The Face

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Focused on You Personally

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> "Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?" (Job 31:4) This is specific, focused. God is paying attention to me, you. God is aware of us, each one. God is not just generally aware of us, but specifically. Therefore, whatever is happening with you or me at any moment Holy Spirit is with us specifically. Thanks be to God.
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Easter 2016

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> Whoever we are and whatever is going on in our lives sometime during this day we have been reminded that this is RESURRECTION DAY in the Christian heritage. The first thing seen on the TV is about boomings, insults candidates throw at one another and trouble of every kind all over creation. If one thinks about this one way he/she would likely conclude everything is going to hell therefore we had better take care of ourselves and just survive. On the other hand a person can think about all this from a faith point of view. There is One seeing the Big Picture, one who has allowed humanity to follow its own course while knowing all the time Creation, Resurrection, Redemption has the final word. We do the best we can under the circumstances of the moment and God have mercy on us….Resurrection bears that out…..so we keep on living and trust Loving Spirit. Thanks be to God.
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Crossroads

>"Stand at the crossroads and look; The innovative and new ways of seeing and thinking and
> ask for the ancient paths, doing are important to our progress and improvement. How
>ask where the good way is, and walk ever, there is a time and need to reach back into ancient
> in it, insights and fundamental truths than have no age or time
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> -Jeremiah 6:16 that is life and light for the present….Thanks be to God.
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Fwd: thought

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"God  Who sees all

   and understands all,

Whose ways are not

  always known to us

But never unknown to Him."

     -Daily Guidepost 2016

God is Center

>IT'S NOT THE ONE WHO PLANTS OR THE ONE WHO WATERS WHO IS AT THE CENTER OF THIS PROCESS BUT GOD, WHO MAKES THINGS GROW. (The Message) These words were written to the early church admonishing them to stop taking sides about who was the big shot leader. While each may have certain leaders they related to best the important reality is God is center. All the rest of us do our jobs carrying out the work God gives us but all is centered in God. — As Jesus moved toward the crucifixion he remained centered in the One Who Makes Things Grow.
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Love Lifted Me

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> "Love lifted me. When nothing else could help, love lifted me." - From early childhood going to Turkey Branch Methodist Church and through many years as pastor in small country churches in South Ga and North Ga Methodism "Love Lifted Me.." rang clear and strong. People sang from the heart. Some sang remembering how God's Love sustained them through many times of heartache and in times of celebrating life joys. This morning I sat at my dest and these words floated up out of my inner memory. Love lifted me felt warm, comforting, reassuring, like the breath of God upon the fire of life in me. I typed the words and the Bill Gaither choir sang this beautiful hymn and I felt the Presence of God embracing me.— Today, Lord, I ask that all who read these thoughts will feel Your lifting love all through their being... and thank You. Amen.
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Prayer and Peace

ONE REASON I PRAY IS IT KEEPS ME MINDFUL OF THE BIG PICTURE. (KINGDOM OF GOD BUSINESS IN THE WORLD). THE MOMENT HELD ACCOUNTABLE TO GOD’S VISION AND WILL. THIS MEANS WHEN THINGS ARE TROUBLED IN THE PRESENT I CONSIDER AND FEEL THEM IN TERMS OF ETERNITY. I CAN SURVIVE THE MOMENT BECAUSE I TRUST GOD AT WORK IN THE SITUATION. THIS WAY OF BEING IS NOT ARRIVED AT BY THINKING LOGICALLY, IT COMES FROM TRUSTING THE WILL OF GOD. “COME TO ME ALL WHO LABOR AND ARE CARRYING HEAVY BURDENS, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU AND LEARN FROM ME;FOR I AM GENTLE AND HUMBLE IN HEART, AND YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. FOR MY YOKE IS EASY, AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT.” (Matthew 11:28-30)

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LIVE AS ONE FORGIVEN?

>WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LIVE AS ONE FORGIVEN? (Gloria Gaither) —
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>-Experience Grace to extent I can live comfortably with my raggedness and work creatively with it…
>-Maintain a young spirit and you will be better in your body no matter what your age.
>-The deep sense of OK.
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>-But to know the sense of being forgiven
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>-Ash Wednesday services happened
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> and being out of sync with God's will.
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>-Then we go out to live as one forgiven.
>-Persons appearing on TV programs
>had ash marks on their forehead.
>-A symbol they had knelt at the altar
>to confess sins and be forgiven
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Come to Jesus

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> It is time to have a "Come to Jesus" meeting. this is a saying I have heard over the years. It has to do with "getting our act together" or recognizing what is really important in life, time to put first things first. We all have need for this many times on the road of living. Every day starts with the feeling and awareness that I am accountable to God and the Will of God has been made clear in the life and person of Jesus Christ. When I put "all my beans in that basket" my life begins to come together around the solid core of truth and goodness and in faith and trust I move forward into whatever is yet to come….I need to stay close to this truth because I have made many mistakes and failed to live according the best I know many times, yet God is faithful and lets me start anew over and over and over…..