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Train Them Up!

The best 10-year-old hoops player in the U.S.?

Fully Living for Jesus Christ!!!

Nick Vujicic - Fully living for Jesus Christ (Part 1 of 4)

God is So Amazing!!! This man is grateful, and you should be as well!

No Arms No Legs No Worries

Pastor Joel Osteen on Marriage, Commitment, and Relationships

Joel Osteen on Marriage, Commitment, Relationships

This is so good.

God Bless,

Deb

He's Able!

"He's Able" Live TBN Performance

True Love

True Love - by Phil Wickham

God is so Good! Find a church that displays His Love!!!

Life Change Stories: Bob & Deborah

Too Cute!

Praise God that He doesn't make us wait when we ask Him for help.  Those that call upon the name of Jesus shall be saved.  (Acts 2:21)  Wow!

 

 

Little Kid Stuck Behind Sofa Video

The Tea Cup Story

There was a couple who used to go to England to shop in the beautiful stores. They both liked antiques and pottery and especially teacups. This was their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.

One day in this beautiful shop they saw a beautiful tea cup. They said, "May we see that? We've never seen one quite so beautiful."

As the lady handed it to them, suddenly the teacup spoke. "You don't understand," it said. "I haven't always been a teacup.

There was a time when I was red and I was clay. My master took me and rolled me and patted me over and over and I yelled out, "let me alone", but he only smiled, "Not yet."

"Then I was placed on a spinning wheel," the teacup said, "and suddenly I was spun around and around and around. Stop it! I'm getting dizzy! I screamed. But the master only nodded and said, 'Not yet.'

Then he put me in the oven. I never felt such heat. I wondered why he wanted to burn me, and I yelled and knocked at the door. I could see him through the opening and I could read his lips as He shook his head, 'Not yet.'

Finally the door opened, he put me on the shelf, and I began to cool. 'There, that's better,' I said. And he brushed and painted me all over. The fumes were horrible. I thought I would gag. 'Stop it, stop it!' I cried. He only nodded, 'Not yet.'

Then suddenly he put me back into the oven, not like the first one. This was twice as hot and I knew I would suffocate. I begged. I pleaded. I screamed. I cried. All the time I could see him through the opening nodding his head saying, 'Not yet.'

Then I knew there wasn't any hope. I would never make it. I was ready to give up. But the door opened and he took me out and placed me on the shelf. One hour later he handed me a mirror and said, 'Look at yourself.  And I did. I said, 'That's not me; that couldn't be me. It's beautiful. I'm beautiful.'

'I want you to remember, then,' he said, 'I know it hurts to be rolled and patted, but if I had left you alone, you'd have dried up.

I know it made you dizzy to spin around on the wheel, but if I had stopped, you would have crumbled. I knew it hurt and was hot and disagreeable in the oven, but if I hadn't put you there, you would have cracked.

I know the fumes were bad when I brushed and painted you all over, but if I hadn't done that, you never would have hardened; you would not have had any color in your life. And if I hadn't put you back in that second oven,you wouldn't survive for very long because the hardness would not have held. Now you are a finished product. You are what I had in mind when I first began with you.

MORAL:

God knows what He's doing (for all of us). He is the Potter, and we are His clay. He will mold us and make us, so that we may be made into a flawless piece of work to fulfill His good, pleasing, and perfect will.

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not tempt you beyond what you can bear; but with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.

(Author Unknown)

Awakening 2010 at The Rock Church of Monroe

Via Pastor Jeff Knight's Blog  (Senior Pastor of The Rock Church of Monroe, WA http://www.knightrous.blogspot.com/

 

Have you ever denied yourself something to focus on something of greater importance. Training requires extreme focus no matter if it's for the Winter Olympics or a career move.  For 2010, I am extremely focused on achieving some spiritual and personal accomplishments that have eluded me, and to do so I am fasting.

Beginning tomorrow, January 10th, I am joining with 100's of thousands of people who are connected with www.awake21.org for a 21-day fast. I'm super pumped to deny myself in one area in order to extremely focused in another.   In fact, The Rock Church has 100's of people taking the same step to begin the New Year.

Tune in here everyday, beginning tomorrow, for a short word of devotion, fasting tips and hints for success. You will experience the beneits of growing spiritually closer to God in this time.

Here are some hints to get started.

1) Decide why you are fasting?  personal growth, spititual insight, church vision, or etc.  It can be multiple areas.  Let the Holy Spirit guide you and write the reasons for the fast in a journal so you can reference it in times of prayer.  

2)  Make your commitment.  This step is the toughest when it comes to fasting.  Really dig your teeth in and allow laser like focus to persuade you.  Decide that you will experience God in greater depths as you choose to deprive yourself physically, you will awaken spiritually.  

3)  Prepare yourself.  Get ready to pray during meal times and as you feel deprived. Also participate in church prayer times.  Realize the fast will impact your decision making, it may even adjust your schedule.  If you have the liberty, take a day off and "go to the mountain top to pray" or special place to pray. Take your bible and a journal. Seek God, pray and write.  

4) Prepare physically, get the foods and/or juices that you will eat ready.  Allow for some extra rest during the fast, you'll have less carbs and protien so you'll need a little more sleep.  

5)  Expect God to GO BIG.  For me, I am fasting for some huge things in my life.  You know those things you long for but elude you year after year?  Those are what I am personally fasting for!!!

It all begins tomorrow. See ya back here at www.Knightrous.com