Sharon Sharing God: "FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY

Friday, September 2, 2011

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Resurrection

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: resurrection

What does the word resurrection mean?

How does resurrection differ from re-creation and reincarnation?

What difference does Jesus’ resurrection make in your life?

(I have chosen this word in honor of my aunt, who just recently passed away, and to remember all the loved ones we so eagerly await seeing again someday in the presence of our Lord!)

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.comSeptember 2, 2011 at 8:47 AM
It means LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pure and simple...life in its original form...where we worship to the full extent, how life was before sin entered the world...oh I look so forward to that day
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DebbieSeptember 2, 2011 at 8:53 AM
Ok, well I saw this four hours ago but was waiting for someone else to jump in first. Maybe we're all doing the same thing?

I am so afraid that someone will jump in and tell me I'm wrong this time.

I know that resurrection is a rising up. It implies or requires a death of the flesh. I can't resurrect without the prerequisite of being dead. I believe that we have one kind of resurrection when Christ transforms us from dead men walking to children alive in Christ. I also believe in the resurrection of the dead in Christ to glorified bodies.

I guess in re creation, there is a whole new and distinctly different creation. It would be like God creating a whole new Debbie. (Oh good grief...) To me, God re creates the HEART when we receive Him. It's a heart transplant from Jesus to us. The fact that that new heart has to abide with our old flesh is that pesky matter of sanctification.

Reincarnation... that's the belief that our soul inhabits another host body, right? Since I don't believe in it, I admit to being kind of ignorant about it.

That's the best that I can do.
Now, my shoulder hurts. I need that glorified body...
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DebbieSeptember 2, 2011 at 8:54 AM
OK. What Janette said.
Just scratch mine.
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PeggySeptember 2, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Blessings Sharon... Powerful WORD and like Debbie said much to ponder and wait to see what others may say... naw, not for me.. This is an extremely deep word... but having only glanced at the previous so as not to loose my train of thought and my first impression (no, that was another day;s post)... to write right away what came to my mind... JESUS!

Resurrection = revive (revival), renew (renewal), resuscitate ...to come back to life and rebirth (be born again... not really but to be ALIVE once again. To RISE UP... yes, that's the final choice... to resurge, or revitalize, which most of my previous words cover. Jesus rose again and came back to LIFE! Our lives can be redeemed in that Resurrection!!! Hallelujah!

Now, what were the other questions?

I totally forgot them... but I think I vaguely remember some yucky stuff like reincarnation or re-creation, which mean nothing to me. For I put all my faith in the ONE and ONLY, Resurrection of Jesus Christ and those who believe in Him that one day will be reunited. Lots of RE- in this response... but that is my HOPE that I depend on...RE- AGAIN... BACK AGAIN, yes to re- enJOY all our loved ones to be in the Presence of the Almighty. The greatest re-birth available and the complete healing of all this world burdened us with... to be totally ALIVE in CHRIST! To rise up with Him and give all our praises and worship to the Only Creator and Healer, the Lord God Almighty, RESURRECTED and seated at the right hand of the Father... true GLORY and TRUE LIFE ETERNALLY! Yes, that is the Resurrection the best celebration EVER!

See ya' there...
Love and hugs,
Peggy
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CharlotteSeptember 2, 2011 at 3:40 PM
Resurrection to me means hope. Where would we be without hope? I don't even like to think about it.
Blessings,
Charlotte
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Chatty CroneSeptember 2, 2011 at 6:00 PM
Death to life!
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SharonSeptember 8, 2011 at 4:16 PM
WONDERFUL!!

Debbie, thank you for sharing such an in-depth look at this word. I was truly enlightened by your thoughts. And Peggy, you added so much more, too.

The rest of you also mentioned the crucial aspect of the word resurrection - it is LIFE!

To take a dead thing and make it alive - and, in the case of we believers, made alive again for eternity!

PRAISE GOD!

All made possible when hope began in an empty tomb...

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.

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.

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Friday, September 2, 2011

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Resurrection

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