Woke up with sun shining on the Klickitats and as the day has progressed seeing a full on embrace on the rest of our neck of the woods.

Have to check the NWS on a daily, and sometimes couple of times a day, in order to get a close forecast; been changing a lot lately.  Supposed to be 46* as a high, all ready 48*, but the rest of the week we may be in the low 50’s, or so they think today. 

Snow is quickly melting, except for the piles we made in order to clear paths, still in shadows or that fell of the roofs – have a hunch they may take quite a bit longer.

Well, Nancy, you were right to warn me, doc sending me over to an orthopedic surgeon, long list of damages to the shoulder and arm – just what I needed. 

John and Bruce Schwartz are retired, so have to go with one of the others.  Not all that concerned, but those two have done the work on me and family members since I can remember.

Not sure just what has to be done, will find out later.

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“Being filled with the fullness of God is like a bottle in the ocean. You take the cork out of the bottle and sink it in the ocean, and you have the bottle completely full of ocean. The bottle is in the ocean, and the ocean is in the bottle. The ocean contains the bottle, but the bottle contains only a little bit of the ocean. So it is with the Christian." - AB Simpson

Ephesians 3:19 “And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.”  KJV

God fills us and He can keep us filled with His Holy Spirit, all we have to do is open our hearts and receive Him. 

We get focused on our own little part of the world, and forget that we are but a small speck in the totality of this earth.

Property we own, no matter how large, barely makes a preview on an overview shot of the world. 

That bottle that Simpson is talking about can remain full and be refilled for eternity, and even if we had bottles representing everybody in the world filled from that sea it would not diminish the sea.

Thus is the spirit of our God.  We can’t get too much.  We don’t have to worry about God running out or depriving someone else of God’s goodness by having too much of Him within us.  In fact when we are filled to overflowing it pours out on those around us some that may not understand to seek it and they too learn that there is no stopping the flow of the Holy Spirit.

Each day I pray for my family, friends and special requests that come my way.  Sometimes I am specific when I know a special need, other times it is for God to cover, protect and give wisdom to each one of them.  And sometimes it is for them to understand a truth in God’s Word and that they will apply it to their lives.

I remember a conversation I had with someone once; she told me she never prays for little things, she doesn’t want to burden God with them so she only prays for the big things in her life.

I have never found that reasoning in God’s Word.  I have found many that contradict that thinking.

He knows every hair on our head, He knows the feathers on a sparrow and He wants us to trust Him, to depend on Him.

Mathew 10:29-31 “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

³⁰ But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

³¹ Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.”  KJV

Mathew 7:7-8 “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

⁸ For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”  KJV

Are there conditions, yes, it has to do with our heart and praying with a connection through Jesus and the Holy Spirit with the will of the Father.

John 15:6-8 “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

⁷ If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

⁸ Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.”  KJV

“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”

But He never said, pray only for the ‘big’ things, don’t bother me with those tiny things like helping you make day to day decisions on doing your job, or a decision on how to discipline your child, or what direction to drive to town – we rarely think to pray about those things, but they are not forbidden.

When we pray for wisdom, for assistance, for other people it gives God the opportunity to fill our lives and those of others with His Holy Spirit and bring others to Him.

We cannot wait for the big things to pray, if we had prayed for the little things that made up those big things, it may never have become such a large trial for us.

Later, Art (-: