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| Hello Friends, I welcome you to join me on this journey as I share this time in words of praise to God, devotion to Him for His faithfulness in my life and instruction I've received through my own time with God. I welcome you to come and relax with me, have a cup of tea and enjoy this time together. Justene |
| Hi All, I would also like to welcome you to join in our journey. I hope to bring you along with pictures of the people, places and things in our life. There are so many things to say, see and do and we pray that this little spot on the computer can give you peace and pleasure in the presence of God. Blessings, Jana |
| Hi, I'm Brenda. Welcome to our place of prayer, praise and peace. As we continue to come together in fellowship we pray you will join us. Come back often to see the things God is doing in and through us. |
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Are You Really Free?
by Mary Justene Martin
January 25, 2012
I heard and my inward parts trembled, at the sound my lips
quivered, decay enters my bones, and in my place I tremble.
Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress, for the people
to arise who will invade us. (Habakkuk 3:16)
We are entering another election time, when people will choose
a candidate they hope will save our economy. "As it was in the
days of Noah, they were eating and drinking and making
merry." I passed by a church with a sign outside that read, "Are
you really free?" I commented to my friend with me, "No, and
neither is anyone else I see." I thought of the email I had
received that morning about the writing of our national anthem.
It seems in all my years I would have heard this story before,
about how Francis Scott Key, was stationed off shore in a ship
with a cargo of prisoners of war waiting to be set free, when the
British army fired all the artillery they had, in hundreds of ships,
at the fort just a short distance away on shore. How the
revolutionists took their place to hold our battered flag high,
refusing to allow it to fall at the cost of their very lives. "I heard,
and my inward parts trembled, at the sound my lips quivered..."
I silently thought to myself, "No, we are not free, even at the
price that was paid for our freedom."
Are you really free? Or are we living in a time where everyone
is eating and drinking and making merry, and all around us we
are lulled asleep being told "peace and safety", while our
soldiers give their very lives to make us free. No, we are not
free, not until the kingdom of God reigns, and there is no terror,
or slaughter, no mothers crying in the streets for their children,
no widows waiting to die with their hands outstretched for help.
We are not free unless we have claimed the sacrifice made by
Jesus, the Son of God, then we are free. We cannot look around
us and see that we are free, we must know by faith, an
assurance from deep within us, that we are indeed free, and that
it makes no difference how these circumstances we are living in
turn out. From within we must KNOW we are free. We are not
still waiting for a ruler, or a politician to free us, we have been
MADE free by our faith in Jesus.
Though the fig tree should not blossom, and there be no fruit on
the vines, though yield of the olive should fail and the fields
produce no food, though the flock should be cut off from the fold
and there be no cattle in the stalls, Yet I will exult in the Lord. I
will rejoice in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my
strength, and He has made my feet like hinds’ feet, and makes me
walk on my high places. (Habakkuk 3:17-19)
There is no hope except hope in our God. Only He can really
free us. He has already paid the price, but most of us don’t even
know or care. Tell a mother who has lost her son fighting for
your freedom, you don’t even know or care. Tell the Father who
gave His son for your freedom, you don’t even know or care.
Are you trembling? Are you waiting for an invasion of distress,
or are you confident that you are really free, and your
assignment now is to tell everyone else?
by Mary Justene Martin
January 25, 2012
I heard and my inward parts trembled, at the sound my lips
quivered, decay enters my bones, and in my place I tremble.
Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress, for the people
to arise who will invade us. (Habakkuk 3:16)
We are entering another election time, when people will choose
a candidate they hope will save our economy. "As it was in the
days of Noah, they were eating and drinking and making
merry." I passed by a church with a sign outside that read, "Are
you really free?" I commented to my friend with me, "No, and
neither is anyone else I see." I thought of the email I had
received that morning about the writing of our national anthem.
It seems in all my years I would have heard this story before,
about how Francis Scott Key, was stationed off shore in a ship
with a cargo of prisoners of war waiting to be set free, when the
British army fired all the artillery they had, in hundreds of ships,
at the fort just a short distance away on shore. How the
revolutionists took their place to hold our battered flag high,
refusing to allow it to fall at the cost of their very lives. "I heard,
and my inward parts trembled, at the sound my lips quivered..."
I silently thought to myself, "No, we are not free, even at the
price that was paid for our freedom."
Are you really free? Or are we living in a time where everyone
is eating and drinking and making merry, and all around us we
are lulled asleep being told "peace and safety", while our
soldiers give their very lives to make us free. No, we are not
free, not until the kingdom of God reigns, and there is no terror,
or slaughter, no mothers crying in the streets for their children,
no widows waiting to die with their hands outstretched for help.
We are not free unless we have claimed the sacrifice made by
Jesus, the Son of God, then we are free. We cannot look around
us and see that we are free, we must know by faith, an
assurance from deep within us, that we are indeed free, and that
it makes no difference how these circumstances we are living in
turn out. From within we must KNOW we are free. We are not
still waiting for a ruler, or a politician to free us, we have been
MADE free by our faith in Jesus.
Though the fig tree should not blossom, and there be no fruit on
the vines, though yield of the olive should fail and the fields
produce no food, though the flock should be cut off from the fold
and there be no cattle in the stalls, Yet I will exult in the Lord. I
will rejoice in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my
strength, and He has made my feet like hinds’ feet, and makes me
walk on my high places. (Habakkuk 3:17-19)
There is no hope except hope in our God. Only He can really
free us. He has already paid the price, but most of us don’t even
know or care. Tell a mother who has lost her son fighting for
your freedom, you don’t even know or care. Tell the Father who
gave His son for your freedom, you don’t even know or care.
Are you trembling? Are you waiting for an invasion of distress,
or are you confident that you are really free, and your
assignment now is to tell everyone else?