Sharon Sharing God: "FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY

Friday, February 17, 2012

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Rely

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: rely

What does it mean to rely on something or someone?

What are some earthly things that people rely on?

How do you rely on the 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)

BLOG = "Blessedly Leaning On God!"

8 comments:

DeniseFebruary 17, 2012 at 3:18 AM
To me, rely on means to totally depend on something, or someone. I love the acronom frog-Fully Rely Upon God. That is what I do, He is my all in all.
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DebbieFebruary 17, 2012 at 8:05 AM
It always brings to mind that old counseling game where you lean back and believe that the person behind you will not let you fall.

In short, I equate it with leaning. I think what God would love us to do is to lean like the Nestea Plunge.

BTW, Now, I have a certain old hymn stuck in my head.
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UnknownFebruary 17, 2012 at 1:40 PM
Hi Sharon,

Totally trust, yes, leaning on believing you will not fall. Setting forth on very shaky ground, knowing He will hold your hand and keep you steadfast.
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Chatty CroneFebruary 17, 2012 at 6:59 PM
Funny - rely - means to count on someone. How do I count of God - that is a good question. Sometimes better than others. Sandie
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PamelaFebruary 20, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Prayer is one of the ways I rely on God. My husband prays each time we get in the car -- traveling protection, clarity for worship, receptive help for truth, intuition for those who need shelter, etc.
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CharlotteFebruary 21, 2012 at 12:41 PM
I rely on my husband for a lot of things. I'm glad he is a reliable person. If he says he will do something you know he is going to do it. I have other people in my life now and in the past that I could rely on but nobody is as reliable as God. He never ever fails.
Blessings,
Charlotte
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PeggyFebruary 28, 2012 at 12:45 PM
Ribit, ribit,... I'm a F.R.O.G.
I FULLY RELY ON GOD...

What does it mean to rely on something or someone?

What are some earthly things that people rely on?

How do you rely on the Lord?

In order to RELY, I must fully trust... so that I can come to depend on whatever or whomever... it is built on confidence based on experience. The humans I have relied upon, in my opinion have failed me, as I am sure I have failed them. But I hope I'm more reliable than many that I have tried to rely on... does that make any sense? I have relied far too often on people... my full dependency in in God... (also part of my definition of RELY = to depend or be able to depend on that One... I hardly ever rely on things and less on people daily...

I've learned to RELY on our Lord so much being away from all that is familiar... you can't help but come to that place... by praying to God, shows my complete reliance on Him for so much of my life from protection to provision... although many times God uses people to be His vehicle, His hands and feet,
and on this I can RELY!!!

Thanks Sharon and many blessings as you RELY on God's direction,
Peggy
out of time...bye :0) only had 1 more Fan the Flame to go... grrrrrrrr
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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, February 17, 2012

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Rely

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