Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Friday, November 13, 2015
what i am learning..
As
I've been caring for grandma, fielding questions regarding pregnancy
and doing the work of abolitionism I've come to see how often we
determine, define, think in terms of “quality of life”.
I
fail to see “quality of life” in scripture. I submit that this is
of the world and it's denial of Christ ways.
I
challenge you to watch how in any given day you define “quality of
life” for yourself or others [grandma pooping herself, down
syndrome, paralysis. being unmarried. babe in womb must be “healthy”
etc] .. how you see someone in a particular condition and think that
sucks/I'd hate that/that's no way to live.. or you yourself feel you
could never live like/with ______.
[think
about what we are saying when we do this. that the One who created
them fell short/made a mistake etc -critiquing Him! scolding Him!
demeaning Him. Scorning Him.]
Can
we still serve Christ with ______? If He is sustaining our life here
on earth, then we have our answer.
Let
us have His mind and submit to His Word and what He has to say about
life [John 10:10, John14:6, Matt 6:25-34]. That our worth is found
solely in Him as it is HIS image we bear. Circumstances or
experiences do not change this.
We
are so quick to call our preferences “health” and our fears a
sin/negative..
Who
or what determines health and is that to be our focus?
considering;
“... stop thinking people "should" be a certain way and we start noticing that they are exactly and perfectly how they were meant to be, in that moment of time. People aren't created to be as I think they should be, rather they are created as the Lord ordained and the less I think about how others should be, the more I can think about what I need to better in myself.”
“... stop thinking people "should" be a certain way and we start noticing that they are exactly and perfectly how they were meant to be, in that moment of time. People aren't created to be as I think they should be, rather they are created as the Lord ordained and the less I think about how others should be, the more I can think about what I need to better in myself.”
Monday, July 27, 2015
MOVING ANNOUNCEMENT
This past year..
June 2014: Luann started back with Comfort Keepers
June 20: Celebrated our 5 yr anniversary!
August: Jer completed 4th yr of employment with Sodexo on the University campus
Luann continued to stand4life [see FB page] at our local place of child sacrifice and proclaimed Christ in the open air around town..incurring much persecution & loss of relationships
Jan 10, 2015 : desire given our hearts.. {Psalm 37:4}
Jan 15: Jer diagnosed with Graves Disease
Feb 28: PREGNANT!
March 27: Proposed to Grandma that we move in with her and care for her. She said yes! [desire from January]
April 30: Luann's Uncle died
May 19: house packed, listed for sale and on the road to Cali to grandmas...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Psalm 34:1-3!
Celebrate with us! Pray for the life given this day at 7w 3d
ALL glory and praise be to God-and God alone!
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014
2014 year in review
[ also for your consideration, check out these 31 Questions for the New Year ] and i'm finding i want a different questionnaire. come across one? please share.
2014 year in review
2014 year in review
1.
What did you do in 2014 that you'd never done before?
-used
graphic image while standing4life
-went
to Arches National Park
-OAP
(open air proclaiming)
-recycled
-rejection
fear realized
-didn't
renew online source for tracking my cycle. did it own my own.
-got
rid of Facebook
-used
TBE (we
call it “To Be Expected” as these things are to be expected and
planned for!) fund/planned for “emergencies”
2.
2014 goals? Heb12 :11
Personally:
employment/gazelle intensity, prayer partner
Marital:
{ways to pray for us}
-no
yelling
-sexual
intimacy
-get
out & do stuff
-initiating
fellowship in this house
-weekly
service doing
-bedtime/electronics
curfew <8pm font="">
-fellowship
with body weekly
-neighbors
-house
projects
-food/money
budget, 3-6 months savings
-washing
of Word together, prayer
3.
Did anyone close to you give birth?
don't
recall
4.
Did anyone close to you die?
3
clients
5.
2014 Favorites?
as
listed here
6.
What would you like to have in 2015 that you lacked in 2014?
Well,
it is written that i have all i need for life and godliness 2 Peter
1:3 says. now to walk in the Spirit and not flesh!
7.
What date from 2014 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Feb
3-took out neighbors mailbox [while driving in the snow]
March
15- Habeckers visit
June
2- first day with clients
June
6- free gas can
August
7- eye exam provided by parents and new glasses
8.
What was your biggest achievement of the year?
anytime
i was obedient to the Lord. responded/acted on His promptings and
proclaimed Him.
9.
What was your biggest failure?
not
proclaiming Him/walking in flesh.
10.
Did you suffer illness or injury?
flu
or cold
11.
What was the best thing you bought?
getting
my bible rebound, a hymnal!
12.
Where did most of your money go?
Car,
eating out, postage, eating out, gifts, eating out, bills, eating
out, amazon :/
13.
What did you get really, really, really excited about?
giving
gifts, visiting family/friends, proclaiming with a brother/sister,
visiting Living Waters
14.
What song will always remind you of 2014?
2nd
Coming by FLAME
15.
What do you wish you'd done more of?
obey,
read Word, invest in relationships,
16.
What do you wish you'd done less of?
yell,
tear down, spend time online, lust, procrastinate, watch other people
live life rather than living life myself, fear,
17.
Area’s of growth:
not
running to man, caring about my husbend, articulating the Gospel,
18.
2014 word of the year:
SUBMIT
(sub word of contentment) John 3:30 as foundational verse
19.
Area’s of struggle
SIN:
greed,
gluttony, anger, fear, communication
20.
What was the best book you read?
[considering
http://www.theexpositor.tv/videos/gods-goads-pricks-gods-word-over-christian-books-by-bill-rhetts/
]
The
Heavenly Man by Brother Yun
Out
of the Comfort Zone by Ray Comfort
Conquer
Your Fear, Share Your Faith by Ray Comfort/ Kirk Cameron
Things
as They Are by Amy Carmichael
Fatherless
by James Dobson
21.
What was your greatest musical discovery?
Beautiful
Eulogy
22.
What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
completed
my 33rd yr of life. Submitted to the Lord via reading Word. went to
Dennys for free breakfast. got to talk to my grandma. then stood
outside St. Mary's exposing
the evil deeds of darkness, got free
birthday sandwich, Target shopping for some supplies for
employment starting that monday. Jer treated me to yummy green tea
drink by our house, we watched our local university baseball
championship online, I got to pick dinner and choose Noodles &
Company, we then we to mini golf (i won!) and our annual air hockey
tournament (i still reign).
23.
What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more
satisfying?
nothing.
[ see 2 Peter 1:3 again ]
not
waste time/procrastinate, go for walks when i thought of it,
proclaimed Christ to each individual i interacted with.
24.
What kept you sane?
Our
Lord. Memorizing scriptures. Those who spoke truth to me.
Discipline/routine. proclaiming Christ.
25.
What bible studies did you
do/participate in?
Contentment
read
bible in chronological order
book
of Revelation
Prayer
26.
What was the best movie you saw?
Time
Changer
The
Island
Blackfish
The
Dust Bowl
Captivated:
Finding Freedom in a Media Captive Culture
12
Days of Terror (compare to Jaws)
Hitler:
The Rise of Evil
27.
Considered...
chopping
my hair off, moving to WA, Tiny House living,
28.
Who was a new person you met?
meeting
brothers & sisters in person for the first time! coworker/sister
in Lord
29.
A valuable lesson you learned in 2014?
-enter
in HERE with the Lord, this present moment.
-spending
my strength in vain as a wife [Lev 26]
-the
root of my anger: believing the lie that i need Jeremiah to change
for my life to be better/ideal/easier. for me to obey, thrive, enjoy.
-the
definition of 'entertain[ment]' being “a diversion”
[as where scripture tells us to be sober & alert. ready.]
-expectations
we put on others- DAMAGING! stop it!
-just because i like something and think it's neat does not mean i should/need to buy it. learning to appreciate without acquiring said item.
-just because i like something and think it's neat does not mean i should/need to buy it. learning to appreciate without acquiring said item.
30.
Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
The
joy of the Lord is my strength. [see
http://www.duggarfamily.com/content/mothers
]
Pet
Peeves:
-thinking
about posting/sharing something whilst reading it instead of just
reading the thing for myself
-people
saying that THEY can't believe THEY created a new life and are
sustaining it.
-work
vs employment
-Focus
on the Family radio show-guests/books/. how they agree with
everything guests say and tell listener to buy 5 books a week vs
pointing to scripture!
-using/relying
on FB to communicate
-adoption
being for those who “can't have children”
-saying
there is nothing good on tv and should get rid of it and then don't
-people
saying “yeah yeah” while you are talking to them about abortion
YET they disagree
-when
you send text to multiple people and everyone gets their reply
-“married
or the equivalent or living as married” option on forms
-crediting
the act of prayer and not the One prayed to with the “results” of
prayer
-professing
followers of Christ casually referring to things they do as
addictions/making light of sin
-when
texting, asking “what?” instead of looking at preceding texts to
remind yourself what was being talked about.
-food
personified -Using
animated creatures to sell a product for humans!
-”church
marquees” saying to check US out. NOT about God & all are
welcome when WE are to be the marquee.
-women
noticeably using bra as purse (money, cell phone)
-painted
brick
-eyelashes
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Saturday, December 20, 2014
:Immanuel- God with us:
Christ Incarnate [Matthew 1, Luke 1]
Prophecy
fulfilled
Isaiah
7:14—Isaiah prophesies that a pure young woman will give birth to
God's son. Matthew 1:18–23—Isaiah's prophecy is fulfilled. Isaiah
9:6—Isaiah prophesies that Jesus Christ will come as a baby; Jesus
is described by several names. Micah 5:2—Micah prophesies that
Jesus will be born in Bethlehem.
...
to name a few!
Christ
was born
But
the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring
you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; for
today in the city of David there has been born
for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Luke 2:l0-ll
Do
we forget the infanticide and genocide that occurs following Christs
birth?! [Matthew 2]
Abortion
is an attack of the enemy on the incarnation of the Christ Child.
Satan's
been trying to usurp & kill Jesus ... and His image bearers To
wipe out Israel [His image bearers] off the face of the earth [Rev
12]. This is nothing new under the sun [Ecc 1:9]. Satan has been a
liar and a murderer from the beginning [John 8:44], and he has used
anyone who is willing to follow him to carry out his plans; King
Herod, Haman, Babylon, Hitler, Margaret Sanger... Who else?
Abortion
can be ignored. GREIVIOUS. Let us not miss this, that at its core is
an enemy that has come to 'steal kill and destroy' [John 10] and that
Satan wants us to 'curse God and die' [ Job 2].
Immanuel
-Christ with us [Matthew 1, Isaiah 7 & 8, John 1]
Do
you believe it? that the Christ child came through
the womb? was born. birthed. human the entire time?
Need
to see abortion [the murder of the preborn child in the womb] as
nothing less than Satan's attack on the very image of God.
Do
not think for a second that abortion is anything other than our enemy
Satan's attempt to discredit God & His immaculate conception.
Dehumanizing what our Lord alone creates, forms and sustains in the
womb. That you would not dismiss this. The world hates
babies because they are God's image-bearers and they [ultimately]
hate God.
War against SIN
This
is not a political, choice, opinion, social, or women's issue. It
is a sin issue [against a Holy God] and as such, the only response is
the Word Himself.
Are
you agonizing over one of the Kings own image bears being destroyed
by another image bearer?
Satan's
wrath is great as he realizes that his time is short [Rev 12:12].
How
many will he take with him un-protested by the professing Church...
THIS
SHOULD BE OF UTMOST URGENCY FOR US!
ADMONISHMENT:
let us not be deceived, or
belittle abortion and conception any longer [1
Cor 3:18-23, Col 2:8];
So
how do YOU need to WAKE UP [Eph 5, 1 Peter 5:8] to this?
-Consider
how you perpetuate either Satan's work (dehumanizing, devaluing
conception) or God's work [welcoming
conception? stop futilely attempting to control what you can not via
“birth control”.
why
do you distrust Him so?!]
-Stop
voting to regulate murder!
http://abolishhumanabortion.com/about/no-compromise-with-abortion/
-Ask
your physicians if they too provide the murderous 'procedure' of
'abortion'
[if
they do then confront, flee and expose! Eph 5:11]
-Apathetic,
ignoring this in your own town?
There
is likely a place of murder/child sacrifice in your town:
http://abolishhumanabortion.com/map-of-abolitionist-societies/ AND
http://sidewalks4life.com/join-the-community/directory-of-counselors/
Trust
God. Repent. Fear God.
after
examining yourself first, go then and warn others!
IN
SUMMARY: THE INCARNATION IS THE DEATH KNELL TO ABORTION!
Jesus Christ became an embryo in the womb of Mary, to be born, so that He may die on a cross to save sinners and abolish death. His earthly existence began in the very place our culture destroys those made in God's Image. This is a foundational truth in the fight against abortion.
Jesus Christ became an embryo in the womb of Mary, to be born, so that He may die on a cross to save sinners and abolish death. His earthly existence began in the very place our culture destroys those made in God's Image. This is a foundational truth in the fight against abortion.
As
you shop and rush about, are you putting forth the same effort and
time into sharing thee
gift of Christ Himself? We give because He
gave. We are His
image bearers. From here forth, allow each gift given AND received to
remind you of and point you to, the
gift of salvation.
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