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21st Century Buzz Words often filter into our everyday lives 

...and then the Challenge comes from the air waves, the shop floor, the CEO office and even the Pulpit: 

"Get out of your comfort zone!" and you will find ???????? 

What ever it is that they say you are looking for, that thing you have always wanted. 

And of course since they are the experts they must know what they are talking about. Right? 

NOT ALWAYS! 

Definition: The comfort zone is a behavioral state within which a person operates in an anxiety-neutral condition, using a limited set of behaviors to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of risk .

Some of us think that reduction of anxiety and minimizing risk is something that happens when we are IN CONTROL ... others think that the reduction of anxiety and risk happens because we put things in HIS CONTROL.

Earth to brain: SORRY to inform you but we are still here ... not home yet!
Here is a truth to consider - Our faith's firmness is not measured by the reduction of anxiety or by increasing or decreasing the risk.

FAITH COMES BY HEARING ... HEARING BY THE WORD OF GOD ... FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR.
FAITH IS NOT MEASURED BUT GROWS BY HEARING THE WORD OF GOD AND BECOMES SUBSTANCE AS IT GROWS.

Why is it that the motivation to get out of the comfort zone always seems to carry fear of being forsaken? If we don't do this or if we do this we could be forsaken...maybe even forsaken by God.

Romans 9:29 - And as Esaias said before Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.(Isaiah 1:9 - Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.)

Matthew 27:46 - And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying , Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Hebrews 13:5 - Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have : for he hath said , I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

"LEFT" Romans 9:29, Isaiah 1:9
(Prophesy of Jesus being forsaken, for us)

"FORSAKEN" Matt.27:46
(Jesus crying out, forsaken, for us)
"FORSAKE" Hebrews 13:5
(Promise to His, to us ..never forsaken).

Give your faith a break from fear of being forsaken ...Hear the fact that Jesus was forsaken for you, and He will not forsake you. Get out your comfort zone ???? Not totally sure what they're wanting me to do but maybe I need to get out of my "fear" zone.

HE hath said -- I will never leave you, nor forsake you.

HLFA,

Jeff

Unseen Riches Are Not Useless, But Lint???

I pulled at and pulled out my pockets to see if it were true;
You know what I mean ...just to prove our poverty to someone else we will show them the true emptiness of the "money-less pocket situation"...
AND WE MAY FIND A SURPRISE AWAITING THE REVERSAL OF THE POCKET MATERIAL.
UREEKA ...(that is what it sounds like --but this is how it is spelled)

Eureka!!! LINT! cooooool!
New Jeans can produce a beautiful blue lint after the initial washing and seems to be an endless supply of it as the days go on.

Oh the power of lint ...
1. Always shared with coins...at the point of purchase.
2. Mixed up in bottom pocket paperwork.
3. We create screens for it in dryers.
4. The dryer balls of it are found everywhere in the LAUNDRY room if we are careless in our house cleaning.
5. Creative people have made artwork out of it?
6. Survival people use it to start rescue and camp fires.

FOR THE MOST PART UNSEEN....
But this unseen stuff can reap havoc if a spark ignites it in a home...
But this unseen stuff has aided in burning down homes....................
UNSEEN STUFF CAN RESCUE OR DESTROY --wow, but .....SO??

Romans 9: 20 -23
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known , endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

God's plan for the most part works behind the doors of the Heavenly Potter Shop, the Heavenly
Laundry and the Heavenly "impossible" Cafe.

2 Corinthians 4:18 - While we look not at the things which are seen , but at the things which are not seen : for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 

Since the unseen is so important to Him, it ought to be of prime importance to us. 

Hebrews 11:1 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for , the evidence of things not seen . 

1 Corinthians 2:9 - But as it is written , Eye hath not seen , nor ear heard , neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 

Cooperation with God's lint operation becomes the biggest blessing in our lives and the lives of those we touch ....SURPRISE, I LOVE YOU! The amazing power behind something so soft and yet hidden in the bottom of a pocket.

OUR LIVES 

HIDDEN IN HIM 

GIVEN TO REACHING THE LOST 

CAN CHANGE ETERNAL DESTINATIONS 

2 Corinthians 4:7 - But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

Be careful ...this power of the unseen can be very disruptive ... hopefully for ever. 

COOOOOOL ...some more lint .....pray in secret, for your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

HLFA,

Jeff

"Oh My Soul! He Dropped the 'F' Bomb!"

Can you believe it? Old news, but in the greatest country on the planet, our second in command thinks there is absolutely nothing wrong with blurting out a totally disgusting and inappropriate word... some news commentators laughingly called it the "F" bomb. 

I call it "heart revealing". What was this man thinking?

Fiduciary ....Food ...Fat ...Friends .....I DON'T THINK SO! .... slip of the tongue ...rebellious phopaux ...??????? Some even thought it was cool!!!

It probably is far more important to know what God is thinking....

Deuteronomy 32:20 - And He said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward ( REBELLIOUSLY PERVERSE) generation, children in whom is no faith.

Below is a partial descriptive resume for the negative attributes necessary to join their "F" Bomb club.
Proverbs 30:11-14 (pleased don't join this club!)
11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. (Parent dis-respecters and dis-owners)
12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness. (Personal Sin & Guilt deniers)
13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up . (Idolatrous Self Worshipers)

It is almost embarrassing but members of this club have infiltrated every area of our lives ...music, TV, radio, movies, magazines, the Net, the market place, business, the office, the church and even our Homes (there - the home - is no doubt the root of the problem).

"Oh, you are such prudes, fuddy dud-dies!"
Why because We always drop God's F-word ...FAITH?

Do the math that is to follow .....
1 heart space with only so much room for Jesus.
1 heart space cluttered by acceptable crud space = less room, and even sometimes, no room for Jesus.
1 heart space torn by the struggle to Love Sin or Love Him = war.
1 heart space receiving eternal truth from His Word = growing room for Jesus = Victory.

Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord ...be turned off by the crud (Sin) ...make room for Him.

HLFA,

Jeff