When: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:00 AM to Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
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Words written in red; Words of Jesus
"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it.
Matthew 13: 44 – 46
The soul possesses freedom; and though the devil can make suggestions, he does not have the power to compel you against your will.
— St. Cyril of Jerusalem
Abba, Father, Lord God, thankful for all Your blessings, humbled by awareness of myself; I come to You today stimulated in thought by the readings from Jeremiah and the Psalms. Both Jeremiah and Psalmist are moved to cry out to You because they felt besieged and afraid, driven to doubt. They cry for healing, they cry for protection, they cry for righteousness, they cry for faith, hope and love! All along they sing praise to You and honor Your steadfast love and promise. So many times when I read the Books from Your Old Testament I wonder and question the literal interpretations, but today the Spirit as helped me see beyond into the heart of man and the heart of men who lived there life’s for You; who like many of us are walking under the sun today, people of faith, people of God, people who just like me can feel besieged and afraid, driven to doubt. So if men of God like Jeremiah and the Psalmist, who from what we are presented lived their life’s for You as their one purpose, to server You and those You directed them to server, experienced these same feelings of besiegement, fear, and doubt; what are we to expect, but to learn how to walk with thoughts of besiegement, fear, and doubt, knowing unlike Jeremiah and the Psalmist that Jesus has come and His Passion as freed us, and He alone through the Spirit which lives in me and is planted in the heart of every person born under the sun, is our companion, our shield, our breast plate, our sword to fight off these feelings and replace them with feelings filled with faith, faith full of hope, and love which if we allow ourselves to feel may just remove any doubt, and without doubt, the fear that stalks us all, for in Jesus we are never alone and can never be besieged by fear, doubt or those we think maybe out to hurt or harm us. O Lord that You would continue to bless me and mine indeed, enlarging out territory and that Your hand would be with each of us, to keep us from evil, and from causing any pain. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Audio books I am listening to and other books or readings I am reading:
The Art of Presence By: Eckhart Tolle In The Art of Presence, Eckhart guides you through seven hours of transformational insights that allow "presence to naturally arise" in you. With his one-of-a-kind instruction, you will learn how to ground yourself in the vibrancy of your "inner body" while simultaneously breaking free from the illusion of separation from the outside world.
The Brain That Changes Itself: Personal Triumphs from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Unabridged) By: Norman Doidge The discovery that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains – even into old age – is the most important breakthrough in neuroscience in four centuries.
The Shack Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You’ll want everyone you know to read this book!
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