Kay Arthur's Blog

Hi everyone! It has been a while since I have been on. I haven't had a lot of 'new' stuff to add to this ... and also have been very busy. Maybe too busy. But I am back in the saddle again, so to speak and will try and have more interesting and new items up as much as possible.
I pray all have had a 'Christ'mas Christmas and love fulfilled your life. If you need lifted up and ecnouraged ... I have found out that Kay Arthur has her own blog spot. Feel free to jump over there and read her writings. They are very informative and encouraging.
http://kayarthur.blogspot.com/

Precepts for Life - Kay Arthur

Here is a great study of the Old Testament book Isaiah ... Kay is already really into it ... but you can go to her archive and start with lesson 1 and go at your own pace. This is truly a great study of prophecy.

How to Live a Life of Biblical Love

Here are a few good words on How to Live a Life of Biblical Love by Pastor Curtis Brown.

Your Grace Amazes Me

Here is another great song and video clip. We heard the song and watched this video clip at church today ... the video clip are from the movie Jesus the Nazarene ... I found the video clip on YouTube and wanted so much to share it with you.
I pray this will bless your heart and draw you to the One Who Loves you far deeper than you will ever understand ... what sin are you hiding ... what sin do you need to repend of? His grace is amazing ... Are you Amazed?

Here are the lyrics from "Your Grace Still Amazes Me" by Craig and Dean Phillips

My faithful Father, enduring Friend
Your tender mercy’s like a river with no end
It overwhelms me, covers my sin
Each time I come into Your presence
I stand in wonder once again

CHORUS: Your grace still amazes me
Your love is still a mystery
Each day I fall on my knees
Your grace still amazes me
‘Cause Your grace still amazes me

Oh, patient Saviour, You make me whole
You are the Author and the Healer of my soul
What can I give You, Lord, what can I say
I know there’s no way to repay You
Only to offer You my praise

It’s deeper, it’s wider
It’s stronger, it’s higher
It’s deeper it’s wider
It’s stronger, it’s higher
than anything my eyes can see

Sinking Sand

I am not endorsing one way or the other on this church or their website, as I know nothing about it ... but I was sent this web site and I listend to the message ... and how great it is for this time and season. This message taken from the song On Christ the Solid Rock I Stand. I thought it was very good and very timely.

I Need Thee Every Hour

Another very good old hymn ... I Need Thee Every Hour - Though this is not as the original ... thought you would like some history on this beautiful song.
Words:
bio An­nie S. Hawks, 1872.
Music:
bio Ro­bert Low­ry,

Awesome God

Here is another wonderfully done YouTube ... this is on the song Our God is an Awesome God.
I pray you will enjoy it. Always remember that is good to allow the whole YouTube to go through ... possibly with sound off ... then when it has totally gone through ... then listen to it w/o the breaks in the video or song.

Some great sermons to listen to ...

Hi everyone ... it has been awhile since I have been here. I have been up in the cool mountains of Silverton, Colorado :)
Just wanted you to visit the following web page ... it is SonRise Community Church's web page ... the new pastor there, Curtis Brown ... has 4 sermons on there, looking to get the rest of them up and running ... but on our way to Colorado and back ... my husband and I listened to his sermon on Faith and the one on Suffering ... I think you will enjoy both. I have yet to listen to the other two ... but thought you would for sure enjoy Faith and Suffering.
When you have some time, sit and listen to these two sermons.
Blessings to one and all,
Diana

Deeper Still

Wow, what a great time I had with 3 other friends as we worshipped and praised, prayed and cried together unto our Lord Jesus Christ. We left the Phoenix area on Friday morning and drove up to Las Vegas to participate in the Deeper Still conference with Kay Arthur, Beth Moore and Priscilla Shirer. What wonderful speakers of God's Word. We went to the conference on Friday night and all day Saturday. Left Las Vegas on Sunday to head home feeling uplifted, refreshed and encouraged to keep on keeping on and to press on in His love ...
Here is the official Deeper Still blog site:
http://blogs.lifeway.com/blog/deeperstill/

As soon as I get time, I will upload some of the pictures that I took while there.

Where He Leads Me I Will Follow

Hi everyone ... when was the last time you went through a trial ... did you follow God, or did you follow the flesh of your body? Did you turn to God for wisdom or did you call your nearest friend for advice? Would you follow God to the ends of the earth? Here is a great song to think on and meditate on ...

Where He Leads Me I Will Follow

Another good Godtube ...

Michael Jr. talks about how he started and how he came to know the Lord.

Map of Security Dangers

Check this site out and mouse over the weapons and see the danger Israel is in.

John Voight on Israel, Sderot, Vietnam & Iraq

A very good video interview with Jon Voight talking about how the United States had better align themselves with Israel ... and if we pull out of Iraq ... the consequences.

What is Inductive Study?

If you have ever wanted to know God's truth for yourself and wanted a deeper understanding of His will and a closer relationship with Christ Jesus ... and apply all of the Bible's principles to your life ... then you want to find out where there is a class on Precepts. Precepts, founded by Kay Arthur, is one of the best studies on inductive Bible study. Go to Precepts and read about Precepts 101.
Have you never heard Kay Arthur? Have you heard her and want to hear more? Go to OnePlace.com and listen to her lessons on Ephesians. You can also go into the archives and listen or read what you have missed.
If you would like to listen to one of her radio broadcasts ... go to OnePlace.com and listen to what she has to say about joy, being led by the Spirit, and about sin being a choice. You'll be glad that you did.

Come Thirsty by Max Lucado

by Max Lucado

Where do you find water for the soul? Jesus gave an answer one October day in Jerusalem. People had packed the streets for the annual reenactment of the rock-giving-water miracle of Moses. Each morning a priest filled a golden pitcher with water from the Gihon spring and carried it down a people-lined path to the temple. He did this every day, once a day, for seven days. "On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, 'If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water' " (John 7:37--38).
He "stood and shouted" (NLT). The traditional rabbinic teaching posture was sitting and speaking. But Jesus stood up and shouted out. Forget a kind clearing of the throat. God was pounding his gavel on heaven's bench. Christ demanded attention.
He shouted because his time was short. The sand in the neck of his hourglass was down to measurable grains. In six months he'd be dragging a cross through these streets. And the people? The people thirsted. They needed water, not for their throats, but for their hearts. So Jesus invited: Are your insides starting to shrivel? Drink me.
Internalize him. Ingest him. Welcome him into the inner workings of your life. Let Christ be the water of your soul.
Toward this end, I give you this tool: a prayer for the thirsty heart. Carry it just as a cyclist carries a water bottle. The prayer outlines four essential fluids for soul hydration: God's work, God's energy, his lordship, and his love. You'll find the prayer easy to remember. Just think of the word W-E-L-L.

Lord, I come thirsty. I come to drink, to receive. I receive your work on the cross and in your resurrection. My sins are pardoned, and my death is defeated. I receive your energy. Empowered by your Holy Spirit, I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength. I receive your lordship. I belong to you. Nothing comes to me that hasn't passed through you. And I receive your love. Nothing can separate me from your love.



Don't you need regular sips from God's reservoir? I do. I've offered this prayer in countless situations: stressful meetings, dull days, long drives, demanding trips, character-testing decisions. Many times a day I step to the underground spring of God and receive anew his work for my sin and death, the energy of his Spirit, his lordship, and his love.

Drink with me from his bottomless well. You don't have to live with a dehydrated heart.

Receive Christ's work on the cross,
the energy of his Spirit,
his lordship over your life,
his unending, unfailing love.

Drink deeply and often. And out of you will flow rivers of living water.

From
Come Thirsty
© (Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2004) Max Lucado

The Truth Project

Have you ever wondered who you are, who God is ... how we are connected?
Find and get involved with a group who is involved in The Truth Project.
This study is put on by Focus on the Family. It will change your life
and your thinking.

Friends are quiet angels

who lift us to our feet

when our wings have trouble

remembering how to fly...

author?

Charles Stanley

This link is for Charles Stanleys video archives.

These video's are so very good (but then aren't all of his?).
These are regular sermons videos and are about an hour long.

The first video in July is:
Rediscovering God in America
by Newt Gingrich
If you love your country ... you will love this speech.

Another Good listen is:
How To End Well
For this one you need to go to June's archives ... it is the last one.
How do you want your life to end? Do you think you know what
is coming in the end? Do you really believe that just being good,
or just a go to church Christian will get you where you 'think'
you are going? Hear what Charles Stanley says on this subject.

Above All

Enjoy some of these youtube videos

Psalms 57:5
5 Be exalted above the heavens, O God;
Let Your glory be above all the earth.
NASU

Ephesians 1:15-23
15 For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all the saints, 16 do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers; 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might 20 which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. 22 And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
NASU
Above All

Psalms 98:4
4 Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth;
Break forth and sing for joy and sing praises.
NASU

Psalms 71:23
23 My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to You;
And my soul, which You have redeemed.
NASU
Shout to the Lord

by Women of Faith

Isaiah 53:4
4 Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted.
NASU

Psalms 31:9-10
9 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;
My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body also.
10 For my life is spent with sorrow
And my years with sighing;
My strength has failed because of my iniquity,
And my body has wasted away.
NASU
Trading My Sorrows

by Women of Faith

2 Samuel 7:22
22 "For this reason You are great, O Lord God; for there is none like You, and there is no God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears. NASU

Jeremiah 10:6-7
6 There is none like You, O Lord;
You are great, and great is Your name in might.
7 Who would not fear You, O King of the nations?
Indeed it is Your due!
For among all the wise men of the nations
And in all their kingdoms,
There is none like You.
NASU
There is none like You

by WOW Worship

1 Chronicles 16:31
31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;
And let them say among the nations, "The Lord reigns."
NASU

Revelation 19:6
6 Then I heard something like the voice of a great multitude and like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, saying,
"Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns.
NASU

In Christ Alone
Worship Video with Lyrics

Psalms 42:1-2
42 As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So my soul pants for You, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;
When shall I come and appear before God?
NASU
As The Deer Panteth

Psalms 77:12-15
12 I will meditate on all Your work
And muse on Your deeds.
13 Your way, O God, is holy;
What god is great like our God?
14 You are the God who works wonders;
You have made known Your strength among the peoples.
15 You have by Your power redeemed Your people,
The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
NASU
How Great is our God

Ephesians 2:8
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith;
and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; NASU

Romans 5:1-15
5 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; 4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; 5 and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned — 13 for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.
15 But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. NASU

Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace (my chains are gone) Chris Tomlin

Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace (my chains are gone) Chris Tomlin with lyrics on screen

God Bless the USA

What a great video for our country ... may freedom ring always ... thanks to the men and women over the years who have laid their lives down for me ... or who are still fighting for my freedom and right to be an American!

If I die before you wake ...

A great video of our soldiers and great song to go with.

If I die before you wake

Kay Arthur on the book Marketing Evil

Follow this link to a great endorsement from Kay Arthur concerning this book ... go out and get it asap ... it is well worth the read.

Marketing Evil by David Kupelian

International Bible teacher promotes 'Marketing of Evil'
Kay Arthur encourages Christians to read eye-opening bestseller

"Beyond the Pain" - Romans 5:3-5

"Beyond the Pain" Rom. 5:3-5
Hi, I'm Crawford Loritts with a Legacy Moment.
Some years ago I had to grow through some pretty major work on my teeth. I had braces and oral surgery. This all took place over a three-year period of time, and I have to tell you that during that period I was constantly either at the dentist office or the orthodontist. You have to know that I would rather bungee jump off the edge of the Grand Canyon than go to the dentist. What kept me going? It’s simple. I needed to have the work done, and I was convinced that it was worth it.
I discovered a principle in life. If you focus on what you’re going through, chances are you’ll never get through. Another way of putting it for us as Christians is that God uses hard difficult times; the difficult processes in life to produce Christ-like character in us. We’re reminded of this in Romans chapter 5, verses 3 through 5. Listen to these words. "More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."
Do you know the key word in those three verses? It’s the word knowing. We exalt in the process because we know what’s going to take place. We are assured that this is headed somewhere. This is going someplace, and when we get through this we’re going to look more like the Savior than we do ourselves.
Here’s what I want you to remember today. It’s amazing what you can put up with when you know there’s a good ending. Hey, get back in that divine Dentist’s chair, and let Him finish the job. You’ll have a more beautiful smile!