365 Days of Praise Challenge-Day 299

Please excuse the way I think. I hope nobody will find this offensive in anyway but I worked an analogy in my mind on the way home from work yesterday. Jesus is like a pancake. Yes, I said, pancake. Let me break it down for you. The first side cooked on a pancake always seems to come out golden with a nice golden rim around the edge, kind of like a crown. hmmmm..... Than you flip it over and cook the other side. This side always looks different, often filled with little holes and is not the golden color but a combination of tans and white. The first golden side of the pancake is Jesus, the King of Kings, Lord of Lords, son of God. The second side of the pancake with the holes is Jesus, the son of man, a human being, a person like all of us. Jesus is both of these sides of the pancake. He is the son of God come to earth in human form. Emanuel. If you have studied any other religions, you will know that this is the one and only true God who has come down to us.
Now pancakes can be made in different sizes. You have the dollar size, the standard size and king size. The dollar size pancakes are those people who have Jesus in their hearts but in a small way. They may only think about Jesus once a week at worship service or when a desperate need arises in their lives. The standard size pancake person is actively trying to consistently have Jesus in their lives and they do a pretty good job of it with bible study, worship and prayer. The king size pancake person is the kind of person where Jesus is the central part of their whole life. It is what motivates them in all they do and all they are. This is the person who not only does bible study, worship and prayer but also actively uses their gifts from God for God's calling for them. The good news is we are not stuck being one kind of pancake. Those dollar size pancakes and standard sized pancakes have the opportunity to choose to pour out a new pancake each day and make it bigger, letting Jesus become more and more the central part of our exsistence, our goals, our motivation. Even King sized pancakes can choose to keep being big pancakes but even add some special ingredients like peanut butter, chocolate chips or protein powder. This can give more impact to the King size pancake. So, the next time you are making pancakes or eating pancakes, I hope you will remember this analogy and let the Holy Spirit help you in becoming a specialty King size pancake for Jesus. If you are not yet a pancake, think about letting Jesus into your heart.
1 John 5:11-12 “And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life”

365 Days of Praise Challenge-Day 133

Today is Good Friday and it is good. So many still do not know or understand what happened on good friday. I praise God for giving us his son Jesus and I am delighted to call him My King forever and ever. Our King of Kings is indescribable. There aren't enough words to express all that he is but this video sure inspires. Share it with all that may not know who the King of Kings and Lord of Lords is. May they feel the nudge to seek Him out. Amen.

Psalm 72:11 All kings will bow down to him and all nations will serve him.

365 Days of Praise Challenge Day 85

My husband and I began a class last evening at our church called Jesus in the Movies. The premise of the class is that Jesus is portrayed in a variety of ways through out history including movie-making history. We will be seeing clips of a variety of movies to see how Jesus is portrayed. The pastor teaching the class spoke about how each of the gospels gives us a different portrayal of Jesus like Luke's gospel has much more details and stories about healings which shows a diffent side of Jesus. She explained that is how it is important to be reading from each of the gospels because they can show a different Jesus than any of the other gospels. The movie clips we saw last night were from a 1927 Cecile B Demille movie called The King of Kings. Yes, this was before movies had audio. It was interesting to see the cultural aspects that were brought into the movie simply because of the times it was created which was the roaring 20's and interesting to note how the director's perspective has an influence on the creation of the movie. I am praising God for this class and how we can learn more about Jesus and see how he's been portrayed in movie making history. Are you taking any classes that can help with your growth in your faith? I would love to hear about them.
James 1:5 If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you.