October Girls Really Living was such a blessing! Gina came and shared "a modern day love story" - how the Lord brought her and Woody together as husband and wife. Here are some of our notes from our time together:Happy endings are God-planned!
LIFE is now. My story is right now! If we're not living, then we're just wishing. Wherever you are, be all there (Jim Elliot).
1 Peter 2:9, 11-12, 15
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, [God's] own purchased, special people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. Beloved, I implore you as aliens and strangers and exiles [in this world] to abstain from the sensual urges (the evil desires, the passions of the flesh, your lower nature) that wage war against the soul.Conduct yourselves properly (honorably, righteously) among the Gentiles, so that, although they may slander you as evildoers, [yet] they may by witnessing your good deeds [come to] glorify God in the day of inspection when God shall look upon you wanderers as a pastor or shepherd looks over his flock]. For it is God's will and intention that by doing right [your good and honest lives] should silence (muzzle, gag) the ignorant charges and ill-informed criticisms of foolish persons.
Courtship defined ~ Lordship/purposing to seek Christ first in all areas of life (God's will, God's timing, God's methods, God's person).
Revelation 2:4 But I have this [one charge to make] against you: that you have left (abandoned) the love that you had at first [you have deserted Me, your first love].
Guard your heart! Remain free from emotional entanglements. Life is about knowing Christ and making Him known.
I Corinthians 7:34 And the unmarried woman or girl is concerned and anxious about the matters of the Lord, how to be wholly separated and set apart in body and spirit... I have freedom to care about the things of the Lord!
He Loves Me!! You can't pluck the flowers off a daisy to know if someone really loves you or not... just like you can't go by your present circumstances to know if God really loves you or not. He loves you all the time. Believe it! Ephesians 1:4 Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love.
