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Significant Encounters Friday #9

Jan27

In my travels around the web, I read many great stories about encounters of all types.

Some are, well, dreadful.

Others begin dreadfully, and in the end turn into beautiful legacies of the grace and

goodness of our GOD.

Following is the story of my new friend Heather.

Her story?

Began dreadfully.

In the end, God gave her beauty for ashes.

I welcome her words here today and trust that they will touch you the same way they touched me.

She shares how her Father in heaven changed her perception  of “father”.

Join me in reading her story won’t you?

Abba, Father

Do you really know your Father?

Our beliefs about God are colored by abusive relationships with our earthly fathers. If we apply these distorted perceptions to God, we miss a vital relationship with One who loves us more than any earthly person.

Words spoken by our fathers affect our lives long past the event. The memory of these words haunt our self-perception and influence decisions about our future.

When I was seven,

Read the rest here …..  http://heathermarsten.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/abbafathe/

Psalm 139:11- 16

11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

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Authorizing Update Part Two

Jan25

 

What do you do with this?

You have already taken the upgrades necessary to get to this point of

teaching people home repair.

 

Do you really want to do this again with a topic you

know nothing about?

You’re not trained for this!

 

You make the decision to update to this new program anyway,

it sounds good and right to you.

 

It gets tough here because you need to keep the old programs running

 while you figure out the new one.

Overwhelming does not even begin to cover it.

This is the part where you need an administrators touch.

This is the place where you must give authority to that administrator to

come in and show you what to do and how to put this whole new entity

together.

 

First you must authorize the update.

Then  the update gets installed.

New files must be copied.

Your screen tells you that someone is calling for an update –

click to continue.

 

You must choose.  To click or not to click.

Then and only then can you continue.

 

Are you sure you want to do this before you commit to it?

It may need to take your time to make that commitment.

Once you click, you are on to unknown territory.

Click to continue.

 

You know how much work that click is going to be.

Do you really want to do it?

 

Weather it is a new way of dressing, thinking, acting, working,

not working, or a totally new way of life.

A new life update that concerns your decision about Christ.

 

To be sure, clicking that key is going to bring lots of changes.

But the promise is that that click will be worth the effort.

You’ll need to authorize and install that update.

You will need to delete some files.

You will for sure need to copy some new ones.

 

You’ll get that warning that you are calling for an update,

and the resistance to the change will be great.

 

You may even be scared into thinking it was all a mistake.

That’s pretty normal.

But you can do it.

You can trust God to do what He says He will.

Click to continue.

 

You will find peace in your heart that only God can provide.

You sense of a level of belonging that you have never

even knew existed.

You will have an assurance that all will be well because He is residing

inside your heart.

 

And those annoying pop ups?

Some are not as scary as they seem.

Besides, who cares if they are scary anyway?

You’ve said that about less important updates.

God’s word the Bible tells the truth about them.

This amazing manual is the best troubleshooting guide ever written.

 

So I would encourage you, here at the beginning of this year,

to decide on this upgrade.

 

Go ahead, what’s stopping you? Click here → http://wp.me/P1Deai-s

 

 

 

 

13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

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Authorizing Update Part One

Jan23

Authorizing Update         

Installing Update

Copying New Files

XYZ is calling for an update – click to continue

 

We’ve all seen them.

Those annoying pop ups when we’re trying to

update our computer to a higher level.

 

We know that their purpose is to be a failsafe so that we

Don’t do or undo something we will regret later.

 

Some things are un-doable.  Undo is often our friend.

Some things are not.  Some things require an Administrators touch.

 

There are times that a program on our computer tells us that an update is available for a

program we are running.

 

If it is a program we run frequently, we will take the update.

If the program is one we don’t use or are unfamiliar with,

 we will ignore it.

 

We see different pop ups when we accept the update.

Once we authorize our update, it will be installed.

 

After installation, we are queried again

 – copy new files – then one more warning, 

XYZ is calling for an update, click to continue.

 

If we click, then we are instructed to wait while these files are being

copied and update is being applied, this may take a moment or this may

take a while it will say, depending on the update.

 

I am not a “Techy”.  I learn by doing.   By putzing around.

Clicking here and  clicking there.

Sometimes this brings great results.

Other times it brings on disaster!

 

I have found this to be true, not only with my computer,

But I found this to be true with my life as well.

Maybe you have seen it in your life too.

 

You are just cruising along.

Everything is going well.

You are content.

You are comfortable.

 

Then, out of nowhere,

You receive the message that there is an update available.

The upgrade is easy to take if it is already on your screen.

It is easy to take if it is something you are already involved in.

 

For instance, you might be a blogger, and this great new update is

introduced that will make your blog look more colorful or focused. 

It’s as simple as clicking a few keys and your update appears.

Your blog looks great.  Your putzing has been successful.

Yay for updates!

 

OR

 

You are just cruising along.

Everything is going well.

You are content.

You are comfortable.

 

Then, out of nowhere,

Comes an opportunity so far off your radar,

That it obscures your vision and sends you for a loop.

 

All you can think is that this is not what you signed up for.

This is not what you studied for.

This is a totally different from the forte you are comfortable with.

 

For instance, you may have wanted to blog about home repairs.

You dreamed, you read, and you studied.

You set your blog up to welcome any one who would like to learn to

Repair their homes themselves.

It is going well.  Everything is running smoothly.

 

Then you realize that on your blog you spend a great deal of time

encouraging your readers.  You let them know that the choices they

make are their own, and yes, those choices are personal, and good.

You may find that you enjoy giving encouragement far more than

teaching home repair.

 

What do you do with this?

          

                                                                                                                        -Part Two on Wednesday-

 

13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

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