Sharon Sharing God: "FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY

Friday, August 31, 2012

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Childlike

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: childlike

How would you define the word childlike?

What is the difference between being childlike and being childish?

What is childlike faith, and why do you think Jesus calls us to practice it?

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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Chatty CroneAugust 31, 2012 at 6:01 PM
Hello - how are you doing out there? Do you love your new place? Andy is loving his new school. Sandie
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CharlotteAugust 31, 2012 at 8:01 PM
There is a lot of difference between child like and childish. I know Jesus didn't say we should all be childish but he did say we should be like a little child. Thank you for this thought provoking post.
Blessings,
Charlotte
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SharonSeptember 6, 2012 at 5:47 PM
How would you define the word childlike?

Returning to an innocence of spirit that we possessed when we were young. Having a sense of wonder about the beauty of the world. Believing in the power of love.

What is the difference between being childlike and being childish?

Being childish is being selfish, concentrating on the things that make US happy. Insisting on having control. Being childlike is believing in the love of someone bigger than us who is able to take care of us. Trusting, relying on someone other than ourselves.

What is childlike faith, and why do you think Jesus calls us to practice it?

Childlike faith is believing with all of our hearts in the love of Jesus. It is approaching Him with all our concerns. It is being delighted in His presence, and secure in His providence. Jesus calls us to practice it because it reflects a pure love and devoted dependence on Him.

My *little girl* inside still adores Him...

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 31, 2012

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Childlike

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