Please join me as I honor my baby brother in today's blog! Please feel free to share, mahalo!
The Key Tov Blog is a relevant, easy to digest and often humorous look into the Word of God that can be easily applied by people of all ages. Genice Fulton endeavors to bring the reader to an understanding of simple Biblical truths through sharing scripture, life experiences, and keys for empowered living in the 21st century! Welcome to the Good Life!
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Back Online!
We've been offline for several weeks while renovating our apartment in Honolulu but we're back today discussing God's goodness and His perfect plan for our lives. His plan for our lives is perfect because He is perfect!
Please join me as I honor my baby brother in today's blog! Please feel free to share, mahalo!
Please join me as I honor my baby brother in today's blog! Please feel free to share, mahalo!
My Baby Brother is a Cowboy
Jesus looked at them intently and said, "Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible." (Mathew 19:26, NLT)
My baby brother is a cowboy. A real cowboy. He walks funny from riding too many bulls. I've only seen him wear something other than Wranglers a handful of times my whole life. Thankfully, he still has all his fingers even though he has "swung a many a rope". When we talk (he lives in Oklahoma), he is always going to pick up a horse, drop off a horse, or check on some cows.
Recently, I was teasing him and told him I was going to take him scuba diving. He said I could take him as soon as I figure out a way for his cowboy hat not to block a scuba mask and regulator and as soon as I figure out a way for his Wranglers not to create too much drag. In other words, he always wears his ten gallon hat and won't exchange his jeans for board shorts and forget the idea of a speedo. Sis won't link up with that!
When I look at him I see no difference in him and the cowboys who lived in the "cowboy era". We could plop him down in that era and no one could pick him out of that crowd.
Today I was walking the beach thinking about him and the cowboy time in history. As a huge jet flew over my head, I thought, I wonder what those cowboys would think today if they could see huge jets fly.
It was once said it was impossible for people to fly. What those people said didn't make today's truth any less true. The ones who didn't believe it, didnt stop the ones who made it a reality. Today hundreds of thousands of people fly all over the globe every day. What once seemed impossible is now taken for granted.
Jesus looked at them intently and said, "Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible."
Jesus told the dead to raise.
The dead obeyed.
Need your marriage raised from the dead?
Need your health to raised from the dead?
Need you finances to raised from the dead?
Call it forth and give God the glory. Nothing...no thing...is impossible with Him!
Romans 4:17
Ephesians 5:1
Colossians 3:23
1 Corinthians 10:31
My baby brother is a cowboy. A real cowboy. He walks funny from riding too many bulls. I've only seen him wear something other than Wranglers a handful of times my whole life. Thankfully, he still has all his fingers even though he has "swung a many a rope". When we talk (he lives in Oklahoma), he is always going to pick up a horse, drop off a horse, or check on some cows.
Recently, I was teasing him and told him I was going to take him scuba diving. He said I could take him as soon as I figure out a way for his cowboy hat not to block a scuba mask and regulator and as soon as I figure out a way for his Wranglers not to create too much drag. In other words, he always wears his ten gallon hat and won't exchange his jeans for board shorts and forget the idea of a speedo. Sis won't link up with that!
When I look at him I see no difference in him and the cowboys who lived in the "cowboy era". We could plop him down in that era and no one could pick him out of that crowd.
Today I was walking the beach thinking about him and the cowboy time in history. As a huge jet flew over my head, I thought, I wonder what those cowboys would think today if they could see huge jets fly.
It was once said it was impossible for people to fly. What those people said didn't make today's truth any less true. The ones who didn't believe it, didnt stop the ones who made it a reality. Today hundreds of thousands of people fly all over the globe every day. What once seemed impossible is now taken for granted.
Jesus looked at them intently and said, "Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible."
Jesus told the dead to raise.
The dead obeyed.
Need your marriage raised from the dead?
Need your health to raised from the dead?
Need you finances to raised from the dead?
Call it forth and give God the glory. Nothing...no thing...is impossible with Him!
Romans 4:17
Ephesians 5:1
Colossians 3:23
1 Corinthians 10:31
Friday, February 1, 2013
Demolition Derby Time!
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:5, NLT)
I have read and read and read that scripture. I have confessed and confessed and confessed that scripture. But this week, that scripture has come alive to me in a new way!
Our store on Oahu, Central Pacific Rebuilders, has an upstairs living quarters. This week, our friend Joseph has been renovating the living quarters area.
It is our Palace O'Da Key Tov!
The building was built in the sixties. I'm extremely positive it has not been touched since that time. God has given me a wonderful vision for this project! Not a vision in the biblical sense, a vision as in how to renovate it.
The first thing Joe had to do was gut the whole upstairs. There was hammering and sawing and banging. It was like a demolition derby, except with men instead cars! At the end of day one, I looked around and I thought, now THIS is what the Lord intended by demolishing arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God!
Seeing the results of the "gutting" made me want to further my study of the word demolish (mahalo Google) and I found:
Verb
Synonyms
This is my new translation for 2 Corinthians 10:5!
We demolish-pull down-knock down-comprehensibly destroy-wreck-ruin-tear down-refute all arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ!
When we are tempted with thoughts of:
We run to Jesus and demolish 'em!
We don't run to our friends &/or Facebook and amplify 'em!
We replace:
Friends, it's demolition derby time!
I have read and read and read that scripture. I have confessed and confessed and confessed that scripture. But this week, that scripture has come alive to me in a new way!
Our store on Oahu, Central Pacific Rebuilders, has an upstairs living quarters. This week, our friend Joseph has been renovating the living quarters area.
It is our Palace O'Da Key Tov!
The building was built in the sixties. I'm extremely positive it has not been touched since that time. God has given me a wonderful vision for this project! Not a vision in the biblical sense, a vision as in how to renovate it.
The first thing Joe had to do was gut the whole upstairs. There was hammering and sawing and banging. It was like a demolition derby, except with men instead cars! At the end of day one, I looked around and I thought, now THIS is what the Lord intended by demolishing arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God!
Seeing the results of the "gutting" made me want to further my study of the word demolish (mahalo Google) and I found:
Verb
- Pull or knock down (a building).
- Comprehensively refute (an argument or its proponent).
Synonyms
- destroy - wreck - ruin - tear down - pull down
This is my new translation for 2 Corinthians 10:5!
We demolish-pull down-knock down-comprehensibly destroy-wreck-ruin-tear down-refute all arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ!
When we are tempted with thoughts of:
- Anxiety
- Hurt
- Frustration
- Confusion
- Condemnation
- Anger
- Offense
We run to Jesus and demolish 'em!
We don't run to our friends &/or Facebook and amplify 'em!
We replace:
- anxiety with "Lord, I cast all anxieties on You, because You care for Me!" (1 Peter 5:7)
- hurt with "I fear not, for You are with me; I am not dismayed, for You are my God! You strengthen me, Yes, You help me! You uphold me with Your righteous right hand." (Isaiah 41:10)
- frustration with "Thank You Jesus for bringing to my remembrance to refuse to grow weary of doing good! Thank You for Your promise I will reap in due season when I refuse to give up!" (Galatians 6:9)
- Confusion with "Father, thank You for Your wonderful Spirit of truth! He guides me into all the truth! (John 16:13)
- Condemnation with "Thank You Jesus there is no place for condemnation in me! You have made me free from the law of sin and death! (Romans 8:1, 2)
- Anger with "Father, You gave me emotions! I handle my emotions in a healthy, godly manner! When I am angry, I refuse to sin! I put my trust in You! (Psalm 4:4-5)
- Offense with "Father, thank You for teaching me to walk in forgiveness which makes me free! Thank You for showing me how to avoid the terrible trap of unforgiveness!" (Mark 11:25)
Friends, it's demolition derby time!
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