Humbled Beyond Words.....

This morning I was given such a beautiful gift. A gift that blows me away, really! Barbie, over at My Freshly Brewed Life awarded me with the Stylish blogger Award! Barbie, I must say this came at the perfect time as I was feeling pretty low. If you haven't visited Barbie's blog, I suggest you do. She is a gifted writer, deams of having her own woman's devotional one day, has a deep fiery passion for God and His heart and is a Spirit filled artist. Expressions of His Beauty, is Barbie's artwork blog. When I look at these paintings I can feel the presence of the Holy Spirit shining through.
Thank you Barbie for this award. I humbly accept it and give all the praise and glory to Jesus Christ who directs my blog CPR Ezra 8:23. This is a blog dedicated to Him and what He lays on my heart. God bless!

The Rules of Acceptance:

1. Link back to the person who gave you this award.
2. Share 7 things about yourself.
3. Pass it along to 7 other stylish bloggers.
4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their award.

Seven Things About Myself:

1. My heart is on fire for Jesus and I choose to give up myself for Him!
2. I have homeschooled my 2 children from the beginning and would never ever change that, even though there are days that I feel like quitting.
3. I am very active; I love running, extreme hiking, and I have my 3rd degree black belt in the WTF style of Taekwondo.
4. I love to worship Jesus in dance, prayer and have a heart for intercession and healing. 
5. I am a very shy and quiet person and spend most of my time in public on the outside of people groups, although you probably wouldn't figure that out from this blog. :)
6. I am 90% healed from Rheumatoid Arthritis. PRAISE JESUS, the Master Healer!!!!!!
7. I want people to know Jesus and see the truth of who He is and how much He just really likes us.

Seven Other Stylish Bloggers:

Oh boy! This is a really tough one for everybody that I follow or don't follow IS very special and I really feel that God led me to them because He just really loves them. In choosing only 7 I feel I am leaving others out but I am not because the Stylish award we all will get when we enter into His presence will far surpass this award here on earth. So in no particular order here we go!!!

Lon; Humble Pathway

Crystal Mary Lyndsay

Mary; Visits with Mary

Kimberly; Mining for Diamonds

Vilisi; Island musings

Patricia; Layers of the Heart

Steve; Nikon Sniper

God bless and all who are weary rest in HIM
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Humility Grown out of Love and Obedience to God

In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because,

                                                              

                                                                "God opposes the proud

                                                           but shows favour to the humble."

1 Peter 5:5 NIV

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This verse clashes with our society. Few of the younger generation wish to submit themselves to the older generation. The older becomes prideful, resentful and the younger fill up with arrogance and self-importance. Satan wants to divide generations and families and God wants harmony and humbleness.

Sad, really, as I see this not only in secular families but strong Christian families as well. We live in a rebellious time; children rebel against parents, wives against husbands, husbands against employers, employers against the government and the government against God. God stands firm on what is right and wrong and the rebellion continues to swirl. This is a vicious circle, a chasing of the tail. How does it stop? Humility grown out of love and obedience for God can be the only solution to this age old blight.

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.
1 Peter 5:6-7 NIV

Humbling yourself and waiting for God to vindicate you can be tough. I have been there and either pride gets in the way before God defends me or my sharp tongue and anger lets loose. Every time I wait on God He steps in and resolves things in a way I couldn't even imagine. When we cover ourselves in pride then Satan has a foothold into our lives and the vicious circle becomes bigger and similar loops of unruly feelings develop until we are swamped by anger, hatred and self righteousness. This has to stop and the only way is through humbleness.

There are many definitions for humble in dictionary.com and the one I like is the verb...to destroy the independence, power, or will of. Humbleness does not mean you think lowly of yourself no that would be what Satan wants. God wants you to know who you are in Him, a child of the King co-heir along side of Jesus. When we realize who we are in Christ Jesus then the vicious circle of pride and rebelliousness will stop and security in knowing we are children of the Most High King floods in.

When conflict arises someone needs to make the first move in maturity and it should be the older generation, humbling themselves for they have more wisdom and experience and then the younger should submit in humbleness to the authority of the older if what they say lines up with the word of God.

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Jesus is an amazing teacher for He humbled Himself for all generations by giving up the kingdom for us. What an awesome leader we have, now we just need to walk in His footsteps.

God Bless,
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