A's Happiness Blogs

What a Friend  We all have friends that we have in our lives. Some of us have friends that we have known since grade school, and some of us have friends that we met over the years.  I have some good friends in my life. Two in particular, I have known for over 30 years.  I would do anything for my friends. Or would I?  How many of us can say that we would lay down our lives for a friend?  Something to think about right? Sure, it is easy to say "Yea, I would lay down my life for my best friend", but if the time came to do just that, will you will be willing? Jesus is a TRUE friend. He was willing to lay down his life so we could be saved. In John 19, it accounts what happened to Jesus when he was crucified on the cross. It shows all he had to endure just so we could be saved.  John 19:1-3 says: "Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, And said, H...

  Why read the Bible?  I was having a conversation with my children and I asked them a question.  " Why do we need to study the Bible?" And they gave me some great answers. One said "because it will help us" and one answered " because that is what we are suppose to do". Both answers were true, but I had to take it a step further and explain to them why it was important  for us as christians to read and study the Bible.  The word of God is so many things in our lives.  It will help us if we would dive deep into it.   When we get in to the Bible, we will find out so many thing that we can apply to our lives.  The Word of God Guides Us This weeks scripture for the week is Psalm 119:105 which says:  "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto our path". It is funny I started writing this blog about a week ago and when I went to get the scripture for the week, this is what God showed me. The word of God gives us direction and guides us in o...

 

To all the mothers out there, I pray you have a blessed day!

  I started attending a new church, and they have a daily bible reading guide. Each day has a different scripture to read as we are trying to read through the whole Bible.    As I was doing my bible reading for this morning, it has me in 1 Samuel. As I was reading the scripture, I was able to read something that I never had before.   In 1 Samuel Chapters 11-15, it shows two incidents that Saul, who was made king at the time, disobeyed what the Lord had told him to do. But the situation in chapter 15 is the one that got me.   “Thus, saith the Lord of host, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came from Egypt. Now go and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass” I Samuel 15:2 &3 (KJV)   So, the Lord told Samuel to tell Saul to go kill everything in Amalek. He wanted EVERYTHING destroyed. All the men, women, child...

"Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:" I Peter 5:6  Have you ever been to a child's sports game? It may have been a baseball game or football game, or even a basketball game. The hardest thing for the children who won the game to do is to not pick on the loosing side. But you see it all the time, they are happy that they won, but they have to be taught how to show humility.  Why are they not humble Maybe they do not understand the concept of losing. But that is why it is so important to know what it is.  Being humble means having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance.  Simply put, you do not put yourself above others.  As I was reading Daniel chapter 4, I learned a lot about King Nebuchadnezzar. In this chapter, it shows us him in stages.  The first stage, the Bible shows a rich king, with all his riches. But he was also a troubled king. He went to bed one night, and had a dream t...