Sharon Sharing God: BIG FISH...LITTLE FISH

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

BIG FISH...LITTLE FISH

We are studying the disciple John in my Bible Study.

And when I was doing my homework the other day, we were asked to put ourselves in the place of the newly-called disciple. What must it have been like to follow Jesus – to see Him perform miracles? Turn water into wine, heal Peter's mother-in-law of a fever?

Those first few days must have been so exciting.

Can't you just imagine how John must have thought each new morning, "I wonder what He's going to do today!"

So, I'm pondering this...

John saw Jesus do some really big things.

Goodness, John even saw Jesus feed a crowd of over 5,000 with two fish and five loaves of bread.

THAT is a "big fish" moment for sure.

But, I'm thinking, there also had to be times when John just sat across from a campfire,and shared a sparse meal of fish with Jesus. No hoopla, no miracles, just sitting…

A "little fish" moment, if you will.

What were John's thoughts then?...

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Joan HallOctober 19, 2011 at 7:37 PM
Hi Sharon:

I just wanted to take a moment to tell you how much I appreciate you providing the guest post this month.

I am always blessed and encouraged by your posts.
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DebbieOctober 19, 2011 at 8:45 PM
Heading over to Joan's place. Imagine that... two favorite bloggers in one fell swoooooop.

Feel like I'm catching the big fish.
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Chatty CroneOctober 20, 2011 at 6:37 AM
I left you a comment on Joan's blog! sandie
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PeggyNovember 1, 2011 at 4:02 PM
Thanks Sharon...One fish, two fish...red fish, blue fish... Love this OPENING... is it fishing opener? (lol) Don't know if I have time to catch the rest... but I think I read this when the two posts came out just did not write any feedback.

Totally unlike me... but I'm a weary fisherman, so I will just go off and sit in my boat with Jesus keeping it afloat and try to remember or imagine ..."the rest of the story..." until I can go finish (not fishin'...same letters though)I like the way you set this campfire scene... press on Sharon, I'm praying and done catching up... for now, Peggy
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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.

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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.

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"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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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

BIG FISH...LITTLE FISH

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