I’m so very thankful that God is not like me. Nor you. While we give up on each other all the time, (though at times after a lot of effort and time), God never does. He gives us till our last dying breath to come to Him. He is steadfast in His love for us all. In my youth I backslid from my faith for about 9 years and was so afraid of what God thought of me. Though I was in a lifestyle of sin, it was really hard to understand how He could still love me as much as my most faithful day to Him before then, but He does. Let’s hear what Priscilla Shirer has to say in this week’s devotional:
Never Too Far Gone
When he was in distress, he entreated the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 2 Chronicles 33:12
To say Manasseh was an evil king is like saying the Grand Canyon is a hole in the ground. The Bible says he “shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another” (2 Kings 21:16 csb). If any one monarch’s abominations were to blame for God’s abandonment of Judah to exile, it was this king who had “done wickedly more than all the Amorites did who were before him” (2 Chron. 33:11).
Gratefully, God is not a stoic being who deals with humankind in a manner devoid of emotions and sentiments. “The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness. He will not always strive with us, nor will He keep His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him” (Ps. 103:8–11).
Even when we’ve chosen unwisely, even when we’ve relished our stubborn resistance, He remains eager to express these beautiful elements of His character to us. He longs to receive the rebellious back into His welcoming arms. He loves seeing His grace exalted and watching it change us into His image. Nothing we’ve done, no matter how devastating or devious, can push us too far out of His love to reach us, rescue us, and restore us. When we call to Him, He hears us.
Just like He heard Manasseh . . .
For when the Lord sent the armies of a foreign nation against him, “and they captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon” (2 Chron. 33:11), judgment fell like hailstones. But in his distress, Manasseh “humbled himself greatly” (v. 12) before the Lord. And God “was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom” (v. 13). After such bountiful restoration, Manasseh received his kingdom back, and the remainder of his life (vv. 14–16) looked a whole lot different than the first.
When we respond to our Father’s discipline by humbling ourselves with the “godly sorrow” of true repentance (2 Cor. 7:11), He will pour out His mercy on us. It’s never too late, and you are never too far gone, to receive the restoring power of the One who loves you.
“And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.” –2 Chronicles 33:12 ESV
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” –Romans 5:8
I feel like it’s been months since I posted a prophecy update post! The Lord is teaching me patience in a big way while waiting for my web host to finish fixing my blogs. But this one is up and running, so I’m sharing this week’s updates right here 🙂 Here we go!
Hi everyone! Forgive my blog for being down the past few weeks. When I posted my last Freebie Friday so many people visited to snag it, that it crashed the site! lol A good problem for a blogger to have, but getting the correction taken care of was longer than expected. I upgraded my blog host to a business account so I’ll have a server all to myself instead of sharing it with other blogs. So, we should be good to go now! (My CalvaryCouponers site is still down – still waiting for my blog host to get the problem fixed).
So, to make up for missing a week of Freebie Friday, I’m sharing a two-page set! I hope you take advantage of them and let me see your creations you come up with using them!
These are sized for the brand new Happy Planner classic, so if you use the new Happy Planners, you’re all set to go.
Print these out on full-size sticker paper. I use these here. They’re priced great and you can write on them easily. They are good enough quality for my needs. If you want a top-quality sticker paper look for these or clear ones here. (Though not all pens or markers will write well on the clear ones). If you don’t want to use sticker paper, you can print them on card stock or regular printer paper and glue them down. Honestly, the sticker paper is the best way, however. Regardless of the type.
If you’d like this printable, click on the image below to pull up the full-sized PDF file for printing. If you use this kit, I would LOVE to see how you use it! Please comment below so I can see ?
Please remember this is for PERSONAL USE ONLY!
Going through a lot of ink printing out planner stickers? Do like I did and enlist in the HP Instant Ink program! I’ve saved so much money on ink since I did a year and a half ago. They have different plans, but the one I’m in (the most pages) is that I can print up to 300 pages worth of ink for just over $9.99 per month. You can choose lesser pages for a lower rate, but I do a lot of printing between coupons, planner stickers and other things. Click on the image here to check it out! –>
Click on the image below to pull up the full sized pdf file of the FREEBIE for viewing and printing —>
I paid my host, GoDaddy, to migrate my two blogs (this one and CalvaryCouponers.com) to an upgraded account helping my blogs to not crash anymore when a lot of people access it at once. Both of them were supposedly fixed and ready to go, but then both of them were down and needed the programmers to correct them again. This blog wouldn’t let me upload images, so this post will test to see if that is fixed 🙂 Calvary Couponers wouldn’t even load (you’d have thought they would have “test-driven” it to know before telling me it was ready!) So that one is still messed up and I’m still waiting to hear back from them that that one is fixed.
Anyway….just in time to get our bullet journals and whatnot prepped for November, here I present to you our Scripture Writing Plan for November! Let me know if you use it and how it’s going by leaving a comment below! 🙂
Click on the thumbnail image below to pull up the full-sized PDF for printing –>
UPDATE 10/25/17: It really SHOULD be fixed now! Arghh! 🙂 After a week of trying to figure it out on my own and giving up, I paid my web host to migrate my two blogs so it would be done right. Then after they told me that both were ready to go, neither one was (this one wouldn’t let me upload pictures and CalvaryCouponers wouldn’t even load -I’m still waiting for them to get that one right!) But I just posted a new post here (the November Scripture Writing Plan) and it seemed to work fine, so please pray the other blog gets fixed so I can be back to business on both of them! 🙂 The whole thing was to upgraded to a better account so when a lot of people visit my site at once it won’t crash like it did a few weeks ago.
I discovered after sharing my Freebie Friday post the other night that so many people wanted my freebie and was accessing my two blogs at the same time and it crashed my blogs. A good problem for a blogger to have but at the same time frustrating for the blogger and her reader both! Saturday morning I reached out to my web host and upgraded my account to a business account and the bandwidth is supposed to be unmetered, so I hope that fixes the crashing! 🙂 Hopefully it should be a thing of the past. Yay!
Please please let me know if you have an issue with it crashing, freezing, or lagging. ( In this one issue I hope I don’t get a reply lol)
This week’s devotional is from one of my favorite Christian women speakers, Priscilla Shirer. It’s about rest. A topic we many of us feel guilty that we do too much of or get way too little of. I seem to go from one extreme to the other. I run full tilt till I burn out and lay low out of frustration and despair.
That’s one reason I’m really into utilizing a planner these past few years. I’m seeking balance. I’m trying to schedule what needs done and where I need to be and find a healthy balance. I’ve improved but I still have a ways to.
I’m way too, “all or nothing”, and I want to find a happy middle ground. I need to remember the passage from Priscilla’s devotional below, that Jesus commands rest. It’s not just a good idea. He knows best!
— Day 3 — Come and Rest He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a secluded place and rest a while.” Mark 6:31 Rest is becoming a lost art in our modern culture. We’ve exchanged its old-fashioned value for a hectic, fast-paced, breakneck speed of life, which has slowly disintegrated our fervor and passion while simultaneously elevating our blood pressure. Packed within each twenty-four-hour time span is an unsustainable number of tasks we’ve placed upon ourselves, as well as demands we’ve allowed others to deem urgent enough to place upon us as well. And based on our fatigue and frustration, we’d give anything to offload the burden. But rest doesn’t seem like a viable option anymore. Have we forever passed up any kind of reality that dares to include rest as part of a typical day? Or week? Or . . . month? (Or . . . year?) When Jesus sent His disciples off on a specific ministry assignment in Mark 6:7–11, He didn’t shield them from the fact that their journey would not be particularly easy. People would refuse to listen to them, much less give them hospitality. Any cause for excitement would be counterbalanced by any number of legitimate reasons for quitting and discouragement. They would be empowered to preach, heal, and spread the news of the kingdom, yes, but would also be exhausted on every front— physically, emotionally, and spiritually. And even after finally coming back home from their tiring journey, people would still be “coming and going,” enough that the disciples “did not even have time to eat” (v. 31). So as their first order of business upon returning, Jesus greeted them with clear instructions: “Come . . . rest a while.” It wasn’t a request. It wasn’t a friendly suggestion. It was Jesus’ command. Here’s what you’re going to do, guys. They’d been through a lot. And much more remained to be done. But for now . . . rest . . . come and rest. At least for a little while. Do you ever feel guilty for taking time away to regroup and recharge? Are you saddled with a sense of wasted opportunity if every space on your calendar is not filled? Are you afraid your world would stop turning if you disengaged for even a few moments? Are you concerned about losing your competitive advantage if you’re not converting every moment into maximum achievement and efficiency? Then hear the voice of your Savior welcoming you into a place where grace flows, where the Spirit refuels, and where mercy fixes what’s been strained and stressed by the accumulation of life’s pressures. This is the space where priorities and relationships that have been pushed out of alignment and are in need of repair get patched up and recalibrated. Quiet time is not an excuse for the lazy but a wise investment for the diligent. It is for those who are committed to being active servants and followers of Jesus Christ instead of slaves to the tyranny of urgent busyness and activity. By prioritizing rest for ourselves and those we love, we may just rediscover the joy we thought had been lost forever.
From “Awaken'”, by Priscilla Shirer. Check it out! —>
First off, let me apologize for not getting last week’s updates post done. The week just got away from me and I had so much going on that I ran out of time. I started taking a sign language class last month and that’s thrown me for a loop as well 🙂
Also, after some bandwidth issues yesterday after posting my Friday Freebie planner printable, I reached out to my web hosting company and upgraded my account to a business account, so hopefully my two blogs will now be much quicker and have no bandwidth problems from here out! 🙂
Pastor J.D. Farag:
(waiting for this week’s to post. Does anyone know if this week’s is canceled?)
Joel is super busy right now as his 2017 Epicenter Conference has gotten underway a few days ago. Click on the screenshot below to pull up the site you can watch his videos on –>
(I really encourage you to follow his blog posts HERE and HERE).)
oel is very intelligent and up to date on current events involving Israel (where he and his family now live), the Middle East, Russia, and others. I own every book he’s written and have learned a great deal from him. You can find his books HERE, which I highly recommend!
Joel has a new book coming out in March called The Kremlin Conspiracy I’ve already pre-ordered on Amazon ? Check it out! –>
(Find Hal’s recent videos there on his web site. A lot of videos of his are being posted to YouTube that are old videos but given the current date. I’m going to start getting it from his web site. I can’t embed the video into my blog post here, but you can click on the screenshot above to pull up the current video in a new tab.)
(Note: If you get an error message, keep trying. I’m contacting my web host first thing tomorrow! 🙂 It will come back up, but if a lot of people try to access it at once, it may temporarily crash. I’m going to update the bandwidth tomorrow, hopefully.)
Since I’ve recently done two Harvest/October style sticker sets, I thought I’d get started on Thanksgiving with this freebie. (I may update this post with links if I add to this set in my Etsy shop here.)
Sorry this example image is poorly lit. The day got away from me and I didn’t get the picture taken when the natural daylight was still prominent today. I’ll try to improve that next week 🙂
This is sized for the brand new Happy Planner classic, so you’re all set to go. I realized after buying a new Happy Planner for 2018 that I was still making stickers with a length of 2.25 inches and they are now 2.50 inches, so from here out, they will be the new size.
Print these out on full-size sticker paper. I use these here. They’re priced great and you can write on them easily. They are good enough quality for my needs. If you want a top-quality sticker paper look for these or clear ones here. (Though not all pens or markers will write well on the clear ones). If you don’t want to use sticker paper, you can print them on card stock or regular printer paper and glue them down. Honestly, the sticker paper is the best way, however. Regardless of the type.
If you’d like this printable, click on the image below to pull up the full-sized PDF file for printing. If you use this kit, I would LOVE to see how you use it! Please comment below so I can see ?
Please remember this is for PERSONAL USE ONLY!
Going through a lot of ink printing out planner stickers? Do like I did and enlist in the HP Instant Ink program! I’ve saved so much money on ink since I did a year and a half ago. They have different plans, but the one I’m in (the most pages) is that I can print up to 300 pages worth of ink for just over $9.99 per month. You can choose lesser pages for a lower rate, but I do a lot of printing between coupons, planner stickers and other things. Click on the image here to check it out! –>
Click on the thumbnail to pull up the full sized pdf file of the FREEBIE for viewing and printing —>
This week is a topic I know has touched the heart of each one of us in one way or another. Where is God when bad things happen? Be honest. We all have wondered that from time to time, even if we’ve never voiced it out loud. Perhaps we’ve not even admitted it to ourselves; but perhaps in the smallest recesses of our hearts and minds the reflection of our curiosity has hinted for a moment. Why? Where?
God audibly prophesied the future of Moses, the future of the children of Israel, and the future of Egypt to Moses in these significant and familiar verses. As believers who are knowledgeable of this Sunday school story, we are tempted to read these verses with a bit of disinterest, because we know all that Moses has to go through. We all know about the plagues, the parting of the Red Sea, and being lost in the wilderness.
But may I just remind you that Moses had not watched The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston, and he had not taken his boys to see the cinematic version of The Prince of Egypt! Moses did not know what his future held, just like you, my friend, are not aware of what your future holds.
But you serve the God of Moses who has been to your future—and it is good! God sees in advance, and He is able to make a way where there seems to be no way. We know that the God of Moses is a good God and that He exists to constantly work good in all of our life situations. Therefore, He has indeed been to the future and has enthusiastically stamped your future with the word, Good!
The story of this fugitive, Moses, who was on the run and who then hid in the wilderness, serves as an exciting reminder that whenever one encounters a fire, “I Am” will be there, because He never takes His caring eyes off His children for one instant of time.
If you are running away from life and from the consequences of sin, God is there. If you have found yourself in the wilderness with no direction, God is there. We know that if we listen, we will hear His loving voice speaking above the roar of the fire. We also know that the fires encountered by a child of God this side of Heaven have no power of destruction or decimation.
A fire is the wonderful place where God reveals Himself to weary wilderness dwellers and where He speaks purpose and destiny. A fire was fashioned by God to be the most sacred moment in the life of a believer.
This week’s devotion can be found among other’s in Carol’s book below:
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