Prayer…It often tends to be thought of as a one-sided conversation from us to God, whether we’re thanking Him for something, praising Him for Who He is, or asking Him for help; however, did you know that the Greek word for prayer (“proseuchomai”), actually,… Continue Reading “Parenting Prayers”
Category: KidsTags: Accept Jesus as Our Sin Sacrifice, Christ, Communicate with the LORD, Confidence, Conversation, Exchange, Interaction, Kids, Listen, Made Right with God, Obey, Parenting, Please God, Prayer, Responds, Scripture, Seek, Silent, Talking, Toward, Watching, Will, With
“Welcome!” We see it everywhere we enter, from front door mats and entrances to shops…to emails we open after we’ve signed up for something. We talked last post about peace being near. You may be saying, “I don’t feel at peace.” So, let’s dig… Continue Reading “Welcome, Peace!”
Category: MeaningTags: Anxieties, Brokenness, Communicate with the LORD, Fairness, Gladness, God's Protection, Guards Your Heart and Mind, Impartiality, Jesus Christ, Peace, Peace is Near, Peace of God, Prayer, Prince of Peace, Salvation, Thankfulness, Thoughts, Welcome, What Drives Us, Wholeness
Posted on January 30, 2021
by Michelle Taylor Baum
2 Comments
“If you do well, will you not be accepted?…” Genesis 4:7a NKJV Have you ever looked at what you’ve done and felt like you didn’t measure up? Truth is, we all have, ’cause truth is, we all don’t measure up…to God’s standards. Thank the… Continue Reading “What or Whom Do We Fear?”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Accept Jesus as Our Sin Sacrifice, Acceptance, Accepted, Afraid, Amazing Faith, Believe a Lie, Bridged the Gap, Burnt Offering, Buy a Lie, Christ, Christ's Sacrifice, Communicate with the LORD, Comparison, Confidence, Confirm, Created, Decision, Die, Don't Measure Up, Drew His Attention To, Emotionally, Excitement, Face to Face with God, Faith, Faith in God, Father, Favored, Fear, Focus, Focused, Forgiven, Forgiveness, From the Heart, Gave Freely, Genesis, Glory, God's Favor, God's Goodness, God's Graciousness, God's Holiness, God's Love, God's Power, God's Presence, God's Standards, Godly Fear, Goodness, Grace, Grain Offering, Have a Relationship with the LORD, Heard, His Ultimate Work, Holiness, Insights, Jesus, Judges, Lie, Life Decisions, Light, Listening, Live, Live in Confidence, Live Out Jesus' Character, Look at Decisions as a Whole, Look at Jesus, LORD, Love, Made Right with God, Manoah, Manoah's Wife, Measure Your Worth, Miss, Missed Him, Not Worth Much, Offerings, Others-Focused, Physically, Pleased, Prepares, Pride, Proves Your Worth, Receive the Father's Forgiveness, Reply, Respect, Respected God, Respond, Right, Right Decisions, See Me, See My Face, Separated, Serve God, Served Well, Shared, Show, Show and Tell, Show Thankfulness to God, Showcases God, Shown, Spirit of God, Spiritually, Tell, Thank, Thankfulness to the LORD, Thoughts, Told, Truth, Unforgiveable, Unholy Actions, Value, Vantage Point, Weight, Weren't Commanded, Whole Truth, YHWH, Your Actions
Posted on January 18, 2021
by Michelle Taylor Baum
2 Comments
I looked up in the sky as I drove out of the school parking lot one morning this past week. It was beautiful, filled with light blues and variegated pinks. Sugary stretched clouds were pulled across the sky. It was the most perfect cotton… Continue Reading “Wonder–Going Up?”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: A Wonder, Accomplishes His Will, Active, Addition, Angel of the LORD, Aroma, Ascended, Ascended in the Flame, Bowing Down, Burn, Burnt Offering, Can No Longer See Him, Can't Do Anything, Can't Move, Child, Clouds, Communicate, Communicate Our Dedication to God, Communicate with the LORD, Communicates with Us, Communicating, Consumed, David Copperfield, Did, Doing Nothing, Doing the Action, Exchange, Extraordinary, Faces Down, Fell on the Ground, Fell on Their Faces, Fire, Flame, Flame/Smoke, Focus, Goat, God Showing Himself, God's Hand at Work, God's Presence, Goes up in a Flame, Goes up in the Air, Going Up, Grain Offering, Handing it Over, Have a Relationship with the LORD, Hear God More Clearly, Hebrew, Immobile Gods, Jaw-Dropping, Leviticus, Lift Their Faces, Manoah, Manoah's Wife, Not a One-Way Street, Not Coming On, Offer, Offer a Goat, Offer it to the LORD, Offering, One-Sided, Performed, Performing, Pleasing, Prepare, Preparing, Present, Razor, Relationships, Respect, Respected God, Responding, See Him, Seen God, Service to God, Shall Come, Show, Sky, Smoke, Soothing, Submit to God, The LORD God, To Go Up, To the LORD, Watching, Welcoming His Presence, Went Up, What He Can Do, Where is God, Wonder, Wonder-Working God, Wondrous, Works on Our Behalf
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
Liv 