Sharon Sharing God: "FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY

Friday, April 13, 2012

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Luck

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: luck

How would you define the word luck?

Do you believe there is such a thing as good luck and bad luck?

What do you think the believer's position should be on the concept of luck?

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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DebbieApril 13, 2012 at 3:46 AM
My former pastor always said, "Luck is a pagan concept". I tend to agree with that. Luck implies that there is no plan or divine providence guiding and guarding events. They just "happen", and if you just happen to be in the right place at the right time, you benefit from them and call it good.

I think wishing someone luck or using the term is just verbal habit for most people. To truly believe in luck (good or bad) or superstitious nonsense that might affect that luck is a willful sin, IMO.

When I taught literature is a Christian school, and we learned the major literary conflicts, we didn't use the typical term Man vs. Fate. I always said Man vs. Providence. The kids knew that fate was the commonly accepted term, but I wanted them to know that as Christians, we look at things differently.
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Chatty CroneApril 13, 2012 at 4:57 AM
I don't know if it is luck or bad luck - but I do know when I am close to Jesus and I feel happy and I'm right on - things go better and when I am grumpy and not on tract things don't go as well! sandie
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Janettessage.blogspot.comApril 13, 2012 at 6:27 AM
No, no...don't use that word and don't believe in it at all...I am very careful to catch myself if a phrase starts to come out, "good luck"...no, no don't go there at all
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UnknownApril 13, 2012 at 2:18 PM
Hi Sharon,

Luck is a word, I try to leave out of my volcabury now -

Have a good weekend.
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Wendy @ E-1-AApril 14, 2012 at 7:47 AM
I tend to associate 'luck' with superstition! Luck tends to equate good/positive happenings (or the opposite) to an 'unknown entity'.
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DeniseApril 14, 2012 at 8:00 AM
I do not believe in luck.
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CharlotteApril 14, 2012 at 2:31 PM
I grew up using this word a lot. As I've gotten older I have realized it isn't luck. I'm learning not to ever use the word. Thank you for the reminder.
Blessings,
Charlotte
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Nikki (Sarah)April 15, 2012 at 10:31 AM
I believe in grace....and His will...whatever He determines will become reality. And I think it starts with a willing heart...someone open to Him.
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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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Friday, April 13, 2012

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Luck

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