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March 03rd, 2013

2/28/2013

 
This was in my head when I awoke this morning , It is a line from a song I heard on the radio Yesterday
His Love Never Fails , It Never Gives Up , It Never Runs Out On Me !
Praying For Everyone as you go about your Day , God Bless Everyone , Hugs Dotty


I want sufficient Courage!!!

2/27/2013

 
Ok, I am really excited about a verse that God brought to my attention this morning!! I was listening to this weeks B&B and Dad talked about
Philipians 1:20 "I eagerly expect and hope that I will in NO WAY be ashamed but will have sufficient courage SO THAT now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death".

I know I have read this verse before but I never truly SAW it. I want that hope! I want that courage! I want to expect and hope that I WILL have sufficient courage that Christ will ALWAYS be exaclted in me!!!

I am memorizing this verse as I take care of my family this afternoon, it will be a great reminder to me that I must press on, I must continue to grow and allow Him to feed me ... The only way I will have sufficent courage is by looking to HIM!!!

We are on such an exciting journey!!
JAY's COMMENT:

THIS IS SOOO exciting, Glenda!!! It truly is an AMAZING passage the LORD gave me to share w/ Doug Kurfess on T morning ... But it's sooooo encouraging for ALL of us!!!
You GROW girl ';^} 

The Ball Pit

2/23/2013

 

Katelynne Hayman:

The Ball pit Video!

I love this video!!! it is sooooooo AMAZING!!! And it also reminds me that the people we pass us as we walk down the street are real people with family, struggles and lives. I find sometimes I just pass people without a second thought but maybe they need a second thought. maybe they need a prayer . Maybe they need a smile. And maybe just maybe they need someone to reach out to them. In all honesty I wish there was one of these ball pits everywhere cause frankly talking to a complete stranger scares the bajebers out of me!!! Over March break I have gone to NY on a missions trip every year since I entered high school. this last Sunday I was talking to a lady who remembered my first year going and how I came home and got up on stage and said that I didn't talk to a single person on the streets. I laughed. But as I watched this video I realized how many people we could love if we took a step of faith right outside are comfort zone. I have since talked to people on the streets of NY and, like the people in the ball pit, realized how much I had in common with the people I have talked to. Which is totally amazing!!!!!!!! (the fact that I talked to people I didn't know and that we had a lot in common) So tell me. Would you sit in a ball pit with a stranger? and just how far are you willing to step out of your comfort zone?

JAY'S COMMENT:

I, too, LOVED this video, Katelynne!!! TRULY moved my heart to think of ALL the wonderful possibilities ... not only in the world out there (which I find VERY exciting) but also as we meet together. In the weeks ahead, we will have the opportunity to grow to know more & more about each other, as WE gather in the 'ball pit' of fellowship in Aslan's SONG!!!
So … YEAH … count me in the “stretch me into the ball pit” group 

February 28th, 2013

2/23/2013

 
Glenda Leigh

I hope each of you will take the time to watch this.  Not only is it a priceless video it shows SO CLEARLY how each of us as part of the body of CHRIST should treat our brothers and sisters in the LORD.



Working as the BODY!

Carry you to Jesus

2/23/2013

 
Karen Peavler

Love this song. I promise to pray for each of you this week..



Expectations

2/22/2013

 
Katelynne Hayman

Every week papa Jay has been trying to get me more active on Aslan's song and every week I say as little has I can get away with. The reason being is that my whole life I have felt the worlds expectations on me. Not only am I not what the world considers beautiful or smart but I am what they called damaged because of my mild autism. As a child I desperately tried to live up to the worlds expectations but each time I failed it got harder and harder to try until one day I gave up. I stopped trying to live up to the worlds expectations, to my parent’s expectations and most of all Gods expectations. I still believed in Him but I never tried to live for him, I never talked about my faith to anyone. the fear of failing to live up to every ones expectations has crippled me to the point that when I try to talk about my faith my stress problems act up and I get sick. Please pray for me has I try to overcome this fear. I hope that this group will help and teach me to become as open as I long to be :) <3
JAY's RESPONSE:

WELL ... quite FRANKLY, Katie ... I don't much care WHAT the 'world' thinks :^) ... from MY perspective, you are one of the most INCREDIBLY TALENTED young'ns I know!!!
I also want to share a couple of things, from my heart to yours.
1) over the past year, it has become quite clear to me that you have been growing & growing. I see a willingness in your heart now that is really expecting the growth & eternal fruit that the LORD wants to bring your way ... & I feel that's already showing that He IS changing your heart about all these perspectives & expectations!!!
2) The openness & vulnerability you show in your post is the VERY ESSENCE of LOVE & humility that will allow you to grow far beyond what many ever will ;) Once again, kiddoh ... the LORD is choosing to use YOU to lead us into a better understanding of LIFE IN HIM ...
& how KOOL is THAT, anyway?!?!?!
I promise, by GOD's GRACE & LOVE in my life, that EACH of us WILL continue to LOVE & appreciate you as a member of this body.
AGAIN ... THANK you for your courage, humility & LOVE. <3
ybiC, papa jay

Has He been revealed to you?

2/21/2013

 
Diane Johnson

Hi all. I just finished visiting our website, Household of Faith and listened to the B&B, Breakfast and Bible first tape, "Has He been revealed to you" by Jay and group. I had to listen to it a second time because the first time I cried once Jay started talking about Jesus being gentle and all about His yoke. The message grew and became more intimate all the way to the very end of the last statement from Tom... I don't want to go make donuts! THANK YOU, every one who made this experience possible by building the website and participating in such an early morning bible study so faithfully each Tuesday morning at Jay and Karen's home. When Jay sent you out like the preacher who went to the factory and waited for the Holy Spirit to arrive... you didn't realize that our great God would work your testimonies from that session in another time in someone like me and I bet others too after they listen to your fellowship. God bless the body of Christ.
AMANDA's RESPONSE

  Hola..Just finished up listening to the B&B.
Very good perspective..about rest. It opened my eyes to how I have been abiding in Him. When you are asking God to make you new and stretch you, your days can be some highs and lows at the same time..with God. It is a very emotional time for a long period of time, the spirit has lead me to abide in Him rather than get caught up in the roller coaster of emotions.How do I rest in this moment? Now doing this..when those times come I am grounded and don't waiver with my thoughts. The enemy tries to hang out some bait at those times when my emotions are happy or sad. Now that I have been abiding in Him daily..sometimes hourly..at times:) I have a deeper faith of confidence while abiding in Him in rest .I am finding rest in Him through struggles and obstacles put daily in my path. I often hear my heart pouring into someone else with edifying words and going out of my way to love on someone else in need. How do I have time for that? I love having a life now based on priorities being in order with time for my God and my family.
Thank you for sharing everyone who had their hand in this B&B.
ATHENA's RESPONSE:

  Reading your comment, Di, made me realize that I need to go back and listen again with undivided attention.., I was multi tasking when I listened and believe from your comments that I missed much that I NEED to hear! Thank you, thank you!!
DIANE's RESPONSE:

:>) what encouraged me most was listening to the voices as the group interacted and even after the closing prayer their sharing grew more reverent, as if they really sensed the presence of the Holy Spirit there. I imagined their changed countenance and their hearts softened. That is why I cried. I felt like I was watching God loving on them. Like Jay said in the following tape I listened to next, how could we settle for any other kind of reality when heaven is hovering over each of our heads. I am in a bible study at my church on Exodus. In this last session the teacher pointed out how many times the Lord told the people to gather, to eat and remember Him. She said what we remember is what drives most of our decisions in life. She challenged us. "What do you remember? Is it the most incredible thing that ever happened to you or the saddest thing or what. Take those memories and put them in a basket this week she asked gently. And then offer them up to the Lord saying, I want to be remembering You instead.
GLENDA's RESPONSE:

"How can I not be at peace if I really believe in you". Karen prayed this in her closing prayer. This is becoming more and more a reality in my life as I learn to depend more and more on my Heavenly Father. For a very long time I lived as everyone said was 'normal'. I mean, everyone gets frustrated and annoyed when things go wrong and people mistreat you, right? That was what I saw in the examples of all the believers around me! I prayed about decisions and certainly asked God for help if someone wronged me in a big way and I knew I needed to forgive them -- but peace, about things like a car that wouldn't start or a website that kept going wrong? I'd never heard of THAT sort of thing. Then God brought Jay into my life. Through a story way too long to tell here I was wide open to being discipled by him and in Him I saw a whole brand new way of life. A life FULL of that peace Karen prayed about. A life where the yoke IS light. I saw that life CAN be lived without that roller coaster of emotions that Amanda referred to. I am learning to have that kind of life. It is amazing the peace we can have in the most difficult and painful circumstances when we are wearing HIS yoke. We aren't in control, the Master is, He will take care of it. We are HIS children, overflowing with HIS love to others around us. I am so excited to learn more all the time about HOW to function as HIS body, the more I learn the more life changing I see this is going to be!
DIANE's RESPONSE:

Glenda, you have listened to all the tapes on the website and so you know what I mean when I say that I feel like I am a brick in the fire right now. and there is a stripping away which leaves me speechless. Thank you for your faithfulness to our Lord.

Seeing growth is encouraging!

2/19/2013

 
Glenda Leigh
Feb 19, 2013
I got the email to fill out the gifts survey and my first thought was "I just did that a few months ago....". Then as I started to work on it I looked at the definitions of each gift and I realized that when I read them last time (starting in August) they were a whole lot more confusing to me than they are now. It was rather neat to pray over each gift and see just how God has grown me and how I have changed in different areas. Some things that I saw as gifts I now believe are simply physical DNA abilities that God gifted me physically with. I'm seeing spiritual strengths that I didn't know I had six months ago. it's pretty amazing to see. I will be really interested in comparing this survey with the one I did then - when this one is done!

Give generously

2/19/2013

 
Nathan Watson
Feb 19, 2013

I have been praying for what words of encouragement to post here lately and here is what the Lord has laid on my heart. {James 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all WITHOUT FINDING FAULT, and it will be given to him.} I think this is so great, because of what has been posted here lately....Jays post about Judith and the comfort she will be seeking, the attacks from the enemy with Glendas headaches and stomach aches, the doubt and curses that have been hurled at Athena she talked about, Jays voice and other things....Soooo many things we just can't understand why sometimes so we seek the Lords wisdom. And how great is it that we can ask our maker for wisdom on how to deal with these things without fear of judgement when we have gotten ourselves in a predicament, when we don't know what to do. He will give it generously. Praise God, I can always use generous wisdom.

Let us continually offer a sacrifice of PRAISE

2/18/2013

 
Glenda Leigh
Feb 18, 2013
Tonight, the struggle with the website continues. Please please pray, each of you. Dad posted this song on his Facebook and it was SO totally what I needed to hear. I wanted to share it here, I t hink it's safe to say someone, or someones, here need to hear it too.
Hebrews 13:15 ""15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that confess his name. 16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased."
God is so amazing and blessed me so much with this song tonight.



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