Neglected Caroline
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being a useful vessel for the Lord
Neglected Caroline – 5/14/15
Neglected Caroline
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Neglected Caroline – 5 / 14 / 15
Neglected Caroline
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Who’s in your wheelhouse?
A quilt square at Core Sound Waterfowl Museum :
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Neglected Caroline – 5/13/15 – Fleet Caroline
Fleet Caroline
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Happy Moms day
Happy Moms day to all you hard working women.
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Neglected Caroline – 5 / 9 / 15 b
Neglected Caroline
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Neglected Caroline – 5 / 9 / 15
Neglected Caroline
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The song that never ends:
Find God, Serve God, ignore God, fall away, problems, worse problems, Call on God, Find God, Serve God, ignore God, fall away……
This is the song that never ends..
Sing a song of Triumph.
Let Jesus lead you beside still waters and to paths of righteousness, you will find rest and peace for your soul.
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A Church Sign:
If I had a Church my sign would say:
“Come in –
Sit down –
Listen up – ”
– God –
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Once proud, full of promise :
She was beautiful, sleek, quick, hardy, much loved, well used, had seen many profitable days.
Today? Sad, broken, alone, only useful for storing junk, taking up space, unprofitable, forgotten….neglected.
The new baby, is all wonderfull, full of promise, hope, joy, dreams….expectations. Then life kicks in. Getting kicked takes away most of the joy of life.
Man becomes aware that he is not complete. He needs more: Money, a new love, excitement , (sports car, motorcycle, boat, sky diving). Always looking outside himself for completion.
These are not bad desires: They just are not the answer. They will not make us complete.
Remember Joe 6 pack. He works hard every day, home to wife, kids and TV. Not a bad guy, fulfills his obligations, maybe even goes to church on Sundays. Hasn’t met the Lord, or known the Lord personally…… Lost.
How to be completed?
Whosoever will, that is what I need to remember. As a man that Loves the Lord, I must do my best to love all, walk in Wisdom towards them that are without. …allow Jesus to be bigger than my wants, desires, actions.
Hope that people see Jesus, that they see a man that reflects Godly virtue and truth. A man, whose life, leads to Righteousness. A profitable man. A man who will lead.
Lord, may people recognize You, through me.
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Fleet Caroline 5 / 7 / 15
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Neglected Caroline – 5 / 7 / 15
Neglected Caroline
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Why write?
Shipwrecked : Aground :
That is why I write. I am shipwrecked, stuck in one place, aground. I write hoping to touch hearts and lives for Jesus. To bring people to a place where they can see the Lord without the vail of religion.
The only requirement is to love the Lord and each other. How are we to do that? I find myself always trying to teach something and neglect to introduce the Lord.
He is not far away, unknowable, unapproachable. The Kingdom of God is at hand. The Good News of the Kingdom of God is now. Since Jesus died and rose again. He is knocking at the door of your heart.
All we need do is:
Ask the Lord to forgive us.
For what?
Selfishness, anger, hate, hurt, unbelief, doubt, pride…..ect.
Ask the Lord to help us change direction.
Start walking towards the Lord…
Ask the Lord to Save you from your sin and be Lord of your life.
Accept His love and grace in your life.
Now you need to find a Fellowship or Church of believers. We need to read the Word, make the Word not Church Doctrine the bottom line for our beliefs.
Talk about what you are learning, if you don’t receive encouragement, discussion as well as correction, as needed, you are not in the right place.
Ask, Seek and Knock the Lord will help you find the place you should be.
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Neglected Caroline – 5 / 5 / 15
Neglected Caroline
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through them I may prove Israel, – The Fix-it Shop
As Christians, how many times have we heard….God wouldn’t do that. How could a loving God let that happen.
The Lord allows and even has caused bad things to happen to good people.
We like to think God is love…..how can He allow this pain in my life, or my wife, or child. Please realize Jesus came to save us from the law of sin and death. He is our Salvation, our Peace our Hope.
God is a Righteous, Holy, Perfect God. Wherever these problems and pain came from, they afflict all to see who will turn to the Lord. We must seek the Eternal. Set our faces like flint towards the Lord.
Read Judges 2….understand who the Lord is and what He desires….that has not changed. He just gave us Jesus and the way to pleasing Him. “To obey, is better than sacrifice. “
Love the Lord, ask for the Wisdom, Understanding and Knowledge to walk in His ways.
Know this: “You are loved. “
Accept His Grace….it is sufficient.
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Lesson revisited – The Filling Station
Twice I’ve written about Judges 1….. both possible answers but not the right answer. Here is my third attempt,
The Hebrews asked, ” Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?”
The Lord answered: ” Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.”
When Judah asked Simeon to go with them is when they showed their evil heart of unbelief.
Praise alone was the means that the Lord would use to conquer the land. They added to the Lords plan and failed to drive out the enemies who had chariots with iron wheels.
Once again. ..we must check out the Word ourselves, study to show ourselves approved. I so want to deliver the Word of Truth. …not error. So please know what you believe. Test the Word and see if it is true.
Lord, put a guard on my lips, that none would be led astray. That they would be perfect and complete in all Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding.
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Lesson understood, (finally) – The Filling Station
The lesson understood :
In reading and meditating on the first chapter of Judges, once again a tiny grain of truth seeps through.
Since Abraham, the Lord had promised, “every place on which your foot shall tread, I have given it to you.”
Yet here we are hundreds of years later, Joshua has led them into the promised land, yet it is still not wholly theirs. Joshua has died, what next?
The Lord told them : “Judah shall lead you, I have delivered it to his hand.”
Judah said to his brother Simeon come help me and I’ll help you. Let’s review :
Reuben the first born. His name means, The Lord has seen .
Simeon the second born. His name means, The Lord has heard.
Third born. Levi, whose name means the Lord will join us together.
Forth. Judah, now I will praise.
“Billism, brewing ”
Judah chose Simeon to go with him to defeat the enemy They won in the mountains but lost in the valley because the enemy had chariots with wheels of iron.
Now the Lord doesn’t seem upset…yet His directive wasn’t followed. The enemy wasn’t completely distroyed.
The Lord always provides a path or a plan for victory. We are just terrible at following His plan.
What would the outcome have been if Judah had teamed up with Levi instead.
When you join Levi the tribe charged with protecting the Tabernacle of God, the House of God, the keeper of the Knowledge of God with the Praise of God.
I think they could have become victorious.
I understand that all these Christian Denominations are really just the different tribes today.
The problem is the tribe of Judah, the people who understand Praise and Worship are out there on their own.
The tribe of Levi are few in each Denomination, the few who reverence the Word of God over the book of rules for their sect.
We must get the Word, teamed up with Praise. “So, every place on which your foot shall tread. “
“He will give it to us”
As we truly spread His Gospel of the Kingdom in power and might as the Lord spreads signs and wonders behind. As He has promised.
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Why sin abounds : The Fix-it Shop
In reading and teaching the Old Testament, some things really cause me to scratch my head. In Deuteronomy we find the Lord commanding the Hebrews to destroy all the nations in the promised land.
Joshua brought them in and secured a foothold but they hadn’t yet conquered all. Which brings us to the book of Judges. The first question in Judges is: ” Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?”
The answer was Judah, (Praise). “ Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.”
If my reading of chapter 1 is correct, Judah destroyed the Canaanites in most places : ” And the Lord was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.”
Do you wonder today, why we don’t see the victory?
I believe the Lord has chosen Praise to lead us to victory, some of us refuse to employ it. We won’t allow the simple Worship of singing the Word to lift their hearts and minds above the problems of the day into the promise of tomorrow.
Praise gave the victory but not totally. Praise could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, they had chariots of iron.
What does this mean?
The chariots of iron, are those things we refuse to give up to the Lord. Those peculiar things we love more than Him. Our secret sin. The parts of our past we continue to feed.
To attain total victory we must learn to Praise….quote the Word to the Word, Moses knew to remind the Lord of His promises. Sing unto the Lord, lose yourself in Worship. Discover the Lord inhabits the Praise of His people.
Then giving up that which hinders our walk will be easier. Still a trial but total surrender will bring total victory. At least for today. Unfortunately tomorrow will have its own battles.
Lord, help us to understand and walk in Your victory.
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Neglected Caroline – 5 /1 / 15
Neglected Caroline
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