BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND - SETTING GOALS - LILACLADY JUNEBUG2 - June Estelle Cash - Walking By Faith - I Keep Climbing -jec -JC33

     BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND  -       -SETTING GOALS  

                                 BIBLE BUFF JOURNAL - LILACLADY JUNEBUG2

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        Jesus said "I will come again, and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also."
            John 14.verse 3  

                  

        In the light of that promise, I muse on the coming year, and 

       perhaps, yes, even the next five years.    What would I like to see happening ? and what ? would I like to achieve ?  

           HERE IN THE CLOUDS OF THIS SKY PHOTO TAKEN SOME WHILE AGO I HAD TO FOCUS ON MY CAMERA TO BE ABLE TO TAKE THIS PHOTO.       
          WHAT DO I WISH TO ACHIEVE ?   I  ASK MYSELF.
         
          HAVE YOU FOCUSED ON WHAT YOU WISH TO DO ?
                ON WHAT YOU WISH TO ACHIEVE THIS COMING YEAR?

          FOCUS IS NEEDED TO TAKE A GOOD PHOTO.    MY FOCUS MUST CHANGE SO THAT OTHERS WILL SEE ME AS A PERSON FOCUSING ON MAKING SMALL COMMITMENTS AND KEEPING THEM. 

         QUESTIONS TO ASK MYSELF ARE :

             AM I ATTRACTING TO MYSELF THOSE WHO LOVE THE LORD?
           
            AM  I  SHINING  MY  LIGHT ? IN THE DARKNESS ?

             THOSE WHO ARE IN DARKNESS WHO MAY BE HUNGRY FOR LIGHT WILL SEE MY LIGHT IF I SHINE AS GOD DIRECTS ME.

            Here is a photo of a Lighthouse -  the one called  

NUBBLE  at  Cape Neddick  MA.     

                               

                          This was me   June Estelle Donato  in 1938 or 1939.

I was just about five years old, 

and I visited in Martha's Vineyard and

 was in the Cape Cod for a visit to see my 

father's Aunt Sally -  his "mother".     Really 

his Aunt,  she raised him along with her two -  

Betty and Bill -  and yet never did he call her

 Mother.    He never knew his mother - or his father. 

   Many questions in my

childhood as to unresolved relationships.

However, one thing is for sure.   I early 

KNEW THAT SOMEHOW

SOMEWAY THERE

WAS A GOD, 

AND I WANTED TO KNOW 

HIM, AND TO WALK IN HIS WAYS.

                        In my lifetime I have found 

many changes and much to learn. 

God has given me faith 

in Him, by my

 discovery of the BIBLE (KJV) 

and by my discovery 

that I can trust Him for all my needs.   

  PHILIPPIANS 4.19  

BUT MY GOD SHALL SUPPLY ALL 

YOUR NEEDS ACCORDING TO HIS RICHES 

IN GLORY BY CHRIST JESUS.   

                    AS THE 

BUTTERFLY 

                     PLANT
                        - BUDDLEIA - 

ATTRACTS THE BUTTERFLIES - 

WE NEED TO ATTRACT THOSE WHO "ARE NIBBLING" AT THE GOSPEL, OF THE GOOD NEWS.
    I especially need to think of ways to
           attract others in my LIFE.
             They are nibbling.
                   but they do not know
                  why they are hungry 
                   they just know "they
                   need something or someone
                    more than what they have." 

        JOHN 8.12 

      I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 

HE  THAT FOLLOWETH ME SHALL 

NOT WALK IN DARKNESS, 

BUT SHALL HAVE THE LIGHT OF LIFE.

  

                    MATTHEW 5.16 

         LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE

 BEFORE MEN THAT THEY

 MAY SEE YOUR GOOD WORKS 

AND GLORIFY YOUR FATHER 

WHICH IS IN HEAVEN.  

           CONSIDER - 

   1.WE CAN THINK ABOUT

 WHAT PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN.

   2.  JESUS TALKED ABOUT 

THINGS THAT THE PEOPLE AMONG 

WHOM HE LIVED WERE FAMILIAR WITH.

  3.  JESUS WAS ALWAYS 

AVAILABLE WHEN SOMEONE 

NEEDED HIM, EVEN THOUGH

 THERE WAS NO TIME 

AT ALL...HE MADE TIME FOR PEOPLE. 

 4.  JESUS TOOK TIME TO 

PRAY WHEN THERE WAS NO

 TIME AT ALL...HE MADE TIME 

FOR PRAYER BY USING THE 

ONLY THING HE HAD 

WHENEVER HE COULD.   

5. WE OUGHT TO BE

 SPECIFIC IN ASKING THE 

LORD TO HELP US BE TRULY 

INTERESTED IN OTHERS.    

WE ARE TO BE REAL.   

6. WE NEED TO ASK 

OURSELVES, AM I WILLING

 TO LET GOD HELP ME, 

BY BEING SPECIFIC WITH 

GOD IN PRAYER. 

THINK   WIN - WIN  

GOD IS SOVEREIGN

GOD IS ABLE. 

   GOD IS WILLING FOR ANYONE 

TO COME TO HIM

AND BE SAVED.

MATTHEW 28.18 - 20  

AND JESUS CAME AND SPAKE TO THEM, 

SAYING, ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME 

IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH.

GO YE THEREFORE,

AND TEACH ALL NATIONS, 

BAPTIZING THEM 

IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER,

AND OF THE SON,

AND OF THE HOLY GHOST, 

TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE

ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER

I HAVE COMMANDED YOU...

AND LO, 

I AM WITH YOU ALWAY, 

EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD.

ALL WE NEED TO DO 

IS BE WILLING TO PRESENT HIM CLEARLY

AND PLAINLY TO 

ANYONE

WHOEVER 

WHOMEVER

ENQUIRES 

AND IS SEARCHING 

FOR GOD.

THE RESULTS BELONG TO GOD.

ALL GOD ASKS

 IS OUR AVAILABILITY.

I CAN DO ALL THINGS

THROUGH

CHRIST

WHICH STRENGTHENETH ME.

PHILIPPIANS 4.13  

WITH GOD,

ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE

LUKE 1.37 

AND ALL THINGS, 

WHATSOEVER YE SHALL ASK

IN PRAYER,

BELIEVING 

YE SHALL RECEIVE.

Matthew 21.22

WHO THEN CAN BE SAVED?

BUT JESUS BEHELD THEM, AND SAID UNTO THEM, 

WITH MEN THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE, BUT WITH

GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE....

Matthew 19.25,26  

      
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