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Three Keys to Waiting.

How much do we like WAITING?! I’d say NOT or NONE!

Waiting is as old as time itself. We rarely are anything other than patient when waiting for the future vision, much less the immediate urgency of some need(s). The last few years I’ve experienced with thousands of people around the world the required waiting time…for supplies, HOPE, HELP, volunteers in harsh disaster zones. Even last week in power outages, floods & fires; people are desperately waiting.

Yet, we see at least 3 Things to note about Waiting. Allow these to catalyze your thought, hearts, prayers and actions towards making Waiting more attractive!

1. TARRY! is a word often used to describe or as a synonym for Waiting. It’s fullest meaning is to continue where you are, what your are and who you are until the realization of what you Wait for comes to pass. Remember on Whom you wait more than for What you wait.

You have a vision, dream, goal, or even immediate or emerging need. Tarrying while it’s solution comes is not always so easy. Habakuk 2:3 tells us to “though it tarries, wait for it, for it shall surely come.”

A great old time leader named Abram (later Abraham) at least once was tired of waiting. Genesis 15 recounts the story. God led Abram by the hand when he could no longer endure the waiting and showed him the stars. Don’t you just love how the King of the Universe has taken this broken man by the hand, touching him with His Glory & Greatness! God reminded Abram for whom he waited more than for what he waited.

2.  PRAY! Well of course you’re praying. Right? And, who is praying with you? Folks, you are leaders of your families, businesses, churches, and communities. The weal and woes of those you serve as you lead are enormous, not to mention your own life, heart, physical & fiscal situations. Prayer is the key element in life, especially in the waiting line.

1 Thessalonians 5:25  “Brothers and sisters, pray for us.” Yes, do that. Pray for one another. Pray together. Pray often. Pray first. Pray foremost. Pray with thanksgiving in all things for the soon coming, no longer waited for, answer!

3. LIVE! Often situations just seem unbearable any longer, we feel dead to life. The vision seems impossible, the enemies too big, the light at the end of the tunnel is anther train about to run us over. Too many times we are a bloodied mess in our own minds if not literally from the battles.

Ezekiel 16:6 Gives us a picture of how the Lord sees you & me during such times.  “‘Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, “Live!” 

SO, go ahead right now, get up out of the dust and LIVE life while you tarry and pray.

Old & New Friends, encourage one another in word & deed!

LIVE, LIVE , LIVE.   IT’S NOT OVER. GOD IS STILL ON HIS THRONE OF GRACE FOR YOU. You, your family and your friends will soon WAIT NO LONGER!

We’re Waiting on God, nothing or no one else! What are some situations you have been waiting for God to show up in? Celebrate that it’s coming soon, and share with us!

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United States of America. STILL.

Some say barely, others say not, but this is still the United States of America.

Pray for, Protect & Defend that every day. 

The United States Constitution.

Read It. Believe it. Be it!

We The People… that means us.

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Cliched or not: JUST DO IT.

Sometimes there isn’t enough time to talk about Doing Something. 

Sometimes people JUST DO IT.

If you need HELP or can HELP. Contact us now.

DISASTER MINISTRIES    CitiIMPACT Missions      ABOUT

SEE STORIES HERE & HERE from this past weekend. 

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How is your family & community dealing with the HEAT & other disasters?

Tomorrow I’ll have an UPDATE on FREEDOMS in the USA. Watch for it:

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3 Places of Strength for Living

 Climbing those mountains and obstacles in life can be overwhelming. It’s especially overwhelming when we attempt that in our own strength.

Psalm 68:28  “Summon your power, God[j];
show us your strength, our God, as you have done before.”

King David of old found the key secret. The strength of God is the solution! 

1-On the way up, the Lord is our strength. Difficult climbs require the fortitude and character that the strength of God can pour into our lives. Climb without fear!

2-Going down requires different muscles in hill climbing doesn’t it? So the hills of life, those obstacles overcome, next coming down is the challenge. It may not appear so, but surely our experiences show it to be. Often this is where our “heart”, passion or faith, become weak or weary. Go down boldly with focus on He who helped you climb!

3-OK, here is my own difficulty: Sitting Still. WOW. How hard is that? A mother or father watching a sick child may often wonder what to do, wringing their hands and hearts with anxious moments. How many times have we all said, “If I only could do something!” Even in the stillness our sufficiency is of God. None else nor anyone else satisfies.

Sandy Turner, a CitiIMPACT Missions Advisor in Florida wrote last night, as she prepares to serve others, “There’s a certain helplessness ones feels in the midst of the storm.  I sit with my family, safe for now.  Our home is JUST high enough. Just far enough away from the rivers. So, we are safe. As of this writing, Black Creek, in rural Middleburg (near Jacksonville) is quickly flooding.  It is already above the “100 Year” flood stage.  I have family there…”  (Watch for more from Sandy & others soon on the Florida situations.)

Allow the joy of the Lord to be your strength today! The cloud of witnesses who have gone before us are cheering us on as the King of Glory, the Lord High and Mighty, strengthens all of us to climb the mountains, get down the other sides, and sit still when we must!

What are some times you’ve climbed, descended or sat still that the Lord showed His might strength to you?

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Disaster Update Alert!

Evening Update on Disaster Response for Florida: We’re mobilizing some initial assessment and relief. We have collaborations in Florida & outside to come in as best to serve through locally led efforts. Stay tuned.

Please continue to follow us on TWITTER & our Response Pages to Be Prepared & To Help.

Disaster Updates

CitiIMPACT  Missions & Disaster Missions

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Here are some updates of note for this morning.

Michael Hyatt

Ron Edmondson

Social Connections

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50 YEARS IS ENOUGH…….

What are your thoughts on this?
Did anyone, can anyone keep you from praying? Or, is it just keeping you from being publicly & in groups?
Has this stopped you?
Blessings,
www.JDSmithOnline.com

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Hot Hot! Ways to Beat the HEAT!

What an incredible HEAT filled time it is around many parts of the USA.!

This past week a water main broke in our area leaving our family and thousands of others without running water for the better part of 12 hours. All restaurants and businesses were closed down. The amount of “agony” heard throughout the community was very telling about my family and thousands of others need for water to Beat the Heat! This episode certainly led to a renewal of appreciation for the blessings of WATER!

Whether it’s the scorching heat of the summer weather.

OR 

The new reigning Miami Heat NBA Champs who didn’t get beat this week…

HEAT is on a lot of folks minds and in their talk. You and most of the people who read this can go out and splash in pools, take showers and play in the water.

In many parts of the world, the heat has little or no relief solutions as water is not available to provide any cooling effects. Rather, water is often not available to even prepare food or keep children alive.

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You can help those folks in tremendous suffering from real HEAT and water deprivation with your continuing support of missions and ministries who supply solutions to those and other related life-threatening situation, like CitiIMPACT Ministries through their Child Sponsorship and other missions.

What are some ways you beat the heat during this summer? What are some ways we can help at-risk kids BEAT The HEAT and have fresh water supplies together? Respond below and visit here to get more information.

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The LOVE test?

Are we all filled with the Holy Spirit?

“And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.” Acts 2:4

How about this as a life-changing litmus test?  Sounds like LOVE! 

Gal. 5:22-23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”

What ways has LOVE or other fruit of the Spirit been powerful in your life?

Let’s compile our stories for celebration together!

Comment or contact us today.

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The Father and the DAD..

HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO ALL OF YOU!

My tribe comes from a heritage of following Jesus, the Son of God, the Father in heaven.

No we aren’t perfect, nor were our ancestors. We rely upon the finished work of grace accomplished on the cross of Calvary by Jesus, our faith in Him, for salvation. I do my best to pass it on. The real accomplishment over the years is to be both Father & DAD. Let’s keep working on that!

Here is MY DAD. His name is Arvil Smith. His photo is from Fathers Day, 2000. He died a few months later, leaving a legacy of natural, and spiritual children as a long-time Pastor. He raised me with much grace.

AND, here are MY KIDS, who have and are sculpting me by their grace, too. They are Caleb, Abigail, Nathan, Thad & Lindsey. Although they are all older than these pictures, they are still the apples of this Dad’s eyes.

How did your Father/Dad impact your life for the good?

How about your heavenly Father. No one needs to be without Him.

John 3:16.17 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him

HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO ALL OF YOU!

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Your NEW things!

I’m often tempted to look for something really NEW to write or tell others.It’s so exciting to encourage others like that. God has written on our “wall” of life more than once about NEW things. Belshazzar isn’t the only one you know who has that experience, and they aren’t always ominous. Daniel 5.

1. I suppose that a lot of NEW things are out there every day, from someone’s perspective at least. I’d like to think that a NEW thing is springing up for you, as God has said at times. I hope that we can all perceive it when the NEW thing does spring up. The changes required will be worth it! Isaiah 43:18-19 18 “Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
19 See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.

2. Revelation 21 tells that God will make all things NEW someday, again.
5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

3. What NEW thing is springing up around you? What will you need to let go of from the past where you sometimes dwell or linger? Let us know how we can help, contact us today.

Remember this, too. Inspiration leads to Motivation leads to Foundation leads to Implementation leads to Sensation leads to Inspiration.

Let’s all press on together to the NEW things that God has in and for our lives!

Blessings, JD!

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