Archive for June 29, 2008

Sunday Praise and Worship

Sunday Praise and WorshipCome Join Sunflower Faith, every Sunday for “Praise and Worship” as we come together to share praises and worship to our Heavenly Father!

This week’s verse is 2 Corinthians 3:17:

I love how the Weymouth New Testament interpreted this verse: Now by “the Lord” is meant the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, freedom is enjoyed.

Can we say a loud “Amen” to that?

As America’s annual celebration of Independence day grows closer, I reflect not so much as our country’s independence but in the independence of our souls as our Heavenly Father gave up His one and only Son for us.

What’s amazing about the freedom of God’s word is that as one really takes the time to read His words and promises to us, the more realization that God’s intention for all of us is not to burden us with legalism, religion or chains, but to free us in both body, spirit and heart to His promise of grace, perfect redemption and love.

However to accept it, is to first take personal responsibility for our sins and realizing that first and foremost that we are sinners and it is through Jesus Christ that we can be free from the burdens that this world insists on imposing on our thoughts, our hearts, and our souls.

What is more freeing than knowing that God has already conquered all and just by accepting His free gift, we are freed. So simple yet so daunting.

For those who celebrate Independence Day, as that day grows closer, not only reflect on the sacrifices that the brave men and women sacrifice each day for the freedoms that we enjoy each day and yes, did come with a heavy price, but reflect on the greatest sacrifice of all when Jesus Christ died on the cross, for you, for me, for all of us.

How has Christ’s sacrifice for you set you free?

*Note* Next Sunday, “Sunday Praise and Worship” will be hosted at Rebecca’s site, “A Walk through the Valley”. If you would like to host “Sunday Praise and Worship” please feel free to send me an email to let me know.

Every Monday, I will post next week’s “Sunday Praise and Worship” here so you can get a heads up on posting. Feel free though if God has convicted a particular quote, passage, hymn or sermon on your heart to share that instead.

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Faith Lift Fridays- Col 3:17

Faith Lift Fridays

Col. 3:17 “And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the father through him.”

I am SO excited to be doing this meme again!! This is a really great meme and one that constantly kept me encouraged.

As I was reflecting on this verse, it really humbled me because I had one of those weeks of doubts where I felt like nothing I did was measuring up.

I didn’t feel like I was writing anything of worth, my hair wasn’t cooperating, I was out of loop with everything it seemed, it was raining every single day and I really empathize with a friend who question her choices.

I think it’s human to feel that way and it’s humbling and encouraging to know that through it all, we have an awesome Heavenly Father who loves us, imperfections and all.

He’s not about looking for winners….He wants the person who just tries, It doesn’t matter to Him if we succeed or not because in the end, that doesn’t matter to God.

What matters is that what we do is geniune, from the heart and in praise and testament to Him.

Why do we make it harder?

Maybe because we want to know we are doing good, feel appreciated and value, we want to know that we are seen and just acknowledged. That’s okay to feel that, but through it all, we have to reach in and find that same person we first was, when we first came to know our Heavenly Father and remember, when we came to Him, we weren’t gleaming silver.
We were tarnished, dirty, a bit scuffed up and dented in places, but God didn’t care…He loved us. He loved not what men see outside, but what men couldn’t see inside and He loved the fact we loved Him wholly, with all our hearts and no conditions….We needed, we wanted, we loved Him. That’s what God loved about us.

We came to Him as children and accepted His love, His grace, His redemption as a child accepts us without question.

It’s difficult to remember that as we go about our day to day lives and feel like we are not seen or appreciated, but God does see us and wow…Does He beam with pride and love at and for us and so we must show the same for Him through what we do, no matter how small or big it maybe.

This isn’t a race to see who can get God’s love the best….It’s about just being us and just loving Him no matter what it is we do.

In the end, God wants nothing more from us than our love. Simple.

So yes, there is a huge pile of laundry we’ve got to accomplish, or maybe that report for the boss we don’t want to do, or maybe that person we REALLLLLLLLLLLLY don’t want to deal with, but God wants us to remember, we’re not doing this for us, it’s not about us, or will ever be about us….It’s all for Him.

He will bless us accordingly so.

If we love Him as we proclaim, He will bless us for what our heart reveals to Him, but if we are doing this for just attention to ourselves…God’s not in the picture and He can’t see us then.

So try to smile, even with gritted teeth and teethmarks on your tongue….sing praises to Him and He will bless you and maybe even meet you at the pearly gates one day personally, with a cup of coffee and a slap on the back and say, “Rest, you did well”.

Thankful Thursdays


Come join Iris’s “Thankful Thursdays” every Thursday to share your praises of what God has done for you in your life.

Heavenly Father, to You always, I give thanks and praises that You are my Heavenly Father. When I seek You, You are there, and even when I do not seek You, You still seek me and remind me You are there.

Lord, Thank You for my husband who is taking the forefront of being the spiritual leader and the head of the household; This is a difficult task for him, Lord, and I pray that you watch over him, encourage him, show him discernment, teach him trust in You Lord and I pray that in the same way, You teach me discernment of heart and tongue and pray that You will teach us both, mutual love and respect as we have always an awkward dance.

We’re not perfect nor claim to be perfect or have the perfect marriage, Lord, and this is a far change Lord from when this wasn’t the norm or a reality. Lord, we reach up to You in humility and submission and pray that You will guide the both of us to You and to each other.

Lord, we love You and recognize that first and foremost, YOU, are the head of the household first and formost, and my husband is leading as You will lead us, no more and no less, than what Your words have spoken to us.

1 Corinthians 11:3
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Ephesians 5:22-24
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Heavenly Father, I thank You for my family and my children. They are lights in the darkness and I pray that I learn from them the innocence and sheer joy they have in You without question and that I may always remember to emulate them even when I don’t know truly the answers I would like to know.

God bless my mother in law who loves them with all her heart and in turn, teaches me how to be a better wife and mother to them and to my husband. There is wisdom in past generations and truth that we don’t always know everything just because we are now the wife and mother of a new household.

Lord I pray that you encourage and watch over my pastor and the church we go to. I pray that the church and my pastor will be free from the wants and pull of the world and that his words and the church’s family, never compromise to what the world calls and pulls for. May their words and actions reflect the body of Christ and not the body of the world, and move forward not backward.

Heavenly Father, I pray for all that take the time to read this blog, that this blog will strenghten, inspire, encourage and bless any and all who come here. May I be forever Your vessel, though I am a broken vessel that is always in need of You and thank You for Your love and mercy.

I praise Your name Lord, that I’m not perfect; I make mistakes, I hurt, I cry and I laugh and I smile even as I weep and pain. Lord I thank You Lord that You love me not because I am perfect, but because I am imperfect and I pray Lord, that You keep me humble and focus and reminding me that I am just an unworthy servant of Yours, Lord and that without You, I am nothing.

I thank You Lord each day, that though I feel weak, You are stronger than me and compensate where I can not and though the wolves may claw at the door, may I always lift Your name up in praise and testimony of Your Grace and Your Mercy and a reminder that this broken soul belongs to You and not the world.

Thank You Gentle Reader as always and may Our Heavenly Father forever bless You with love, grace, strength and encouragement.

Sunflower Faith will be getting a new look soon

Keep an eye out on “Sunflower Faith”!

I’m working on updating the blog’s look so don’t be too surprised to see an “Under Maintenance” sign soon (okay more like late at night when the kids and dog are asleep..lol).

I’m hoping to be able to provide a “link back button” soon as well, for all of you who would like to link back to “Sunflower Faith” as well updating (much needed) my blog roll links and more. I have a lot to learn about photoshop so wanting to provide something stylish and easy to use.

Between vacations, beginning homeschooling and well…just being a busy mom, I’m looking forward to providing a new look to the site for all my gentle readers.

Thank you and God Bless You!

Internet Cafe Devotions has a great giveaway

Do I have your attention yet? Not yet?

Grab some coffee and read on some more.

Needing time to sit down with the Lord and have quiet time, love to have ways to keep you motivated? Well, the Internet Cafe Devotions has a great giveaway that will do just that.

From now till Sunday, June 29th, 2008, you have a chance to sign up to win a great (and huge) giveaway.

Basically it’s a Basket that is more than filled to the BRIM, with all you need for your own “Quiet Time” with the Lord.
Got your interest?? Great.

What you will get is:

  • Handmade Journal for your quiet time thoughts
  • Beaded Silver Cross Bookmark
  • Pomegranate candle to help set a ‘quiet mood’
  • assorted Scripture Cards and 9 “Forever Postage Stamps”
    (to send to those you pray for during quiet time)
  • 3 handmade silhouette cards for sending or framing
  • 4 colored pencils for highlighting
  • Clear Tumbler with single packets of lemonade and raspberry lemonade mixes for a quiet time refreshment and 2 Caribou Coffee bars
  • Jumbo Sticky Notes, a Believe Magnet for inspiration and a silk flower to bring serenity to your space.

You have three ways to enter:

1. Sign up for our daily devotions email then leave a note in the comments letting us know that you did.

2. Post about this giveaway on your blog then leave us a comment with the link to the post.

3. Leave a comment telling us which Woman in the Bible you’d like to sit and have coffee with.

AND THAT”S NOT THE BEST PART:

You can be included in the drawing three times if you complete all three ways to enter! The contest will close on Sunday, June 29th at 9 PM CST. The winner will be announced before Wednesday, July 2nd.

Word-Filled Wednesdays


Photo Credit:Sunflower Faith      Trip to New York

The trip to New York was an amazing experience, though we were thrilled to be back home and back with the kids.

We had the opportunity to visit parts of Central Park and our guide that my husband’s company had hired, showed us some gardens that was in the area and this was a path that was off to the side of one of the gardens.

As we walked down the path, it really hit me not only the importance of reading God’s word but why He calls upon us to hide His word in our hearts for this was one of few moments, when I was glad I had laid a simple verse to heart: “Your Word is like a lamp for my feet and a light for my path.”

Yes Lord, Your word is a light and a path for me, for you, for all of us.

It really caught me off guard how quiet and serene the gardens were and for that moment, we forgot that we were in this huge, overwhelming (and loud) city, but as we just walk along those paths for that short moment, it was a reminder how God’s word takes us away and provides us with hope, with peace and with shelter from a consuming world.

Lord, I thank You for Your words that I try so hard to hide within my heart so when I need to cry out to You, You can give me shelter from a world that moves so fast.

Assignment -"Lies Women Believe" Book Study-Influences on Children

PhotobucketAs we finish up with our study of this chapter regarding children, it reminded me of the scripture from Proverbs 22:6,”Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.”

It doesn’t matter if we homeschool or send a child to public school or if the child isn’t our biological child, when a child is under our care, we are responsible for what they see, read and watch. We are responsible for how they learn to act, react and interact.
We can check a child to a playdate, but ultimately WE are responsible for their socialization skills….not the other mother or the children and being a presence isn’t just enough.

God gave us the responsibility as parents that we are ultimately the foundation, second to that of Christ himself, in their upbringing and no one else is.

I notice in mom’s groups where mothers talk about socializing their child and would blame other mothers for “bad behavior” but yet think nothing of their own behaviour or the influence they have over their own children. It’s always, “Little Sue must get this from here or there”, or “Little Jimmy just wants his own way and I just don’t get it. Oh and why don’t you act like this or that way to and for me by the way”?
Children learn by example and not by what others say or do, that plays a small part, but how much we do and do not really participate in their lives. If we rely on others to raise our children or to babysit our children completely, we have to accept that we don’t really have say in how they are being raise and must not be surprised if they don’t act in a way that we find acceptable.
Our children need role models but more than anything, they need us…Not our babysitters, the teachers, the other kids, the other parents…but us. If we don’t make real time for them instead of carving out time for others to teach them….we are not embracing the full responsibility that God has given us…not the babysitter, the teachers, the moms groups or worse of all…the t.v.

Children are empty slates and they are going to turn to any source that demands and gets their attention and we as parents must be proactive and fight for that attention instead of looking for answers anywhere but through God and through Him to us.

In “God’s promises about Children“, the author of the article wrote:

Some interpreters understand this to mean “his way,” that is, the child’s way. They say that parents and teachers must learn the natural inclinations of the child and direct him thus. To prove that this is the wrong explanation, we need only consider Isaiah 53:6, “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”

Since the verse says, “All we,” that must include children. Every child has already turned “to his own way;” he does not need to be trained in it. Worst of all, the Lord describes “turning to our own way” as “the iniquity of us all,” and reveals the outrage of that iniquity by telling us that it was what Christ bore on the cross. Clearly, then, we do not need to train up a child in his own way, which in God’s sight is sin.

It pains my heart to hear from parents who wait to late to “raise their kids” and to hear them go,”I wish” ,”If only”, “I should” when they have an opportunity today and with the Lord, to raise their children in a way that will glorify God and not sadden Him.
Children are a blessing that God has entrusted to us, not the t.v. or anyone else, but to us, to raise, to guide and to protect. They are not accessories to match us our lifestyles and it reminds me of the fateful warning that is written to us,

Galatians 5:7-8

“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction: the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.”

Walking the tight rope

Father please forgive me for I can not compose
The fear that lives within me
Or the rate at which it grows
If struggle has a purpose on the narrow road you’ve carved
Why do I dread my trespasses will leave a deadly scar
Do they see the fear in my eyes? Are they so revealing?
This time I cannot disguise all the doubt I’m feeling

What if I stumble, what if I fall?
What if I lose my step and I make fools of us all?
Will the love continue when my walk becomes a crawl?
What if I stumble, and what if I fall?

What if I stumble?
Everyone’s got to crawl when you know that
You’re up against a wall, it’s about to fall
Everyone’s got to crawl when you know that

Source: DC Talk song, “What if I stumble?”

What is very interesting that sometimes the worse stumbling in our faith, can often come from ourselves, from presumptions of what WE think our faith should be about and sometimes, just by trying to hard and rather than getting the picture, we miss the mark in the process.

I was reflecting on DC Talk’s song, “What if I stumble” and it reflects how I sometimes feel and I think we all sometimes feel in our Christian walk and how we tend to either be too hard on ourselves, or sometimes, too soft and can’t seem to find that happy medium in our walk.

Playing the Wii fit, one of the first things the software does is test your center of balance.

The Wii has you stand straight as you can on the Wii fit board while trying to get the red dot to align just right to show that you are “on center” of the Wii.

Trouble is that it’s harder than it sounds…sometimes you may get it and have that good day when you are “almost on center” and there are days for whatever reasons, you’re tired, you’re distracted, etc. that you will be off the mark and far from being “align just right”, and the reality with the Christian walk is that we are all the same way.

There is no one among us who is perfect except for our Heavenly Father and He has done the hard work for us. If we were perfect….God wouldn’t have felt the need to give us the gift of His one and only Son so we all would be saved, but the sad truth is that He knows until Christ returns and the church is reunited in body and soul with our Heavenly Father, we are still bound on earth by the curse of sin.photo credit: Katkreig

It is through and with Jesus Christ that we have hope and salvation and until then…we are all going to make our mistakes be it good or bad. It doesn’t make things right and it’s not a free pass to go sinning, but it is what God wants salvation to be about…It’s about hope.

The difference between when we sinned before accepting Jesus Christ and after we have accept Jesus Christ, is notice after you have truly accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour and have a personal relationship with Him and allowed Him to live in and through you, that things seem to have lost it’s luster and it.just.doesn’t.feel.as.good as it use to.

That’s the power of the Holy Spirit working in and through you and it is like those markers on the road.

Every so often we are not always going to be perfect drivers. We’re going to get distracted, we’re going to get tired, and we are going to stumble and veer off more to the right or the left than we should and those markers are there to make us start rumbling and rattling our jaws to wake up us up that we are steering off the path and need to move that steering wheel more on track.

The difference.

If you truly believe in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour you are going to go, “Why did I do that?” and find ways to correct yourself….If you don’t believe in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, more than likely, one is going to go instead,”Wow that was fun, let’s do it again!!” rather than learn from it.

Mistakes weren’t meant to put us on guilt trips, but to help us learn where we are weak or where we have gone off course…That’s being human and God knows that we are weak and we need Him. He could easily have said, “oops, you stumble, too bad” and close the door on ALL of us forever.

We are all going to say things we wish we shouldn’t have had said in afterthought, but we can learn from that; We are all going to do things that will leave us thinking, why did I do that, and for those who are learning and growing to be spiritual mature, rather than let the enemy win, instead go, wow, that was so stupid of me, what do I need to learn from this to NOT do this again or do it differently so it would bear better testimony.

The world is expecting Christians to be superheroes but the reality that we are no different today as we are today. We’re still imperfect, but we are forgiven.

Forgiven doesn’t mean free pass…it just means…God knows you know you are not perfect, that you have sin, will sin and you want to have a relationship with Him, because you need Him and want to be the person He wants you to be.

Life is a growing experience and we are never going to get it right until we are in our Father’s arms forever and free from the sin filled bodies we are all born into.

In the article,”Stumbling over the Issue of Stumbling Christians” there is a notable quote that said:

“In conclusion, whatever we take from this discussion on stumbling and freedom, we must keep the balance of God’s Word. In Colossians, one of the pinnacle letters of the revelation of grace, Paul has some strong statements regarding people’s freedom in Christ. These must be factored into the discussion of stumbling:”

16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. 18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God. 20 Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations — 21 “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” 22 which all concern things which perish with the using — according to the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh. (Colossians 2:16-23)

I do not feel that Paul or anyone else is saying….it’s okay to go clubbing at one in the morning and getting drunk, but I do feel he is saying, Don’t feel guilty over everything but test everything that you do and balance it out.

Not everything is as bad as we sometimes make it out to be and we risk committing a worse sin of taking God’s word in our own hands and defining it to fit and justify ourselves.

Coffee is not a sin if it’s not going to cause one to stumble, but if it makes another person stumble and do something that bears weak or bad testimony to our Heavenly Father, they should not drink it but should not expect everyone else not to drink it as well.

Same goes with dress; No one can truly and absolutely define “modesty”. If a person is covered but is wearing a blouse and jeans, this doesn’t mean they are no less modest than say a person who wears a long blouse and a long skirt. That is more cultural preference there than actually preference because then what about a person in another country who may dress, say in a sarong or rags and can’t afford to “dress modest” as we define it.

At one time, modesty was not letting ankles be shown which would eliminate a good portion of the world’s population today.

God is not about setting regulations…Other religions have a long list of can’t….We are about a personal relationship with a Heavenly Father who has declared it to all the nations, “Done”. He has overcome and finish the requirements that was needed and all He asks of you and me is to allow Him into our lives to have a personal relationship and accept the fact that we are sinners, we will continue to sin, but He has paid the price and in us and through us, He is the catalyst that will change us….there is nothing that we can do ourselves because then, it’s telling Christ…We are in control…not Him.

How often do we beat ourselves up with guilt and in the process allow the enemy victory in distracting us and keeping us from having that relationship with our Heavenly Father because we have allowed the enemy to lie to us and deceive us into thinking, God doesn’t care for us and we’re not good enough to have a relationship with our Heavenly Father.

God wants to let us in on a little secret. He knows we’re not good enough for Him. He knows that we’re not perfect enough for Him and guess what….He loves us….for that.

Imperfection and all.

We will never be good enough for Him.

We will never be perfect enough for Him.

We are going to stumble and that’s why He is there to give us a hand when we stumble.

We are going to fall and He is there to catch us when we do.

We are going to feel pain and He is there to comfort us.

We are going to feel out of control and He is there to say, He is in control.

We had watch the Lion King during the trip and it really kept reminding me so much of the Christian symbology throughout the show. Simba was overcome with guilt and felt that he was responsible and because of the lies his uncle told him (sound familiar), Simba believed it enough to think he was unworthy and ran.

Inside we are all princes and princesses of the greatest King of them all and He has faith in us but wants us to have faith in Him. He’s not going to let us go through this alone, but He also doesn’t want us to think we can do it alone.

1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out far, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.”

God loves us so much, He isn’t going to just abandon us if and when we do stumble and we all will in our lives.

We have to allow ourselves to be able to forgive ourselves and forgive others as well though in order to have that refining relationship with Jesus Christ.

He wants us to grow and be mature but part of that isn’t by hiding in fear of failure or imperfection but by going,”Lord, You’re in control of all of this, I’m not and I can’t ever be”.

When it comes to the Christian Life, we have to remember what is important. Part of that is, “Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:2-3.

This isnt’ about trying to be an “I’m Okay, you’re okay, we’re all okay”, but rather,”I’m not perfect, you’re not perfect, we’re all not perfect”.

We lose a spiritual life when we keep trying to create laws and rules that we know we are going to rebel. We have to be careful to say we’re not when we have already rebel by the essence of the fact that we all have sinned so that is rebelling there.

Christ never said to live a “Christian life” because we can’t; He did say to live a life that glorifies God and part of that is to quit trying to live a Christian life, and start living a life that is focus on the Savior and not the sins that are a part of life.

Confused? That’s actually okay. Little secret…we all are trying to figure it out. Anyone who says they do have it figure out…please send Paul a letter or email, because he wrote in Romans 7:15,18-19 (NLT):
“I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate…I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.”

Everyone struggles. That’s a common truth. Everyone struggles; it’s because of that, we need and strive to have that personal relationship with Jesus Christ. If you are struggling and want to break free and find freedom, I invite you to meet Jesus Christ. He loves you, wants to have a personal relationship with you and He does understand.

Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God’s action in them find that God’s Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn’t pleased at being ignored.

He struggle with temptation while out in the desert too. He is the only perfect person in the world, in the universe, in eternity, who can rightfully claim He has it together and that He is in control and that He is perfect, and the thing is…It’s not about Him. It’s about you, me, everyone. He loves you and wants to live in you and through you and help you come home where God has a warm cup of chocolate, a warm fire in the fireplace and a soft blanket.

Okay…maybe not literal, but God isn’t going to abandon you. The world may abandon you at the slightest hint of imperfection or a face covered with pimples, but God doesn’t care. He really doesn’t.

Know why?

“…..The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks in the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7 NLT

He doesn’t see what the world sees. The world cares what they see and what is outside, but God…He cares what He sees in your heart. Wow.

“Out of sheer generousity he pus us in right standing with himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we’re in and restored us to wehre he always wanted us to be. And he did it by means of Jesus Christ.” Romans 3:24

Don’t take my word for it….I’m just an imperfect, unworthy servant of our Heavenly Father that I praise His name for forgiving a sinner like me. I invite you to find out for yourself who Jesus Christ really is.

“When you attempt to live by your own religious plans and projects, you are cut off from Christ, you fall out of grace.”-Galatians 5:4 MSG.

Check out God’s text message that He sent out to everyone, John 3:16,

“This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.”

Sunflower Faith is back from Vacation

It is such a pleasure to be back from vacation and looking forward to hearing and participating with everyone again.

The trip was a huge pleasure and such a joy to see…..the….BIG APPLE!!

Contrary to belief, the people there were nice and contrary to what you see on t.v., the city is so much bigger and beautiful.

It was an exciting trip and I enjoy the chances to try out new foods that I didn’t have back home, see the different people, and just have that short time away, but no place is like home and I’m so happy to be back in my own bed.
We did the touristry things but the trip as a whole was actually part of a business trip that my husband had to go one and since we are mostly homebodies, when Grandma offer the opportunity to watch the kids, it was a chance for some “Hubby and me” time and the kids got to be spoiled by Grandma.

I think my oldest enjoy the break from homeschooling, but it was cute to be asked when will we get back to lessons…I guess I must be doing something right with homeschooling our oldest??

Dear Gentle Readers, I am so happy to be back here and pray that in that time, all have been blessed by our Heavenly Father.

Sunflower Faith away due to vacation

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Sunflower Faith will be away for vacation, but looking forward to seeing all my bloggy friends and make more new friends when I get back.

In the meantime, check out “Sunday Praise and Worship” that will be hosted at “A Walk Through the Valley” this Sunday, due to my absence.

I will miss everyone and just look forward to hearing and reading everyone’s blogs again when I get back…yes, it’s summer time!!!

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