Saturday, August 6, 2011
Happy Sunday
I love my Sundays. I enjoy the preparation the day before,esp the evening before. Getting ready, doing my best to be ready to enjoy my day with the lord. clothes ready-check Sunday school ready-check house cleaned-check jump in shower-check
God knew we needed to set a day aside. Focus on those blessings of the week. food on the table, roof over my head, wonderful husband, healing, the list goes on
I love seeing the children arriving for Sunday school,telling me all the news from the week before. I am encouraged with the music in the services, the saints sharing how good God is, God's message given to us at the pulpit by the man of God.
Six days a week, we rush around as if there is no tomorrow. I like to keep my meals simple. I choose not to shop on Sundays unless a emergency. After all I has 6 days to buy whatever I needed. Sometimes we get so busy,just doing.
Maybe when we get so worn out,we should examine what we are doing or not doing. I am not one to get up early. Lately I have been waking up between 6 and 6:30 am and can't go back to sleep. I have found a joy in getting up grabbing a cup of coffee and bible . I meet my lord in prayer on our deck. I am able to spend a hour or so, praying and reading the bible. I feel like Jesus wakes me up because He is anxious to visit with me. I have discovered a joy in my day when I start it out abiding with my Lord. Asking the Lord to take control of my day. Knowing nothing will happen that is not in His plan. Asking the Lord to send me too some soul that I can share the good news with.Psa 118:24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Abiding
John 15:4
Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except in abide in the vine, no more can ye,except ye abide in me.
My Husband, decided He wanted to let the raspberry vines grow,so that He could have a patch of them. He is very happy to have the berries. The berries would not have happen if it was not for the vines. As you can see, the vines have just exploded and are more than I would have thought possible. The vines did exactly what He wanted them to do, produce berries. Unfortunately , it was hard to get to them because of the weeds that were also growing so well too. That and the mosquito's that would attack.
In John 15:4, we are reminded that to be a victorious Christian we need to be connected to Jesus just as the berries are connected to the vine. But as I sat this morning looking down at my husband berry patch, I also was reminded that we need to let the Lord prune our spiritual relationship also. Is there things in our life's that draw us away from Him? Things we have more time to do and less time to spend with him? This can cause spiritual weeds, thus stealing our joy.John has decided that he wants to do some pruning and eliminate weeds and line the plants up in rows. Spiritual pruning is a good thing. The Lord wants a vessel that will bring much fruit.
Those mesquites made it very difficult to pick the berries. We had to find some protection that would enable us to pick the fruit. As Christians, we want to go to the word of God, become familiar with it so that we can defeat the snare of the devil. Ephesian 6:11 tells us to put on the armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Don't let Satan steal your joy!
Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except in abide in the vine, no more can ye,except ye abide in me.
My Husband, decided He wanted to let the raspberry vines grow,so that He could have a patch of them. He is very happy to have the berries. The berries would not have happen if it was not for the vines. As you can see, the vines have just exploded and are more than I would have thought possible. The vines did exactly what He wanted them to do, produce berries. Unfortunately , it was hard to get to them because of the weeds that were also growing so well too. That and the mosquito's that would attack.
In John 15:4, we are reminded that to be a victorious Christian we need to be connected to Jesus just as the berries are connected to the vine. But as I sat this morning looking down at my husband berry patch, I also was reminded that we need to let the Lord prune our spiritual relationship also. Is there things in our life's that draw us away from Him? Things we have more time to do and less time to spend with him? This can cause spiritual weeds, thus stealing our joy.John has decided that he wants to do some pruning and eliminate weeds and line the plants up in rows. Spiritual pruning is a good thing. The Lord wants a vessel that will bring much fruit.
Those mesquites made it very difficult to pick the berries. We had to find some protection that would enable us to pick the fruit. As Christians, we want to go to the word of God, become familiar with it so that we can defeat the snare of the devil. Ephesian 6:11 tells us to put on the armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Don't let Satan steal your joy!
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