It is Written – A Journey Through the New Testament (2)

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Lynn

How’s the Christmas baking coming?  Did you enjoy last week’s “journey” through the New Testament?  Let’s continue to be encouraged and strengthened this week.

It is Written

John 17:23. “It is written” – I am in Christ and loved by the Father.

John 20:21. “It is written” – just as He was sent into the world by His Father, God, so He is sending me.

John 15:5 “It is written” – He is the vine and I am a branch and I am to abide or dwell intimately as close to Him as I can.

John 15:7-8. “It is written” – if I dwell intimately in Jesus and His words dwell intimately in me, whatever I ask it will be done so that God the Father will be glorified.

Acts 13:38. “It is written” – I have forgiveness of sins through Christ.

Acts 13:39. “It is written” – I have been freed from all things.

Romans 1:6. “It is written” – I am among the called of Jesus Christ.

Romans 1:7. “It is written” – I am beloved of God, a saint.

Romans 3:23. “It is written” – I and everyone else have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Romans 5:1. “It is written” – I have been justified by faith, and I have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:2. “It is written” – I have grace through faith.

Romans 5:3-4. “It is written” – I have perseverance, character and hope.

Romans 5:10b. “It is written” – I have been saved by his life.

Romans 5:19. “It is written” – I have been made righteous through the obedience of Christ.

Romans 6:2. “It is written” – I have died to sin.

Romans 6:3. “It is written” – I have been baptized into Christ death.

Romans 6:4. “It is written” – I have been raised from the dead to walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:6a. “It is written” – I have been crucified with Christ.

Romans 6:6b. “It is written” – I am no longer a slave to sin.

Romans 6:11. “It is written” – I am dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:14. “It is written” – I am not under law, but under grace.

Romans 6:18. “It is written” – I am a slave of righteousness.

Romans 6:23. “It is written” – that the wages of sin is death but that Jesus Christ paid that price for me with His death so I now have the gift of eternal life.

Romans 8:1. “It is written” – I now have no condemnation.

Romans 8:2. “It is written” – I have been set free from the law of sin and of death.

Romans 8:11. “It is written” – I have life and my mortal body through His Spirit, who lives within me.

Romans 8:16. “It is written” – I am a child of God.

Romans 8:17. “It is written” – I am an heir of God and fellow heir of Christ.

Romans 8:28. “It is written” – all things are working together for my good.

Romans 8:30. “It is written” – I have been justified and glorified.

Romans 8:38. “It is written” – no power can separate me from the love of God.

Romans 12:3. “It is written” – I have the measure of faith that God has given to me.

Romans 12:6. “It is written” – I have been given gifts.

Romans 14:8. “It is written” – whether I live or die, I am the Lord’s.

Romans 15:14. “It is written” – I am full of goodness and filled with all knowledge, as it is given by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 1:2. “It is written” – I am sanctified in Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:4. “It is written” – I have been given the grace of God in Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:5. “It is written” – in everything I am enriched in Him.

1 Corinthians 1:7. “It is written” – I am not lacking in any spiritual gift.

1 Corinthians 1:9. “It is written” – I am called into fellowship with Jesus Christ, my lord.

1 Corinthians 1:30. “It is written” – I am in Christ Jesus, who gives me wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.

1 Corinthians 2:16. “It is written” – I have the mind of Christ.

All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The “NIV” and “New International Version” are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

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It is Written – A Journey Through the New Testament

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Lynn

religious-christmas-graphics-0027Christmas…’tis the season to be frazzled!

But for the next six weeks, while you’re decking halls, shopping, baking, shopping, caroling, tree-trimming, shopping some more and getting more and more frazzled…take time to concentrate on the “Reason for the Season” and glean some much needed encouragement from Scripture.

Take a pre-Christmas journey with me through the New Testament.

It is Written

Matthew 5:13. “It is written” – I am the salt of the earth.

Matthew 5:14. “It is written” – I am the light of the world.

Matthew 21: 21-22. “It is written” – if I have faith and do not doubt I will not only wilt the fig as He did but I will also say to this mountain that is in my life: be removed and be cast into the sea, and it will be done, and whatever things I ask in prayer, believing, I will receive.

Mark 11:23-24. “It is written” – when I speak according to the word and will of God, Heaven responds.

Mark 16:15. “It is written” – I am to go into all the world and preach the gospel.

Luke 11:9-10. “It is written” – that whatever I ask it will be given to me, that whatever I seek I will find, that whenever I knock on the door it will be opened to me.

John 1:12. “It is written” – since I have received Him into my heart He has given me the right to become a child of God.

John 2:9,10,23. “It is written” – Signs and Miracles are to point to Christ so people will believe.

John 3:16. “It is written” – that He loves me so much that He gave His Son, Jesus Christ, to die as a sacrifice for all my sins so that I could live with Him for eternity.

John 3:18. “It is written” – if I believe in Him I am not condemned.

John 3:21. “It is written” – when I do what His truth says and come to Him who is light then I will escape darkness and condemnation.

John 3:36. “It is written” – I have eternal life.

John 4:50-53. “It is written” – when I believe, trust and obey Jesus’ word I will have what I ask for.

John 5:24. “It is written” – I have passed from death into life.

John 6:29. “It is written” – the work of God is that I believe on Jesus Christ, whom He sent.

John 6:46-51. “It is written” – Jesus is of God and has seen God and if I believe in Jesus I have everlasting life;  He is the bread of life, He is “out of” heaven and has come to earth to deliver me from eternal death.  He is the living bread – the One who gives life to me forever, and He gave His flesh on the cross for the life of the world.

John 7:38. “It is written” – out of my innermost being flows rivers of living water.

John 8:31-32. “It is written” – if I truly believe in Him and continue in His Word then I will know the truth and the truth will set me free.

John 9:7. “It is written” – if I will obey, I will receive.

John 14:12-14. “It is written” – that the works that Jesus did I will do also, and even greater works, because Jesus has gone to the Father and sent His Holy Spirit.

John 14:12-14. “It is written” – that if I ask anything in the name of Jesus that will bring glory to the Father, Jesus will do it.

John 14:12-14. “It is written” – Jesus wants me to do what He did and He has equipped me with his Holy Spirit to do just that.

John 14:20. “It is written” – I am in Christ, and Christ is in me.

John 14:23. “It is written” – if I love Him and keep His words then God will love me and the Father and Son in the Holy Spirit will dwell, remain and habitate with me.

John 14:27. “It is written” – I have peace in Christ.

John 15:9. “It is written” – I am loved by Jesus.

John 15:16. “It is written” – I am chosen and ordained by Jesus to go forth and to bear fruit – fruit that will last.

John 16:27. “It is written” – I am loved by the Father.

John 17:9. “It is written” – I belong to God, I am His.

John 17:13. “It is written” – I have the full joy of Jesus.

John 17:15. “It is written” – I am protected from the evil one.

John 17:18. “It is written” – I have been sent into the world.

John 17:22. “It is written” – I have God’s glory.

All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The “NIV” and “New International Version” are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

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Limitless Possibilities

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Lynn

NanowrimoMy creative writing class is in the middle of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) with a goal per student of writing 20,000 words or more.  For Junior High School students that is an amazing accomplishment!  As their teacher, I am mostly a spectator/encourager this month as my twenty students spend their class time on  computers tapping out stories, each of them immersed in their own “dream” world.  One student loves poetry and blogging so she is making a compilation work of her poetry and blog posts.  Confined to a wheelchair and blind after a freak complication left her with a brain injury after a routine tonsillectomy three years ago, Hope is an inspiration to me as well as the rest of the class.  I listen to her narrate her poems to Dawn, her teaching aid and “scribe” and I am blown away by her creativity and passion for writing.  They are the only two voices I hear in the classroom.  The only other sound is the tapping of fingers on keyboards, as my young writers determinedly write their own stories.  Once in a while a student will giggle or gasp depending on the plot line they have masterminded.  A student will quickly turn to another student and ask hurriedly, “I need a word!  How do I say….?”  A brief discussion will follow and the tapping will continue.  It’s brilliant!

As a teacher, it’s wonderful to see my students engaged enthusiastically about something in the classroom.  As a writer, my heart is full to see students who love to write!

At the end of the class, I can’t help but eavesdrop at their conversations as they put away their computers.  They share what their fictional characters are about to do next, or how they wrestled with a villain or discovered a secret passage, or had a heart wrenching breakup…bits and pieces of plotlines that pique my interest.  They are future authors, one and all!

Hope passes me and smiles widely as her assistant pushes her wheelchair from the classroom.  “I wrote another poem about horses!” she says.  Writing transports her from the confines of that chair and into a world of limitless possibilities and endless imagination.  I can’t help but feel that I am watching a miracle develop in front of my eyes and I humbly thank God for allowing me the opportunity to witness it first-hand!

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