A BLESSED AUTUMN

Many exciting things are happening this fall!  My home church is growing spiritually with enthusiastic members moving in areas of outreach and music ministries as well as deciding on a new permanent pastor.  This Autumn has been especially beautiful and warm for this area of Central NY and I am thankful that I moved soon enough to enjoy the fall colors, sights and sounds.

I cannot resist picking up the beautiful leaves and then drawing them ...

 

"Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God." George Washington Carver - 

 

What a lovely thought! Do you take time to listen with your heart and mind so that the Lord can enter in?  Do you remember the excitement of first inviting Jesus into your heart and feeling filled with the spirit?  If you have not yet invited Jesus, do it now.  You can have that wonderul feeling of oneness with God, you need only to ask...

 

2nd stanza of How Great Thou Art:

 

When through the woods and forest glades I wander
And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees;
When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur
And hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze;
Then sings my soul, my Saviour God to Thee; How great Thou art!
How great Thou art! Then sings my soul, my Saviour God to Thee;
How great Thou art! How great Thou art!

 

 

A scene from the State Street road to Port Byron, NY

God is great indeed!

 

In equally moving words, the psalmist David wrote:
    “The heavens are telling the glory
of God;  and the firmament proclaims
his handiwork.   Day to day pours forth speech,
and night to night declares knowledge.  There is no speech, nor are there words; Their voice is not heard;
yet their voice goes out through all the earth,
And their words to the end of the world.”

Throughout human history, our poets, psalmists and Christians have seen God's reflection in nature. And they have been inspired to share their visions.

 

If you have prayer requests, please mention in a comment as great healing has been seen in corporate prayer!  Little Rylen is still thriving and a blessing to all who know and love him.  He is coming up on a 2nd birthday!  His parents are excited about their pending opening of a facility for children who need special care like Rylen.  So exciting!

 

Thank you so much for visiting and do come again.  Please leave a comment or prayer request, it is easyto do.

 

My Christian heart to yours..

 













ONE PAIR OF HANDS...

God bless you this wonderful day that the Lord hath made!! I could not believe how long it has been since I last posted!  I am pretty much settled into my new home now (at least hiding the unpacked boxes upstairs-ha!) and enjoying my surroundings, attending my home church and re-acquainting myself with old friends.  A friend back in SC posted the wonderful song that I am sharing in my sidebar this morning.  I was so inspired that I had to share it.  I had heard the song before but along with the beautiful video, it made my heart fill with the love of the Lord!

When people doubt that there is a higher power in control, tell them to stop and think of how things are made in nature and man that could not possibly have just fallen out of space and wondrously happened!

When I studied to be a Cardiac Care Technician, I learned the entire workings of the heart.  Most are not aware that your heart has a "fail-safe" system and the heart beats from a single electrical impulse from the Sinus Node.  When the heart is beating normally, the rhythm is called, normal sinus rhythm.  If for some reason this does not fire the electrical impulse, the Junction takes over and fires. Junctional Rhythm)  Should this fail, the Ventrical takes over. (Ventricular Rythmn)  Now who do you think wired us that way?  
a. Happenstance?
b. "Theory" of Evolution?
c. The Higher Power of a Supreme Being?

Definitely our Lord.

John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

If you believe this, then you can take comfort knowing that you will one day see your lost loved ones again in Heaven.  Living in Christ can give you great peace and strength.

Thank you for coming and I hope you will visit again soon!

Kerrie

Settling in my new home....

I cannot believe I have not posted since July!!  I made the move to my hometown of Auburn, NY from Garden City SC.  Needless to say, I have been busy-ha!  Love my house and the weather has been wonderful!  I am still unpacking boxes and changing addresses, etc.

Last Sunday I attended my old church for the first time since back and was greeted warmly as if I had never left 24 yrs. ago!  So good to see faces and get hugs.  I know I made the right decision after praying for over a year and a half since my Sweet Bill passed, to move back to our home town.  I was very lonely in SC once Bill was gone and I had to wait until God's timing was just right for me and here I am, thank you Jesus!  Just me and my little Lilly chihuahua.

President Obama passed through yesterday but did not visit the William H. Seward Home or the Harriet Tubman home here so many were disappointed.

I had such faith that the Lord would place me here and He did not disappoint me.  Stay strong in your faith and if God doesn't answer right away, be patient.  He is waiting for just the right moment to answer your prayers and he will never let you down.

When I pray several times a day I say, "thank you Jesus for my blessings, thank you Abba Father, thank you Holy Spirit for comforting me."  There is not much we can depend on in this world but we can depend on Jesus.

"Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" ♫♫

My Christian Heart to yours...

Blessed 4th of July !

O' beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain
For purple mountain's majesty above the fruited plans
America, America, GOD SHED HIS GRACE ON THEE
And crown thy good with brotherhood from Sea to shining sea!

Praying for America to put God back into our country.  I hope you all had a nice 4th of July and celebrated what our country was built on, religious freedom.  God bless you all.

My Christian Heart to Yours...

The Prodigal Son

I am sorry that I have not written in so long.  I was preoccupied with a family matter and in my sorrow over the incident, I was weak.  But the Bible tells us "when I am weak, that is when I am strong in the Lord."  Sometimes it is very hard to see beyond the storms of life but the calm does come, God does hear our cries and He does heal our wounds...

The Prodigal Son:

 It tells of the younger son in a family, who obtains his inheritance from his 
father. (Compare Deuteronomy 21:17.) This son leaves for a distant land, 
where he squanders all in debauchery, has to take up the work of herding 
swine, and is even reduced to hungering for the food of swine. He finally 
comes to his senses and decides to return home, if only to work for his
father as a hired laborer. As he nears home, his father takes the positive
step of welcoming him, even holding a feast. The older brother, who had 
remained 
at home working, resents the mercy shown. But the father says that they
should rejoice because the son who was dead now lives.—Luke 15:11-32.

When our families have trouble, we hurt deeply but
like the father in the Prodigal Son parable, we forgive
because we are so happy to restore harmony!  We
pray and ask the Father for help in restoring our 
families and like the Father, forget the sin when
confessed and think of it no more.

My Christian heart to yours...

Entertaining Angels and Jesus the Lamb

ENTERTAINING ANGELS AND JESUS THE LAMB OF GOD.

Hebrews 13:2 

Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. (NIV)

Do not forget or neglect or refuse to extend hospitality to strangers [in the brotherhood--being friendly, cordial, and gracious, sharing the comforts of your home and doing your part generously], for through it some have entertained angels without knowing it. [Gen. 18:1-8; 19:1-3.] (AMP)

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. (KJV)

Context

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1 Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. 2 Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. (NIV)

Have you ever felt like you have entertained Angels unaware?  That special someone who entered your home bringing with them a loving and caring warmth that you could feel even after they had left? Think about that.   How many persons have you felt that way about?  Perhaps it is just one.  Perhaps that person has yet to come when you are 
least expecting them and "unaware".  What a blessing!  If you look for the good in man, you may find so much more than just a visitor, you may find an Angel.

Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us...

Because Jesus’ name-titles are symbolic, one might analyze them in order to both gain a greater appreciation of and learn who He really is.  One of the titles of Jesus Christ that has a very profound level of symbolism is when he is called “the Lamb of God.”  I will attempt a basic explanation of what this name-title means, and why of all creatures, a lamb was chosen to represent the Savior.

Long before the Lamb of God was born in Bethlehem and laid in a manger, Isaiah likened the Savior of all men and women unto a lamb when he wrote, “He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth” (Isaiah 53:7).  The lamb is therefore a symbol of meekness, humility, and of willingness to submit to the will of the master.  It is true that Jesus is all of these (humble, willing to submit to the Father) but the level of symbolism goes much deeper than this.

But before a further explanation of why Jesus is called the Lamb of God is given, we must dwell for a moment on the Law of Sacrifice, a rite of worship that had been practiced as a part of worship since the days of Adam and Eve.  An understanding of the Law of Sacrifice will give us a starting point as to the deeper symbolism of why Jesus is called the Lamb of God.

The Bible Dictionary states that, “Soon after Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden, the Lord gave them the law of sacrifices, which included offering the firstlings of their flocks in a similitude of the sacrifice that would be made of the Only Begotten Son of God” (Bible Dictionary: Sacrifices).  The law therefore pointed men and women “to that great and last sacrifice; and that great and last sacrifice [would] be the Son of God, yea, infinite and eternal” (Alma 34:14).

In the Mosaic Law one reads that the sacrifices must be “a male without blemish,” (Leviticus 1:3), the firstling or firstborn of one’s flocks (Numbers 18:17), and having no broken bones (Exodus 12:46).  Lambs of this nature were highly valued possessions and had to be offered voluntarily.  After the paschal lamb was sacrificed it was “eaten . . . with unleavened bread and bitter herbs” (Bible Dictionary: Feasts).  Anything left over was burned.

This is what happened when lambs were sacrificed during the Passover, a feast of the Jews that was “instituted to commemorate the passing over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when 

God smote the firstborn of the Egyptians,” and Israel’s “redemption from Egypt” (Bible Dictionary: Feasts).  This lamb sacrifice at the feast of the Passover is known as the “paschal lamb.”

Thank you for coming today and I hope you will take away 

a blessing and have learned something new.

Words of the Bible can sustain us through the coming week~

at home, at work, at play.

Come again soon and if you have prayer requests, please 

comment and I will add them to the list in the sidebar.

In Christian love, until we meet again, Kerrie

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My Christian heart to yours...

WONDERS OF HIS LOVE

Can any one of us know all the wonders of God's love?  Nothing in the universe was made or happened by accident, they were all created by Our Father in heaven...

My heart sings when I see right in my own backyard the beautiful creations that God has made...

Every creature, every tree, every flower was created by the Great One.

The very colors of the birds of the air are so pleasing to the eye...

And not least of which is man, a true miracle of the Lord.  This is my Great Granddaughter almost 3 months old.  Is she not a miracle? Perfect in every way....

The hummingbird in my yard, a miracle of wings and feathers and beauty in one tiny little body- a true wonder!  God is so good.  If he cares for all of these creatures as well as us, is it any wonder that we worship Him and His Son who gave His life so that we might live, so that we can live eternally with him in heaven.  You need only to open your eyes and look around to see all the wonders of God and grow closer to Him.

Thank you for coming today, please come again soon.

My Christian heart to yours....