True Blue, - the Group - Our Creator
We saw Blue man Group this evening. Wow! A funny, frivolous frolic! We loved it. The talent and stamina of these men is amazing. I've been wanting to see them for literally years and was beyond thrilled when Athena gave us tickets for my birthday.
I wondered if the show would actually be worthy of all the hype or if it would be a let down compared to our expectations. I needn't have given it a thought. The show was two hours long and by the time we left, my face was sore from smiling and laughing.
I am almost finished with the Orlando Brain Injury Support web site. I only have a couple of pages to go and some various details to add. I'm proud of the site. It is built on the framework of my Host4Christ site which is soon to be extinct. So I didn't have to do a lot of graphic or page design, just layout, which is pretty simple on this site.
God has recently given me some points to ponder and led me to some attitude adjustments. I often pray with and for people, both friends and strangers. I pray for them where ever I encounter them and God prompts me to ask if I can pray. I recently prayed with a young woman and as I did, the Holy Spirit led me to some insights about her and myself as well. That evening, I heard a sermon on being happy with who you are, how God made you, your performance when you try your best, and so forth. In the wee hours of the next morning, I wrote what God led me to say to my friend, and later, when I received my daily devotional via email, it was on the same subject! The Lord really knows how to make a point!
Part of what He impressed on me and is leading me to share God's message with you. After much prayer and knowing how God so often repeats His massage To me in different ways. I can be a SLOW SPIRITUAL LEARNER AT TIMES, PLUS I LIKE TO BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO PUT WORDS IN GOD'S MOUTH!, so I needed to be quite confident of the teaching.
Consider, then, YOU are His Masterpiece. God made only one like you and no on else can fulfill God's amazing plan for your life, NO, NOT ONE! ...and you are infinitely precious in His sight; HE LOVES YOU!. The Enemy will lie to you and try to lead you to lie to yourself, but the Truth will or has already set you free... even if you don't yet see it.
But sometimes out of habit, or lack of understanding the we cease to consider the detailed and special creative work God did to produce you alone! How easily we forget! I feel that perhaps you and I might need encouragement to joyfully embrace the "you" and the "me" that God took so much pleasure in creating and redeeming. He carefully chose all the attributes that make you just who you are... including the parents and environment and experiences He ordained or allowed (even the unpleasant ones) because He exactly how they would work together to create a masterpiece! ... And He's still at it!!
Don't be afraid to be self-approving of your good deeds. Never be tempted to exalt yourselves, however, may your kudos be sown in front God and His or satan and his... not among others here on earth,. Of course, we also need to realize our constant dependence on the Savior, but I sense many of us, thinking it's a pious thing to do, cut ourselves down way too much. We forget that God Almighty, King of the Universe is and has been in control!
Once more, I repeat a crucial truth: The environment and experiences God ordained or allowed in you life and mine (even the painful or unpleasant ones) all work together to create a masterpiece! HE has a PLAN!! and has been working on it from before time.... And He's still at it!! While usually God has not "brought" evil on you or your situations. nor suffering into you life, NOTHING happens without His direct knowledge. If He desires, He can put am immediate stop to any hardship, every pain. BUT OFTEN HE DoES NOT!!! Remember all things are permissible, but not all are profitable.
So ask for the ability to be happy, content and proud of God's creation of you. He chose or allowed for you the perfect eye color, hair color (or baldness) body type, birth defects, if any, intellect.. even where and when you were born, and being the absolute efficiency expert, . He also selected or permitted your parents, environment, timing on the stage of life. You and I need to realize how "fearfully and wonderfully made"" we are and thank Him for the easy times and the impossibly horrid times, for they have helped form us in to an ever- improving being with direct access to THE TEACHER!
Treat yourself well, mind, soul and body. Eat well, exercise, pray often, take time out for you... and stop beating yourself over your less than perfect life (in your eyes). Instead pat yourself (privately) on the back after an all-effort attempt. Learn to love those brown eyes God gave you and forget about the blue ones you have longed for. Praise God for your super curly that can lead to so many fun styles, and forget trying to be a blond. I'm not "preaching" you should never make some fun changes. I am citing God's Word that we be content with our wages and lot and body... and serve Christ with all these things
Talk it over with Jesus... often. Even if you don't know Him yet, You can get acquainted! Start telling Him how thankful you are for all you body parts that work, for your job if you've got one, for your friends or the ones you're about to make, your clothes, food, shelter, your very LIFE.... Tell Him often, at least once a day. A standing daily date for prayer and Bible Study will transform your life.
Lastly, forget sins and failures that have been forgiven, now that you have learned what you could from... Time to discard those unpleasantries and make them completely off limits. If you"re saved, God has cast your sin as far as the East from the West and remembers them no more. Believers walk in freedom. We''re promised that. Born-again FREE!
Okay, child of God, one last thing. Begin to talk to yourself and to God as you go through the day and have a final review with Him at day's end, He will show you helpful or needful changes, but other than abhorring and confessing our sin, we are to HUMBLY see ourselves through the tender eyes of Jesus, the Loving eyes of Father God...as a forgiven and deeply loved child rich in God-given gifts and an able servant of Christ Jesus.
Wow, didn't mean to write all that, but it just slipped out,,, now it's time for bed.
I wondered if the show would actually be worthy of all the hype or if it would be a let down compared to our expectations. I needn't have given it a thought. The show was two hours long and by the time we left, my face was sore from smiling and laughing.
I am almost finished with the Orlando Brain Injury Support web site. I only have a couple of pages to go and some various details to add. I'm proud of the site. It is built on the framework of my Host4Christ site which is soon to be extinct. So I didn't have to do a lot of graphic or page design, just layout, which is pretty simple on this site.
God has recently given me some points to ponder and led me to some attitude adjustments. I often pray with and for people, both friends and strangers. I pray for them where ever I encounter them and God prompts me to ask if I can pray. I recently prayed with a young woman and as I did, the Holy Spirit led me to some insights about her and myself as well. That evening, I heard a sermon on being happy with who you are, how God made you, your performance when you try your best, and so forth. In the wee hours of the next morning, I wrote what God led me to say to my friend, and later, when I received my daily devotional via email, it was on the same subject! The Lord really knows how to make a point!
Part of what He impressed on me and is leading me to share God's message with you. After much prayer and knowing how God so often repeats His massage To me in different ways. I can be a SLOW SPIRITUAL LEARNER AT TIMES, PLUS I LIKE TO BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO PUT WORDS IN GOD'S MOUTH!, so I needed to be quite confident of the teaching.
Consider, then, YOU are His Masterpiece. God made only one like you and no on else can fulfill God's amazing plan for your life, NO, NOT ONE! ...and you are infinitely precious in His sight; HE LOVES YOU!. The Enemy will lie to you and try to lead you to lie to yourself, but the Truth will or has already set you free... even if you don't yet see it.
But sometimes out of habit, or lack of understanding the we cease to consider the detailed and special creative work God did to produce you alone! How easily we forget! I feel that perhaps you and I might need encouragement to joyfully embrace the "you" and the "me" that God took so much pleasure in creating and redeeming. He carefully chose all the attributes that make you just who you are... including the parents and environment and experiences He ordained or allowed (even the unpleasant ones) because He exactly how they would work together to create a masterpiece! ... And He's still at it!!
Don't be afraid to be self-approving of your good deeds. Never be tempted to exalt yourselves, however, may your kudos be sown in front God and His or satan and his... not among others here on earth,. Of course, we also need to realize our constant dependence on the Savior, but I sense many of us, thinking it's a pious thing to do, cut ourselves down way too much. We forget that God Almighty, King of the Universe is and has been in control!
Once more, I repeat a crucial truth: The environment and experiences God ordained or allowed in you life and mine (even the painful or unpleasant ones) all work together to create a masterpiece! HE has a PLAN!! and has been working on it from before time.... And He's still at it!! While usually God has not "brought" evil on you or your situations. nor suffering into you life, NOTHING happens without His direct knowledge. If He desires, He can put am immediate stop to any hardship, every pain. BUT OFTEN HE DoES NOT!!! Remember all things are permissible, but not all are profitable.
So ask for the ability to be happy, content and proud of God's creation of you. He chose or allowed for you the perfect eye color, hair color (or baldness) body type, birth defects, if any, intellect.. even where and when you were born, and being the absolute efficiency expert, . He also selected or permitted your parents, environment, timing on the stage of life. You and I need to realize how "fearfully and wonderfully made"" we are and thank Him for the easy times and the impossibly horrid times, for they have helped form us in to an ever- improving being with direct access to THE TEACHER!
Treat yourself well, mind, soul and body. Eat well, exercise, pray often, take time out for you... and stop beating yourself over your less than perfect life (in your eyes). Instead pat yourself (privately) on the back after an all-effort attempt. Learn to love those brown eyes God gave you and forget about the blue ones you have longed for. Praise God for your super curly that can lead to so many fun styles, and forget trying to be a blond. I'm not "preaching" you should never make some fun changes. I am citing God's Word that we be content with our wages and lot and body... and serve Christ with all these things
Talk it over with Jesus... often. Even if you don't know Him yet, You can get acquainted! Start telling Him how thankful you are for all you body parts that work, for your job if you've got one, for your friends or the ones you're about to make, your clothes, food, shelter, your very LIFE.... Tell Him often, at least once a day. A standing daily date for prayer and Bible Study will transform your life.
Lastly, forget sins and failures that have been forgiven, now that you have learned what you could from... Time to discard those unpleasantries and make them completely off limits. If you"re saved, God has cast your sin as far as the East from the West and remembers them no more. Believers walk in freedom. We''re promised that. Born-again FREE!
Okay, child of God, one last thing. Begin to talk to yourself and to God as you go through the day and have a final review with Him at day's end, He will show you helpful or needful changes, but other than abhorring and confessing our sin, we are to HUMBLY see ourselves through the tender eyes of Jesus, the Loving eyes of Father God...as a forgiven and deeply loved child rich in God-given gifts and an able servant of Christ Jesus.
Wow, didn't mean to write all that, but it just slipped out,,, now it's time for bed.
© 2006 by Iona Hoeppner
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