As a BibleGateWay Blogger Grid Member I was given the op to take a look at the Thompson Chain Reference Bible. 

Let's get right to it! What does this Bible actually have in it? This Bible contains within itself a full comprehensive Biblical study system! 
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1. A rich history for 120 years. This translation honors the King James Bible. In 1901 the American Standard Version was brought about from it.  The Lockman Foundation reconized the values of this version and updated it by incorperating the new discoveries of the Hebrew and Greek textual sources and rendering it into more current English. This Bible was the 1977 version that I am sharing with you today. 
2. Has a general index
3. Index of chain topics
4. Bible reading plans
5. Outline studies of the Bible
6. Character studies
7. Bible Harmonies and wonderfully Illustrated studies
8. Archaeological supplement 
9. NASB Concordance 
10. Bible Maps galore

Would you like to know how a chain referance Bible works? Rather than me to try to explain let's see Zondervan Publishing explain far better than I , in this video below. 

 

I really like this Bible and so far from what I am seeing in my reading it has stayed true to Biblical intergity. If you would like to get a copy you can here.  Enjoy your studies! 

Do you want to learn how to water color paint? Well hang on I have got you! I want to tell you my exsperiance with the best water color art supplies and classes for beginners by Emily Lex. 

Something God is teaching me lately is to slow down and simplify. He is also teaching me to do one of the things he created me to do and I don't do it enough and that is to create! I am creator and love to create yet I do not make the margin for it. As Abba is teaching me to slow down I am embrasing creating again after a hard 2020 & ruff start to 2021, giving myself grace and the ok to do something relaxing. In doing what I was designed to do I find peace, renewal, reviving my soul and a relaxed release! 

I was so happy when Emily Lex's watercolor class kit arrived. What joy it brought to see these lovely supplies as I opened the box. I also received her Watercolor for beginners classes too. Thank you Frontgate Media for supplying this it has truly been a blessing to me on this timely journey.

Emily's truth for today cards are so inspiring and I will be enjoying these so much over time. I love seeing the scripture before me and the cute themed artwork she put with it. Yet another tool to bring balance to my everyday life.

I have been REALLY enjoying her workbooks, online classes that I have been doing at my own pace, and her inspirational truth for today cards! I would highly recommend Emily Lex's Simplified Classes to any one  who has never painted before. I love how she teaches the classes from a down to earth basic fun lovely way. I have learned in her classes that sometimes the imperfections make the best art! There is so much grace in water color!

​The workbooks are clean, crisp, easy to understand and follow. With every page you are creating a work of art that was simple to do yet looks like you spend hours doing. She brings relaxed effort to it taking the fear of not being good enough or messing up. She takes the lies out of our minds , "I am not a painter, I couldn't make that"!
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Here is my first attempt at the hydrangea page in the work book. It did not take me long and it was very enjoyable. As I painted I listend to a few of her techniques videos and  was able to pause replaying as needed. 

I appericate Emily making this water color learning an enjoyable journey! I look forward to relaxing while I create in  more days ahead and learn from her. I recommend everyone try water color at least once in their life and if you do try Emily's classes!  It is a great first painting exsperiance and very forgiving and fun. 

Oh my where do I start! There are so many causes and issues in this broken world that stir the heart to want to take action. It can be overwhelming. I want to do this post to encourage you today that it is possiable for one person to make change and do something way bigger than themselves with God's help, so never ever say, "oh but I am just one person,". I am going to tell you snippet key take aways  from Lila Rose's impactful book Fighting For Life
(President of LiveAction a pro-life organization) on how to fight for what ever matters to you in a cause. I was given this book to review and I am blown away thankful as I am in the begining of my activism days. Fighting For Life, becoming a force for change in a wounded world, was no less than phenomenal. If you truly want to get involved in activism on any level this book will equip you as a great first step. Who better to share key advice than Lila who started fighting sucessfully for her cause as a teenager, saving thousands of babies lives over the years and making land mark, ground breaking waves in Washingon D.C., social media, and citizen journalism.  just to name a few.
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I will list highlighted key take aways within each chapter of the book. But DO NOT let this be all you get please if you are wanting to make chage get the actual book here. ​

Dare to fight for a better world. "Each one of us possesses a conscience and the ability to reason, and we can choose to develop our sense of right and wronmg or bury it. But burying it, not doing the work to form consciences so that we know when to stand up for what is right, is a great poverty that will only bring us unhappiness." " By having the courage to stand up you will inspire others to do the same." Lila realized that abortion was the greatest human rights issue of this present time. "If we do not protect that first right no other rights mnatter." Everyone has the right to live. Here are my key take aways from her that you can apply in your journey in any cause that matters to you. All of the chapter titles in themselves are great advise and some need no futher explaination form me! I shared my favorite quotes from Lila, with some of the chatper titles. 

1. Let Your Heart Break. "Meaningful social action almost inevitably begins with heartbreak. Social action requires vulnerability, the willingness to let down our guard and allow ourselves to be wounded and even scarred by evil so we can find the passion we need to confront it." 
2. Find Your Heroes. "Choose your heroes intentionally and wisely."  "Study their lives, read thgeir words, put into daily action their call to love others with the love of God." 
3. Know Your Gifts. "Think back to a moment in your life when you felt most alive in the work you were doing. That experience of aliveness is key to discovering not only your passion but also your gifts."  "Don't waste your precious time comparing your life to another's. Instead, glean whatever lessons, whatever inspiration, you can from others, and then use the gifts and graces you've been given to serve the world." 
4. Know Your Worth. That is it know your worth! 
5. Let God Find You.  I want to add John 3:16 in my own words do you know the way home?
6. Find Your Cause.  "If you know what breaks your heart, if you discover who your heroes are, if you are confident in what you believe, and if you have examined the facts to aviod going down a misguided path, you will be well positioned to find your casue." 
7. Just Start. Ask yourself what is the one thing you can do today no matter how small. Doing something is moving in the right direction. "The trick is to just start."
8. Prepare to Stand Alone. "We should not shy away from causes simply because they may be controversial." "You may feel like an imposter when you begin your mission, but you aren't. You're a brave soul who is willing to stand up even when others won't and give the best of what you have. Don't buy into the creeping doubts telling you that you can't stand up, that you shouldn't speak, that you won't make a difference. Your cause is waiting. You can do this."
9. Leave Your Comfort Zone. "God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails." Saint Augustine 
10. Build a Team. "Teams are powerful. As the African proverb sais, "If you want to go fast, go it alone. If you want to go far, go together."
11. Expose The Evil. 
12. Embrace Their Pain.
13. Trust God. 
14. Find Your Rock.  Find your mentors!
15. Be Teachable. "We stop growing if we think we have little left to learn."
16. Focus. "Ultimately, we remember for whom and for what we are fighting: the principles that needs defending, the injustice that needs exposing, the vulnerable person who cries out for help."
17. Expect Resistance From Within.  "Don't be scandalized when resistance from those closest to you may come. Use it as an opportunity to either reaffrim your approach or to evalute if there is a way you can improve."
18.  Keep The Pressure On.  "Like any virtue, fortitude is a muscle that requires practice, those small, daily, grueling repetitions to build our strength. The little day to day battles may not seem like much in the greater scheme of our work, but faithfully fighting them will grow our capacity to face the bigger ones. Fortitude is key to any great endeavour, and the only way to earn it is one small step at a time." 
19. Make A Mistake, Get Up Again. "Mistakes are inevitable. The Key is that we get up again."
20. Learn To Pivot. 
21. Love The Ones You're Given. In my own words do not put your cause above your loved ones or God.
22. Embrace Mercy.  John 8: 5,7,11
23. Learn To Grieve. 
24. Find Your Heart. 
25. Celebrate Life Unconditionally. 
26. Beware Of False Compassion.
27. Begin Anew. "We fight with confidence, knowing that God's mercy and justice will prevail. Togther we can rebuild the broken foundations, restore what has been devasted, and revew our wounded world ( Isaiah 61:4) Togther we can celebrate the new beginning. We can even close our eyes and allow ourselves to dream," 

I highly recommend you read this book as you seek to make change. There was so much richness in it.  My mention at this blog does not do this book justice! It is one of the top reads of a life time that could make the most difference in lives for the good of humanity. 

Will you become a force for change in a wounded world too?

Also here is my book. I truly belive that every person on earth has a story meant to bring God glory if they will allow their life to do so! 

Will you stop to think about this quote for a moment. "Life interuptions are often divine interventions" a quote by Priscilla Shirer. Think about your life how many times did you see an interuption as just that? An untimely annoyance. A why couldn't it wait? A why me? 

We can not predict God's plans. We can not know his blueprints fully nor his full plans begining to end, for only HE sees all the moving parts. 

Today if you have an interuption, rest in knowing God has this moment of interpution OKed by him, he has already provided the solution. Tackle each tasks as they come to you with all the furfur and honor as if you do it for him, because guess what, YOU do! 

He wants to teach us many things and when you are about to be taught a lesson in life by God he does not typically warn you to embrace for it, that it is coming no, it just happens. As his plan unviels more before you in that interuption LOOK for what he is teaching you in that!

Interuptions can be a treasure! Embrace them!

I thank the Lord for his ordained interuptions I did not see coming. 

1. Today if your heart is beating you have another day to try and make a step forward. Everyday is a gift from God do not waste it. Epheians 2: 8-10​
2. God can redeem wasted time. even when we can not. Joel 2:25
3. God made you in his image to create, be light and love to this world. Genesis 1:27
4. God forgives disobideance when you come repentive.  Hosea 14:4

Never give up your God given dreams, never give up your God given idea, never give up praying for that loved one, never give up the faith, never give up the thing God has called you to do,  it is simply never to late to say you are sorry, never give up obeying GOD. 

​I just recently read It's Never Too Late by Kathie Lee Gifford. It is not the typical book I would choose to read but the title got to me. BIG TIME! I have been pondering lately that very subject.

I will say Kathie seems to be a lovely Godly person, I had no idea of her walk with God in which she openly shares in this book. I thought the book would be a bit more aligned with giving strategy of how to go after that "thing", or  what ever it may be but it was still a heart warming read of many of her memories in of which she does weave fantastic encouragement at the end of each story to spur us on.

I did not know it would be a memiore but I have to say it was enjoyable. One major take away was incrediable. She had a God given childhood dream that even after all the viewers thought her career was over when she Stepped down from Regis and Kathie Lee, oh no, it was only begining. She followed what the Holy Spirit was saying to her to go in to the unknown and forfilingl that major GOD given dream after all later in life! This was truly inspirational to me. Her passion and drive to get things done all by it's self was encoaurging to me! 


Truly it is NEVER too late! 

Below is my favorite quote in the whole book and it is the whole truth! 

And hey just saying, this would make a great Mother's day gift for mom! 

Or check out my book below too! 

I bring you today Rabbi Curt Landry as he breaks down the importance of this season post Passover & Resurection Sunday until Shavuot/ Pentecost and why it is important for us to be mindful. There are amazing things awaiting you in this season of increased awareness.

​Watch below for the plan! ​

​Leviticus 23:15-16 NLT
The Festival of Harvest 15 “From the day after the Sabbath—the day you bring the bundle of grain to be lifted up as a special offering—count off seven full weeks. 16 Keep counting until the day after the seventh Sabbath, fifty days later. Then present an offering of new grain to the Lord.

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Count down the Omer Notes
Passover - Shavuot 49 Days
Lev 23: 15 - 16 Yeshua 40 days
During this time Balance Your Emotions
Embrace Change
R. I am seeing change
O. Self - awareness
C. Confess scripture over your weakness
K. Keep focused 
All while you
A. Gal 5: 22-23
C. Confess
T. Time claim outloud Psalm 103 
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We love and appericate a Phrophetic voice, but do not wait to "get a word" from another person. First seek Holy spirit yourself. The Holy Spirit of God lives inside of you and is around you to help you in this life. The Holy Spirit is God's spirit whom he imparted in you the moment you accpeted Jesus as the saviour of your sins. 

Just make time for him! Get to know him. So many say, "well I do not hear from God," of course you don't because you are not waiting, listening or asking by faith. Sit and listen. Walk & listen. Drive & listen. You can still live life and listen. God wants you to talk to him forsure but also make sure you make time to listen and get to know his voice. That is it. You can ask him questions and he will answer just trust by faith. Have a pen and paper handy. Write what comes to you and then go back and weigh it with the Word of God. 

Relax. The more you practise anything the better naturally you will get. Same with developing a realtionship with the Holy Spirit of God. Ask the Father for help, He will give it. Just be ready to recevie it and use it. It may not even look like what you think it should. 

I love what Wanda Alger had to say recently on challenging US on "Are We People of the Spirit or Not", head on over to read or watch her video. She has many on time points about the Holy Spirit and YOU during these troubled times and difficult climate we are in. Her video is an eye opener.  

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​Want to be encouraged? Check out my book on miracles I have personally seen & the messages Jesus is saying to YOU through them! You too can see the hand of God supernaturally in your life.