Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Comforts Comfort Comfort - by DianaDee Osborne

March 31
One of my favorite websites is www.blueletterbible.org which is free and doesn't distract me with ads while I search God's Word.  And one of my favorite searches are 3 simple words (using New KJV):
 comforts comfort comfort

This is AMAZING:  Isaiah's book has been called the "Bible in Miniature" with its 66 chapters whose themes God has to reflect the themes in His 66 Bible books.  And the final chapter, verse 13, is God's promise after a book full of God's warnings:

"As one whom his mother comforts, So I will comfort you; And you shall be comforted in Jerusalem."
TODAY'S PRAYER = .... Thank You, God!  Thank You!

This is AMAZING:  This set of 3 words occurs together only one more time, in Second Corinthians 1:4, saying that God "who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God."

This is AMAZING: God knows how much we need comfort.  God is compassionate when I turn to things other than Him for comfort -- TV, novels, food, shopping -- things that by themselves can be blessings until I use them to extreme.  Until I use them to distract me from God who's calling me to come to HIM for comfort.

This is AMAZING: God knows that we are comforted when we feel needed.  So He encourages each of us through 2nd Corinthians 1:4 --
When we are so down that we feel driven to go find something good to eat,
we can instead find comfort in seeking someone ELSE to comfort --
     a telephone call,
     a letter to write,
     a prayer to pray.....   time spent on someone besides "me."  
Time when I'm enjoying comforting someone else instead of focusing on me.

GOD'S  AMAZING  promise:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies 
and God of all comfort,
who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those 
who are in any trouble, with the 
comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our 
consolation also abounds through Christ. 
GOD'S  AMAZING  promise:
Dear God.... Thank you.  Thank you.  Help me to be more thankful.  And to show my thanks by obeying you by my determined choice.  I pray in the Name of Christ who died for me.

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Monday, March 30, 2015

Sun Dog Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

March 30
       The cold sun was lowering in the late afternoon across a quietly rippling muddy river.  After all the fog and rains,  the layers of many shades of white clouds were constantly changing.  Constantly surprising.     One rich milky layer would suddenly dissipate into feathers and the disappear.  Another would suddenly be at crosswinds with two more layers,   then straighten out into rivers of clouds above reflecting on the river below.

        As I sat on my sweater amid crunchy leaves,
staring at the scene.  Staring into my heart.  Sorta praying.  
Sorta not.

       Day before yesterday was not a good day.  Oh, no events were bad in my life.  Compared to the lives of literally millions of people on yesterday, my life was heaven on earth.

       But my heart was heavy on earth.
       I missed my son who had come to visit after a year, who probably can't return from so far away  for another year.  Travel is expensive. Life requires work, and vacation time is a precious  jewel.
       I missed my daughter who had come to visit after 7 months, who lives so far away that I don't know when I'll see her again.

SUDDENLY A  LARGE  SQUARE RAINBOW APPEARED IN THE CLOUDS --
A  "SUN DOG"   it's called.      Red-orange-yellow-green-blue brilliant light hovering  at the side of the sun, reflecting its light through the cloud crystals.
        As the sun dog reflected the sun's light,  I finally listened to God and remembered:
        For 4 years,  the key verse of my life, of my music ministry and writing ministry to LORD God has been Second Corinthians 3:18.  And it was time to stop being selfish.
To start remembering
GOD'S  AMAZING  promise:  2nd Corinthians 3:18 

The summary of this verse = (1) REFLECT GOD 
 (2) And you CAN do this -- HOW DO YOU KNOW?? -- in same verse --> 
                  because God sends His Holy Spirit to help you.
Click here for DETAILS
 

ANOTHER of GOD'S  AMAZING  promises:
2nd Corinthians 1:4
".....the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God."

God cares about me and you
even as we sit, wallowing in sadness.
Offering us gladness.
A stupid sounding rhyme -- but it's TRUTH!

And God gives us PURPOSE for our sadness!   He has comforted us.
Now it's time to stop comforting myself, ourselves, with food and shopping and TV and etc.
It's time to start comforting others:
Whatever you've done, God will forgive 
if you ask.
Whatever has happened, God will comfort 
  if you ask.
And instead of comforting myself during this hour of this day --
I pray that  these words I have "discovered" from God that comfort me -- will comfort YOU.
     2nd Corinthians 1:4.  Our purpose is to worship and serve God and comfort His people.
           And He calls EVERYONE to be "His People".  
2nd Peter 3:9.  2nd Timothy 2:4 thru 6.........

       And -- oh yeah -- "THE WORLD"  in John 3: both 16 and 17.   Plus more verses.
May we each be rainbow sundogs  reflecting God
amid Life's  racing clouds, 
guiding someone else to
         the JOY and COMFORT of Him.

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Sunday, March 29, 2015

Mindless Mantras and Feelings - by DianaDee Osborne

March 29

God definitely does not like mindless "mantras".  
How do we know?

Because God gave us minds, made us in His image with the gifts of intellect and free will.  
(see Genesis 1:26-27 and 9:9 and Colossians 1:15)

Because God CALLS, "Come, Let us REASON together."  (Isaiah 1:18).

Because God URGES us to "Have the mind of Christ" through his human speaker Paul in
                First Corinthians 2:16 and more. 

A mantra is a phrase said over and over, that almost mesmerizes you, lures you into
                  mindless agreement.  

I am both comforted and encouraged as I remind myself over and over of these truths:
MY   FEELINGS   LIE.
GOD   CANNOT   LIE.

I FEEL HOPELESS WHEN I ONCE AGAIN FAIL, 
like on a diet.
BUT GOD SAYS MY FEELINGS LIE 
if they don't match His Truth.
And YOUR feelings lie if they don't match God's Truth..... 
What does God's Truth say?
"I will never leave you nor forsake you."
     (Hebrews 13:5.  Matthew 28: end.  
LOGIC -- because God loves me enough to send His son 
to die for me to be saved....  LOGICAL LOVE
even thoughts try to say over and over into my mind
that I should feel like I've failed God - should quit.

ENCOURAGEMENT - First John 4.
15.  Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
16.  And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

17.   Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.

18a and 19.    There is no fear in love...We love Him because He first loved us.

No matter how I feel,  even if I fail yet another day by ignoring God's thoughts concerning my food choices,  still God loves me and will help me when I keep asking.  It's logic for us ALL
MY   FEELINGS   LIE.
GOD   CANNOT   LIE.
PRAYER
Lord, I believe.  Help Thou my unbelief.  Mark 9:24 again.
Help me remember that FEELINGS LIE  but You never do:  And you've promised to help us all when we simply ask you.  LORD,  I ask.  Please forgive the times I've ignored your help before.  I truly seek to worship You with my lifestyle as well as my mind.  I pray for the Mind of Christ that ignores doubts in Your love and care about even little things-- like helping me in a diet.  I believe your Word.   Titus 1:2 Truth.


HINTS
You probably already know that memorizing God's Word will help you when these lying feelings hit you -- when you feel like such a failure that you're rather like Adam and Eve thinking that it's best to hide from God for awhile.
       But did you know that Jesus  PROMISED  God Himself  HELPS  you  MEMORIZE and remember His  SCRIPTURES?!
REALLY!
LITERALLY!! :)
THIS IS SO COOL!!   Check John 14:26.  "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
AND IT GETS BETTER!!  God gives us a PATTERN, "verse 26.   Check Romans 8:26.  Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us* with groanings which cannot be uttered.
JOYS  from  GOD through OTHERS:
From Brother Lawrence's THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD (written in the late 1600s;  Public Domain:)
“ “We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God ...."
     God is even MORE pleased, surely, when we ignore our feelings and choose to believe His Word.  After all,  aren't YOU more pleased when people choose to believe you despite their feelings?



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Saturday, March 28, 2015

Computer Access Dieting Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

MARCH 28                                                                          SUBSCRIBE  
NO COMPUTER ACCESS 
without my OK.  
No MIND Access either --> God's Promise!
          And  God's  WARNING.     
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I take my laptop to studio sessions to update
my FREE MUSIC website DianaDeeOsborneSongs.com    LINK TO SONGS Site
while my producer finishes mixes.
Last night he had so many completed tracks
to deliver to me that he suggested that,
instead of putting them on a flash drive to hand me, 
I could just give him my laptop's user name & password. 

I did: In moments he'd inserted a LOT of files.
I trust him (of course!), but was nervous about the process--
Having slower MiFi (& no cable access), I go to a lot of WiFi cafes.
He assured me:
No one can invade like that                        
without me giving them an ok & access....


SO WHAT ??
God told us the same centuries ago: 
People & Satan have NO ACCESS to control our minds>> 
Without us giving it to them. 
I **CAN** resist any temptation I think of.
You **CAN** resist any thoughts YOU think of too!
What a gift from God! He promises to help us!
All we have to do is to ask... and mean it.
The Holy Spirit even HELPS us to pray!    Romans 8:26
    Ah.... what an amazing,                                 
    compassionate & caring LORD God He Is.    

What does LORD God say ??  
"GUARD your heart /= mind... with ALL diligence."  
Proverbs 4:23   <click on link>

It's your choice.
YOU CAN DESTROY -- utterly  REJECT 
all wrong thoughts that come into your mind. 
GOD  says so:     2nd Corinthians 10:3-5
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God gives you & me full control to decide to 
strengthen our  mind and
refuse to do or believe what is wrong.
First Peter 1:13  -- written by the guy who gave in to fear,
                         denied he even knew Jesus, and was FORGIVEN
                         by God as soon as he repented:   Matthew 26:74
Yes: it's hard.
BUT -- No matter the temptation - whether dieting, overspending, too much TV or
internet, even "normal" things (people call them) like complaining and gossip.
God's Has Promised: 
He has given US the ability to   REJECT   
temptations to do what we know is unhealthy, not good for us. Including
in our diets.... our need of
DAILY DEVOTIONS  for  DAILY DIETERS.
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PRAYER
LORD GOD,  I *feel* an IN-ability to fight thoughts that say,
Eat that -- you deserve it -- you can diet tomorrow -- 
everyone else can eat whatever they want - it's not fair that God made you with slow metabolism -
Society's standards for health are too thin, too rigid -- 

God promised abundant life and
I enjoy the abundance of this food

                       (or  shopping  or TV or ... or .... or .... or.....)

LORD: 
I pray in the Mighty Name of Jesus, our Prince of Peace:
HELP me, Holy Spirit -- as God has promised thru Romans 8:26 -- to 
pray for God's help. I'm desperate. I can't even pray firmly without Your help.

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Friday, March 27, 2015

70 times 7 Dieting Encouragement - by DianaDee Osborne

MARCH 27                                                                        SUBSCRIBE  
Imagine a father:   Sternly warns his children
Don't use drugs - Don't drink alcohol - 
Don't do wrong things with other people - 
Don't spend money foolishly -  
Don't be an overeating glutton - 
Don't curse - 
Don't spend hours a day in front of a screen of any kind.....

Well, maybe it's a LOVING father who            
cares about keeping his children safe ???    

Imagine this father sternly warns his children 
"3 strikes & you're OUT of  my  life"....
    which is horrid to think upon... but then add this:
The same man uses heavy prescription drugs and alcohol,
has a huge credit card balance,
keeps eating all day while watching TV....
and still demands that his children "perfectly do" 
what he says--  not what he does.
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Pretty lousy father,   huh.
BUT  THAT's  how  we  are  Accusing  God 
of  being.... IF...
... we won't forgive ourselves for our faults we've sorrowed 
for,  asked God's forgiveness for.  Including for 
breaking our diet... sinning by gluttony that day.

CONSIDER:
JESUS TAUGHT that we must forgive 70  times 7:  
Not 490, but FOREVER because if we're counting up to
488 thinking "ONLY 3 MORE TIMES", then we have NOT
forgiven during those first 488 times...    LINK: Matthew 18

CONSIDER:
WOULD GOD OUR LOVING FATHER  
order us to do what HE will not do???      
So if He tells US to forgive 490+ times.........

CONSIDER:
JESUS CLEARLY SAID in John 8:44, Satan is a liar.   
God clearly calls Satan the 'ACCUSER'  in Rev. 12:10.
So.... Since Satan attacked Jesus with thoughts that were wrong, 
what does this mean for YOUR life? .........

CONCLUSION:
It makes Satan happy and God very sad
when we believe the lying thoughts in our heads that
God will abandon us just because we've sinned -- 
whatever it is.
Including breaking our diet... 
including when we have to add "AGAIN".

SUPPORTING SCRIPTURES
Revelation 12: 10,                                        CLICK FOR LINK   
Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, 
“Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, 
and the power of His Christ have come, 
for the accuser of our brethren, 
who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.

PRAYER
LORD GOD,  I am *SO* ashamed when I blow my diet yet again by PLAN...
When I "want what I want when I want it"  and completely forget that
I wanted, really, to do what reflects well on you...  2nd Corinthians 3:18. 
Help me to forgive myself even while I ask You to forgive me -- I DO
sorrow for my sins. I DO ask Your help - like in Romans 7 - to
live a life that pleases you.
I pray in the Mighty Name of Jesus, our Prince of Peace.

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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Offbeat Literally Music Dieting Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

MARCH 26                                                                          SUBSCRIBE  
I didn't "send ahead" tracks from my home music studio 
via Google Drive before arriving at my 
professional studio session last Friday. 
So I was watching with amused expectation as 
my producer started initial mixing while 
hearing the song for the first time. 

A drummer for bands, he was instinctively nodding his head 
to the beat as he mixed. SURE ENOUGH-- 
He stopped mid movement as soon as the violins came in, 
& looked puzzled. 
I was struggling to hide my laughter as I watched: 
I'd deliberately created "flexible timing" so that the 
violins were always Slightly Off Beat, 
to reflect the tension of the words of Psalm 119:161 SHIN 
re STUMBLING ---- and as a drummer, he
clearly noticed what sounded like mistakes, off the beat.

God yearns for us to know His Word-- His "beat"-- so well that we're Startled and Notice when someone's preaching is "just a little off" what God's Bible actually says. 
God wants ME to know His Word so well
that when I start thinking of a temptation, 
whether it be to overeat or overshop or anything else,
I'll remember Him; remember His Words;
remember that He will HELP me if I ask;
remember that I am not honoring Him if I do not....

May we become     so aware of God's Beat     
that we'll be instantly aware, like my drummer studio guy,
that   SOMETHING'S WRONG   when it just a BIT off
what is true and right.


PRAYER
LORD GOD, help me to see how IMPORTANT  it is to be right on with
YOUR beat.... to not become careless... to keep watching and listening to YOU.
Help me to not become so accustomed to the offbeat, offtime parts of my life
that I quit noticing:
GOD HIMSELF HAS CALLED THIS A SIN.
I MUST NOT EXCUSE IT..... 
must not tell myself, "Oh, it's normal. God will understand."

With deep thanks to Claxton Wilson of Valley Worship
& Praise professional music studio, for all his great work!

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Red Sky Dieting Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

MARCH 25                                                                          SUBSCRIBE  
"Red sky in morning, Sailors take warning." 
This morning's fiery sky began with Blah Blue in the west. 
But soon the western view became Drab Snow Gray.... 
Checked weather site: 
The snow potential predicted for west of DC has changed to 
'Just Rain': No pounding storm. No blasting winds. REPRIEVE! .. 

 Image result for photo fire red sunrise

A timely remembrance: Over 2,000 years ago, 
JESUS quoted this Red Sky weather proverb-- WARNINGS people knew long ago to PREPARE; not a time to go out fishing! ...  Matthew 16 WARNINGS to us all.

Still true today when we're tempted to do what God says is wrong: 
The time before Results come is only a temporary REPRIEVE. 
A Timely reminder from God today, thru a Facebook  friend, Benny: 

"You... were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; 
rather, serve one another humbly in love. (Galatians 5:13 NIV). 
VERSE 16:
"So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. 
Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves."

FOR AWHILE  God in His mercy may allow us to 
continue on our way,
overeating,  indulging in drinking or etc. >>  even 
other habits people call Normal, like overshopping,
gossiping, sitting all day without exercise our bodies need.
REPRIEVE .... God gives us time!
James 4:7-8 >>
When we draw TOWARD God, He-- like the loving father of the Prodigal Son-- runs toward us! Isn't He Awesome??!

Satan who yearns for us to be destroyed, Jesus said 
(John 10:10)  drops thoughts into our minds (Romans 12: 1 & 2):
  "Just enjoy today.... There's always tomorrow to diet....
or whatever."


PRAYER
LORD, help me heed Your Warnings. I THANK You
for Your mercies in this extra time, this REPRIEVE before
my body is completely destroyed by my carelessness.
Help me to stop thinking "I'll start tomorrow".
Romans 7 is SO true for me: I want to obey you, but I
instead follow my flesh's desires too often. I NEED You!
Help me to move into Romans 8's promised Life:
James 4:7-8, Help me to resist temptation and DRAW to YOU!


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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Just One More Rise Dieting Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

MARCH 24                                                                         SUBSCRIBE  
There's one rather bad thing about having a daily diet devotion:
That feeling of failure when 
    you know what's right,
share what's encouraging,

    remind others that God will indeed gladly help,
quote God's many words of promised help,

    find joy knowing that maybe you helped someone....
get excited at all the evidence that you're maturing in faith...

and in the next 24 hours, fail miserably.... BUT:
Image result for picture get up one more time than fall


Tomorrow is............ another day!
Thank You LORD... for your comfort, so that I can
pass it on:
2nd Corinthians 1:4,   God
"comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God."

PRAYER
LORD GOD,  I confess discouragement... Help me listen to YOU and
not to feelings or demons... James 4:7-8,   I resist them and flee to You.

I confess embarrassment after all you've done for me, that makes me
understand why Adam & Eve ran and hid from you in the Garden after they sinned.

James 4:7-8, I resist lies saying that you hate me for failing:
I  flee to You.  And You, who cannot lie, tell me in verse 8: YOU then draw to ME!

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Monday, March 23, 2015

Tornado Warning Dieting Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

MARCH 23                                                                          SUBSCRIBE  
"A Tornado Warning." 
STARTLING   words to awaken to. 
I had calmly replied as I just kept typing, to the simple question: 
"What did you get your husband for his birthday?" 
The news reporter then kept trying to convince me that 
a REALLY loving wife would get a more "traditional" gift, 
like new tools or sports stuff: Expensive gifts to show love. 

Again I calmly replied:  "There's 
NOTHING  more loving than a tornado warning." .... 

At this point in dream, I realized I had discovered a 
REAL way to know when & where dangerous twisters would come. 
What I was typing? 
More warnings, to people I didn't love dearly like my husband, didn't really know well. 
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YES!  Our health is important!   Our bodies are our "vehicles" for 
getting around the world as we serve & witness to our LORD.

YES!  Our diet is important!  NOT the number or the scale, but the
NUTRITION and ENERGY that results for careful food choices.

YES!  Exercise is important!  NOT a lot of check marks on a TO DO sheet,
but the STRENGTH and STAMINA that comes from careful selection
of building up our body so that we can serve & witness to our LORD -- 
and of course,
REJOICE with our LORD in the JOY of fun exercise and              
doing all we are able to do for increasing physical health...         
           John 10:10,  Jesus truly wants us to have an abundant Life with Him! 
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But we must BEWARE lest we become so self-focused on our bodies --
on our diets, our exercise plans, our shopping trips to buy groceries, etc.,
that we begin neglected what God has called us for:
The EXCITING mission of being His witnesses:

God has given EACH of us His access to wisdom (James 1:5
to know signs of the coming Storm + Only Safe WAY to Shelter -->
               Jesus, our Savior & God (Isaiah 43:9 on). 
Including telling people we don't know well. 
Satan loves nothing more than to get people so SELF focused
DID YOU KNOW? >> GOD DECLARES GUILTY 
all who KNOW a truth he or she has witnessed 
BUT DOES NOT SHARE IT:    Leviticus 5:1 & Ezekiel 33:3 on.

Jesus said WE are His witnesses 
                       (ACTS 1:8,  end of Matthew,  etc.)

    to the Truth... Salvation...  HOLY-ness of God...
YES! Diet is important ... 
But GOD - not diet - must be our Focus.

PRAYER
LORD GOD,  I know that YOU are important Above All --
far above my appearance, or anything else.
Please give me wisdom, encouragement, whatever I need to
YES -   Be a good caretaker / steward of this body you gave me.

Help me stand on Your Truth and not my true but Wrong Feelings.
Help me to ALSO, though, remember -- show LOVE to others:
Help me to share YOUR STORM WARNINGS to others -- Your Truth such as Jesus's warnings in Matthew 24.
I dearly love You and seek your Ephesians 3:20-21 empowering
to share YOUR TRUTH with others.... even as I follow Your truth.
Including to call on you for Help in fighting temptations of all kinds:
First Corinthians 10:13,  knowing I CAN stand, with Your Help!
I pray in the Mighty Name of Jesus, our Prince of Peace.

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