Sharon Sharing God: SOME NEW YEAR "REMODELING"

Sunday, January 2, 2011

SOME NEW YEAR "REMODELING"

Hi friends!

Just wanted to alert you to a few new features on my blog!

On the sidebar:

VERSE OF THE DAY - Inspiration from God's Word

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - A helpful insight

QUESTION OF THE DAY - Something to ponder

PRAYER FOR THE WEEK - To focus your heart and mind

"THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA" - Quotes from my favorite author,

C.S. Lewis

(Hint: This will be located just below the picture of a lion - Aslan!)

At the bottom of my blog:

READ THROUGH THE BIBLE - I'll be offering two plans this year.

1) Daily Scripture plan including a passage from the Old Testament, one

from the New Testament, one from Psalms, and one from Proverbs

2) Daily Scripture plan if you want to read the Bible "cover-to-cover"

Looking forward to sharing our journeys in 2011!

BLOG = "Blessedly Leaning On God!"

5 comments:

bettyJanuary 2, 2011 at 7:15 AM
Wow Sharon, lots of great work you have put into this!! Looks fantastic!

betty
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Patrinas PencilJanuary 2, 2011 at 7:37 AM
Looks good, Sharon....thanks for your organized thots. You are so focused. I love that about you.

hugs and happy new year
patrina <")>><
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Chatty CroneJanuary 2, 2011 at 1:40 PM
I love C.S. Lewis and his books - his writings - and the way he thinks. Most unusual man - but I get him. Love, sandie
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JoyfullJanuary 2, 2011 at 6:22 PM
That is some great stuff that you added! We will be leaving here blessed, encouraged and strenghtened after each visit. Thanks for your ministry!
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SharonJanuary 2, 2011 at 9:43 PM
Betty - Thanks! I really appreciate it. It was actually FUN to do it!

Patrina - What a thoughtful comment. Thank you. (If only my desk was as organized as my thoughts!!)

Sandie - I'm so glad to find out that you like Lewis! We'll have to "chat" about him from time to time. I also appreciate the way he thinks. And I love how he was able to intelligently argue for the faith, and also write stories that were full of imagination and whimsy.

Joyfull - I'm glad you like the new "stuff!" And thank you for your very kind comments. I'm just privileged that God allows me to share His Words, and my journey, with other wonderful believers!

GOD BLESS!
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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)

Thanks for your comments - it is such a joy to be sharing my journey with friends like YOU!

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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

Sunday, January 2, 2011

SOME NEW YEAR "REMODELING"

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