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Dorothy Pentz
Immanuel Baptist Church, Rogers Arkansas
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- A Time For Everything
- Freedom of Choice
- Awful Actions Lead To Destruction
- Foolish Feelings Fosters Fear
- Do You Have Stinken Thinken?
- Are You Ready To Die?
- Do You Know Who You Are?
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- Jesse Mills on A Time For Everything
- Jesse Mills on Freedom of Choice
- Tricia Kerr on Freedom of Choice
- Tricia Kerr on Tempted while Tested by the Disagreeable
- admin on Spiritual Undertow
A Time For Everything
25/04/09
There is a time for everything and that includes the middle class family I grew up in. My mother worked part-time and my father had his own Well Drilling business. I was reared with three older brothers. Each one of us is unique and spent countless hours playing together as children. During our childhood years my parents never focused on our abilities, talents or gifts given to us by God. In fact, God was not a part of our life or our conversations.
I remember as an adult listening to a testimony given by a young woman who was talking about her home life as a child. Her story was so strikingly different from my childhood that I found myself delighting in the beauty of God’s love demonstrated through her parents and the importance of parenting God’s way. As a result of their devotion to God and recognizing the importance of their daughter’s spiritual needs, she accepted Jesus Christ as her personal Savior at a very young age. Again, there is a time for everything, and this young woman’s parents seized the moment of living a life pleasing to God, and reflecting His love for their daughter. (more…)
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Freedom of Choice
23/04/09
Just recently I experienced a very sad moment in history. A young woman of 24 years of age died of leukemia. She left behind her husband and family who had the freedom to chose to pray daily, hourly, and minute by minute that God would heal her. I understand that they also had the freedom to choose to pray that God’s will be done and His name be gloried.
It leaves all of us confused and stunned over why God would chose not to heal her but take her home to be with Him. God says in Isaiah 55:8, 9 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your way my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
I don’t know about you but the grief becomes greater the more I learn how little control we have over the outcome of those that we love or the circumstances we face on a daily basis. We ask ourselves, what is the point of the freedom of choosing to pray, asking for others to pray, and to plead on our behalf to a God who appears to have His mind made up.
So the bottom line is, we can choose to pray or just wait to see what God has planned right? (more…)
Awful Actions Lead To Destruction
22/04/09
The pressure is building as the time is passing. The driver in front of you has gotten on your last nerve. Your Awful Actions are leading you to destroy the person that is holding you up from reaching your destination. You begin to move toward the drivers back bumper at a very close range. The driver in front of you takes notice of your closeness and decides to slow down even more.
Your Stinken Thinken kicks in again and you begin to scream profanities in your mind. The Foolish Feelings take over and your blood begins to boil and your body begins to tremble. Your Awful Actions follow and you put your foot to the gas pedal and ride even closer. You open your window and start screaming at the driver in front of you, what you think about his driving, how you see him as a person, and how he needs to get a life or lose it. (more…)
Foolish Feelings Fosters Fear
27/03/09
Here you are still on the road, time is passing, and your job’s security is ebbing away. Your Foolish Feelings are beginning to foster fear and dictate to you that your future is bleak and the driver in front of you is at fault.
Your blood is boiling, your heart is racing, and you’re feeling more hopeless by the minute. Your mind is racing with Stinken Thoughts of how to get the driver in front of you to move. Your Foolish Feelings wash over you and flood you with fear, anger, and panic. You begin to feel tightness in your chest and a need to escape this discomfort overtaking you. (more…)
Do You Have Stinken Thinken?
13/03/09
Here you are in heavy traffic and headed for an important meeting. Your two-lane highway is merging into a single lane and the car along side of you is in the lane that continues. Your Stinken Thinken kicks in and you decide to put your foot to the gas pedal and out run the car alongside of you for the front position.
Well guess what, the other person decided to also fight for the front position, and won! Now you find yourself on your opponents bumper, your irritated, and filled with thoughts of getting even. With your thoughts racing and your body filled with rage, your bosses last words come into your mind, if you come in late one more time you’re fired! (more…)
Are You Ready To Die?
12/03/09
A pastor and his wife were out in the waiting room, waiting for the pastor’s name to be called for his routine physical exam. While the pastor and the doctor were visiting, a nurse came in and asked the pastor, “Does your wife have a black and white sweater on?” He answered, “Yes.” The nurse said, “You need to come with me, it appears your wife is having a problem.” As the pastor entered the waiting room, four doctors were working on his wife. The doctors told the pastor, “Your wife is dead. We tried to bring her back, but she did not respond. ”
Let me ask you, “If you were like this woman, who died in an instant for no apparent reason, with no warnings, and no goodbyes; Are You Ready To Die and meet God your Creator? (more…)
Do You Know Who You Are?
18/12/08
Christ Bell
THE BELL
I KNOW WHO I AM
I am God’s child (John 1:12)
I am Christ’s friend (John 15:15 )
I am united with the Lord (1 Cor. 6:17)
I am bought with a price (1 Cor 6:19-20)
I am a saint (set apart for God). (Eph. 1:1)
I am a personal witness of Christ. (Acts 1:8)
I am the salt & light of the earth (Matt 5:13-14)
I am a member of the body of Christ (1 Cor 12:27)
I am free forever from condemnation ( Rom. 8: 1-2)
I am a citizen of Heave n. I am significant (Phil 3:20)
I am free from any charge against me (Rom. 8:31 -34)
I am a minister of reconciliation for God (2 Cor 5:17-21)
I have access to God through the Holy Spirit (Eph. 2:18)
I am seated with Christ in the heavenly realms (Eph. 2:6)
I cannot be separated from the love of God (Rom 8:35-39)
I am established, anointed, sealed by God (2 Cor 1:21-22 )
I am assured all things work together for good (Rom. 8:28 )
I have been chosen and appointed to bear fruit (John 15:16 )
I may approach God with freedom and confidence (Eph. 3: 12 )
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Phil. 4:13)
I am the branch of the true vine, a channel of His life (John 15: 1-5)
I am God’s temple (1 Cor. 3: 16). I am complete in Christ (Col. 2: 10)
I am hidden with Christ in God (Col. 3:3).. I have been justified (Romans 5:1)
I am God’s co-worker (1 Cor. 3:9; 2 Cor 6:1). I am God’s workmanship (Eph. 2:10)
I am confident that the good works God has begun in me will be perfected. (Phil. 1: 5)
I have been redeemed and forgiven ( Col 1:14). I have been adopted as God’s child (Eph 1:5)
I belong to God
Do you know
Who you are?