Sharon Sharing God: SATURDAY STROLL

Saturday, December 17, 2011

SATURDAY STROLL

Welcome to "SATURDAY STROLL!"

In these posts I will be interacting with Scripture – making it a conversational walk of faith.

Sometimes we'll be talking with Jesus, sometimes God will be talking to us.

There might even be *guest appearances* by some of our beloved characters from the Bible!

So put on your walking shoes – you know we can all use the exercise!

Moses has a talk with me:

Sharon, I have told you the commands and regulations that the LORD our God has told me to teach you.

You are about to enter a new year, 2012, and it's important that you obey them.

The LORD has new territory awaiting you – He is opening up new doors of opportunity.

So, listen closely, Sharon, and be careful to obey.

Moses, I sense the LORD moving in new directions. I want nothing more than to hear what His purposes are for me.

Good! The most important thing to remember is the LORD is our God, yours and mine. And He is the only true God.

Yes, so much false teaching out there, Moses. So many people saying that there are many roads to God, many roads to heaven.

Ah, yes. But there is only the road of salvation through Jesus Christ. Only God's way to the Promised Land.

So, how do I obey Him?

First things first.

Love the LORD your God with all of your heart…

All of my loyalty, my feelings, my desires…

And all of your soul…

All of my thoughts, my character, and my innermost being, the core of who I am…

And all of your strength…

All of my patience, endurance, perseverance…

And you must commit yourself wholeheartedly to Him. Repeat His commands and promises again and again.

Talk about them – when you're at home and when you're out and about. When you are going to bed and when you are getting up.

Yes, Moses – at all times, I will remember the words of God.

Fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Be diligent. Do what is right and good in His sight.

Fear the LORD, and He will continue to bless you and preserve you.

I will fear the LORD, for those who fear Him will have all they need.

God has promised the crown of life to those who love Him.

Oh, how I love Him…

(From Deuteronomy 6, Psalms 34, and James 1)

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6 comments:

DebbieDecember 17, 2011 at 4:42 AM
I'm in full on Moses mode these days because of what I've been learning and teaching for the past many months. I love this little conversation between you and the one who talked to the LORD face to face, as one talks to a friend. That's what these little Saturday strolls remind me of, in fact.

I am still in freak out mode over the way that God even brought me to the new year in that above mentioned study exactly in perfect timing. I did NOT plan it that way when I started the unit earlier in the year. He is teaching me,and I so desperately want to learn.
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ReneeDecember 17, 2011 at 11:09 AM
What an interesting conversation with Moses...love the idea of that and of course what he has to say. God bless.
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KarenDecember 18, 2011 at 2:25 AM
Amen...loved how you shared this scripture lesson, Sharon!
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Esther JoyDecember 18, 2011 at 5:38 PM
Love your water and rock pictures! And sounds like Moses had good Scriptural advice for us all!
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PeggyDecember 19, 2011 at 5:30 PM
I love Him, too!

Thank you Sharon for a delightful stroll on Mon. with Moses and you! It's easy to talk the talk, a bit more to walk the walk and obedience and holiness is what we are called to... for me that's quite a difficult task, but my heart is for it, just need to get the rest of me in line...

Clearly, we are walking on Holy Ground with Moses, and I hear that there are angels all round. Looks like God's opening in avenues for you. Good for you! Thanks for the scriptural stroll of inspiration and encouragement with great insights from the Tablet Carrier, who knew the Glory of God... and kept a covenant that we are able to have seen fulfilled because of obedient servants of the OT... and since!

Many blessings Sharon,
Peggy
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CharlotteDecember 22, 2011 at 1:24 PM
This is a unique and interesting way to present the truth. You and Moses did well.
Blessings,
Charlotte
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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

Sharon Sharing God

Saturday, December 17, 2011

SATURDAY STROLL

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