I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made...... __________________
Living 4 Jesus 4 Life: #20 December 3, 2011
In this Issue.......
Find out what a reader chose as our topic this week.....
Prayer Requests.......
A new recipe......
Marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. Psalm 139:14 ________________ _
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19 Happy Birthday Autumn Parham!!!
Autumn will be 19 on December 6th. Her favorite songs are Remind Me, I Love You This Big, and Dirt Road Anthem.
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13 Happy Birthday Olivia!!!
Olivia will be 13 on December 12th. Her favorite kind of ice cream is chocolate chip cookie dough.
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{Prayer Request}
- Pray for all the people who don't know Christ that they will come to know Him and be saved - Rachel
- Please pray for a lady in our church who has breast cancer. Erin has 3 kids: 4, 3, and 18 months. You can read about her at erinfray.blogspot.com. - Artiss
- Please continue to pray for Rebekah's cousin Karen, who has breast cancer. She has five children, and her husband is in the military! Thank you!
- Pray that God will show Himself to a girl in Elly's gym class and He will change her heart!
- "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." - Philippians 4:6
- Please pray for my cousin who was in a car accident. She was not injured seriously, her face was just scraped up and she has a sore jaw from the impact of the head-on hit. Thanks!
- Please pray for a Chinese family who is under a lot of pressure. Thanks! -Loice
Don't forget to send us your prayer requests so we can publish them, or keep them a secret!
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Special thanks to Mary for letting us know what she would like to hear about this week! Feel free at any time to email us about what you would like to hear about! :)
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Beautiful From the Inside Out
When you think of true beauty what comes to your mind? A model? A certain actress? A ballerina? A figure skater? When God thinks of what is truly beautiful YOU come to mind. Yes you. :) He created you. Of course He thinks you're beautiful! God doesn't judge your worth or beauty by what is on the outside like clothes, make-up, or a "beautiful body" or even a "beautiful face". He looks at the inside of you. No not your insides, whats in your heart. He sees past what you wear and what you look like. He looks at what you do for others. How you spend your time. What you do for Him. I heard a quote the other day and it said "When God measures your worth He measures around your heart, not your waist" I love that quote so much. Every time I hear it I am reminded that God really does look at the inside of us and not the outside.
So what exactly is inner beauty? Well, I think inner beauty comes from your heart. It comes from what you do for others, your attitude towards your parents, the way you look at life, the way you love the Lord. Inner beauty takes some work. It's not just like "oh, I'll read my Bible sometimes and I'll obey my parents sometimes." It takes dedication. And you have to mean it. A seed doesn't grow into a plant in one day. It has to be watered and taken care of. Just like that we have to be consistent with what we do. We need to pray, read the Bible, respect our parents, and be kind to others all the time. Once you get going and are consistent it gets easier. Sure there are going to be some hard times but we can't let them get the best of us. We've got to keep pushing ahead to that goal of true inner beauty.
Remember, we can't do anything without God. Let Him have control and He will make you beautiful from the inside out! :) Love you girls!
1 Samuel 16:7b- "...for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart."
<3SarahElisabeth
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At first when I read the suggestion that we talk about modesty and inner beauty this week, I was a little uncomfortable with the second part. This is because modesty is something that it seems everyone has different convictions about, Christian or non. But then I remembered about the meat Paul talks about in I Corinthians 8 that was offered to idols. I really do encourage you to read this chapter. It talks a lot about being an encouragement, rather than a stumbling block, to those around you in how you respond to both your own and their own personal convictions. How we view modesty depends a lot on our culture and beliefs. Indian women, for example, consider it perfectly normal to show their midriff but it is a sin to show their ankles. We are all Christian girls, and I think we would all agree that this is absurd! But how we dress is certainly something to be considered.
Proverbs 3:5-6 says, "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." I try to keep this verse on my mind at all times! It is so powerful! "ALL your ways" definitely seems to apply to how we dress. This is not saying we should all wear baggy t-shirts that have Scripture verses or say the word God on them every day. But we should ALWAYS dress in a way that will bring glory to Him and that will not cause others to question our sincerity or faith. A big part of this actually does have to do with inner beauty! Since we are created in the image of God, we can recognize a modest or an immodest spirit surprisingly well. So can everyone we meet. We can dress with the highest standards and they may still see discontent and insincerity in our witness. This won't bring glory to God. Inner beauty must come from an acceptance of ourselves exactly the way He created us. And it must come from a desire to do God's will in our life, and to bring glory to Him in EVERYTHING we do!
I have to tell ya'll about my trip to the zoo a couple weeks ago! I know, it seems like a total change of topic, but it's not... this is me! The zoo in San Antonio is amazing, it's huge. I love seeing the monkeys every time, but I saw two new animals I thought were awesome too. I'm always amazed at the creativity of God.
The Opaki, and Kirk's Dik Dik. The Opaki is this really cool animal they described as "Africa's best-kept Secret," and it looks like a mixture of a donkey and a horse with a zebra-printed backside and legs. Kirk's Dik Dik is just cute. The name actually kinda fits although I don't know where thye came up with it! It's only like 18 inches tall and has tiny little toothpick legs, and looks like a miniature deer but way cuter! (Google it!) I wanted to hold it so bad. But I also thought of my unchangeables. Something I've never done at the zoo before. I started thinking and I am really grateful for all of them. The animals that all look just alike look so spiffy, but I am glad that every single one of us look different from each other, exactly the way God made us. Psalm139:14 says,
"I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully
made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth
right well."
{Inside & Out}
keep smiling, (You're {beautiful} just the way you are!);)
autumn clare
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Cheddar Puffs(like goldfish crackers)
1 cup Cheddar cheese, shredded
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 tsp. ground mustard
Combine and mix
roll into 1 inch rolls and place an inch apart on ungreased baking sheet
bake at 400 degrees
12-15 minutes
This recipe is what my friend, Jayme, gave me.
~Loice Rochelle
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