"Don't Leave Your Laptop Lying Around!"

I was checking a group discussion page tonight and discovered that there were some very naughty things in my history. (I don't use Viagra and am certainly not interested in watching certain full lenghty movies with questionable titles. I am not interested in female or male body parts.) I learned a lesson about this: If you leave your stuff lying around, somebody is going to mess with it! We have had workmen in the house this week. I am not blaming them--Oh, yes, I am! That's the only explanation. The laptop was in the bedroom where they were working.
Somethings are just too precious for others to mess with. I am not sure that my laptop counts as one of these "precious" things although these days of recuperation upstairs have certainly made my laptop important to me. My mother used to say, "Don't cast your pearls before the swine." I know that this is Scripture and it is a very curious saying. I am not sure how it "jives" with the Great Commission, either. I know there are some people who would rather ridicule my faith than listen to why they should have a faith of their own. Our faith is precious. Our Jesus is precious. Our God and our Holy Spirit are precious. Our families and friends and our church are precious. We don't want anybody messing with them.
I'm still steamed over somebody looking at porn on my laptop!!
I'm sorry I don't think this is a very inspiring blog, but it's in my heart right now. I'll be better tomorrow, I promise.

"Praying the Word"

Nehemiah 1:10,11. [Amplified] Now these [I] am Your servant and Your people, whom You have redeemed by Your great power and by Your strong hand. O Lord, let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant [me] and the prayer of Your servants who delight to revere and fear Your name (your nature and attributes) and prosper, I pray you.
Psalm 106:1-4. [Amplified] Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!) O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever! Who can put into words and tell the mighty deeds of the Lord? Or who can show forth all the praise [that is due Him]? Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are those who observe justice [treating others fairly] and who do right and are in right standing with God at all times. [Earnestly] remember me, O Lord, when You favor your people! O visit me also when You deliver them, and grant me Your salvation!--

"Wordless Prayers"

Ben and I went to choir rehearsal tonight. We are going to try to make it through Christmas music. We have permission to stay seated. We are both such "old folks" we need the rest! At the end of rehearsal, the director asked if any of us needed prayer. I never by pass an opportunity to be prayed for so I went forward. When they prayed for me, I couldn't pray. I found no words. I just cried a little. But no words, no voice. I felt like I was prayed out. There was nothing new to say except "Jesus, Jesus." I glad that He knows what's in my heart because I couldn't make anything come out of my mouth.
I think our prayers sometimes are either "cut and dried" or they are formulaic. We say the right words maybe for the wrong reason. We beat our breast in the marketplace just a little bit louder and just a little bit longer than the pilgrim next to us when all we need to say is, "Jesus, Jesus."

A Special Prayer

For those of you who are following me on my blog, here's a special prayer request. I start chemo this week and it is quite different from what I have had in the past. I go in two days in a row, Wednesday and Thursday, and then the following Wednesday. I take a week off and then start the cycle over again. I do this six times. One of the drugs I will take produces nausea. I was relatively free from nausea during my last two times. I know that God will help me through this, but I need your prayers. Thanks. Precious Jesus, take care of all of my friends and family. I need them all right now. Amen!

"The Children of the World"

The pastor challenged us last night to get at least one person in our mind that we believed was probably not saved. I immediately thought of Nadia who is the proprietor of Basil Wraps, a Middle Eastern restaurant here in our neighborhood. She is Muslim and is a sweet, kind person. We talk about God because she knows about my faith in Him to help me through the cancer and chemo. We spent some time just last week talking about Christianity and Islam. Of course, she thinks that our "religions" are very much alike. I said, yes, that there were some things that are parallel and that probably our belief in Jesus is the thing that separates us the most. She said, Oh no, that she, too, believed in Jesus, just not that He is God's Son. So pray for me as I hope to open her eyes to the Truth by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Ben's challenge is to witness to the young man who lives in our apartment. He is precious and loving like a son, but he knows nothing about salvation. Ben asked him this morning if he knew anything about John 3:16 and he said that he didn't. Ben told him that he wanted to talk to him about it. He agreed. The world is at our doorstep. A call to the "children of the world" as a missionary effort means just going around the corner for falafel or speaking to your tenant!
Jesus, show Yourself mighty in our lives.