Job Leon

Good morning 🌷 Roman’s 5:3-4 “We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance . And endurance develops strength of character , and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation .”  We each have more strength and capacity to endure than we think! But nobody wants to find out this capacity because it involves being stretched beyond our comfort!   In some situations, we reach a place when we have done all we think we can do. But spiritually God sees our limits. It’s between these two places where we put our trust in God and we GROW.  We can rejoice in our trials because even if we believe we’ve reached our limit we can still reach towards God where He is developing endurance in us. Endurance will develop strength of character. And character will produce hope.🕊️ TRIALS are really for our benefit. But our flesh does not want to be tested, stretched, tried or in pain. But think of how much our spiritual man loves to be gr

Had a great “70th” birthday. Damn, how did I get here? But I am thankful for my wonderful life and my family! My cup overflows  with gratitude and blessings from God, as I get to share in your adult lives and get to cheer you both from the sidelines.. What a blessing it is to get this far in life and still enjoy making memories with y’all. My cup is full as I now have new family members; Janette & Camy, Jo, John and Erika. Let us daily thank God for His love towards us and may we continue to fall in love more with one another. My “Blessings” from  above “The Lord gives both death and life; He brings some down to the grave but raises others up”              1 Samuel 2:6  “He gives the childless woman a family, making her a happy mother”  Praise the Lord!  Psalm 113:9 “Naked I came  from my mother’s womb,  And naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken” This is Josh at the same age as his munchkin, Camy.         “Blessed be the Name of the Lord”. Job 1:21

For thousands of years, people have gathered around campfires and peered into the night’s sky, studying the stars.  Now, thanks to telescopes and satellites and advances in modern technology, we’ve uncovered more about God’s celestial creation than ever before: diverse planets, interstellar dust, mysterious black holes, and billions of other galaxies.  What we’ve discovered, however, is not new to God. It’s the very same heavens and the very same earth that He spoke into existence at the very beginning of time.  And though we’ve only scratched the surface on what’s still to be discovered, the vastness of the heavens and the brilliance of its design beckons both humility and worship.  In Psalm 8, David wrote:  “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?” ‭ The same God who hung the sun, moon, and stars in the sky also created us.  He create

          Proverbs 3:1-8 Here Solomon gives us 6 encouraging and profound  insight into a closer walk with the LORD. 1. “My child, do not forget my law, 
2. But let your heart keep my commands; For length of days and long life And peace they will add to you. 3. Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, and write them on the tablet of your heart, 4. And so find favor and high esteem In the sight of God and man. 5. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. 6. Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh, And strength to your bones.

Reminder about our “New Norm”.  Mama said that we would have days like this…. “For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.   2  We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing.   3  For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies.   4  While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life.   5  God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit. But remember God’s promises..  2 Corinthians 4:16-18 “ That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are   being renewed every day. For our present troubles are sma

No matter how good you are, how hard you try, or how decent of a person you attempt to be, when it comes to following Christ, you can’t earn your way to God.  You can’t do enough good things to tip the scales in your favor. You can’t buy, win, impress, or manipulate your way into salvation.  But Jesus has already purchased your freedom on a cross and offered it to you as a gift.  But you do have one job, as Paul describes in his letter to the Romans… “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭10‬:‭9‬ ‭NIV Many people believe that Jesus was a real, historical person. Many people believe that Jesus was a genuinely good man.  But the Bible says that even the demons believe there’s only one God (James 2:19).  Minutes before their deaths, two criminals hung next to Jesus on the cross. One of the criminals mocked Him, but the other one trusted in Him.  Jesus told the one who trusted Him that he