God's Promises

Leviticus 25 and 26

Today, these words reminded me of God's love shown through His Promises to each of us...

I will walk among you; I will be your God, and you will be my people.  I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so you will no longer be their slaves.  I broke the yoke of slavery from your neck so you can walk with your heads held high.

What is holding you down?  What is keeping you looking down rather than up?  Today, take God's hand and believe His promises that He is with you and He can handle anything that is keeping you a slave!  Look up and say Yes LORD!

Believe and take a walk with God!

Sweet blessings,

Debbie

Pleasing aromas and do not act like people in...

Leviticus 17 -19

Today, the words pleasing aroma to the LORD and So do not act like people in...You must not imitate their way of life pretty much got me right off the bat...

Why are these two so difficult to live?  I mean don't we want to be pleasing like this little girl with a sweet smile and happy?  Don't we want to look different than the ugliness of this world? 

I remember last summer returning home to a terrible smell in my home.  I was immediately struck when I unlocked the door that something was wrong.  I searched, I looked, and finally discovered a small water leak coming from the ice maker that well after leaking for several weeks while I was away made a terrible smelly mess!  I wanted to avoid it at all cost and no I was not smiling like this little girl.  It was not a pleasing aroma!

I want so desperately to have the beautiful aroma of this little girl.  Happy, smiling and set apart from the world.  I don't want to look like the world!  I want to look like Christ and unfortunately except for occasionally our world doesn't look like Christ.

Today, let's begin to make the steps to look and smell like Christ!  Let's be pleasing to Christ and not the world!

Sweet blessings,

Debbie

Right or Wrong?

Leviticus 7 - 8

Well, today's reading the words making you right with him jumped off the page at me.  Quite honestly, reading through Leviticus is a pretty tough read.  Details, details and these details were very important to God, but to humans like us ~ well we mess them up.  Did it say this or that? Sometimes leaving one word out makes what we are suppose to do a totally different thing....

Thanking Jesus today for the gift none of us deserve.  Jesus gave His life for my wrongs to make me right with God.  Absolutely no way could I be right with God without Jesus!

Today, we begin Lenten season.  Forty days of remembering exactly who Jesus is, what Jesus did for each of us and the wow of this amazing love!  Perhaps if you don't practice giving up something during lent, try something new read slowly through one of the gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke or John and the beautiful story of Jesus during these Lenten days. Allow Jesus to work in your heart during the Lenten season and every other day of the year.

Sweet blessings,

Debbie

Wonderful book! Esther Royal Beauty by Angela Hunt

When I received this book in the mail for book review from Bethany House, I was immediately intrigued by the cover!  Isn't it beautiful?  Don't you want to know more immediately about Esther?  I did.

I found it refreshing and new.  Yes, did you catch the word new?  It was very different from any other fictional book based on the story of Esther and I loved it.  It was so real.  

Most of the time I love all fictional books based on the bible, because it opens my eyes to new possibilities and to think about the story and the people more.  It really got me going this time!  The story told through someone close to the king, his servant.  The servant closest to the king and Esther herself tell a beautiful story filled with drama, intrigue, mystery, and love.  A love that doesn't always bring "the happy ending" little girls always dream of, but of a much bigger, beautiful happy ending!

I don't want to give any of the plot lines away or the way Angela Hunt takes this story because she really takes you on a different journey.  At least for me, I found it very believable of a little girl (emphasis) little girl from a very different land taken to the castle for a very different lonely life at times.  Yet, she is made queen, but that doesn't bring all the fairy tale life one dreams of...such as sitting by a wall waiting for her sweet uncle on the other side just to hear the voice of a loved one close by, or the children of the king playing in her gardens, but none of them her own.  So much written so beautifully that you truthfully can't wait to turn the page to see how Angela will bring the beautiful story of Esther to the point of And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this.  (Esther 4:14)  

Order it now!  Amazon, your favorite bookstore I don't care.  Yes, it was given to me for a book review, but I will be purchasing it for myself for friends.  It is awesome!  

Angela Hunt book well done!  Angela will touch the lives of many with the story of Esther and how God places us at just the right place, at the right time to make a difference.

5 stars I promise!

Sweet blessings,

Debbie