dW 08.14.09

dW

 

scripture

 

2 Corinthians 12:7-10     

To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

 

En Espanol, 2 Corintios 12:7-10

 

quote

 

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
Bo Bennett

 

thought

 

What thorn is there present in your life? Are you allowing it to control you? Are you allowing it to teach you? Personally, my present thorn is controlling me. I am allowing it to consume my thoughts. I am allowing it to make me act in snide ways. I did not realize how much I relied on myself until now. I am being taught that I am hopelessly inadequate to operate on anything other than God’s good grace.

dW 08.13.09

dW

 

scripture

 

John 15:15-17

Jesus spoke, saying, “I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love each other.”

 

En Espanol, Juan 15:15-17

 

quote

 

Believers are not hired servants, supporting themselves by their own work, but children maintained at their Father’s expense.

Horatius Bonar

dW 08.11.09

dW

 

scripture

 

1 Peter 1:23-25

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever." And this is the word that was preached to you.

 

En Espanol, 1 Pedro 1:23-25

 

quote

 

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace

 

lyrics

 

Until you find something worth dying for, you are not really living.

Rebecca Saint James

dW 08.10.09

dW

 

scripture

 

Galatians 1:6-9

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!

 

En Espanol, Gálatas 1:6-9

 

 

quote

 

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils.  Here I take my stand.

Martin Luther

 

hymn

 

On Christ the solid rock I stand

All other ground is sinking sand,

All other ground is sinking sand