Comments on: Martha and The Messiah

By: Joyce

Joyce — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 05:53:06 +0000

Susan, I admire you so much for your honesty, I am praying for you.

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:11:19 +0000

An excellent time to remember this truth! Thanks Rebecca.

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:09:29 +0000

So encouraging!

By: Dee Brestin

Dee Brestin — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:56:13 +0000

Amen — Amen.

By: Dee Brestin

Dee Brestin — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:55:51 +0000

My daughter-in-law has been telling me how God has gifted you, and I see it here, so it is the White Witch who has given you this stone. I do see Aslan breathing on you!

By: Dee Brestin

Dee Brestin — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:54:37 +0000

Love this line:

I think that after Martha beheld Jesus, and saw Him for who He really was, God, that her idols slipped away

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:50:10 +0000

Thank you too Anne for the encouragement. I was just feeling last night like I really didn’t have much worth sharing here, I think maybe it was just Satan attacking me! as I have re-read the blog, I feel encouraged by so many of you on this journey with me!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:20:01 +0000

Thank you for your encouraging words–I really needed the lift at the moment I read them!
Blessings to all of you–and thank you for so graciously welcoming me to this group.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:29:07 +0000

Ladies, here is a song I found this morning..Encouraged me…Sure you all have heard it before..

IN CHRIST ALONE
In Christ alone my hope is found,
He is my light, my strength, my song;
this Cornerstone, this solid Ground,
firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace,
when fears are stilled, when strivings cease!
My Comforter, my All in All,
here in the love of Christ I stand.

In Christ alone! who took on flesh
Fulness of God in helpless babe!
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones he came to save:
Till on that cross as Jesus died,
The wrath of God was satisfied -
For every sin on Him was laid;
Here in the death of Christ I live.

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain:
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave he rose again!
And as He stands in victory
Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me,
For I am His and He is mine -
Bought with the precious blood of Christ.

No guilt in life, no fear in death,
This is the power of Christ in me;
From life’s first cry to final breath.
Jesus commands my destiny.
No power of hell, no scheme of man,
Can ever pluck me from His hand;
Till He returns or calls me home,
Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand.

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:03:14 +0000

Oh Rebecca, you are so right that our idols lie to us and deceive us into running to them! Then we take our eyes off Jesus.
My idol of approval and power lies to me that my mother-in-law is somehow my enemy, and stealing away affection from me. Then I stew and brood about it and think unkind thoughts about her, feeding jealousy.
Yes, the battle definitely begins in the mind! And I am learning along with you the truth about what is going on in my heart….

And Jesus said “And you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free!”

I’m so glad we are on our way to freedom!!!!