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Wishing YOU and YOURS a Most Blessed and Thankful Thanksgiving!!
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It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon, the best kind of relaxing day, and the sounds of whistles and cheers waft their way in from the football game in the other room. My husband just loves watching football, just about any kind of football. Pro football. College football. Replays of football. Pre-game shows. Post-game shows. You name it! He loves football.
Me? Not so much, but I am happy sitting at my computer knowing he is happy in the other room. Well, if his favorite team is playing really poorly and losing he might get a little upset. Maybe a lot upset…But he gets over it and he keeps watching football just about anytime it is on the TV.
So here I sit typing on the second or third coldest day of November, enjoying the warmth of my lovely home. Autumn was pretty mild most of the time this year and it is just now feeling like November, hinting that winter is around the corner, and it is.
Plus, it is almost Thanksgiving! I have so much to be thankful for and I thank God every day for all the many blessings He has showered me with.
Deuteronomy 28:6 ~ “You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.“ Thank you Lord that I am blessed when I come in and blessed when I go out!
So, my Internet friend, be blessed, and maybe enjoy some football too!
Friend, we are living in the Last Days before the return of Jesus Christ! Are you ready?
Take heed to the words from 2 Peter 3:3-6
3 Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” 5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.[a]
11 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives 12 as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming.[b] That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. 13 But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
14 So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. 15 Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. 16 He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
17 Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.
Photo taken at Baptist High in 2001
Be ready my friend. Jesus is coming back soon! Don’t be complacent thinking you have plenty of time to get your house in order, your life right with Him. It could be any day, and many scholars believe it is going to be VERY, VERY SOON!
…I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. and I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
~ Ephesians 3:14-19
David, young, handsome, simple shepherd. How is it that he was able to kill Goliath?
You’ve heard the story, yes? How all the Israelites cowered in fear toward this Philistine giant, Goliath. The bible says he stood six cubits and a span. That’s somewhere between 9′ and 11′ tall! For this 5’3″ gal, that’s pretty tall!!
Every day as they went to battle, this defiant giant who called out against them and the one true God, tormented and terrified them. They all retreated in fear and defeat. For 40 days they did this! I don’t know about you but cowering in defeat for 40 days is a long time. I hesitate to think that these Israelites ever thought they would win this battle against these Philistines as long as Goliath was around.
But David…
In response to Goliath’s bold statement, “This day I defy the armies of Israel! Give me a man and let us fight each other.” ~ I Samuel 17:10 …David stepped up to say, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.” ~ I Samuel 17:32
“Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” ~ I Samuel 17:34-37
What in your life is your Goliath? The battle looming in front of you that seems like such a giant to you? Trust in the Lord your God, the maker of Heaven and Earth. Believe on the Lord Jesus and all that He did at Calvary for YOU. Then you can face any Goliath, any giant, any battle…and You Can Have Victory!
The Lord who rescued David from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear…the Lord who rescured you from (fill in the blank from your life), will rescue YOU from the hand of this (fill in that thing that is still standing in your way of victory).
Believe it! Stand on it! Thank God for it! Then GO GET YOUR VICTORY!! Don’t let your Goliath keep you from it any longer.
Reading in Ephesians this morning about our adoption into the family of God through faith in Jesus Christ, I was struck by the word. Then I thought about all the wonderful families who adopt children who need a loving home. What a special love!
When I think about the love a man and woman has for the child they have adopted, the way they look at that child as their very own, the same as a biological child, I am reminded that God looks at us that way too!
Because of Jesus Christ, we are made righteous, justified, sanctified, and redeemed–out of the darkness of sin and into the fullness of the light of truth!
I love this picture of my husband standing in the water at Still Pond, located off the Sassafras River and the Chesapeake Bay. We had taken an excursion and anchored overnight at this beautiful spot and enjoyed being able to stand in the water.
It’s a very interesting place with a lovely breeze by day and stillness by night! Much stillness, and pretty stuffy sleeping below in the cabin on a hot summer night, unless you have a generator and run your AC!
After our trip, we had posted this picture on Facebook to see what caption our friends might give it, and we got a variety of ideas. Our favorite, however, was Peace Be Still!
Are you facing a challenge today? Are you struggling with fear? Are you needing encouragement?
Whatever you are facing, YOU CAN DO IT!!
What’s it like to be a single mom? It’s hard. Its grueling. But it’s rewarding.
God is there for you. 
I was a single mom for 15 years, raising three children ages 8, 6 and 5, when their dad went home to be with the Lord. Oh, it was challenging for sure!!
When I first was told that he was gone I just thought, Lord, what am I going to do without him; how are we going to survive? I told my children, “Daddy went to be with Jesus today.” And we cried.
But we remembered him; we remembered all the wonderful things about him. And I tried to keep him alive in their hearts by bringing him up in conversation, by abiding by rules that he had set for them – like always wearing shoes when they rode their bikes. 
