Learning for a Lifetime

I was raised in the Seventh-day Church. And yet it has still taken me many years to learn some of the important things to learn like love, grace and mercy. I truly believe that our walk with the Lord will last our whole lives with many, many things that we need to learn. Maybe I am hard headed or it's just hard for me to get certain concepts, but I have found that I have learned things over the last 10 years that I should have learned long ago.

Today I want to share a bit of my testimony with you. About 10-11 years ago - I started going to some 12 step type meetings being held at my church. We had a couple in our church who had been addicted to drugs and drinking and they had come through the 12 steps and found freedom from addiction. And then they found the Adventist church. They began a ministry at our church by doing these meetings. I will always be so grateful to them for this ministry. These meetings is how I finally learned the importance of turning my life and my will over to God. Surrendering your life to Him is vitally important. As long as we hold on tight to our lives and the way we want to do things- He doesn't have the opportunity to work the changes in our characters. And trust me our characters need major renovations, I know mine does. This old world is so far away from what God intended this world to be like - it is because of sin - sin only brings destruction and a downward bent to our characters. We need the strength and power from Jesus in order to make the changes needed- and He needs willing hearts to do the work. We need to become as clay - surrendered to the Potter. This is the only way that He can create us into something beautiful!

I hope that you will considering giving your life, heart and soul to Jesus today. May you give Him permission to transform you into His image. May God richly bless you today and everyday as you give Him the freedom to work in your life! :O)

Fixing to Add More

I know I have neglected this blog and I am sorry. When I began it I had an idea of what I wanted to do and I did it. Now I have another angle that I want to explore. It will help get a much better understanding of what Adventists believe. And I think it will be a real blessing to those who will come and read. So stay tuned for new posts. See you soon :O)

Sabbath~ It's a Celebration!

"The Creator and His creatures rested together. Wouldn't you have done the same? Don't you love to take time to celebrate together with your children? Well, God did not want a birthday celebration just once a year, but once a week-every week, on the seventh day, He wants us to remember that we can rest in His faithfulness. So, He set it apart and made it holy so that His children would have a constant reminder that He is their Creator and eventual Redeemer.
By the way, check ...this out! We start to get a glimpse of the creation-redemption theme running from Genesis to Revelation when we analyze this one word in genesis 2:2: "completed" (as it relates to the seventh-day rest celebrating the completion of Creation). The word used in the Septuagint (LXX, the Greek translation of the Old Testament) for "completed" in Genesis 2:2 is the same Greek root word that Jesus cried out at the cross!! "it is completed!" "it is finished!" "it has been accomplished!" (John19:30). Woo-Hoo!"

 From a great little book that I'm reading- "I will give you rest~ The eternal gospel for the weary soul" by Elizabeth Viera Talbot

I was able to get this book from Jesus 101 website- in fact, I had the app on my phone. And ever so often they do a deal to get a free book. So I am able to get this book for free. They have so many awesome resources on this website- things you can listen to and thing you can watch. Be sure and check it out! :O)

Death and Resurrection

 

 

 

This is a daily devotional type of book. What I appreciate about this book is that each day builds on the day before. A new concept is introduced and then slowly the author elaborate more and more in order for us to come away from the book with a better understanding of each topic. This is just one of the books that I have been reading lately.

 

******Today I will be sharing an entry called " Death and Resurrection"******

 

After Adam and Eve fell and lost their home in heaven, they knew that future generations would point to them and say, "You're the cause of all of this pain and heartache and sorrow and death." For over nine hundred years they had to live with this! Can you imagine? Most of us can't take much more than our threescore and ten!

 

So, for nine hundred thirty years, Adam's heart continued to beat. I suppose the enemy beat him over the head unmercifully with guilt and remorse and the temptation to curse God and give up on the whole thing. (Maybe Eve did this. We never hear about her again.) Painful as it was, his life ended one day, and the obituary read: " Adam, father of mankind, dead at the age of 930."

 

Where is Adam now? What do we know about death and the resurrection? Well, according to Scripture, w hen we di we merely go to sleep. "The living know that they will die. But the dead know nothing"(Ecclesiastes 9:5). We're unconscious. There's no knowledge of the passing of time in the grave. So the years since those nine hundred and thirty long years will be only a short time for Adam. From the time he went to sleep until the time of the resurrection will seem like only a moment. I often thing of this when I'm in a cemetery. Just a moment from now (to them) and they'll wake up again! As far as Adam is concerned, he's not in the grave any longer than someone who falls asleep fifteen minutes before Jesus comes.

 

"By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return." ~ Genesis 3:

Would You Like to Check This Out?

Today is the day that I begin a Ladies Bible Study Group at my home. Please pray that those that chose to participate will be blessed. We will be studying the book "Steps To Christ" and we will be using the Study Guide I thought I would share just in case some of you are interested in studying this awesome little book. It is a small but powerful book. God bless each of you. Lisa :O)

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A Love Thing

 

 

The Sabbath and Marriage were both established during the week of creation.