Focus on "The Word"

It has been a while. Sorry, friends! I've been busy though! I still love my job. My husband still has no job... he has been out of work since February 6th. He has resumes out EVERYWHERE... even Hawaii! (I would have loved that when I was young and thin!) God is still proving Himself faithful to provide for our every need...and some of our wants too! We are fine. In fact, we just got back from a vacation in Shady Cove, Oregon Sunday night. No, we did not spend money. How, you ask? God provided. That is all I am at liberty to say. But God used His children to provide. While vacationing I got to spend time with quite a few friends.  We have friends from here who we went with, friends we have made there over the four years we have vacationed in Shady Cove, and now we find we have friends that we knew here that moved there!  Small world. We enjoyed a 70th birthday of a friend, we rode the Rogue River rafting 3 times, (I am still sore!), I read, and basked in the cool air, much different than dear old Fresno! 

By the way...last weekend and the weekend before we attended the most awesome church.  It is Trail Christian Fellowship in Eagle Point, Oregon. Picture this... Soft contemporary music..."Oh How He Loves Us"... a pastor preaching a sermon, inside of a church building with picture windows on either side of the pulpit area overlooking the most gorgeous green mountain scenery. The pastor sitting in a chair in a soft voice explaining the scripture in a way you had not heard before, like you were sitting in his living room listening.  Did I transport you there?  Well... anyway.... it was so awesome!



First, the pastor gave us points of what Revelation "revealed"... 

• the supreme Lordship of God
• the spiritual warfare behind the scenes
• the violent rebellion of humanity against God
• God's Self-Sacrifice
• God's decision to destroy all sin and death
• God restoration of the heavens and the earth under His own reign

Previous to our study passage John got the full revelation of God, we turned to Revelation 22:6-11. We were asked to notice that the angel did not emphasize the "revelation".  No.  He emphasized over and over "the Word".  From verse 6 to 10, especially in verse 9 he emphasized God's Word and emphasized worshipping God...

Then we looked back at John 6:63... in Jesus' words... "...the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life." 

In John:6:68 Peter says"...You (Jesus) have the words of eternal life".

Jesus said the word was spirit and life... Peter said Jesus had the words of eternal life, and the angel in revelation said that we must "heed the words of this book".

Have you been in the Word lately?  Worshiped the speaker of the Word? Celebrated Him?  That is what it is all about!

That was what I loved about being in Oregon!  I felt the Lord's presence in that church among strangers.... yet they not really strangers but were brothers and sisters in Christ!

We got home really late on Sunday night... well, actually Monday morning.  Yep, it was late!  I also had the best 4th of July after I got home too... all of my little family were together for food and fun and fireworks, the latter being the courtesy of Buchanan High School. My kiddos are not kids any more. I am going to enjoy every bit of time with them!

We are still in need of prayer for a job for my husband.  He is hanging in there... but he has NEVER been out of work like this before! That is tough on him, not knowing how he will provide for his family. Keeps you humble and on your knees though! :-)

I will try to keep you updated... and of course give you spiritual nuggets when I can... Blessings! d