Sharon Sharing God: "FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY

Friday, December 28, 2012

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Beginning

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: beginning

Are you making any resolutions for the beginning of the new year? (What are they?!)

Is there any new work that God is beginning in your life? (What is it?!)

Let me know what you think!!

"But forget all that—
it is nothing compared to what I am going to do.
For I am about to do something new.
See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?
I will make a pathway through the wilderness.
I will create rivers in the dry wasteland." (Isaiah 43:18-19, NLT)

"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!"

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DebbieDecember 28, 2012 at 8:56 AM
Why yes, I am resolved to begin something, but you'll have to wait to see what it is. Apparently, I'm beginning to be a tease...

I don't know what God is beginning in me or through me, but I have some hopes and prayers in that direction.
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AnonymousDecember 28, 2012 at 3:08 PM
Amen, Sharon! My heart leaped to read this - beginning new things this new year and hoping to have learned from all my trial and error in the old things from last year! Whew! Been a rough couple of years! But - what newness of faith begins through such times!

Back in Blogland today for the first time in a month - catching up with all . . .

Joy!
Kathy
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bettyDecember 28, 2012 at 4:00 PM
I think there might be a new beginning, but I really don't know what it might be; I just wonder if God is closing some doors because of new ones that might be opening; I'm just not sure what those new ones may be. How is that for evasive?

my resolution though is to get healthier spiritually and physically :)

Happy New Year Sharon!

betty
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Chatty CroneDecember 28, 2012 at 5:39 PM
I am going to just continue to try to be a better me. Happy New Year.
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DeniseDecember 29, 2012 at 3:02 AM
Hi Sharon,
Visiting from Spiritual Sunday... :)

I am encouraged to take on a few more challenges and see what kind of adventure God has in store for me.....with an attitude of praise!!

Blessings for a joyful New Year filled with peace and His amazing grace!
Denise
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Janettessage.blogspot.comDecember 29, 2012 at 5:23 AM
Yes beginning...that goes with the word God has placed on my heart for the new year. You had some great new beginnings last year, I pray you continue to enjoy your new home and all the transitions that new beginning brings.
Happy New Year
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CharlotteDecember 29, 2012 at 6:58 PM
A new work? Always! I am amazed at the way God is constantly doing something new in my life...teaching me, stretching me, closing old doors and opening new ones. I can't wait to see what He has in store for this new year, I know it will be something good!
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SharonDecember 30, 2012 at 9:17 PM
Are you making any resolutions for the beginning of the new year? (What are they?!)

Yup. I'd like to start a regular walking/exercise plan...and keep to it. And I would like to lose the pounds that I've gained back this year after working so hard to lose them in the first place and keeping them off for over a year and a half. (Insert deep breath) Can you tell that that one really bugs me?! I also would like to finish unpacking my boxes and finally move into my house.

Is there any new work that God is beginning in your life? (What is it?!)

I don't know what God has in mind for me right now at all. I am dabbling again in Blog Land, and I am enjoying that. But, I would love to have Him start a *new* work in my life this year. So, I'm asking Him: "What is it, Lord?!"

GOD BLESS!
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JanetDecember 31, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Sharon- I love the thought of a new beginning! I love that bible verse, one of my favorites!
Hmmm...resolutions- writing daily for practice, 2 or more 1/2 Marathons, praying about taking the Church Counseling course.....new home, new neighbors, new life here!

Praying that God give you a heavenly nudge to the path he wants you to walk down....love you!
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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

Sharon Sharing God

Friday, December 28, 2012

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Beginning

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