Sharon Sharing God: "FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY

Friday, December 30, 2011

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Resolution

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: resolution

What is a resolution?

What does it take to make - and keep - a resolution?

What is one resolution you have for the new year?

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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Joan Davis (Jo)December 30, 2011 at 6:59 AM
Resolution...to draw closer and develop an even deeper relationship with my Lord. I long to understand more of His teachings and live out His plan for me! I'd like to work on all areas of this including prayer, Bible study, scripture memorization, fellowship, service and worship! I'm jumping in in 2012!

Blessings, Joan
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DeniseDecember 30, 2011 at 12:56 PM
My resolution is to grow closer to God.
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http://bitsandpieces-sonja.blogspot.com/December 30, 2011 at 3:38 PM
My resolution is to be INTENTIONAL, about so many things God has pointed out to me for my life. I am on the way... 2012 is going to be special!!

xo
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Chatty CroneDecember 30, 2011 at 5:32 PM
Dear Sharon,

Happy New Year - I loves yah. sandie
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Lisa notes...December 30, 2011 at 5:56 PM
Resolution: a commitment to a course of action or thought. I take my resolutions seriously and put a lot of thought into them each year. And here we go again!
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PamelaJanuary 1, 2012 at 6:12 AM
I chose healthy for my 2012 word--physically, spiritually, emotionally.
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LynnJanuary 1, 2012 at 11:42 AM
My resolution is to use my blog this year in an act of gratitude. Using my love of photography and my blog to Praise Him. Happy New Year. I am grateful to be to read your post on this the first day of the brand new year.
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Nikki (Sarah)January 2, 2012 at 4:08 AM
wishing you His best in 2012.....my resolution....to keep following Him.
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PeggyJanuary 10, 2012 at 12:58 PM
Blessings Sharon,

No resolutions for this girl!

Resolution is not part of my vocabulary, perhaps that is why I stirred clear of this fan the flame for so long!

I'm sure resolution has something to do with "RESOLVE"... but I know that you are using this for New Year's Resolutions! In my life, I have not resolved much... I think I run from conflict, at least resolving them.
However Jesus is a great resolutionist as well as a revolutionist or in His case SERVOLTION ist!!! and an abolitionist while I'm at it as we are approaching National Human Trafficking Awareness day...Jan.11th...

So what is resolution?
So I did not cheat and read the above but I'm pretty sure that even ye ole Webster would agree with me, or me with them... resolution is a process of RESOLVING...aye there's the rub (again)
(or has that post not posted yet?)(that's what happens when you go back in time to comment)... Yep, Merriam Webster says an act or process of resolving... so then you have to go check out resolving or continue on...the interesting words I found were the synonyms that include: award, call, conclusion, deliverance, determination, diagnosis, judgment (or judgement), opinion, decision, verdict.
The eye opener: DELIVERANCE and sad to see JUDGMENT... I was sure verdict was in there... and opinions for those highly opinionated people. But there and not so hidden DETERMINATION and CALL, hmmmmmmmmmm?

The simple way I see the "resolution" that you're asking about is CHANGE!
An act of change... I wish it was just the hope of change or attempt at change or even the willingness to change. The problem is that too many are set in there old ways, their comfortable ways,
and as for me... change comes through conviction of the Holy Spirit, who is the only agent of change for me. I can only think of the Serenity prayer here.

What does it take to make - and keep - a resolution? part of the definition or at least synonyms:
DETERMINATION... but as I pointed out above the Holy Spirit... it is making something a discipline, a yielded heart and a willing spirit to change.

What is one resolution you have for the new year? even though I don't do "resolutions", I have chosen a word that evolves in me as I watch God work on me with the word hopefully given by Him, but firmly planted in my mind for 2012: LIGHT... and all that implies for me to be a Light takes alot of change and discipline and moving in His Spirit, listening and hearing, changing and staying in His Word and Spirit!!!
Allowing Him full control to shine His Light through me, on me, to others and exposing the darkness in me and in others to change and hopefully I reflect more of His image... as I behold His glory shining forth in my words, thoughts, actions, LIFE! daily.

Thanks for fanning my flame... i'm a little burnt but it's ok... Love you,
Peggy
(I can't believe that I missed this far back...working on catching up as I can)
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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.

Emily Freeman

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Friday, December 30, 2011

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Resolution

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