Faith, Hope, Love, and Tea

 I have been reading through Ezekiel.  Not an easy book, not for me anyway.  But I am enjoying it.  It is my heart's desire to know and understand God's Word more fully.  It is definitely a journey in digging deeper daily! I came upon the chapter of the valley of dry bones.  Chapter 37 .  What an amazing chapter.  Can you imagine standing there, like Ezekiel, and watching those dry bones coming together, then being fleshed out, and ultimately, standing as a great army?  So the gist of the chapter is as follows: God brings Ezekiel in the spirit to the middle of a valley, full of bones God leads him around them and he sees there are many, and they are dry God asks Ezekiel, "Can these bones live?"  Ezekiel responds, "O Lord God, You know", leaving the outcome to God God tells Ezekiel to prophecy over the bones Ezekiel prophecies in obedience and the bones start coming together Ezekiel 37 vs 7 - 8 :  So I prophesied as I was commanded.  And as I prophesied, ther

Years ago, when I started blogging, I didn't have social media.  It was only me, blogging, and interacting with other Christian women bloggers.  I loved it.  It felt so good to encourage and be encouraged.   Then slowly but surely I added social media to my blog.  To share it more, to help it grow.  But over time that same social media became a burden.  It became noise!  It became about me, and how many followers I had, etc.   I eventually got frustrated and instead of identifying where things had maybe gone wrong, or maybe what I could do to return to the heart of my blog, I deleted it!  And... I regretted it. Then I started a new blog.  It frustrated me.  I'd set it up, link all the social media, reach out to my old blogger friends who kindly supported me... and then... I'd delete it all again. I did that a few times (eyeroll). My reasons for blogging changed.  I thought I should blog to share what I was learning.  But I didn't have the confidence to share as a bible

Solar scriptura - By Scripture alone Sola fide - By faith alone Sola gratia - By grace alone Solus Christus or Solo Christo - Christ alone or through Christ alone Soli deo gloria - Glory to God alone   It is by scripture alone, by faith alone, by grace alone, through Christ alone, to the glory of God alone! God bless Tracy

 What does abide mean?  The dictionary (Merriman/Webster) defines it as: to bear patiently - tolerate to endure without yielding - withstand to wait for - await to accept without objection - acquiesce to remain stable and fixed in a state to continue in a place - sojourn to conform to Synonyms for Abide in the same dictionary are: dwell hang around stay remain stick around tarry How does the bible define Abide: Abide, literally, means to 'stay' or 'remain' .  To abide in the Lord means that we continually receive, believe and trust that Jesus is everything we need. As disciples, our faith will always be put to the test. To remain stable or fixed in a state a love that abided with him all his days.  To continue in a place : sojourn will abide in the house of the Lord. This is my goal with this blog: To abide daily in the Lord To abide in His word daily To abide in and seek His presence daily. Join me, let us grow continuously in the Lord. John 15 vs 1 - 11: (1) “I am