From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Friends with benefits (FWB) is an agreement between two people who are both friends and physically attracted to one another to have a sexual relationship. Neither party is considered committed to the other, and both can start dating someone else at any time with no prior warning. A friends with benefits arrangement is not considered dating, a relationship, or even casual dating by most people who use the term.
As Christians, we have a friend with benefits relationship. We are in agreement with this person and we are attracted to one another. But unlike the world’s definition, we have both an emotional and relational permanence in this relationship that is eternal.
Psalm 103 says we are not to forget the benefits of our friend:
He forgives all our sins (vs 3), He heals all our diseases, He redeems us from the pit (vs 4), He crowns us with faithful love and compassion, He satisfies us with goodness (vs 5), He executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed (vs 6), He is slow to anger and full of faithful love (vs 8). But from eternity to eternity His faithful love is toward those who fear Him (vs17)
Who is this Friend with Benefits? God is. He calls us friend (John 15:14). We are the apple of His eye (Zechariah 2:8). He will never leave us nor forsake us (Hebrews 15:5b). He loves us with an eternal love (Psalm 103:17). You know what; I’ll take this friend with benefits, how about you?
That’s It Right There!!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Do You Have Your Praise Ready? Joy Comes in the Morning
Excerpts from Scott Hicks-The Prophetic Ministry of Scott Hicks-Email: mailto:info@scotthicks.org?subject=Inquiry%20from%20ElijahList%20Subscriber
Psalm 30:5 says, "For His anger endureth but a moment; in His favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."
Yes, it's dark now when you lift your head long enough to look at your surroundings. Have you taken the time to notice that things look just the same at 11:59 PM as they do at 12:00 AM? Joy comes in the morning! Many things instantly happen in a split second (a twinkling of an eye) during the midnight hour. An old day dies and a new day is birthed. Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has arrived. The date changes from past to present.
Acts 16:25-26 But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were loosed.
Scripture tells us at midnight they began praising...but we know at 11:59 PM they were figuring out which song they were going to sing once tomorrow came! Do you have your praise ready? In a few seconds midnight will be here and it will be a new day! It will still be dark outside and you may still be wearing some old chains, but Joy comes in the morning.
It is interesting enough that in Genesis, the creation account says over and over "...and the evening and the morning were the first day...and the evening and the morning were the second day...and the evening and the morning were the third day...and the evening and the morning were the fourth day...and the evening and the morning were the fifth day...and the evening and the morning were the sixth day...and on the seventh day He rested..."It never says from sun up to sun up was the day...from evening when it's dark until morning is the day!
It may be dark outside my friends, but Joy comes in the morning! He's calling us to come in and shut the door. Still Worshipping,
THATS IT RIGHT THERE!!!!
Psalm 30:5 says, "For His anger endureth but a moment; in His favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."
Yes, it's dark now when you lift your head long enough to look at your surroundings. Have you taken the time to notice that things look just the same at 11:59 PM as they do at 12:00 AM? Joy comes in the morning! Many things instantly happen in a split second (a twinkling of an eye) during the midnight hour. An old day dies and a new day is birthed. Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has arrived. The date changes from past to present.
Acts 16:25-26 But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were loosed.
Scripture tells us at midnight they began praising...but we know at 11:59 PM they were figuring out which song they were going to sing once tomorrow came! Do you have your praise ready? In a few seconds midnight will be here and it will be a new day! It will still be dark outside and you may still be wearing some old chains, but Joy comes in the morning.
It is interesting enough that in Genesis, the creation account says over and over "...and the evening and the morning were the first day...and the evening and the morning were the second day...and the evening and the morning were the third day...and the evening and the morning were the fourth day...and the evening and the morning were the fifth day...and the evening and the morning were the sixth day...and on the seventh day He rested..."It never says from sun up to sun up was the day...from evening when it's dark until morning is the day!
It may be dark outside my friends, but Joy comes in the morning! He's calling us to come in and shut the door. Still Worshipping,
THATS IT RIGHT THERE!!!!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Are You Ready for Meat?
When I was little, my family, like many then and much more now, had little money and resources to provide a full meal everyday for dinner. Mom, being the ingenious budget manager and food stretcher, would devise ways of making the meals stretch. One day in a moment of revelation, mom had us eat our food in stages. The first would be a little salad with homemade dressing (a little ketchup and mayonnaise mixed up), a little starch (rice or beans or both) to make you feel full and then whatever small amount of meat she could muster up from the pennies she had left.
As always, her three children would clamor for the meat portion of the dinner before eating the first three stages and mom would say, are you ready for the meat? She knew it was best for us to go through the first stages of the meal in order to be completely satisfied at the end of the meal with the portion of meat we were served.
With the many requests/petitions we make before the Lord in prayer, we clamor for our hearts desires (the meat) and many times God has to ask us, “are you ready for the meat?” We haven’t even partaken of the first stages of life in Christ before we want more. Have we hungered after the sincere milk of the Word (1 Peter 2:2), have we been ravenous for wisdom so we speak the truth to others. (James 1:5).
When we move from being a babe only needing milk (Hebrews 5:12-13) then and only then can God trust that we are mature (full enough) to receive the meat (Hebrews 5:14) and be satisfied enough to offering a meat offering (Leviticus 2:7-9) of a life pleasing to Him.
That’s It Right There!!
As always, her three children would clamor for the meat portion of the dinner before eating the first three stages and mom would say, are you ready for the meat? She knew it was best for us to go through the first stages of the meal in order to be completely satisfied at the end of the meal with the portion of meat we were served.
With the many requests/petitions we make before the Lord in prayer, we clamor for our hearts desires (the meat) and many times God has to ask us, “are you ready for the meat?” We haven’t even partaken of the first stages of life in Christ before we want more. Have we hungered after the sincere milk of the Word (1 Peter 2:2), have we been ravenous for wisdom so we speak the truth to others. (James 1:5).
When we move from being a babe only needing milk (Hebrews 5:12-13) then and only then can God trust that we are mature (full enough) to receive the meat (Hebrews 5:14) and be satisfied enough to offering a meat offering (Leviticus 2:7-9) of a life pleasing to Him.
That’s It Right There!!
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