Hosea 6-9; Hebrews 3

Hebrews 3:7 and again vs. 14
Today, please listen; don't turn a deaf ear as in the bitter uprising.


Hard hearted today...self protective and hard....really going to try to listen ..... yeah, gonna really try to LISTEN today.

Isaiah 1 - 3; Titus 3

I really like Isaiah....don't remember why right at this moment.... but for some reason very excited to be starting it again...hoping you will read it with me and let me know what you think......

I am surrounded right now w/people ....... some of them seeking Christ and others with little to no interest in a journey.....I am confused and excited....wanting relationships to deepen and yet scared to death to take the steps to make that happen or be open to it.....

I am kind of a mess right now.....or maybe I'm always a mess and sometimes I just fail to see it for what it really is.....

Is. 1: 18-20"Come. Sit down. Let's argue this out."
This is God's Message:"If your sins are blood-red,
they'll be snow-white.If they're red like crimson,
they'll be like wool.If you'll willingly obey,
you'll feast like kings.But if you're willful and stubborn,
you'll die like dogs."That's right. God says so.

Titus 3: 8-11 I want you to put your foot down. Take a firm stand on these matters so that those who have put their trust in God will concentrate on the essentials that are good for everyone. Stay away from mindless, pointless quarreling over genealogies and fine print in the law code. That gets you nowhere. Warn a quarrelsome person once or twice, but then be done with him. It's obvious that such a person is out of line, rebellious against God. By persisting in divisiveness he cuts himself off.

And people ask me why I love connecting with God so much through His word......
I may be confused until the day I die about some things...
I may be forever in a wrestling match with God over some of those things......
but that confusion
that wrestling ...
hopefully are softening me to His will....
and in THAT softening perhaps someday I will draw others into their own journeys, their own wrestling matches with this most Amazing God.....and in that wrestling, finding Christ, finding the power of a relationship .....He does what He does....for His good and glory.....I hope so anyway.

Amos 7 - 9; Psalm 104; Titus 2

I am struggling w/alot this morning......if I really believed what I read would I, continue to struggle? I think so and ....

...so today just resting in the struggling...it's leading me to more and stronger beliefs....more and stronger feelings of being loved...more and stronger desires to love and forgive......

Titus 2: 11For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. 12 It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, 13 while we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.
15 These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.


I need GRACE... in receiving, actually receiving it..... I give it more freely..who knew this was how it worked and didn't tell me....;)

Amos 4- 6; Psalm 86; Titus 1

You go read it and come back and tell me what you think.

Jonah 1-4; 2 Timothy 2

Go to You Tube and search PS 22

Watch those kids......the freedom......their faces.....

Today I want to live in that freedom....I want that for you too.

Joel 1 - 3; 2 Timothy 1

I twittered this morning....trying not 2think 2much, not 2feel 2much, 2 rest in the confusion....days like this only one place to go....

So I'm here in all the confusion praying to hear You and in the hearing, listen and follow....I know You already know my confusion.....but dang today I feel very confused.....

Paul sounds pretty lonely here.....2 Timothy 1: 1-2 I, Paul, am on special assignment for Christ, carrying out God's plan laid out in the Message of Life by Jesus. I write this to you, Timothy, the son I love so much. All the best from our God and Christ be yours! To Be Bold with God's Gifts
3-4 Every time I say your name in prayer—which is practically all the time—I thank God for you, the God I worship with my whole life in the tradition of my ancestors. I miss you a lot, especially when I remember that last tearful good-bye, and I look forward to a joy-packed reunion.
5-7 That precious memory triggers another: your honest faith—and what a rich faith it is, handed down from your grandmother Lois to your mother Eunice, and now to you! And the special gift of ministry you received when I laid hands on you and prayed—keep that ablaze! God doesn't want us to be shy with his gifts, but bold and loving and sensible.
8-10 So don't be embarrassed to speak up for our Master or for me, his prisoner. Take your share of suffering for the Message along with the rest of us. We can only keep on going, after all, by the power of God, who first saved us and then called us to this holy work. We had nothing to do with it. It was all his idea, a gift prepared for us in Jesus long before we knew anything about it. But we know it now. Since the appearance of our Savior, nothing could be plainer: death defeated, life vindicated in a steady blaze of light, all through the work of Jesus.
11-12 This is the Message I've been set apart to proclaim as preacher, emissary, and teacher. It's also the cause of all this trouble I'm in. But I have no regrets. I couldn't be more sure of my ground—the One I've trusted in can take care of what he's trusted me to do right to the end.
13-14 So keep at your work, this faith and love rooted in Christ, exactly as I set it out for you. It's as sound as the day you first heard it from me. Guard this precious thing placed in your custody by the Holy Spirit who works in us.
15-18 I'm sure you know by now that everyone in the province of Asia deserted me, even Phygelus and Hermogenes. But God bless Onesiphorus and his family! Many's the time I've been refreshed in that house. And he wasn't embarrassed a bit that I was in jail. The first thing he did when he got to Rome was look me up. May God on the Last Day treat him as well as he treated me. And then there was all the help he provided in Ephesus—but you know that better than I.

In Soul Care by Larry Crabb he says in lesson 6 that...'We're foolish people. Every child begins life w/a natural inclination to pursue personal satisfacton as their number 1 agenda and to find that satisfaction in some source other than God. Now again, I want you to recall there's nothing wrong biblically with desiring satisfaction. I'm not condemning our desire for satisfaction. The Bible doesn't condemn it. In Jeremiah 2, God looks at His people and He says, "You're thirsty people who are going to the wrong place to satisfy your thirst." He never condemns the thirst. The thirst is legitimate. The thirst is what when embraced, drives us to God. When we see what we really long for, then we go to God. Primarily to relieve our thirst? No. Primarily for Him, which is the process relieves our thirst. What God condemns is not the thirst but going to the wrong places to satisfy the thirst.....'

I think today I am really very THIRSTY.....

2 Kings 11 - 12; 2 Chronicles 24; 1 Timothy 6

1 Timothy 6: ^17-19 Tell those rich in this world's wealth to quit being so full of themselves and so obsessed with money, which is here today and gone tomorrow. Tell them to go after God, who piles on all the riches we could ever manage—to do good, to be rich in helping others, to be extravagantly generous. If they do that, they'll build a treasury that will last, gaining life that is truly life.

^20-21And oh, my dear Timothy, guard the treasure you were given! Guard it with your life. Avoid the talk-show religion and the practiced confusion of the so-called experts. People caught up in a lot of talk can miss the whole point of faith.

Overwhelming grace keep you!

really what I journaled about this morning , what Dan and I talked about, what I am wrestling w/God about is how people hate prophets and about how sometimes when I point peole to God I feel like a prophet....and for someone who worries alot about people liking her....this is a battle...one I want to keep fighting because You are the only answer...a journey seeking Christ, following, seeking to follow Christ is the only answer.....but it is a battle.

It has to BE ABOUT YOU...if I try to advise ...hell I ain't go nuthin to advise, but if I do try I become something that gets in the way of their going to where they need to go....I've done it...I have an amazing friend and I am her go to gal not Jesus....I don't know how it happened and I try now to point her to You but ...but I'm scared to lose her now....scared to have her think I'm just this weird Jesus girl/woman...so I kind of point her to you but mostly I advise and I am scared to death of where she is now because I got in the way....so THAT'S what I'm wrestling with Him about today...

Overwhelming grace keep you!