Extracts of Truth & Encouragement from a Growth Journey with God
Posted on May 28, 2021 by Michelle Taylor Baum
I love this sweatshirt of my daughter’s! It’s amazing how many compliments she’s received when wearing it! You can see people read it, then re-read it! Their heads kind of tilt to the side, like a dog, when he’s trying to figure out what’s… Continue Reading “Service with Kindness”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Actions, Change our Minds, Cruelty, Despise, Disobedience, Disrespect, Give Credit Where Credit was Due, God's Character, God's Leading, God's Way, Harsh Tones, Hate, Heart, Jesus Christ, Kindness, Met Physical Needs, Mind, Obedience, Our Way, Patience, Purpose, Purposeful, Repentance, Respect, Restraint, Selfishness, Service, Spirit of God, Spirit-Produced, Useful, Walk in His Ways, Words
Posted on February 22, 2021 by Michelle Taylor Baum
There were so many things to remember. It was the first time I’d gone downhill skiing. I was a kid and thought it was a good idea to start on the hill with the tow rope! Like anything new, it was a bit overwhelming… Continue Reading “Hold the Line”
Category: LifeTags: 1 Chronicles, Absorb, Acknowledge God, Actions, Against the Lord, Balanced, Be Ready, Be Ready to Move, Bend in Submission to God, Bend Your Knees, Block Your Way, Bumps, Clings to God, Conceal It, Consider Others, Continually, Cover of Darkness, Cross, Desire, Disobedience, Display Their Sin, Don't Lean, Don't Let Go, Don't Turn Toward the Cover of Darkness, Don't Turn Toward the Dry Valley, Downhill Skiing, Dry Valley, Empty Pride, Establish It, Evil, Exalt God, Exodus, Facial Expressions, Falling Over, Fell, Focus Your Sight, Get Out of the Way of Others, Glorious Presence, God's Righteousness, God's Will, Heart, Hill, Hold, Hold on Tight, Humility, Important, In Front of You, In Line with God's Ways, Jerusalem, Judah, Keep Moving, Keep Your Eyes Focused, Kingdom of God, Know God, Let God, LORD, Make the Path Level, Matthew, Move, Move Toward the LORD, Obedience, Overwhelming, Parallel, Paths, Philippians, Pleasantness of God, Pray, Pray about Everything, Prepare a Habitation for Him, Proverbs, Psalm, Reach Your Destination, Ready, Rebel, Recognize Him, Remember, Removing Obstacles, Rope, Salvation, Seek, Seek the Lord, Seek the Lord's Presence, Seek the Lord's Strength, Selfish Ambition, Side by Side, Skiing, Skis, Smooth, Sodom, Song, Soul, Speech, Spiritually, Straight, Strength, Stumbled, Supports Me, Testifies, Tow Rope, Toward, Trust in the Lord, Trying Not to Forget, Turn Away from Evil, Understanding, Upright, Work of Your Hands, YHWH, Your Ways May Be Established
Posted on January 16, 2021 by Michelle Taylor Baum
I had no idea what it was. All I saw was brown to my left, felt something powerful hit the driver’s side front of my car, saw a dark shadow right in front of me, and my car came to an immediate stop from… Continue Reading “Wonder–The Additional Offering”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Actions, Addition, Angel of the LORD, Beautiful, Blood Requirement, Bread, Burnt by Fire on the Altar, Burnt Offering, Car Accident, Choose, Christ's Sacrifice, Creation, Death and Resurrection of Jesus, Dedicate, Dedicated to God, Dedicating Oneself to Worshipping the LORD, Dedication, Deer, Designed, Desire, Devoted, Fellowship with God the Father, Fighting, Focus, Foreshadowing, Freely Offered His Blood for Our Sins His Boodl, Glory, God's Care, God's Hand of Protection, God's Purpose, Grain Offering, Gratitude, Hanging On, Hear the Message, Hearing, Heart-Felt Offering, Honor, Judges, Leviticus, Life, Lives, Loves, Manoah, Manoah's Wife, Memorial, Memorial Portion, Met Physical Needs, Most Holy Offering, No Blood, Offer a Burnt Offering, Offer a Goat, Offer it to the LORD, Offering, Offerings to the LORD Made by Fire, Oil, Overwhelmed, Peace, Pendulum Shift, Perform the Offerings, Perform the Sacrifices, Priest, Private Conversation, Privately, Publicly, Pure, Purpose, Quiet Fulfillment, Quieting, Relationship, Relationship with the Father, Remember, Remembrance, Reminder, Restful, Shared, Soothing, Soothing Sound, Spa, Sweet Aroma, Thankful, Thankfulness, Thankfulness to the LORD, Thanks, To the LORD, Touched, Wonder
Posted on January 4, 2021 by Michelle Taylor Baum
Happy New Year! We ended last year, celebrating the wonder of Jesus–A Wonder–as displayed in the Judges 13 story of the Old Testament. It would do us well to begin a new year–a year many look forward to as being different than the last…a… Continue Reading “Wonder–Where is the Focus of Your Offering?”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Absolute Phrase, Act of Worship, Action, Actions, Actively Serve God, All, All of Us, All We Do, All We Make, Angel of the LORD, Anticipate, Appreciation, Aroma, Ask Questions, Baby, Baby's Head, Barrenness, Better Way, Blessings, Celebrate, Celebrate the LORD, Celebrating, Ceremonially Set Apart, Change, Circumstances, Communicate with the LORD, Constant, Consumed, Dedicate ALL of Yourselves, Deeper Meaning, Detain, Different, Do, Doing Nothing, Emotional, Entire, Every Part, Extension of God's Hand, Financial, Fire, Flame/Smoke, Focus, Focus of the Action, Focused Attention, Generosity, Give an Offering, Giver, Goat, God Led You, God's Character, God's Design, God's Help, God's Provision, God's Works, Have a Relationship with the LORD, Holy, Hospitality, Impact the LORD's Kingdom, Jesus, Jesus is the Same, Kindness, Living Sacrifice, LORD's Kingdom, Make, Manoah, Material, Need, Offer, Offer a Burnt Offering, Offer Appreciation, Offer it to the LORD, Offering, Old Testament, Partial Offering, Pleasing, Pregnancy, Prepare, Prepare a Meal, Present Your Bodies as a Living Sacrifice, Promise of a Child, Questions, Razor, Receiver, Redirect the Offering, Relationship, Reply, Rest, Rise, Serve God, Set Apart, Show Support, Soothing, Spiritual Growth, Stand in Awe, Support, Thanking, The LORD Alone, To Go Up, To the LORD, Trust, Unchanged, Visibly Different, Wait Patiently, Way We Live, Wonder, Worshipping, Wouldn't Eat, Yield to God's Will
