Love the Lord with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength.
"And he answered, "YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."" ~~ Luke 10:27
Listen to hear God's voice.
"The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has made both of them." ~~ Proverbs 20:12
Learn to walk in the ways of the Lord.
"You shall walk in all the way which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you will possess." ~~ Deuteronomy 5:33
Live as Jesus would live.
"Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good the one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God." ~~ 3 John 1:11
Laughter is good medicine.
"A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones." ~~ Proverbs 17:22
RIVERS OF LIVING WATER ACADEMY
Where we allow the flow of the Holy Spirit to lead us:
To know who we are,
To know where we are going,
To know what we are doing,
To know when we need to do it,
and to know how to go about it!
"He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'" ~ John 7:38 (NASB)
Jan. 4, 2009 - Hippocrite?
The reason we no longer participate in drama...
Right before Christmas, the Pastor gave a sermon and mentioned the real definition of what a hippocrite was. Well, this start a new trail for us. Victoria heard the Pastor, and was convicted on not participating any longer on the drama team. Victoria wants to be real! She doesn't want to conceal her feelings or motives and she felt by 'play acting' doesn't give her the oppurtunity to be HERSELF in these roles, therefore she chose not to be a part of it.
Hypocrisy (alternately spelled hypocricy in American English), is acting in a manner contradictory to one's professed beliefs and feelings, or conversely, expressing false beliefs and opinions in order to conceal one's real feelings or motives.
The word hypocrisy derives from the Greek ὑπüκρισις (hypokrisis), which means "play-acting", "acting out", "feigning, dissembling" or "an answer". The word hypocrite is from the Greek word ὑποκρßτης (hypokrites), the agentive noun associated with υποκρßνομαι (hypokrinomai), i.e. "I play a part." Both derive from the verb κρßνω, "judge" (»κρßση, "judgement" »κριτικÞ (kritiki), "critics") presumably because the performance of a dramatic text by an actor was to involve a degree of interpretation, or assessment, of that text.
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We did finish the Christmas play as her vow of making a commitment of taking the lead role is worth a lot... according to God, it is better not to vow then it is to vow and not do it...
Hindsight NOTE: Victoria made the decision to give up something that she loved doing for God. I saw the struggle she was in and the decision she made. I offered no advice, unless she asked me. The Lord told me to "remain silent", therefore I spent my time on my knees asking the Holy Spirit to show her the TRUTH... because honestly, I couldn't understand her conviction because the joy I saw her getting out it blinded me. I am in awe of the Lord, and what He has done in her... it is nothing that I have done but Christ in me and in her...
Here is our Christmas Program that was performed in our Church and was to be performed at nursing homes (but ended up canceling due to sickness)
All the kids in the drama were angels. Some were choir angels and five of them were the angels with the assignments. Victoria's role was a 'diva' angel. She really had to "get into" the character to put it off. She done a wonderful job!
On November 9, 2008, Victoria was an Israelite spy in Jericho. The story goes...
"Joshua has led the army of Israel to the threshold of the promised land. Two spies are sent to reconnoiter Jericho. As soldiers so often do, they end up at Rehab's place in a seedy section of town.
The king got word that spies were about and sent messengers to seize them. When they inquired at Rehab's, she lied. Batting her heavy, false eyelashes, she said, "Sure, a couple of Jewish boys were here earlier, but when the gate was closed, at dark, they left; go quickly, and maybe you'll overtake them." The king's men rushed on. Now knowing that Madame Rehab had hidden the Israelites on her roof, Rehab told the spies that she had heard of the mighty works of their God Yahweh, "The Lord your God is indeed God in heaven above and on earth below" (Josh 2:11). All she asked is that the Israelites show her family mercy when they walls of Jericho come tumbling down. Then, while it was still night, Rehab let them down by a rope, tying a scarlet thread to her window to identify her place for the invading Israelites. When Joshua and his army finally entered the city, the folk of the red thread house in the red light district were the only ones spared when the invaders leveled Jericho."
You can read the complete story in Joshua 2-6.
Two Spies in Jericho with Rehab
The play involved the King, two spies, Rehab and the announcer of the TV show.
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