My ABBA's Bigger Than-- - by DianaDee Osborne

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                                            Facebook followers & Friend requests welcome. DATE of posting:       13 December 2014

PARABLE:  
After finding an address I'd jotted down in my previous 400 pg journal, # 25, I flipped thu pages & read notes from the ALIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL in Ohio this past June 18th.

Found a giant squashed mosquito body in crease between pages 16 & 17... guess that describes part of the experience.. before the drenching rains came! Dug a bit deeper, studied the words of speaker Matt Chandler. He said
about Father God, described in Romans 8:15, 
" 'Abba' is more than just 'Daddy'. 
'Abba' is My dad can beat up your dad!... It's 
Look at  MY Dad -- HE created the Universe! .... It's 
My Dad LOVES me... 
my Dad will TAKE CARE of me
 and PROTECT me!"....... 

Pretty cool scripture study. Glad that mosquito didn't call for God's help.

SO WHAT ??

Psalm 147:  In the middle of telling how HE HEALS THE BROKEN-HEARTED,
God prompts the Psalmist to SUDDENLY write about this Fatherly God:
He counts the number of the stars;

​​He calls them all by name.              Click Here for Scripture Link

That's YOU   if the next verses describe you!  >>
5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power;

​​His understanding is infinite.

6 ​​The LORD lifts up the humble

What does LORD God say ??   ROMANS 15:

13   For if you live according to the flesh you will die;
         but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.  
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,
                                  [WHO FOLLOW HIM as their LORD],
       these are sons of God.  
15  For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, 
     but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, 
        “Abba, Father.”  
16  The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that
          we are children of God,  
17 and if children, then heirs—
heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ,
if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

From Suffering to Glory

18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. 

                                       Click Here for Scripture Link
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Highway Billboard Goofs FACEBOOK PARABLE - by DianaDee Osborne

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PARABLE:  
Travel Trivia: AFTER paying up to $1,000 for graphics co's design & production,
rent is $75-$200 per month for a countryside highway---
or $900-$2,500 for city one.
Whoever installed a NC billboard is probably in BIG trouble (pun intended):
MANY wrinkles.
YET: The message of the creator is EASY to read...
And God tells us the same:
His Grace is sufficient THRU our weakness to get His message through:
Using us even though we're weak, imperfect.

What does LORD God say ??    2nd Corinthians 12:9 
                                                     CLICK HERE FOR SCRIPTURE LINK
 "[God] said unto me, 'My grace is sufficient for thee: 
for My strength is made perfect in weakness.' 
Most gladly therefore will I   [Paul is writing]  rather 
glory in   [be glad, trusting God about]  my infirmities  [lack of skills, IQ, etc]
THAT the power of CHRIST may rest upon me." 

God says something very similar in Ephesians 3:20-21.      SCRIPTURE LINK  
"Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think...."

SO WHAT ??

1.  We canNOT be pride-filled when we remember that what we do is
ONLY by God's power!  It's EXCITING to miss that temptation!
We can far more easily LAUGH at Satan's temptations to be proud 

when we remember that ONLY by God's power are our works & speaking "unwrinkled." 

For His Glory... Verse 21.

2.  God declares that we ARE to be without wrinkles, in His empowering...

Ephesians 5:27, "that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, 

not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, 

but that she should be holy and without blemish."

               (Jude 1:12, "These are SPOTS in your love feasts, 

               while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves.")

THIS IS BASED ON GOD'S COMMANDS in  Leviticus 21 that His sacrifices

be perfect.... - INTERESTING LINK -  and WE are to give ourselves to Him

as our sacrifice...   ROMANS 12:1,

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you 

present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy  [set apart], 

acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

Psalm 56:4  

"I will freely sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, O LORD, for it is good!"

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Empty Gas Gauge Facebook Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

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DATE of posting:       5 November 2014

PARABLE:  
Within 1/2 hr of driving, van gas gauge went from indicating 1/4 full to showing an orange warning light- and the Range indicator saying I had 22 miles left.
Managed to get to a station within 10 miles.
Sure enough, pump showed I'd had only 1/2 gallon left: 13 miles.

I BASICALLY like my van model to get same model after
Snowstorm Tree totaled old van.
But I've always hated this feature that's same as 2010 models...
AND that we can't leave on headlights when we get out &
go to front door in the dark-- The company thinks we're too stupid 
      to know we left the lights on for 30 seconds....  THE LIGHTS GO OFF.

SO WHAT ??

....... The company that makes my van never asks its customers                 
what they do or don't like-- so   the vans Never Improve.  Bad features stay.   

And... I've been in dozens of churches as a traveling visitor:
Only 1 has ever given visitors a form asking 
"What would you suggest we change?" 

And for almost every church: In cold OR hot weather, 
no one stands outside the closed front door to welcome anyone-- 
even minutes before a service....
........ I've literally sat in my van some days at 10:50 for an 11 AM service, fighting the urge to drive away. Once in PA, I did.... So let me here commend a Stafford County VA church that even had greeters waiting *15 minutes after* service started-- telling me as I walked up late, "Welcome Home!"   Thank you, Strong Tower Ministries!: I certainly felt welcomed & comforted as I entered a new place to worship our LORD.

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Yet Another Bill Facebook Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

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DATE of posting:       4 November 2014

PARABLE:  
Each time I think I've met all requirements... here comes another bill.
Been 3 months, really feeling better after operation, but seems no end-
though the doctor's office had told me beforehand of only 2 bills that would come.
God is great... we can afford to pay.  >>>>>>
>>
SO WHAT ??
God is helping me to realize a parallel as I study CULTS that claim to be Christian: 
People are (1) promised they will feel better if they come, 
(2) told a few things they must "do to be saved". 
And so.... they're happy awhile in their new "church".....

But over time, they're told they've graduated to learn of
"one more thing" they have to do ("pay") .......  
         & then.....  and then.....

Some Christians / churches use God's Bible the same way:
First they declare TRUTH of Romans 10:9 as only 2 requirements;
but then tell people they must join & serve in a church, .... and then
be baptized.... and then BE this & DO that...
and oh, of COURSE must tithe & give lotsa $$$ to that church to be "really saved"....
exactly what God had to teach AGAINST thru Paul. 

        See Galatians 1, titled "Perversion of the Gospel".      Click here for link
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    PEACE,   Jesus promised (John 14:27).    
PEACE that even CHILDREN can understand His Promise & Way of Salvation.
       Luke 18: 10 "Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.”
    FEAR,   Satan tries to bring   (John 10:10, 8:44).     
Satan lies--- tells you it's too easy, you must be misunderstanding....
the LIE that SURELY you must DO something to be saved......    besides accept Jesus as LORD, like Jesus said.
As Paul wrote in 2nd Corinthians 11:3,
"But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness,
             so your minds may be corrupted from 
                                            the   SIMPLICITY  **  that is in Christ."
                       CLICK HERE FOR LINK  to 2nd Cor 11:3;
                   ** "Simplicity" is Strong's Greek 575 = "free from pretense and hypocrisy"

God is a LOVING Father.  FAITH in God trusts that He hasn't
HIDDEN something about His word so that only scholars can find the true meaning.
Children listen to their father's word and believe it -- and
TRUST His forgiveness if   they mistakenly think something about His word.
    PEACE,   Jesus promised ....   We can trust the   
     Peace of  2nd Timothy 3:16, God's Bible Truth.    
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Commandments are "statutes forever"  link
                              (research that & Matt 5:19 "least of these", Strongs G1785),
and tell what God Likes:
       and we try to  please those we REALLY love.
BUT keeping them canNOT save us. 
  ** ONLY **    
accepting Jesus's gift can save anyone.

What does LORD God say ??  
Isaiah 43:11 is one of the verses that PROVE Jesus our Savior IS God.... 
AND proves that YOU cannot be your own savior.  
If you ASK the LORD, He SHALL help you remember it (John 14:26) 
when someone says to you with a smirk,
        "There's no proof of  that church word 'Trinity' - People just made it up."
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GOD says
"I, even I, am the LORD, And 
BESIDES ME, THERE IS *NO* savior." 
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FAST STUDY of word "Savior"    >>

http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=savior&t=NKJV#s=s_primary_0_1

CLICK HERE   for    LINK to 2nd Timothy 3:16  (re peace in trusting scriptures....
                                                                               many versions, compared)

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Picture Window Facebook Parable - by DianDee Osborne

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DATE of posting:       3 November 2014

PARABLE:  

~18 months ago, we finally got courage to spend $1,500 to replace our house's huge picture window system with insulated glass. Cold air had seeped thru for 25+ winters despite heavy draperies. Even when I pulled back draperies in summers, thick cloth blocked part of the view of the field & forest beyond.
NOW: Barely-there filmy curtains are decoration only: 
They don't cover any glass. 

It's such a JOY to see so much of God's world 

that was ALWAYS there, 

hidden because of my choice to keep draperies....

SO WHAT ??

Just as it's such a JOY to keep finding  "treasures" 
in God's Word that have been there all along: 
Found as I keep seeking His truth while
praying for wisdom 
(as God promises He will give when we ask -- like John 14:26, James 1:5-6).
Like Hebrews 12:1-3 -- such a comfort when I'm weary of people------   and of me.

What does LORD God say ??  

1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

 

3 For consider Him who endured such hostility  

from sinners against Himself,                                 

lest you become weary                                            

and discouraged in your souls.                             

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Flying Carpets Sins Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

FLYING  CARPETS  SINS  PARABLE  
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DATE of posting:       27 October 2014 
PARABLE:  Dad didn't call Grandmom's Oriental throw rugs "flying carpets" for nothing. 

When the adults were outdoors, my brother & I would go sailing down her long wood hall-- long before we knew someone had invented skateboards.
Of course Dad made us stop when he found out.

MyBroAnd-I loved the new rental house with baby pine trees to jump over,
& a well house (like Snoopy's doghouse!) that we could run to, race up the top,
& jump as far as pos. Of course Dad made us stop.

I was "responsible" at age 11; so while Mom & Dad were both at work, 
I made sure my Bro didn't invent any bad things to do ... So...

...... MyBroAnd-I would sneak in the outdoors-only cat Butterball; 
sneak poorly hidden snacks (only a couple, figuring Mom wouldn't notice). 
We'd jump on beds but of course get the wrinkles out afterward. 
But always, somehow, Dad found out and.... 
EVER THINK UPON HOW *UNFAIR* IT SEEMS      
        that the FUN stuff are SINS?...                       

...... But then: Dad didn't want us to break legs, 
break pines we didn't own, 
break shingles off the pump house, 
fall off the bed or break the slats (oh... I just remembered.... oops....), 
or eat our limited food-- we didn't know we weren't rich. 
And I won't mention what he didn't want the CAT to do in the house and hence that rule... and another oops or 2 or....

....... Every "SIN" Dad didn't want us to do-- 
we thought he was ruining our fun. 
But now we see He had good reason. 
And... one day... everyone will see that 
our Heavenly Dad also had good reason for His commands. 

SO WHAT ??

My favorite finding: In last decades, environmental scientists are finding that shellfish quickly help clean up polluted waters when their numbers are allowed to grow again... and of course when we eat shellfish, we're eating the gunk they ate. Leviticus 11:10, God SAID these are "Detestable to you." Not just a "SIN" but a LOVING instruction from our loving dad.
........ I wish I had trusted my smart Dad more as a child. No hidden parable there.


What does LORD God say ??  Leviticus 11 contains a lot of COMMON SENSE
HEALTH commands -- like not eating carrion birds, or "road kill" that can make you SICK.

9 ‘These you may eat of all that are in the water: whatever in the water has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers—that you may eat. 10 But all in the seas or in the rivers that do not have fins and scales, all that move in the water or any living thing which is in the water, they are an abomination to you. 11 They shall be an abomination to you; you shall not eat their flesh, but you shall regard their carcasses as an abomination. 12 Whatever in the water does not have fins or scales—that shall be an abomination to you.

13 ‘And these you shall regard as an abomination among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard, ....

SCIENTISTS know these are wise health precautions. 

And that FASTING on occasion improves health....

And that RESTING completely every 7th day 

           improves mental & physical health....

GOD'S LAWS ARE LOVING.... Just as Jesus said,

Malachi 1:1, "The burden of the Word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi."

Matthew 11:30, "For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” - JESUS

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Cotton Fields Facebook Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

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DATE of posting:       25 October 2014

PARABLE: 
As I drove thru several 100 miles of SC & NC back roads, I saw many fields 

literally "white for harvest", the words of Jesus in John 4:35. As a country girl, I've been among cotton plants. My hands have bled & itched from fierce thorn-likes husks that surround those white balls-- NOT all sweet soft cotton like the store sells...

SO WHAT ??

We often hear John 4 taught in church, of sending us to spread The Gospel.
But Jesus's reaping parable meant more than just 
going & easily plucking grapes. Sometimes, like with cotton plants,
it seems the crop "fights back". 
Mocks, ignores, even threatens us. 
Still, Christ invites us to be part of His Ministry...
Commands us (like at end of Matthew).
A mission that will bring Joy beyond description if, thru us, the LORD reaps the heart of yet another of the ALL He so dearly loves.

What does LORD God say ?? 
JOHN 3:16,  of course!  -  "The World" = each person.

But in many OTHER places, God says He dearly loves ALL persons.
He invites us to share His Truth with each one we meet.
2nd Peter 3:8 is one place telling that God
WANTS  YOU TO REACH OUT TO  THORNY,  SHARP  PEOPLE TOO:
"The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, 
but is longsuffering toward us, 
NOT willing that any should perish 
but that all should come to repentance."
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Seashell Find Parable - by DianaDee Osborne

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DATE of posting:       19 October 2014

Photo Credit: Angie Mckenzie

PARABLE:  

I dashed my hands fast to grab a shell under the water before waves could drag it away... Lesson at beach: Decide fast or your op for that treasure will probably be gone forever.

SO WHAT ??   Sorrow slammed me harder than the waves to remember a radio sermon quoting a famous 'classic' theologian- far above me in IQ- declaring that "When God calls you, if you don't answer, your op WILL be gone forever." 

What does LORD God say ?? 

.... NO! There's neither Divine Love NOR Logic that The Shepherd stops calling a stubborn sheep just because- like most children- it selfishly runs.
ure-- if the sheep keeps biting, God gives Freedom of choice.
But entire theologies built around verses re "reprobate minds" out of context
 (1) ignore "Love is PATIENT" (1 Corinthians 13 describes GOD, too!), and
 (2) are tools of Satan to drive away those who rejected God's call as youth
                  and are now told "Too Bad-- You're Too Late."
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