Nov
28
No Signal
By Julie B Cosgrove | 4 Comments
I cried aloud to the LORD, and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah
(Psalm 3:4 ESV)
This may be cyber Monday, but there was no cyber for me. It is a day of crunch time and projects due. So, I sat down at my computer, slurpping my first cup of cofee only to be greeted by a black screen. I turned it off, then on again.
No signal received.
I crawled under the desk (amongst the dust bunnies- oh, how they gather around eletronics) pulled the plug, counted to ten, plugged it back in.
Nov
21
Don’t Wreck My Routine
By Julie B Cosgrove | 2 Comments
I’m sleep deprived. Over the weekend I went to a convention. It meant sleeping (more like tossing and turning) in a strange bed, staying up way too late, getting up way too early and eating way too much. In essence, my normal routine was out of whack.
Each day was crammed with activities, lectures and learning. Towards the end I ran out of steam. Like a plow horse to the barn, I made a beeline for home, and my own bed. But, when I got home, I couldn’t sleep. All the sights and sounds of the convention swirled in my brain. Then I realized, the whole time I was there, God had not been in the schedule. I never prayed nor did I read my Bible. I was following a tightly orgnaized man-made schedule and not fitting God into it.
Nov
11
Today, at 11 am and 11 pm hundreds of thousands of Christains around the globe will raise their hands and fall to their knees in prayer for their communities, neighbors and governments. They are expressing Provebs 11:11 which states -
Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is destroyed.
We have seen deteriation of manners, service attitudes, consideration for others, and neighborliness in the past decade. What used ot be only seem in back rooms of XXX stores is now on TV and no one blinks mcuh at foul language. More people stay home than go to church, and Christ themes are taboo at Christmas. Will Easter be next?
Oct
2
Just Sniffles?
By Julie B Cosgrove | 4 Comments
“Blow, don’t sniff.” I heard an exasperated mother’s voice as she bent over her toddler with a tissue to her nose. The child shook his head and dashed back to the swings on the playground where his peers’ giggles beckoned. The mother sighed and stuffed the tissue into her pocket.
“Allergies. He’ll get an earache or sinus infection, I just know it.”
Sep
8
Word to the Wise
By Julie B Cosgrove | Comments Off
Remember your word to your servant,
in which you have made me hope. Psalm 119:49
Do you have a special Bible verse? One that you know God wrote just for you? If you don’t, ask Him to reveal one to you. It’s called a rhema. Off and on throughout my life mine has been Matthew 6:25-26, 33. Be ye not anxious about your life, what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink or about your body what ye shall put on. Is life not more important than food and the body more important than clothes? . . . But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you.
Jun
28
Prayers of Faith
By Julie B Cosgrove | 1 Comment
“And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.” Matthew 21:22
Can that really be true? Jesus said it. So it must be, right? He said He was the Way and the Truth. So why is it that so often our prayers go unanswered, or so it seems? Is it because we don’t have enough faith that the people we love die anyway, or cancer spreads, or divorce happens or jobs are lost? Did we not pray enough to stop a child from making wrong choices and going down wrong paths? Does God have a sort of faith Richter scale to measure the intensity of each prayer before He decides to respond? Does He shake His head and say, “Oh, that one is only a 2.5 on the scale, not worth my time” ?
May
27
It’s All Good
By Julie B Cosgrove | Comments Off
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer. I Timothy4:4-5
Paul may have been talking about food restrictions in this passage and how they were not necessary for salvation. His churches battled whether to uphold the Hebrew food restrictions in Leviticus and whether or not to eat foods offered to the Graeco-Roman gods. But, I see a deeper wisdom in his words to Timothy.
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