A Daily Thought: 2014

Monday, August 18, 2014

A Short but Often Used Word

A Short But an Important Often Used Word

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There is a word,
a short word so often used.

It begins most questions.

It often is the response to answers.

This word drives us to learn new information.

This word can cause us great pain,

but it also leads us to great accomplishments.

This word causes us to loose sleep,

but, it also comes to mind as we wake up.

This word is a great motivator,

but also, causes us great worry.

This word begins the questioning of our existence,

but, leads us to the answer.

The word is: Why

Why do we desire love?

Why do we exist?

Why do we want and desire to live
in the many Trials and Testing of our daily lives?

Why do we sometimes want more

but often settle and are very happy with less?

Why do we desire relationships?

Why do we seek something beyond our existence?

Why do forgive and seek forgiveness?

Is the Self Will to Live and Survive part of our DNA?

If so, why is it there?

If that Will to Live is not in our DNA,

Then why do we feel it so strongly?

In our desire to live

Why does a person choose to die to save someone else,
even when it is a stranger.

What is stronger- The Will to live or Love?

John 3:16 NRS

New Revised Standard

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but
may have eternal life."

Read John 3 NRS | Read John 3:16 NRS in parallel

In seeking the Kingdom of God,

in searching for the answers to
Why we are on this rock called Earth,

God will reveal the answers.
We just need to keep
asking and seeking His answer to all our "Why?"s.

We are not here just to survive, God made us to thrive.

In reading the Bible, often we do not understand what we read due to insufficient knowledge. We just have to keep reading, take in what we understand, re-read, and re-read, pray for understanding, and read again.

Because something is hard to understand, that is no reason to give up. I read and read scripture, newness and greater understanding of Scripture often comes but, so very often understanding comes when I least expect it.

Be patient, believe and trust, and
understanding will come.

Why do we desire to love?
Seek Jesus, Accept Jesus, understanding will come.

Thanks be to God.

Lonnie

Something about me- My Faith, My Renewal, Understanding Gifts of the Holy Spirit

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Scriptures to consider for your life and future Bible Study discussions.

Ephesians 2:8 NIVNew International Version

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--

Matthew 17:20 NRS New Revised Standard

Jesus said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, "Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you."

Romans 10:17 NIV

Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.

Matthew 26:41-42 NKJV

41 Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
42 Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done."

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There is a very important word in our English language. There is a word like it in probably every language. Click the Link to see read about it. Please share the message on your Fb page as you like, and if you like, click the FB 'Follow' button to have notifications of these publications. For other messages like this, visit my FB page, or on FB visit-"A Daily Thought Group".

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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

The Seeds We Plant

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All of us plant seeds in one manner or the other. This encourages you to plant seeds that only God can grow. Seeds of faith, love, and trust.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

OUR Perfect Change ...

Our Perfect Change...

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Beginning in Acts 4, Peter and John are called before the Sanhedrin, the Temple elders and leaders who put Jesus to the cross, and was questioned because of their preaching and teaching concerning the resurrection of the dead. The Sanhedrin was filled with Sadducees who did not believe in any resurrection.

Acts 4
8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: "Rulers and elders of the people!9If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a cripple and are asked how he was healed,10then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.11He is " 'the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone. '12Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."13When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.

One of the most important topics for our faith rarely preached about, rarely heard about in Sunday Schools, and rarely talked about in Bible Studies is the fullness we can find in feeling the movement of the Holy Spirit in our lives. It is can be difficult to know, recognize, and understand the in-filling of the Holy Spirit (Acts 4:8), the very real presence of it in our lives unless you have seen it, have been taught about it, but best of all vividly experienced it.

In your reading this message, consider the following thoughts from scripture that comes to us from the New Testament:

1- God puts our faith in us (Romans 12:3).
2- Jesus died for showing us how to live and
belief in Him as our Savior is our
Salvation from our sinful selves (Romans 10:9).
3- But, it is receiving the Holy Spirit in our humble acceptance of Jesus and genuine confession of our sins that truly brings the fullness of God and Jesus to our lives(Acts 2:38) and
the Holy Spirit continues to change us forever.

It is then the Holy Spirit that
fills us with boldness (Acts 4:8),
providing us Strength and Power (Ephesians 3:16),
leads us (Matt 4:1),
speaks in, to, and through us (Matt 10:19-20),
convicts us of our sin (John 16:8),
Brings us Renewal for a righteous life (Titus 3:1-10),
Gives us Joy (1 Thes 1:6),
fills us with Peace and Patience (Galatians 5:22-23) and
these with many other functions that helps us
build our Trust in God just as
the Holy Spirit did for the disciples.

The Promise of and Work of the Holy Spirit

Jesus in His patience had to suffer from the lack of real understanding about His mission by and from His very own disciples. In His final journey to Jerusalem, Jesus reveals to the disciples His coming suffering and death and Peter said 'NO", then again He stops Peter from fighting the guards when being betrayed by Judas in the Garden.

In John 16, we see Jesus presenting to the disciples parts of his plan for them, the Promise of the Holy Spirit. And again, they do not understand.

Jesus promised one who would come after Him (the Holy Spirit) to give the disciples a Counselor to guide them in their days ahead. They did not totally understand the promise and how this would affect His mission through them.

In the next several weeks as Jesus' Passion played out as He had predicted, they forgot Jesus' promise and rather, became as scared little boys.

John 16

5 "Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'

6 Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief.

7 But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.

8 When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:

9 in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me;10in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer;

11 and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.

12 "I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.

13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.

14 He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.

15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.

16 "In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me."

The Disciples Received the Holy Spirit

after the Resurrection of Jesus

After the death of Jesus, according to the Gospel of John, the surviving disciples gathered in a room, and the doors were shut! They feared the Jews and just considered they would be the next to die. At the lowest of their lowest times, in the dread of their deepest fear, and in the fullness of their greatest emptiness Jesus in His perfect timing came to His disciples and fulfilled His promise to them.

From John 20:
18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things to her.

19 Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, "Peace be with you."

20 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.

21 So Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you."

22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."

In the same manner we are promised
the glorious in-filling the Holy Spirit!

In our proper behavior,
in our belief in Jesus,
in our repentant nature,
we too receive and are anointed by the Holy Spirit:

Paul writes:

Acts 2:

33 Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.

34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself: 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at My right hand,

35 Till I make Your enemies Your footstool." '

36 "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ."

37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?"

38 Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

In their lowest of times, the disciples were changed by Jesus when He breathes on them the Holy Spirit. The disciples, changed by the Holy Spirit, were suddenly filled with new understanding of His mission and became as conquerors for Christ.

We too find a new humility, meekness and boldness for Christ when we accept and feel the Holy Spirit in our lives. Through the Holy Spirit within us, we come to more fully feel the presence of God's love and protection, and Jesus' redemption from the evil around us and the sinfulness in our lives. With the infilling of the Holy Spirit, we come to truly feel the "peace that passes all understanding" (Phil 4:7).

Just as with the disciples, when we receive the Holy Spirit into our lives, our circumstances do not change very much, but our response to circumstances, our vision of our future, and our desire for Loving God does change us. Knowing that it is God's Spirit, the Holy Spirit that gives us the courage, the strength, the patience to not just survive in our lives but much better; the Holy Spirit gives us the wonderful desire to thrive in our lives- living In God's grace and mercy to a Glorious life.

We may have little in our lives, but remember, Jesus took 2 fish and five barley loves to feed thousands of people; He created the universe out of nothing; truly, with the Holy Spirit, God's Spirit in us, our lives will most assuredly thrive. Seek the Kingdom, Pray daily for humility to better understand the infilling of the Holy Spirit, then feel God's Spirit present in your everyday life, filling you with your Spiritual needs exactly as you need it, just as He did with Peter before His first meeting with the Temple Elders.

Faith, Patience and Prayer

The best lesson on the realization on infilling of the Holy Spirit came to me the first Sunday in January 2009. The preacher that Sunday made this statement- "to have and feel the Holy Spirit in your heart, you much pray and pray and pray...... everyday.... often". Doing that changed my life making me realize what truly happened to me on June 3rd, 1972.

Pray in humility and meekness as the preacher indicates, and in time you will feel a greater fullness of the Spirit as your pray more often. In its total fullness, the Spirit may just fill you to your greatest when you are at your lowest time. In my lowest time on that June 3rd, 1972 I was filled to my greatest, and the peace provided by the Holy Spirit descended on me, in the midst of the war around me and the war within me.

Through our belief in Jesus, humility, and confession of our sins, we receive the greatest source, guidance, and influence to change our lives, the Holy Spirit. It is God's plan, a most perfect plan for our lives.

Thanks Be to God.

lonnie

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A GREAT CHANGE COMES TO US IN ACCEPTING JESUS, A CHANGE that is with us forever. It is not a change of our doing, but what Jesus brings us, just as He did for the disciples. Click the link for more on this great change.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Difficult Circumstances Leads to Greater Blessings

'Difficult Circumstances
Leads to Greater Blessings '

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Matthew 6:25 "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your hea venly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?27Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?28 So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?31 Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

"Difficult Circumstances Leads to Greater Blessings" is a thought I saw recently posted by a friend on Facebook*. With it came many thoughts flooding into my mind.

Here are just three thoughts.

Stepping Stones

With God in our Heart in the Salvation of Jesus, and the Holy Spirit as our daily guide in all we think, say, and do, must look at difficult circumstances as not only a stepping stone, but even failure as a stepping stone to GREATER blessings and success!

Our failures are only failures if we do not seek God to help us up and lift our spiritis to move on! When we do not ask for God's help, we are pushing Him away and that allows our failures to build a wall between us and God. Therefore, in our greater failure to ask for God's help in our difficult circumstances, we often just quit trying, and this leads us to be in a sinful state with God.

We have to understand this great lesson many people do not realize. We are born into sin through our God given, inborn 'will to survive'. In our will to survive, especially as adults, we often become selfish and that selfishness becomes the center of many of our problems. In our selfishness we have nothing of importance to live for and we show contempt for God. In our selfishness we sin.

Allow God to give you the vision of your stepping stones to success from your failures. Then too, remember where your Vision comes from, especially in your lowest of times.

Having Something to Die For
gives You something to Truly Live For

When we come to have something much greater then ourselves to truly live and die for, that becomes the beginning of a greater life and much of our selfishness withers. In Vietnam I came to realize I could die not only for my country but also for my comrade next to me. I am not free of selfishness but life is much better not living in constant selfishness and self-focus. My Living experience is this- living life with something in our hearts to die for just makes living life so much more precious and worth living. I depend on God's guidance through the Holy Spirit to guide me in His will.

When I taught middle school, I had lived over 50 years. I told my students I would take a terrorist bullet in a heart beat for my students in my classroom, just as I would for a comrade in Vietnam. I had lived a long time, had many great experiences and me dying that my students could live would be a small sacrifice for I know the life I have ahead of me when I die.

Similarly, I would clearly die before I would deny my Christ. It is when we can honestly say we would give up our life for someone else and especially for Christ, that is when see can say we have truly begun to live in Great Abundance of the Blessings of God.

I felt a chill when I first saw the words 'Difficult circumstances lead to greater blessings'. Difficult circumstances are not something to necessarily avoid but to feverently embrace when they are unavoidable! It is just a great thought so full of the Truth, and quite often, people do not understand. Just think about some of your friends that maybe you hardly see them now because they are sitting on their seat thinking they are a failure. I am old enough to see many of my friends from high school who are in the pits of life because they failed at something and quit trying. I know of a man, the top guy in his high school class, had a full scholarship to a major university, and graduated in Architecture Design. He entered the real world and did good, but was no longer the best of everyone around him. He found drugs, fried his brain, and killed himself. He did not know Jesus and had nothing to live for.

Love Jesus and Live for God's will in your life seeking daily the guidance of the Holy Spirit. In this you will have something much greater than yourself to live for..... and die for.

Turning Our Lowest Times are our Greatest Times

Embrace Difficult Circumstances giving up to God your worry, especially in your lowest of times, and see the greatest Glory of God in your life in seeing the blessings He puts on your life.

Often when we are at the lowest of our low times, we seem to have heightened awareness in our listening skills. In reaching out to God in those hard times, clearing, emptying, and purging our hearts of our wants and desires, we often hear and feel most accurately the movement of the Holy Spirit in our lives seeking to lead us to God's will.

Trust God always, especially in the good times experiencing His Glory in your life and then, trusting in your hard times will bring your greatest blessings of God's Glory in your life, the greatest blessing of all. This, my friend, is is the greatest of my life's experience. The Glory, our greatest blessing of Glory, often begins with the ending of a prayer- "Not my will, but thine be done". Just like Jesus did in His lowest of times.

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Matthew 26:39 NKJV

He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying,
"O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me;
nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will."

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Matthew 26:42 NKJV

Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying,
"O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it,
Your will be done."

Thanks Be to God

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THE GREATEST BLESSING WE CAN HAVE IS TO GIVE UP to God what we cannot control in our most difficult lowly times. It is then we can see our life Glorified by God by what He will do for us. Click the link for some thoughts on failure, dying, and surviving our difficult circumstances.

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