SUNDAY SCRIPTURE AND FEATURE AT FROM MY FRONT PORCH TO YOURS

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;">Just a little note before Sunday Scripture. I am being featured today at<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.frommyfrontporchtoyours.com/2013/04/how-i-found-my-style-sundays-stonegable.html" target="_blank">FROM MY FRONT PORCH TO YOURS</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="From My Front Porch To Yours" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0kl6S09qleuNvkKs2HqXRUcR6Tf1mDtSubjzZ_B72BVo0i3vrCurgY3BNjPlEen3PR4t7g1fkhWfD4iXZZQqQFDxHxUAtH4_8MKzJUs2VRz9qiu81LS5utBkrXft-Cm4w_g-KtAxHRlki/s640/updatedheader.jpg" width="640" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm taking part in a series called</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.frommyfrontporchtoyours.com/2013/04/how-i-found-my-style-sundays-stonegable.html" target="_blank">HOW I GOT MY STYLE</a>.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I hope you will visit me at Pamela's today. She has a beautiful blog and I'm sharing new things!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now it's time for Sunday Scripture...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Are you ever Spiritually dry? Feel far away from God? Don't feel connected to your Heavenly Father?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It's a hard place to be... especially when you are used to feeling God's presence in your life. I think everyone feels like that now and then. I've been going through a "dry spell" recently.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is how I am coping... I hope it might help you too...</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><a name="more"></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">SPEAK GOD'S TRUTH...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Feelings" are flighty and deceptive and often not based in truth.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Even though I feel that God is far from me I know not to believe those feelings. Just because we feel a certain way does not make it true!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I saturate my mind with God's truth and don't dwell on my feelings. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Run to God's word in these times and spend time replacing feelings with the precious truth of God!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 23.09375px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Am I only a God nearby," declares the LORD, "and not a God far away? Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?" declares the LORD. "Do not I fill heaven and earth?" declares the LORD.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 23.09375px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Jere  23:23-24</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 23.09375px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 23.09375px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">"... I will never leave you or forsake you".  Hebrews 13:5</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 23.09375px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 23.09375px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 23.09375px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ASK GOD TO SHOW YOU YOUR SIN</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 23.09375px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Sometimes there may be good reason that we don't feel close to God. Even though, as Christians, our eternal  salvation is secure, our day-to-day sin clogs up that direct pipeline to our Heavenly Father. Feeling far away from God may be the result of unconfessed sin!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">We need to go before the throne of Grace and have a good old honest talk with our Abba!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I had a wonderful Daddy. My dad gave me a marvelous picture of the love and mercy and grace of my Father in Heaven... especially when it came to forgiveness!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Daddy never let me go to sleep with any strife between us.  If I went to bed with any unsettled problems, Daddy would come up to my bedroom... sit on the edge of my bed in the dark... and help me start that process of being forgiven by first apologizing to me and telling me how much he loved me! I still marvel at that. When I was wrong HE would apologize!  Even in my most stubborn teenage years my heart would melt. He found a way to start a loving conversation so I could tell him I was sorry and make things right between us.  I never ever remember waking up angry at my father... not once! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">God is like that too! He waits for us with open arms and a loving heart bigger than the universe! He will not condemn or scold or throw our sins in our faces! He waits and whispers His words of love in our far away hearts! He wants to settle things with us even more than we do!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Ask Him to search your heart, reveal your sin and then be quick to tell God you are sorry! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me and know my anxious thoughts: And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me to the everlasting way". Ps 139:23-24</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me". Ps 51</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">THE MAIN THING IS TO KEEP THE MAIN THING THE MAIN THING!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In times that I feel far from God it is often because I have become lazy or too busy to spend time reading and studying God's word, praying, listening to my favorite Christian speakers or reading great Christian books.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I find myself feeling far away when I am spending too much time in front of the tv or computer... or my life gets crazy busy.. or something is bothering me. I tend to let my time with God slip away first! I know better... bad move!!!! These are time I need to be connected!!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">We need to put and keep God first.  That simple... that true!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">We need to make God the most important thing in our lives! That simple... that true!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">We need to be intentional and diligent about following hard after God!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">DON'T STRESS... REST</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Desert times (when we are spiritually dry) happen. God loves us and is passionately desires a real and deep relationship with us... even when we cannot feel it!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Rest in the truth His love... and find comfort in His word!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Thankfully, if we seek after God desert times don't last forever!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Draw near to God and He will draw near to you." James 4: 8</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Please know that I am keeping any of you who are feeling that God is far away in my prayers!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="javascript:void((function(){var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8');e.setAttribute('src','http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinmarklet.js?r='+Math.random()*99999999);document.body.appendChild(e)})());"><img alt="Pin It" class="aligncenter" src="http://www.clickinmoms.com/cmprodaily/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/pinit.jpg" /></a></div></div> </div>

SUNDAY SCRIPTURE AND FEATURE AT FROM MY FRONT PORCH TO YOURS

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