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You are true You are true Even in my wandering You are joy You are joy Youre the reason that I sing You are life You are life In You death has lost its sting Chorus Oh Im running to Your arms Im running to Your arms The riches of Your love Will always be enough Nothing compares to Your embrace Light of the world forever reign
You are more You are more Than my words will ever say You are Lord You are Lord All creation will proclaim You are here You are here In Your presence Im made whole You are God You are God Of all else Im letting go My heart will sing No other Name Jesus Jesus
You are good You are good When theres nothing good in me You are love You are love On display for all to see You are light You are light When the darkness closes in You are hope You are hope You have covered all my sin You are peace You are peace When my fear is crippling
Psalm 139
O LORD, You have searched me and known me.You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether. You have hedged me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain it.
For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mothers womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from with You. Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God! Your presence? If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men. For they make my bed in hell, behold, You are there. If I take the speak against You wickedly; Your enemies take Your wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of name in vain. Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You? the sea, Even there Your hand shall lead me, And Your right And do I not loathe those who rise up against You? I hate hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall fall on them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies. me, Even the night shall be light about me; Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, But the night shines as the Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know day; The darkness and the light are both alike to You. my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.
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Titus 2
peace knowing I was going to bring it to my prayer group and not only lift those things up to the Lord As a mother of two now grown children, one that I myself, but often, my prayer partner was able to homeschooled, I understand the fears, and the anxious pray for that situation in a way that I wasnt. heart that can often be consuming. When my children Praying together brought us ladies so close to one were young I was introduced to a ministry of prayer another. just for my children. It was there among like minded Moms in prayer has blessed me immensely the last mothers that I found a place of solace, comfort and enseveral years. It gives me a dedicated time to pray couragement that got me through many troubling for my children and to pray for my sisters children. times. Praying scriptures for my children keeps me mindThe scripture instructs us to cast our cares upon the ful of Gods work in their lives. Lord. For moms, because one of our greatest concerns The Holy Spirit will be your guide on what to pray. is for our children, rather than worrying and fretting, Its not the length of your prayers, how fancy or elowe can bring our children to the One who can do the quent the words are, but the heart of a mom who impossible, turning our fears to faith as we pray the comes before God and other sisters in Christ to pray scriptures for them. I did this for the last sixteen years for wisdom, guidance, salvation, healing and Gods and have found stress, weariness and anxiety turned to perfect plan for her kids. peace, strength, and hope. Prayer is not the least we can do, but the most we can do. Battles are won on our praying for our children (especially when their behavior or circumstances are far from admirable) knees. We can parent to perfection, but if we are not causes us to rest and thrive within the love of Gods continually praying for our childs heart to be conHoly Spirit. We become strengthened and our love formed to the image and will of God, we have misfor them is magnified. placed priorities. After a short break this summer we are beginning Moms in prayer time will provide a welcoming safe again this fall praying together on a weekly basis. You place to pray for your childrens needs on a weekly baare invited to join us. Come for an introduction to this sis ministry of prayer for our children: Monday, Sept. 16 Here is what a few a of our mothers say about their @ 12:00 1:00 pm. We meet at CC Reno/Sparks in experiences with moms in prayer. the 3rd and 4th grade room. For further questions conSo many times I recall struggling with worry and tact DiAnn 972-4264. anxiety over things going on and it brought such
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What Did You Expect? My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Begins Wednesday, September 4th, in the 3rd and 4th Him. Psalm 62:5. Saturday, October 19, 2013. Doors open at 8:00am for Continental Breakfast. grade classroom. It will be held from 9:30am10:30am. The book, Marvelously Made by Monica Conference is from 9:00am-3:30pm. Our guest speaker for the conference is Pam Synder. Rose Brennan is available in the Book Store. The pace is (1) chapter per week for the months of SeptemberOctober. We will not meet on October 9th. Womens Morning Prayer Womens Evening Prayer Wednesday evenings from 6:00pm-6:45pm in the Womens Ministry Room. Home Fellowship Sunday Evenings beginning September 15th. Womens Thursday morning prayer will resume at 10:00am on Thursday, September 19th in the Womens Ministry Room. Moms In Prayer Moms in prayer will resume at 12:00pm on Monday, September 16th in the 3rd/4th grade classroom.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a medium bowl, combine flour and butter using a pastry cutter until a ball is formed. Press into a 9X13 pan. Bake for 25 minutes in a preheated oven, or until lightly golden. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely. In a medium bowl, beat the cream cheese and sugar until smooth and well blended. Spread evenly over the cooled crust. In another bowl whisk together the lemon pudding mix and milk for 3-5 minutes. Spread over the cream cheese layer. Chill until set, then top with whipped topping. From the Kitchen of Janet Coughran
Lemon Lush
2 cups all purpose flour 1 cup butter, softened 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese 1 cup powdered sugar 2 (3.4 ounce) package instant lemon pudding mix 3 cups of milk 1 (12 ounce) container frozen whipped topping thawed
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Devotional
Every one of us have been created from a very specific, extremely unique blueprint; a mold that, after creating you, is broken and then made new for creating me and so on. Not only did God make you according to His perfect purposes, He breathed His own By Beverly Chong breath into your lungs causing your life to begin. He not only watched each intricate part of your body being formed, but He already planned each day and year Do you ever have those moments when you just of your life. Not only did He give you the personality, want to snuggle up to a favorite scripture, the one you talents, abilities and capabilities that make you who know will send your spirit soaring as if on the wings He planned for, but He made sure there was no one of an eagle, carrying you out of discouragement, right else like you. He not only knows your thoughts beinto the safety of Jesus arms? Thats what Psalm 139 fore they have occurred to you, but He knows exactly does for me. Verse 14 states I will praise you, for I what is or was or will be the reason why you had that am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are thought in the first place. And if that thought leads your works and that my soul knows very well. you in a particular direction, He has already gone beWow, how awesome to know this. fore you to open the doors or close them and redirect Then, I look into my cultural mirror and wonder you. You cannot get away from His all seeing, wonwhy an imperfect reflection is staring back at me. I drous sight because you are so precious to Him. see a body that breaks down and grows old far too Yes, todays Medical knowledge is expanding and quickly, needing rest and sleep although never man continues to search out magnificent wonders, and enough, skin that seems to want to do its own thing by yet fails to see or even realize his search is over before wrinkling too soon or evolving into acne and blackit has begunif he could only look into a mirror and heads and then the embarrassing noises that seem to see what God and only God has created, the most alert at the most inopportune moments. But then, magnificent wonder of all, You. there are solutions to our dilemmas. When we get down and become discouraged, may Our amazing progress in medical knowledge paves we remember that He not only made us, but He has the way for us to have our skin scraped, stretched and promised to stay at our side always, holding our hand, stitched down or cut off. Fat can be vacuumed out; going before us and watchfully guiding us, providing any area of our choosing can be filled in, plumped up for all that we need and loving us so incredibly much and remolded with silicone and manmade putty, dye that He would allow His own perfect Son to die in our to change the color of our hair and chemicals that, sinful place just so He can have us with Him forever, when poured onto the scalp, can grow hair. And lets as we accept the Salvation offered by Jesus Christ as not forget the girdle with the buttocks for those who our Lord and Savior, to Praise Him for who He is and feel they have none. Really? I realize many of these for His miraculous workmanship in us. All you need improvements are not bad and may even be necessary, to do is believe it, accept it and Praise Him for not usand I do not believe God is going to hold it against us ing the same cultural mirror that we do. You are so if we do choose to do so. I just think we all need to very special, my friend, and Jesus loves you just the realize just how special and uniquely made, each of us way you are! is.
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Expressions of Love
Psalm 139:23,24 Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way ever lasting. It is our daily task to stay holy in Gods eyes. Prayer and staying in the Word is our weapon. It is the one encouraging high in our By Mary Jane Robinette journey that keeps our focus on our God and on our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Our prayers are to praise Him, to thank Him, to give Him the honor and the glory that is due only to Psalm 139:13-14 For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my Him. 1Thessalonians 5:16-18 Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in mothers womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. us. There isnt anything that we can say or do that God doesnt God formed us in our mothers womb. How precious it is to already know ahead of us what they are. He knows our sitting know that God, our Abba Daddy was present the day we were down and our rising up. He knows all our ways. It is overborn. Like any proud father I am sure He was beaming with joy, whelming to imagine the depth of the love our Heavenly Father very pleased with His creation. Our earthly daddy had visions of has for us. Only through submitting to His will for us can we what he hoped his baby girl would grow up to be. But our Heav- remain holy in His presence. Without our bibles for daily nourenly Father already knew every thing about us even before we ishment and the power of prayer keeping us in constant cominhaled air into our lungs. From the moment we were born our munication with our Abba Father, we would be spiritually empty. What a comforting feeling to know that we can weep, sing, lives to Him have been a long love novel that has no ending. Its chapters will continue on till the moment we breathe no more. laugh, shout, and whisper all in one prayer and feel safe in our Abba Fathers arms. Time has a way of showing us by our physical appearance that our journey on this earth shortens with the arrival of each new day. Before we were even able to cry out with our first breathe We were fearfully and wonderfully made so that we can serve God wrote in His lifes journal for each one of us how long our our Heavenly Father. How precious for us is each day here on days on earth would be. Psalm 139:16 Your eyes saw my substance this earth. Our life is such a tremendous gift from God. He chose being yet unformed, and in Your book they all were written, the days fashus to serve Him in this world so that we can leave His legacy ioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. behind us. We could search every descriptive word in the dictionary and never find enough words to speak Gods praises. All the prayers that overflow from within us are never enough to There were times in our childhood when our earthly father show our love we have for Him. I pray that our light never goes made promises to us but then unexpected things hindered him dim but illuminates brightly so that others can see we walk from being able to keep them. However the promises made by boldly in faith. Prayer can bring souls to come to know the savour Heavenly Father have never been broken. He promised us ing knowledge of Jesus Christ. Fervent words of prayer can redemption for our sins. He gave us a way to be with Him in make unimaginable things happen when prayed in Gods Will. heaven when our earthly journey ends. He gave us a gift, His We will never understand the mysteries of Gods ways nor the only begotten Son Jesus Christ. All He asked is for us to come in depth of His agape love. It is like trying to climb a mountain faith and believe in Jesus and what He did for us on the cross so that is so tremendously high we could never reach the top. God that we will not perish in the fires of hell but have everlasting gave us life so that we can love and serve Him during our jourlife in heaven. Through the saving grace of Jesus and the inney to eternity. It isnt our abilities in how we serve God, it is dwelling of the Holy Sprit we can fashion our life to be a mirror our availability. Dont let others make you feel lesser than who image of Gods character. We are daughters of the King. His you are. We are all special in His eyes. God has a plan for each Princesses. May we never forget the privilege we have to walk one of us, hear his call to come to serve. Psalm 139:14 I am fearwith God through our lifes journey. 1Corthinthians 6:18 I will be a fully and wonderfully made. You are a daughter of the King. Stay Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Altrue to who you are in your walk with Jesus. Visit with your mighty. Abba Daddy everyday in the Word and in prayer. Embrace His perfect love. Rest in His perfect peace.
Journey to Eternity
September 2013
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Womens Bible Study Joyful Books 9:30am Missions Prayer 12:30pm Widows Meeting 8:15am Evening Prayer 6pm Morning Prayer 10am Moms In Prayer 12pm Fruit of Her Hands 10-2 Home Fellowship Begins Harvest America Womens Bible Study Joyful Books 9:30am Womens Conference Evening Prayer 6pm Missions Prayer 12:30 pm Marriage Conference Widows Meeting 8:15 am Morning Prayer 10am
Tom Luitwieler Rob Wolfe Juan Rodriguez Scott Cresta Kim Bowser
October 2013
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