Sharon Sharing God: "FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY

Friday, July 22, 2011

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Contemplate

Welcome to "Fan the Flame" Friday.

This is a weekly post that will be "short and sweet" (kinda like me...)

Just a word and a phrase, a sentence or a question...just a little something to "fan the flame" of your creativity!

Today's word: contemplate

What does the word contemplate mean to you?

What things do you contemplate?

What things do you think God wants us to contemplate?

Let me know what you think!!

"This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you…For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline." (2 Timothy 1:6-7)

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Janettessage.blogspot.comJuly 22, 2011 at 6:04 AM
Well I will have to contemplate on that.

Right now I am contemplating on the "I will" that are written in the Bible. God is opening my eyes to how He is God and He does what he wants...how He would speak "I will" and so many times it was never earned, it was because He is God.
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WandaJuly 22, 2011 at 7:04 AM
Contemplate means to think over for a while. Lots of things I'm contemplating at this moment in my life.
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PeggyJuly 22, 2011 at 11:38 AM
Blessings my precious Sharon... I will have to contemplate on this one for awhile...

And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:17-18

So as I ponder carefully, thoughtfully and attentively... I'll mull over what God may want me to meditate on... but from the big to the small minuet details, I know that I have thought at great length about many things in my life:
spiritually, emotionally, psychologically and some physical things... but God's Word or what others say about God and His Word causes me to THINK deeply and sometimes superficially but in moments like these, I prefer to hear God speak.

So, I'll contemplate... and reflect on this. When I first looked for a verse, it (Google and Bible Gateway or maybe it was Biblos) gave me a verse with JUDGE... so I thought, how does "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight to obey you rather than God." and 'contemplate' have in common. Because I would never have thought of JUDGE with CONTEMPLATE.

Chewing this over... Peace, love and JOY,
Peggy
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CharlotteJuly 23, 2011 at 2:29 PM
Thank you for sharing this timely post. You are so right.
Blessings,
Charlotte
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SharonJuly 27, 2011 at 5:24 PM
I think for me the word that most closely resembles "contemplate" is ponder. To me it's thinking with wonder. Trying to figure out something that I'll never fully be able to understand - and yet, the thinking itself does something to my soul.

I have been "contemplating" the meaning of God's will lately. How it is that really difficult circumstances and challenges can really be part of His ultimate purpose. I contemplate the meaning of suffering - and ponder how this struggle will have a good outcome.

When I contemplate God, I am left with more questions than answers. But, I am left with The Answer - and He is enough, I believe, to contemplate forever!

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)

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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.

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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.

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Friday, July 22, 2011

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Contemplate

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