Sunday, April 29, 2012
Even in Walmart
I was in Walmart grocery shopping with the wife last night. We were in the frozen foods section and the wife picked out the 2 frozen lunches that she wanted and told me to pick mine out. I reached into the case picked out the ones that I wanted and as I pulled them out one of the other boxes fell off the shelf inside the case. I put the ones I picked out into the cart and reached back into the case picked up the box that had fallen, fiddled with it to get it back onto the shelf and as I closed the door, it fell again. By this time the wife was halfway down the isle and little frustrated, I said "I'm tried, I'm done" and started to walk away. That's when it happened, I heard a small still voice as plain as day that said "So let's not get tired of doing what is right." I tried to shake it off as I headed down the isle but heard it several more times until I turned around and went back. I retreived the box from the bottom of the freezer case and made sure it stayed on the shelf this time. I've never had this happen before, the voice was in my head, but it was as plain as if someone had been standing beside me whispering in my ear. God cares about how we act when no one is looking, even if we are just buying groceries in Walmart.
Friday, April 27, 2012
The Promises of God...
Listed here are only a few of the promises that God has given us and since God cannot lie you can build the foundation of your life on them.
It doesn't get any plainer than this, God says He will be with us, that He will protect us, when we call He will answer, He will give us our salvation.
Psalm 91
14 The LORD says, "I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name.15 When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them.16 I will reward them with a long life and give them my salvation.
God says the He will guide us along the best pathway for our lives
Psalm 32
8 The LORD says, "I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you.
*In Progress*
It doesn't get any plainer than this, God says He will be with us, that He will protect us, when we call He will answer, He will give us our salvation.
Psalm 91
14 The LORD says, "I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name.15 When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them.16 I will reward them with a long life and give them my salvation.
God says the He will guide us along the best pathway for our lives
Psalm 32
8 The LORD says, "I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you.
*In Progress*
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Easy ways to praise God during your day
Here are some of the ways that I have come up with to praise God throughout the day.
1) I sit at a computer all day and the computer is set to require the password after 3 minutes of inactivity, so I changed the password to a phrase that praises God. Every time I get up from my desk, come back to the computer after doing paperwork or being on the phone I have to enter my praise password.
2) I have around 35 verses that I read daily (I don't do so well on the weekends) and I have them up on my computer (I use the Sticky Notes program that came w/Win7) so a least every workday I start out my day by reading them.
3) Family participation- I'm doing a discipleship program with Pastor Mark and part of that is every few weeks we get a new morning prayer and several verses to memorize. When I get these my wife takes them and puts the morning prayer and the verses on post-it notes and sticks them to the bathroom mirror. That way I really do not have an excuse to not read them every day. Without that support, I would have a really hard time remembering to read them every day.
4)Bible Reading- I use a Bible app called YouVersion which has just about all the versions of the Bible you could want. It also has reading plans which are groups of verses by subject as well as read the Bible in a year, 90 days ect. One of the features that I get the most out of is it's ability to read the bible to you, I spend a least 2 hours a day in the car and there is no reason, for me to not be able to read (or listen to) God's word.
5) Joel Osteen app- Joel is the pastor of Lakewood church in Houston TX and is one of what I can best describe as my circle of support without which I would have never made it through this. There is an app on the Droid platform called "JoelCast" the full version has all of his TV messages back to April 2006. If you are in a place where you can't see a way out, where you are about to give up hope then .99 is a very small price to pay, the messages are only 30 minutes and are very uplifting. If you are wavering even a little in your faith or your trust in God, it is time well spent.
6)Leading the Way app- Dr. Michael Youssef is the Pastor of The Church of the Apostles in Atlanta GA you can listen to many of his sermons on the smartphone app as well as watch many of his broadcast sermons. If there is any doubt about God's salvation for you then I recommend a little time in the electronic pew listening to Dr. Youssef.
These are all I could think of at the moment, and I felt the need to get this posted now and not wait so if anyone who reads this has any other ways than the five here please put them in the comments and I'll copy them into the post.
1) I sit at a computer all day and the computer is set to require the password after 3 minutes of inactivity, so I changed the password to a phrase that praises God. Every time I get up from my desk, come back to the computer after doing paperwork or being on the phone I have to enter my praise password.
2) I have around 35 verses that I read daily (I don't do so well on the weekends) and I have them up on my computer (I use the Sticky Notes program that came w/Win7) so a least every workday I start out my day by reading them.
3) Family participation- I'm doing a discipleship program with Pastor Mark and part of that is every few weeks we get a new morning prayer and several verses to memorize. When I get these my wife takes them and puts the morning prayer and the verses on post-it notes and sticks them to the bathroom mirror. That way I really do not have an excuse to not read them every day. Without that support, I would have a really hard time remembering to read them every day.
4)Bible Reading- I use a Bible app called YouVersion which has just about all the versions of the Bible you could want. It also has reading plans which are groups of verses by subject as well as read the Bible in a year, 90 days ect. One of the features that I get the most out of is it's ability to read the bible to you, I spend a least 2 hours a day in the car and there is no reason, for me to not be able to read (or listen to) God's word.
5) Joel Osteen app- Joel is the pastor of Lakewood church in Houston TX and is one of what I can best describe as my circle of support without which I would have never made it through this. There is an app on the Droid platform called "JoelCast" the full version has all of his TV messages back to April 2006. If you are in a place where you can't see a way out, where you are about to give up hope then .99 is a very small price to pay, the messages are only 30 minutes and are very uplifting. If you are wavering even a little in your faith or your trust in God, it is time well spent.
6)Leading the Way app- Dr. Michael Youssef is the Pastor of The Church of the Apostles in Atlanta GA you can listen to many of his sermons on the smartphone app as well as watch many of his broadcast sermons. If there is any doubt about God's salvation for you then I recommend a little time in the electronic pew listening to Dr. Youssef.
These are all I could think of at the moment, and I felt the need to get this posted now and not wait so if anyone who reads this has any other ways than the five here please put them in the comments and I'll copy them into the post.
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