SNOWTALS???????

SNOWTALS!!!!!

WAS viewing the Weather Channel recently for the word out from a local T.V. station that there was a storm producing extreme measurable proportions for snow, wind, and ice coming out of Canada and headed for Washington by the weekend. When your local T.V. station anchors and meteorologist starts blowing off the particulars of such events and yet the governor of our state declares a specific warning, I take note immediately of that situation spoken about. I then certainly resort to those "in the know" about such major events! Yes I sat before the T.V. viewing forecasts of Snowmeggedon!

So I start my confessions of having God's wisdom: James 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him, 6 but let him asking faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. Then I am reminded of Jesus and His disciples....you know where Jesus comes walking on the water....Mathew 14: 22-33 and Mark 6:45-52.
I start speaking that my husband and I will speak truth and not the world's wisdom, and will ask the Lord regularly for His rule in that day for us especially those kind of things that affect large populations and travel.


Then I hear this man from the Weather Channel mentioning "snowtals"......and I am thinking and asking myself" what is snowtals"?
 After a a couple of minutes of rewording his sentence, the Weather Channel meteorologist spoke the word expressing the accurate word was....... actually "snow totals" for this big snow event headed for the Northwest Region of the U.S.
Oh, okay, now I am with you.....and the man continues to mark out the specific areas impacted by heavy snow and those with winds, and ice.

I pay attention to this and mention to my husband when he gets home from work what was coming down out of the "north".  And then the next day, early on that Friday, we are outside with our dog looking over some small amount of snow that remained from a previous small event and our neighbor asked if we had heard about "Snowmeggeddon" on its way and we spoke in unison, "Yes".
Of course, my husband and I stand with God and His word in those promises.....when... such things occur for the those whose travel is on roadways effected by such horrific storms. So throughout the week for work, to get groceries, visit family or church, we are thanking the Lord for safety to cross over as the Hebrews did over the Red Sea and away from Pharaoh and his army. We were well armed and ready to take that stand with our confessions ready to display before that which was headed toward us out of Canada.

Certainly we must know God's provision in His word to dispel any darkness within our own thinking that has been instilled by a culture of changing systems regularly. Still the devil has in place his system that brings captive those who are ruled by lust of their eyes, the lust of their flesh and the pride of life. And within that system, Eve and Adam bought the farm of life without God, without His rule and to scratch out a living. And the devil sets no captives free!
In Matthew 4:4 we find Jesus speaking to the devil " man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds of the mouth of God".

The devil presented his world and the beauty and sweetness that he could generate being that fallen one from God's presence:Isaiah 14: 12 How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!" 13 For you have said in your heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.' 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit. 16 "Those who see you will gaze at you and consider you, saying: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms. 17 Who made the world as a wilderness and destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house of his prisoners.

Yes, the devil has in place his beautiful kingdom to hold captives in that place of fleshly living! They are so many places to travel and embark on never before seen sights, tasting new foods that still appear alive since they are crawling on your plate, and oh yes, those really exotic styled vacations that exhibit clear light blue oceans, sands with bugs you cannot see or the parasites you knew nothing of till you arrived home to find a flaming red mark consistently moving from the bottom of your foot to your thigh. Yikes!

What taste does our stomach hold out for? IS it the word of God we search for diligently or for that far away trip to isolated beauty of third world counties with their own troubles. Heard recently of someone who went to Africa to visit family and a friend and came back with ebola virus!  Now that is no good time or trip. I wondered how many they, the traveler infected with that disease on their plane ride home.

YOU and I certainly should know God's word in this day and time. And should confess His word regularly. We are to ask the Lord for His leading and to find those things He planned or purposed for us, not only as individuals but for the body of believer's as well. 
YOU may not encounter the meteorologist who knows it all and will not give any more time to giving accurate weather. YOU may not encounter snow or high winds or ice, but you will encounter others who travel oh so freely to third world countries to bring back those terrible diseases, flesh eating bacteria and well, exotic morals or the lack of them.

OUR Father God desires us to live for Him and for His glory and within those parameter lines have surely fallen to us in pleasant places. (Psalm 16:6) Let's not waste our time or love on things that kill but spend time with Him who brings life to us and others we may meet. Seek His rule and leading and you will find those who actually give you accurate weather and snow totals, actually give you truth and not some twisted lies of deceit. Our faith in God is not that of "wishful thinking" but it is of the devoted heart seeking His words of life for today and every day.
He never changes. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. Amen! So whatever the storm, circumstance, or maybe even sickness, still He is here, is alive and is ready to hear you call.....

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Now How Many Lightbulbs Do I Need?

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Ever walk into a room, turn on the lights, and the light bulb burns out in the corner lamp or overhead?
Or have you ever turned on the lights in say the living room or dining room, walk to the back of the house to do something and return to the living room to find the "room seems somehow darker than when you left it just a few minutes earlier"?
 I can work in the office, and spend time reading, turn off the light when leaving the room and return an hour later, by flipping the wall switch on, the room does not appear as brightly clothed in light as it once did an hour earlier. Looking up to the ceiling, I find a bulb has gone dark and with only one bulb remaining, filling the room with some light appears less effective in producing that light. With the one darkened bulb, only one is left to do the job of two. (yeah, the room still appears dark, right?)

Turning on lights in a room during the day is really no big deal and to find the lights burn out simultaneously still is not a big deal unless you live in the northwest, and a marine push is blocking out the sunlight in the early part of the day!
I do not change those light bulbs out. I leave it for my husband to do. The covers on those light bulbs seem contrary in trying to release them from their ceiling mount. Yes, I leave that job for the engineer! It is not a pretty sight when I wrestle one of those down from it's high ceiling mount!
But seriously as the believer in Jesus, we are to be " a light" and to continue to burn for Him!
John 1: 6 -13  NKJV  6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 This man came for a witness to bear witness of the Light, that all through Him might believe. 8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. 9 That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own and His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name; 13 who were born, not of blood, not of the will of the flesh, not of the will of man, but of God.

Verses 6-8 speaks of John the Baptist.
John was bearing the light that Jesus was coming. And as the witness John the Baptist spoke of the true "LIGHT"! And the true Light is in Jesus!
I had written in recent days of KISSED HEAVEN and WENT TO HELL! In writing that, Judas was the one who kissed Jesus, had all the teachings that Jesus gave to the "disciples", still Judas went to hell. By betraying Jesus, he showed his true colors! He loved serving himself and getting his own gain but cost him "big" in his end. He might have been the accountant, but he took no thought on how much betraying Jesus would cost him!

I always think about people this time of year. Kids are out of school, summer has begun, and there is just so much activity outside to do. The "fun run" marathons, the three day vacation's to grandma's house (where you can eat anything you want), the splash in the pool is a great adventure especially for the young ones still learning to swim. But I also think about my husband and his hours busily preparing for the coming weather this winter. He is stocking up for sure,checking everything he might need in moment's notice of time, and writes down any items he should pick up at the hardware store.
Yesterday, he was out making room in the storage unit and giving it some new paint on those cabinets. He has been looking at prices on portable heaters and their cost, and what size room the heater will heat when sun shines somewhere else, the temperature readings have plunged to 20 degrees and Jack Frost came overnight to leave ice on the big pine tree.

Yes, I thought a lot about those who took to highways and by-ways, to take that special trip the last couple of days. Summer vacation has begun. But they will return, tired from their trip, a little less money in their pockets, and their focus turns to looking at school supplies, clothes and more money needed to supply for that all new adventures back to school;

Jesus brought light to a darkened world. Jesus brought His kingdom that the Father desired to bring to have His family with Him. But some will find other ventures, some time consuming, and will avoid possibly all teachings of the Lord. Each of us as the believer is to tell someone about Jesus. You could tell them by buying their next bags of groceries, you could shovel their driveway when the snow is too deep for them and their age limits their actions for doing pushing a snow shovel in 3 feet of snow.

It is not about "being God" to them, but showing them the love of God in you!
We had read on Judas and of his betrayal toward Jesus, the true LIGHT, we actually saw Judas had no light or life in himself.  His life was ruled by him for himself!

But we still have opportunity to spend time with the Lord, learn of His ways and prosper in that which He purposed for us to do. Ask yourself, "are you bringing light to the place you influence others"? "Do they see Jesus in you and experience God when you speak?" "Are you their only 'encourager'?"
We all will play a part in the last days mentioned in the Word of God!
What part will you play in these last days? For whatever time remains, we each have light if we have Jesus in our hearts. It will either be the bright light of day or the darkness of night, and I would rather choose to see. I would choose to see Jesus, experience His love for me and know my Father in heaven is looking down on me and God the Holy Spirit living within me gives us power to walk and do for God everyday..
As the believer, we were those released from that appointment of death. We have Jesus, and may His praise be on our lips. This is a new day, with the LIGHT of the LORD to direct our pathway. Will we not go with Him and find the really true adventure of a lifetime that will never end?
Summer will end and fall will begin....after that possible snow will come to cover highways and back roads and maybe your yard. Darkness will begin to come earlier, may your light shine for others to see. And may you know the way in which you are to walk!
For the ways of the LORD are right; the righteous walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them. (Hosea 14:9)

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