...or extension day, depending on if you actually file your taxes on April 15th. We (and I use the term "we" loosely, as I have not actually prepared a tax return since my single, 1040 days) are more the extension-filing types. Oh well, however you do it, render unto Caesar and all that.
I know you've all been waiting with bated breath for this post. Alas, today life happened and here it is the late afternoon and I'm just now sitting down to get it done. There is a way to schedule them to post once they're written, but I haven't quite figured out how to make that work yet. Aren't you glad I shared that little bit of tech info with you? Now you can't say you didn't learn anything new today. Sam Houston was also married three times. There, you've learned something else. This blog is a wealth of useful information, I tell ya.
I ran some errands with Michael this morning while the two older boys were otherwise occupied. He kept trying to guess where we were going,
"HEB?"
"No."
"Oh, good. Lowe's?"
"No."
"Costco?"
"No."
"Where are we going?"
"To DSW."
"What's DSW?"
"It's shoe heaven."
"Oh, is that where shoes come to life?"
"Yes, my son, actually...it is." (Okay, I didn't really say that part....)
It's just one more thing about women that I have to teach my boys. That shoe stores are heaven and ladies like chatting.
So anyway, moving on. I started a new Beth Moore study last night; it's the updated edition of Breaking Free. Part of this study is (coincidentally) memorizing scripture, so my verses for the next 10 weeks (5 posts worth) will be from that. And they are actually one a week (plus one from the intro - whew!) so I may be doing more of a "meditation" on the verses, than an actual "memorizing" of them, but I'll give it my best shot.
Galations 5:1 (NIV), "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."
Isaiah 61:1 (NIV), "The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,"
Isaiah 43:10 (NIV), ""You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me."
Your turn. Verse on.
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Okay, back in the saddle. For some reason I missed post #7. Perhaps my computer was playing an April fool's joke on me.
ReplyDelete"Instead of their shame my people will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace they will rejoice in their inheritance; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.
Isaiah 61:7
I have been convicted lately that even as I strive to grow in other areas of my life with the Lord, it is all for naught if I do it all the while complaining and murmuring! I too easily fall into this trap. I like how Andy puts it... Attitudinally-challenged. So this one was appropriate for me this go around:
ReplyDeleteDo everything without complaining or arguing,
so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe... Phil 2:14,15
Wow, is it already the middle of the month?? I totally missed posting the April 1st verse too! So I have two verses for the rest of the month.
ReplyDeleteI have been dwelling since the beginning of the year on the fact that God is with me - no matter what is happening around me. So I sought out a verse in Matthew when Jesus first came to be with us and one in Revelation when He will come back and everything we see in part will be complete.
Matthewe 1:23
Behold the virgin shall become pregnant and give birth to a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel - which when translated, means God with us.
Revelation 22:17
The Holy Spirit and the bride say Come! And let him who is listening say Come and let everyone who is thirsty and whoever desires to do it, let him come, take and drink the water of live without cost.
Praise God - we can take of this water, knowing God is with us NOW!
He who dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust." Surely He shall deliver me from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence. He shall cover me with His feathers, and under His wings I shall take refuge; His truth shall be my shield and buckler. I shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day. Nor of pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. A thousand may fall at my side, and ten thousand at my right hand, but it hall not come near me. Only with my eyes shall I look and see the reward of the wicked. Because I have made the Lord, who is my refuge, even the Most High, my dwelling place, No evil shall befall me, nor shall any plague come near my dwelling. For He shall give His angels charge over me, to keep me in all my ways. In their hands they shall bear me up, lest I dash my foot against a stone. I shall tread upon the lion and the cobra; the young lion and the serpent I shall trample underfoot. Because He has set His love upon me, therefore He will deliver me; He will set me on high, because I have known His name. I shall call upon Him, and He will answer me; He will be with me in trouble; He will deliver me and honor me. With long life He will satisfy me, and how me His salvation. Psalm 91.
ReplyDeletePsalm 139:8
ReplyDelete"If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there."