When I think of the word worship, my first thought is music. Oh, how I love music. There are so many varieties to love! To me, music is the language of the heart. The right song at the right time can change everything. Music can calm an angry spirit. It can lift a sad one. Music can get us moving in ...
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When You Want To Worry
My 16-year-old daughter just got her drivers license. What an exciting day! But it didn’t start out that way. It started with a plea to practice parallel parking—one.more.time. And so we did. It wasn't her best execution of the skill--which resulted in an emotional moment. Then we headed to the DPS ...
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Filled WITH Awe And Wonder
What makes you stop in your tracks--in wonder and awe?
A newborn baby?
A perfectly shaped Hibiscus bloom?
A masterpiece at your fine arts museum?
A piece of music with words that fit the musical progression perfectly?
A book or a movie with a story line that leaves you breathless?
Sunrises ...
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Worshiping WITHOUT Anger
Sunday mornings in a house full of teenagers. Two showers, practically five adults getting ready at the same time. Three of them female. Two of them teenagers with long hair. One in peri-menopause who needs to shower first in order to escape the resulting heat left in the bathroom. It's always a ...
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Clearing the Cobwebs
I wish I could pinpoint why it's been so difficult for me to write lately.
I feel like my mind is mush. Full of stuff, yet nothing of substance. Some of the non-substance is the list of rooms that need to be dusted. Mine in particular. My name is Dianne. I can't remember the last ...
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Mood Magic
Music is mood magic! It can change the way we feel within a few seconds. Turning on our iPods and playing the right tune can change everything. If we’re feeling a little down, a happy song can help us set our minds in a new direction. If we need some extra motivation, a fast song can do the ...
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He is Holy!
The Lord is king! Let the nations tremble! He sits on his throne between the cherubim. Let the whole earth quake! … Let them praise your great and awesome name. Your name is holy! Psalm 99:1, 3
Holy, Holy, Holy – Reginald Heber (1826)
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning ...
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![This week in our small group study, I felt the Lord’s gentle chastisement.
We looked at the promise in Luke 11:28, “He [Jesus] replied, ‘Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.’”
At first glance, the promise of blessing comes from obedience. But it’s much more.
In the preceding verses, Jesus had cast out a demon that caused a man to be mute. The crowd accused Him of casting out a demon with Satan’s power.
Jesus explained how ridiculous it would be for Satan to drive out his own demons. Then a woman cries out, “Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you,” (v 27).
This is the sticking point. Jesus was in the middle of an important discourse when this woman interrupts Him. He corrects her with this:
✨ Blessed are those who HEAR the word of God and obey it.
That word HEAR means to LISTEN with FULL ATTENTION.
✨ We cannot truly obey God if we don’t know what He’s saying to us.
Basically, Jesus told this woman, and the others in the crowd, “Pay attention!! Don’t get distracted from my voice. I have important things to tell you. You won’t know what they are and what I want you to do, if all you’re thinking about is what you want to say or how you can gain attention. Put your attention on ME.”
It’s never fun to be Jesus’s object lesson.
The questions I’m asking myself …
✨ What keeps me from spending time alone with Jesus?
✨ When I finally get alone with Him, what distracts me?
✨ What keeps me from focusing on God’s Word?
✨ What causes my kind to wander when I’m praying?
➡️ Eliminating distractions …
➡️ Exercising discipline …
… to bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5)
… brings true blessing.
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