Category: IF GD 2018

Provide! They Cried!

1/26/2019

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#22 [His Provision] Illustrated Faith Gratitude Documented 2018

"Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium. The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil. When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it." -Numbers 11:7-9 (ESV)

I didn’t mean for this to end up like a Dr. Seuss rhyme but anyway 😂
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When the Israelites began their journey of wandering the desert for what seemed like an eternity they eventually ran out of food they carried from Egypt. They cried out to the Lord to provide food for them in a desolate place. And He did!
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He provided manna for them. It rained down from heaven everyday in just the right amount for them. They didn’t have to worry about saving up enough for another day or how to store or it or even cook it. It was ready to eat. We can speculate like it was a bread like material that probably had all the nutrients they needed to give them strength and energy and nourishment. Pretty sweet deal right? No meal prep!
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Well, eventually they got tired of it. It wasn’t like the food they remembered in Egypt. They wanted something better. In the middle of nowhere desert and they wanted options. What did they want, a buffet? God wasn’t happy about this. He provided exactly what they needed when they needed it and it still wasn’t good enough. They wanted meat. .
He gave them meat. Through ravens. In fact, He provided them so much meat for a whole month they had it coming out of their noses.
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Don’t reject what God provides for you. He will always provide His children with what they need. Always. You will never go without. 🙌🏻.

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Forgiveness

12/30/2018

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#9 [forgiveness] Illustrated Faith Gratitude Documented 2018

"To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets." -Daniel 9:8-10 (ESV)

“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Forgiveness is one of those things you need to over think about- you just need to do it. Forgiveness is more for yourself than it is for the other person. You can forgive someone who wasn’t even sorry for what they did- that says more about your character than theirs.
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If God didn’t forgive us for a daily sins then where would we be? How could we survive knowing that God would hold something against us? God’s love is much bigger than we will ever understand. And yours is too ❤️.
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Easy page to replicate- get a bunch of page reinforcers and line them up! You could paint them first before you stick them on too

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Stay Humble

12/1/2018

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#8 [humility] Illustrated Faith Gratitude Documented 2018

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord. But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up. Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god."
-Jonah 1:1-5 (ESV)

That little itty bitty boat amongst those enormous waves. Not exactly a courageous feeling for those peeps in the boat.
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When our stormy circumstances become bigger than we can handle is when we become the most humble, the most pliable, the most diminished and the most useful for Gods plan. He can’t use of us if we think we can do it better than He can which we means we know better than He does. Uh, no ✋🏻.
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It took Jonah to be swallowed up by a whale, rotting away in a dark sulfurous belly to come to this conclusion. In any case, God heard his prayers- even in the most unlikely of places. His children are never alone.

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ESV Single Column Journaling Bible
Bible Tabs Printable- Digital Download
Mod Podge Sealer, Glue and Finish- Matte
Crayola Washable Watercolors
Magazine Clipping
Ombre Alpha Poster Stickers- Dollar General?

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Celebrate Sweet Grace

11/25/2018

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#7 [grace] Illustrated Faith Gratitude Documented 2018

“Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” -Romans 5:20 (ESV)

Perfect people can follow the law and never break it. Jesus was the only one who ever accomplished this. Imperfect people cannot follow the law and will break it. We are not Jesus, not matter how hard we try to be like Him. That’s why He created grace- for every single moment when we aren’t perfect. Which is all the time.

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