Thankful Thursday: Our Body Is a Temple

Today I am thinking of all that I am Thankful for and my health comes to mind.
I have been praying more frequently of late for the Lord to preserve my health. I have also been more accountable about taking my vitamins.

We all do age but if we take care of our bodies, with God help we can have fewer injuries and be able to get around well for many years to come.
I am always noticing how mobile different elderly folks are.

I want to be mobile when I get older. So I have been trying to exercise often and eat right.
The exercise has really, really helped.

I am thankful for my two girls who work out with me. It has become a wonderful time together and we look forward to it.

Thankful Thursday: Mercy and Grace

I am thankful first of all for this meme...It really helps me to focus on what I am thankful for on a regular basis and is very encouraging.

I am so thankful for "GRACE" and "MERCY" that God gives me on a daily basis. I am so undeserving. I think of what the Apostle Paul says: The things he should do, he does not and the things he should not do, he does....But God Loves Us anyway. With his grace and mercy we can come to his throne and ask for forgiveness and He will forgive.

I am thankful for the knowledge that when I pray for God's protection on my family...God will provide.

I am thankful for miracles! You can see more of one specific miracle here. You will be blessed.

I am also thankful that my daughters and I have the opportunity to go on a missions trip to mexico. You can read more about this here.

God Bless and Have a wonderful week ladies.
Lynne

Guess What? God is on Your Side! Read This!

This post of from the result and notes of a sermon preached by Tom Fox at church. I hope you enjoy some of the verses and points I gained from this message.

Romans 8:28-34 (King James Version)

²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

²⁹For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

³⁰Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

³¹What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

³²He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

³³Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

³⁴Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Did you realize that we have a champion in our corner, fighting for us. When we mess us, when we are down, when we feel that we have no hope, Jesus Christ is in our corner fighting for us...

That makes me smile and cry all at the same time. :)

Here is another one: God is also fully capable of taking care of us..God is So Big! How Big? I am so glad you asked.

Isaiah 40:12 (King James Version)

¹²Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

That is really Big! God is able to take care of us. If we will just let him be in control of our lives, we would be in alot better shape. huh?

Why do we have so much trouble trusting God, letting go, giving him full control? I read the following passage and I cry when I think of the faith Abraham had not only in this passage but when God told him to go. Go away from all he knew, all his securities.

Genesis 22 (New King James Version)

Genesis 22

Abraham’s Faith Confirmed

¹ Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!”
And he said, “Here I am.”
² Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
³ So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. ⁴ Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off. ⁵ And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad^a]">[a] and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.”
⁶ So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together. ⁷ But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!”
And he said, “Here I am, my son.”
Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
⁸ And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.
⁹ Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. ¹⁰ And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
¹¹ But the Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
So he said, “Here I am.”
¹² And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
¹³ Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. ¹⁴ And Abraham called the name of the place, The-LORD-Will-Provide;^b]">[b] as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the LORD it shall be provided.”
¹⁵ Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, ¹⁶ and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son— ¹⁷ blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. ¹⁸ In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.” ¹⁹ So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

I am sorry this so long....he he...

Now for the the Thankful part.
I am so thankful that God is in my corner. On my side. In Control ( If I will let him be)

Blessings,
Lynne

Thankful Thursday: Salvation

I am so thankful for salvation through Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

Talk about the ultimate LOVE!

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

I am not worthy, I did nothing to deserve it, I could never in a million years measure up to be able to go to heaven when I die.

But I am thankful that God sent his son to die for my sins. For everyones sins.

I am also thankful that God has given me and my children the opportunity to go on a missions trip to Mexico. We are excited to say the least.

I would love to share the information about this trip and share with you our journey. You can follow us on our journey on a new blog: The Fields are White Unto Harvest.

I hope you will join us on our journey as we share our Lord Jesus Christ with Mexico.

Thankful Thursday:

This is my first Thankful Thursday and it is funny how God works in our lives...but I have been more aware of things to be that I am thankful for.

So here goes.

I am thankful that God in his mercy and grace saw fit to send his only son to die on the cross for my sins so that I may go to heaven and live with him forever.

I am thankful that I have a husband, home, family in a country that allows me to worship the God I love.

I am thankful that God never gives up on me, that he is patient and full of mercy and grace toward me.

I am thankful for this meme that has helped me to stop and think of how thankful I am for so many things.

I am thankful for the privilege of prayer and the gift of Gods words in the Bible.

I am thankful for answered prayers and I am thankful for answered prayers that the answer is no.