Gateways to Joy

Ladies, ladies, ladies, I am fired up over here! I've just had great quiet time , I'm cleaning my house, schooling my kids and have spend some time with some of my online friends this morning.  Yes, ma'am, I've been a little busy bee over here. This morning I shared the live stream with you all from Priscilla Shirer over at Going Beyond.  I joined the book club over there The Resolution Revolution for women and let me just tell you it is exciting.  We had a blast fellowshipping with Priscilla, the girls and even Jerry :-) What I am really finding exciting about this particular book club is that we have pen pals.  We've tried to link up with other women in our city, but if that isn't possible it's okay, we just link up with another sister. In light of me doing the book club and the Bible study with Good Morning Girls, I wanted to share another way with you for studying the Bible.  This is closely related to the SOAP method that Good Morning Girls u...

Today our Scripture reading will come from 2 Corinthians 10:5. "We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ." "Taking every thought captive!"  Boy how many times am I in need of that! Our minds and our thoughts, in particular is where it all begins. That's where the battles sprout, isn't it? How many of us act before we think?  None of us sane folks.  Though a lot of us blame our actions on "us not thinking."  Truth be told, we thought, but the overwhelming sensation to act became so intense until we acted.  And we acted because we wanted to.  Plain and simple. Now maybe we don't think our actions through to include the obvious consequences of said acts, but we who are legally sane, think before we heed. My two observations are: 1.   Paul wants   to destroy the blasphemy. 2.   We are to take every thought ca...