Category Archives: 1 Christ is All

Jesus loves me, this I know. This category is about Jesus, the Living Word, my prayers to Him, my worship of Him, His relentless pursuit of my heart and His invitation to me to come to Him in Sabbath, my Savior, my Rest.

Tara’s Song

1 Christ is All, 2 Mi Familia, 3 Celebrations & Festive Events, Stuff I Actually Think

My firstborn, Tara, posted an awesome blog this past week.  She is not only a great and honoring daughter, but she is a loving and in-love wife and an amazingly creative mommy-making sure to imprint Hunter's life powerfully for his good.

Here is how to find out about the song of Tara's heart (it's a good one-especially for young mommies):  http://tarapowers.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/the-song-of-my-heart/

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Here are the scriptures that caught my attention the other day in a totally unrelated search:

"…sing us one of the songs of Zion…" (Ps 137.3c)

""…Can I hear any longer the voice of singing men and singing women?…" (2 Sam 19.35)

I really think God enjoys it when we sing to Him…Jeanie

NOTE TO SELF: Sing head off…frequently!

Redeemed Reactions

1 Christ is All, 6 Looking Back // Memories!, Stuff I Actually Think

From a journal page last year. I scribble random thoughts madly, at times – with bullets and margin sidebars to illuminate my main thoughts.  Here it is in one, semi-organized thought:

I want to change my response to past events and circumstances.

  • I have no control over the things that happened or were said, but I'd like to REPENT of wrong reactions and re-write my history in godliness and Christ-likeness.
  • Events are irreversible – what happened, happened.
  • Jesus redeems me – buys me back.  He can redeem me from my negative, evil-hearted reactions.

As a GOD-LOVER, I'm inviting You, LORD, to reach into my experiences and give me the chance, through Your redemption, to RESPOND differently.  "For those who love God…He causes all things to work together for good…" (Romans 8.28)

Back to the "chosen treasures." 

  • I choose to fill my heart with gratitude for Your blessings.
  • I choose to forget what is behind.
  • I am making every effort to PRESS FORWARD to "lay hold of that for which Jesus Christ layed hold of me." (Phil.3.12-16)
  • I want to have a heart that is ever praising You (Psalm 84.4)

Pressing ahead…Jeanie

NOTE TO SELF: I haven't got it figured out, but I don't want to stop reaching forward.  Don't look back.

Acts 20.32 X 2

1 Christ is All, Stuff I Actually Think

"And now I entrust you to God and His wonderful words that are able to build your faith and give you all the inheritance of those who are set apart for Himself."  LB

"Now I'm turning you over to God, our marvelous God, whose gracious Word can make you into what He wants you to be and give you everything you could possibly need in this community of holy friends."

Don't throw the baby out with the bath-water, sweet MK.  It is like Jesus said, "The words I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." (Jn. 6.63 NKJV)  That's why there are still people willing to die for the Bible today.

Get into the Word and let the Word get into you, because it is life…Jeanie

NOTE TO FRIENDS:  There is still time to register for the 24-hour Get the Word Out! Bible Intensive this Friday night and Saturday to be held at Northern Hills Christian Church at 160th & Colorado.  Contact: maryjean@getthewordout.cc

Heaven in Denver!

1 Christ is All, Stuff I Actually Think

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What Heaven Fest is gonna look like:

  • The Name of Jesus, the Name above all names, worshiped and exalted
  • 5000+ non-Christian guests
  • 1000+ receiving Jesus Christ as Savior
  • 5000+ FREE tickets are being distributed to the under-privileged in the metro-area
  • A focus on getting sponsors for 150+ Compassion International kids
  • $50,000 to be raised and dondated to the homeless through "The Cardboard Campout"
  • 1000+ people will be bussed in from the inner city who otherwise wouldn't be able to attend
  • $50,000+ raised for The Home of Refuge orphanages
  • 15,000+ in attendance
  • Jeremy Camp, Skillet, Seventh Day Slumber, Bradley Hathaway, and more
  • Skateboarding demos, comedy, workshops, dj-led worship, and more
  • 7 stages, 70+ artists, 70 acres, 12 hours, not-for-profit!

See www.heavenfest.com for tickets: $29, or whatever you can afford!

Sponsors, vendors, volunteers – wanna get involved?  Contact me: jeanie@worshipandtheword.com

Living Word

1 Christ is All, Stuff I Actually Think

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My great friend and co-mother-in-law-&-nonna (we share a son and daughter and our grandson, Hunter, through the blessed marriage of Dave and Tara Powers), is one of the most awesome Bible teachers on the planet!  I love to be around people who whet my appetite and desire for the things of the Lord like she does.  What a blessing to be related to her in both the natural and the Spirit!

Mary Jean is the founder and president of Get the Word Out! Intensives, which are short, powerful weekends of immersion in the Word of God, teaching you to study to know Him, the Living Word.

I am letting you know this because there is a Basic Intensive coming up that is both affordable and local (if you live in the Denver-area).  The basic is like attending Bible 101, except: no grades, just LIFE!!!  It's a Friday night and all day Saturday and will provide clarity for you on the Truth and Credibility of the Word of God, the authority of the Word, the Word as both Logos and Rhema, and encountering Jesus, who is the Living Word.

You can see more details on the Itinerary page at www.getthewordout.cc (It's $20 by March 7, e-mail Mary Jean: maryjean@getthewordout.cc, to let her know you're coming.  To be held at Northern Hills on Colorado and 160th Ave. west of Brighton)

If you would like to hear God speak directly to you everytime you open your Bible, if you find Bible reading hard to understand or sometimes overwhelming, you should attend this thing.  This one weekend could change everything for you in your walk with Christ – it is that potentially powerful!  I am not kidding.

How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth.  Psalm 119.103 

Hey you – yes YOU!  You're suppose to try this thing out!  It's time and you know it!

Get into the Word and let the Word get into you!…Jeanie

NOTE TO SELF: Let the Word of Christ dwell in me richly…(Col. 3.16)

Psalm 23

1 Christ is All, Stuff I Actually Think

My take on one of those things people send to each other on the internet.  Whoever wrote it used one-word descriptions.  Naturally, I must add more:

The LORD is my shepherd – I am my Beloved's and He is mine/relationship!

I shall not want – He faithfully supplies for all my needs

He makes me lie down in green pastures – Rest, Sabbath rest – in a life-giving place

He leads me beside still waters – Refreshment, washing with the water of the Word

He restores my soul – He renews, reinvigorates and restores the anxieties and anxiousness my soul endures daily/healing

He leads me in paths of righteousness – The LORD is my guide, directing my steps

for His Name's sake – His Name, His fame, His acclaim are the purpose of my life

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death – Crap happens, testing comes, it rains on the just and the unjust

I will fear no evil – I am surrounded b y the ultimate Protector

For You are with me – I couldn't get away from Him if I wanted to, He is faithful, so faithful

Your rod and your staff, they comfort me – The discipline of the LORD tells me He has not given up on me, I am still in training, it isn't over. 

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies – Even in my most unworthy condition, You strengthen me and feed me with the finest food 

You anoint my head with oil – You welcome me into your Presence so graciously, You consecrate and set me apart

My cup runs over – More than full, You have poured out every good blessing/abundance

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life – I am blessed with a steadfast covenant of the love of the LORD, like a shadow, blessing is always right there behind me…

And I will dwell in the house of the LORD – His house is my house.  Oh LORD, You have been our dwelling place forever/security

Forever – Eternity is written on my heart, happily ever after

Love is in the Air

1 Christ is All, 5 Songs I am Singing, Stuff I Actually Think

I am singing this song a lot these days: How He Loves, lyrics by John Mark Mcmillan

He is jealous for me
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree
Bending beneath the weight of His love and mercy
When all of a sudden
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory
And I realize just how beautiful You are
And how great Your affections are for me
* * * * *
And oh, how He loves us so
Oh how He loves us
How He loves us so
* * * * *
Yeah, He loves us
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves
* * * * *
We are His portion and He is our prize
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes
If grace is an ocean, we're all sinking
So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss
And the heart turns violently inside of my chest
I don't have time to maintain these regrets
When I think about the way He loves us, oh, how He loves us…
* * * * *

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Check this song out on youtube, Kim Walker leading, and stick with it to the end (it's a full 8 minutes and 49 seconds) for an amazing "love encounter."  The girl can preach!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWnvBM40xxw 

John 3:16 is the ultimate Valentine!  He loves us…Jeanie

NOTE TO SELF: Quit maintaining regrets.

We have another granddaughter!

1 Christ is All, 2 Mi Familia, Stuff I Actually Think

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It was a long labor, but Averi Jadyn Rhoades made a grand entrance for her happy parents, Rocky and Jovan, last night. 

She arrived at 11 pm on February 3 (just one hour before her due date), weighing in at 7 pounds, 8 ounces and 20" long, with a generous amount of black hair and some extremely kissable cheeks – to a large assortment of cheering aunts and uncles and grandparents and cousins.

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From a scripture Rocky adapted for his life when he was just 13 or 14: "Praise the LORD! [Hallelujah!]  Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who finds great delight [cherishing and relishing] in His commmands.  His children will be mighty [robust, successful] in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed."  Psalm 112. 1,2 NIV, with a bit of "amplification"

She is grand-baby number 5 for us and it just keeps getting better.  I wholeheartedly recommend giving it a try!…Jeanie

NOTE TO SELF: Keep her name constant in prayer before the Lord.

pictured: Averi looking at her pretty mommy about an hour or so after her birth; the family first thing the next morming; Grandpa and Nonna with our little beauty

Take the Umbrella

1 Christ is All, 2 Mi Familia, Stuff I Actually Think

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Dave and Tara used a clip from “Minority Report,” with Tom Cruise as the scene that most reminded them of my dad, their ‘Grandpa Moslander,’ as we honored him on his birthday.  It was when the girl with “the gift” of seeing the future (Agatha) was helping the Tom Cruise character (Jon) run from people who were trying to frame him for murder.  She’d been kept in a semi-comatose state in a pool so she had no muscle tone as they were trying to escape and he was kind of dragging her along, attempting to look normal, as she told him what to do and when to do it.

As they entered a busy mall and passed a kiosk, she tells him, “Take the umbrella!”  He was going forward quickly because he is running for his life, but then he hesitates and listens to her as she orders him again, “Take it!”  He grabs it now hauling her body along on one side, clutching the umbrella.

As they are weaving throughout the shopping center with a veritable army on their heels, he learns to trust her “gift” even when it seems ludicrous.  Once she has him just stop dead still and as he sees the “bad guys” approaching, she is telling him, “wait….wait…wait…” and of course, as he does, he is miraculously covered from their view buy a big bouquet of balloons as a little girl’s mom buys one from a mall clown for her.

When they finally exit the mall, seemingly surrounded and having been spotted by the agents who were attempting to frame him, they walk outside smack into rain and Jon (Tom Cruise) is amazed as understanding comes to him and he opens the umbrella to cover the two of them – among all the other people already covered from view by umbrellas.  Ah – now we understand her command, “Take the umbrella!”

Dave and Tara were telling their grandpa, with commanding motion picture imagery, that they are thankful he followed the leading of the Holy Spirit  and trusting God in his life even when it didn’t make sense and outward circumstances may have seemed  to contradict the direction he received. We all teared up at the powerful scene depicting so beautifully, that spiritual premise:  Trust God.  Follow where he leads.

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Is it any wonder I cannot get the song, “Umbrella” a haunting blue-grass song by the Isaacs, out of my mind?  “Your love, like an umbrella, covers me…”  I can’t quit singing it, can’t escape the symbolism and the impact it is having on me. (see them sing it on youtube)

On Friday I got the neatest card of encouragement from my sister, Tami, who lives oh-so-far-away in Kentucky, but is always in my heart.  Here is what it said:

“THE FIELDS were parched and brown;
the crops lay wilting from thirst.
Local ministers
called for an hour of PRAYER
on the town square,
asking everyone to bring an object
of FAITH FOR INSPIRATION.
The townspeople filled the square
with anxious faces
and HOPEFUL HEARTS,
a variety of objects clutched
in prayerful hands-
holy books, crosses, rosaries.
When the hour ended,
as if on magical command,
a SOFT RAIN began to fall.
Cheers swept the crowd
as they held their
treasured objects high
in GRATITUDE AND PRAISE.
One faith symbol seemed
to OVERSHADOW all the others:
A 9-year-old child
had brought an
UMBRELLA.” *

The Bible promises “showers of blessing.”  The other night, right here in Denver as a light snow fell, there was thunder and lightening – a somewhat rare combination.  Maybe it is God saying, “Take the umbrella – even though it’s winter – take it!”

I smell rain…Jeanie

NOTE TO SELF: Have faith in God.

*The words on the card were by Laverne W. Hall, adapted from Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul  page 198