Sweet Sunday Scripture...

Have you ever felt lost?

For the first time in a long time I am feeling out of sorts...

ie..lack of posts.....

Do not get me wrong...

I am loving our new home.....

The land is beautiful....

We have lots of work to do on both the inside and outside...

BUT...

I never realized that being only 25 minutes from one of the larger cities in Ky

would be considered such a "rural" area.

 

 I am a true blue "Hillbilly" girl..

Yes, I am a mountain girl through and through...

A Coal Miners daughter....

I know what a "holler" is...

(a small road between two huge mountains)


No mattered how remote the area.....

I have always had my choice of Internet services.....
 You would think if Internet services can make it between these mountains...
it would be available anywhere

 

Especially in these beautiful rolling hills



I thought moving my Internet services would be easy.
Go on line...
register a move...
Wha...laaaa..
Easy.....right?
NO!!
I received a phone call...
"I am sorry we do not service that area".
"Who does?"
"not sure..."
After many contacts to other services...
"No, we do not service that area..."
Finally, I had to put in a home phone to receive a slower service..
(I have not had a land line phone for  many years)

But hey....
I have Internet....


What have I learned....?

I miss all my blog sisters more than I would have realized...

Sometimes it is good to slow things down.......

Read more...

Talk with your husband more...

The greatest thing I have learned.....

Regardless of where I may live..

God knows exactly where I am...
He is always there....
Never out of touch.....
and He cares about even the little things in my life....

 

But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob,
he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
 I have called you by name, you are mine.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;
 when you walk through fire you shall not be burned,
and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
 I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you.
Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you,
I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.
Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east,
and from the west I will gather you. ...

Isaiah 43:1-7 ESV   

 
So, I am back....
Counting my blessings...
and thanking God for His daily watch care and renewed Grace..

BLESSINGS!

PATTY 
 

 

Word Wednesday

Welcome to Word Wednesday!!!

 

I am so happy to say that I am feeling much better

with the exception of this not so sunny Spring weather we are having.

It is making me feel a little "hum drum".

 

"Hum-drum" you say.....

 

Yes, "Hum-drum".....

 

Hum-drum-

lacking variety, boring, dull.

Routine, monotony, Archaic.....

 

 

This weather if becoming very "hum-drum"!

 

Snow, rain, clouds and cold temps....

 

Blah, Blah, Blah!

 

Come on Spring......

 

I am ready for Sunshine, flowers,

the smell of fresh cut grass, bare feet, dry ground...

and Warmth!!!

 

A season that hangs on to long.....

Can definitely give us the feeling of "hum-drum".

The same thing can happen in our Spiritual life....

 

We can actually end up with the "Spiritual hum-drums".

 

Do you ever find that your spiritual life is boring?

 

If all you do is sit and listen, listen, and listen to the Word without ever taking

steps to apply it to your life

you will soon reach a place where you are actually bored.

 

Thinking, not another sermon.....

Not another Bible study...

Reaching for another book...

Looking for new ways to "perk" up your spiritual life.

 

There is one primary reason why people get spiritually bored.

Simply this...

 

Knowledge without application will eventually become boring and unfulfilling.

 

You will come to a place where you've heard, heard, and heard

so much of the

Word that you are sick of hearing it!

You read, read, read so much that you cannot even

remember what you read...

 

Sad but true...

The problem does not lie in the Word....

The problem lies within us...

The Word was meant to be acted upon on..

Responded to...

 

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
James 1:22

 

 

 So if you just sit and listen to more and more sermons,

gathering more and more information but never

act upon what you've heard,

 

You are more likely to end up with the Spiritual "hum-drums".

Have you found yourself seeking someone or something

to spice your Spiritual life?

We get bored because we are not living out

or applying

the Word you have heard and read over

and over again.

Personal application of the Word to an indivduals life is a must!

 

If we could just simply learn to "apply" the Word daily...

Taking time to make it personal....

We would never be bored!

 

Don't let the Spiritual "Hum-drums" take over.....

 

When you hear the Word preached....

As you are reading the Word....

ask yourself these questions....

What verse really caught my attention?

Why did this verse catch my attention?

What is God saying to me personally?

What am I going to do about?

 

The Word is meant to change us.....

 

If ....

Your life is not changing because of the Word.....

 

You just may have the Spiritual "hum-drums".

 

Blessings!

 

Patty

 

 

 

 

 



 

So sorry for the lack of Posts...

I am so Sick.....

I guess I have been overdoing things at the new house...

I will be back soon.

 

Blessings to all my Blog Sisters!

 

Patty