Happy Sunday (Lord’s Day) to everyone, I’m praying blessings over you all as we cruise into another week!
I bring more great music from Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC–the first is a new one from Tiffany, and oh it is Good!!
Hope you enjoy, catch you later😊✝😊 Cale
Dear Readers, you can be “G, as in Grateful” I didn’t copy the entire Bible over here today! Hope you are blessed by the Lord God’s generous grace. ✝💖✝ ~ Hagar
Psalm 106:1
Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.Psalm 107:8-9
Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men. / For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.Titus 3:4-7
But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, / He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. / This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior.2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, / who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.Lamentations 3:22-23
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail. / They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!Your strength comes from God’s grace. Hebrews 13:8
1 Chronicles 29:12-14
Both riches and honor come from You, and You are the ruler over all. In Your hands are power and might to exalt and give strength to all.Psalm 145:7-9
They will extol the fame of Your abundant goodness and sing joyfully of Your righteousness. / The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion. / The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.Ephesians 1:6-8
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace / that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.Romans 8:28
And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.New Living Translation
Yes, you will be enriched in every way so that you can always be generous. 2 Corinth 9:11John 1:16
From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.Colossians 1:13-14
He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son, / in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
To live the blessed abundant life
in the Presence of the Lord
to abide in His eternal courts
where, ever radiant
shines His Light
and songs of praise
by saints are sung
the old among them
forever young–
that is my heart’s
desire, delight
~ Cale
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Trust [rely on and have confidence] in the LORD and do good;
Dwell in the land and feed [securely] on His faithfulness.
4Delight yourself in the LORD,
And He will give you the desires and petitions of your heart.
5Commit your way to the LORD;
Trust in Him also and He will do it.
6He will make your righteousness [your pursuit of right standing with God] like the light,
And your judgment like [the shining of] the noonday [sun].
The steps of a [good and righteous] man are directed and established by the LORD,
And He delights in his way [and blesses his path].
24When he falls, he will not be hurled down,
Because the LORD is the One who holds his hand and sustains him.
Psalm 37:3-7; 24 Amplified Bible
I will exalt You, my God, O King,
And [with gratitude and submissive wonder] I will bless Your name forever and ever.
2Every day I will bless You and lovingly praise You;
Yes, [with awe-inspired reverence] I will praise Your name forever and ever.
3Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised,
And His greatness is [so vast and profound as to be] unsearchable [incomprehensible to man].
6People will speak of the power of Your awesome acts,
And [with gratitude and submissive wonder] I will tell of Your greatness.
8The LORD is gracious and full of compassion,
Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.
9The LORD is good to all,
And His tender mercies are over all His works [the entirety of things created].
10All Your works shall give thanks to You and praise You, O LORD,
And Your godly ones will bless You.
13Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
And Your dominion endures throughout all generations.
14The LORD upholds all those [of His own] who fall
And raises up all those who are bowed down.
16You open Your hand
And satisfy the desire of every living thing.
17The LORD is [unwaveringly] righteous in all His ways
And gracious and kind in all His works.
18The LORD is near to all who call on Him,
To all who call on Him in truth (without guile).
19He will fulfill the desire of those who fear and worship Him [with awe-inspired reverence and obedience];
He also will hear their cry and will save them.
Psalm 145:1-3; 6; 8-10; 13-14; 16-19
14This is the [remarkable degree of] confidence which we [as believers are entitled to] have before Him: that [d]if we ask anything according to His will, [that is, consistent with His plan and purpose] He hears us. 15And if we know [for a fact, as indeed we do] that He hears and listens to us in whatever we ask, we [also] know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that we have [granted to us] the requests which we have asked from Him. 1 John 5:14-15
Happy and thankful to be here once again! I love weekends…there are no business calls to take, so I do regular stuff I enjoy: church, cooking/baking, emailing with my Bestie, movies, and visting my 2 cat nieces downstairs. (We’ve concluded that slow and rhythmic waving of tail by Sammie as she stares at me, is feline version of human eye-rolling🙄. I get it…I’m jibber-jabbering away, and she can only feign interest for so long.)
I’m beyond blessed and grateful to be using my cell phone exclusively. The landline service became ridiculously/outrageously expensive–so I took a deep breath and downgraded to Internet only! The first day was both scary and funny: I had to call a list of folks to update my records with new phone number…and more than several times I accidentally disconnected before people could answer the rings. But I’ll get the hang of it before too awfully long–I have faith!
I’m thankful that although my corned beef was not especially successful this St Pat’s Day (I tweak recipes unwisely sometimes)–my caregiver was glad to take home all that I would have tossed!
It was a delight to celebrate her birthday this past week: I baked a cake of course, and found 3 Russian versions of the traditional “Happy Birthday” song on YouTube. She was so surprised. The cake was absolute perfection (whew!): Black Magic Chocolate Cake is very delish, and has a secret ingredient! (if you ask, I’ll tell you)
As always, I’m glad and grateful for blogging–so many wonderful people, and every day is different.
6-Sentence Story is dear to my heart–I’m thankful for new prompts each Sunday (and grateful the Lord drops an idea in my head)!
I’m beyond grateful the snow was fleeting…enough to satisfy folks who didn’t get a white Christmas, and not sufficient to freeze the parking lot into an ice rink.
I’m thankful for very old needle-nose pliers. I’m no “Tina-the-Tool-Gal”, and the knob broke off the thermostat in the Upper Room…who knows when Maintenance will respond…so the pliers are ugly but handy.
Alright-y…I don’t know how many thankfuls that is, but you’ve probably heard enough of Cale’s world–so I’ll just tell the Lord I’m grateful He stuck with me another day, and sign off. See y’all next week, if He doesn’t call me Home!
~ Cale
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My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast and confident!
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises [to You]!
I will praise and give thanks to You, O Lord, among the people;
I will sing praises to You among the nations.
For Your faithfulness
and lovingkindness are great,
reaching to the heavens,
And Your truth to the clouds.
Be exalted above the heavens, O God;
Let Your glory and majesty be over all the earth.
Psalm 57:7, 9-11, Amplified Bible
I am so excited to share this video from last week at Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC! An online member for a number of years, I consider it my long-distance “home church”–and Pastor Steven Furtick’s messages get better every week. He’s genuine, humble, honest, and humorous–and he knows the Bible inside out. He wears his heart and his faith on his sleeve, and I’ve been deeply blessed by how he ministers God’s Word.
I hope you enjoy their amazing gospel music team, and hearing about all that the Lord has done through a young couple–Steven and Holly–who were only 25 when they felt called to start a church, and had only 19 folks with them. The story is moving, filled with miracles and the favor of God on faith-filled people. And they are the first to give All Glory to GOD!
~ Cale
I will tell of the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD,
According to all that the LORD has done for us,
And His great goodness toward the house of Israel,
Which He has shown them according to His compassion
And according to the abundance of His lovingkindnesses.
8For He said, “Be assured, they are My people,
Sons who will not be faithless.”
So He became their Savior [in all their distresses].
9In all their distress He was distressed,
And the [a]angel of His presence saved them,
In His love and in His compassion He redeemed them;
And He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
Isaiah 63:7-9 Amplified Bible
Poetry ~ Cabbage After Christmas 