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| Sunday Inspiration 8/9 | August 9, 2009 @ 1:27am | Good Morning Nation! I pray everyone is having a wonderful weekend!
I Am
TODAY'S SCRIPTURE
"God replied to Moses, ‘I Am Who I Am…’"
(Exodus 3:14, NLT)
In the Bible, God has many names that describe His character and attributes. In the same way that someone named “Joe” might also be called “father” or “husband” or “the boss,” God has names that describe Him and His relationship to His people.
In the Old Testament, the Hebrew name for “God” was considered so holy that the people wouldn’t even say it. So, when God appeared to Moses in a burning bush and sent Him to lead the Israelites out of captivity, Moses asked God, “Who should I say sent me?” After all, He couldn’t breathe the name of God in public. God replied by saying, “Moses, my name is I Am.” In other words, “I am anything and everything you need. I am your joy. I am your peace. I am your strength. I am your victory. I am your way of escape. I am whatever you need.”
Today, God is saying the same thing to us! What is it that you need? The Great I Am, the Almighty God is on your side. He is ready to supply all your needs according to His riches in glory. Open your heart of faith to Him today and receive all the blessings He has in store for you! By: Joel & Victoria Olsteen
A PRAYER FOR TODAY
Father in heaven, today I call on You—the Great I Am. I surrender myself to You - spirit, soul, and body. I ask that You direct my steps and supply every one of my needs as I move forward in obedience to Your Word. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_iwapwAxDc&feature=related
Enjoy your Sunday. TTYL!
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| The "I AM'S" of God | August 9, 2009 @ 1:59am | I thought I'd share these names of God...this is just one list, there are a few others. Learning the names of God increases our understanding of His character, builds our faith, and expands our capacity for praise and worship. (God loves to hear us use His names in our worship!) I hope you will find these names a benefit to your spiritual life.
I AM
I AM THAT I AM
I am a father to Israel
I am a great King
I am alive for evermore (Jesus)
I am Alpha and Omega (Jesus)
I am for you
I am from above (Jesus)
I am God
I am God Almighty
I am gracious
I am he
I am he that comforteth you
I am he that doth speak
I am he that liveth, and was dead (Jesus)
I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts (Jesus)
I am holy
I am in the midst of Israel
I am married unto you
I am meek and lowly in heart (Jesus)
I am merciful
I am the Almighty God
I am the bread of life (Jesus)
I am the door (Jesus)
I am the door of the sheep (Jesus)
I am the first and the last
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob
I am the God of thy fathers
I am the good shepherd (Jesus)
I am the light of the world (Jesus)
I am the living bread (Jesus)
I am the LORD
I am the LORD, and there is none else
I am the Lord GOD
I am the LORD in the midst of the earth
I am the LORD that doth sanctify you
I am the LORD that healeth thee
I am the LORD that maketh all things
I am the LORD that smiteth
I am the LORD, the God of all flesh
I am the LORD thy God
I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt
I am the LORD thy God that divideth the sea
I am the LORD thy God which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go
I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit
I am the LORD which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness
I am the LORD which hallow you
I am the LORD, your Holy One
I am the resurrection, and the life (Jesus)
I am the root and offspring of David (Jesus)
I am the Son of God (Jesus)
I am the vine (Jesus)
I am the way, the truth, and the life (Jesus)
I am their inheritance (speaking of the priests)
I am thy exceeding great reward
I am thy part and thine inheritance (said to the Levites)
I am thy salvation
I am thy Savior
I am thy shield
I am with thee
I am with thee to deliver thee
I am with thee to save thee
I am with you alway (Jesus)
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jlove19
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| Good afternoon everyone | August 9, 2009 @ 1:05pm | i hope yahll all are doing fine. 
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| Afternoon Nation!! | August 9, 2009 @ 3:39pm | Jav, as always THANKS for the Sunday inspiration.
Well yesterday my husband and I along with other family members moved my oldest child to Pennsylvania from Ohio. I didnt do my Happy Dance, like I planned.....(maybe next week!! LOL) But all I can say is...I released back into the world the "gift" God gave me.....Many have asked why I'm not sad or if I'll cry....And I said this to them......
What a joy it is that God chose me to be Tia and Kristina's mother. Although my job will never be done. I am happy in the fact that NOW instead of hollaring for MOMMY they can call on JESUS....Thats why I can be happy that my girls are stepping out into this world....Its God's time to continue to lead them. |
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michele
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| August 9, 2009 @ 4:42pm | Hey Nation,
I hope everyone is having a wonderful Lords Day . |
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| 80's ..... | August 9, 2009 @ 7:44pm |
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Jav, as always THANKS for the Sunday inspiration.
Well yesterday my husband and I along with other family members moved my oldest child to Pennsylvania from Ohio. I didnt do my Happy Dance, like I planned.....(maybe next week!! LOL) But all I can say is...I released back into the world the "gift" God gave me.....Many have asked why I'm not sad or if I'll cry....And I said this to them......
What a joy it is that God chose me to be Tia and Kristina's mother. Although my job will never be done. I am happy in the fact that NOW instead of hollaring for MOMMY they can call on JESUS....Thats why I can be happy that my girls are stepping out into this world....Its God's time to continue to lead them. |
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AMEN!!!!! And you are very welcome! Now, can we just pray that I can one day soon release mine into the world where she can Holla for Jesus intstead of MAMA!!!!! I'm just saying. Will she eva leave...DANG! LOL! |
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deltagirl98
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| Hey | August 9, 2009 @ 11:22pm | I saw this and thought it was fitting for the folks with empty nests and those who are trying to get one! LOL
Emptying the Nest
By Will Laughlin, MA, MAT
A popular metaphor for describing the transition from adolescence to adulthood is that of the eagle pushing her young forcibly and abruptly out of the nest. The falling eaglet either has a terror-induced epiphany-"hey, I'm an eagle, I can fly!"-or hits the ground and stays there. In certain respects, this is an apt metaphor-the 40% mortality rate of eagles during their first flight is only slightly lower than the 50% failure rate for college entrants. Half of all students who enter college fail to finish, and most of these failures take the form of voluntary withdrawals during the first semester of the freshman year. Both eaglets and adolescents find the transition into adulthood so abrupt as to be barely survivable, with the birds holding a slight edge.
But while the image of shoving an eaglet from its nest highlights the hazards of growing up, it hardly offers us a model for parenting or educating adolescents. Incidentally, it also fails to accurately describe eagle behavior. "Birds do not, as a rule, push their young out of the nest," says Jessica Griffiths, Coordinator of the Big Sur Ornithology Lab, "that would be counter-productive, since they want their young to be ready for independence before leaving the nest so that they will survive." As it turns out, there's more to learn from an accurate understanding of how eagles teach their young to fly than there is from the myth of the big push. For eagles, the transition from nest-bound adolescence to soaring adulthood is a gradual process that, according to ornithologists, relies on a combination of benevolent manipulation and guided experimentation.
Ornithologists have observed eagles coaxing, even taunting, their young from the nest, rather than just giving them a shove. When the fledgling eagle is almost ready to fly, parents have been observed to swoop by the nest with a fresh kill. Instead of landing in the nest as usual to share the meal, the parent lands near the nest and eats in plain view of its squawking, hungry teenager. This behavior continues until the fledgling is hungry enough to venture out of the nest, at which point the parent will share its food. This taunting behavior creates the appetite and incentive necessary for the fledgling to venture out of the nest of its own volition in pursuit of what it wants.
We too can leverage the impressive appetites of adolescents in order to coax them to ever greater levels of independence and autonomy. Rather than simply obeying their squawks for an I-Pod, a car, or a new pair of shoes, these desires can be leveraged as motivators for getting out of the house and working. Adolescents who learn to work for what they want will be better equipped to eventually work for what they need. As the child moves into and through to adolescence, allowances can yield to paid chores at home and then to work outside of the home. Over time parents can define a smaller and smaller set of essentials that they will provide, leaving their young adult to work for the "extras," as defined by the parents. Requiring young people to work for the things they want instills a positive association between industry and acquisition and can have the effect of drawing them away from the nest. This kind of benevolent manipulation is critical at a time when more and more young adults are returning home for a protracted adolescence. The prospect of a dependent thirty-year old "child" is generally not attractive to either the child or the parent, but is becoming a more common reality.
Unlike many American adolescents, who go off to college never having paid a bill, held a job, or lived away from home, the eaglet has had ample guided experience with adult eagle activities prior to becoming independent. Fledgling eaglets start their flight training by doing what they have, for months, watched their parents do-spreading their wings. Drafts of wind catch the outstretched wings and levitate the fledgling slightly from the nest, giving it a feel for flight. Once this imitative behavior leads to the eaglet's first awkward, half-accidental flight, the parents begin a focused training process designed to teach their youngster, step by step, how to survive independently (assuming, of course, that the eaglet survives that first flight). During this training stage, the eagle goes to work with its parents, observing and imitating the motions of flight and the skills of hunting, and venturing further and further from the nest. This kind of guided modeling during the eaglet's last dependent summer is what allows it to survive as an adult.
Human parents would do well to involve their adolescent children in the work of running the household and, as mentioned above, require them to secure a job and work for their wants. Household work and out-of-home employment teach skills and competencies that are critical to college success, such as teamwork, specialization, goal-setting and planning, accountability, personal agency, and sustained voluntary affiliation. We can also imitate the eagles' emphasis on providing their young with adventures away from the nest. Providing young people with graduated opportunities for guided independence is critical to preparing them for what can otherwise be an abrupt and overwhelming transition from home to a college dorm or apartment. Studies indicate that the majority of permanent college withdrawals occur in the first six weeks of the freshman year as the result of student choice; one may presume that this is largely a result of adjustment issues and simple homesickness. Experiences such as camp, boarding school, church trips, student exchange programs, and summer internships can provide manageable opportunities to gain the confidence necessary to live successfully away from home.
Perhaps the core lesson we can learn from eagles is to make the transition to independence a process. When it comes to preparing adolescents for this transition, however, we tend to resemble ostriches more than eagles. Rather than consciously engage in a process of preparation, we stick our heads in the sand, hoping against hope that the awful specter of our children growing up and moving out will just go away. We are then stuck with the even more awful reality of our children not growing up and not moving out, or moving out and meeting with failure.
Will Laughlin, MA, MAT, is a writer and branding consultant for mental health organizations, including InnerChange, where he manages clinical content and publication.
Hope everybody had a wonderful weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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