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65 GOOD DAYS in a row! Come down and join the GOODNESS! Air Fare is only 75 bucks from FLA and 10 bucks a day for transportation, room and board. God is good, all the time!
Psalm 34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good!
We have a good friend and Pureheart supporter visit us recently. Because we love and enjoy her, we try very hard to accommodate her meals (she’s a strict vegan). So going treating her with food is always a challenge because it’s hard to get enthusiastic about rice and beans. Well, we found a real vegan restaurant, and she had a bowl of soup and said, ‘OH!!’ Winnie and I were both surprised (and happy) because we never heard her get emotional over food before. She really liked it, so she had to say something. She said it with an ‘oh’. When something is incredibly delicious you have to comment!!! Usually with an ‘oh’! If not, you still will grunt or squeal. Something has to come out of your mouth to express your sheer delight. The Goodness of the Lord is incredibly delicious as well and requires an exclamatory ‘oh’!
Look at the verse above! The writer is so expressive! The Psalmist says ‘Oh’! ‘Taste and see that the Lord is good!’ He has to exclaim his delight in the goodness of God. If you know God, and have personally experienced His glorious goodness, you know what I am talking about.
God is so good! When you add an ‘O’ to God you have go’O’d. God is so incredibly goOd that you have to exclaim ‘oh’ when you taste His goOdness. When you exclaim enough how delicious something is, often times, it provokes the listener to want to try it too! THAT btw is our reason for living, to provoke others to try our goOd God!
In our Friday English class, little 9 year old Hilce misspelled good and wrote the word God, which led to the next phrase I had the class memorize, ‘God is good! All the time. All the time, God is good!’ It is so important for Christians to really grasp the goodness of God and incorporate it into their lifestyle, not just sing once a week in a church ‘event’. Like all Christian cliches go, unless you have genuinely experienced God’s goOdness for yourself, it’s just blah blah blah. But when you really realize how goOd God is, you have to say ‘Oh!’. The Goodness of God leads men and women to repentance, usually by them seeing how our Good Good Father treats His kids (us).
Do you know what the Glory of God is? His Glory is His Goodness!! Moses asked God to show him His glory, and the Lord let His goodness pass by him.
Exodus 33:18-19 Moses Said to God.. 'show me your Glory!'And He said, 'I will make all my goodness pass before thee.'
That wasn’t a miscommunication, that was a very clear message. Moses said, ‘show me your glory’ and God showed His Goodness. Glory=Goodness.
For the past two months, I have made a sincere effort to follow Pastor Howard Davies) example of not permitting a negative thought into my mind. I have learned that the vocabulary I use, and my mind set 24/7/365 has a lot to do with my success in this area. Focusing with thankfulness on the goodness of God is vital. Love is the key!
While spending my time focusing on my thoughts and on the goodness of God (and His glory) I haven’t had one bad day in the past two months. Many bad moments, maybe worse than I have ever had in a long time, but not one bad day. Not even paperwork nightmares, a canceled team, a death of a neighbor, a ‘friend’ unloading on me, another friend who has developed sundowners (that I need to find a home for), sick friends and family (although I haven’t even had a cold in the past two years, but everyone around me is). Bottom line is that people fail, God never does, because He is only good, never once has He let anyone down. God doesn’t even have bad days, and there’s no excuse for His kids to either, if they trust completely in Him.
God is good, all the time. For me it's not a cliche. The devil is BAD, all the time. Millions of Christians aren’t really convinced of that. They think that sometimes God changes places with the devil to do bad things, (for our ‘good’). Not so! God does turn around the bad things the devil does for our good, but He is incapable of DOING bad things. Blessings are blessings. Curses are curses. Blessings in disguise are a myth. What you would call a blessing is disguise is God stepping in and correcting a curse.
God is so good to me. Actually many bad things happened this past two months that would have normally sent me into a spin, but it just tripped me up for a moment. I took a quick prayer break, (or siesta depending on the severity) and was back on top. Just focusing on the goodness of God has really helped me rise above everything and to keep my overall thoughts pure and positive.
Isaiah 26:3 You will keep him in perfect peace,Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You.
We are told to keep our minds on Him all day, 24/7/365. It is possible to do so because God told us to. We are always thinking of something 24/7/365 anyway, so it might as well be on Him and His goodness. Do you know it’s impossible to cuss when your are blessing God at the same time? Wrong things are said and done in the vacuum created by the absence of not thinking if God’s goodness which always results in blessing and thanking Him.
God can never have a BAD day because He is good. There is no BADness in Him. In God there is no darkness, not even a shadow. He’s never cranky, crazy, dissappointed, frantic or in a bad mood. Because of that, IF your mind is STAYED on Him and His Goodness, neither will you have a completely bad day.
1 Jn 1:5 God is light, and in him is no darkness
We as Christians often misrepresent God when our minds are NOT STAYED on Him and His Goodness. God does not have a dark side in Him. Even His anger and judgements are good, pure and Holy. When we don’t meditate on His Goodness day and night as God tells us to do, even though we are saved, we get grumpy and nervous. We are in Him so we shouldn’t have anything like that, not even a bad day! No matter what the situation is, because we are in a Good God. There shouldn’t be any darkness in us. Darkness is bad, and There is No BAD in Good.
Eph 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
God tells us to walk in light because He knows we can. He knows walking as His children, in His light, we won’t have a bad day. Because we don’t have bad days, we have a better life. Every day is a good day for a believer because God is good.
He’s a good good Father. Everything about the Lord is good. He wants to bless us out of His abundance. He wants us provided for, as well as healthy and happy. He is perfect in all of His ways.
Psalm 18:30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
Here’s a list of what we need to be able to bring in kids off of the street. Things were brought to light, and respecting wise counsel we need to put in safe guards.
1. 2 large additions to the home (18,000)
2. Furnishings and fixtures (3,000)
3. Intercom and surveillance (2,000)
4. Extra staff (which is an additional 650/m increase in giving)
Dean and Winnie Peters
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Bueno
Salmo 34: 8 ?Oh! Prueba y mira que el SE?OR es bueno!
Tuvimos un buen amigo, contribuyente a PureHeart, que nos visitó recientemente. La disfrutamos y nos esforzamos mucho por complacerla (es estrictamente vegana). Así que salir a comer con ella siempre es un poco triste porque es difícil entusiasmarse con el arroz y los frijoles. Bueno, encontramos un verdadero restaurante vegano, y ella probó un plato de sopa y dijo: "?Oh! ?Qué rico! Winnie y yo estábamos sorprendidos (y felices) porque nunca la escuchamos emocionarse por la comida. Realmente le gustó, así que tuvo que decir "oh". Cuando algo está delicioso tienes que comentar !!! Por lo general, con un "oh" ?
Por eso me encanta el verso de arriba! ?Tan expresivo! El salmista dice "?Oh!" Pruebe y vea que el Se?or es bueno. Dios es bueno. Cuando agrega una "O" a Dios, se ha salido. Dios es tan bueno que tienes que exclamar "oh" cuando saboreas su bondad. Dios es bueno, todo el tiempo.
En nuestra clase de inglés del viernes practiquemos God is good all the time, All the time, God is good: ‘?Dios es bueno! Todo el tiempo. ?Todo el tiempo, Dios es bueno! "
Durante los últimos dos meses, he hecho un esfuerzo sincero por seguir el ejemplo del Pastor Howard Davies de no permitir un pensamiento negativo en mi mente. Aprendí que el vocabulario que uso, y mi mentalidad tiene mucho que ver con mi éxito. Centrarse en la bondad de Dios ha sido de gran ayuda.
Al pasar el tiempo concentrándome en mis pensamientos y en la bondad de Dios, no he tenido un mal día en los últimos dos meses. Ni siquiera las pesadillas de papeleo y los gritos de un ‘misionero cristiano’ indignado y supuesto 'amigo' realmente me molestaban. La gente falla, Dios nunca lo hace. En realidad, pasaron dos cosas malas en los últimos dos meses que normalmente me hubieran dado un giro, pero centrarme en la bondad de Dios realmente me ayudó a superarlo y a mantener mis pensamientos puros y positivos.
?Sabes que porque Dios es bueno, El No pueda tener un mal día? En él no hay oscuridad, ni siquiera una sombra. Nunca está de mal humor o de mal humor.
1 Jn 1: 5 Dios es luz, y en él no hay oscuridad
Nosotros, como cristianos, a menudo mal representan a Dios. Dios no tiene un lado oscuro en él. Incluso su ira y sus juicios son puros y santos. Nos ponemos de mal humor. Nos ponemos nerviosos Estamos en él, así que no deberíamos tener algo así, ni tampoco un mal día. No importa cuál sea la situación, porque estamos en Dios, no debería haber ninguna oscuridad en nosotros.
Efe 5: 8 Porque a veces eras oscuridad, pero ahora sois luz en el Se?or: caminad como hijos de luz:
Dios nos dice que caminemos en la luz porque él sabe que podemos. él sabe caminar como sus hijos, a la luz, no tendremos un mal día. Como no tenemos días malos, tenemos una vida mejor. Todos los días son buenos porque Dios es bueno. Como sabemos que Dios es bueno, también podemos concluir que Dios es amor también es una declaración verdadera. Además de eso, está en la Biblia
1 juan 4: 8 Dios es amor
Lo contrario de lo bueno es malo. Nada bueno sale de lo malo. No hay mal en Dios, solo bien. El es un buen padre. Todo sobre el Se?or es bueno. él quiere bendecirnos de su abundancia. él quiere que nos mantengamos sanos y felices. él es perfecto en todos sus caminos.
Salmo 18:30 En cuanto a Dios, su camino es perfecto: la palabra del Se?or se prueba: él es un escudo para todos los que confían en él.
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