K....I should be in bed right now, big day ahead tomorrow....last of The Vacation!!! But just a swirling thought.....and better to get it off my mind than having it keep me up banging around in there! :0)
In the past, when people have said, "Thanks for "reaching out" to so & so"....it wood tweek me and I would have a knee jerk reaction that has not always come out so gently.
I always wondered why I would react in that way. I think I finally understood it better while I was floating around the pool today with big raindrops hitting me. I think it is a matter of intimacy. I can do stuff for others, from me, to them out there. 'Serving'. (and sometimes that is important & necessary) But, to me, I am not "reaching out" to people, I'm "pulling in". The difference is intimacy, family, community.
Lately, we've been asking questions about what community is, how it plays out in "the church", the family, the Kingdom, just friend to friend. What is community anyway?? All I know is I want it and I'm pressing in till we begin to see it & have a better understanding of what constitutes community and how we get from here to there. To some extent, we are stepping into new areas of community and caring for one another with Family Night (FWB) on Mondays. I wrote an earlier blog about FWB if you would like to know more about what that is.
Definitely more on community & intimacy in the days ahead. Blessings & Peace be multiplied to you!!!
BTW I looked up "community" in my trusty Mac dictionary, I like this definition:
3 a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals (Kingdom)
• joint ownership or liability (I like the liability part.... :0)
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
It's Been A While....
08-27-09
Here’s a Sneak Peek into my Quiet Time....well, almost quiet, I am listening to Rita Springer! You can join into the discussion if you would like. I can’t wait to read what insights you will bring. Blessing & peace be multiplied to you...I stole that from Peter....Thanks Pete!
1 Peter 1:1-14
Greeting
1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, I love how Peter reminds the “elect exiles” that God is in control. Arn’t these people who were exiled because they became Believers? in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: ....for sprinkling w/ His blood.....sweet, precious Blood of Jesus. Powerful!! May grace and peace be multiplied to you. I want to bless my friends with this blessing!! Not just grace & peace to you but....multiplied to you!!
Born Again to a Living Hope
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope A Living Hope....a hope that is ALIVE! through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who by God's power are being guarded through faith I am being guarded (by God's power) through faith....guarded! What for? for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, So I guess when I am grieved by trials, it's not necessarily because I'm bad or sinful.....maybe the genuineness of my faith is being tested. 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire oooow tested by FIRE ouch!!—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. So when we receive a revelation of Jesus himself, the result is praise, glory & honor? 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him. I love YOU, Jesus! Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, Thank you for JOY! Looks like JOY is tied up with believing in Jesus even though we do not see him & rejoicing...9 obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. I thought it was my spirit that was saved.
10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, 11 inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them (Isn’t Peter talking about old testament prophets here? They had the Spirit of Christ IN them? I always thought the Spirit of Christ came upon them & they would prophesy. Here it sound like the HS indwelled them.) was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. 12 It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, Man!! “Thanks” to the prophets for being such willing servants, serving me & you!! in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look. This verse always intrigued me....even the angels longed to look into how Jesus was going to reconcile us to Himself. I wonder if they could see “the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.” Rev 13:8.?? The ESV bible says it really differently. So does the footnote for the KJV. What IS the right translation?
How blessed we are to be able not only to have it announced to us....but to get to LIVE it. Incredible! FYI.....a wonderful book along these lines is, “The Divine Romance” by Gene Edwards. Well worth your time!!
Called to Be Holy
13 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, [1] The little [1] at the bottom of the page says, “girding up the loins of your mind”. I’ve been asking the Lord a lot about the process of preparing my mind for action....girding up the loins of my mind...It seems that the only way I have been able to get victory in the area of my mind is by GIVING THANKS. It totally takes the “fight” out of it and focuses me back on Jesus. One of the only affective ways I have found to go from “setting my mind on the flesh and reaping DEATH, to setting my mind on the spirit and reaping LIFE (Romans 8:6)...is GIVING THANKS as it ushers me into His presence....”I enter His gates w/thanksgiving & His courts w/ praise!” (Ps.100:4) and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Again, is this of a revelation of who Christ is? (Col. 1:26 & 27) ???? More questions than answers when I read the Word....it keeps me digging and discussing....helps to bring about community! 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, It can be easy to get caught in passions of the flesh in what ever way they plague each one of us....but it comes back to vs. 13....preparing my mind for action, giving thanks among other things. (Jon Payne gave an amazing message that sort of ties in here. Again well worth your time!)
http://www.providencecommunitychurch.org/sermons2009/20090823msg.mp3
That’s all for now folks....what do you think?
Here’s a Sneak Peek into my Quiet Time....well, almost quiet, I am listening to Rita Springer! You can join into the discussion if you would like. I can’t wait to read what insights you will bring. Blessing & peace be multiplied to you...I stole that from Peter....Thanks Pete!
1 Peter 1:1-14
Greeting
1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, I love how Peter reminds the “elect exiles” that God is in control. Arn’t these people who were exiled because they became Believers? in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: ....for sprinkling w/ His blood.....sweet, precious Blood of Jesus. Powerful!! May grace and peace be multiplied to you. I want to bless my friends with this blessing!! Not just grace & peace to you but....multiplied to you!!
Born Again to a Living Hope
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope A Living Hope....a hope that is ALIVE! through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who by God's power are being guarded through faith I am being guarded (by God's power) through faith....guarded! What for? for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, So I guess when I am grieved by trials, it's not necessarily because I'm bad or sinful.....maybe the genuineness of my faith is being tested. 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire oooow tested by FIRE ouch!!—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. So when we receive a revelation of Jesus himself, the result is praise, glory & honor? 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him. I love YOU, Jesus! Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, Thank you for JOY! Looks like JOY is tied up with believing in Jesus even though we do not see him & rejoicing...9 obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. I thought it was my spirit that was saved.
10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, 11 inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them (Isn’t Peter talking about old testament prophets here? They had the Spirit of Christ IN them? I always thought the Spirit of Christ came upon them & they would prophesy. Here it sound like the HS indwelled them.) was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. 12 It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, Man!! “Thanks” to the prophets for being such willing servants, serving me & you!! in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look. This verse always intrigued me....even the angels longed to look into how Jesus was going to reconcile us to Himself. I wonder if they could see “the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.” Rev 13:8.?? The ESV bible says it really differently. So does the footnote for the KJV. What IS the right translation?
How blessed we are to be able not only to have it announced to us....but to get to LIVE it. Incredible! FYI.....a wonderful book along these lines is, “The Divine Romance” by Gene Edwards. Well worth your time!!
Called to Be Holy
13 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, [1] The little [1] at the bottom of the page says, “girding up the loins of your mind”. I’ve been asking the Lord a lot about the process of preparing my mind for action....girding up the loins of my mind...It seems that the only way I have been able to get victory in the area of my mind is by GIVING THANKS. It totally takes the “fight” out of it and focuses me back on Jesus. One of the only affective ways I have found to go from “setting my mind on the flesh and reaping DEATH, to setting my mind on the spirit and reaping LIFE (Romans 8:6)...is GIVING THANKS as it ushers me into His presence....”I enter His gates w/thanksgiving & His courts w/ praise!” (Ps.100:4) and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Again, is this of a revelation of who Christ is? (Col. 1:26 & 27) ???? More questions than answers when I read the Word....it keeps me digging and discussing....helps to bring about community! 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, It can be easy to get caught in passions of the flesh in what ever way they plague each one of us....but it comes back to vs. 13....preparing my mind for action, giving thanks among other things. (Jon Payne gave an amazing message that sort of ties in here. Again well worth your time!)
http://www.providencecommunitychurch.org/sermons2009/20090823msg.mp3
That’s all for now folks....what do you think?
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