Small Straws In A Soft Wind by Marsha Burns:
This is a time when your perspective of life and relevance will undergo an adjustment. You will be able to see the cycle of life with greater understanding and clarity. Use this time to do all that you can to fulfill your destiny in Me, says the Lord. I am your past, your present, and your future.
John 16:13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
December 17, 2024. “Tis the season to be jolly…” is a line in the Christmas Carol “Deck the Halls”. Today – choose joy! For what can you be thankful? There is plenty to lament over…but why do that? It is easy to think on the bad. But what good does that do? Choose joy. It’s a simple flip of the switch. Find something good to focus upon and watch your attitude change! Fa la la la la la la la la!
Philippians 4:8 “Now my friends, I want to say this to you. Fill your minds with thoughts about good things. Think about things that are true, clean, right and lovely. Always think about things which people know are very good.” Robin Robinson Bohlin
December 17, 2024. I was admiring a tree we have that turns a beautiful yellow orange in the fall. As I was looking at it, I heard the Lord say, “Just as I cause the leaves to change colors, and fall to the ground I am bringing change to My church. Trust the process, just as the old leaves fall away, they make room for the new growth. I am cutting away the old to make room for the new.”
John 15:5-8 “I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you’re joined with Me and I with you, the relation is intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can’t produce a thing. Anyone who separates from Me is deadwood, gathered up and thrown on the bonfire. But if you make yourselves at home with Me and My Words are at home in you, you can be sure that whatever you ask will be listened to and acted upon. This is how My Father is glorified—when you produce much fruit, when you mature as My disciples.” Pam Jackson
December 17, 2013. (Reposted) Fight your fear with belief. This will cause you to go from the ridiculous to the sublime. I know things look bad and you have made mistakes, but you aren't the only one. Don't take all the blame. Repent just for your part. You can't repent for another. You have to let them be responsible for their actions. You are learning, but you can't do the learning for them. Your thoughts, words and actions can move you into belief. Don't rehearse what is wrong over and over and over.
Philippians 3:13-14 "Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." Bev Robinson
December 17, 2013. (Reposted) It is time for the church to grow up, according to the Apostle Paul's examination. He wrote to the church at Ephesus where both He and Timothy pastored. Both those pastors knew that God's Word would mature the saints of their church if they would practice it as both of them had done. The church had been given the ascension gifts of the apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher. These gifts are to flow and work together. There is enough power here to change the world. Get it done.
Ephesians 4:14-16 "As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love." Ras Robinson
