August 21, 2007

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  The Day After A Very Rainy Monday … aka. a day late!
  
  Hope you all had a great weekend!  I’m a day late getting here, but I made it!  We didn’t do alot this weekend.  Hubby worked very hard this last week, so we mainly just stayed home so he could rest up.  We are getting ready for a 3 day show this weekend, so we’ll be packin’ up soap, and coins, to head out Friday morning.  It’s going to be a long weekend, and we want to be physically up to it, so the rest did us good!  We did venture out to the chiropractor, then to eat dinner at Chili’s on Friday night, which was nice!  While we were eating, we noticed that they’re building onto our area shopping mall … there’s going to be a huge Border’s Bookstore, and The Cheesecake Factory, along with some other neat little eateries, and upscale shops.  Has anyone ever heard of, or eaten at, The Cheesecake Factory?  We’ve had their cheesecake, and it is fantabulous!  But of course, it isn’t so great for those of us who are trying to shed those pounds.  
  
  Speaking of which, I’ve had a good Monday, other than some bad weather that moved through our area … my neck is feeling better since Friday, so today, I did my 30 minutes of walking, and some weight training which I’m hoping will strengthen those neck muscles, as well!  Pray that I keep this going … I feel so much better than I have been lately … just from this one day of exercise!  I need to stay ‘consistent’ … same with reading the Word of God, and my devotion time!  I spent some extra quality time in my devotions today, reading and praying, and I feel so much better and ’filled up’!  And not being as ‘consistent’ with that as I should be, I was feeling spiritually dry … but, today, it ‘rained’ … I was totally refreshed in the water of the Word!  I pray each one of you ’keep it going’, too, and stay refreshed with a continual infilling of His Word in your lives every day!  If you’re feeling ‘parched’ … get in His presence, open His Word, and allow it to soak you all the way down to your ‘dry bones’!  I read this devotion and it went right along with my day … I wanted to share it with you all, but first … have a tremendous Tuesday, ‘get soaked’, ‘de-parched’, { is that a word? } and ‘be revived’!!  I’ll also be around to visit you more this week, and do some major catching up … hmmm, another place that needs more ‘consistency’ in my life!!  Do any of you find yourselves having a problem with this, too?! :o) 
  
  
  Love & hugs,
    ~ Deborah <>< 
  
  
  
                                            
                                             
  
  
  
  DRY BONES
  Read: Ezekiel 37: 1 – 14   
  
  Are there times when you feel as though your life is like a bunch of dry, old bones?  Do you feel you need the ‘breath’ of life to revive you?
  
  Sometimes we may feel this way.  We may get in a ‘spiritual rut’.  Everything seems to be just mechanical – going through the motions of everyday life.  We feel our lives are like these dry, old bones mentioned in this passage.
  
  What do we do about it?  How can we be revived again?  The answer, I think, could be found in v.4.  Ezekiel was told to prophesy to these bones and say, “0 you dry bones, hear the word of the Lord”.
  
  Just sitting down each day skimming over the scriptures doesn’t do anything.  We just walk away exactly the same.  We need to allow God’s word to ‘soak’ us.  We need to ‘meditate’ upon God’s word and open our hearts to receive a ‘word in season’.  It’s this that can bring true revival to our otherwise ‘dried up, dreary lives’.
  
  If we truly want to be ignited again, we need to allow the Lord to soak us with His word.  He will breathe the ‘Breath and Spirit’ into our lives, and cause us to rise up and soar.  He doesn’t want us to be in a spiritual rut – being at ground level pecking with the chickens, but to rise up and soar with the eagles.  It’s your choice!
  
  ~ M.S.Lowndes
  
  

  

  
  
  But his delight and desire are in the law of the Lord, and on His law  (the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God) he habitually meditates (ponders and studies) by day and by night.  And he shall be like a tree firmly planted [and tended] by the streams of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not fade or wither; and everything he does shall prosper [and come to maturity].  ~ Psalm 1: 2-3
  
  

  O Lord I pray you’ll breathe in me
  The breath that gives me life
  I don’t want to remain dry and empty
  But I long to be revived
  
  ~ M.S.Lowndes ~
  
  
  

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