Sharon Sharing God: QUAINT WORDS

Saturday, March 26, 2011

QUAINT WORDS

Welcome to "Quaint Words!”

These posts will contain thoughts, poems, and prayers from old books that I have found at antique stores, flea markets, and garage sales (with an occasional treasure from a bookstore).

I love the rhythm and sound of the older English language, and am blessed by other believers who have gone before me!

"GOD HIMSELF HIS OWN BEST GIFT -

Enlarge your desires and your prayers. Do not ask merely for mercies and favours and common gifts. Do not ask God merely to give you bread, and health, and home, and friends, and prosperity; or, rising yet a step higher, do not content yourself with asking for grace to help in temptation, or for strength to fill up your weakness, or for wisdom to guide you in perplexity, or for holiness and purity and power.

Ask for God himself, and then open your heart to receive him. If you have God, you have all other gifts and blessings in him.

And it is him himself that God is willing to give for the asking, not merely the favours and benefits that his hand dispense. Ask most largely."

(From "In Green Pastures" by J.R. Miller, c. 1840-1912)

(A listing of books and authors, and also dates of individual postings from those books, will be found on my "QUAINT WORDS" page)

BLOG = "Blessedly Leaning On God!"

6 comments:

Chatty CroneMarch 26, 2011 at 9:09 AM
I think your right - sometimes we ask God for something and we may not believe he'll answer - so we miss it! Sandie
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CharlotteMarch 26, 2011 at 9:32 AM
So true. The greatest blessing is God himself. Thank you for sharing this "quaint" post.
Blessings,
Charlotte
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LisaShawMarch 26, 2011 at 9:40 AM
WOW this says it all for me: "Ask for God himself, and then open your heart to receive him. If you have God, you have all other gifts and blessings in him."

Thanks Sharon for sharing this with us and thanks for your prayers and encouragement!

Sending a hug to you!
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Nikki (Sarah)March 26, 2011 at 11:11 AM
I think this is true...when you have God...you really do have everything. and Sharon...cheering for you...that you're doing what I'm doing....facing your fear...standing up for Him....and sharing your truth. I know you're gonna make a difference b/c you do here everytime I read you posts. Stay strong out there...and brave in Him....
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JudyMarch 26, 2011 at 6:23 PM
Hi Sharon,

What an interesting perspective! Never thought to ask for God himself. Although I do ask for more of the holy spirit, for God to fill me with his spirit to overflowing. Is that the same thing?

Blessings,
Judy
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SharonMarch 28, 2011 at 5:12 PM
Sandie - Keeping my eyes open for unexpected answers!

Charlotte - Glad you liked this one! God is the best gift of all - and the only one we get to keep for eternity!

Lisa - These quaint words really encouraged me, too. And a big hug right back at you!

Sarah - Thanks so much for your very encouraging words. The enemy is really trying to "shout me down" right now. Since last week, you wouldn't believe the things that have happened - so, I totally appreciate what you said, and would treasure your prayers.

Judy - Good point. I think it's very much in the same ballpark, for sure. What I thought of was asking for a sense of Him - just a fullness of His love and light. That, of course, can only come because of the Holy Spirit's presence.

GOD BLESS!
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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

Saturday, March 26, 2011

QUAINT WORDS

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