The Student Binder

 It brings me so much joy to see my son carrying a binder full of duct type and duck tape full of bible verses. Our Children have something that they want to teach us. Not just us as parents but their peers also. 

Walking around the halls of school with a binder full of bible verses and words of encouragement takes boldness. That boldness is empowered by the spirit that lives inside of us. 

Hebrews 2:1-18 is just one of the many in has inside and out of his binder. Enjoy!

 We have to listen to the truth we have heard or we will drift away. The messages from God have always stood firm! Every act of disobedience was punished.  So what makes us think we can escape if we ignore the great salvation Jesus himself announced and then delivered to us by those who heard him speak?

God confirmed this message by signs and wonders and miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit with whoever He chose!

Because Jesus suffered death for us He is not crowned with glory and honor!

By Gods grace Jesus tasted death for everyone!

He was a perfect leader, fit to bring us salvation through him!

Jesus and the ones who accept the gift of salvation now have the same father!

This is why Jesus calls us his brothers and sisters.

Jesus said, I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters. I will praise you!

Because we are born of flesh and blood Jesus chose to be like us! Because we are his brother and sisters

Only by dying could He break the power the satan, who had the power over death.

This is how we are set from from this kind of death.

Because, Jesus himself has gone through suffering and testing, He is able to help us when we are being tested!

Thanks Bubba! 

The man you are becoming is glorious!!!

You have been bathed in prayer my sweet baby boy!

I love you!!

Love,

 Your Super Proud MOM!

Conditional Love?

  Kenya

It's a place where love happens! Not the kind your used to! It's something deeper! It's breath taking,  joyful, contagious, overwhelming, and I crave it!!!
When I was preparing for KENYA I had shots and meds to take so I wouldn't come home from Kenya with something from there! I packed snacks just in case I didn't like the food. I packed hand sanitizer so my hands would stay clean!
Little did I know.... NONE OF IT MATTERS!

1Peter 1:22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply from the heart.

1Peter 4:8-10 Above All, love each other deeply, because  love covers a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms.

Hebrews 6:10 God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love your have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.

John 3 :16 For God so loved the world that he  have his one and only son that whoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

My family in the village get this!!! They love and live in a way that it's seen not said.

1 John 3:18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

So how do you love in the village??
Whole hearted?? With guards down???
I did! Not even noticing it!

To hold and kiss and wipe tears of a child who is not our norm but is my fathers norm! Do you think our father loves with conditions?
No, he doesn't. So why do we?
I loved deep! Putting fear and insecure feelings out of the way.
I kissed a dirty, muddy, tear dried face and just soaked every second of it up like sweet tea on a summer day!

1 John 4:12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

A sweet child with every bit of his love, and energetic  personality running as hard as he could leaped into my arms and held on as if life stood still! I just stood still! In love so deep that the only way to explain it is the love of my father! Jesus Christ loves me more than that! He wants us to leap into his arms and just be still! Just to be quite and savor the moment. Which is what I did! 

I breathed in every moment of it! The smell of him, the feel of his sweet African skin, and the beat of his heart!! I serve a God that loves me so much that he allows me to love like that! And to know that he loves me more!!
Just like I had the chance to do... Fix a wound, to wear his sweet blood on my shirt and to hold him during the pain. Jesus did the same for us! He died and wore our blood! He carries and holds us when we hurt and he does just as I did! I kissed him over and over and said Nakupenda, Nakupenda, Nakupenda !!!

My Daddy is amazing and I stand still in His loving grace!

2 Corinthians 6:3-10