Halloween or Hallo~weenie...

Well I really LOVED this blog by Steve Bell in fact I am sharing the link for it on my Facebook...then I was reading all the comments.....WOW some are very opinionated on this subject. So I got to thinking about what I think about Halloween....Here is where I am coming from. Growing up it was always one of my favorite times of year, when I was a kid it was like what I read in this post, Family and friends getting together dressing up and having a good time. MY aunts and Uncles, cousins and even grandparents would try to out do the other in all their costume making efforts and My grandpa even went as a white Tina Turner one year....there were MANY years of GREAT costumes as a kid and I even remember a FANTASIC one of Grover that I wore once  around 14 and little kids thought I was the real deal! As I got older I realized all those great costumes worn by family were worn to parties and Bars to win costume contests and here in Manitoba there are socials to honor the event. I sady see young girls competing to look as (putting it nicely) trashy as they can and pictures flood the internet of their Sexy nurse, Sexy vampire, Sexy this and Sexy that, and it makes me sad to see it all. I remember the creativity it would take to make a sinking Titanic costume or the cast of Shrek and when did the wholesomeness of little kids dressing up lose to the sexy in society. I KNOW the origins of Halloween are not light, but we can change it to meeting up with neighbors in your community and having a great night with our Children. I want my kids to have fond memories of dressing up in homemade costumes and walking around town getting treats to last them a few months. I want my kids to look back as adults and say I remember Mom and Dad dressing up with us to go trick or treating as Mario characters. And when they are too old for trick or treating I WILL offer a safe place for them and their friends to come dress up in appropriate costumes to have snacks and play games and have FUN with this time of year that can be just as inocent as when I was little. I dont want my kids to miss out because we are Christians and live sheltered from this day and all its fun, I think it is important to teach your kids to follow what is truth in Jesus and have your fun living as an example while knowing what that truth is. If my kids grow up to love Halloween like I do and chose to have alternative fun compared to bars, social and drunk it up parties then I think we are doing well in the Christian parenting being an example area. I support Halloween on MY terms not the world's. SO we pray for the lost before we go out and we pray for our safety physically and spritually and we head out with our pillowcases in tote and our costumes pinned in place. Happy Halloween to you Reader!!!
enjoy

TRICK~or~TREAT!!!!!!!!!

a day at a time!

God is who He says He is....God can do what He says He can do..I AM who God says I am...I can do all things through Christ...Gods word is ALIVE and active in me.
These statements are my pledge of Faith from a bible study I took awhile back and MAN do I love the last one there about Gods word. My Bible is in a bit of rough shape and actually is in need of some good old Duct tape repair...but it IS one of my prized possessions and how God speaks to me through His scripture is AWESOME! I have been seeking His face through some storms Jer and I have been facing lately and He has been speaking VOLUMES back to me.
Today for example. I needed to hear some words of wisdom and was encouraged to read the books of Psalm over the weekend, well today I opened it to Psalm 94 and it spoke to me.I prayed. I opened it again in need of God directing what path we need to take.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am not great at referencing the scriptures, I have even used the example: I know it says in the Bible somewhere.... or "I have a point and it says in the Bible, just give me 20 minutes to find it" so when a specific scripture comes to mind because I may have read it once but I go to it and re read it and it is like AH HAAAA...and  I KNOW IT is GOD in me...and I was given a scripture Joshua 1:9  it says This is my command-be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
Thank you God....I am currently doing another Bible study right now that has me reading and searching His word and the more I dig in the hungrier I get and I am thankful for all that I have and the freedom I have in being able to have my Bible out on my coffee table free to turn to it when I am in these storms and having it there to reference when I need clarity on a situation it is awesome!! I will continue to live my life going on what the Bible says, it is the ONLY truth that holds water in our lives and NOT on what man says. Man's opinions are great everybody is entitled to their own but if it doesn't go with what God's word says then it will go in one ear and out the other for me. I am willing to listen and hear what you have to say but IF you cannot back what you are saying to me with scripture then what good will it do in my life? I will not use someones twisted version of scripture if it is against what morals and values I have either. Through Gods word I will learn who I am in Him and where I should go and who I can trust. Through His word I will bring glory in my life to My ALMIGHTY Creator!  I encourage anyone who is given scripture to reference it yourself and see what it says so you can then make a choice of if it is truth.
I think about this weekend and Saturday's conversation and I want to share what I said to my dear friend. She had tons of questions for me about God, Faith, Reincarnation, and The Bible....tons more but I want to say what I said to her regarding The Bible. She asked how do I know what the Bible says is true and not just written by some guy to say what he wants you to think...
I replied that I just know, The Bible is the oldest book out there and is the most distributed book across the planet in hundreds of languages. It has 66 books inside it written by many different authors. Each book of the Bible was written because God breathed the words into each author and told them what to write. The Bible was also written at different times some hundreds of years apart but reference each others past present and futures. If the books of the Bible were written by just one guy each book would bring glory to themselves as Authors and they DONT! They bring Glory to God, they tell of His power, His mercy, His grace, His miracles, His laws....these books would have been written to bring their own authors glory and reverence but they don't. Look at other books of faith and religion and they bring glory to a man, usually the author. The Bible doesn't.
I think I kind of made a good point and she took it very well, and I know Jeremy and I had a very good time with her and may have had a positive influence on her, she said she thinks she found a church and is excited to bring her boys there and she didn't stop praying since she left and I am SO happy for her and look forward in building an even greater relationship with her.
I have Faith that in studying my Bible and learning more about God through His word, in turn learn more about myself.   Continue to pray for me Reader! :) but things are getting easier and we are talking it all a day at a time!

Kind of a mess...

Romans 14

The Weak and the Strong

 ¹ Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. ² One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. ³ The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. ⁴ Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.  ⁵ One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. ⁶ Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. ⁷ For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. ⁸ If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. ⁹ For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
 ¹⁰ You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister^[a]? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. ¹¹ It is written:
   “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
   every tongue will acknowledge God.’”^[b]
 12 So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.
 ¹³ Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. ¹⁴ I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. ¹⁵ If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. ¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, ¹⁸ because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.
 ¹⁹ Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. ²⁰ Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. ²¹ It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.
 ²² So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. ²³ But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.


YES I ESPECIALLY like the highlighted area....ugggghhhhh well that is all for now, pray for me Reader:) Have a great day.