Sharon Sharing God: VISITING IN BLOG LAND

Thursday, October 20, 2011

VISITING IN BLOG LAND

Hi everyone!

For those of you who are used to seeing me post early Wednesday morning - well, here I am on Thursday morning!

How come, you may ask...

Well, I had the honor of doing a guest post for Joan on her blog, Reflections of His Grace, for her weekly Grace Cafe feature (the link is embedded).

Won't you please join me over there - I'd love to have you read about

"Big Fish, Little Fish."

And trust me, you will really enjoy Joan's lovely blog.

C'mon - you've got the time. Come enjoy a cup of encouragement!

BLOG = "Blessedly Leaning On God!"

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WandaOctober 20, 2011 at 5:50 AM
Hi Sharon, will pop over when I get the chance. Have a great day!
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Chatty CroneOctober 20, 2011 at 6:02 AM
Heading right over . . . sandie
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Joan Davis (Jo)October 20, 2011 at 6:09 AM
I'm there!!
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http://bitsandpieces-sonja.blogspot.com/October 20, 2011 at 6:23 AM
Wonderful Sharon, and so good to think on this morning. I am reminded many times that I have no less of Him living in me even on the days when I don't feel that, than when I am fully excited and aware of His preesence... maybe on those off days, it is even MORE meaningful. HE never changes... thanks GOD!!!

xo
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Anita JohnsonOctober 20, 2011 at 6:35 AM
Read your post on Joan's blog. Remembering to enjoy the little fish moments today, and as I do, they add up to one big helping!
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Janettessage.blogspot.comOctober 20, 2011 at 8:28 AM
Will join you there...I know I am in for a treat as always!
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bettyOctober 20, 2011 at 8:30 AM
I couldn't comment over there, Sharon, for some reason I have trouble commenting on that particular forum on other blogs as well. But I love your analogy of the big fish/small fish; I'm amazed like you are that the Creator of the universe knows my name and loves me and is with me no matter what is going on! So very nicely done Sharon!!

have a great day!

betty
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PamelaOctober 20, 2011 at 11:43 AM
Congratulations on the guest blogging. I'm headed over to read it!
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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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Thursday, October 20, 2011

VISITING IN BLOG LAND

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