Sharon Sharing God: "FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY

Friday, March 9, 2012

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Lie

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: lie

What would you say a lie is?

What damage can a lie do?

What is the biggest lie that Satan tells you?

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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9 comments:

DebbieMarch 9, 2012 at 3:36 AM
I guess it's anything in opposition to truth. I think a lie can include things that are said, not said, half said, implied, or twisted. There's probably more, but I can't think of it right now.

The Father of All Lies has spoken so many whoppers to me that it's hard to single out just one. I guess his most common one is that God doesn't really have a plan for me and I'm just a big old nothing.
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Chatty CroneMarch 9, 2012 at 8:33 AM
I don't like to lie - but I have - I hate to hurt people. sandie
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Janettessage.blogspot.comMarch 9, 2012 at 8:43 AM
Oh my!!! Well I posted this morning then later came here....my post answers this one! We seem to be on the same path
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DeniseMarch 9, 2012 at 5:07 PM
A lie, is untruthful words or actions. Lies can do much damage to a heart, and to a life. The biggest lie that satan constantly tells me, is that I am not worthy.
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CharlotteMarch 9, 2012 at 9:09 PM
Since Satan is the father of lies, it seems he will stop at nothing to deceive us. I think he usually tells us lies in areas we are the likeliest to believe them.
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Joan Davis (Jo)March 11, 2012 at 1:07 PM
A lie is anything contrary to the truth...When applied to the lies that the deceiver tells us, it is anything that is not what God tells us. The deceiver wants to discourage and demoralize us...he tries to tell us that we are worthless. However, the words of Truth are from our Lord! His words encourage us as He reminds us that we are redeemed, loved, valued, adored and saved! Thank God!
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CharlotteMarch 11, 2012 at 2:16 PM
People sometimes have a hard time determining what a lie is. Politically someone says someone else didn't tell the truth. If asked if they lied, they hesitate to say it was a lie but if it was not the truth but was untrue, then I think that qualifies as a lie. Sometimes though someone will say something they honestly believe is the truth. Then I don't think you could say they lied. They just believed a lie. Satan, the father of lies, is well qualified to deceive.
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.

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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.

By Emma K. - Age 6

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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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Friday, March 9, 2012

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Lie

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