Category: jesus

My Attitude Has Stunk Lately!!!!

~ Shelia's Notes ~ 4 Comments
I have to remind my self of Philippians 4:7 often.
My attitude has really stunk lately.  I cannot feel the peace that passes all understanding when my attitude stinks . All I feel is a lot of unrest.
 Some words really spoke to my heart as I was reading scriptures today.
Matthew 22:37
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind.
Colossians 3:1-3,5 
(Speaking to those who have been baptized into Christ)
Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
Set you mind on the things above, not on things that are on earth.
For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
v 5 So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth…
Romans 12:2-3
Do not be conformed to this present world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself that you ought to think; but to think with sober discernment as God has given to each a measure of faith.
Why has my attitude stunk lately?
Selfishness
Self-centered ambition
Thinking more highly of my self than I ought.
Not loving God more than myself.
Not loving God with all my heart, soul and mind.
Not seeking the things above where Christ is seated with God.
Not setting my mind above but setting it on the things of this earth.
Being conformed to this world. 
Not renewing my mind with the Word of God.
What do I need to do about this stinking attitude?
Love the Lord God with all my heart, mind and soul.
Seek thing above.
Stop being selfish.
Stop being self centered.
Think more highly of others.
Love God more than myself.
Do not be conformed to this world.
Set my mind on things above and stay in the Word and Prayer.
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10,000 Views Give Away-Only 258 more Views Until….

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Give Away only applies to USA visitors at this time.

Only 1,000  258 more views and I will be announcing a winner.
Winner gets the tea light cover of their choice from the ones pictured.
When I reach 10,000 Views, I will be giving  away One Fall Tea Light.
The Winner may pick One Tea Light of their choice from the ones shown in the picture.
1. All you have to do is leave a comment to this post saying which Tea Light Cover you would most like to have.
Also, tell me what you like best about this Blog.
2. Please Follow me with GFC or Google + and Like my Face Book Page.
I would appreciate it so much. This is not mandatory, just a wish.
Winner will be picked randomly from all who leave a comment on this page.
Hurry as I am quickly approching 10,000 Views.
I do appreciate everyone who visits my Blog.
Blessings and Have a Great Day.
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How Shall They Hear?

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 All Photos are copyrighted by Shelia Holmes 2012
Romans 10: 14-15
How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed?
How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard?
And how will they hear without a preacher?
How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written,
“HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF THOSE WHO BRING GOOD NEWS OF GOOD THINGS!
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Romans 10:17 
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
Acts 19:5
And when they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
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10,000 Views Give Away

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This Photo is Copyrighted by Shelia Holmes
Embroidery Pattern is by Embroidery Garden
Give Away is only open to USA at this time.

When I reach 10,000 Views, I will be giving  away One Fall Tea Light.
The Winner may pick One Tea Light of their choice from the ones shown in the picture.
1. All you have to do is leave a comment to this post saying which Tea Light Cover you would most like to have.
Also, tell me what you like best about this Blog.
2. Please Follow me with GFC or Google + and Like my Face Book Page.
I would appreciate it so much. This is not mandatory, just a wish.
Winner will be picked randomly from all who leave a comment on this page.
Hurry as I am quickly approching 10,000 Views.
I do appreciate everyone who visits my Blog.
Blessings and Have a Great Day.
For a Free Bible Study go here:
www.bigcountry.worldbibleschool.org

Water John 4:14 and John 6:35

~ Shelia's Notes ~ 36 Comments
As I read Lemonade Makin’ Mama’s Blog about blood:water mission I was reminded of the first trip I made to Zambia.

photo by blood:water.mission
I was in total shock because of the lack of clean water. For that matter for the lack of any kind of water.
We stayed in a “nice” guest houses. At times we had no running water. The cleanness of it was questionable at best. Some times it ran and sometimes it didn’t. Sometimes it was cloudy and sometimes it was brown. 
This was in a major cities of Zambia.
photo by blood:water.mission
What about in the villages?
We traveled to three different villages in the bush.
Where was the water?
Not in the huts.
Not in the schools.
Not in the church buildings where we did the medical missions.
Not in the baptistery.
The pools of water that they used to baptize were muddy, dirty, spots where people washed their clothes
and dipped five gallon buckets of water to take home to drink and cook with.
We took the water we needed with us.
photo by blood:water.mission
In 2007 we stayed in the bush for eight days and nights where there was no electricity or running water.
I never even saw a  borehole(water well). I do not know where they got the water.
Some how the men kept the 55 gallon barrels full of water and hot for us to use to bathe with.
They were such servants. I never saw them carrying the water. I did occasionally see them adding wood to the fire and stoke it.

Bore Holes or Wells as we call them are hard to find. Many times the people go to the dirty pools of water wherever they can find them. 
photo by blood:water.mission
Turn your water off for a day and do not use it. 
Think about what it would be like to live every day with little or no clean water. 
Think about what we as Americans waste everyday by drinking a half of a bottle of water and throwing the rest out.
Think about how little one dollar means to most of us.
Think about what you can do to help the billions of people who do not have clean water.
photo by blood:water.mission
If you want to help blood:water mission , please do.
If you want to donate money to our program that teaches the gospel 
and drills water wells in Zambia,
 you may contact me by leaving me a comment.
John 4:14
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.
John 6:35
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; the who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.
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I am not affiliated with Lemonade Makin’ Mama or blood:water mission. I am affiliated with the church that supports a work in the Eastern Province of Zambia.