Rebekah didn't win the scholership. bummer. |
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Well It's been a long time since I wrote on this blog Sarah |
Thing's are going well here. were getting are addition finished soon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm sssssoooooooooo glad well BYE |
Well, we got much snow! More snow than we've seen all year... in fact, more snow than we've seen for years. In real life, that is. So we managed to go through the winter months with little snow, and now, as it turns into March, we get much. Mm. Did you know that the Bible mentions snow- not just as a metaphor? Check out 2 Samuel 23:20; Job 6:16, 9:30, 24:19, 37:6, 38:22; Psalm 148:8; Proverbs 31:21; Isaiah 55:10; and Jeremiah 18:14. Lebanon must have had some great snow. Jeremiah 18:14 says, "Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?" -Moriah |
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Wow, def a long time from Christmas for sure! Well...whats been happening around here is...Me(Hosannah) Sarah, Caleb, Ethan and Dad we went to Virgina beach to to some deep sea fishing! It was fun! We even caught a fish! |
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It's been very cold recently. We've had a few snow flurries and even a bit of snow on the ground. It's Saturday, so we were working outside today and my hands were so cold they were red and wouldn't stretch. It's nearly Thanksgiving. I'm thankful for snow (because we ARE going to get more of it), not getting a cold working outside, laughter, my family, a chance to sing in a choir*, and the laptop. *Hannah, Hosannah, Sarah, Caleb, Ethan, and I did a rehearsel with this church choir near us today. We'll be singing at church in the Sunday after next Sunday. -Moriah P.S. Here's SARAH! Hey, it snowed a week ago. We were so excited unfortionuately it melted. I'm glad God made snow! P.S. We have frinds up north who get lots of snow. BYE |
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Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday, dear Ethan! Happy Birthday to you! How old are you? How old are you? How old are you? How old are you? Ethan is now seven-years-old! Yow, Ethan, you're sooooo big now! Well, not really. But seven is getting up there. I ought to get Ethan to write on this for his birthday. So, here's Ethan. Uh, I can't find Ethan in minus 30 seconds, so maybe Joshua should say something even though he's crying and doesn't seem to want to do so. (Joshua): "Mommy!" Oh, well. Here's Caleb: "I'm Caleb. I like to eat peanut butter. It's Ethan's birthday today! Um, whoever's reading right now, I like to spit out jelly and I like to eat a little bit. Good bye!" Okay, so now I have Ethan here. Ethan: "Hello. If you wonder who's talking it's Ethan Vickery. Whoops. I forgot to say Justice. Bye." Moriah: Explanation: Justice is Ethan's middle name. Bye! - Moriah, Caleb, Ethan, and Joshua |
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Right now, Daddy, Rebekah, and Hannah are in D.C. at The Call. Please pray for them and that God will have the people that are doing The Call do everything that He wants them to do. Going to North Carolina was fun. We (Hosannah, Sarah, Caleb, and I) all got a helicopter ride! We were driving along the road and we saw this helicopter and this sign saying that there was rides. So we all got a ride! Well, there were only four seats, so Mommy didn't get one. We went to North Carolina for a Restoration Celebration service. We got to North Carolina, stayed in a motel, and couldn't find the place where they were having it! We were driving along the interstate, looking for a place to hike, and I saw this sign out my window: Tent Revival. There was this campground near it, so we went and asked someone if they knew where the Restoration Celebration service was going to be. They pointed in the area of the Tent Revival! Well, the Restoration Celebration service and the Tent Revival was the same thing. I hope I wasn't rambling. - Moriah |
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Hello, everyone. Tonight we're going to see the premier for the Billy Graham movie. It's at six o'clock. We're going a little early so that we might have some fun before the movie. Uh, oh, Joshua's upset. (Just woke up from a nap). I better get him. - Moriah |
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August is coming in about ten days. Looking ahead, we see that it proposes to be a busy month. Mom's heading off to South Dakota... some of us are going to The Call, D.C... we might be going (possibly) to Virginia Beach ATTENTION!!! Someone else (besides me) really should definately write on this blog. I shouldn't have to do all the writing. I am trying of think of what to write... so, I'll sign off until I get inspiration flowing. |
... overnight visitors for the first weekend... finish our addition... two birthdays... and I'm sure there's something I forgot.
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We went to see the fireworks on the fourth. Joshua enjoyed it- he sat in his little chair and watched them go off. Sarah's birthday passed. Happy Birthday, Sarah (a very much belated happy birthday, though)! Today seems to be the hottest day of the year. Oh! I just remembered. Now, this is really weird. Yesterday, for my Bible study, I read in Acts about Cornelius- the Roman centurion who wanted Peter to come and tell him about Jesus. That same day, I came across the strory in a child's Bible story book. This morning, at breakfast, Hosannah told us how she had read the story of Cornelius yesterday and that now, today, it was on Your Story Hour and We Kids. (I'm not sure if it's wee or we. ~ Moriah |
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Joshua is now two!!! We're celebrating his birthday a couple days late. We might be having Joshua open gifts tonight. I have something sad to relate. We're leaving our specific meetinghouse* (i.e. you might call it 'church') because Daddy and Mommy want to go somewhere more local. I don't want to leave. *An explanation for this term in one of the preceding entries. Sarah wants to write something so here she is! - Moriah Hi!
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Hosannah's birthday is in a week. I suppose she doesn't remember, because she hasn't talked about it. Maybe we should keep it secret.-just forget all about it! Bye! P.S. Dad ran a race recently- came in 3rd overall. Go, Dad! ~Moriah |
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Sorry for not writing for so long! I forgot all about it. We went to an Easter breakfast at the meeting house--okay, I've decided not to say 'church' in reference to a building, because we're the church, not some building! Now that that's said... We ate yummy stuff and then (two of my younger sisters, two of my younger brothers, and I) we hung out in the nursery until the service started. It's the third time we've been early since we started going to Lion of Judah almost three years ago. (that I remember at least) It's a goal every Sunday morning to get to the, um, meeting house on time. My sisters Rebekah and Hannah are right now trying to figure out what song to use for choreographing. They're (hopefully) going to do it in a recital. [Rebekah and Hannah are being hopeful- I don't really care, but they're my sisters...] -Moriah
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They're also making chocolate chip cookies- yum! But Hannah had to make brown sugar first by stirring molasses into white sugar. Actually, only Hannah's making them. I love her!|
Last sunday Dad ran while I biked. we. We took a different route this time. Ahhh, I love biking! the sound of the tires running along the smooth pavement, the feel of the wind whipping through your hair, the challenge of biking up a long steep hill and then the reward of sailing down the other side your tires picking up more and more speed. Yes, I like a nice long ( ussally 4 miles somtimes 6) bikeride.
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This is Moriah. I know this is rather belated, considering that we're already eight days into the new year, but this is how we welcomed the new year in: Our church was doing a 'watch' sort of thing, in which they were going to pray the new year in. Daddy, Mommy, Rebekah, and I went. There was about twenty people there, maybe, and we made a circle of chairs near the front of the church. Mommy was asked to talk about what she said in her prophetic word and other people shared stuff, too. We had brought a shofar, so the pastor blew it when midnight came. Then afterward some people went to the front door of the church and blew it out the door! People in the shops around came to their doors and cheered. (Someone told me about that part- I didn't actually see them). We stayed a bit afterward and then we went home. This is my first time ever writing an entry on a blog, actually. -- I've commented before, but never written an entry. |
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Today dad worked on the new addition with some of the kids while mom, me and a few others picked up sticks, cut down pieces of barb wire that was stuck to some trees, cut down small trees, clipped twigs off of big trees so we could see the view... ciao for now Hannah |
Hi right know I'm doin homescool. and the girl's are bein very irritating. because there playing a game. I think they shoud move somewere else. I wish we had snow. It's pretty cold though. |
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I asked Moriah and Rebekah to write an essay about fairness after we were given a good illustration of how people define "fairness". Here is the essay:
All people sin, even young children. The following incident illustrates this fact. Ethan was riding in the car when Dad stopped and bought oatmeal cookies. Everyone got two apiece, except Ethan. Dad miscounted as he threw them to the back of the van. Ethan displayed a great tantrum after realizing he was overlooked. Dad questioned him and discovered not only did Ethan want two cookies but that, in his mind, he would have been happy if he had received two cookies and the others went without. However, since he was the one with less, he saw the situation as unfair. Without realizing, Ethan had portrayed a socialist, and very human, mindset. Socialism agrees with Ethan. If Ethan had received one cookie and everyone else got two, then Ethan had a right to be upset. If Ethan had received two and his brothers and sisters only one then Ethan would be happy, since he was the one with more. Communism carried out this type of "fairness" on a much larger scale. According to the Wikipedia Encyclopedia, “Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization based on common ownership of the means of production.” The brainchild of communism, Karl Marx, was born into a Jewish family as the third child of seven. In his teen years, he absorbed the views of the German modernists who denounced the deity of Jesus Christ. Marx readily accepted their radical views and formed some of his own. He believed history was, “a class struggle between the wealthy and the poor and private property is the source of the conflict.” Men want to be fair. God’s fairness is more rightly called Justice. Justice differs from fairness in this manner: Justice is the perfect consequence for the behaviors of men. Fairness only seeks to balance the consequence among many men. Fairness is the bellcurve of true justice. God is just. He has set up the laws of the universe. If a ball is thrown into the air, it will fall back to the earth. Gravity operates under natural law. The ball’s fall is just. It is fair because we expect the ball to fall. We don’t question it – it just is. Sin brings death. This is justice. All those who sin with the law will die with the law. The law is just and demands a consequence. God has satisfied this just law and the demand for death by taking the consequence for our sin on the cross. This is not fair…But, it does satisfy the demands of justice. |
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The Sound Listen! What is that reaching my ear? It is growing ever so louder. My spirit is leaping within me. My heart knows my Redeemer is near. There is a Sound reverberating on high, A beautiful and glorious Sound. It is the song of the saints worldwide, Who are now getting ready to fly! They have yielded their lives to the Lord, Released all that would hinder their song. And now God enables them to soar, As their voices blend in one accord. Listen! There is yet another Sound. More awesome than the song of the Bride. The Sound of Many Waters, so loud, Commanding His own to be unbound! Arise, Arise, Oh people of God. The Lord is beckoning us upward. Sing the song of the redeemed with awe. Soon we will behold the face of our God! 12/1/07 Dawn Vickery |
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2008 Prophetic Word
12/07/07 “Can you hear Me?” LISTEN! Do you hear that sound? It is the sound of many waters. It is God calling out to His Bride. He is saying, “Can you hear Me? Come closer, closer still; I want to talk with you. Get rid of those things that are hindering you from hearing My Voice. REMOVE THEM!” Follow the directions. God desires to take His people higher in Him this year, but we must follow the directions! We will go from glory to glory, and greater works will we do, IF we hearken to His voice. Not I, but Christ. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me… (Galatians 2:20) He is giving a deeper revelation of who He is, and who we are, in Him. We have the Spirit of God. We have the mind of Christ. We have the faith of God. We have His DNA. We are His children! For in Him we live and move and have our being… (Acts 17:28) Gates being opened. This year of new beginnings (2008) will be a year when God’s righteous ones will begin to fly! God is opening doors and gates this year. This will give His people access to new levels of authority in the Spirit. Revelation 3:7,8 is a key verse this year. What He opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open… See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. No more fence sitting! What is our part? To choose. To choose which side of the fence to get on. God is roaring from heaven: “No more sitting on the fence! No more compromise! No more mixture! No more lukewarmness! I desire passion and zeal, which is born out of intimacy. Will you embrace Me, or will you embrace Canaanite worship of Baal? Whose side are you on?” Which side of the fence will we choose? One thing is for sure, we will not be allowed to sit on the fence any longer. How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is god, follow him. (I Kings 18:21) No compromise! No mixture! (Zephaniah 1:5-7) Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe” – safe to do all these detestable things? (Jeremiah 7:9,10) A pure and spotless bride. This past year, God did much shaking, purging, and exposing. (Joshua 7; Isaiah 1:25) He raised His holy plumb line (Isaiah 28:17) and promised that once again we would: See the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not. (Malachi 3:18) God’s house cleaning continues in 2008. (2 Chronicles 29) We will see a major emphasis on getting rid of mixture. Mixture produces lukewarmness and compromise. God wants passion and zeal, our wholehearted pursuit of Him! As we do away with mixture, we will experience the presence of God in a much greater way. What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” “Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.” Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God. (2 Corinthians 6:16-7:1) Trouble is coming 911. Intimacy with God is imperative if we are to stand strong in what is coming. The people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. (Daniel 11:32) Hard times are coming. However, we need not fear. Just as God spoke to Joshua, He is speaking to us today. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. (Joshua 1:9) Prepare for rain! For there is the sound of a heavy rain. (I Kings 18:41) An invasion of the Holy Spirit is on the way. 2008 is going to be a glorious year for the consecrated, sold out, zealous saints of God. There are some awesome things in store for those who will hearken to His voice and go through the doors that He is opening. Get ready to soar! Get ready to have victory over some old enemies! Rest in the day of trouble. You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. (Isaiah 26:3) Keep your eyes off what is happening around you and keep them fixed upon Christ alone. Stay close to him. In this way, you will have rest in the day of trouble. He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. (Psalm 91:1) Rest is the evidence of faith. People will see you and ask, “How can you have peace?” They will come to you for help, and for answers. (Isaiah 32:2; Zechariah 3:10) Remember, He has you covered. Do what you can. God will do what you cannot. Expect the miraculous in and through your life this year. Look for divine appointments and divine interventions. He has you covered. Like the Shunammite widow, you will find yourself in the right place, with the right people, at the right time. (2 Kings 8:5,6) How you finish is important. Finish 2007 strong. Run like Elijah in the power of the Holy Spirit and finish this year strong. Then enter into God’s best, and enter into His rest, this 2008. Now fear the Lord and serve Him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your forefathers worshiped beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord…Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve... As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord. (Joshua 24:14,15) Leading others to liberty. God wants us to use what He has given us to help lead others to liberty. Jehovah Reigns! |