Category: Bible

Dear Jesus,
Thank you! Thank You! Thank YOU!  You are my hope, my joy, my peace, my love. My first love.

Indeed, You loved me while I was yet a sinner, still a sinner. You created me, called me, chose me. You set me apart.  Not because of my works, NO!  In spite of my works!

You chose me because of Your own purpose and grace.  Thank you!  Thank you!  You are worthy.  I cast my crowns at Your feet – You alone are worthy.  To You be all the glory and honor and praise.

You plucked me out of the devil’s snare.  You set my feet on the rock.  You covered me under Your wings.  You covered me with Your blood.  You redeemed me.  You paid the price for my sins.

By Your death, I’ve been set free.

My due wages – what I had indeed EARNED, what I DESERVED – was death.  Death is what I deserved, and yet, in Your great love, in Your great love for me, a sinner, unclean, a filthy blasphemer, a rebel, a persecutor of Christians, an opponent of the gospel, You reached down to me and drew me out of that miry clay.

You saw my need and You didn’t turn away – NO – You saw my need and You drew near.

You humbled Yourself, taking on the form of a servant, taking on my shame, my pain, my sin.  Jesus, You paid it all.  You paid it all.

Dayenu. It would have been enough for us.  More than enough.

Not only did You rescue me from my due penalty of death, but You have given me new LIFE.  You have given me joy and purpose and freedom and peace.

Dayenu.  It would have been enough for us.  More than enough.

Not only in the life to come, but, Jesus, You gave it to me right now.  You have given me eternal life, a blessing not only for the future, but for my daily life right now.

Dayenu.  It would have been enough for us.  More than enough.

You, Jesus, are more than enough.

Lord, You went farther, higher, deeper, wider than I can even understand.  Jesus, please, help me, together with all the saints, to grasp how deep and wide and long and high is Your love, the LOVE of Christ!  Indeed, Jesus, it passes my comprehension.

Thank YOU!  Thank you!  Thank You!

Thank you for Your love for me, for the lost sinners, rebels, enemies, wretches like me, here on this earth.  Fill me, Lord, and fill all my brothers and sisters, with all humility and gentleness and patience and love.  These fruits are ours by Your Holy Spirit.  Praise You, Lord.

May I love others because You first loved me.  Me, a sinner, a wretch, unclean.  I indeed was blind and lost and dead.  But You have made me see.  You have found me and given me life.  All Praise the Power of Jesus’ Name.

Father, may Jesus be EXALTED, High and LIFTED UP today in Memphis, Tennessee.  May Your Spirit rain down on us and fill AutoZone park, that any who are blind would SEE Your POWER, Your MAJESTY.  I pray for all who are lost and dead – may they be found and reborn today, Lord.  May they know us by our LOVE for one another, and our love for You.  We lift Your Name on High.

In the matchless, mighty Name of Jesus I pray.  Amen.

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“And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord , have not forsaken those who seek you.”
Psalm 9:10 ESV

You alone will I seek. I put my trust in You alone, Lord. You have not, nor will not, forsake those who seek You.

Encourage us when we are weary, Father. Give us the power and strength to press on and not to lose heart.

You are worthy. You alone are worthy. To You alone be the glory and praise. In the mighty, matchless name of Jesus we pray. Amen.

Dear friends,

I am so excited to share my good news with you. After many years in the works, the Bible study I’ve written especially for families while they are continuing their pregnancy after finding out their unborn baby has something wrong is finally available.

It is titled: A Child of Promise: A Bible Study for Parents Facing a Poor or Fatal Prognosis for their Unborn Child.  You can find it on Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/150049285X

I would sincerely appreciate any help you can give in spreading the word – on Facebook or via email or your own blogs or so forth.

Also, the “A Child of Promise” website has been updated and is up-and-running. Yay for techy-hubbies! It is at: www.achildofpromise.org

Thank you for your prayers and service to the Lord, and the body, in this way.

To God be the glory,

Kim

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.” (2 Corinthians 1:3-6 ESV)

“The Bible was not given to us so that we could be as smart as the devil; it was given to us so that we could become as holy as God.” – Studying, Interpreting and Applying the Bible, pg 165

“Even the demons believe and shudder” James 2:19

“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”
Luke 6:46-49

You may have been wondering where I’ve been the last few months.  I’ve been wondering that too, but I pray that I have been busy building a solid foundation for my life and my household.  This month has been particularly full.  Our oldest daughter, Emily, graduated high school on May 10th, immediately followed by a five night cruise to Mexico.

This morning during my time in the Word, I was reading Luke 6-8 and was particularly struck by this passage.  It is a parallel to the passage in Matthew 7 which I wrote about on October 18 of last year.    What struck me this morning were these words: DUG DEEP.

Luke 6:48 says that the man dug DEEP when he was building his house.  This was hard work.  This took digging.  This required effort.

That really resonated with me.  How often am I taking the easy road?

All too often I find myself building my life on the ground that I can see before me, rather than taking the time and effort required to dig deep to build it on the solid rock of the Word.  All too often, I am calling out “Lord, Lord” and yet, not doing what my Lord has told me to do.

Please join me in digging deep, deep into the well of living waters, deep into the heart of our Lord, as we found our lives and our households on the solid rock.

TWIG

Founded on the rock

 

Here is the audio file from a talk I gave in St Louis in October at the Shine Ministries conference.

I pray that your faith would be strengthened as you hear God show Himself mighty and awesome in one simple woman’s life.

“I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service, though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life. To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.” – 1 Timothy 1:12-17 ESV

TWIG

“Where is the one who is wise?

Where is the scribe?

Where is the debater of this age?

Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”

1 Corinthians 1:20-24

I have always been quite the debater. Since before I could speak, I debated with my parents. By middle school, I excelled in mock trial. In high school, I regularly went to state and won top speaker awards for team policy debate. Before coming to faith in Jesus Christ, I got a rush out of debating Christians about the foolishness of their faith. Belief in an unseen God, belief in creation as a worldview seemed beyond any sense of reason to me.

So, last night I was thrilled to be able to watch live the battle of the world views as Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis took on Bill Nye (“The Science Guy”) on the topic of the origin of the universe.

I encourage everyone, mature believing creationists and evolutionists alike, to check it out.

You can watch the debate here.

Please join me in praying for Bill Nye to come to faith in Jesus Christ, for the many people who saw the debate to seek the truth with their whole hearts and for the Answers in Genesis ministry.

Did you see the debate? I’d love to hear your thoughts. Please share them in the comments.