Pleasant Words are like a Honey comb - sweet to the soul and health to the bones.
Are you a Sour grape or a Honey pot?
Sour grapes tend to spew out things when squeezed.
Sour grapes bring death to our self image,
Sour grapes bring death to our dreams
and death to our relationships.
Their heart has been hurt - and they intend to spew on others.
Words have the power of life and death - and we need to choose life when we talk.
Honey Pots on the other hand - let those sweet words come out and they bring new life.
Honey Pots sweeten our lives.
Honey Pots use their words to encourage, strengthen, love and heal.
Honey Pots accept and sweeten even the sour grapes in life.
Honey Pots stay sweet by forgiving and choosing to live without bitterness.
It is not easy being a Honey Pot
But it is not fulfilling to be a sour grape.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Fallow Ground
Jeremiah 4:3
For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,
Break up your fallow ground,
and do not sow among thorns.
Hosea 10:12
Sow with a view to righteousness,
Reap in accordance with kindness
Break up your fallow ground,
For it is time to seek the LORD
Until He comes to rain righteousness on you.
How do we break up our fallow ground - or hard heart?
How do we till the soil of our heart's until it is soft to receive the Word-seed?
It is a matter of repenting of your sins.
It is a matter of repenting of your attitude.
It is a matter of choosing God over any other thing or person.
The Word doesn't work on dead pan heart - so we need to choose a humble heart.
This hard economy doesn't mean we have to have a hard heart.
Have we made the ground hard with tears, or unbelief?
I know that is a temptation for me - so I choose today to keep my heart soft so I can plant the seed of righteousness in it.
Lord Bless your seed and may it produce abundantly above all we can ask or think.
Help us keep our hearts toward the things that make you cry and laugh.
We love you Lord - till our hearts and loosen the soil.
For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,
Break up your fallow ground,
and do not sow among thorns.
Hosea 10:12
Sow with a view to righteousness,
Reap in accordance with kindness
Break up your fallow ground,
For it is time to seek the LORD
Until He comes to rain righteousness on you.
How do we break up our fallow ground - or hard heart?
How do we till the soil of our heart's until it is soft to receive the Word-seed?
It is a matter of repenting of your sins.
It is a matter of repenting of your attitude.
It is a matter of choosing God over any other thing or person.
The Word doesn't work on dead pan heart - so we need to choose a humble heart.
This hard economy doesn't mean we have to have a hard heart.
Have we made the ground hard with tears, or unbelief?
I know that is a temptation for me - so I choose today to keep my heart soft so I can plant the seed of righteousness in it.
Lord Bless your seed and may it produce abundantly above all we can ask or think.
Help us keep our hearts toward the things that make you cry and laugh.
We love you Lord - till our hearts and loosen the soil.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Sing Your Way into His Presence
Ps 100:1-2
On your feet now - applaud God! Bring a gift of laughter, sing yourselves into his presence.
Know this: GOD is God, and God, GOD.
He made us; we didn't make him.
We're his people, his well-tended sheep.
Enter with the password: "Thank you!"
Make yourselves at home, talking praise.
Thank him. worship him.
For GOD is sheer beauty,
all-generous in love,
loyal always and ever.
Have you ever thought about singing your way into his presence? David did he used the harp out in the sheep fields to come before the Lord - and sing his way into His presence.
God is so close to us and he wants to be a part of our lives. He loves to hear you worship Him with your voice and sing at the top of your lungs. "In Him we move and live and have our being." I've been in His presence just singing in the car to him or singing with a CD. It is an overwhelming feeling of love. - Truly a "red cord" experience. Next time you are in church, by yourself in the car, or at a place - get involved with God. Wrap yourself in adoration and sing to Him - with or without a CD. As you reach out to him in adoration and singing - he will reach out to you and swing his red cord over your life.
On your feet now - applaud God! Bring a gift of laughter, sing yourselves into his presence.
Know this: GOD is God, and God, GOD.
He made us; we didn't make him.
We're his people, his well-tended sheep.
Enter with the password: "Thank you!"
Make yourselves at home, talking praise.
Thank him. worship him.
For GOD is sheer beauty,
all-generous in love,
loyal always and ever.
Have you ever thought about singing your way into his presence? David did he used the harp out in the sheep fields to come before the Lord - and sing his way into His presence.
God is so close to us and he wants to be a part of our lives. He loves to hear you worship Him with your voice and sing at the top of your lungs. "In Him we move and live and have our being." I've been in His presence just singing in the car to him or singing with a CD. It is an overwhelming feeling of love. - Truly a "red cord" experience. Next time you are in church, by yourself in the car, or at a place - get involved with God. Wrap yourself in adoration and sing to Him - with or without a CD. As you reach out to him in adoration and singing - he will reach out to you and swing his red cord over your life.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Rebecca's Red Cord
So what is a Red Cord Blog? - Salvation
There was a red cord that saved Rahab in Jericho from extinction.
She had the faith to believe God for her redemption.
This Red cord starts in Genesis and goes all the way to Revelation. Rahab tied a red cord in her window as an act of faith.
Rahab: (Joshua 2:10) For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
2:11 when we heard it, our hearts melted and no courage remained in any man any longer because of you; for the Lord your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.
2:21 She said, According to your words so be it. So she sent them away, and they departed; and she tied the scarlet cord in the window.
It is interesting that Rahab was the only one in Jericho who believed that God was who He said He was. - she alone took her fear and turned in into faith. Can we do that? Take the fear of man and turn it into faith with God? Feel the fear and do it anyway. She risked being different, she risked her reputation, she risked a new beginning. Even the spies were in fear for their lives. Fear of man can be exchanged for the Fear of God.
Today we are facing all kinds of fear - But God has not changed - he still parts the Sea of fear when we step out in faith.
There was a red cord that saved Rahab in Jericho from extinction.
She had the faith to believe God for her redemption.
This Red cord starts in Genesis and goes all the way to Revelation. Rahab tied a red cord in her window as an act of faith.
Rahab: (Joshua 2:10) For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
2:11 when we heard it, our hearts melted and no courage remained in any man any longer because of you; for the Lord your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.
2:21 She said, According to your words so be it. So she sent them away, and they departed; and she tied the scarlet cord in the window.
It is interesting that Rahab was the only one in Jericho who believed that God was who He said He was. - she alone took her fear and turned in into faith. Can we do that? Take the fear of man and turn it into faith with God? Feel the fear and do it anyway. She risked being different, she risked her reputation, she risked a new beginning. Even the spies were in fear for their lives. Fear of man can be exchanged for the Fear of God.
Today we are facing all kinds of fear - But God has not changed - he still parts the Sea of fear when we step out in faith.
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