Tag: believe

Leaving Home

Jennifred Jones

Some earthly fathers make their kids leave home at age 18. Ready or not, away you go!

Time to flap your wings and fend for yourself. This is needful to learn and develop independence many times. Some parents, in a sense abandon their kids after a certain point to force them to mature and make decisions on their own.

If God is your Father, He will never kick you out of His house. You will always be welcome in His home and live there perpetually. You can ask him any questions you have, talk with him about anything, show him things in your life, and he’s never too busy, or on his phone distracted from your conversation. He sees you and understands every part about you. He knows why we do what we do and why we don’t. He wants to help us understand things about ourselves so we can grow stronger, be more useful, have more peace and joy.

‘I can’t even believe if there is a god, that he would even bother with these minuscule things pertaining to me.’ Well, he does. He made every snowflake look different, but equally beautiful. Look at nature. Every plant has its own style leaf, bark, root system, light and water requirements. Each of us humans have tiny cells that we can’t see but hold things together so we don’t fall apart. If there is a god interested in the outward and physical aspects of us, why wouldn’t he be interested in the inward parts of us…our mental and emotional and spiritual qualities.

My hope is for all ‘us peoples’ to recognize and know we aren’t on our own to figure out life and death and how to make life work. We have a god to turn to, who wants to help and direct us for good. Have you met him? If you talk to him, he will answer and help you.

The Peoples’ God

Jennifred Jones

God is the peoples’ God.

He is not a God of dignitaries, kings and religious institutions that you must belong to or become before you can reach Him. He is a God of the common folk, the ordinaries, like you and me.

He loves to show Himself strong, and how can His strength be best shown except when compared to the weak? God is our, your, my strength-a very present help in time of trouble. And we seem to have a lot of trouble lurking around in our lives sometimes, don’t we?

He is the God of the ordinary people.

He is for the people.

We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

All of us.

All who believe.

Which means:

If you’re ordinary, you qualify—

You qualify for all God has stated in His word.

They shall be My people, and I will be their God. Hebrews 8:11

It’s Just Me…

Jennifred Jones

‘I keep having thoughts that I should go talk to so and so, that I should go help so and so, that I should write an article, book, speak to this person, apply for this job, start this business, but that’s just me and I don’t want to be proud and do what I think, after all, it’s not about me.’ ‘My church doesn’t believe God talks to people anymore so I know it’s not Him…so I guess I’ll just ignore all these thoughts and go about my own way.’

‘Is this right?’

Well, God does use all the ‘ME’s’ out there. He has chosen to use people to speak through, work through, pray through, love through, care though. He doesn’t personally come down and wipe away tears, or sit in the living room and visit with us. He uses us…people. I haven’t heard God speak audibly to me, but now that God lives in my heart, I can hear Him through His word. I may be in a situation and need some wisdom or help, and I say a quick prayer to God, “Help, Lord, I need your wisdom.” And sure enough a verse of scripture many times pops into my mind, or I’ll remember something the pastor said in a message that is the answer to my prayer and everything ends up ok. John 14:26 says the Holy Spirit will bring to our remembrance that which He has spoken to us, so that is what is happening in my life here.   Or, I’ll have the thought to stop by and see someone and it turns out they were in need of something that I could provide; sometimes it was just lending an ear, or walking to their mailbox for them, putting away their groceries or taking out the trash.

If we aren’t careful, we can be so concerned that ‘it’s just us’ that we miss many opportunities to do good to others, because we were afraid of stepping out on a ‘hunch’ we had… that could have been a real blessing to another person.

And I have found when the other person is blessed, so am I. The joy and happiness from helping another human being seems to take away my troubles and I feel light and refreshed inside!

Go out and do good to somebody today!