Jeremiah 29 v11-14 NLT
V11"For I know the plans I have for you,"says the Lord," they are plans for good not disaster to give you a future and a hope."
V12"In those days when you pray I will listen."
V13 " If you look for me wholeheartedly you will find me."
V14 "I will be found by you ,says the Lord,"I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes .I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land."
Love these verses they have been my main stay for many months now. There are so many promise I can cling to and know It will be OK. Things may not be what I have foreseen or planned,but, God knew and He is doing everything for my good not to harm,but give me a future and a hope! He promise to listen when I pray! If I look wholeheartedly I will find Him. Sometime I wallow more in self pity then look for Him at all let alone wholeheartedly. Then if all that is not enough our blessed Savior says He will restore us!
So though things may not be at all the way I planned I have to be open to what God has for me . Because my Lord has a plan for me much better than mine . He wants to prosper me and give me a hope and a future and He can see way ahead of me.
I once read "Goals (plans) are not ment to be a plump line to determine the shortest distance to success,but rather a compass to give a sense of direction." I need to remember I have to fit myself into Gods vision,not fit God into my vision!
Till next time chicks
Tammy
Friday, December 17, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
True Disciple?
Matthew 7v21-23 NLT
v21"Not everyone who calls out to me,Lord!Lord! will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in Heaven will enter."
v22 "On judgment day many will say to me,Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and preformed many miracles your name."
v23"But, I will reply' I never knew you.Get away from me,you who break God's laws.'
First may I say that some will use these verses to claim you can lose your salvation. This is NOT the case. These verse talk about the difference of head knowledge of God and heart knowledge of God . You can not just go to church do works for God and say I know God ,I am going to heaven. You only know of God. You have to come to a point of accepting Jesus as your personal savior and really knowing God (heart knowledge) having a personal relationship with God.
In verse 21 Jesus points out only those who do my will (the will of the father) will enter into heaven. Well the first most important will of the Father is for you to accept Jesus as your savior. (Romans 10 v 9&10, John 3 v 16) The rest flows out of that ,you will want to obey your Father in Heaven when He is Lord of your heart. You will slip up ,but, you will ask forgiveness and strive to do His will.
Then we have to look at John 13v34&35 -In verse 35 Jesus tells us that people will know we are his disciples because of our love for one another! In Colossians 312-17 We are also told how we are treat one another and love one another. Verse 17 reminds us we are Gods representatives (His disciples) in all we do and say! If we have truly have heart knowledge of God (accepted Jesus as Savior) we will strive to be His disciples in all things . If we have but ,head knowledge we will just keep doing works when we feel like it just enough to make us feel good and heaven bound.
What do you have head or heart knowledge? Do people know you are a disciple by your love for one another? Do you long for Gods direction in your life? If you do not know if you have ever accepted Jesus as your savior now is the time to get that right. You may feel you are doing so much for God but all in your own power, God will say He never knew you. Please know is the time to know for sure! please post a comment so I can help or email me (aussiemum1220@hotmail.com).
If you already know your savior. Get to know Him better read His word, Study His word. Love one another. And do everything as a representative of our Savior and give thanks in everything!!!! :)
Love ya Chicks,
Tammy
v21"Not everyone who calls out to me,Lord!Lord! will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in Heaven will enter."
v22 "On judgment day many will say to me,Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and preformed many miracles your name."
v23"But, I will reply' I never knew you.Get away from me,you who break God's laws.'
First may I say that some will use these verses to claim you can lose your salvation. This is NOT the case. These verse talk about the difference of head knowledge of God and heart knowledge of God . You can not just go to church do works for God and say I know God ,I am going to heaven. You only know of God. You have to come to a point of accepting Jesus as your personal savior and really knowing God (heart knowledge) having a personal relationship with God.
In verse 21 Jesus points out only those who do my will (the will of the father) will enter into heaven. Well the first most important will of the Father is for you to accept Jesus as your savior. (Romans 10 v 9&10, John 3 v 16) The rest flows out of that ,you will want to obey your Father in Heaven when He is Lord of your heart. You will slip up ,but, you will ask forgiveness and strive to do His will.
Then we have to look at John 13v34&35 -In verse 35 Jesus tells us that people will know we are his disciples because of our love for one another! In Colossians 312-17 We are also told how we are treat one another and love one another. Verse 17 reminds us we are Gods representatives (His disciples) in all we do and say! If we have truly have heart knowledge of God (accepted Jesus as Savior) we will strive to be His disciples in all things . If we have but ,head knowledge we will just keep doing works when we feel like it just enough to make us feel good and heaven bound.
What do you have head or heart knowledge? Do people know you are a disciple by your love for one another? Do you long for Gods direction in your life? If you do not know if you have ever accepted Jesus as your savior now is the time to get that right. You may feel you are doing so much for God but all in your own power, God will say He never knew you. Please know is the time to know for sure! please post a comment so I can help or email me (aussiemum1220@hotmail.com).
If you already know your savior. Get to know Him better read His word, Study His word. Love one another. And do everything as a representative of our Savior and give thanks in everything!!!! :)
Love ya Chicks,
Tammy
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Trust in the Lord not yourself!
Reading from the NLT Isaiah 50 v 10&11
V10"Who among you fears the Lord and obeys his servent? If you are walking in darkness,with out a ray of light,trust in the Lord and rely on your God."
V11 "But, watch out,you who live in your own light and warm yourselves by your own fires.This is the reward you will receive from me:you will soon fall down in great torment."
I have to be truthful and say this was a hard few verses to swallow. We have been going though a dark time I must say God has given us enough light for each step for each day as we travel on. I will say though that at times (many times) I want to just give up on relying on our God and try to make my own "fire". As God sends His servants to give us wisdom and help I don't always want to "take it on board" I am many times tired of waiting. God has seen fit at this time to have us rest and wait on Him. If I will let Him and if I rely on Him, He will see me though. This bit of waiting on God is nothing compared to "falling into great torment"
May you rely on your God even when the path is dark and you can not see the end of the tunnel! Don't rely on yourself,but,on your Savior and the servants He sends along the way! These times are for our benefit to become more Christ like.
I Thank my God for reminding me of this today !
Trust and obey chicks its the only way!
Tammy
V10"Who among you fears the Lord and obeys his servent? If you are walking in darkness,with out a ray of light,trust in the Lord and rely on your God."
V11 "But, watch out,you who live in your own light and warm yourselves by your own fires.This is the reward you will receive from me:you will soon fall down in great torment."
I have to be truthful and say this was a hard few verses to swallow. We have been going though a dark time I must say God has given us enough light for each step for each day as we travel on. I will say though that at times (many times) I want to just give up on relying on our God and try to make my own "fire". As God sends His servants to give us wisdom and help I don't always want to "take it on board" I am many times tired of waiting. God has seen fit at this time to have us rest and wait on Him. If I will let Him and if I rely on Him, He will see me though. This bit of waiting on God is nothing compared to "falling into great torment"
May you rely on your God even when the path is dark and you can not see the end of the tunnel! Don't rely on yourself,but,on your Savior and the servants He sends along the way! These times are for our benefit to become more Christ like.
I Thank my God for reminding me of this today !
Trust and obey chicks its the only way!
Tammy
Sunday, December 12, 2010
"I beg two favors ... "
Prov 30 vs 7-9 (NLT)
7"O God, I beg two favors from you;let me have them before I die"
8"First, help me to never tell a lie. Second ,give me neither poverty or riches! Give me just enough to satisfy my needs."
9"For if I grow rich,I may deny you and say,"who is the Lord?" And if I am to poor I may steal and thus insult your Holy name"
I just love Agur in Proverbs he begs from God first not to lie ! Then to have just enough . Have you ever said "Oh if I only had" You may get that and then it is well "If I only had" . Sometimes it seems we never have enough. We never have enough to give to help others. We never have enough to give God His tithe. We never have enough to be happy. And on and on we can go.
I Timothy 6 v 8-10 tells us if we have food and clothes we should be content "satisfied, Happy" Then it tells us in Verse 10 that the love of money is the root of all evil. WOW! Are you begging God to have just what you need or do you need more?
How about we at least try begging God ourselves to not lie. Be a truthful person a person people can look at and never doubt our words.
Then Beg God for just enough not to much or to little . Ask Him to help you know what a need is and what a want is! And rather than gathering your treasures here on Earth why not start storing some up in Heaven!
One of my Favorite movies is Hello Dolly. She told Horace (a man she loved yet was a hoarder of money ) that you have to spread your money around like manure encouraging young things to grow!
Lets spread our money, our time and our resources around encouraging Gods Kingdom to grow!
Come Chicks lets make a difference and lets start Begging,
Tammy :)
7"O God, I beg two favors from you;let me have them before I die"
8"First, help me to never tell a lie. Second ,give me neither poverty or riches! Give me just enough to satisfy my needs."
9"For if I grow rich,I may deny you and say,"who is the Lord?" And if I am to poor I may steal and thus insult your Holy name"
I just love Agur in Proverbs he begs from God first not to lie ! Then to have just enough . Have you ever said "Oh if I only had" You may get that and then it is well "If I only had" . Sometimes it seems we never have enough. We never have enough to give to help others. We never have enough to give God His tithe. We never have enough to be happy. And on and on we can go.
I Timothy 6 v 8-10 tells us if we have food and clothes we should be content "satisfied, Happy" Then it tells us in Verse 10 that the love of money is the root of all evil. WOW! Are you begging God to have just what you need or do you need more?
How about we at least try begging God ourselves to not lie. Be a truthful person a person people can look at and never doubt our words.
Then Beg God for just enough not to much or to little . Ask Him to help you know what a need is and what a want is! And rather than gathering your treasures here on Earth why not start storing some up in Heaven!
One of my Favorite movies is Hello Dolly. She told Horace (a man she loved yet was a hoarder of money ) that you have to spread your money around like manure encouraging young things to grow!
Lets spread our money, our time and our resources around encouraging Gods Kingdom to grow!
Come Chicks lets make a difference and lets start Begging,
Tammy :)
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Where can we find wisdom?
Today my study was from Job 28,yes the whole chapter! I really love Job what a guy how he stood so faithful during his time of despair and feeling alone. I love his honesty with God (not that God didn't know how he was feeling anyway),but, Job just told God how he felt during his time of despair.
Who of us would deny wisdom is something we all want. Job 28 touches on so many things we can do ,but, how we can not find wisdom How no matter how much money we have we can not buy wisdom. We can search and dig and just not find it .
Where is the wisdom ? Verse 23 "God alone understands the way to wisdom ; He knows where it can be found," (NLT)
* Simply meaning God alone is the only authority of wisdom
So how do you obtain wisdom? Verse 28 " And this is what He says to all humanity the fear of the Lord is true wisdom;to forsake evil is real understanding"(NLT)
*Simply Man shows heavenly wisdom by fearing God and departing evil!
So even in the mist of despair,wealth,everything going great,or everything being taken from you be wise. Fear God and depart from evil!!
Be Wise Chicks!!
Tammy
Who of us would deny wisdom is something we all want. Job 28 touches on so many things we can do ,but, how we can not find wisdom How no matter how much money we have we can not buy wisdom. We can search and dig and just not find it .
Where is the wisdom ? Verse 23 "God alone understands the way to wisdom ; He knows where it can be found," (NLT)
* Simply meaning God alone is the only authority of wisdom
So how do you obtain wisdom? Verse 28 " And this is what He says to all humanity the fear of the Lord is true wisdom;to forsake evil is real understanding"(NLT)
*Simply Man shows heavenly wisdom by fearing God and departing evil!
So even in the mist of despair,wealth,everything going great,or everything being taken from you be wise. Fear God and depart from evil!!
Be Wise Chicks!!
Tammy
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Proverbs 31 vs 1-9
Where else would a blog called women of the Word start ? I am studying today from the NLT version.
I read this 2xs today and noticed a few things I had not really focused on before.
#1 This is King Lemuel speaking,but, really just repeating what his mother taught him.
#2 He must have really been taught these thing a few times over his years as he held them dear enough to remember them.
Know lets take a bit of a twist:
We ,if we know Christ as our Savior , are princesses right. King Lemuel was told by his mother (the Queen) how a king was to behave. Our Heavenly Father is King and has he not told us how to behave as children of His. As light to this world. As brothers and sisters.
-Be kind to one another Eph 4v31
-Restoring wandering believers James 4 v 19-20
-Love one another 1John 4 vs 7& 8
-Treat each other as Brothers and Sisters in Christ 1Peter 3 v 8-12 (may I say take the time to read these verses very powerful) !!
Do we read the Bible enough to know all God has for us. Do we love and Honor Him enough to hold all He has close to our hearts. Will we tell others so they can learn?
Till next time chicks,
Tammy :)
I read this 2xs today and noticed a few things I had not really focused on before.
#1 This is King Lemuel speaking,but, really just repeating what his mother taught him.
#2 He must have really been taught these thing a few times over his years as he held them dear enough to remember them.
#3 How much King Lemuel honored his mother just by holding all (or most) of what she said in his mind and heart.
I am going to point out the two Verses that spoke most to me .
Verses 8&9
V8 "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,ensure justice for those being crushed"
V9 "Yes, speak up for the poor and helpless,and see that they get justice"
Know lets take a bit of a twist:
We ,if we know Christ as our Savior , are princesses right. King Lemuel was told by his mother (the Queen) how a king was to behave. Our Heavenly Father is King and has he not told us how to behave as children of His. As light to this world. As brothers and sisters.
-Be kind to one another Eph 4v31
-Restoring wandering believers James 4 v 19-20
-Love one another 1John 4 vs 7& 8
-Treat each other as Brothers and Sisters in Christ 1Peter 3 v 8-12 (may I say take the time to read these verses very powerful) !!
Do we read the Bible enough to know all God has for us. Do we love and Honor Him enough to hold all He has close to our hearts. Will we tell others so they can learn?
Till next time chicks,
Tammy :)
Lets Get Going
Hello !
I am starting this blog as a type of journal as I study Gods word. It would be great to others comments or maybe what God had for you in a certain verse we look at. I will choose a verse or two each day . I love to journal and I am so excited to be able to meet new lady's and study Gods word together.
I will be looking forward to spending each day as always with my Savior Jesus and now with you!
With Love though Christ to all you lovely chicks out there!
I am starting this blog as a type of journal as I study Gods word. It would be great to others comments or maybe what God had for you in a certain verse we look at. I will choose a verse or two each day . I love to journal and I am so excited to be able to meet new lady's and study Gods word together.
I will be looking forward to spending each day as always with my Savior Jesus and now with you!
With Love though Christ to all you lovely chicks out there!
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