Sharon Sharing God: "FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY

Friday, August 3, 2012

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Victory

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: victory

What does the word victory mean?

Do you think there's a difference between a win and a victory? If yes, explain.

What feelings does a victory give?

In what ways do you claim victory in the middle of your defeats?

(Can you tell I've been watching a lot of the Olympics??)

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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8 comments:

KerrieAugust 3, 2012 at 4:26 AM
Hi Sharon, Popping in to say G'day, I haven't forgotten you. I hope things have now settled down for you and you're now enjoying your new home and this new chapter in your life with hubby. God bless. Sending love your way, Kerrie
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UnknownAugust 3, 2012 at 5:01 AM
Hi Sharon,

Victory, means to me the one Jesus secured for me, when He died in my place on the cross at Calvary.

Hope you are feeling more settled and energised now and that you have an adequate internet connection.

God Bless - Nita.
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DeniseAugust 3, 2012 at 4:34 PM
Sweet blessings to you my friend.
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Anita JohnsonAugust 4, 2012 at 5:31 AM
I'll have to ponder Victory today, but now I have this old hymn in my mind...

Oh, victory in Jesus,
My Saviour forever
He sought me
And He bought me
With His redeeming blood

He loved me
Ere I knew Him
And all my love
Is due Him
He plunged me to victory
Beneath the
Cleansing flood!
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PamelaAugust 4, 2012 at 6:00 PM
This Olympic week victory makes me think of gold metals! But, more than Olympic victory is the victory I have in Jesus. Anita's song is one we sang throughout my childhood.
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ReneeAugust 5, 2012 at 6:53 AM
When I think of the word victory I see joy on my face and the faces of those around me...victory in Jesus! For me victory does not mean winning as we think of it in the Olympics, but finishing the race...a personal victory...it means my vicotry comes from Christ and I just have to walk it out....
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CharlotteAugust 7, 2012 at 8:02 AM
Victory is the "ultimate" win.
Blessings,
Charlotte
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SharonAugust 9, 2012 at 10:12 PM
What does the word victory mean?

It means to conquer something, to overcome something, to come through an ordeal successfully.

Do you think there's a difference between a win and a victory? If yes, explain.

I do think there's a difference. To me, a win means that you have outscored or bested someone in some sort of contest. I think of coming in first place - the gold medal. However, victory is a more subjective matter, in my opinion. It doesn't necessarily mean that you come in first. Sometimes it just means that your perseverance or patience has allowed you to overcome an obstacle. I am reminded of the Olympics four years ago. In some race, a favorite runner pulled up lame with a hamstring injury. But he managed to hobble his way to the finish line - with a very touching assist by his loving father. That, my friends, was a victory.

What feelings does a victory give?

Joy, exhilaration, relief, pride (the good kind), satisfaction.

In what ways do you claim victory in the middle of your defeats?

I believe that the Christian's victory is a matter of position, not of power. Power might help you win, but it is our position as God's children that gives us victory in the middle of our defeats. We are victors because of our victorious Savior.

We will cross the finish line with a loving assist from our Father, and we will live in eternity victorious over sin forever!!

GOD BLESS!
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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, August 3, 2012

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Victory

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