The Challenge

After pondering several scriptures and trying to pick one to memorize I realized I have a few really good ones already embedded on this old brain. Yea! A few come to mind-the most important of all-John 3:16 (I suggest if you do not know this verse, memorized it today!) Also Philippians 4:13 and John 14:6. The scripture I chose to memorize this week is Ephesians 2: 8 & 9. I know, it's 2 verses, but they have to go together, they just do. I am cheating a little with this, because I am so familiar with this verse, I've read it a thousand times, but realized if someone asked me if I could recite Ephesians 2: 8-9 I would not be able to. So here I go. 8 "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast." It means that doing good things will not get you to Heaven. The only way to Heaven is by accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior. By God's grace you will receive salvation.

I am a "facebook follower" of The Purpose Driven Life (loved that book), this was their post a couple of days ago: "The Word of God is your weapon against Satan. Jesus modeled this when he was tempted in the wilderness. He simply quoted Scripture from memory. There is power in God’s Word, and Satan fears it. If you don’t have any Bible verses memorized, you’ve got no bullets in your gun! I challenge you to memorize one verse a week for the rest of your life. Imagine how much stronger you’ll be." WOW! I read scripture often, but seldom memorize it...so I am taking on this challenge. I am doing baby steps, my goal is to do this for the month of August. I will memorize a scripture each week...stay tuned.

Grooveymom update...

Okay, I am politically charged! Sad, mad, discouraged over the state of affairs our country is in...but I am going to try to keep "Grooveymom" on the lighter side of life. However, if you would like to hear me vent about politics, click on "Common Sense" and hear me roar!

AUGUST 3, 2014! Say it isn't so...

Greetings to all of you out there in the blog world. I cannot beleive I have not posted anything for over a year! Sometimes real life is just way more important...like having grandchildren! I am blessed, that's all I'm gonna say, just call me Glamma!

Attitude Adjustment!

Most of you know I love Joyce Meyer, this is from her Confident Women Devotional: "Believe in your value" Because you are precious in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in return for you and peoples in exchange for your life. Fear not, for I am with you. Isaiah 43: 4-5 She says "take a minute and look into your heart. How do you feel about yourself? If your answer does not agree with God's word, I encourage you to begin today renewing your your mind about yourself. See yourself as God sees you. Study God's word and you will find out that you are precious, created in your mother's womb by God's own hand. You are not an accident. You are valuable, you have worth, you are gifted, you are talented, and you have purpose on this earth. Not only must we ask God for things He has promised us but we must receive them (John 16:24). If you feel unworthy, you probably won't ask, and even if you do, you won't receive by faith. Don't let feelings rule you anymore. Take a step of faith and start improving your quality of life today. Believe that you make good decisions, that you are a valuable person with a great future, and something good is going to happen to you today." I love Joyce Meyer, I read this devotional every morning...try to buy it if you can, we all need an attitude adjustment every so often, abut mostly we need to remember to lean on God, with Him all things are possible. PS- HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Proud of Food Stamps?

I am so sick of this political climate! Shame on those in government who have to ease their guilty conscience by giving people something for free by fooling themselves into thinking that they are actually taking care of people! Do you really think giving someone a rat infested run down apartment in the projects with some food stamps and a block of government cheese is really going to help this person to achieve the American Dream? NO! We have to get people off the government dole, get them educated and get them jobs so they can live a better life! Shame on this government for thinking they are so great because they have increased the amount of people on food stamps from 28.2 million to 44.7 million people- a 59% increase! This is nothing to be proud of. Something to be proud of would be lowering taxes so people could afford a decent education, improving the economy so people could get a decent job, and claiming that under their administration they actually lowered the amount of people on food stamps! Now that’s something to be proud of!

Life is in Session!

Life is in Session-this is my new words of wisdom! We can choose to join in the session or we can miss it! Wake up and smell the roses! Life is in Session!