Monumental Trailer

So excited about Kirk Cameron's new movie, "Monumental"!!  Take a look!

Imagine this....

Today in our book study, we talked alot about the importance of God's word in our daily lives.  Some of the great verses today were:

"But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that procedeth out of the mouth of God."  Matthew 4:4

This verse really got me thinking of the similarities between our need for regular food and spiritual food.  What does food do for us?
     *comfort
     *makes us feel good
     *fills that empty knawing feeling
     *gives us energy/keeps us going strong

Notice any similarities??  Gods Word does all these things for us.  We are living in a world of an overwhelming majority of the walking spiritually dead.  Who in there right mind would only eat once a week on Sunday???  We would starve to death.  Think of all the time we spend thinking of food, eating food, preparing food, planning out our meals etc...  if we just gave the Word half the time we spend on food, we would see such a HUGE change in our daily lives.

"As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby."  1 Peter 2:2

This verse got me thinking of my two good friends Alicia and Natasha.  They are currently nursing there two little baby girls.  I can't imagine either one of them deciding to only nurse once a day or once a week!!!  Food is AS IMPORTANT as our Spiritual food, the Word, is!  Once we start to renew our mind to think the Word of truth on this, we will start to see a spiritual revolution!! 

While going through this second chapter this week, I was reminded of something that happened awhile back.  Over 4 years ago, God woke me up one night.  He has done this to me on many occasions. Often it's to read the word, but this time it was to write a story:)  It was a very convicting story, but an important reminder.  I typed it out and thought I would share it with you today, I pray that it is a blessing to your walk with Christ, as it has been to mine.

Imagine this

     Jesus is in your living room when you woke up this morning. You get out of bed and get dressed for the day. You get breakfast going for you, your hubby, and the kids. You get bag lunches ready to take to school, and a lunch for your husband to take to work. All the while Jesus is waiting patiently in the living room.

You hug and kiss all of them goodbye and wave as the bus drives away. Now it’s time for some chores. You get a load put in the laundry and the floor vacuumed (Jesus lifts up his feet and continues to wait). You get a load going in the dishwasher, switch the load to the dryer and tidy up the living room. (Jesus moves to the rocking chair while you fix the couch pillows).  Now the baby needs a snack and so do you. You nibble a little on some crackers off the high chair. Then you scrub the floor, wipe down the counter and take out the trash.  After you make lunch for the baby, put her down for her nap and make yourself lunch, you turn on the TV for some veg. time. (Jesus continues to sit there patiently).  After some TV you run some arrons for awhile, come home and take a quick nap. (Jesus peeks his head around the corner to see you snoozing on the bed).

      Wake up comes just in time to get the kids home from school ready for soccer and gymnastics. You quickly drive off! (Jesus waves).

You race home in time to get dinner ready while helping with homework and trying to put the clean dishes away. Hubby’s home and everyone sit’s down to eat. Everyone turn’s there heads to the front room and says, "Thank you God for our food!"

After dinner everyone splits off into there own world. Dad to his home office, you go to your room to watch your shows, kids go to the living room to watch a movie (Jesus sits and watches them waiting).  Kiss the kids goodnight, kiss the hubby goodnight and your out!

A quiet yet constant creaking sound can be heard coming from the living room.....

Now, who in there right mind would wake up, see Jesus sitting in there from room, and completely ignore Him all day???

Sadly, every one of us at some point is guilty of that very thing. We have constant access to the creator of the heavens and the earth, yet our days can be filled with everything but Him.

When we neglect to be in the Word (Jesus is the Word) we spend the day ignoring Jesus Christ.

When we let our bibles lay there and collect dust, while the worries of the world get all of our attention, we are telling God, bluntly to His face, that we don’t love Him. This may sound harsh, but put yourself in Christ’s place. Imagine the scenario you just read, but now it’s your grown up child’s home. Would you feel loved if your daughter spent the whole day purposefully ignoring you??

God desires more then anything else to have a relationship with his children. The least we, as his creation, could do, is spend time with our creator. If it weren’t for Him, we wouldn’t even exist.

By God, through Me.

( this quote from Miss. Barnhill really fits with here)

"Whenever you come to Him, God will be there."

Julie Ann Barnhill

HE LOVES YOU, HE DIED FOR YOU, HE WANTS A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU! 

 

A great way to MEMORIZE scripture!

I thought I would share with all of you the bible verses being worked on this week by the "Sweet Journey" book club. These verses would be great for any woman to memorize. These verses also fly strait against what the world tells you woman are suppose to be. I pray that we can all trust Yahweh's (God's) word enough to claim these verses as the TRUTH. AND... the truth shall set us FREE!!

Titus 2:3-5

King James Version (KJV)

3The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

Titus 2:3-5

The picture above is a new way for me to try to memorize scripture. It was mentioned to me by my friend Joy and has been working amazingly! I wrote the whole verse out and read it out loud. Then I took one word away and read the WHOLE thing out loud again. Then I went through the house all day picking things up and putting them away from here or there, and each time I passed the board, I took one more word away and recited the WHOLE verse again. This is just amazing, I almost have the whole verse down and it only took a few hours!! Just amazing!! Give it a try, memorizing God's word is one of the BEST weapons we have against the enemy!! USE IT WELL SISTA'S!!

ONE MORE!!! You go John Wallar, I love this one!!!

Ok, OUR GOD REIGNS HERE!!!  I love this one!!

While I'm waiting by John Waller

Another great one from John Waller.  Enjoy!

As for Me and My House by John Waller

This is SUCH a totally awesome song!!! Let the whole thing download (pause it after you let it play a second) before you listen to it so you can really enjoy the song. My friend Zachary sent me this video tonight from his blog New2Torah. He's got a lot of other interesting video's up as well, check it out and enjoy this video!!

Got the Monday Blues? Perk up with "I Gotta Feeling (Christ Mix)" by Coffey

Art Journal crafting.... :o)

I have wanted to start a prayer type journal for some time. I have seen lots of different ideas for these. This is the version I came up with.
Now just about everyone knows about these composition books. These are on sale at Wal Mart right now for 25 CENTS!!! So , I picked me up a few:)

I started by ripping strips of scrap book paper that appealed to me and gluing them from left to right onto the page leaving a strait edge on the left and right side. Then I trimmed the edges to fit the cover. I then kinda decoupaged over the strips with glue again ( I used 1 part Elmer's glue to 2 parts water ). As this drys it will curl your front page a bit so when it's dry I needed to put something heavy on it for a bit.

I then kinda added a title of sorts with sharpies and some paint pens I had in gold and silver.

On the back I made more strait strips and wove them on the page. I took the top long strips and used double sided tape to glue them in place. Then I took the other strips and just wove them top to bottom till it was full. I used some more double sided tape and some glue to keep that down and also put some more glue on top and trimmed the edges.

Then I took the first lined page and glued it to the inside of the cover. I then took the next page and also glued that to the inside of the cover. I then took the next page and glued it to the nearest page to the right. Then those two glued pages got glued to the next page to the right. That way the pages are three layers thick. This allows for paint and sharpies and whatever might have bled through the single pages. I took a piece of green and blue scrap book paper. Cut it to size with some scrapbook edging scissors and glued it on. Then, used a little chalk colors for interest and started painting. This is the fun part:)



My daughter is also doing her own art book. Here is a pic of her front cover.

This is my 8 year olds work. She is cutting out old birthday cards and gluing them to a page to make her own cute little clutch:) Will post when she finishes:)

Feeling down?

For all those who are feeling down, defeated, broken and weary. For all those who feel alone, lonely, ignored and forgotten. These are for US:

Isaiah 41:10
Fear not; for I am with you. Be not dismayed; for I am your God. I will strengthen you; yea, I will help you; yea, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.


John 15:16-19
You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it you. These things I command you, that you love one another. If the world hate you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love his own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Romans 8:16,17
The Spirit Itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.


Phillipians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

1 Peter 5:6-7
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time: casting all your care upon Him; for He cares for you.

Crafting with Kelly

Well, finally after much prayer, I have decided to teach a crafting class at my home!! I really do love making cool things with things people normally throw away and I wanted to share my enthusiasm with anyone else who would join in! I have had two classes so far. We started off with a very easy craft; Making Milk Carton Coin purses! There are a few different ways to do this, but my favorite ( because of the larger size) is this version:

There is a great video tutorial for this wallet/purse HERE and it gives you a great printable template to use.

My twist on this wallet is this; This can be used almost like a tract! If you pull this out of your purse people are bound to ask what it is and how you did it! SO, I added a salvation appropriate verse on a sticker on the inside of mine, so when they look at it and open it, there's God's word!!

These were fun to make as well as a lot of great fellowship going on! Tune in next time for some fusing plastic fun!

oh ya, p.s., I am working on a fun way to make a actual wallet out of these cartons too! Soon to come template and tutorial!

short creation vs. evolution video