Today is Labor Day! "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," said Jesus in Matthew 11:28. Let's rest in Him! Let's give Him our burdens so we can rest. He has rest and peace for us. Philippians 4:7 says, "And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." Need it? Want it? It's yours. Find out more about it!

I belong to a number of prophetic email lists. There has been a trend lately in all of them. God is making some changes.

He is tired of man-made things. He is tired of the things being taught that are not of Him. God is raising up people within the existing churches as well as outside the churches to lead people to the truth. The time is getting short. There is no more time for false teachings. There is no more time for misconceptions about God and about what God wants to do.

He has jobs for each member of His Body to do. Each person is responsible for that job. There will be no excuses. It is time to shake off anything that is not of God. It is time to take ALL things that you were taught by someone other than God and test them against the scriptures! Pray about it. You might be surprised at some of the things that God shows you weren't of Him all along!

School starts this week. The first football game is Friday. Now I can get into some kind of daily routine. The worst part is that my husband will be gone from 6:30AM to around 9:00PM every day of the week and most of the day Saturday. After about a week of it I go through a kind of mourning period. It's almost like I've become a widow. Then, just like it came, it passes.

Don't tell my hubby, but I am very much looking forward to the day he no longer coaches football. Maybe we can experience what it is like to be a regular family.

I have so many things to do around here. My garden is knee-high in weeds. It looks like I planted some kind of ground cover around all my rose bushes. It is too late to kill most of those weeds. I will have to pull them. Ugh.

The main thing I have to do is make more time for the Lord. I've got to force myself to stop cleaning, cooking, and putzing and pick up my Bible. That is the only thing that will make a permanent difference in my life and in the lives of those around me. Everything else is just dust in the wind!

Link to the 9/4/00 Bible study.

Marvelous! I just about had this week's Bible study ready to go and my computer locked up. This program doesn't save what I was working on and I lost it all.

Hmmm, I wonder where those things go. I had all those words typed out and they are gone. (Keep in mind here that I sometimes get strange ideas in my head.) I can almost picture a whole bunch of words and pictures floating around in my computer, looking for a home. If I was online at the time there would be a possibility that they would be lost in cyber space. OK, quit scratching your head. I'm just being silly!

Today I got up extra early to spend time with the Lord. I've not done that since the end of July. Things got a bit hectic around here and everyone was on different schedules. I've been focusing on the earthly things that have been coming my way instead of focusing on the Lord.

It's time to get back on track and work on becoming the obedient child He wants me to be. I've allowed my head to be filled with too many non-spiritual things. I've noticed my attitudes and my words have been affected by what is in my mind. The less time I spend with the Lord, the less of Him people see in me.

I have to re-prioritize my time. God comes first and there is nothing else that is even a close second!

I have to hurry and get this online. I have a number of errands to run this afternoon. My son has a doctor appointment and I have to go to a meeting about our health insurance choices for next year. I sure wish the school district could find a good health insurance company and stick with it! This gets confusing. I can never remember what company we are with without looking at our insurance card!

Gosh, I had some better things than this on my page that got away when my computer froze. Oh, well. There is always next week!

Link to the 9/11/00 Bible study.

I just got finished having a whole bunch of fun! I spent from 6:30 to 8:30 this morning cleaning out behind the garage refrigerator and freezer. I stock up on sodas when they go on sale and keep them on top of the garage freezer. I was putting more in the refrigerator when a couple of six packs fell toward the back of the freezer. The top edge of the coils behind the freezer has sharp pointy edges. Four of the soda cans got punctured.

I had my hubby pull the freezer out since it is old and doesn't have wheels. The soda mixed with the dirt that was under there and made sticky mud. As long as I was back there I cleaned the coils, the walls, the heater, and a few more areas that are normally unreachable. Oh, yes, I was having fun. Har!

I watched the tail end of a show on TV the other night that featured a magician. That man would, somehow, appear to lift a foot off the ground in front of witnesses. He said it was "magic."

I was thinking that was impossible since the force of gravity would need to be broken or altered somehow. The people on TV watching him were amazed, shocked, terrified, and generally in disbelief. If he truly was lifting off the ground, under what power was he doing it?

Does God have power over gravity? Of course He does. He created gravity. Perhaps God gave the gift of miracles to that man and he chose not to use them for the glory of God and to benefit His Kingdom. 1Corinthians 10:12 tells us that God gives the gift of miracles as well as other gifts. I know that I was not using the gifts He gave me for the edification of the Body of Christ. I didn't realize that they were gifts from God. I figured I was just extra smart, or extra perceptive, or whatever.

Then, on the other hand, Matthew 24:24 warns us to watch out as there will come some that aren't from Him and deceive many with signs and wonders. satan has the ability to duplicate the gifts that God gives people.

You won't be able to tell the difference unless you are in tune with the Holy Spirit. You have to be reading the Bible as the Word of God has the power to reveal truth. This week's Bible study goes into more detail on this subject.

Well, I'm off to another busy week! See you next week!

Link to the 9/18/00 Bible study.

Oh, my, where has the year gone?? It is hard to believe that it is almost October! Gee, Christmas is sneaking around the corner! Somebody turn off the clock! It's running too fast!

There is something that has been becoming more and more evident to me. Either it is rapidly getting worse or I am just noticing it more. I am seeing total selfishness in more and more people. I'm talking TOTAL "I'm more important than anybody else" attitudes!

People seem to feel they have the right to cut in front of others in lines. They do what they want irregardless of how it affects others. It almost feels like the laws are the only thing keeping society within certain behavioral boundaries.

The Bible does describe the attitudes that are being shown. 2Timothy 3:1-5 tells us:

"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."

The bad thing is that many Christians are being drawn into these attitudes. They are surrounded by these things and allow themselves to "join in" with the others. Things are going to continue to get worse until Jesus comes. That is a fact. We need to turn away from the things of the world. We need to keep ourselves apart. Yes, that will take strength, but God will supply it. Yes, people will think you are strange and you may lose friends. However, you are in good company. Jesus, too, was considered strange and He had few friends. This week's Bible study takes this a little further.

I need a vacation. Well, the more I think about it I think I need to change that. I need my family to take a vacation. If they were gone for a week I could get some things caught up. I wouldn't have to be working around their schedules. They wouldn't have a chance to be creating more work for me while I am doing something else. I wouldn't have to be thinking about their meals. I could just fix myself something quick and easy. OK, that's it. I'm changing the locks for a week. Think they'll mind? HA HA HA HA

Have you told God you love Him lately?

Link to the 9/25/00 Bible study.