Begging

For many years I had a cockatoo.  Her name was Halo.  Halo was always insistent  and learned to say Please! early on.  As a young bird we had taught her to ask for treats and things by saying Please! 

I learned many lessons interacting with Halo.  The lesson of patience was acquired quickly by calming this creature.  Once Halo had a notion there was not much that could distract her focus.  I likened it to prayer.  It certainly made me pray! 

This is the lesson I learned by listening to Halo beg, "Please,Please, Please".  This litany of repetition would be uttered almost in a whisper which would escalate into a full fledged crescendo if not addressed quickly. 

On this particular occasion, Halo kept urging me to satisfy her need for a treat.  In reality her want of a treat..

And so she started begging, "Please, Please, Please" and on it went.  

I was busy so I became annoyed because the thing she was asking for was sitting right in front of her.

Yet, she still kept begging louder and louder, "Please, Please,Please!"

As I listened, I wondered, Is this how I sound to God when I talk to Him?

Begging, please, please for an answer. When in reality there is no need for He has given me the treasures of heaven and has withheld no good thing from me?

Her begging annoyed me, but it made me look at my prayer life differently.

Instead of Please, Please, Please.  I asked God to help me have eyes to see His answer right in front of me.

So I could say...

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

~Debbie

© 2012 Debbie Turner Chavers

Matthew 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Psalm 84:11  For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Ephesians 1:18,19  The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what [is] the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

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Agree with God



 "Can Two Walk Together, Except They Be Agreed?"
copyright © 2004 Debbie Turner Chavers
From Amos 3:3

I want to encourage each of you as well as myself to trust in the Lord Jesus. 
To trust when all seems lost, when life doesn't make sense. Remember that God is still God.
Period. 
That He loves you and wants to do you good and not evil all the days of your life. Jeremiah 29:11
God does not waver or change. Stay in agreement with Him.
Let your confession, your words in conversation and alone, humbly acknowledge, that God is in control and that if He says it, you agree.  He gives you peace, even in the midst of great hurt, He is your Prince of Peace. Rejoice in this.
Break out the tambourine! The drums, the bells and the whistles.  God is good and He loves us with an everlasting love.
There may be times of sorrow, but rejoice in the Lord, and again I say rejoice.
Life may not be fair, at times people and events may be awful.  But God will give you, your suddenly if you hold on and agree with His word.  Not your opinion, not your pain, BUT His Word.
Hold on, you are redeemed, SAY SO.
As a child of God we have the light of the world in us.  Don't Hide.  Get in agreement with what God says about you.  God's word is your heritage as His servant.  Rise up!
He who redeemed you is mighty, say so!  Say so in word and in deed.  Agree with God.
Now is not the time to turn over, or give up.

Psalm 107:2  Let the redeemed of the LORD say [so], whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

Isaiah 54:13  No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue [that] shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This [is] the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness [is] of me, saith the LORD.

John 8:12  Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Mark 5:14  Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

We are more than conquerors through Him that loved us
~Debbie


© Debbie Turner Chavers




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The Scent of Water

Life Line-The Word and Blood of Jesus Christ, Do Not Let Go
copyright © 2011 Debbie Turner Chavers


 A few days ago I was reading Job 14.  Not my favorite book of the bible.  Life was hard for Job. 
Chapter 14 starts as Job 14:1  Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.

Life can be hard and hard to deal with, as Job so aptly states.  But God gave us His Word to find hope once again.  Even in the midst of Job's stated misery, I related to the tree.

Job 14:7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Job 14:8  Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

As I continued to read, I was caught up in verse 9,
Job 14:9 [Yet] through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

The scent of water. Hope is like the scent of water. The hope contained in God's word.  Just a glimpse, a scent, and we can bloom again. From hopeless to new growth.  Resurrection.  There is resurrection power in the spoken and applied word of God.  I am branching out in the beauty of new beginnings, being watered by the word of the Lord.

God's word is the scent of water to me.....pulling me from the depths of despair, the gates of undone, the hopelessness of yet another failure.
The scent of water...the water of Life.  My Life Line.

What did I learn today?  That as I am being schooled by the Holy Spirit in God's word, that there is no permanent  failure in the study of His word. That as I apply myself, God is ever patient to go over the material contained in living the life He has given me. That life is a process and that He will continue to teach me until I have passed.  Passed from this life into the glorious future of eternity.

What did I learn today?  That Jesus is the vine and that I am one of the branches.

~Debbie


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