July 4, 2007

  • COUNT IT ALL JOY!

    Welcome!  Blessings!

     

    I’m sorry that I didn’t get a chance to post on yesterday.  I saw my precious family off at the airport.  Then I returned home & worked on a devotion, then fell asleep.  I was very exhausted but I’m awake now! 

     

    We haven’t counted all of our blessings until we have counted it all joy.  It’s usually not until after patience has had a chance to do her perfect work that we are able to count our tribulations as such.  It’s afterward that we can better see and understand that without them, our lives would be incomplete and we would be lacking the very things that we want and need.

     

    Trials are messengers that bear tidings of comfort and joy. Receive the blessedness; experience the joy!  Amen.

     

    James 1:

    2 – My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

    3 – Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

    4 – But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

     

    When the devil desires to have you,

    Just to sift through your life and destroy;

    And you see him attempting to do so,

    Don’t be discouraged but count it all joy.

     

    It’s a joy just to know he can’t touch you,

    That your life is lived in such a way;

    To the point you’re a threat to his kingdom;

    And you’re causing him woe and dismay.

     

    If you’re tempted when you are afflicted—

    To succumb to some kind of depression;

    Take heart:  just the fact that he wants you

    Means you’re not his, but God’s own possession.

     

    Be joyful and glad through the hard times;

    Through the worst times when you’re moved to tears;

    As you bask in the joy from just knowing

    You are one of the ones Satan fears.

     

    So just think who you’re pleasing:  The Father,

    And just think whom it is you annoy;

    And rejoice when your suffer for Jesus;

    For it truly is nothing but joy!

     

    Romans 5:

    3 – And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

    4 – And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

    5 – And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

     

    Be joyfully encouraged!

     

    Pam

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  • Avoiding death by disease

    "Satan is content to operate slowly." - Dr Woodrow Kroll

    Most, if not all, Christians who have died from diseases that took years to develop did so because multiple sins were not confessed as such, and, as a consequence, left small openings in that Christian soldier's armor that the devil was left free to exploit.

    Thinking thoughts, performing actions and speaking words contrary to the will of God, open us up to being deceived by the devil in the same way that Eve was. 

    If you reread Genesis 3 you will notice that the serpent could not "deceive" Eve - until - she had spoken an untruth by saying that she and Adam were not even allowed to "touch"  the fruit on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 

    Had she not added to the words of God ( a sin that Jesus warned us not to do) she would not have been deceived and come under the rule of the devil.  And we should wonder what would have happened in human history had either or both she and Adam confessed their sins to God when He gave them the chance to do so in the garden.

    In like fashion, when we are deceived, after having left little sins go forgotten and thus unconfessed, should not be surprised that it is easy for the devil to lay upon us punishments, like diseases, heartbreak and tragic events, which would not have been allowed by God to take hold of us had we chosen to remain in continual fellowship with Him - by - confessing all of our sins to Him. 

    And if the reason, that unconfessed sin keeps us from fellowshipping intimately with our heavenly Father, fails to motivate us to be quick to confess, possibly because we have so little experience with that intimacy that we lack the appreciation of such privilege, we still have at least one other self-interested reason to be constantly vigilant in confessing our sins to Him: it keeps the devil, while not being unable to attack us, at least from being able to successfully destroy us.

     

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