Sharon Sharing God: "FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY

Friday, March 8, 2013

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Renew

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: renew

What does the word renew mean to you?

Renew or change - do you think there's a difference? If yes, please explain!

What is one thing you would like to have the Holy Spirit renew in your life?

Let me know what you think!!

"Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me." (Psalm 51:10, ESV)

"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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10 comments:

DebbieMarch 8, 2013 at 3:45 AM
I think change is different from renewal in that change is like stepping forward, but renewal is like stepping back and starting all over again.

What I desire most (and this is a pretty regular one for me) is for the Holy Spirit to renew the joy of my salvation and the faith of the little child.
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Chatty CroneMarch 8, 2013 at 6:03 AM
Short and sweet like me - lol. I think I am in need of being or feeling renewed. I think it is different. Love, sandie
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http://bitsandpieces-sonja.blogspot.com/March 8, 2013 at 6:49 AM
I have to go with Debbie on this one... she said it just like I think it! It's a good word, and seems to always apply!
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bettyMarch 8, 2013 at 8:21 AM
I too am going to agree with what Debbie said; she said it so well. I do think renewal is different than change; I definitely need more renewal to help me deal better with change :)

betty
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UnknownMarch 8, 2013 at 10:46 AM
Hi Sharon

I think renewal is different to change also. I need a renewal of enthusiasm and zeal to serve the Lord.

God Bless - Nita
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DeniseMarch 9, 2013 at 4:40 AM
Renewal, and change are different. Praise God for bringing renewal to my marriage.
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Nikki (Sarah)March 9, 2013 at 4:41 AM
Actually the work renew is perfect for today. It's the start of March break and we're heading up north where I always free renewed in my spirit. Take gentle care Sharon...Have a great day.
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WandaMarch 9, 2013 at 2:55 PM
I would say the two are different. Renew makes me think bringing something back to its original state, whereas, change is making something totally different.
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PamelaMarch 10, 2013 at 3:09 PM
To me, change is something different from what it once me. However renew is to make something new again.
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SharonMarch 20, 2013 at 10:11 PM
What does the word renew mean to you?

It means to make new again. It's like a do-over. The chance to right a wrong. To start afresh.

Renew or change - do you think there's a difference? If yes, please explain!

Yup, I do think there's a difference. Change is going in a different direction - it implies something altogether different and new. Renew is taking something that was new at one time, and revitalizing it, giving it new life.

It's like this - if I cut my hair into a new style, I'm changing it. But if I go and get my gray hair colored, I'm renewing it!

What is one thing you would like to have the Holy Spirit renew in your life?

I would like to have the Holy Spirit renew my sense of contentment and peace in my new life here on the mountain. I would like to have my strength and courage renewed.

Yes, Lord, please!!

Thanks for all your wonderful comments!

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, March 8, 2013

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Renew

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