Lies vs Truth 
Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.
Phil. 4:8
As with every other article I have written for CJ4H, the Lord has impressed on my to write about something He is presently working on in my heart. Sometimes He speaks to me through small things like a verse I read in my special time with Him in the morning over coffee. Other times He uses spiritual two by fours to put my rear end in place. This time, He decided to use an illness. I don't believe He caused the illness, but as the Lord so wisely seems to do (when I allow Him to do so that is), He takes life's crud and gardens into my life beautiful spiritual flowers. So, as I write this article, I am sitting in my room recovering from an illness that took me out of play for over a week.
Before I tell you what God did this week, I need to give you some background information. As we have been looking at how the spirit, soul, and body relate to one another, the Lord has been so faithfully leading me to information from sources that enhance and support this connection. One of the topics I have been reading a great deal about is memories and how they interact with life presently. What has beendiscovered is that all memories stored are stored with emotions. Sometimes these emotions are attached to the memory and are "uncharged". This means that you can recall to mind the memory and the feeling you felt with that memory but you do not re-experience the emotions you felt. Other times the emotions are connected to memories and they remain charged and stored somewhere in our bodies. This means that when you recall the memory not only do you recall the emotions but you feel
the emotions all over again as though you were re-experiencing the memory. We know the opposite can happen as well. We know that when certain emotions are felt due to present situations, all the "charged" memories begin to surface and a person will experience the present emotions multiplied by all the "charged" emotions.
Going back to my story, the entire week I had to lie in my bed and watch the life of my family play out in front of me. I was helpless to be able to help in any way. My husband tirelessly got up, got my girls up, got them ready for school, made their lunches, took them to school, worked his jobs as pastor/chaplain/professor, came home, helped with homework and violin, got supper together, got the girls bathed and in the bed, and somewhere in there had time to take care of me with such compassion that I wondered at this man I was married to. He did all of this everyday for over a week and did not complain at all. Read on
 Dr. A is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a licensed professional counseling in the state of Louisiana. She has been counseling for over 12 years and currently serves as the Clinical Director of Restoration Counseling, a Christian counseling practice in New Orleans, LA. Dr. A is also adjunct professor for New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. She and Dr. Page Brooks, have been married almost eleven years. They have 2 daughters, Karis (5 years old) and Alethia (3 years old). The Lord has used adoption as the means by which He has expanded the Brooks family. The Lord has given the Brooks a passion for specifically multi-racial adoption. Through this journey of multi-racial adoption, the Lord impressed upon both Page and Ashley the need for multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-economic churches. Out of this passion, a church was planted in New Orleans, which is now Canal Street Church-A Mosaic Community, which Page has been the pastor for 2 years. Read more about our writers
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 As I was recently praying for the Blackaby family, I was reminded of my experience with Henry Blackaby's Experiencing God. As a teen, it was the first Bible study I encountered, and it was an eye opening experience! Fast forward a few years (okay, a lot of years), and I'm leading women in Bible study - not just a student of one anymore. I LOVE to change the pace during our studies and point out that God can speak to us through any and every part of our day IF we are listening. Recently, I referenced Tom Blackaby's children's book Sammy Experiences Godbecause sometimes we need a simple Word to get to the meaning of a much larger Word from the Lord! Amen?
Sammy loves all the adventurous Bible stories his parents read him like Moses meeting God, Elijah prays for rain, God talks to Abraham, Elijah hears a whisper, Paul helps Timothy, etc. Sammy can't help but wonder why he isn't experiencing God in these big adventures. Sammy's wise and godly grandfather tells him to understand how we experience God every day when He lives in our heart. This book is a great tool to use with children and even has extra Bible study suggestions throughout. However, this kid at heart got just as much out of it as her children did!  Kristi is Women's Ministry Coordinator and the Director of Children's Ministries at First Baptist Church of Pascagoula, MS, where her husband - Dr. Jay Cook, serves as Pastor. She began her career as an elementary school teacher until God blessed her and Jay with two wonderful children; Kristi knew that God was guiding her to stay at home with her children during their early years, and she soon discovered that this enabled her to give even more attention to what God wanted her to do through His church.
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