Francis Chan-Cornerstone Church

Kevin West and Jessica Rilke at New Pointe introduced me to Francis Chan via podcast. I added him to my favorite links. If Joyce Meyer is not your cup of tea, try Francis Chan. He blew me away. If I only have half an hour to spare I will be really torn at which one I will listen to. Both Joyce and Francis are awesome.

View from my back door

Photo

Painting plus a few deer. I wanted this to be a fall picture. There was snow on the ground in the photo. I left it out in the painting. When the sun sets it looks as if there is a purple lens on everything. I used a lot of purple in the painting. I added the deer because we have regular visits from deer and I wanted to share them with everyone. The younglings always hide behind mom and peek out from behind her. If you put your curser over the pictures and click, you can get a larger view. I hope you like.

Flowers

The result of my first attempt at bulb planting.

They're pretty, but they're falling over already. I wish they'd last longer. They smell so good.

Giraffe family joins ReignForest at NewPointe

A face only a mother could love

Facing our own giants

I love they way Joyce Meyer uses the story of the Israelites leaving Egypt for the Promised Land to explain different levels of spirituality. It really helped me to understand how someone can be saved and still be a mess. Basically she said when we get saved its similar to when the Israelites left Egypt (approximately 3 million). When the Israelites left Egypt, that represents us getting saved by accepting Jesus as our savior, which guarantees our salvation. While in the wilderness the Israelites were up against some great giants keeping them from the Promised Land (Moabites, Hittites, Jebusites). Our own giants are keeping us from our present day Promised Land. These giants are bad attitudites, doubtites, jealousites, selfishites, and so on. We're guaranteed salvation when we accept Jesus as our Savior, but we can’t live the life that God promised us until we shed ourselves of these giants and we can’t do it without God’s help. We just keep going around the mountain in the wilderness until we get it right. If we fail the test we just get to keep taking it. When we pass the test we get to leave the wilderness for the Promised Land. The Promised Land represents a happy more fulfilled life here on earth when we conquer our giants.
I am so thankful for anointed speakers who can put it into words I can understand.
I keep revising this because everytime I read it I seem to be leaving something out.

Turbo the Cat

What gifts do you have?

I can cook. Whether or not it tastes good is debatable. Well, we have to eat so I'll keep on trying. Pray for Dave and Kevin. I should stop feeling guilty about it. Some people can't do the things I do well. Don't compare your gifts to someone else. When we do we get in trouble and the Kingdom does not profit.

"God will help you be all you can be, but he won't help you be someone else." quote by Joyce Meyer.

Thank you Joyce

The Gift of One........

This was so good I had to write it down. Today Joyce Meyer pointed out how easy it is for us to accept the sin that we received from one man who was Adam. We acknowledge we’re sinners when it is said, but when it comes to accepting the gift of salvation from one who is Christ Jesus we find that so hard to comprehend.

She then quoted Romans 5:17…
For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.

So good, so good, so good..........