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    Aglow and Burning for the Master!
          A daily devotion to uplift and encourage readers in the Lord and His Word.

    Mon, Jul 23rd - 10:05AM

    The Power of Praise!



    Good morning,
    I pray you have a wonderful and blessed day!

    I was thinking about the power of God while reading Mike's (Toni's my cousin, Mike is her brother) report on his grandson who was injured in a car accident last Tuesday. It is a miracle that He is alive. Even the doctors at Mayo clinic are talking about the miracles that have been happening; you see the Lord's hand in this situation so strong, people can't help but know it's the POWER of God working.

    Psalms 20:13
    Be exalted, Lord, in Your strength; we will sing and praise Your power.

    When we give praise to the Father, we increase His strength and power. It enables God to work greater miracles for those we love. Why? Because when we praise Him, we bless the Father's heart and in so doing build up our faith to release the power for miracles.

    Praise the Lord!
    Have a great day! I am off to supervise a group of teens at our church youth camp. So say a prayer for me this week for strength, and that I would be a blessing to the teens I come into contact with.
    Love in Christ,
    Joy



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    Sun, Jul 22nd - 10:35AM

    Praise the Lord Most High!



    Greetings,
     
    I have been thinking a lot lately about PRAISE. Doesn't it make you feel extra special when someone gives you a compliment or thank you for a good job? Doesn't it just make your day a little brighter? How do you think we make the FATHER feel when we take time during the day to give Him thanks. Sometimes I just praise Him regardless if I think He has done anything for me; because if I woke up then He had done something for me, He gave me air to breathe. Even when a person doesn't think God is doing anything for them, they are wrong. God is doing something for us at all times.
     
    Psalms 7:17 says
    I will give to the Lord the thanks due to His rightness and justice, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.
     
    That is my desire today and every day to give the Lord thanks and to sing His praises all the time. I will praise the Lord most High.
    Not because of anything special He has done; but because of WHO HE IS!
    Praise the Lord!
    Have a great day!
    Joy


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    Thu, Jul 19th - 9:26AM

    Knowing God's Voice!



    John 10:27-30
    27 The sheep that are My own hear and are listening to My voice; and I know them, and they follow Me.
    28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never lose it or perish throughout the ages. [To all eternity they shall never by any means be destroyed.] And no one is able to snatch them out of My hand.
    29 My Father, Who has given them to Me, is greater and mightier than all [else]; and no one is able to snatch [them] out of the Father's hand.
    30 I and the Father are One.

    I am so thankful Jesus made a way for us to have eternal life. No one can snatch me out of my Father's hand unless I allow them to.

    I love the Lord with everything within me. Praise His Holy Name!



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    Wed, Jul 18th - 10:22AM

    Praise Before the Answer Arrives!



    Good morning from rainy Dallas,

    It is interesting when I started the other day with the scriptures in Psalms 119:41 & 42b how much of what I've been reading since then has to do with trust and faith.
    This morning I want to share with you the scripture:

    John 11:41
    So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.


    Jesus prayed this prayer while Lazarus was still in the grave, and the thanksgiving precedes the miracle of resurrection. Jesus gave thanks for what He is about to receive. The gratitude breaks forth before the bounty has arrived.
    The song of victory is sung before the battle has been fought. It is thanksgiving before the miracle.
    Praise is really the most vital preparatory ministry to the working of the miracles. Miracles are wrought by spiritual power. Spiritual power is always proportioned to our faith.
    "Nothing so pleases God in connection with our prayer and our praise, and nothing so blesses the man who prays as the praise which he offers". Rev. Henry W. Frost.
    May you have a praise filled day!
    Joy



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    Tue, Jul 17th - 11:11AM

    Faith!



    Good morning,
    I woke up to a nice and welcome surprise; it is raining. Just to feel the coolness of the rain in my face, smell the freshness in the air refreshes me. I praise my Father for the rain.
    I want to share something I read in a book last night that really helped me.
    Psalms 119:41 & 42b
     
    41 Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
    42b for I trust in thy word.
     
    Just in proportion in which we believe that God will do just what He has said, is our faith strong or weak. Faith has nothing to do with feelings, or with impressions, with improbabilities, or with outward appearance. If we desire to couple them with faith, then we are no longer resting on the Word of God because faith, needs nothing of the kind. Faith rests on the naked Word of God. When we take Him at His Word the heart is at peace.
     
    God delights to exercise faith, first for blessing our own souls, then for blessing in the church at large, and also for those without. But this exercise we shrink from instead of welcoming. When trials come, we should say; :My heavenly Father puts this cup of trial into my hands, that I may have something SWEET afterwards."
     
    Trials are the food of faith, Oh, let us leave ourselves in the hands of our heavenly Father! It is the joy of His heart to do good to all His children.
     
    Today as you go about your day may you look on the things that happen to you as food to grow stronger in the Lord.
     
    God Bless you!
    Joy


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    Sun, Jul 15th - 10:26AM

    Filled with His Spirit!



    Greetings,

    I am home from speaking at the Women's Aglow meeting in Sequim and then Camp Meeting for three days. It was awesome. Thank all of you who upheld me in your prayers.

    It was the first time I had been to camp meeting since the early "90"; and the first time I went alone. What a wonderful experience to be free to worship as long as I wanted to. I was able to minister to some and prayed with many. What an awesome expierence to be used of the Lord that way. In my extending myself to others, I got blessed as well.

    What an awesome Father we have. If you have never been to camp meeting and there is a Spirit filled camp meeting going on in your area, you need to go it will change your life.

    God Bless you!

    Joy



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    Mon, Jul 9th - 9:21AM

    Thiristing for God!



    Greetings from beautiful, warm, sunny Dallas,
     
    I'm on my way to Washington with Sis. I am speaking at an Aglow meeting tomorrow in Sequim so please keep me in your prayers. Then it's off to Camp Meeting for the rest of the week. I will be sending out the devotionals every morning, I expect some really super preaching, so will be passing thoughts on to you from the meetings.
    Today I want to leave you with the scripture from
    Psalms 42:1-2
    1 AS THE hart pants and longs for the water brooks, so I pant and long for You, O God.

    2 My inner self thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?

    That is my desire to long for God, to drink up His Word, to daily have prayer time and communion with the Father, then I shall behold the face of God.

    God Bless You Abundantly,

    Joy



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    Sun, Jul 8th - 10:02AM

    God Our Healer!



    Good morning,
    God is so awesome. Yesterday I went to a BBQ at Suzan's. She is the lovely lady I wrote to you about just a little over a month ago. The doctors said she had cancer of the colon and lungs, and had called in Hospice. When Sis and I went to see her the first time, she was laying in bed, on oxygen and not expected to live longer than a month. We visited with her, shared scripture with her and prayed with her. We have been visiting with her, but due to our family reunion hadn't been out in awhile. Yesterday she had invited some caregivers, friends who have been praying for her, Sis and myself to a BBQ.
    July 1, was her birthday and she wanted to celebrate. She was told she wouldn't live to see this birthday. So in essence she was celebrating not only her birthday, but her life.

    The first time Sis, and I went out, Suzan prayed and told God she didn't want to die. The verses I chose for today, reminded me of her and what she prayed.
    Hebrews 4:14-16 (AMP)
    14 Inasmuch then as we have a great High Priest Who has [already] ascended and passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession [of faith in Him].
    15 For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of temptation, but One Who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning.
    16 Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God's unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it].
    Because Suzan knew how to pray, she went BOLDLY before the throne of grace to obtain mercy, and to find the grace she needed to help in her time of need.
    Suzan hosted not only the BBQ, but opened her home to a group of friends who ministered to each other and to her yesterday in a very special way. I am so thankful I got to be a part of her LIFE party.
    Have a most blessed day in the Lord!
    Joy



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    Sat, Jul 7th - 11:57AM

    His Name!



    Psalms 9:10

    And they who know Your name [who have experience and acquaintance with Your mercy] will lean on and confidently put their trust in You, for You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek (inquire of and for) You [on the authority of God's Word and the right of their necessity].

    I am so thankful that I know His name. I know He loves me. I know He takes care of me. I know His name is Jesus! He is my Lord, my Savior and soon coming King.

    I can lean on Him, learn from Him and walk in Victory becasue of Him.

    Praise His Holy Name!

    Have a super day!



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    Fri, Jul 6th - 5:54PM

    Don't Put off to Tomorrow what you can do Today!




    Ecclesiastes 9:10

    10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. KJV

    I have spent most of the day getting caught up on copying my daily devotionals from Joyful Expressions to Word. I was doing it on a daily basis each time I posted a devotional, I just copied it to Word; however, I looked today and realized I was way behind.

    It's hard to know what scripture to use each day, when I don't know which ones I've already used.

    This wasn't the scripture I was looking for, but it will do. I thought there was a scripture about not putting off till tomorrow what your hand was to do today. If there is one, maybe one of you wise people could send me the reference.

    I am trying really hard to do my devotionals first thing in the mornings. I was doing great, then I slacked off and now I'm playing catch up again. One day I will have my priorities straight. It's not that I haven't been in the Word  or working for the Lord, however, I don't know about you, but I get busy doing things for others and putting their stuff first.

    Take care and God Bless!

    Joy

    p.s. Is there a way to do spell check on this post a message page?

    Thanks everyone for your wonderful comments and help.



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    Thu, Jul 5th - 12:08PM

    What Hinders You?



    Galatians 5:7 (Amp. Bible)
    7 You were running the race nobly. Who has interfered in (hindered and stopped you from) your heeding and following the Truth?
     
    This morning I was thinking again about my getting into the Word and prayer time full speed ahead; only to have other things come up and I put them first. I really want to seek God first, I want to read His Word first! I start and stop, I thought to myself after I finish this one more thing, then I will get back into a daily routine of praying and studying first thing when I get up. I've even neglected to keep my daily devotional here up on a daily basis. I felt in my heart the Lord speaking to me and asking me "if you can't commit to doing it now, how can you expect to do better later".
    There will always be something requiring my attention. So if I don't establish good habits now in praying and reading the Word, what makes me think I can do it later.
    The thought came to my mind "What hinders you"?
    What hinders you from serving God the way He desires you to?
    I pray that I come to understand that God MUST come FIRST.
    My whole day goes better when I put Him first.
    Have a most blessed day in the Lord!


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    Wed, Jul 4th - 12:11PM

    Bond or Free?



    Happy 4th of July,
    I was thinking about the meaning of this holiday.  July 4, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was signed, with a section about "all men are created equal". There has been a lot of lives lost through the years to maintain our freedom.
    We have the freedom of speech, the freedom to worship, the freedom to vote, the list goes on, and yet how many of us take it for granted?
    I was thinking of the "Christian's" freedom. I believe our "Independence Day" started with Jesus' birth, His death and resurection. The day a person asks Jesus into their life, is I believe their Independence Day. When a person begins to walk in the Liberty of the Lord, then they are truly free.
     
    Galatians 5:1
    Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
     
    Yesterday as I was going about my day, I was carrying on a conservation with my Father. As I was talking to Him about some hurts and disappointments that has happened recently, I was asking Him to help me overcome them so I could move on and have peace and joy in my heart.
    I felt Him speak to me and this is what I got from His Words, if you've been hurt or disappointed in the past or now and when you or someone else talks about it, if it still hurts you then you have not left it with me, when it no longer as the power to hurt you; then you have become victorious over it.
    So today on this special holiday, I would leave you with this question
    Are you free?
    Have a fun and safe holiday!
    Joy


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    Sun, Jul 1st - 10:22AM

    Apology!



    It seems like I have been so busy that I've negected to keep my devotionals current. For that I apologize. I am daily having to work on doing the spiritual things before doing everything else I need to do. I am so glad my God is a loving and patient Father who not only forgives my mistakes, but keeps on working with me to put Him first in all things.

    Romans 5:1-2 says

    1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

    2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

    I am so thankful that I have access into this grace and that I can rejoice in hope for all things.

    I give God all glory, honor and praise.



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