Refreshing Our Spirits With Scripture

 10.5- The secret to Contentment is in how we think. Last night a wonderful lady, was commenting on how her grandmother had been successful in her life. When she had seven children and one on the way her husband died leaving her to raise eight children. She explained that the grandmother's thinking was if she had something and you needed she would share and somehow God would provide. A very possessive "My" mindset can be very unhealthy. The fly says "My flypaper." The fly paper says "My fly," Four generations were in this room and online where we were studying and discussing how to have a loving family and church family. Contentment does not come from what I have but who I know. Contentment is not about what I own but who owns me. Communities of love solve the problem of deep need in the community by people seeing the need and meeting it even if it involves selling something and giving resources to meet the need. The assembly of people here have ...

 10.4- Consistent humble service. I started using a motorized scooter in my home about a year ago. My legs and ankles just don't work right currently. About five years ago my neighbor across the street started the habit of moving my garbage and recyle containers from the street up to my garage for me. I never asked her to do it. Again today when I looked out the window and she had done it again today. She walks her dog every morning and talks to neighbors that are outside their homes and she collects prayer concerns from neighbors to pray for them Very quietly she is a positive influence to our entire neighborhood. When each of us contributes what we can to people around us it adds to a big difference, day by day and week by week. Philippians 2. 2  Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any  [ a ] affection and compassion,   2  make my joy complete  [ b ] by being of t...

 10.3- Conversation. Fellowship. Visiting. I remember mom and dad sitting on a front porch swing admiring the blossoms on a crepe murtle Bush, watching the cars go by. Sheila's journal, 10.28.2020 "Still cold, got up late, had breakfast and a long talk with Larry, so .much so that didn't get a lot done, but we had so much fun and after all that's what's important while we still have each other." Proverbs 31 10  An excellent wife, who can find  her ? For her worth is far above jewels. 11  The heart of her husband trusts in her, And he will have no lack of gain. 12  She does him good and not evil All the days of her life.

 10.2 There are three basic prayers. Please. Thank you. Wow. Ephesians 3 14  For this reason I bend my knees before the Father,   15  from whom  [ m ] every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,   16  that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner  [ n ] self,   17  so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith;  and  that you, being rooted and grounded in love,   18  may be able to comprehend with all the  [ o ] saints what is the width and length and height and depth,   19  and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled to all the fullness of God. 20  Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,   21  to ...

 10.1- Beauty reflects wonderful maker of all things. When beautiful things are done then are hearts are uplifted. We have enjoyed several beautiful weather days this week. Other places in our nation had dangerous weather where beautiful acts of mercy were required to save lives. Mercy, grace and peace were given to me as the author of my life kept working to help me be the man he wants me to be. Thank you God for beauty. 1 Peter 3. husbands so that even if any  of them  are disobedient to the word, they may be won over without a word by the behavior of their wives,   2  as they observe your pure  [ a ] and respectful behavior.   3  Your adornment must not be  merely  the external—braiding the hair, wearing gold  jewelry , or putting on apparel;   4  but  it should be  the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable  quality  of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God...

 9.30- I'm not yet mature if... I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought. I can write an unkind post, speak an unkind word, think an unkind thought without grief. I am soft to myself and slide comfortably into self-pity and self-sympathy; If I do not by the grace of God practice fortitude. I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness. I take offense easily, if I am content to continue in a cool unfriendliness, though friendship be possible. I feel bitter toward those who condemn me, as it seems to me, unjustly, forgetting that if they knew me as I know myself they would condemn me much more. the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; I cannot rest under misunderstanding without defending myself; I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve. the burdens of others are no...