What Today's Devotions Help Me See

Today's Devotion: Now Is Not Forever
Today's Bible Reading: Revelation 21:1-5

"The confidence we have as Christians is that God has something good planned for us. Suffering was not part of His original act of creation, but it serves as a temporary reminder of what happens in a world where God’s order has been broken."

~ from Now Is Not Forever {Our Daily Bread 10August2010}

To be honest I can't add anything to that but I will try. Many times we think God is trying to keep us from having fun. In today's world many people want God out of their lives because they feel it's an intrusion and Satan blinds people time and time again that most pleasures of this world is the best way to live but in the end that happiness is only temporary. This is what happened to Eve in the garden.

The serpent made Eve focus on a tiny part of the Garden of Eden instead of her keeping her eye on the Creator and if she would have done this she would have see all that God had blessed her and her mate with. Eve and her husband Adam would have to work but it wouldn't be as hard as today. She would have had pain in regards to child bearing but not that much pain.

Instead she allowed herself to take her eyes off of her blessings and focus on a moment of happiness which in the end cost her dearly in the end in regards to true happiness and joy. Lately many people around me is reminding me little by little how important life is when less and less unnecessary drama is allowed in my life.

There will be heartache from time to time in my life but many times small things like turning off the news, not watching the latest gossip show and opening an informative book or relaxing to some good music or just sometimes just being still for 15-30 minutes and listening to God and focusing on Him my day will go much better.

This past weekend my best friend said something to me which helped me greatly in dealing with my job,

"Focus on each day and what that work day is paying and allowing you to enjoy."

That's pretty cool advise and reading this devotion ties into that...

"Think about how good it will feel when it stops hurting."

In today's world where people think they are entitled to talk to people harshly not think about the other person's feelings. but we (especially myself) have to keep in mind this is not something we have to endure 24/7 and when we begin focusing on the wonders that God has blessed you and with it makes the day more bearable.

Great devotional for today for my spirit.

Two On-Time Messages from Dr. Charles Stanley

Two great messages from Dr. Charles Stanley in regards to not only finding lasting friendships but how to deal with lonliness God's way. You hear me say this time and time again, Dr. Stanley has a way of bringing God's word to you in a practical way that makes you stop and listen.

Building Wise Friendships - Part 1 and Part 2

In Touch Ministries Messages on The Ten Commandments

Once again Dr. Charles Stanley breaks God's word down to common sense to where there is NO excuse but to pay attention and to realize the love for God for you life.

The Ten Commandments Part 1 message and Part 2 message

The Ten Commandments

Two great messages from Dr. Charles Stanley in regards to The Ten Commandments{look for messages March 29 and March 30} (go here to listen to the messages and you can download them via iTunes)

Reflection of Today's Devotion

Today's Devotion: "Never Satisfied But Always Content"
Today's Passage: "Philippians 3:7-14"

"Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,  I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us."
~Philippians 3:13(b)-14

The entire passage is on point for me today but the part of the passage above really jumped out at me because I have a hard time doing this in my life. When I stumble in life sometimes I have to realize this is going to happen as long as I keep living and just learn from my mistakes and move on and when I have great accomplishments I tend at times to rest on them instead of being grateful and happy in the moment and learn from that moment and continue on because sometimes what worked today may not have the same results tomorrow.

It's funny how we want a balance life but two things we do not practice on a daily basis being a Follower of Christ Jesus: first, read, study the word of God. (This part I'm really speaking to myself the loudest); second, we must learn to put our priorities in perspective. There is nothing wrong with doing your best, but when hang everything on that, trust me it's never enough...you will always want more. We should be happy when we accomplish a goal or overcome an obstacle but we can't rest on that moment and think, "I've done it all".

Why do I slip back in that frame of mind time and time again. I know from the past that when I do all that I can and let God do all that I can't that I have best day physically, mental, spiritually because I know I put the most important thing first: knowing Christ. When doing that you learn how to love yourself and the people in your life, to have patience, you learn to avoid the pitfalls of life, to receive love, constructive criticism, what to tolerate and what not to tolerate. It's really true, the Bible is the greatest instruction book for your life.

We have to balance in our lives. I've said this so many times, God is not our "Genie in the bottle", in order for God to give us the best we must trust Him with everything and that means being obedient, doing what we need to do ourselves while at the same time knowing where our strength comes from and where our wisdom lies because when we try and do everything on our own it will not work and at the same time when we just set back and do nothing our lives will be filled with regret.

With a balance life comes a fulfilled life.

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Why I'm Diggin' Yahoo! Mail Again

I'm digging Yahoo Mail again for one simple reason...folders. That may not be important to most people and someone has even told me that you can make folders with Gmail but in the end I'm finding myself using Yahoo Mail more and more. I'm not giving up Gmail by a long shot but something about Yahoo! Mail has grown on me again.

One thing I'm realizing is that with folders for me my inbox is looking much better because by me having folders I can move the mail I wish to keep and the rest I can trash and for me that's a cool thing. Gmail has labels and stars you can place by important emails but still for me it's a little overwhelming at times. My GMail account was overtaken by stars and labels at one time so I trashed all of the email to feel like I could breathe again.

Another thing I have begun is forwarding my Gmail email to my Yahoo Mail and I've set up my GMail to delete the email. I may change that in the future with the Gmail settings where it will keep the email and go through once a day and trash what I want I don't need but as for now it's cool be able to get a handle on email for the first time in a very long time.

Now I know Yahoo Mail sometimes places mail in the Spam folder but I'm learning that it's easier to move it from Spam to a folder...at first it would bug me when mail was go into the Spam folder but that was at a time when Spam was really growing and Yahoo introduced a filtering process and it was more miss than hit but it has greatly improved and with spam coming at you like a huge wave I welcome the Spam folder with open arms. Gmail Spam filter works well but with the way this spam is thrown at us it's a wonder many people do not make a new email address every year to combat spam. (let me move on...just mentioning spam makes my head hurts)

It's funny how for me how things come back around and for me now Yahoo Mail I'm loving again. Maybe this year I may invest in Yahoo! Mail Plus so this way I can forward my mail to my Outlook but why should I do that when GMail does it for free but then again for $19.99 annually charge for Yahoo! Mail Plus, I think that's a cool investment. I'm not too crazy with the new design of Yahoo Mail (which gives you the option of switching back to Classic mode which I like) but over all Yahoo! Mail for me is cool for me for now.

Reflections of Tuesday's Devotion For Me

Tuesday's Devotion and Passage
Helped By Fear - Our Daily Bread
Proverbs Chap 9:vv 1-12 - Biblegateway.com

Today I'm going to try and begin using fear as an asset instead of hindering my life. I'm not going to lie, I have let fear stop me from doing so many things I know I should be doing because I'm afraid of sounding silly or failing or even asking God for certain things that I know that will help me in the end in regards to my relationship with Him.

MyLoveForMusic: InspirationSounds for March 2009

In The Midnight Hour...

It's something when you think God is not listening to you, you feel like He is not answering your prayers, you cry out to Him and just when you think you can't take any more He allows a "little" more to pile on you and just when you are on your knees, you can't cry even when you try you and feel like "enough is enough" that is when God comes through...in the midnight hour.

I am learning that the stronger your faith the more He will allow in your life and I'm learning that for me it is teaching me two things: (one) I realize no matter how strong I think I am I can do nothing with God, no way, no how (two) When the breakthrough comes I can give thanks to know but my Lord and Savior because He presses my back to the wall and then breaks through that wall.

These past weeks I have rushed into God's word, listening to God's word, listening to men of God, listening to God fearing business men when it comes to success, realizing where my strength comes from, realizing the God truly has not put a spirit of fear in me and begin to truly believe that "If God is for me, who can be against me?"

This collection of compositions for me represents for me to always push forward and not to look back, to truly begin to realize that when you fail it is an event, not who I am (a failure). I'm learning to be comfortable in my skin, to smile more, believing that I am "truly and wonderfully made"...

and so are you, never forget that.

13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
~Psalm 139:13-16

Be Blessed
~DarrenKeith

Great messages from Dr. Charles Stanley.
Overcoming Obstacles:[Part 1] & [Part 2]


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Tracks/Artists/Album

1. Looking For You - Kirk Franklin{from "Hero"}
2. Drifting - Andy McKee{from "Art of Motion"}
3. Jesus Be A Fence Around Me - Fred Hammond{"Purpose By Design"}
4. Cats Go Forward - Michael Manring{from "Toward the Center of the Night"}
5. Dive - Steven Curtis Chapman{from "Speechless"}
6. Love's Embrace - Ozzie Ahlers{from "Keys to the Heart"}
7. It's Alright(Send Me) - Winans Phase 2{from "We Got Next"}
8. Turquoise Moon - Craig Chaquico{from "Four Corners"}
9. Omega - Rebecca St. James{from "Pray"}
10. Amber - Matthew Montfort{from "Narada Guitar: 15 Years of Collected Works"}
11. King Of Glory - Third Day{from "Offerings: A Worship Album"}
12. Clear Air for Miles - Acoustic Alchemy{from "Back on the Case"}
13. In The Midnight Hour - Lee Williams & The Spirtual QC's{from "Love Will Go All The Way"}

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Huge Thanx and many blessing to Vibrant Thang...thank U for your input in regards to Soulbounce.

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underscore music: Nicolay {"Hey" from the City Lights Vol. 1.5 LP}

Devotions & Reflections for Tuesday...October 23, 2007

It's amazing how sometimes I can read God's word and I'm going to be honest, I can't see how that passage when reading my devotions applies to me for that day or my understanding of the reading I have to scratch my head and say, "huh?" But you keep reading God's word, keep obeying the teachings of Christ Jesus and early morning morning it hits me like a ton of bricks and I say, "ahh...okay, so that what that means."

This is the only book that sometimes you get the meaning of the passages and sometimes you do not but by asking God for wisdom, insight, directions He will bring understanding of His word your way.

Yesterday was really that time because all day my wife and I ran around because of issues that was going on in reference to my pharmacy license and one by one we say how God was stepping in when we could not do anything more about the situation. We both witnessed that when being persistant, standing on God's word, working as a team, not taking "no" for an answer most times(my wife is great with that...it irks me sometimes but she is who she and I love her for that), not losing your cool and staying joyful and thanking Christ Jesus in the good and bad results came our way.

So this morning, these two devotions from Our Daily Bread and In Touch were those two for me where by going through my valley I can say, "ahh...okay,I get it". This is also what makes our testimony stronger as well, and again let me stress, the results did come from us just sitting on our behinds and just praying because with God's word prayer should always be followed by the action He tells us to perform and many times we as Christians pray to Him and will not act. I learned a deeper meaning of the would "wait". It does not mean I sit around and "wait" for God to come through. I do what I need to do, still in motion while God puts everything in place so when about time I come to a certain place of action in a situation it has already been done.

We as Christians have to keep in mind we are in covenant with God, He's not our "Genie in a bottle". The work is still not over with my license but it will be soon and no matter how it's going on the surface as long as I am keeping to God's word, He will not forsake me, that is His promise and when I have truly given it over to Him 100% every time and just do what I need to do, He has never let me down.

My God is an awesome God.

Be Blessed, Be Safe &
Have a Wonderful Day.

a Wonderful Devotion from Dr. Charles Stanley's In Touch Website

I know this is rude to post an entire article in your own blog and you should link to the story but this one I have to post. Dr. Charles Stanley's In Touch Early Light devotion page was once set up that you could link to a specific devotion but now you can't. So this is the reason I'm putting the entire devotion from today in this post. I hope this will help my fellow Christian and I the person who is one the fence thinking about coming to the Lord.

Be Blessed, Be Safe &
Have a Wonderful Tuesday


from today's In Touch Ministries website...

The Grace to Wait

READ | Psalm 62:1-2

For most of us, waiting in line is pure agony. We arrive at a doctor's appointment on time. But we're forced to sit in the waiting room for what seems like forever. We go to the grocery store for just a few things, and get stuck in a long checkout line. And, then, there's the glacially-paced traffic jam at the bank drive-thru! It seems no one in our culture likes to wait.

When we take something to the Lord in prayer, we bring our human impatience with us. We may make a request and expect an immediate answer. If God doesn't spring into action right away, some people may think prayer doesn't work. They believe God didn't hear them, or He simply wasn't listening.

How tragic! Compare that attitude to King David's. He was only 16 years old when God sent the prophet Samuel to anoint him as king. Yet, 16 more years would pass before that promise was fulfilled. What did David do during that time? Did he moan and groan, shaking his finger at the Lord and demanding his throne now? Not at all. David understood God was trustworthy. He also realized his heavenly Father was not only the God of who and what, but also of when and how. David wanted the kingship only when God was ready for him to have it. So, he waited.

Are you waiting on something today? Will you wait on the Lord like you impatiently wait on a bank teller? Or will you, like King David, trust in God's timing and His provision?

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Devotion & Reflections for Tuesday

Keeping Your Eye
on the Road>>>more
from In Touch Ministries

It's easy to say, "keep your eyes on God" but sometimes it's hard because of our circumstances. I will admit I takes my eyes off of Jesus Christ from time to time, we all do. But I am learning this...the more I focus on Christ Jesus the more He can accomplished through me.

He allows me to get more accomplished at work, in my home, in my duties as a husband. Keeping my focus on God He's showing me that when I put my hand to the "plow" and allow Him to guide there is nothing I can not achieve. I am learning it's really a comfort to know that He has my back when I abide in His word, and I am finding joy more and more reading His word, following his principles...by me doing this I am learning how much He love me for me, how God wants the very best in my life, whether surrounding me with good people or beautiful landscapes or beautiful music.

This year I will need Him to help me focus because I will begin school again and I am really looking forward to this because of so many things He has planted in me to accomplished. There will be times it will get a little bumpy but I know He is there with me because if He wasn't he would not have put these desires in me to pursue. Yes, my eye will be on Him because as Dr. Charles Stanley grandfather told him and now I pass it on to my brothers and sisters in Christ..."Trust in God...leave ALL the consequences to Him" Have a Blessed, Safe, & Wonderful Day everyone.

Praying for Our Children
from Christian Embassy Church

Gratitude

"Lord, help my children to live lives that overflow with thankfulness, always giving thanks to You. "

Ephesians 5:20

To hear Dr. Stanley's message for today or previous messages...click here

My vox Christian Brother Ron mentioned this in one of his post and I have to mentioned it myself. I have followed Dr. Stanley for a couple of years and people who have read my post know that I speak very highly of him. The way he teaches the word of God is a true blessing. He has come out with a Life Principle Bible and the first chance I get I'm ordering this Bible because I know it will enhance my life.

Devotion and Reflections for Tuesday

Hearing Aid>>>more
from rbc ministries

I'm learning each day how to be obedient to my Heavenly Father. Being obedient is really simple, but it's not easy. Many things in life are simple but doing them...that's the hard part. Think about it, when we were young and someone wanted you or I to do something we knew was wrong, we could have said no...simple; but hearing the teasing and ridicule that would not have been easy. It goes for the way God wants you and I to live our lives and I'm going to be honest sometimes it's not easy because of my flesh wants what it wants.

By me working this 2nd job now has really opened my eyes on the tithing, on giving God His time through prayer, getting into His word, putting things in perspective. I'm so glad I am growing wiser instead of just growing older, that would be a very wasteful life. I have learned that whenever we try and manipulate our circumstances we're only manipulating ourselves in the end because we do not bend God to our will, we always bend to His, it's up to you and I when we will do it...sooner or later; I am learning to yield to the former because it takes too much out of me to keep trying do things my way.

I witness His grace in my life each and everyday. I'm learning to take responsibility for my choices in life each and everyday because again it's the best way, the less stressful way to go through life. I heard Pastor Paul Shepard say something that was so profound and it hit me like a ton of brinks.."people always say experience is the best teacher and that's not true many times because we do not have to go through everything to figure out if it's wrong or not". Growing up I didn't try drugs or drink for different reasons;

1. I didn't like the taste of liquor
2. Didn't like how liquor made me feel(got drunk and was hugging a toliet...one time is all it took for me.
3. A guy in our neighborhood had his drink "spiked" and the guy was never the same
4. My mother would kill me.

But there was plenty of dumb things I allowed myself to get into knowing the outcome would not be good, would set me back financially, I would have to work twice as hard to get back to where I needed to be and I guess that's what has really hit home with me this year. I am asking God each day for me not only to make wise choices but to follow through with them because I'm not old but I'm not in my late teen/early twenties any more, it's hard to bounce back from a set back, whether it's financially, from relationships we knew we should not have gotten involved in from the beginning, making friendship we know that will end badly.

Living God's way I am truly realizing is not restricting me from life, but freeing me to live a peaceful, thoughtful, very wise life. I have to choice...have trials, storms in my life with Jesus as my guide or toughing it out alone; I'm not a gambling man but my odds go up much to my favor with Christ Jesus. What about you?

Be Blessed, Be Safe, & Have a Great Day.

Praying For Our Children
from Christian Embassy Church

Responsibility

"Lord grant that my children would learn to be responsible, for each one should carry his own load."

Galatians 6:5

other devotions to read:
Megafreeway or Narrow Way?
Praise Builds Courage
Back To The Bible

positive messages from OnePlace.com
In Touch
Enduring Truth
A New Beginning

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Tech News Articles, National News For Monday

Tech News:

Tech politics: Friends up on Capitol Hill
from cnnMoney.com

Amid all the post-election noise, Democrats haven't been subtle about their top priorities once they take control of Congress: boost minimum wage, reform Medicare, rescind the 2001 tax cuts, and clean up "the swamp" of Washington lobbying.

With such a teeming legislative plate, the tech industry might be feeling like table scraps right about now. It shouldn't. The 110th Congress could be the most technology-friendly in history.

Here's why: Yes, Nancy Pelosi, the presumptive new Speaker of the House, hails from one of the most liberal parts of the country, San Francisco. But she also represents a city that's near the heart of America's tech sector.

A year ago this month, after extensive meetings with VCs and entrepreneurs, Pelosi unveiled an "innovation agenda" that called, among other things, for broadband access for all Americans, whether it comes via Wi-Fi, Wi-Max or a fixed line by 2010.>>>more


Intel leapfrogs AMD with quad core x86 processors
from techweb.com/eetimes.com

ntel Corp. officially rolls out its first two quad-core CPUs Monday (Nov. 13), claiming it has retaken the lead from archrival Advanced Micro Devices in the multi-core CPU wars. Intel's Xeon 5300 series for servers and the Core 2 Extreme Quad for desktops use two dual-core Core 2 processors in multi-chip packages.

"We will ship one million quad-core processors before our competitor ships its first one," said Stephen Smith, a director in Intel's desktop group.

AMD has said it will ship its first quad-core CPUs around the middle of 2007. However, those chips will integrate four processor cores and four memory controllers on a single die, likely sporting greater performance than the Intel parts.

The Intel launch comes the same day the latest rankings of the world's top>>>more


With IE 7, green means go for legit sites
from cnet.com

Starting early next year, the address bar in Internet Explorer 7 will turn green when surfing to a legitimate Web site--but only in some cases, not all.

The colored address bar is designed to be a sign that a specific site can be trusted, giving people the green light to carry out transactions there. It is a weapon in the fight against phishing scams, which use fraudulent Web sites

The idea is among the draft guidelines created by the CA Browser Forum, an organization comprised of companies that issue certificates for Web sites and major browser makers. Last week, Microsoft decided to adopt that draft version for IE 7, released last month. It plans to add the functionality in January.>>>more


A Sneak Peek at a Fractured Web
story from wired.com

Internet censorship is spreading and becoming more sophisticated across the planet, even as users develop savvier ways around it, according to early results in the first-ever comprehensive global survey of internet censorship.

The internet watchdog organization OpenNet Initiative is compiling a year's worth of data gathered by nearly 50 cyberlaw, free-speech and network experts across as many countries, whose governments are known internet filterers.

The study systematically tested if, when, how and by whom thousands of controversial websites are blocked in each nation.

Last week, ONI researchers gathered at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School to begin hashing through their as-yet unpublished -- and in many cases, still incomplete -- findings. Wired News sat down with five members of the ONI team to>>>more


Sun making Java open-source software
from msnbc.com|tech

Computer server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. said Monday that it had begun to make its Java technology an open-source software project available for free on the Internet.

The announcement represents one of the largest additions of computer code to the open-source community — and it marks a major shift for a company that had once fiercely protected the source code used in 3.8 billion cell phones, supercomputers, medical devices and other gadgets.

Santa Clara-based Sun said it is making nearly all of Java's source code — excluding small pockets of code that aren't owned by Sun — available under the GNU General Public License. The same type of license>>>more

Calling Out Microsoft
column from washingpost.com

A few months ago, you could have been forgiven for wondering about what the folks in Redmond, Wash., were doing. It's been almost five years since the last new consumer release of Windows, nearly three years since the last update to Microsoft Office and more than five years since the last new version of Internet Explorer. Only Windows Media Player had seen any meaningful updates since the arrival of Windows XP -- and WMP 10 was shipped back in 2004.

Now, that's all changing. During the past few months, long beta-test programs have ended for Internet Explorer 7, the Windows Defender spyware remover and, as of two weeks ago, Windows Media Player 11.>>>more


For Ted Leonsis, a Quest to Find Himself Faster Online
from washingtonpost.com|technology

For a man who's often in the public eye, Ted Leonsis didn't like what he saw when he Googled himself last year.

Leonsis -- vice chairman of AOL, majority owner of the Washington Capitals hockey team and the Mystics of women's basketball, and minority owner of the NBA's Wizards -- was disappointed to see that whenever he typed his name in Google's search box, the results were a hodgepodge of news stories.

That didn't work for him. He wanted to figure out a way to manipulate Google's complicated search engine to put the information he wanted people to see at the top of his results.>>>more


Other National News:

Democrats Push for Troop Cuts Within Months
story from nytimes.com

Democratic leaders in the Senate vowed on Sunday to use their new Congressional majority to press for troop reductions in Iraq within a matter of months, stepping up pressure on the administration just as President Bush is to be interviewed by a bipartisan panel examining future strategy for the war.

The Democrats — the incoming majority leader, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada; the incoming Armed Services Committee chairman, Senator Carl Levin of Michigan; and the incoming Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware — said a phased redeployment of troops would be their top priority when the new Congress>>>more

Pelosi Endorses Murtha as Next Majority Leader
story from washingtonpost.com

House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) endorsed Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) yesterday as the next House majority leader, thereby stepping into a contentious intraparty fight between Murtha and her current deputy, Maryland's Steny H. Hoyer.

The unexpected move signaled the sizable value Pelosi gives to personal loyalty and personality preferences. Hoyer competed with her in 2001 for the post of House minority whip, while Murtha managed her winning campaign. Pelosi has also all but decided she will not name the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) to chair that panel next year, a decision pregnant with personal animus.>>>more

Devotions for Tuesday....2 Down/3 To Go

Three Certainties>>>more
from rbc ministries

It's strange how different devotions can have you come back to a certain subject you touched on before but give you a deeper meaning. About ten years ago when Biggie Smalls and Tupac died I too mourned , but in a different way than when Left Eye died. When those two died I wasn't a Christian and God did not come into mind,I wondered where they died, how they died, if they were at a wrong place at the wrong time; I didn't think about their salvation. Fast forward some years when Lisa "Left Eye" Lopez died, I remembered where I was, what day and even though I morned for her because this young, beautiful sister who was a gifted rapper, composer (she played the keyboards as well) my first thought was, "I hoped she knew the Lord". That I don't know, maybe she cried out to Jesus right before the horrific accident because we don't know who calls on the Lord. Now whenever I hear of a celebrity dying my first thought is not how they died or why they died but where they are headed.

In one of my previous post I spoke a little on death and how I no longer look at death as a frightful matter but a process for living. To know that Jesus Christ gave up so much for me and you to have everlasting life once our time here on earth is up makes me feel so much at ease. I don't have to wonder where I'm going once or ponder is there a "afterlife". Once I truly died for self and live for Christ I can really appreciate my day to day life with peace and joy in my heart.

Now my prayers are for as many people to come to the Lord because when you know where you are going when you die you will know how to live. To me, it brings a smile to my face each day because I was giving a chance to open my harden heart and invite Christ into my life and now I can share his Good News with many people as I can, not only through words but how I try and live my life. But sometimes I think some of my brothers and sisters in Christ live to die and that to me is tragic. I can understand how that and where they get that concept because I was brought up in a church that taught those standard, that, "I'm just waiting to go Heaven" mentality. God did not send His son to die on the Cross for you and I to walk around as if we already have one foot in the grave. Christ died and God rose Him up again so we can have zeal for life, embrace every breath we take because we already have the victory. Once I knew where I was going by Christ Jesus sacrifice, I stopped looking over my shoulder because I knew where I was headed, upward and this gives me a chance to live life to the fullest. (Note to self: one less worry)

Be Blessed, Be Safe and Have a Great Day Everyone.

Praying For Our Children
from Christian Embassy Church

Justice

"God, help my children to love justice as You do and act justly in all they do".

Psalm 11:7 & Micah 6:8

devotions for Tuesday:

• Be Strong!
• Where Was He?
• Having a Rich Prayer Life

audio spiritual food for Tuesday:

• God's Surprise Visits - Part 2
• The Gospel for Busy People, Part 4
• Conc. of: A Word To Generation Next - Part 1

tech news for Tuesday:

• Silent plane would cut airport noise
• Hackers, Plagiarism Claims Hit Wikipedia
• NTP slaps Palm with patent infringement suit

audio tech programs for Tuesday:

• Windows Weekly 4: Build
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• NerdTV - Show 4 - Brewster Kahle

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No Days Off>>>more
from Harvest Online

Yesterday I did not blog. I was tired, I needed the rest but I can't make a habit of it because I have a obligation to God. He gives us a day of rest and I need to follow His principles, because it worked for Jesus and I know it works for my life as well. I thank God doesn't take a day (or two) off like we do. He is always with us no matter what situation we are going through, what task is ahead of us, what trial we are going through.

I thank our Lord and Savior that He has granted you and I a day of rest because this gives us time to be truly be thankful for what we have in our lives and to work toward what our Savior's needs. I can't imagine what this world would be like if God took a hour off from watching over you and I. I am truly thankful that even when we take a day (or two, or three) away from God that He has not taking a day away from His children. When thinking of His love for me makes me want to work for Him, to spread His gospel through the web, through my life, through worship and praise.

Take time to think about His precious love and what would happen if He took a day off...on second thought, that's okay.

Have a Blessed, Safe, and productive day.

Praying For Our Children
from Christian Embassy Church

Joy

"Heavenly Father, grant that my children would be filled with the joy given by the Holy Spirit".

1 Thessalonians 1:6

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