But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name

When the snow falls for the

first time in the year (and stays)

it make everything fresh and new

the blanket of snow covers everything

when you look out you see

the beauty

Consider the Covering of the Holy Spirit

When Jesus told His disciples that there

would be someone to watch over them

He sent the Holy Spirit to cover them

not unlike a fresh blanket of snow.

The promise of the Holy Spirit is found in

John14:16-31

16. I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever;

17. that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.

18. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

19. After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also.

20. In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.

21. He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him."

22. Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, "Lord, what then has happened that You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?"

23. Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.

24. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me.

25. These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you.

26. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.

27. Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.

28. You heard that I said to you, 'I go away, and I will come to you ' If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

29. Now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe.

30. I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me;

31. but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me Get up, let us go from here.



Does your hard drive need formatting? Does it feel sluggish? Is it giving you "blue screen messages"?

Does your hard drive need formatting?
Does it feel sluggish?
Is it giving you "blue screen messages"?
Are you finding yourself thinking I need to defrag?

If you are thinking these things you have been spending
too much time in front of the computer....Kidding.

In way that is almost true for a lot of us. We get
completely busy in our day to day life we forget to
stop and "smell the roses" so to speak.
Its like your hard drive (brain) is on overload.
You keep on spinning faster and faster.
with no where to turn.
you start to feel sluggish and when someone
asks you one more thing you almost go blue screen
then you might even go into formatting mode
needing things to be refreshed

Well its time to defrag
Its time to look to the One who can give you the
strength you need to go through your day.
Look to Jesus as your guide
He will keep you and protect your hardware
so that your software (brain matter) will be strong.

1. The LORD is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear?

The LORD is the defense of my life; Whom shall I dread? (Psalm 27:1).

VOID

From here to there

do we try to fool

or shall we call it deceive

are we who we say we are

or do we put on a different face

out in the open one can deceive

in the outward there is no

way to see but

in your heart

an empty space

a void filling with guilt

when you deceive

That void can be filled

if you believe

One who is eternal

One who wont deceive

He will keep you pure and

that void will be gone

Filled with the Spirit, the Holy Spirit

God change my deception

I want to believe

God I give myself to you

Jesus come into my life

Forgive me, make me clean

deception now gone

void full of grace

Holy Spirit now resides

Jesus I believe

Being Busy

So this is the end of the week and we are into a weekend....oh what to do.

Do you think you will be excited to just to do nothing? Or will you be busy busy busy? I like the thought of nothing to do and not doing nothing (yes double negative). But in the end the Saturdays become busy and the Sundays busy too.

Being busy is a good thing just as long as you don't forget to keep your focus on the One who you live for. Jesus will guide you in  your day as you bustle about.

Have a Great Weekend everyone.

I wanted to go, He said stay.

I wanted to do, He said pray;

I wanted to work, He said wait,

I wanted to live for His sake!

“Love Me, child,” He softly said,

“Oh, yes, Lord,” I bowed my head;

“I want your way, I am your son,

Not my will, but Thine be done!”

Grace Opperman

FATHER;HERE IS MY LIFE

In the awesomeness of what we call life

We look to ourselves for all we want and desire

We gloat about all we have accomplished and

We think that because we are the dominant species

On this earth we think we are in control.

When things go wrong and

life just goes in a way we did not plan

We then look to someone to blame for this

We do not blame ourselves;

Remember we are the masters of our fate

We do not take the blame; we look up and say

“WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS??”

We can look to ourselves to determine

what we want or we can look to the

Father of all creation to lead us through

We can blame Him for all that has
gone wrong or we can say

"Father you have given me free will
and I chose wrong".

Will we then be able to ask for forgiveness

for my inexcusable desire to control my life and

start looking toward the Father for all our

wants and desires? I would say that we cannot

unless we give it all to the Father by saying

“Father here is my life; I give it to you

and let you have control over me. I am yours Lord.”

By Steve LaVallee

Lining up

We need to line up our lives with the Will of God. Keeping lined up He will guide us through what we need.
When I was crossing the Irish Channel one dark, starless night, I stood on the deck by the captain and asked him, “How do you know Holyhead Harbor on so dark a night as this?” He said, “You see those three lights? Those three must line up behind each other as one, and when we see them so united we know the exact position of the harbor’s mouth.” When we want to know God’s will there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God, and the trend of circumstances! God in the heart, impelling you forward; God in His book corroborating whatever He says in the heart; and God in circumstances, which are always indicative of His will. Never start until these three things agree.

F. B. Meyer

Survive!!

Today we may say

that we are all alone
Today we may see

that the world is not a safe place
Today we look out the window

and we may wonder why
Today we cannot understand

the meaning of life
Today we think

we may want to just lie down
And never wake up
Today we have to take

a deep hard look at our hearts
Today we will survive

Baby today is the day

I will never be alone
My precious one today

I feel ever so safe in your arms
Gorgeous and lovely baby of mine
I see out the window

the world just stops every time
I see you and gaze into your eyes
Lover I do not need to know

the meaning of life when
I am with you and talking to you
the meaning of life is you and only you
My wonderful love

I always have a reason to wake
It is to see you and

to then want to sleep so
I can continue dreaming about you
and all the time we have
Baby I look at my heart

and since I met you
it has turned into such

a heart full of love for you
My precious,

My gorgeous,

My lovely,

My wonderful Baby
I will survive with

you in my life and in my arms….

I Love You
By Steve