"Only Life Changes"

“For with God nothing shall be impossible. Luke 1:37
“Prayer”
Lord, help us to speak to others in a way nthat will help them see You in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

Father God let this touch someone’s heart today. Bring Your healing to all lives today. Everyone needs some form of healing, let me be the first to ask for Your assistance without hesitation in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
Funny thing happened yesterday. I was walking with my bowl of salad, when this guy reached out to take it and said: Oh, thank you. Just what I wanted. I laughed and he laughed with me. Then I proceeded to sit down and pray with my husband for the food and those who prepared it. I also thanked God for that man with a sense of humor. Everything we do starts from the mind, heart and then mouth. Two main parts that run the whole body and tells it what it is going to do. Didn’t really comprehend this concept till recently. I always work hard and do everything in my own strength and have done nothing but harm myself instead of learning to let go and let God. Example: I can take a label off a jar by scrubbing hard with all my might and get it all the label off the jar. Still there is glue left behind. Another way is to soak the jar, so the label comes off easier. Then take a scrubby and lightly swipe the surface and the glue comes right off and I didn’t have to over work to get the glue off.
So, I said God you know in this life I have always worked and been in fear that I would lose my job or not be good enough. All along Lord You have been with me and I should have known this all along. God Works through the Church. We can’t begin to understand the mind of God, but we can learn a lot about Him through His word. Another way to recognize God at work in your life is if you experience: a desire for God. One of the most common and least recognized ways that God is constantly working in our lives is in giving us a desire for him. It’s easy to think that a desire for God is something that we produce ourselves. Not so! Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. When we over work our bodies, we are destroying the Temple. It reads in 1 Corinthians 6:19, it is stated, “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own.” This means that our bodies are not our own but of God, and that is why it should be clear and pure of unnecessary impurities.
So, when we apply pressure in our work to destroy our bodies and not work it for the good of God. We only harm ourselves. It is not God that harms us. {The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands. Psalm 8:3}
I take a shovel and dig a baby tree out of the ground, plant it in a container and then for days my foot hurts from all that work and pressure on my foot. When I should have taken my battery-operated saw and sawed around that baby tree about 6 inches or so in the ground and it would have come out much easier to place in a container. It would of taking less time also.
And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one. This is how to work at home. Love that peace and quiet at home. “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men. Read: Colossians 3:23-24″ This is so true. When we work to make a paycheck. We have to give it our all. Sometimes more than usual. When knowing we are working for God and not men our lives become much easier and free. It is healthy for the body and mind to work hard, serving God and others with our gifts from the Lord. I believe that eating healthy, and being healthy, strengthens one’s connection with God. This stronger connection with God strengthens one’s conversations with God, through prayer, and in whatever mysterious ways God communicates to us. Taking care of our health is one way that we can be a good witness. You’ll Have More Energy to Do God’s Work: ” For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10.” Let us see that we are God’s masterpiece, created to do the good things that He had planned a long time ago for us to do. When seeking to understand God’s salvation by grace through faith. However, this important statement offers tremendous insight into what God desires after salvation and how we should live with abandon. The first time I heard that expression, “a life reckless abandon,” Reckless abandon with rash, unrestrained impulsiveness, enthusiasm, or zeal. Reckless abandon. What does it mean anyway? Basically, it’s to do something without fear of consequence. Isn’t that a negative connotation? I guess it could be, but what if we apply it to Christian living? If we apply it to Christian living, it means that we follow God without fear of consequences. It means we cast everything aside to follow him. Being without commonsense I thought! Scary! If you look at it with God mind set. We can be enthusiastic about continued conversation with God. Can’t this mean abandoning reckless behavior and living recklessly for God. Giving of yourselves to the poor and helping them. In the spur of the moment giving a donation to the hospitals, church’s, a poor person on the street. I saw this poor man on the street corner. He was selling waters out of a beat-up cooler with ice in it. I gave him $5.00, and he gave us the water in his hand and asked if we wanted another. We said no of course. That man was earning his way and he was doing it recklessly at an intersection. Was he needing help? Yes! Was he working recklessly for Jesus? Yes! It is hot out there. The man was selling cold waters out in the hot sun to people in the comfort of their vehicle’s… He lived under the freeway. God will keep blessing that man working out in that hot sun selling cold waters. {Poor is he who works with a negligent (Careless)hand, But the hand of the diligent makes rich. Romans 12:11}
I like this quote: “I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.” ~Elisabeth Elliot

Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) was a missionary and a critically acclaimed author and speaker. For over half a century, her life of obedience, timeless teachings, and best-selling books. She continued to travel and speak all over America sharing her story, her knowledge, and wisdom of God’s Word until her health stopped her in 2004. Elisabeth Elliot lost her first husband to murder in the South American jungle and her second to the ravages of cancer. She felt the deep pain of loss. In The Path of Loneliness, Elliot gives hope to the lonely through tender reflections on God’s love for us and his plans to bless us.

“Prayer”

Father God, I thank You for Your love. I believe that You would place Your godly love into my heart so that Your love may flow through me to all my brothers and sisters in Christ. Assist me to love with brotherly and sisterly affection. Also consider the needs of others before my own. I thank You and praise You for the Word of God, the godly instructions and promises that are laid out for the Church in the epistles of Paul. I am believing to rejoice in hope, endure in tribulation, and persevere in prayer in all aspects of life and to be recklessly giving and good in Your light I love You in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. John 14:19
(Prayer)
Father, I thank You, for healing my eyes so I can see You and live in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

The Lord will watch over Your coming and going both now and forevermore.
Psalms 121:8 NIV
(Prayer)
Dear Lord, I pray that You will keep me alert to Satan’s clever attacks and help me to conquer him in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

The righteous person may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all. Psalms 34:19 NIV
(Prayer)
O Lord, help me to trust You in the midst of the hardships of my life in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” Be very careful, then, how you live-not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

Ephesians 5:14-17

(Prayer)
Dear Lord, help me today not to be careless about my relationship with You in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. Read full chapter

Psalm 16:11

(Prayer)
O God of love and forgiveness, so fill my heart with the spirit of Jesus that I will be quick to return love for evil in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.

Joshua 1:9 NIV

(Prayer)
When I feel all alone, Father, help me to remember that You are with me and I have nothing to fear in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out and find pasture. 1 Peter 3:12 NIV
“Prayer”
Lord, help me to put away my selfish pride and show my Christian witness by being friendly to others in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

Father God, let this touch someones heart in Jesus Precious name Amen.
God is so purposeful in our lives that even before we pray, he provides for us. There is so much that God does some of which often escapes our attention and memory. While we always look at the big things in our lives, and the major events that we want God to come through for us, we tend to forget that he is the God of the entire universe, He provides for each of his creations and He sees all of what He has created.

The Lord brings rain to both the godly and the ungodly. In one classic example involving the deer, the Bible demonstrates the sovereignty of God in providing for his creation. It reads in Job 39:1: “Do you know when the wild goats give birth? Have you watched as deer are born in the wild?” God said this in response to Job who was complaining about what he was going through to the point of invoking God to obliterate the day he was born and forget it completely.
So if a ungodly person says to a godly person pray for rain and the godly person prays for him and to make it rain. The ungodly person gets to see God in action if it does rain. This is an example of how God works in the ungodly life of a unbeliever. So brothers and sisters believe for God to work through you to others so they will see God’s light through you. Amen.

God reminds Job that there is so much that he cares for, things that Job probably didn’t know or had not thought through.
The deer is one of the most mentioned animals in the Bible. From the Old Testament writers and cultures has a special attachment to the deer for specific reasons. For some it was its speed, for others it was its calving and still, some writers borrowed the grace and the beauty of the deer. There are several mentions of the deer in the Bible.
Today I want to talk about deer. But right now, I want to look back at a couple of church friends that made an impact in my life. Jami is one sweet person that I knew from church. Each week she would stop see how I was doing and spoke about her missions in Hatti. I liked drinking the coffee the church would get from Hatti. Anyways one day Jami stopped by my house, and we spoke about her pictures etc. So, then she would take and walk while I was in my wheelchair, and she would let me use her camera to take pictures. So, some days that she wasn’t doing anything she would visit her other friend in the neighborhood and come by and visit me. God had given me a friend who knew that I always wanted to be a photographer. I went to school in the 8th grade and learned how to develop my film of the pictures I took. Now we don’t have to developed film like that no more. It makes it more fun to be a photographer by using digital sb card. Jami was my sister in Christ and God knew it would assist me in my healing. After I had my back surgery, Jami would take me in her vehicle to take pictures. My husband Walt had bought me a 40 zoom Canon Camera, so I could take pictures also. We would take pictures of deer. Jami would tell me, just don’t move. Jamie would walk slowly, so they didn’t run. So, I was quiet. Jami could actually walk really close to them. It is so amazing how deer will look right at you and then go about their business while you shot pictures of them. They are not scared unless you give them reason and then they run.
Here is a bible verse that stands the test of healing time: He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he causes me to stand on the heights.
2 Samuel 22:34
I want to talk about another friend from Church. Her name was Irene, she has moved on to another church. But as long as I knew Irene, she was the sweetest elderly lady that would always stop and talk to me when I was in the wheelchair. Then she gave me a book she had written. Who knew? It is called Who is this man? I read the book and a child can read it also. See God guided others in my life who was a blessing of healing. Our pastor had exercise class’s I joined at just the right time after my back surgery. Who knew? God knew. He sends those to pray for you and help you to heal. When I look back on my journey. God has been with me all along.
https://www.amazon.com/Who-This-Man-Irene-Ferguson/dp/1931823634?tag=shadow07e-20
It reads in Genesis 49:21: “Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.
Temptations have a way of binding the soul and confining it to a state of eternal capture. However, when deliverance comes and the spirit is set free, there is a sense of affection and natural behavior that makes us as vibrant as a deer. When you find a deer grazing or running around in the grassland, you’ll in doubt envy its state of freedom and expression. That is how it feels like when we are not under any chains or confinement the beauty within us flows out naturally. God is always restoring our souls gently back to Himself so we can experience His freedom.

Just like looking at the deer. God is comforting and healing us even when something scares us off in another direction, God leads us back to His path. It reads in Malachi 4:2 “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. We were driving out of the driveway yesterday and there was a mommy deer and a doe. They ran out in front of us, so my husband stopped the car. The mommy deer ran into the woods, but the doe was confused. The doe ran to the side and my husband proceeded with caution. The doe ran back into the street to get to mommy’s side, but another car was coming, and the doe ran back on the other side. Then the doe proceeded back to the other side to be with mommy. It all worked out. The deer and doe were back together again. I thought about this for a moment. God does the same for us. He makes a way for us to come back to Him. We may not see it at the time because of all the confusion. But memories help us to see His prompting and leading us back to Him.
I take pictures of Deer. It is peaceful and I get to see how they are so patient and how they react to my just being there. They are not scared of me. It can be really quiet and then when a car comes by, they run and stop to see if I am alright. They either stay or run. Deer or true deer are hoofed ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The hunger for the LORD can be expressed in different ways. It reads in Psalm 42:1: As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. When God set apart his people as his treasured possession, he gave them some rules and regulations by which they were to live by. Among the rules were those concerning food, what to eat and what not to eat.
There were some foods especially animals that the Israelites could freely eat without the fear of becoming ceremonially unclean.
It reads in Deuteronomy 14:4-5, “These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.” The deer is therefore approved and set apart by the LORD as a clean animal.
Samuel and Psalm, the Bible speaks of God’s establishment and direction in connection to the deer. Deer is created for the mountains and its foot structure is made in such a way that it can scale the ruggedness of the mountains with finesse. Deer do not have to look for another landscape rather it adapts to the existing landscape and makes its life worthwhile there.
It reads in 2 Samuel 22:34: “He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he causes me to stand on the heights.” God establishes his people in the territories he wants them to conquer.
It reads in Habakkuk 3:19: “The Lord God is my strength, And He has made my feet like hinds’ feet, and makes me walk on my high places.”
{Let’s Pray}
Father God, I thank You and praise You for Your strength, healing love and guidance of others and myself who are being Jesus to people, especially their brothers and sisters in Christ. Let me shine Your light on others who do not know You that they will be like a deer that they know their heart beats because of You. So, they will truly know Your love for them. I love You because You first loved me and never will leave. I praise You for Your full attention, Your unconditional love, Your unconditional grace, and Your everlasting salvation to all who ask and believe. I thank You and praise You for Jesus, my Saviour, my high tower, my refuge, my rock and my all in all. Let those who don’t know You be guided back to You as lost deer who are found, and You hold them dear in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
{Power Verse}
“The God of my rock; in him will I trust he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my Saviour; thou save me from violence.”
2 Samuel 22:3