Post by AutumnGrace on Mar 15, 2018 22:45:06 GMT -5
Thought I would write a little before going to sleep. Tomorrow we are going on the house inspection. Jim feels this will all work out. We were given an offer by Jim's brother. A generous one. Yet I think Jim is going to explore all avenues, he does not want to take advantage of his brother. So we are looking at different financing of a small amount as we did before. We just are unsure of which to go with as yet. I assume we have a little time to work out the deal. Pray we can work it out speedily. I do not want us to be rushed in selling our present home before we have time to make it ready. and I do not want to be strapped for a long time with tow house payments. so looking for the best plan for our present situation. I know giving up these stairs will be a blessing. Not to mention having a garden. a place where the sun shines more than 5 hrs.
I was reading a article talking about how to live in the world and not be a part of it. It used Daniel in the Babylonian empire. How he managed to live in Babylon and not be a part of Babylon. I love how he began with adhering to God's laws, first with his eating, then later discerning truth from lies from his teachings and knowledge on things. The prophet Jeremiah wrote Daniel and the others in Babylon.
Jeremiah 29
4 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who were carried away captive, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:
5 Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit. 6 Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters—that you may be increased there, and not diminished. 7 And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace. 8 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed. 9 For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the Lord.
Then He said:
10 For thus says the Lord: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.
This is an example for us living in a world that does not honor God, Jesus will come back for us and bring us home.
We are to be in the world but not be of the world. what a wonderful analogy is Daniels's life and the instructions and hope given to all who went into captivity.
Be blessed. tonight it is dropping to 14. Pray is warms up tomorrow.
I was reading a article talking about how to live in the world and not be a part of it. It used Daniel in the Babylonian empire. How he managed to live in Babylon and not be a part of Babylon. I love how he began with adhering to God's laws, first with his eating, then later discerning truth from lies from his teachings and knowledge on things. The prophet Jeremiah wrote Daniel and the others in Babylon.
Jeremiah 29
4 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who were carried away captive, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:
5 Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit. 6 Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters—that you may be increased there, and not diminished. 7 And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace. 8 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed. 9 For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the Lord.
Then He said:
10 For thus says the Lord: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.
This is an example for us living in a world that does not honor God, Jesus will come back for us and bring us home.
We are to be in the world but not be of the world. what a wonderful analogy is Daniels's life and the instructions and hope given to all who went into captivity.
Be blessed. tonight it is dropping to 14. Pray is warms up tomorrow.
