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“Don’t give the opposition a second thought. Through thick and thin, keep your hearts at attention, in adoration before Christ, your Master. Be ready to speak up and tell anyone who asks why you’re living the way you are, and always with the utmost courtesy” – 1 Peter 3:15 (Message Bible)

You don’t need to figure everything out or worry when you don’t understand what I am doing. A child only needs to know his dad loves him and will care for him.

There are harsh realities I will handle for you and with you. You don’t need to fear attacks, I am your Daddy, don’t even focus on them because I am defending you. You are not really that hurt. Though the devil is growling and saying you’re defenceless pay him no attention and keep your focus on Me. Don’t be frightened or anxious for there’s nothing he can do but talk — I have all the power and I have already spoken.

Your confidence in Me and My deliverance of you demonstrates My faithfulness to a lost and dying world. Move right on, attacks are nothing more than flies at a picnic.

— June 2, 2007 (Sat)

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Some people find analogies everywhere. Not being a fan of “Haunted Houses”, myself, I can still appreciate how some learn from almost any experience. Don Miller, author and blogger, relates what he learned leading a group through a local “Haunted House”

Donald Miller

“The trick to leading a group through a haunted house is knowing the scary stuff can’t actually kill you. The management won’t let them.

It’s the same with all the scary stuff we have to deal with, all the fear of abandonment and loneliness and wounds we have to address. They aren’t allowed to kill us. Sure we might feel some fear, and a lot of it. But in the end (even if it kills our earthly bodies) we don’t die. We just come through the other side with a knowledge we faced our fears, and we got out of that haunted house alive, our screaming and giggling friends in tow. — Don Miller 09/23/2011

Jesus said scary times are coming — and today’s news makes it seem like they are here! But Jesus also told his followers how to lead through scary times — by looking up and knowing we are closer than ever to our hope.

Be not terrified … there shall not an hair of your head perish … Men’s hearts [shall be] failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken … [but] when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. Luke 21:9, 18, 26

Remember your hope, they can’t kill us. The management won’t let them.

— fritz@langgang.com
Read Don’s Post here
Read Jesus’ Post here

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And behold, Elisabeth thy kinswoman, … this is the sixth month with her … And Mary arose and entered into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elisabeth. And it came to pass, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit; and she … said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb … For behold, when the voice of thy salutation came into mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.”

I remember my wife’s first pregnancy — she eagerly anticipated feeling the baby move.

Elizabeth, in the Bible, was six (6) month’s pregnant so the timing of feeling her baby was not that unusual. What made it so extraordinary was God’s Holy Spirit.

God often uses ordinary events, adding his Holy Spirit to make them truly extraordinary, so don’t miss it by requiring something completely unique. Open up to the Holy Spirit’s ability to make even the ordinary extraordinary.

Sound bite: God’s Holy Spirit make ordinary things extraordinary!
Prayer: Jesus, take my ordinary life and use it for your purposes, that make it truly extraordinary! Amen.

— fritz@langgang.com
See “Coincidence Or Answered Prayer?” – August 20, 2011

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