Time

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:19:00 -0500

I sit hear going through photos of the last couple years. I can hardly begin to believe how much my children have changed right before my very eyes! Now I knew they changed a lot but to look and see how much...WOW! Where does time go? It really makes you think and see how valuable our time is with our kids. Our time with them is so short. Before we know it they will be getting married and starting families of their own! When that time comes I want them to be prepared and ready! My job is to train them up in the ways of the Lord! It is my prayer that I take these years seriously and give my children the time they need and deserve. I do not just want to go through each day, just getting through. I want to live a life of no regrets! I want to live to glorify my Lord and Savior in all that I do!

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Couples Date Night

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:18:00 -0500

We got to go out on a couples Date night with the Marriage Ministry at our church, we had a lot of fun!!

Make a Smilebox photobook

Homeschool Dance

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:45:00 -0500

Make a Smilebox slideshow

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Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:33:00 -0500

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Mon, 25 May 2009 21:46:00 -0500

The Woman at the Well!

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:05:00 -0500

The Woman At The Well

John 4

Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman

¹The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, ²although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. ³When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

⁴Now he had to go through Samaria. ⁵So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ⁶Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" ⁸(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

⁹The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.^[a])

¹⁰Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."

¹¹"Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? ¹²Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"

¹³Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

¹⁵The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."

¹⁶He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back."

¹⁷"I have no husband," she replied.

Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. ¹⁸The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true."

¹⁹"Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. ²⁰Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."

²¹Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. ²²You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. ²³Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. ²⁴God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."

²⁵The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us."

²⁶Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he."

The Disciples Rejoin Jesus

²⁷Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

²⁸Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, ²⁹"Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ^[b]?" ³⁰They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

³¹Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something."

³²But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

³³Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?"

³⁴"My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. ³⁵Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. ³⁶Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. ³⁷Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true. ³⁸I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor."

Many Samaritans Believe

³⁹Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did." ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. ⁴¹And because of his words many more became believers.

⁴²They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world."

I was amazed at a passage that never stood out to me before. The Water Pot!
Every time I look at this passage there is something new and exciting for me. I love God's Word. It is alive and active!!!
Jesus met with a Samaritan Woman, Jews and Samaritans didn't associate, she came at Noon to avoid all the other woman, showing she was dispised by even her own people, yet Jesus reached out to her, met her where she was, drew out her need for Him, Her THIRST, in the mid day sun at the well, He offered her LIVING WATER, and she accepted it, in her excitement, she forgot all about her physical thirst, SHE LEFT THE WATER POT, and ran back to tell the others that she had met the Messiah!!! The water pot being left behind showed two things:
1. It was a pledge that she would return
2. More Importantly it showed that her THIRST was satisfied, she had Tasted of the LIVING WATER, which shall never run dry!

Are you THIRSTY? Are you needed a drink of Living Water. Jesus will meet you where you are! Without Christ we are nothing, we will always be seeking more and more of whatever it is we think we need, but Jesus Said, "Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting Life." John 4:14

The Motions

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:31:00 -0500

Ever have one of those moments where a song just really ministers and speaks loudly to your heart?
The song "The Motions" by Matthew West did just that to me today! The Chorus goes:

I don't wanna go through the motions
I don't wanna go one more day
without Your all consuming passion inside of me
I don't wanna spend my whole life asking,
"What if I had given everything,
instead of going through the motions?"

Ever just feel like you are just going through the motion on your Christian Walk? Ever just feel that you are not as close as you were to HIM once before?
I do not want to just go through the motions. I want to have a love so strong that I can not even function without out HIM!
Lord help me to give you my WHOLE heart. Lord light a fire and passion inside of me! In Jesus Mighty Name!

Here the song here:

Jesus loves you!

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:59:00 -0500

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