After watching Jentezen Franklin at Free Chapel yesterday morning - great message, by the way, I came back in here for another couple hours and enjoyed a couple more hours of just me and Jesus. I love the times that I can just purposefully sit down and be quiet, read my Bible, pray, and just sit at His feet. Love those times.
Hmmm.... either I didn't... or I'm getting senile... I can't remember if I fixed us anything for lunch after I came out of this room! Maybe we both had a shake... I don't know! But I do know that a bit later I did decide to bake some cranberry pumpkin nut bread and made up two batches. The first batch was in bread form, then I started playing with it... I made a half dozen 'donuts', and some cupcakes too. I enjoyed my time cooking. But then it came dinner time - and I didn't want to cook (obviously again), so we had TV dinners. Oh I remember now what we ate for lunch! I had brought home a pasta salad from the luncheon yesterday- so we each had some of that. Then we finished off the day with something we shouldn't have even had in the house..... cherry cobbler with ice cream on top. Oops.
Hubby watched football all afternoon - well, until after the Cardinals beat Dallas - then he turned the TV off and we both read. As I kept falling asleep while reading (at 7PM!) I switched to audible and listened to another book while I crochet'd to stay awake. At least I was still feeding my mind. I slept good last night and still didn't want to get up this morning. But I did. Back to work today.
Hubby reminded me that one week from now I will be up in cooler territory with the 'girls'. We leave next Sunday for our 8th Jailbreak Getaway. And I did tell hubby I had decided to take that Thursday and Friday off too - I have the vacation time; and I know he is hoping we can do something. Will see. I already have a gym appointment on that Friday but can always move it. It's just hard to go places with him sometimes. I'll have to think about it.
I John 2:1 (NKJV): "My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous."
We all know that the devil is the accuser of us. Can you not just picture him standing before God and telling God all of our sins? Oh, so You think she / he is worthy to be here? Didn't you seem them .........?? They are evil, they are mine! But Jesus. Jesus is our Advocate and He will turn to His Father and say "Remember the cross, Father? Their sins were on My shoulders; their sins were covered by My sacrifice; My blood covers them." Even now, the Blood of Jesus Christ covers us when we turn to Him and ask for His forgiveness for our sins. He has already forgiven us, but we must also ask for forgiveness. We must truly repent of our sins - some of us have to do it daily! And every time, we are forgiven, because of what Jesus Christ did for us. Hallelujah!
The cross and Jesus' sacrifice for us does not give us permission to sin. But if we do sin, and we confess that sin, He forgives us.
John 3:16 (NKJV): "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."
I can remember when I first learned the name of Advocate for Jesus. I don't remember how I learned it, probably in a seminar or something, but I remember hearing that Jesus is our Advocate, our Lawyer, when we go to God and intercede for someone. If I am interceding for my children, for example, Jesus is right there with me, being my Advocate, and interceding with me to our Father for their salvation. It is such a good feeling to know that I am not alone in my prayers. And neither are you.
It may be a busy day at work today.... I see I already have 23 emails and I haven't even signed on the computer yet! Someone has worked this weekend, for sure, and I'm hoping it isn't my boss, but others sending messages! But I am sure there will be tasks that I will need to take care of. I left a couple open-ended emails to external people before I signed off last Friday, so I'm sure I have their answers this morning and will need to get their meetings scheduled. Five days until vacation - whoopie!!
So glad God declared a day of rest each week. And I'm grateful the company gives it to us. Although there are many who do work 7x24.... I'm grateful my position does not require it. God knew we needed a day (or two) to refresh, renew, and to get other things done. He's good like that. :-)
Hope that you have an amazing day!
Blessings!
