Mom had a question for me and I was looking for the answer to it for her online tonight and I found this quote and I just had to share it with everyone
GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Jesus grew in wisdom and maturity. He gained favor from God and people.
People's New Testament Commentary
2:52 Jesus increased. Jesus grew up among a people seldom and only contemptuously named by the ancient classics, and subjected at the time to the yoke of a foreign oppressor in a remote and conquered province of the Roman empire; in the darkest district of Palestine; in a little country town of proverbial insignificance; in poverty and manual labor; in the obscurity of a carpenter's shop; far away from universities, academies, libraries, and literary or polished society; without any help, as far as we know, except the parental care, the daily wonders of nature, the Old Testament Scriptures, the weekly Sabbath service of the synagogue at Nazareth (Lu 4:16), the annual festivities in the temple of Jerusalem (Lu 2:42), and the secret intercourse of his soul with God, his heavenly Father...
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Putting Together My Wheels with Rick and 14 Miles with Stan
Wednesday and Thursday night will live with me the whole time I am alive, I think. Jesus has blessed me beyond belief and I am very thankful. Please God let me show my love by obedience to You alone....
Rick Meier is one of the coolest people in the world! He picked me up at the OEX (Ogletown Exchange) and took me home to assemble with me this wheelchair that the Challenged Athletes Foundation has given to me. Amazing!!! Rick was the first person to run with me that night as soon as we assembled it. THANK YOU SO MUCH RICK!!!! I can't WAIT for the first 5k and to see the look on the woman's face who has been less encouraging....
Stan Gibson ran with me on Thursday night and was the most grueling thing I have ever been involved in. We did 14 miles that night. Awesome times! 9:30 at night, too. The only thing on my mind was that this "NUT" was a gift the Almighty King. Not too many people are runners like he is. It was the perfect pace, too! Thank you so much.
ENDURANCE TO RUN THE RACE!!!! is the key to life!!!!!!!!!!!
Rick Meier is one of the coolest people in the world! He picked me up at the OEX (Ogletown Exchange) and took me home to assemble with me this wheelchair that the Challenged Athletes Foundation has given to me. Amazing!!! Rick was the first person to run with me that night as soon as we assembled it. THANK YOU SO MUCH RICK!!!! I can't WAIT for the first 5k and to see the look on the woman's face who has been less encouraging....
Stan Gibson ran with me on Thursday night and was the most grueling thing I have ever been involved in. We did 14 miles that night. Awesome times! 9:30 at night, too. The only thing on my mind was that this "NUT" was a gift the Almighty King. Not too many people are runners like he is. It was the perfect pace, too! Thank you so much.
ENDURANCE TO RUN THE RACE!!!! is the key to life!!!!!!!!!!!
The World Changer
The World Changer
I have been blind and foolish. I have been believing the lies of the enemy for soooo long. I believe that one person can’t change the world. In a matter of speaking, this absolutely right… But, there is a World Changer that has been given to the children!!! Children who might sometimes act like bastards but (and this is the most hopeful but I have ever written) who are in fact children…. This World Changer is within them and it is the Holy Spirit of the Living God! So, I (and every other child of the Most High) can be a world changer… Live it out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Inspired by: Jonathan Fallwell Tonight on TV
I have been blind and foolish. I have been believing the lies of the enemy for soooo long. I believe that one person can’t change the world. In a matter of speaking, this absolutely right… But, there is a World Changer that has been given to the children!!! Children who might sometimes act like bastards but (and this is the most hopeful but I have ever written) who are in fact children…. This World Changer is within them and it is the Holy Spirit of the Living God! So, I (and every other child of the Most High) can be a world changer… Live it out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Inspired by: Jonathan Fallwell Tonight on TV
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Wheelchair NOT!!! - Top End Eliminator OSR
Wow!!! This thing is SWEEEEEET!!!! I received my racing wheels last night when I got home from the YMCA.!!!!! Amazing. My friend Rick Meier said he would come over and help me put it together! I peeked into the box and the wheels themselves are awesome. I guiess you can tell I'm a little excited!!! Amazing grace of God that He would allow a broken sinner experience such joy....
Just was listening to this as I was working out this morning!!! Great TRUTH
Todd Agnew \ Grace Like Rain
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now I'm found
Was blind but now I see so clearly
Chorus:Hallelujah, grace like rain falls down on me
Hallelujah, all my stains are washed away, washed away
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed
Chorus
When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun
We've no less days to sing Your praise
Than when we first begun
Just was listening to this as I was working out this morning!!! Great TRUTH
Todd Agnew \ Grace Like Rain
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now I'm found
Was blind but now I see so clearly
Chorus:Hallelujah, grace like rain falls down on me
Hallelujah, all my stains are washed away, washed away
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed
Chorus
When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun
We've no less days to sing Your praise
Than when we first begun
Monday, September 8, 2008
A Lot of Feedback
A lot of people responded to the last post I did.... A lot of people didn't get what I was trying to say but some did. Check out the comment from a very wise woman that just happens to be my mom. Was trying to say that the answer is NOT in any of the "changes" that are being promised. I refuse to turn on any of the negative ads on both sides but I will comment on one thing that has been going around about my Lord King. The thought of something like this,"Jesus was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governer." Whoever came up with this is pretty well not informed of the chaos that Jesus brings. Yes, He is our peace but look at what bought that peace....
Isaiah 53
1Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?2For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.3 He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows;yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.5(I) But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities;upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way;and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.8By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who consideredthat he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?9And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death,although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors
TURMOIL BUT BROUGHT US HIS PEACE AND ORGANIZED OUR LIVES!!!!
Isaiah 53
1Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?2For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.3 He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows;yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.5(I) But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities;upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way;and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.8By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who consideredthat he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?9And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death,although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors
TURMOIL BUT BROUGHT US HIS PEACE AND ORGANIZED OUR LIVES!!!!
Saturday, September 6, 2008
The Change We Need
So, which candidate has the ability to effect the change we need. Man, we have heard this sooo much on the news. It is so much to take in. Each day we are bombarded with more info from the different candidates about how they are the change agents we need. Well, I just heard a testimony about how Jesus has changed one life... Greg Laurie grew up in the least of best circumstances. His home life was very bad as he went through his mom's 4 marriages and really had no father influence but at age 17 met Jesus at the appointed time. His life has changed because of that. The Lover that he had been looking for had found him. Let us all seek to find our Lover. Even if we were saved many, many years ago. We need to be bathed in that sweet love. It is like a bar of soap when taking a shower.
Use of the soap is the key to taking the shower. I think I (was going to write we but this is way too personal for me to say we) have been just taking showers without picking up the soap. Looking to great friendship that I have in my life to fill that void, expecting things from friends that they can't deliver because of their positions. I'm sorry. Jesus, I am sorry.... Friend of Sinners You are.... Praise God!!!! I LOVE THE GOSPEL!!! He is the gospel...
Use of the soap is the key to taking the shower. I think I (was going to write we but this is way too personal for me to say we) have been just taking showers without picking up the soap. Looking to great friendship that I have in my life to fill that void, expecting things from friends that they can't deliver because of their positions. I'm sorry. Jesus, I am sorry.... Friend of Sinners You are.... Praise God!!!! I LOVE THE GOSPEL!!! He is the gospel...
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