Word Filled Wednesday

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Word Filled Wednesday

This verse, found in Job, Chapter 14, verse 7, speaks of God's glorious hope. The hope that God gives us in our lives over and over again. The hope that seems so evident in the world around us in spring. The things of nature often die over winter... and yet each spring, new life springs up. It is so joyous to watch new life and color spring into a world that seems almost colorless in winter.

There are many such images in Scripture, in different variations, of the theme of beauty from ashes. As Christians, we have the blessed promise of new life. Scripture tells us that from death comes new life. When we die to self, we are alive in Christ!

I offer my praises to God who offers us new life, renewal, and new starts each morning.



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Word Filled Wednesday ~ Rejoice!

Yesterday was a glorious spring day, holding all the promise of the days to come. It was easy to rejoice in the Lord in the sunshine and in the warm spring breezes. But JOY is available every day.

We just watched Pollyanna together in homeschool, as we are studying the 1910's and the movie is set in 1912. The sweet movie as with the book it is based upon teaches much about joy and gladness. It points out that there are over 800 "glad verses" in the Bible.... revealing God's Will for us. Pollyanna finds a way to be glad through all circumstances, teaching us all a bit about living a life of joy. If you have not seen this movie you simply must.. or read the book... and spend some time in God's Word noticing all the verses about joy and gladness.

No matter the world's circumstances and difficulties, look to the skies and to God's creation, to your loved ones, and to God Himself... and REJOICE!


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Word Filled Wednesday

(Psalm 4:8)

Thank you Lord, that you keep us safe. We need not worry about the difficulties of this world... though the weight of the world seems to close in on us, we can give it all to You. And in You, Lord, we can rest in peace. For You alone make us dwell in safety.

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Word-filled Wednesday

What a blessing and a privilege to be the mother of my children! Yesterday we spent a lovely afternoon at the park and zoo... and I was struck once again by the blessing of motherhood.

All too often the daily grind of housework, homeschooling, and life push this realization from my mind. Even so the reality does not change. I have been given an awesome blessing and with it an awesome responsibility.

Today, I hope to live in full awareness. May I live this day loving them, training them, enjoying them, and living as the mother God intended me to be.

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Word-filled Wednesday

All too often I forget to live in this truth. I am no longer in the darkness and I am no longer darkness. I have been set free and lead into the light by none other than the Light of the World! Life is no longer to be lived in the darkness or in bondage, but fully in the light!

I look to children, who so joyously seem to come to the Lord and I realize I am a child of light too. Isn't that cause of rejoicing??

But it is one thing to know it and another to live it. This verse does more than declare the truth that we are children of light... it is an exhortation to live in the light as children of light. Boldly. Joyously. In obedience and righteousness. Following our Lord, our Light.

In that way, my light and His greater light, can shine forth to the world. I want to be a reflection of THE LIGHT into the darkness. Into the lost and dying world. God can shine through me... if I let Him. I need to be transparent. Less of me. More of Him. To bask in His glory and be filled with His light and His love.

Several years back I was in a class with a wife of one of our pastors... and at the end of the class she gave us each a miniature watering can. She showed us the one she kept on her windowsill. And she told us that each morning she would pray to God that He would fill her to overflowing with Him and with His love, so that she could pour out His love to all those around her. I know that is a prayer that God honored over and over again. It is my prayer as I read this verse. That I would be so filled with light... and become light... that I would shine out Jesus and His perfect love to those around me.


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Word-filled Wednesday

We serve an awesome God. The Creator God. God of all the Earth, of all the Universe. He speaks! Our God is not silent, nor distant. And He calls ME. He will call and the earth and everything in it responds.... and one day ALL will bow before Him, in His time. I respond now. For I am so very grateful... and I am in awe of our Mighty God. My Lord. So powerful. And yet, My Redeemer.


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Word-filled Wednesday

This verse, John 10: 27-28, gives me peace today. It would be easy for me to be emotionally wrapped up in the world and politics. I admit that I do not agree with Pres. Obama on most of the issues he supports, but he is now my president. But, I do not need to worry or have fear... I am a lamb of His flock. I need to look to my Shepherd, and listen to His voice, and follow Him. And my loving and tender Shepherd will protect me, and give me life. No one and nothing can snatch me from His Hand. Hallelujah!

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Word-filled Wednesday

As a parent this verse is sooo convicting. Every time. What a precious gift to be entrusted with! What a wonderful blessing to have children! And what an awesome responsibility!

This is not about simple quality time... but quantity as well as quality time. Time spent with my children, teaching them by example and by word about God and His Word. This verse reminds me of this truth. I need to be truly present and I need to teach my children in the little and the big things of life. And I need to teach them and ground them in God's Word.

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Word-filled Wednesday

Last week I was looking at images of space... and found the most gorgeous pictures. And I could not help but be in awe of our awesome Creator. Last week I made a Word-filled Wednesday also even though it was a week off.

This week again I came back to these images. The magnitude of Creation and its beauty is beyond human comprehension. The more man studies the more we find. We look at things smaller and smaller and find amazing organization and detail and beauty. We look to the heavens and find such massive scale and such beauty.

Our God is so amazing and yet this powerful God who spoke the stars into being cares for me. How incredible.

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For word-filled Wednesday this week, I was thinking on the new year. At first, I considered using the verse, "I know I the plans I have for you..." but then this verse came to mind. With the new year it is natural to think on time and its passage and hope for the future. How delightful that we can know that God will make us beautiful! How amazing that He loves us so dearly.

As we look to the stars we are reminded of the enormity of God and how small man is... and when we think on the concept of eternity our mind reels. Not so with our Almighty God! He is eternal. He spoke this vast universe into being! Look at the beauty of the universe! The picture I chose is of a galaxy. It is stunningly beautiful, isn't it? I don't feel beautiful when I look to that picture. And even so, He loves ME and concerns Himself in the lives of man, in MY life. What an immense blessing! And what a lovely knowledge to know that in this immense world where we are but ants, where we can feel overwhelmed and lost at times, we are tended by the Most High God, and are safe in His care. We are being made beautiful and we are part of His plan from beginning to end.

This year, I will be trying to read through the Bible, and so have included in my sidebar a plan for this goal. I will be reading God's Word first, before doing other things online, because I know that if my heart and mind are filled with God's Word and my eyes are upon Him, I am NOT lost, but instead on solid ground. A good place to start a new year. I will allow God and His Word to work in me, to transform me, to make me new, and beautiful and I will rest in the knowledge that God is in control.

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Word Filled Wednesday ~ Christmas edition

Luke 2:8-20 The Shepherds and the Angels

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."

Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
"Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."

When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about."

So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.

It is Christmas Eve, and it is time to rejoice in our Savior. Look to the Christ child. Let us join in, glorifying and praising God as the angels and the shepherds have done, and believers around the world do every day but even more so as we remember this great gift at Christmastime.

Merry Christmas to all my friends at WFW. What a blessing all of you have been to me!
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Word-filled Wednesday ~ JOY (Day 18)

1 Peter 1:8-9 "Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls."

2000 years later we still celebrate Christ. We were not there that special day, but it is recreated in nativities, Christmas plays, and declared in song all around the world.

Knowing the love for Christ that we have even having not been there, and the awe we experience having never seen Him... Can you imagine being there? A shepherd called by angels seeing the long awaited Christ. Wise men come from afar to worship the newborn King. Fishermen called by the Son of God to come and follow Him. Listening and learning at His feet? We may not have experienced these things first hand... but I know that for those who believe He is no less real. And the Scriptures bring so much alive for us. How much greater joy when we meet HIM and can lay our crowns at His feet.

This week, the advent candle is the Joy candle, and for good reason. My heart rejoices as I think of my Savior and His birth. My wish for you, my readers, and for all my brothers and sisters in Christ is we live in that "inexpressible and glorious joy" throughout Christmas and each and every day.

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Advent Devotion ~ New Life found in the Christ Child (Day 11)

In 1John 5:11 we find a beautiful truth. That in that manger, was born a child, Jesus, Immanuel, God with us. And that Jesus was given to us so that we can have new life, eternal life.

What a spectacular truth!

And the phrase, This is the testimony... YES. For each believer this is what our testimony boils down to. God has offered to us His Son so that we may have new life. When we receive Christ it makes us want to share the good news, to share our testimony. And I believe that is source of the excitement of the spiritual/carol Go Tell It On The Mountain. This is THE good news. Let us shout it and sing it and tell it... The Messiah has come!


Mahalia Jackson, Go Tell it on the Mountain

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Word-filled Wednesday

Preparing for Christmas this year, I have spent time looking at beautiful paintings of the nativity.... they are so lovely and so very reverent. It is my hope, that as I prepare for Christmas that I would ever be reverent of our glorious Lord Jesus.

With the frantic pace of the holidays it can be easy to get rushed or grumpy or materialistic... or to focus on the glitter and glowing lights... but all those things forget the purpose for our celebration. We are celebrating Christ! The child born was no simple babe... He is the very Son of the Most High God! This should be a time of worship both reverent and joyous!

And from Handel's Messiah: For Unto Us A Child is Born. Enjoy.


Isaiah 9:2-7 Unto Us a Child is Born

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned. You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as men rejoice when dividing the plunder. For as in the day of Midian's defeat, you have shattered the yoke that burdens them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor. Every warrior's boot used in battle and every garment rolled in blood will be destined for burning, and will be fuel for the fire.

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.

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I am so thankful that I have a God who is my strength when I am weak. He holds me up on days when I mourn or when I am weary. The world around can seem so uncertain, so dangerous, so painful, so unsteady.... but God is my rock through all troubles.

And He is my song... my joy... the music in my life. My heart sings of His glory. When listening to wonderful hymns or praise and worship, my heart soars with the song to add my own praises to the God of glory.

And, yes, He is my salvation. My Savior. My all.

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Word-filled Wednesdays: Be Still

"Be still and know that I am God."Psalm 46:10
These are words I will never forget. A little over a year ago, I became pregnant. Ahhhh, the joy! I was almost 40 and had been told years back that my childbearing days were over because of hormonal imbalance. And yet, I was pregnant! I prayed for my little one. My blessed surprise.

Then just one day before my 10 week appointment, the unthinkable happened. I began bleeding, heavily. And cramping. We went into the hospital and they did an ultrasound. And behold, there was my little baby, heart beating. And they said get lots of rest... your baby is okay for now, but your bleeding is very heavy and so your baby is in danger.

And so I went home that night and prayed and I pled with God and I rested but I continued to bleed heavily. The next morning, I awoke to terrible pain and bleeding. And I knew, without a doubt that I was losing my precious baby. I cried out to God and He answered me. I heard His voice so clearly. He spoke and said, "Be still and know that I am God." At that moment the pain went away, but just as surely I knew the baby was now with Him. Peace washed over me, and though the sadness was not gone, I knew that God was not leaving me or my baby.

"Be still and know that I am God." Words, that even now, over a year later, bring a mist of tears to my eyes. God gave me a great gift... I was pregnant and I saw my little one on that ultrasound. Though I went through deep sorrow over my very real loss... I know great joy also, for one day I will see my child, in Heaven.

Our God is so good. Our world is fallen and there is pain and suffering and evil here on earth, beyond what we can understand, but God never leaves us, nor forsakes us. He has promised us so much more than this world can offer us. His love is deep and without measure. When in times of trouble we can seek Him and find Him. "Be still and know that I am God."

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