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10-10-2008, 08:44 PM
God's Workmanship
“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10
Think about that for a moment. We are God’s workmanship, not our own. God is the Master Workman; not you or me. This God, whose work we've admired and whose power and love we've tasted, this is the creator of the rest of our lives. God has been pursuing us all this time because He loves us so much and He has a vision for who we can become. He is the creator of all that's beautiful and awe-inspiring and He can make a masterpiece out of the rest of our lives. Will we let Him? He cannot work on us unless we place ourselves in His hands and allow Him to have total control over us. We need to trust the Master Workman with the outcome of our lives and be willing to be used by Him in any manner that He wishes. He has created us for a purpose in mind: to do a work that He prepared for us long before we were even created. We have been fashioned to do good works. We cannot do these on our own, but only through Christ Jesus, our Lord, can we serve the Master Workman and bring Him glory and honor in all we do.
Father, thank you for making me a thing of beauty. I pray that as I submit myself to your hands, you can change me into the vision that you have for my life. Use me as you see fit and may I bring you glory and honor as I serve you! Amen Quiet Waters
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H I S FACE
"What do you see in that trial?" was the question I asked that guy! It is the same question I would ask the lady who wrote from another state sharing a most horrible experience she was going through. It is the same question I pose to that individual across the Atlantic ocean who wrote regarding a family matter or the one writing regarding terrible persecution in their country.
The question again, WHAT DO YOU SEE IN it?? My next statement while TRUE is one of the more difficult statements to absorb - certainly believe. It is: Part of the great and rich heritage that God has planned for us is suffering. He will permit in the life of each of his children a portion (a right portion in His eyes and understanding) of difficulty, trials and temptations.
What we SEE in those trials and temptations will largely determine the riches that will be ours.
It would be so great one Christian wrote to a friend, "To be able to go out in the days so yielded that every fresh circumstance or trial would prove to have the SWEET FACE OF JESUS concealed in it, or bursting like a flood of glory through some rift in the cloud and filling with radiance our uplifted faces; so that each new obedience should be but the parting of the curtain, ushering us into new wonders and experiences of His inexhaustible riches and fullness."
The worst that can come to you, the worst that Satan can do against you only furnishes a great and new opportunity for God. Yes, to David's words: (Ps. 27:8)
"Your face, Lord, I will seek."
Let's pray!
Lord God, my prayer for this special one is simply, "The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His FACE to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn His FACE toward you and give you peace."
Amen Words For Courageous Living
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Faith means to surrender all to God
God is ever victorious and God never fails to accomplish what He begins.
Though I am defeated ten thousand times, the Lord is never defeated nor brought low but is ever victorious.
At the end of days when the Lord returns with the Host of Heaven following along behind, the armies of the world who come out to oppose Him will be destroyed by the mere utterance of His Mouth.
The Lord is ever victorious and He shall utterly defeat all who oppose Him.
He is invincible and all who oppose Him shall be brought low.
The best thing we can do is to surrender all to Him and join in the victorious cavalcade and follow along behind Him.
Faith means to surrender all to God and to follow Him.
Follow God.
©10/11/2001 Jim Welch
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Devotional For Dieters
October 11
1 Peter 3:13
And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?
Kim's mother felt so sorry for her. She remembered what it was like to be overweight. All the other children were so cruel. She could still feel the sting of all the nicknames people had put on her. Now, Kim was suffering the same indignities. Her mother hoped she could get Kim on a diet, if for no other reason than to keep Kim's classmates from taunting her so mercilessly. Just taking steps to correct the problem made it easier to take. The insults didn't hurt so much after the problem was taken care of. Together, they would lose the weight. With God's help, time would heal the wounds of unkind words.
Today's thought: I will put all my excess weight behind me!
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THE BIG BOOK WITHOUT WORDS
“…We tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” Alcoholics Anonymous, page 60
“In everything set them an example by doing what is good.” Titus 2:7
For what it's worth: Talk is cheap, especially when powered by alcohol. My words could create a victim instead of the villain or a hero instead of the loser I was. Doing so became so much a part of me that even I started to believe the lies. Here in recovery in Alcoholics Anonymous, I have to be especially vigilant about this defect. The lies and false impressions must stop. Empty words will not create healing. Daily practice of certain, simple principles will. Without that daily practice, the study of these principles, being learned and sounding off with authority on them is meaningless. The only way to do myself and anyone else any good is to practice these principles each day in all of my activities. Then, when I talk the Big Book, I do not have to use words.
God bless you!
Joe W.
“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10
Think about that for a moment. We are God’s workmanship, not our own. God is the Master Workman; not you or me. This God, whose work we've admired and whose power and love we've tasted, this is the creator of the rest of our lives. God has been pursuing us all this time because He loves us so much and He has a vision for who we can become. He is the creator of all that's beautiful and awe-inspiring and He can make a masterpiece out of the rest of our lives. Will we let Him? He cannot work on us unless we place ourselves in His hands and allow Him to have total control over us. We need to trust the Master Workman with the outcome of our lives and be willing to be used by Him in any manner that He wishes. He has created us for a purpose in mind: to do a work that He prepared for us long before we were even created. We have been fashioned to do good works. We cannot do these on our own, but only through Christ Jesus, our Lord, can we serve the Master Workman and bring Him glory and honor in all we do.
Father, thank you for making me a thing of beauty. I pray that as I submit myself to your hands, you can change me into the vision that you have for my life. Use me as you see fit and may I bring you glory and honor as I serve you! Amen Quiet Waters
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H I S FACE
"What do you see in that trial?" was the question I asked that guy! It is the same question I would ask the lady who wrote from another state sharing a most horrible experience she was going through. It is the same question I pose to that individual across the Atlantic ocean who wrote regarding a family matter or the one writing regarding terrible persecution in their country.
The question again, WHAT DO YOU SEE IN it?? My next statement while TRUE is one of the more difficult statements to absorb - certainly believe. It is: Part of the great and rich heritage that God has planned for us is suffering. He will permit in the life of each of his children a portion (a right portion in His eyes and understanding) of difficulty, trials and temptations.
What we SEE in those trials and temptations will largely determine the riches that will be ours.
It would be so great one Christian wrote to a friend, "To be able to go out in the days so yielded that every fresh circumstance or trial would prove to have the SWEET FACE OF JESUS concealed in it, or bursting like a flood of glory through some rift in the cloud and filling with radiance our uplifted faces; so that each new obedience should be but the parting of the curtain, ushering us into new wonders and experiences of His inexhaustible riches and fullness."
The worst that can come to you, the worst that Satan can do against you only furnishes a great and new opportunity for God. Yes, to David's words: (Ps. 27:8)
"Your face, Lord, I will seek."
Let's pray!
Lord God, my prayer for this special one is simply, "The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His FACE to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn His FACE toward you and give you peace."
Amen Words For Courageous Living
-----
Faith means to surrender all to God
God is ever victorious and God never fails to accomplish what He begins.
Though I am defeated ten thousand times, the Lord is never defeated nor brought low but is ever victorious.
At the end of days when the Lord returns with the Host of Heaven following along behind, the armies of the world who come out to oppose Him will be destroyed by the mere utterance of His Mouth.
The Lord is ever victorious and He shall utterly defeat all who oppose Him.
He is invincible and all who oppose Him shall be brought low.
The best thing we can do is to surrender all to Him and join in the victorious cavalcade and follow along behind Him.
Faith means to surrender all to God and to follow Him.
Follow God.
©10/11/2001 Jim Welch
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Devotional For Dieters
October 11
1 Peter 3:13
And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?
Kim's mother felt so sorry for her. She remembered what it was like to be overweight. All the other children were so cruel. She could still feel the sting of all the nicknames people had put on her. Now, Kim was suffering the same indignities. Her mother hoped she could get Kim on a diet, if for no other reason than to keep Kim's classmates from taunting her so mercilessly. Just taking steps to correct the problem made it easier to take. The insults didn't hurt so much after the problem was taken care of. Together, they would lose the weight. With God's help, time would heal the wounds of unkind words.
Today's thought: I will put all my excess weight behind me!
-----
THE BIG BOOK WITHOUT WORDS
“…We tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” Alcoholics Anonymous, page 60
“In everything set them an example by doing what is good.” Titus 2:7
For what it's worth: Talk is cheap, especially when powered by alcohol. My words could create a victim instead of the villain or a hero instead of the loser I was. Doing so became so much a part of me that even I started to believe the lies. Here in recovery in Alcoholics Anonymous, I have to be especially vigilant about this defect. The lies and false impressions must stop. Empty words will not create healing. Daily practice of certain, simple principles will. Without that daily practice, the study of these principles, being learned and sounding off with authority on them is meaningless. The only way to do myself and anyone else any good is to practice these principles each day in all of my activities. Then, when I talk the Big Book, I do not have to use words.
God bless you!
Joe W.