The day with dianne Louise

“Yes, God is more than ready to overwhelm you with every form of grace, so that you will have more than enough of everything —every moment and in every way. He will make you overflow with abundance in every good thing you do.” 2 Corinthians‬ ‭9‬:‭8‬ ‭TPT‬‬ When I give my tithe I ask the Lord to stretch my finances and He does. I am able to pay my way, support two translators and now enough to support a work in Sindhulpalchok. I am constantly amazed at God’s provision. I live well and am able to bless the house I live in with good things. I do not think lack but allow God to bring the stretch. We can think lack and we will have lack, we can think abundance and we will have it, overflowing with good measure. More than enough to give. While back in Australia what I had was mostly taken with rent. However, I paid my tithe and trusted the Lord for the stretch. What was left I bought groceries frugally, but was generous with what I had and still had plenty. I did not talk lack and I had plen...

“I know what it means to lack, and I know what it means to experience overwhelming abundance. For I’m trained in the secret of overcoming all things, whether in fullness or in hunger. And I find that the strength of Christ’s explosive power infuses me to conquer every difficulty.” Philippians‬ ‭4‬:‭13‬ ‭TPT‬‬ The ability to hold steady the sail in all weather is a skill that is learned. A good sailor has been taught to sail into the wind and use it to advantage. He has also been taught to maintain security when calm appears because there is always danger only meters away. In abundance the danger is self/importance, greed and selfishness. In poverty it is the same, from a different direction. Self-importance becomes selfishness, the same thing with a different tag. Self-pity is just another manifestation of the same beast, self, or the flesh as scripture would label it. I cannot afford either, for both exalt themselves above Christ. As a Christian, I am called to ‘seek first the kingdom...

“Dear friends, don’t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you. Instead, be very glad—for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world. If you are insulted because you bear the name of Christ, you will be blessed, for the glorious Spirit of God rests upon you. If you suffer, however, it must not be for murder, stealing, making trouble, or prying into other people’s affairs. But it is no shame to suffer for being a Christian. Praise God for the privilege of being called by his name! For the time has come for judgment, and it must begin with God’s household. And if judgment begins with us, what terrible fate awaits those who have never obeyed God’s Good News?”  1 Peter‬ ‭4‬:‭12‬-‭17‬ ‭NLT‬‬ It is very interesting that Peter concludes this thought about suffering with a statement about judgement. Where did judgemen...

“Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.” Romans‬ ‭12‬:‭9‬-‭10‬ ‭NLT‬‬ Loving others is stretched when they are difficult. When the enemy is at work in a home, office, church or community he sows seeds of discord. We need to be aware of what he is up to and refuse to play his games. When others fall for the enemy’s schemes and become his tools then there is a challenge not to fight the person but rather the spirit. Evict him! Show love and mercy to his victim but if necessary speak, but always with grace. Last night I was attacked again for something I had said in the past and repented of. It came out of left field. My friend believed the enemy’s lies and attacked me. I told her to drop it. She went to her room. I had to battle becoming offended and chose to fight the spirit. Now I must pray for my friend and allow God to work, in both of us. O...

“The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.” ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭23‬:‭24‬ ‭NIV‬‬ When a father has a wise son he is filled with joy, when a son becomes wayward a father is sad and humiliated.  Wise men make good choices, foolish men bad choices. Always when sons succeed father are proud and think they did something right. When a son does foolish things a father laments and wonders what wrong he has done. Great men can have foolish sons: David did, Samuel did, and the wisest man ever Solomon did. Other gret kings who followed after also produced foolish sons. Some sons will go through a rebellious time and turn again to the right path laid out by parents. I am sure praying dads get to see their sons right themselves. We must do our best to train our children in the way they should go and pray for them all their lives, they will find the right path. Amen!

“Love means doing what God has commanded us, and he has commanded us to love one another, just as you heard from the beginning.” 2 John‬ ‭1‬:‭6‬ ‭NLT‬‬ How do we love? If we are unsure, read the gospels and epistles. Paul gives us a good summary in 1 Cor 13.  “  “Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud  or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!”  1 Corinthians‬ ‭13‬:‭5‬-‭8‬ ‭NLT‬‬ If we evaluate how we want to respond to people by this passage we will find it blows holes in every selfish argument we may propose.  Remember, we have an enemy prowling around attempting to divide and conquer us...

““Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by injustice! Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing? For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.” Habakkuk‬ ‭2‬:‭12‬-‭14‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Habakkuk is one of the minor prophets, called one of the twelve. His prophesy deals with God’s judgement but from a perspective of an intercessor.  The above passage warns that greed and arrogance in the heart of man makes him feel invincible, but the coming days will show that it was all in vain, God gets the last word, because He is God. Mammon, money, can lure people into a net. Making them believe they are invincible, when they are not. Money is a false god, although it is loud and noisy, it is a shell, created to trap people into believing they are invincible, when they are not. Choosing to follow money is choosing to follow gree...