5 Sep
Relishing this beautiful, God-given weather at Glendale Cemetery, almost identical three years ago. We miss him more each day, but each day brings in new hope that our reunion in heaven gets closer as days go by. John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. […]
3 Sep
Five free passes given by Joe, one of the staff of Screamin’ Parties (above picture) Singing to the warm and friendly crews: Bryanna, Brittany and Joe. Eight letters of testimony were handed out. Again, kids were blessed with 6 free cotton candies! 1 John 4:18-19 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth […]
3 Sep
Sept 3, Singing to the vivacious Chik-Fil-A employees for God’s glory. Two testimony letters and four Gospel tracts were passed out. 1 John 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
2 Sep
LEO: A friend. A brother. A husband. A father. A christian. In memory of Leo. Kathy and I thank the Lord for Leo. He trusted Jesus as his savior several years ago. When Gladys and Leo arrived to NJ and began attending Fbc of caldwell he grew in the knowledge of the Bible thru discipleship. […]
2 Sep
Sept 1,After AM service: We met six women of praise: the owner, Angela, and customers, Angela White, Minister Donna Morgan, Patricia Donaldson, Fayetta Moore, Ingrid Thomas. At a restaurant, we normally put out money, but God put in $25.00 instead! Not only that, we were fed excellent food: physically and spiritually! Thanks ladies! Only our […]
2 Sep
Aug 27. After two failed attempts of visiting my patient here in Caldwell two weeks ago, I recently heard that he passed away. I was extremely grieved, realizing that life is but a vapor, and that we should redeem the time. I cried out to God that I will have compassion like Jesus did when […]
2 Sep
Aug 29, 3:30 PM. This is our fourth visit at the Cliff’s. Thirty letters of testimony were distributed, followed by songs sang by the kids to the friendly staff and residents. The Lord allowed me to give my testimony and the plan of salvation. What an opportunity God gave us! Romans 13:11-14 And that, knowing […]
29 Aug
Hi my name is Dylan, I’m 14 years old. I’m the son of Gladys Rombaoa. I just want to start off that I was a church boy who knew all about the Bible (that’s what I thought), acting all innocent at church, but not the good boy I was supposed to be. When I was […]
29 Aug
SALVATION EXPERIENCE: My parents were not Christians. I graduated from high school at the age of 17 from a small oil community in Douglas, Wyoming. Shortly following my graduation I accepted an offer from my uncle to move to Springfield, Missouri. Soon after taking a job at a local poultry factory, I was approached by […]
29 Aug
Render Honor to Caesar! She was the wife of the king and could have demanded that he carry out the promise he had made to her. Instead, Bath-sheba and the prophet Nathan carefully planned a respectful appeal. “Bath-sheba went in unto the king … and Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance [paid homage] unto the king. […]
Trouble will either define you or refine you. We do not get to choose our troubles, but we must choose what we do with our troubles. Either we will let them be a fire that consumes us or let them be a fire that refines us.
Job 23:10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
My last personal post was in 2016. So much has happened since then. The number one reason for that huge gap is feeling inadequate. I am not a gifted writer. I can go on and on with my excuses not to write. But God reminded me why I am writing: To remember His wonderful works in my life. HIS works not mine.
I have been studying a discipleship material the past few weeks. Today’s study focuses on forgiveness. I smiled as I thought how timely this topic is for me. The last part of Jeremiah 31:34 says “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” The note says that an all-knowing God does not forget; He chooses not to remember. Remember means to bear or keep in mind; to attend to; to preserve the memory of; to mention; to remind; to think of; to meditate.
I forget a lot of things. But there’s one thing that I can easily remember: it’s when someone offended me. God has dealt with me about past offenses. I struggled with it, but later learned from it and chose to not remember them. But when there’s a new offense, I may not fight with the offender but I would muse on it and talk about it in different ways. It can be in my prayer or prayer requests. I may use it as an example as I speak to someone else concealing the offender’s name. I may even tell my husband about it because he is my best friend, he understands (?). The problem with how I handle offenses is the expectation that it will bring healing to the hurt but what I am actually doing is hurting myself even more by remembering the offense!
To not forgive means to become bitter, to be tormented, and to surrender control to the Devil. Ephesians 4:26-27 says Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.
I wanted to be liberated of those three things so I began to look at verses on what I should remember:
Today, I meditated on some of the those verses. Boy, those few verses kept my mind busy that I had no time for the offenses. Remember, the next time we are offended: forgive, quit thinking and talking about the offense, instead, meditate on the Word of God.
2Co 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Php 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
What a joy to only remember what really matters!
“Trust and obey, for there’s no other way. To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.”
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