Sharon Sharing God: QUAINT WORDS

Saturday, July 23, 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!

"The great adventure with the will of God never seemed more inviting than it does today. Upheaving forces are felt underneath all the life of this world. Great loves and hates are kindling, whole layers of society that have seemed stolid are beginning to stir with the consciousness of wanting more life.

It is time to preach the Gospel of God in terms that people on the street can understand. It is time to infuse into the lay membership of the church an enthusiasm for communicating the wonderful way of living...

Christian men and women everywhere in business and social life must find out how to make those whom they meet every day feel the power of life that beats within them. They must know how to share it with others and so be true to its inmost spirit."

(From "What It Means To Be A Christian" by Edward Increase Bosworth, c. 1922)

Is this message any less timely than when it was written almost 90 years ago?!

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

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Janettessage.blogspot.comJuly 23, 2011 at 5:11 AM
Always great words for my Saturday morning...and no these words aren't any less timely than when they were first written...may I get the same passion to share the love of Christ...well I have a whole new neighbor to start with.
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GingerJuly 23, 2011 at 7:28 AM
Spot on. The more things change the more God's word stays the same!
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Saleslady371July 23, 2011 at 11:55 AM
The neat thing about Jesus is that He is always needed by every person in every society and His message is pertinent to all. Have a great weekend, Sharon!
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PamelaJuly 23, 2011 at 7:24 PM
The words may be "quaiter" but the truth is the same. Keep sharing!
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DebbieJuly 25, 2011 at 2:31 PM
Now I want to google him. I have never heard of him. I'm assuming he was pivotal in the Great Awakening? It never ceases to amaze me how relevant the "quaint words" you find are, whether they were written in the 20th century or the 17th. The struggle is always the same, isn't it?
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SharonJuly 27, 2011 at 5:30 PM
Janette - How exciting! A new *mission field* for you and God to work in! And yes, these words really are so timeless, aren't they?

Ginger - I love how you said that! The more things change, the more God's Word, and God Himself, remain the same! He is the Alpha and the Omega, the same yesterday, today, and forever!

Mary - A great insight. Yes, these words are timeless because Jesus reaches into the innermost parts of the human heart - and that is a heart that has desperately needed the Lord since the very beginning.

Pamela - Thanks for the encouraging word! Quaint words still speak truth indeed!

Debbie - You know what? I don't know anything about him either. I'm going to have to research that a little bit. Yes, the struggle is the same. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to sit down and have a conversation with Eve - I'm thinking we would both "get" each other just fine. Human hearts - all the same. And as Mary said, all in need of the saving grace of Jesus and the transforming work of His Holy Spirit.

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

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QUAINT WORDS

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