http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S31R-ENSj4g

The Bible says allot about love in 1st Corinthians 13 includng “And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing” .

Wow, those are pretty “impressive” things.  Prophetic powers, understanding mysteries, knowledge, and faith to remove mountains!!  But if we don’t have LOVE (emphasis mine :)) we don’t have nothing?  The song talks about having money, cool friends, mansions, and even everyone’s attention………but if we don’t have love, we do NOT have anything.

To me, that’s deep AND worth meditating on.  In fact, when asked what the greatest commandment in the Law is, Jesus answered “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the first and greatest commandment.  And the second is like it:  Love your neighbor as yourself.  All the Law and the Prophets hand on these two commandments.”

The word love in that verse, in greek, means “to welcome, to entertain, to be fond of, to love dearly”………..to love God that way and our neighbors…….

Seems to me that love is an extremely important thing to get!!  The first and greatest commandment!  Do we just get it?  How do we get it, this deep kind of love for God and our neighbors, meaning everyone……

Let’s start by praying for God to touch our hearts once again today, everyday……to see with His eyes, to feel with His heart, to hear with His ears and have Him to develop an attitude like Him.  We are made in His image and the baggage we carry can be dealt with as well by giving it to Him……………Let His love shine through today!  There is freedom just in that!

Enjoy the song!  It is beautiful!

Let me know what YOU think!?

Blessings!

Kelly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3yCcXgbKrE

Watch, soak in, and think of those things today 🙂

Blessings!!  Kelly

What A Wonderful World -Louis Armstrong

click on the link above and take a moment to listen to a beautiful song………The Bible says in Philippians 4:8 …….” Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things. “. ……..we can start with focusing on the “smaller” things in life.  Despite all the sadness and ugly around us in the world today, and there is, we can find those other things to focus on…..starting with His beautiful creation and all that entails and God Himself!  Soak in the song and Enjoy the scenery on His creation today!   This was one of my dad’s favorite songs……..miss you dad!

Come all who are weary and heavy burdened……I was at the park taking pictures the other day and this made me think of all the times the Holy Spirit wants to whisper in our spirits what He wants us to know….are we listening?

It seems I confused some people with my “test” post! It did make me think though. So I am flowing with it! There are many things we think about when we think of test. What is the first word that you think of when you think of the word “test”? Sometimes it is back in school days, sometimes it is a medical test and possibly it is a test we think we are receiving from The Lord. All of which we could absolutely dread taking. God DOES not tempt us. The Bible says he doesn’t and he doesn’t! But the tests of even general life can certainly feel like we are certainly being “tested”. I believe we are tested. Again, just circumstances in life or we find ourselves in will test what is really in our hearts…….. It will challenge mindsets, it will challenge our flesh and it will challenge what we really believe or not believe. In Thessalonians 2:4, it uses the phrase in many versions of the Bible that God “tests” us, or “trieth” our hearts. I looked up the greek meaning of the word test in that scripture. The greek word, “dokimazo” means to test, prove, scrutinize (to see whether it is genuine or not) It is a verb. Wow. Think about that and let that soak in. I want God to find genuineness in me, trueness, loyalty to Him, when these “tests” come. It is so easy to go through days/weeks when everything is good or even just ok in our lives. But when life comes, or those pesky circumstances, or tests, how would we be graded? God already knows what we are going to do, how loyal we are, how genuine. Is it possible that our reactions should show us what we have to give to God? What to yield to Him? What we need to study on?

Here is the good news! The great news! It is an OPEN BOOK test with God! He WANTS us to pass. He is the teacher we had in school that says “Yes, you can!” How did we love when a school test was open book! It was so much easier and we scored better if we took the time, when we went thru the book for the answers and then applied those answers to the paper. Well, we can have an open book test every single time we go through ANYTHING, small or big, and God will give us the answers through His Word, His Spirit, and even other resources He uses so we can pass. I repeat, He wants us to pass and He is willing to give us all His resources to pass with honors!

It starts with the Word. To be in it and study it. To meditate and re-read it. To have His Word become a part of us. To have His Word hidden in our hearts so that it is stored there and we will know it when a circumstance comes our way.

I am so thankful for all His resources……..His Word, His Spirit, His voice, the Godly counsel of others……..and more………… Let’s use them today! Come on, let’s do it, let’s get on the honor roll!

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Ephesians 2:

The Bible says we all lived at one time gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature, dead in our sins and the followed the ways of the world………. So true.

But the Bible also says “But, because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our transgressions – it is by grace you have been saved.”

What a beautiful gift. We see again that He loved us before we loved Him. Wow. And we can’t do it without him. It is by His grace. It isn’t by any works or how “good” we are. It is ONLY because of His Love for us.

The one we need to be boasting about is Him. Again, it starts with Him. It isn’t by anything we could make up, do, say…….nothing.

Receive the gift again today. A fresh fall of his grace be on our lives. A fresh revelation of who He is and what He has done and what He wants to do. We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus.

It starts by receiving Him by grace and being made alive in Him.

Church……..it doesn’t mean 4 walls, it means us who have been made alive, we are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens. Christ is our cornerstone.

My prayer today, let the Lord be our cornerstone, ask what that looks like in our lives and let a fresh infilling of His grace be in our lives today 🙂

Blessings!

Kelly

Hey all……

I am reading Ephesians.  And I don’t want to just read it.  I want to meditate on it and have once again God change me into what He desires.  I would love to hear from everyone their thoughts on Ephesians as well.  Iron sharpens iron and I love that phrase because it really is true.  And someone’s revelation can be life-changing for the next.  God made us one body and He desires that we act like a body that functions together in unity.

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I am once again reminded that it ALL starts with Him.  In fact, it starts, continues and ends with Him.  It is all about Him and it is ONLY through Him and In HIm that we truly are anything and it is TRULY nothing about ourselves.

Not our looks, wisdom, smarts, and/or good behavior.  It is about Jesus.  It is ONLY through HIM that we are offered forgiveness.  Because of His scarifice, we are free, but not just free, ABUNDANTLY free.  His death isn’t in vain.  He desires us to walk in freedom.

It is in Him, that we find our identity and who we are.  He has settled on us as His focus of love.  What a beautiful love story.  Anyone looking for love.  Look for Jesus.

Anyone want to know who they are……trying to find yourself?  Look to Jesus

Anyone struggling to see find their place?  Talk to Jesus

Accept His gift of love, it is unconditional and beautiful and He will show you the way, step by step.

Start with Jesus and stay in Jesus  🙂  …..

 

Looking forward to your thoughts!

 

God bless!

Kelly

 

 

– Jesus said the scriptures are the Word of God
– Jesus said that the authority of the Word cannot be broken
– David tells us in the Psalms that the Word is settled in heaven and the Word is truth
– The Bible says the Word of God lives and abides forever
– The final result in a Christian who studies and obeys the God’s word is that he is equipped for
every good word
– When Jeremiah fed on God’s word, it became his joy and the rejoicing of his heart
– When the Word lives in us, the Bible says it gives us strength and we overcome the wicked one
– The Bible says that it gives us light and understanding……it is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path so we know the way
– We get life and health when we study the Word
– When we claim God’s word for our lives, we are partakers of His divine nature and we escape the corruption of this world
-When Jesus was tempted by the enemy, each time he used the Word right back at him!!! And was
victorious…………………

WOW…..powerful…………So, how important do we put the Word of God in our lives? These are just a FEW things the Word does for us and in us. It also sanctifies us, cleanses us, builds us up, gives us an inheritance that is EVERLASTING……………

Let’s get into the Word! It’s LIFE!

Blessings and Love!

Kelly