Are You Salty? part 2

Mar 29, 2024

Last week we started our discussion of “Are You Salty?”  If you did not read that introductory blog post, I would suggest you do that first before moving on with today’s entry. 

In Matthew 5: 13 Jesus says, “You are the salt of the earth.” But what does that really mean? We are “salt?” Perhaps if we took some time to examine various characteristics of salt we might be able to better understand this analogy that Jesus is using.

Salt is useful. There was an old Roman proverb that went like this: “There is nothing more useful than the sun and salt." As we look now at some of the qualities of salt, we will discover why it was (and is) considered useful.

First, salt adds flavor. Some say sodium chloride (salt) never loses its flavor, but in Jesus’ time it did. Salt was dug from the salt flats around the Dead Sea and there were lots of impurities mixed in with that salt. Rain would wash out the salt leaving only impurities...

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Are You Salty? part 1

Mar 22, 2024

Have you ever thought about this statement? “We have been saved to then be sent.” 

There are people all around us who have never heard the Good News. There are innumerable others who have heard but have not surrendered to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

How do you and I then respond to the first statement – that we have been saved to then be sent? Perhaps you and I have come to the Lord for such a time as this to be world changers, or maybe we could call ourselves “salty saints!” 

In Matthew 5: 13 (NKJV) Jesus says, “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.”

So the question might be better put to us as this: Are we living a life as a Jesus follower that is actually seasoning, purifying, and affecting others for the Lord’s sake? Are we a valuable addition to the world around us?

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An Attitude of Gratitude - part 3

Mar 15, 2024

How was your week? Did you take note of the choices you made? Hopefully those choices were greatly influenced by the gratitude of your heart in all that God has provided. Let’s move on today and look at several other truths about God that should develop overflowing gratefulness in our hearts and attitudes.

Have you considered this? God is trustworthy. Is this something we can be grateful for? I certainly think so.

  •  Psalm 145: 13

Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and Your dominion endures through all generations. The Lord is trustworthy in all He promises and faithful in all He does.

God doesn’t change. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I don’t know about you, but this is something I can shout about! I am so thankful for His steadfastness and that I can always trust Him.

Because God is trustworthy He is also TRUE. There is nothing false about Him.

  •  Numbers 23: 19 – He doesn’t lie.
  •  John 14: 6 – Jesus said,...
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An Attitude of Gratitude - part 2

Mar 08, 2024

Last week we concluded our discussion with the thought about “taking the high road” in the choices and decisions that we daily make. So how do we do this? How do we develop and nurture a positive attitude when we are down in the trenches and living our daily lives?

One powerful way to influence our attitude choices is to focus on what we could be grateful for or thankful for in our life. I would suggest that we as Mothers of Nations start with God! What is it about our God that should continually cause gratefulness to overflow from our hearts and lives?

First of all, God is good. He is good ALL the time, not just sometimes.

In fact, He ABOUNDS in goodness.

  •  Exodus 34: 6 (KJV)

And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in goodness and truth.

  •  1 Chronicles 16: 34

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, His love (mercy) endures forever.

Because of God’s goodness He blesses...

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An Attitude of Gratitude - part 1

Mar 01, 2024

Ecclesiastes 10: 12 (Message)

Wise thinking leads to right living, stupid thinking leads to wrong living.

Ecclesiastes 10: 12 (NJKV)

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool shall swallow him up.

Mothers of Nations, every day you and I make choices about living our life to the fullest. One of the greatest “influencers” of those choices that we make is our attitude.

Our theme for this series of entries is “An Attitude of Gratitude.”  So first of all, let’s look at a definition of “attitude.” What is ATTITUDE?

  •  A settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected in a person’s behavior.
  •  Synonyms for “attitude” would be viewpoint, way of thinking, perspective, conviction, sentiment. 

Our attitude comes from our thinking, but it also comes from our heart as well. The challenges of life and issues of the heart...

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Great Riches -- part 4

Feb 23, 2024

Today we will conclude our exploration of this topic of Great Riches. I pray that as we have considered various aspects of the great riches of God, each of us has been enriched and encouraged. Have your eyes been opened at all to the vastness of God’s blessing and provision for His children? I know mine have!

RICHES IN HIS CALLING

I believe that as we live out the hope of His calling in our lives, this is when we discover God’s true riches. True riches come in discovering who we are in Christ and what we are created and called to do.

Mothers of Nations, all that we need is found in our relationship with the Lord to fulfill our callings and ministry desires. We are reminded of this truth in 2 Corinthians 3: 5 (NKJV) –  “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God.”

Let’s look at a few familiar Bible characters and note the circumstances of their...

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Great Riches -- part 3

Feb 16, 2024

Let’s get started today and look at three more examples of the “Great Riches” we have as children of God.

EXCEEDING RICHES

Ephesians 2: 7 (NKJV) – “that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.”

Ephesians 2: 4 (NKJV) – “But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us…”

As I meditated on this provision of God’s “exceeding riches” for our lives, here are just a few of the blessings that seem to fall into that category.

  • God’s incredible, exceedingly immeasurable grace toward the guilty
  • God’s exceeding abundance of kindness toward us His children
  • God’s incredible abounding mercy for the worst of the worst

Mothers of Nations, most assuredly you and I are living in a world that needs God love and grace more than ever. And as we endeavor to minister to others and bring the...

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Great Riches -- part 2

Feb 09, 2024

We will continue on with this topic of “Great Riches” today. If you did not read last week’s entry where we introduced the topic, why don’t you take a moment now to do that before you move on with this entry.

Let’s start off with the following scripture from Isaiah 45: 3 (NKJV). “I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, the Lord Who call you by your name, am the God of Israel.”

When God said that He would bless her (Sarah) richly, what did that actually mean and how does that relate to us? Today let’s start to explore some of these “riches” that we are blessed with as children of God.

UNSEARCHABLE RICHES

Ephesians 3: 8 (NKJV) – “To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.”

In the New Living Translation of this...

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Great Riches -- part 1

Feb 02, 2024

Recently the Lord has been impressing me with the thought of “great riches.”  Whenever a word or phrase keeps dropping into my spirit, I know it is time to “dig deeper” into what the Holy Spirit is saying to me. So for the next few weeks, let’s look at this phrase “great riches” and see what we can find!

As Mothers of Nations, why don’t we start with this scripture in Genesis 17:16 (NKJV) that refers to Sarah. And I will bless her and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be from her.” We know that this was a word given about Sarah, the wife of Abraham, after many barren years. According to this prophecy, she was now going to have a son and out of her lineage leaders would come.

Then we read in Genesis 21: 1 (New American Standard) these words: “Then the Lord took note of Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did...

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Lifeline - Part 3

Jan 26, 2024

Today we will conclude our discussion with some of the thoughts that the Holy Spirit shared with me in my exploration of the word LIFELINE that was placed on my heart recently.

First and foremost, as believers, what (Who) is our Ultimate Lifeline? Of course our Ultimate Lifeline is Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

Hebrews 6: 17-19 (NLT)

17 God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind. 18 So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. 19 This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary.

Mothers of Nations, this is an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence...

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