thrones are set up and the court sat! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Daniel is describing a court room scene... in a time of future judgement. It is the judgement of the Gentile nations of the world! These nations have turned their back on God, were cruel and had little care for human life, treated Israel with contempt, and conquered in the most despotic ways!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Daniel says...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I kept looking until the thrones were set up.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And the ANCIENT OF DAYS took his seat;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">His vesture was like white snow,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And the hair of His head like pure wool.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">His throne were ablaze with flames, It's wheels were burning fire.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A river of fire was flowing,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And coming out from before Him;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thousands upon thousands were attending Him,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And myriads upon myriads were standing before Him;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The court sat, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And the books were opened.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In Daniel's dream and vision he saw a court scene. God, the Great Judge on His throne... with innumerable heavenly beings who were ready, upon command, to carry out God's just sentence!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">God's vesture, clothing, and His hair were described in such a way that one can only imagine He shone so brightly that it was blinding! A beautiful way to portray God's holiness and righteousness and purity!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Daniel described a scene that there are no human words for... so he used the everyday things he knew to create a picture of what is too magnificent to describe.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">God's throne was ablaze with fire... fire describes the glory of God. Amazing!  His glory overwhelms the scene! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The river of fire flowing out from God's throne is the presence of God! In this case, it is His presence to administer judgement.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The court sat, and the books were opened. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Scripture tells us that God keeps a record of all human deeds (Rev 20)... so these books deal with the deeds of the nations!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Now that the scene has been set, let's talk about the name the</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">ANCIENT OF DAYS</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It carries the meaning that God has lived through the entire course of human history... He and He alone is the Ancient Of Days... and know all the deeds of all human beings and of all kingdoms of the earth!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It says... that God is a firsthand eyewitness to all events and does not need to rely on a secondhand witness to tell him the deeds of anyone or anything at any time in all of history.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">He is then a Judge that can administer a true and just judgement because he has lived through it all and has seen all... firsthand!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This thought makes me want to weep! Not weep about the judgements for they are just... but for wonder of the God I call my Father!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">He, The Ancient Of Days, is too big for me to wrap my mind around... and that is okay. One of God's natural attributes is that He is incomprehensible. He is beyond understanding because His ways, character and acts are so much higher than man's. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">But by learning a little about the title ANCIENT OF DAYS, I hope God reveals a little more about Himself to you and me and that we are blessed greatly by it!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br />I hope you will listen to one of my favorite songs glorifying God...<br /><br />I chose this rendition because it is a joyful and exuberant praise! This congregation is praising God with everything they have... their voices, their hands, their bodies and their musical instruments!<br /><br /><br />ANCIENT OF DAYS<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/JT99epfu2pg" width="420"></iframe></div></div>

THE ANCIENT OF DAYS

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CHALKBOARD ART FREE PRINTABLE OF PSALM 118:24

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwdsDXjgphdW6720ckqnRi3G8R-Q5bGY0TKGAGfAQkVDsCzRff5iCi9TMRdSmlyD77W7MgCAnuj9psRmFM9rMmnsSAHkAJcpE_8Gmtpd1DS6jAvP9cCq-nBXqCOMAeyQlaY2SJrQDjRnjN/s1600/This+is+the+day...jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwdsDXjgphdW6720ckqnRi3G8R-Q5bGY0TKGAGfAQkVDsCzRff5iCi9TMRdSmlyD77W7MgCAnuj9psRmFM9rMmnsSAHkAJcpE_8Gmtpd1DS6jAvP9cCq-nBXqCOMAeyQlaY2SJrQDjRnjN/s1600/This+is+the+day...jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Happy Sunday!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Last week the free printable of Joshua 24:15 was so popular I made another!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Click<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://app.box.com/s/0etaxk9zufrgtdpqt9tt" target="_blank">HERE </a></span> to get the free printable... and rejoice!</div></div>

CHALKBOARD ART FREE PRINTABLE OF PSALM 118:24

Happy Sunday! Last week the free printable of Joshua 24:15 was so popular I made another! Click HERE  to get the free printable... and rejo...

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CHALKBOARD ART BIBLE VERSE~FREE PRINTABLE

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglTcnpwo2ZmMjxnvsOVMChRSvaqWFERb3yOz7OLiNE2eEzGiqIsImDk0ee_RMwhXIQ6SQJT9ANOBUmTjn8QlKR89j05ncI4YecMBDqxEA32-58Jb7ZiluFZD1xkCKQ01IdTEvDqyUubUAl/s1600/As.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglTcnpwo2ZmMjxnvsOVMChRSvaqWFERb3yOz7OLiNE2eEzGiqIsImDk0ee_RMwhXIQ6SQJT9ANOBUmTjn8QlKR89j05ncI4YecMBDqxEA32-58Jb7ZiluFZD1xkCKQ01IdTEvDqyUubUAl/s1600/As.png" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This beautiful verse from the Bible is etched in the cement of our garage floor near the side entrance to our home.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It reminds us that we will be faithful servants to the Lord.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I made this chalkboard art for my sweet daughter-in-law. She wanted this verse to put in a frame.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Now you can download it too...</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It is suitable for a 4 x 6 copy.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">To download, click <a href="https://app.box.com/s/2ulsr9ghaie6xl7bndhf" target="_blank">HERE</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Blessings!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

CHALKBOARD ART BIBLE VERSE~FREE PRINTABLE

This beautiful verse from the Bible is etched in the cement of our garage floor near the side entrance to our home. It reminds us that we wi...

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GREETING GOD EACH MORNING

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQr_GJzwYbHpMR0friLz-FOFh_-QFuDs4pDHln-60Vso_Kk7aZQE_KujM154PkiO1BbpdtEHiRG2FZXGQPbs5Rcyouxva1yj-YT8VzX3-1IG8ZiAGykImkPQIB-057tdIu2CiYZNJik38O/s1600/Sunday+Scripture-+3-2-14-stonegableblog.com.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQr_GJzwYbHpMR0friLz-FOFh_-QFuDs4pDHln-60Vso_Kk7aZQE_KujM154PkiO1BbpdtEHiRG2FZXGQPbs5Rcyouxva1yj-YT8VzX3-1IG8ZiAGykImkPQIB-057tdIu2CiYZNJik38O/s1600/Sunday+Scripture-+3-2-14-stonegableblog.com.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">When you open your eyes each morning how do you greet the day? More importantly how do you greet God?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Factoring God into our day can have a major impact on it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Let's talk about the habit of spending time with God each morning...</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Let's face it, prayer is a discipline. It takes a conscience effort to make prayer a habit! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Bible teaches that prayer unleashes great power, comfort, wisdom, hope, blessing, joy and so much more. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Now isn't that a wonderful way to start each and every day!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My daughter-in-law's mother quotes this verse often...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">THIS IS THE DAY THE LORD HAS MADE, LET US REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN IT.</span> Psalm 118:24</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It's a reminder that each day is a gift from God... a fresh new day! It's a new day to look for all the good God is doing in our lives and celebrate God and all He does for us!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Jesus set the example for us.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">He would get up very early in the morning, go to a quiet place where He would not be disturbed and spend time with His Father!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">AND RISING VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING, WHILE IT WAS STILL DARK, HE DEPARTED AND WENT OUT TO A DESOLATE PLACE, AND THERE HE PRAYED. </span>Mark 1:35</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jesus knew that He could not face all the demands and trials of His day without first spending the very beginning of it with God!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It was God's power and presence that gave Jesus the power to do God's will.  We too can be powered by God!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">If we are not spending time with God and in His word we are starting each day with a huge deficit! Prayer is food for our souls!</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">But when we wake up and make God a priority we power our day and start it with the right attitude!</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Experts say that it takes 21 days to create a habit. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Here's my challenge... Will you get up each morning, open you eyes and recite Ps 118:24 and look for ways to rejoice and be glad. And then will you find a quiet place and spend time talking to God and reading His word? First thing in the morning... even if you have to get up early to do it!</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Will you agree to do this for one month? Let's develop a life changing habit together. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">After one month it's my prayer that God shows Himself so big in our lives! It is my hope that we are more joyful and can handle problems in our life so much better. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">After a month I know that we will no longer imagine starting our day without God!</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If you are not sure where to start reading God's Word here are two suggestions:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.stonegableblog.com/2014/02/knowing-god-through-psalms.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">KNOWING GOD THROUGH THE PSALMS</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.stonegableblog.com/2014/01/practicing-practical-wisdom.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">PRACTICING PRACTICAL WISDOM</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

GREETING GOD EACH MORNING

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PUT YOUR GOD GOGGLES ON

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgO3R0uiJlb1S7MrAsLVNOmfGBqKMPpknHDmdn_r975IA1OE99jf6M75XUNorQXfRBkWX0ZSgKW5yJcQDFYp7pMydd-hv2PU2-O8i8uFdeLWiBd9svtY-Mlpv9upnZeJKez1ggx1nImYK7/s1600/SS+2-24-14-stonegableblog.com.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgO3R0uiJlb1S7MrAsLVNOmfGBqKMPpknHDmdn_r975IA1OE99jf6M75XUNorQXfRBkWX0ZSgKW5yJcQDFYp7pMydd-hv2PU2-O8i8uFdeLWiBd9svtY-Mlpv9upnZeJKez1ggx1nImYK7/s1600/SS+2-24-14-stonegableblog.com.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you read StoneGable with any frequency, then you probably know that I am soooo tired of snow and cold this year.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">But, this morning when I got up and looked outside I saw a sight that was so beautiful... and so full of wonder, that I saw God's magnificent handiwork in the magical scene...</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The sky was saturated with blue and the snow glistened with the reflection of the sun and the neighboring farm looked like a picture on a postcard. I stopped being tired of the snow for just a few minutes and told God how perfect and resplendent His creation is! I could see God in the scene right outside my back door!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">How often do we speed through our days or get caught up in our own little dramas and forget to look for God?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I sure do!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">But, when I look for God in all of my situations He will show Himself. I just need to be aware of His presence.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I like to call that PRACTICING THE PRESENCE OF GOD.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">One of my very favorite bible verses is...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">CALL TO ME AND I WILL ANSWER YOU, AND I WILL SHOW YOU GREAT AND MIGHTY THINGS WHICH YOU DO NOT KNOW.</span> Jeremiah 33:3</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Although this was a verse meant for Israel in a time of great tumult and trouble, I still think it is very very relevant to us.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">When I get up each day I ask God to show Himself to me in some way. I ask Him to make me be awed by His glory! To do something so big that I know it's Him!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And if I look... and correct my vision... from just looking at earthy things, sure enough I see God in His creation, other people or even everyday situations. And I am awed!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In other words...I need to remember to put my God goggles on! To correct my vision from seeing things  with worldly eyes and to see things through the lens  of faith. What a difference that makes!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">How about you? Do you want to be WOWED by God today? Ask God to show Himself big to you and ... remember to put your God goggles on!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

PUT YOUR GOD GOGGLES ON

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FINDING GOD IN THE STRANGEST PLACES

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYapAReoNW_AQj3ULutCNYhBCf5vjR5b9KxIi_VEK_qxfiAHjYs0h3Fhy1sk0Xf0OFhjhLgnuGa1rWmogvNOmenT9rZvmBfQH43bDcXBMuqUS59wcBhDPVNQaOb-36O0L_7OTzUC6F-AWU/s1600/SS+2-16-14+FINDING+GOD+IN+THE+STRANGEST+PLACES-stonegableblog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYapAReoNW_AQj3ULutCNYhBCf5vjR5b9KxIi_VEK_qxfiAHjYs0h3Fhy1sk0Xf0OFhjhLgnuGa1rWmogvNOmenT9rZvmBfQH43bDcXBMuqUS59wcBhDPVNQaOb-36O0L_7OTzUC6F-AWU/s1600/SS+2-16-14+FINDING+GOD+IN+THE+STRANGEST+PLACES-stonegableblog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Sea Of Galilee, Israel<br /><br /><br />This week I found God in a very strange place! In the wee hours of Friday morning... He was sitting behind a curtain in a small cubicle in the emergency room at our local hospital.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I know He was there... because I was there too!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Bobby had rushed me there about 11:00 on Thursday night with crushing chest pain. We were almost certain it was not a heart issue and pretty sure it might be another bad reaction from yet another antibiotics.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">But, at four in the morning I was back from a chest CT scan waiting to hear if I had a blood clot in one of my lungs... and I was very frightened! Another reaction to antibiotics didn't seem so bad, I was almost used to them popping up. But a blood clot was very scary...</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Bobby was sitting in a chair in the cubicle too... somewhere between worn out from a long day of work and being very much in his head trying to figure out what was wrong with me.  He sat silent and had that "certain look" I know so well... a look that told me he was methodically going over and over all my symptoms and  meds and recent medical history. I knew he running diagnoses in his mind.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It was at that moment I noticed HIM! Quiet and always the Gentleman. He was there... waiting for me!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">So I began to talk to Him. Not out loud... but talk to Him nevertheless!<br /><br />"I'm so glad you're here.. I just forgot for awhile that you would be!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Father, I am very very frightened! I don't want a blood clot. It really scares me! See, I am shaking. My palms are sweaty and it's even hard for me to concentrate right now!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"But I know that You hear me and understand just what I mean... I may not be making much sense right now... but You know."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"You have the answer... you control everything. You know that I am here and it is no surprise to you. By Your will You let all of this happen to me. I sure wish I knew why. It would be so much easier if You would just speak to me out loud! Yes, I know that is not Your "style."<br /><br />"I really need You right now. I need Your mercy and grace and favor. Please be with me and calm me and if it be Your will... and I really really want this to be Your will... please don't let this recent problem be serious."<br /><br />"I just think I'm about at the end of my "complications" rope... for sure!"<br /><br /><br /><br />I don't know if those were my exact words... but close enough. I kept asking for calm and mercy and grace and favor.<br /><br />And I did remind God that I was His... just so He would know that I knew!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Bobby and I got home about 5:45  Friday morning. He showered and went to work. I went to bed. When I got up, sometime in the early afternoon, I began to think about how God has a habit of hanging out in the strangest places! If I were the King of every thing you probably would not find me in an emergency room at 4:00 am. Certainly not my first choice!<br /><div><br /></div><br />Actually,God has a<span style="font-size: large;"> history</span> of hanging out in STRANGE places!<br /><br />Just look at Jesus!<br /><br />When He lived on planet earth Jesus was all about "His Father's business". So where ever His Father sent Him, Jesus went.<br /><br />He was (and is) the King and yet we would have not found Him being born in a palace. The Magi made that mistake. They went to King Herod's palace in Jerusalem looking for Him... but Jesus was not there! It does seem that a palace would have been the most logical place to find a King!<br /><br />Instead, He was found by lowly shepherds... lying in an animal food trough in a small town called Bethlehem.  There He was in all His newborn kingly splendor hanging out with a poor young couple, livestock and shepherds!<br /><br />As He grew up, Jesus lived in a pioneer-type town... very small. The Eternal King became a carpenter. And schmoozed with humble work-a-day people! Oppressed people under the thumb of the cruel Roman Empire.<br /><br />During Jesus' ministry He could be found with common fishermen and hated tax collectors and with a half naked lady who had been brought to him because she had been caught in adultery.<br /><br />He spent time in Samaria. A town the Jews hated with people the Jews hated!  And Jesus stayed awhile with them and loved them. He loved them right into eternal life!<br /><br />He found his constant companions were the sick and disfigured and chronically ill and downtrodden and demon possessed and disenfranchised and hated and even dead on an occasion or two. And He loved all of them.<br /><br />They followed Jesus because He was the only answer... the only One who could make them well.  He welcomed them and cured them and offered Himself to them.<br /><br />Jesus went to the strangest places to find people who needed Him! Places that good Jews of His day would not go. But Jesus did!<br /><br /> He even took a dead-of night-walk ON the Sea Of Galilee to be with a group of fishermen he loved!  Jesus went out of His way to be with the most lowly, discarded and hated of His day! He was all about His Father's business!<br /><br /><br />In the book of John, chapter 10 Jesus says...<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">"I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down His life for His sheep." </span>John 10:11<br /><br />God is in the "sheep" business! He has a flock and He is all about finding and keeping every single sheep He owns and not letting a single one go!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">"For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture. And the sheep under His care. If only you would listen to His voice today".</span> Ps 95:7<br /><br />We are His sheep! And He will go to the strangest places to be with us, to rescue us and to save us.  He even went to the strangest place of all for us... the cross!<br /><br /><br />Jesus said...<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow Me"</span> . John 10:25<br /><br /><br />Jesus will go to the strangest places to be with His sheep and to call them and to lead them.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />If you are wondering, it was not a blood clot. Just another bad reaction... just like Bobby suspected! But that is not the focus of why I am telling you this.  It is that my Shepherd showed up. He was with me.<br /><br />Even if the outcome would have been not so good... He was still there!<br /><br />He leads me though good and bad. And because He leads... He goes ahead of me and goes through it first!<br /><br />He IS the Good Shepherd! And one day He will lead me straight to my Father's arms and I will be home.<br /><br /><br />How about you? Is Jesus your Good Shepherd? If not, there is no place He won't go to find you and be with you and call you back to Himself.<br /><br />All you need to do is perk up your little sheepie ears to hear Him!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

FINDING GOD IN THE STRANGEST PLACES

Sea Of Galilee, Israel This week I found God in a very strange place! In the wee hours of Friday morning... He was sitting behind a curtain ...

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SUNDAY SCRIPTURE~ WHAT IS LOVE?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZUhqDAuyPVjh_4Z9FjuwOGXN9G3GHcDHtWnDNGj1cvmm3DPYVD9FxuClnLCChQp1TVdwcBrII8Z-fZ_QvxBKueNIir52jCP1vTHLZX3lVZMxpPuVGNKP4XDsuI-Np7uSCW5c8fxYFj9IS/s1600/SS+2-9-14+What+is+love.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZUhqDAuyPVjh_4Z9FjuwOGXN9G3GHcDHtWnDNGj1cvmm3DPYVD9FxuClnLCChQp1TVdwcBrII8Z-fZ_QvxBKueNIir52jCP1vTHLZX3lVZMxpPuVGNKP4XDsuI-Np7uSCW5c8fxYFj9IS/s1600/SS+2-9-14+What+is+love.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />Love is a huge and permeating theme in the bible! According to Bible Gateway, the word love is used 471 times in the bible.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">So today let's talk about LOVE....</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">First let me say that LOVE is such a huge concept that it cannot be fully explained here in this post! Not even close.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">But to begin to understand  love we must first understand that</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">GOD IS LOVE! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">God is the source of love, and it is God's whole and perfect character!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Love is God's moral character... the way He relates to man. He relates to us though love!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Without God there would be no love!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Before we go any further it's important to distinguish what God's love looks like.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">1 John 4:16 says...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">GOD IS LOVE</span><span style="font-size: large;">, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The word for LOVE in the original Greek is Agape (ah-gah-pe'). It is a word that is exclusive to the bible.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Agape love is unlike all other forms of love. It is a love that is benevolently bestowed to the object of that love. It is a love that has nothing at all to to with "feelings" for the love object, but rather it is a love that is really in spite of the love object. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It is a sacrificial love. It is the "lover" bestowing good will, esteem, favor and benevolence on the "lovee". It is all about the lover or the source of love and has nothing to do with the behavior, worthiness or character of the love object.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Agape love is a decision. It is a conscientious, eyes-wide-open, no-matter-what kind of love. It is not human love... not even a little bit! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Agape love is all about sacrifice!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A good way to understand Agape love is to read the passages around the GOD IS LOVE verse.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The very best example of Agape love is seen in versus 9 and 10.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Let's break these magnificent passages down... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">God, the source of love manifested... showed forth so we could see, made love clear, brought it out in plain view and clearly showed us what real love was...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">By the act of sending His only begotten Son... by sending Jesus who is God in the flesh to this world.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">God sent Jesus because man... all humanity... all of us... every single one... was so lost and defiled and sinful and depraved and in darkness and so full of hate and fear... and we really did not think about our state.. we did not know or care that we could never find their way back to God and dig themselves out of the miserable pit the had made for themselves. Even though we have all turned our backs on God and have chosen for ourselves a path that would lead to death and separation from God, God decided to send Jesus, whom He LOVED to show us the way back to Him and life. But in loving us the cost for God's love was costly beyond what we can think or comprehend!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In doing so, God knew that He had signed Jesus' death sentence. He knew that Jesus would have to shed His perfectly holy blood to make propitiation for our sins, because we could not do it for ourselves.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The word propitiation carries with it the idea of satisfying a debt. It means to make amends and pay a price that brings peace between two parties that are warring against each other.  Once the debt is paid there can be peace.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Jesus was the price that brought us back to God. God in the flesh died and paid the price for bringing us back into a right relationship with God. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is love... this is agape... this is God!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">But God demonstrates His own love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Romans 5:8</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">God's love...  agape... is sacrificial. It costs Him. He is the one who sacrifices for the well being and favor of the object of His love... sinners!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">AMAZING LOVE... isn't it?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Is it possible for humans to love that way? Yes, it is possible... but only for those who believe that Jesus is who he says He is and has done what He says He has done. It is possible for those who acknowledge that they are sinners and that their own rebellion has caused them to be far away from God. It is possible for those who bow down before Jesus and declare Him their LORD... their Creator and OWNER of their lives! It is possible when God Himself dwells in us in the form of the Holy Spirit and begins the work of changing us...a work we could never do ourselves!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It is impossible to love, to truly love without the Holy Spirit of God himself!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.</span>  </div><div style="text-align: center;">1 John 11 </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Can you imagine what Valentine's Day would look like if we liberally spread Agape love to all we meet? </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Now that would be a celebration of true LOVE!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

SUNDAY SCRIPTURE~ WHAT IS LOVE?

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PRAYERS AND PEACE AND SOVEREIGNTY

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYrpLFiaooRXAGlMQAWEjXknwy0GCfMXoHfRmjWstiQTT3un4fcCAMKA_N9jWuqqxVOPmo2AviGnA-F7it8mZDNEy0rux-DoLEmBToRL2uQoOzck1MIh6t0eHk3ay5UnDncxNUz0QkfSqs/s1600/SS+1-26-13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYrpLFiaooRXAGlMQAWEjXknwy0GCfMXoHfRmjWstiQTT3un4fcCAMKA_N9jWuqqxVOPmo2AviGnA-F7it8mZDNEy0rux-DoLEmBToRL2uQoOzck1MIh6t0eHk3ay5UnDncxNUz0QkfSqs/s1600/SS+1-26-13.jpg" width="482" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This week I had an unexpected surgery. Out of the blue. I was doing great and three hours later, I felt like truck had run over me and was in the hospital.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I knew something was very very wrong. My left knee had blown up like a balloon, was very sore and hot to touch. This was particularly troubling because I had just had knee cap surgery 9 weeks before and had been warned about the dangers of infection...</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">To make a long story short... I am doing well. In 24 hours my knee was cultured, I found out that I had an awful knee infection, I had surgery (again!) and am now in the hospital on iv antibiotics. I feel much better but the doctors say I must stay here for a little while. Not quite what I wanted to hear! And my fever is jumping all over the readings on the thermometer! Not great news.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">But I am at peace about it all!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">One very big thing I had going for me was PRAYER! I have the most wonderful group of bible study women who are real prayer warriors and one of my dear friends got the word out quick.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My family is continually lifting me up in prayer too!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I also have an army of facebook friends that are so generous in their prayers and good thoughts!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I am so thankful beyond words for all the prayers and continuing prayers they are raising up before the Lord in my behalf.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I could really "feel" the prayers for me. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">How you ask?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> I felt a peace that went far beyond my circumstances! I felt a "shalom" or wholeness in all of my circumstances even though some of the outcomes of my problems could have been very serious and still are a little troublesome.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This really got me thinking... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">What is the connection between prayer and peace? And what does the sovereignty of God have to do with all of that?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is a very familiar verse in the Bible...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Don't worry about anything, instead pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank Him for all He has done. Then you will experience God's peace which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your heart and mind as you live in Christ Jesus.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Philippians 4:6-7</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">No where in God's word does it say to pray and God will give you just what you want! God is not a Santa Clause or even a Tooth Fairy. HE is THE KING! A benevolent, all-loving KING! A King with a plan for our very best, that far exceeds what we can see or imagine. His plan is one for eternity!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You see prayer, true prayer is an act of faith. It shows God that you believe in Him. In all He says... in all He is... in all He can do. It also says that you believe that He is SOVEREIGN.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It is an act of spiritually bowing down before the KING of everything and bringing your wants and needs before him. It is believing that He will give us the peace He promises... a peace... a shalom that we will experience in spite of our circumstances. Prayer is trusting our all knowing, all wise, all just, all merciful, all powerful, all gracious KING to do not only right by us, but best for us! Even if it is not what we want!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Let's get back to these wonderful verses above and take a look at what they say...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Don't worry... in the closest translation to the original Greek it really says don't be anxious. The word anxious is <i>"merimnao'"</i> . It is the idea of being drawn in opposite directions, of a part ripped away from the whole, moving away from the whole.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is stunning when we look at the word for peace. <i>"Shalom"</i> means total wholeness. A state of perfection... all the parts of us working together and in harmony.. the way our great Creator intended.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">So, when we worry or are anxious our wholeness is disturbed and pulled apart. Isn't that so fascinating?  God knows!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">God says don't worry about anything. Don't let anything steal or pull apart your shalom!  The bible speaks in many places about worry. It says it can't do one thing to help any circumstance. It is a thief. It steals our peace and the bible says it weighs us down.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Worry is such a natural reaction. When we start to listen and heed that part of us, we need to pray all the more! Worry hurts us. Concern is different from worry!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The next part of the verse says to tell God what we want and thank Him for what He has done. I love the idea that I can come before the Throne of all creation and boldly request things of God.But that is only half of it... we must remember to always tell Him thank you for His grace... His undeserved blessing to us for they are countless and wonderful! And just like any parent God loves when we recount the good He has done for us! It's a way of showing God we love Him.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And the peace... shalom... wholeness of God which exceeds...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Exceeds is the idea of being so superior to anything else, so far above and beyond it's inconceivable! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And that above and beyond, superior wholeness will guard...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Guard is a word that depicts a sentinel, a military armed guard protecting us. So this peace, this wholeness will be an like an armed, trained military guard over our mind and our heart. It will keep worry and all the demons of fear and things that are ungodly out of our thoughts, emotions, will and intellect.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And who is this promise for? For those IN CHRIST. Those who are in an intimate relationship with Jesus.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Let's put this together....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Do not worry or be pulled apart by anything. But instead, pray about everything! Run to God and tell Him your needs, your story, pour it all out! And remember to tell Him thank you. Remember what He has done for you in the past and the way He worked in your life and tell Him about it in a thankful way.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And because you are in a saving relationship with His son Jesus, God will put a guard as big and as strong as an armed military man around your mind and your heart. He will bring a wholeness to your life that exceeds your circumstances and is far above and beyond what you ever could have imagined!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I don't know about you... but that is how I want to live.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I know that there are much bigger problems than a knee infection. And life is filled with uncertainty. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">But I also know that worry is an enemy and it tries to steal our emotions and clear thinking. God however is the giver and guarder of our mind and heart (mind, will ,emotion and intellect) and wants to guard them so we can experience our best thinking, our best emotional stability our best decisions in bad situations. He wants to bring His wonderful wholeness into our times of trial and crisis!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I pray that in your times of crisis you run towards God and let Him supply His peace to you and your situation!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

PRAYERS AND PEACE AND SOVEREIGNTY

This week I had an unexpected surgery. Out of the blue. I was doing great and three hours later, I felt like truck had run over me and was i...

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PRACTICING PRACTICAL WISDOM

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSFmo1kQCEphuBoG2pGdpbKplr6v0_untl89NomnrGJhYZWIBC6s8sW83Dwi8IcXtzkkCjZPIxYCaz230jvZi7AHpzM4k0jmDITXIFAxwb2B1NAEE0QJxw_I7Ybo0gFYgPJ10HgCSaU-RM/s1600/SS-+1-19-14+Practicing+Practical+Wisdom-stonegableblog.com.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSFmo1kQCEphuBoG2pGdpbKplr6v0_untl89NomnrGJhYZWIBC6s8sW83Dwi8IcXtzkkCjZPIxYCaz230jvZi7AHpzM4k0jmDITXIFAxwb2B1NAEE0QJxw_I7Ybo0gFYgPJ10HgCSaU-RM/s1600/SS-+1-19-14+Practicing+Practical+Wisdom-stonegableblog.com.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Sometimes I think wisdom in today's world is a lost commodity. I think that fools get more attention than the wise... and folly is portrayed more than prudence!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">What an upside down world!  And that is right... we live in an upside down world.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Bible, and especially the book of Proverbs, has much to say about the fool and the wise or prudent...</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The very purpose of the book of Proverbs is...</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">That people may know skillful and godly wisdom and instruction</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">To discern and comprehend the words of understanding and insight,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Receive instruction in wise dealings and the discipline of wise thoughtfulness, righteousness, justice and integrity,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">That prudence may be given to the simple and knowledge, discretion and discernment to the youth-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The wise will also hear and increase in learning, and the person of understanding will acquire skills and attain to sound counsel (so that he may able to steer his course rightly)~ </span> Pro 1: 2-5</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Let those thoughts from God sink in... Proverbs is a book to make the a person wise... to make them wise in practical everyday wisdom! And to make a wise person's wisdom increase.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Before we go any further, it's important to define wisdom as God sees it... There is a big difference between knowledge and wisdom! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Knowledge is to have understanding or information about something. I like to think of it residing in the "head".  Wisdom is taking that knowledge and letting it seep into every part of us... it is the ability of applying that knowledge to our DAILY life! Wisdom is the daily practice of knowledge in practical ways. Wisdom is taking what God says and applying it to our lives! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">When each of my children turned 13 I asked them to read a chapter of the book of Proverbs a day until they graduated from high school. But not just read over it like a fiction novel, but spend a little time each day digging out God's truth and wisdom in it! I asked them to apply it to their lives!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">There are 31 chapters in Proverbs... so that meant that they would read the book of Proverbs 12 times in a year... and by the time they had graduated high school they would have read it over 60 times!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My children carried on this practice well beyond high school!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Proverbs is a the instruction book for becoming wise...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">How blessed (happy, fortunate, enviable) is the man who finds skillful and godly wisdom, and the man who gets understanding (drawing it forth from God's word and life's experiences), for gaining of it is better than gaining silver, and the profit of it better than fine gold. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Skillful and godly wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you can wish for is to be compared to her (wisdom).</span> Proverbs 3:13-15</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">There is so much practical, everyday, walking-around-on-the path-of-life wisdom in Proverbs! Yes, it was written thousands of years ago and it is in the language and customs of the one God chose to be His scribe... but it is as relevant today as it was during the reign of King Solomon! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is just a sampling of God's practical wisdom...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Watch over your heart (the seat of your mind, will, emotion and intellect) with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flows the springs of life.</span> Prov 4:23</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Poor is he who works with a negligent hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. </span>Pro 10:4</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, So is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.</span> Pro 11:22</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Folly is joy to him who lacks sense, But a man of understanding walks straight. </span>Pro 15:21</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">An arrogant man stirs up strife, But the man who trusts in the Lord will prosper.</span> Pro 29:25</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Those who guard their mouths and their tongues guard themselves from trouble.</span> Pro 21:21</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> God has given us His instruction book for life... the Bible. And within it's pages lie life, blessings and wisdom!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Tucked close to the center of the bible is the little book of Proverbs, a small book but full of godly practical wisdom! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">How about you ... do you want to live wisely in a world of folly? Then here's my challenge to you... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Read a chapter of Proverbs everyday. Let the words sink in. Find out what each proverb mean and above all put them into practice in your life. You will reap a life of godly wisdom and it will touch all those around you!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you don't have a bible you can find the book of Proverbs on line  <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs&version=AMP" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you would like to read Proverbs daily I suggest the Amplified bible to begin. It is easy to read in today's language and gives definition of many important words.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is a little gem of wisdom from today's Proverb...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hear counsel, receive instruction, and accept correction, that you may be wise in the time to come. </span>Pro 19:20</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

PRACTICING PRACTICAL WISDOM

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