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Colossians 3:17 NKJV
And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the father through Him.----------------------------------------------------------As we go through life, we have many decisions to make daily.
Work, school, and chores all require some actions and decision making.
Remember W.W.J.D. ( what would Jesus do)? To test ourselves on this, we should ask these questions:
Can I do this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ?
Would this be to His glory?
Could I expect His blessing to rest on it?
Would I want to be doing it when He comes back again?
When we apply this test to our own words and actions, we may find some things that need changing. [ Romans 13: 13-14]
Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lust.------- What business does a Christian have with revelry, drunkenness, lewdness, lust, strife, and envy? The answer is none!
Sinful actions and sinful attitudes all start with a single thought. [ James 1:14-15]
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.----
Sow a thought- reap a habit.
Sow a habit- reap a lifestyle.
Sow a lifestyle- reap a destiny.
What will your destiny be? The choice is yours to make.
You can choose to accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior, submit your life to Him and enjoy a growing relationship that will take you into Heaven to spend eternity with God.
You can choose to embrace the world and its views. Reject Christ and spend eternity in Hell separated from God.
If you are a believer, do not let the worlds temptations make you play the hypocrite.
If you are not a believer, I urge you to choose wisely!
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Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
Psalm 28 KJV
Dear friend, here are 5 things you should know:
1. Like it or not, we are ALL sinners: As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous—not even one. No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God. All have turned away; all have become useless. No one does good, not a single one.” (Romans 3:10-12 NLT)
2. The punishment for sin is death: When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. (Romans 5:12 NLT)
3. Jesus is our only hope: But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. (Romans 5:8 NLT) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 NLT)
4. SALVATION is by GRACE through FAITH in JESUS: God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2:8-10 NLT)
5. Accept Jesus and receive eternal life: If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (Romans 10:9 NLT) But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12 NLT) And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life. (1 John 5:11-12 NLT)
Read the Bible for yourself. Allow the Lord to speak to you through his Word. YOUR ETERNITY IS AT STAKE!
Sincerely,
Someone who cares about you
Scripture is taken from 2 Tim 2:22
& to add..in line with the season all peoples and nations are under now..
Hebrews 2:14
14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared the same humanity—so that through death He might break the power of the one who had the power of death (that is, the devil) 15 and free those who by fear of death were in bondage all their lives. 16 For surely He is not concerned about angels, but about the seed of Abraham. 17 Therefore He had to be made like His brothers in all things, so He might become a merciful and faithful Kohen Gadol in matters relating to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people. [f] 18 Because He Himself suffered when put to the test, He is able to help those being tested
Dawn on the river Ganges, and a pilgrim reads from his holy book. Behind him is the burning ghat of Manikarnika.
A Hindu book filled with mantras. The priest was using it to conduct ceremonies during my sister's wedding.
Therefore,as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved,clothe yourself with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.(NIV)
I Timothy 4:8 NKJV " For bodily exercise profits a little, but Godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come."----------------------------------- The world emphasizes beauty, ability, and success. The world says fame, fortune, and power define greatness. Unless God is the backbone supporting our thoughts, we can be easily lured into taking on the philosophy of the world rather than the standards in the word of God. Constantly striving for influence, power, and money while ignoring the only example of greatness we have in Jesus! [ Matthew 20:28] " Just as the son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many."------ A true leader places his or her needs last, as Jesus demonstrated in His life and death. If we embrace a life of Godliness we have some examples to live by.. (1) Never considering ourselves above others : { Romans 12:3} ( if we are proud, we cannot exercise our faith and gifts to benefit others. And if we consider ourselves worthless, we withhold what God intended to deliver to others through us.) (2) we should not be prideful : { James 4:10} ( when we submit ourselves to the Lord, He works through us to achieve His will. His glory allows us to accomplish things that are not possible through our own wisdom and strength.) (3) Help the weak by caring, Rather than criticizing : { I Thessalonians 5:14} ( The Lord ministers to us in different ways, depending on what we need at the time. When we help others, we need to ask the Lord to make us instruments of His love, mercy, and grace.) (4) Be ready to give all to promote salvation of the lost : { Mark 8:35} ( Jesus want's us to choose to follow Him rather than live a life of sin and self-satisfaction. We can gain nothing on earth that will ever compare to what we gain with Christ.)-- Every believer should have a servant's heart, and be willing to serve whenever the opportunity presents itself.. " For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another." [ Galatians 5:13]-------- God blesses us so that we might bless others. That is what the Christian life is all about.
"When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest but does not find it." -Matthew 12:43
Inspired by JennaTaryn: www.flickr.com/photos/jennataryn/6966624242/
Thanks for showing me how to create this one!
The Bible contains the mind of God,
the state of man,
the way of salvation,
the doom of sinners,
and the happiness of believers.
Its doctrines are holy,
its precepts are binding,
its histories are true,
and its decisions are immutable.
Read it to be wise,
believe it to be safe,
and practice it to be holy.
It contains light to direct you,
food to support you,
and comfort to cheer you.
It is the traveler’s map,
the pilgrim’s staff,
the pilot’s compass,
the soldier’s sword
and the Christian’s charter.
Here too, Heaven is opened
and the gates of Hell disclosed.
Christ is its grand subject,
our good its design,
and the glory of God its end.
It should fill the memory,
rule the heart and guide the feet.
Read it slowly, frequently and prayerfully.
It is a mine of wealth,
a paradise of glory,
and a river of pleasure.
It is given you in life,
will be opened at the judgment,
and be remembered forever.
It involves the highest responsibility,
rewards the greatest labor,
and will condemn all who trifle with its sacred contents.
-JND-
One of the most common commands in the Bible is Do not Fear.
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Psalm 12:6;
"And the words of the LORD are flawless,
like silver refined in a furnace of clay,
purified seven times"
side note: this is rather dull but today was HECTIC ):
Trinity has been a viable North Atlantic community for hundreds of years. Its defensible harbour, with abundant room for the ships of the day and shores well suited for outbuildings, wharves and fish-flakes, made it ideal for the early migratory fishery. Later, merchants from Poole, England, made Trinity the base for a new-world fishery.
During the 1720's Trinity was home to about 30 permanent families and host to 200-300 seasonal fishermen per year. By 1869, the population peaked at more than 800 people. Until recently, the inshore, Grand Bank and Labrador fisheries sustained the community. Lumbering, coopering, shipbuilding and other trades have been prominent. Historically, education was an important component of the community, with navigation and business education being taught at Trinity's Commercial School. Eventually, this school was merged with the grade school into a general High School. The teachers who taught in these schools included some of Newfoundland's leading educators and scholars.
The preservation of Trinity's cultural and built heritage has made it perhaps the most notable "heritage community" in the province. Sustainable growth in existing and new businesses, including theatre, is clearly evident as Trinitarians, along with residents of the surrounding communities, play host to thousands of visitors per year.
Trinity is centrally located and generally within an hour's drive of other points of interest on the Bonavista Peninsula. It is about 3 hours by road from the capital city, St. John's.
A small town on the Liburnian coast (eastern Istria), on the road Rijeka - Pula. Cosmographer from Ravenna called it Lauriana in the 7th c. It is mentioned for the first time in the 7th c. bearing the name of Laureana. In the 12th c. Lovran is mentioned as an important trading and nautical town which also possesses a shipyard. According to the scriptures of Giovanni Kobler, a historian from Rijeka, in the year of 1275 the town is a part of County of Pazin, later it is the property of counts of Gorizia, and from 1374 its owners are the Hapsburgs. During their reign Istria is divided into 20 districts, and one of those districts is Lovran district. This fortified town was burned twice (1599 and 1614) at the time of battles between the fugitives and Venice.
In the 17th c., according to the scriptures of Valvasor, the inhabitants of Lovran mostly pursuit in trade and maritime affairs. They trade in linen, which they ship across the sea, wine, olives and fruit. They also exported a lot of chestnut, along with cherries and laurel, after which Lovran got its name. Chestnut becomes the symbol of the town and its surrounding areas.
With the appearance of tourism (second half of the 19th c.), Lovran fits into contemporary notions quickly, first as a holiday resort of Opatija, and later in 1898 with the decree of Parliament of Istria, Lovran receives a status of a touristic health resort. The beginning of the 20th c. is a period of intensive development, the time when Lovran has 1188 inhabitants, the settlement spreads beyond the town`s walls, communal infrastructure is built (waterworks, electrical power and telegraph), and many valuable buildings - villas, hotels, etc.: villas ("Frappart", "Santa Marija", "Magnolia", "Guera", "Deneš" etc.), hotels (hospital - ex grand hotel "Laureana", "Meridional", "Excelsior") etc.
ineco.posluh.hr/pgz/lovran/epovijest.htm
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s346, Lovran (lat. Laurana, byzt. Lauriana, arab. Al-Awranah, deut. Lovrana) pom Valv III - 6903 Valvasor3, Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Die Ehre deß Herzogthums Crain, The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola, Laibach-Nürnberg,1689, III Band, Buch IX-XI 2te unveränderte Auflage Rudolfswerth 1877-1879. Druck und Verlag v. J. Krajec anno 1673.
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„Genauso wie Sie heute Lovran betreten, betraten den Ort bereits vor ein paar Jahrtausenden zahlreiche Riemenschuhe und Sandalen, vielleicht weniger bequem und in größerer Eile. [...] Dass die des Schreibens und des Lesens unkundigen Illyrer keinerlei Zeugnisse über Lovran hinterlassen haben, wundert nicht weiter, aber dass die Römer genauso verfahren haben, wundert doch."
(Amir Muzur, Lovrans Vergangenheit in einem Atemzug..., in: ders., Dušan Peršić u. Silvano Raffaelli, Lovran, S. 2 - 39, hier S. 2 f.)
Lovran (lat. Laurana, byzt. Lauriana, arab. Al-Awranah, deut. Lovrana) scheint schon immer ein Geheimtipp gewesen zu sein. Von den alten Griechen reden wir hier freilich nicht, auch wenn diesbezüglich wegen des südlichen Endes der Bernsteinstraße(n) sicherlich interessante Aspekte zu beleuchten wären - man beachte diesbezüglich das Hafenstädtedreieck Triest - Pula - Rijeka, welches Istrien umrahmt. Der Ort am Quarner-Golf (lat. Flanaticus, ital. Carnero/Quarnero, deut. Kvarner, vgl. engl. ,corner' ) - genauer: an dessen am nördlichen Ende liegender Bucht von Rijeka (ital. Golfo di Fiume) - gehört jedenfalls zu den ältesten stadtartigen Siedlungen an der nordöstlichen Küste Istriens und lag vermutlich schon in der frühen Römerzeit an einer Straße, welche über Nesactium (lat.), Labin (lat. Albona, arab. Al-Bunah) und Plomin (lat. Flanona, ital. Fianona) Pula (lat. Pola) mit Rijeka (lat. vermutlich Ad Flumen, ital. Fiume, byzt. Vitopolis, deut. Sankt Veit am Flaum) und Trsat (lat. Tarsatica) verband. Auf vielen Abbildungen ist zu sehen, daß die nur wenige Meter über Normalnull liegende Hafenstadt von einem hohen Berg - dem Vojak (ital. Monte Maggiore) - überragt wird, dessen etwa fünf Kilometer von Stadtzentrum entfernter Gipfel mit 1401 Metern die höchste Erhebung der Halbinsel Istrien (ital. Istria) bildet. Dadurch ergibt sich von der Seeseite her ein beinahe atemberaubendes Panorama, welches sicherlich schon in der Antike Bewunderung fand. Von einem istrischen ,Olymp' (Bergheiligtum) ist mir allerdings nichts bekannt. Immerhin steckt die ganze Küstengegend voller Mythen (Donnergott ,Perun' bei Mošćenička Draga, Medea von Medveja, Ika-Quellen, Argonauten auf der ,insula aurea' Krk usw.), so daß hier vielleicht bloß eine Kenntnis- oder Überlieferungslücke vorliegt.
Lovran soll - so geht die Fama - als Wohnsitz Tusculum des römischen Strategen und Baumeisters Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (63 - 12 v. Chr.) gedient haben, welcher unter seinem Schwiegervater Kaiser Augustus auch an der germanischen Front kämpfte. Dieser Ort liegt freilich - wie man dem Historischen Weltatlas von F. W. Putzger entnehmen kann - in Latium unweit von Rom. „Lauriana" wurde offenbar erstmals in der Merowingerzeit, und zwar vom sogenannten Geographen von Ravenna, erwähnt (7. Jh.), und der arabische Kartograph und Wegbeschreiber Al-Idrisi nannte es im Hochmittelalter „Al-Awranah" (12. Jh.).
Der Ort verfügt oder verfügte angeblich über römische Ruinen, welche schon früh auf Ansichtskarten dargestellt wurden (es könnte sich also bloß um ,Werbegags' handeln!), aber von mir bislang nicht weiter beachtet wurden:
EU/HR/Istrien/Opatijskarivijera/Lovran/SW-AK_Lovran_roemische_Ruinen_um_1910
Von Lovran gibt es schon aus dem 17. Jahrhundert eine Darstellung, und zwar aus dem Jahr 1689 von Johann Weikhard Valvasor (slow. Janez Vajkard Valvasor - *1641 - †1693).
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Gradić na Liburnijskoj obali (istočena Istra), na cesti Rijeka - Pula. Lauriana ravenatskog kozmografa iz VII. stoljeća. Prvi put se spominje u VII. stoljeću pod imenom Laureana. U XII. st. Lovran se spominje kao važan trgovački i pomorski grad, koji ima i brodogradilište. Prema pisanju riječkog povjesničara Giovannia Koblera, grad je 1275. godine u sastavu pazinske grofovije, kasnije dolazi u posjed goričkih grofova, a od 1374. u vlasništvu je obitelji Habsburg. U vrijeme Habsburga, Istra je bila podijeljena na 20 općina, a jedna od tih općina bila je i lovranska. Ovaj utvrđeni gradić za vrijeme borbi uskoka i Venecije dva put je spaljen (1599. i 1614. godine).
U XVII. stoljeću, prema pisanju Valvasora, stanovnici Lovrana se uglavnom bave trgovinom i pomorstvom. Trguju platnom prevozeći ga preko mora, vinom, maslinama i voćem; mnogo se izvozi kesten, marun, koji će uz trešnje i lovor, po kome je Lovran i dobio ime, postati simbolom grada i okoline, Lovranštine.
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I participate in a weekly Scripture Challenge which can be found here:
www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=408822
Each week we are given a keyword and are challenged to look up verses that contain the word, or some form of it.
This week I used one of my favorite paper lines - Basic Grey Urban Prairie...so colorful and yummy. It makes me feel happy all over!
Surely He has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:4-5
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. This is why it is said:
“Wake up, sleeper,
rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.”
[Ephesians 5:8-14 NIV]
5 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW:
1. Like it or not, we are ALL sinners: As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous—not even one. No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God. All have turned away; all have become useless. No one does good, not a single one.” (Romans 3:10-12 NLT)
2. The punishment for sin is death: When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. (Romans 5:12 NLT)
3. Jesus is our only hope: But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. (Romans 5:8 NLT) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 NLT)
4. SALVATION is by GRACE through FAITH in JESUS: God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2:8-10 NLT)
5. Accept Jesus and receive eternal life: If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (Romans 10:9 NLT) But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12 NLT) And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life. (1 John 5:11-12 NLT)
Read the Bible for yourself. Allow the Lord to speak to you through his Word. YOUR ETERNITY IS AT STAKE!