Sharon Sharing God: HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

Friday, August 6, 2010

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

Just wanted to THANK everyone for a truly blessed week!

Your support and encouragement MEAN EVERYTHING!

I'll leave you with just a few words from Scripture:

"I always thank my God for you and the gracious gifts he has given you, now that you belong to Christ Jesus." (1 Corinthians 1:4)

"[I] always thank God for all of you and pray for you constantly. As [I] pray to our God and Father about you, [I] think of your faithful work, your loving deeds, and the enduring hope you have because of our Lord Jesus Christ."

(1 Thessalonians 1:2-3)

"Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God. Whenever I pray, I make my requests for all of you with joy, for you have been my partners in spreading the GOOD NEWS about Christ Jesus...And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Jesus Christ returns." (Philippians 1:3-6)

And finally, always and forever...my immeasurable gratitude to a God who is so GOOD!

"GIVE THANKS TO THE LORD, FOR HE IS GOOD!

His faithful love endures forever."

(For a great praise Scripture, read Psalm 136!)

BLOG = "Blessedly Leaning On God!"

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MTJAugust 6, 2010 at 9:55 AM
Hi Sharon,

I hope you have a good weekend and may the spirit of joy bless you immensely.

MTJ
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Joan HallAugust 6, 2010 at 3:47 PM
Hi Sharon:

Thanks for the encouraging words from scripture. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Blessings,
Joan
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KarenAugust 6, 2010 at 7:50 PM
Amen! Love your acronym for BLOG....
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Joan HallAugust 7, 2010 at 9:47 AM
Hi Sharon - stopping by again this morning to say thanks for your visit and your comments. Oh...I ssssoooo need to slow down! Like you, writing deadlines (whether self-imposed or those submitted for publication)often leave me frantic. And also, I seem to get my best ideas in the early mornings.

Blessings and joy,
Joan
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DebbieAugust 7, 2010 at 12:21 PM
Hope that the rest of your weekend is wonderful and chock full of snaps and jazz hands!

I got SUCH huge a smile out of your stop sign rainbow comment. God just keeps passing around the colors this week!
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"So [I] have been greatly encouraged in the midst of [my] troubles and suffering, dear brothers and sisters, because you have remained strong in your faith. It gives [me] new life to know that you are standing firm in the Lord. How [I] thank God for you!" (1 Thessalonians 3:7-9)

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MY WORD FOR 2016

GRATEFUL

Grateful: feeling or showing thanks to someone for some helpful act; appreciative of benefits received; warmly or deeply thankful; indebted; beholden.

Word origin: 1550's, "pleasing to the mind," also "full of gratitude," from obsolete adj. grate "agreeable, thankful," from Latin gratus "pleasing" – derived from the same word origin as the word "grace."

The trick to changing your behavior is to become more thankful.

The practice of gratitude involves a focus on the present moment, on appreciating your life as it is today and what has made it so.

Let us begin an eternal quest to express in new and creative ways our thanks to God.

So I'm breathing in Your grace,

And I'm breathing out Your praise.

Let our prayers be the overflow of a grateful heart to God.

Three steps in prayer:

PRAISE – praise, reverence, worship, adoration, and awe for who God is and what He does

ASK – honest, earnest, and intense requests

THANK YOU – always end with thanksgiving for everything

Pulpit commentary:

In everything give thanks.

In every circumstance – in joy and in sorrow; for everything – for prosperity and for adversity; in every place – in the house of God and on the bed of sickness.

Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving.

For this – this thankful spirit – is the will of God, His desire.

God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Gill's Exposition:

Thanks are to be given to him for all things…

For all temporal good things;

for our beings, the preservation of them;

for food and raiment, and all the mercies of life;

for the means of grace, the word and ordinances, and the ministers of the Gospel;

for spiritual blessings, for electing, redeeming, regenerating, adopting, pardoning, justifying, and persevering grace:

for a meetness for heaven, a right unto it, and a good hope of it;

and especially for Jesus Christ, for such a…Saviour, and advocate with the Father, as he is; and for life, peace, joy, comfort, righteousness, and salvation in him.

Thanks should be given to God in every circumstance of life; in adversity, as Job did; when not in so comfortable and agreeable a frame of soul as to be wished for…even under the temptations of Satan…since the grace of God is sufficient to bear up under them, and deliver out of them.

[Give thanks] in afflictions of every kind, since they are all for good – temporal, or spiritual, or eternal.

WHAT IS LOVE?

Love is when you are missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing.

By Emma K. - Age 6

"Out of the mouth of babes..."

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Anonymous

When you are uncertain, it helps to have someone remind you what is true – someone who knows you well, who sees you, and keeps track of you – not just your body but your soul.

Emily Freeman

Sharon Sharing God

Friday, August 6, 2010

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

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