Marion Gaskins

  Discouragement What can cause discouragement?                                         The year of 2020 has been a lesson plan for discouragement and revelation. # FEAR - We are consistently being bombarded by every segment of society with fear .  During this pandemic we are told we need to do this and we shouldn't do this.  Anarchy is happening in the streets and fear for the safety of our families has settled into many hearts and minds.  Examples of fear and worry in our current culture are too numerous to mention.   For now, I leave with you this reminder of a promise from God..... Deuteronomy 31:8 - "The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.  Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."                               ...

The Lord Jesus is coming again, visibly and personally. As a Christian, this is our blessed hope! 2 Corinthians 4:18 tells us...."  So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen,  since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."   The trouble with so many of us is that we are looking so intently and so continually at the things which are not seen, that we can not see the things at which God intends us to look.  So often we say thing like "I don't understand (see) why this has happened to me."  It is because we have been looking in the wrong place for our reason.  When we want to find some....we must look where it is. See above scripture.   "There are 2 spheres of vision.  The focal and the marginal.  When we focus our eyes on a primary object, we see adjacent objects n the margin of our vision.  When we focus with our spiritual eyes on things eternal and on Christ, sadly we see our earthly sorro...

The coastline of North Carolina is known as "The Graveyard of the Atlantic" due to numerous shipwrecks. There are over 5,000!      In the sea of life, wouldn't it be great if we all experienced clear sailing?  But, there are storms that come our way, and there are times we will most certainly encounter a shipwreck!  In St. Pauls instructions for  living he references "shipwrecked faith " (1 Timothy 1:18-20) " I am giving you these instructions, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies made earlier about you, so that by following them you may fight the good fight,    having faith and a good conscience. By rejecting conscience, certain persons have suffered shipwreck in the faith;   among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have turned over to Satan, so that they may learn not to blaspheme." *******A storm is coming..... maybe not tomorrow, next week, a month,  maybe not for a year. ...

"Intentionally" interact with people of all ages! You miss out on so much love and likeness of Christ  when you only mingle and associate with those people  who "are like" you or I.  How sad to segregate by age, religion,  life status and season in life!   There is abundant blessings  in inviting and being invited  into each other's lives.  Today, "Welcome" to "your" table. "Welcome" to "your" home  and most definitely, "Welcome" with your heart.

Our sword - "It is written".   Just like Jesus, we need to say "It is written".                                                      It should be our guide, our rule.                                                                           No compromise! Jesus,  Himself used Scripture to resist temptation.   In Luke 4: 1-13 we read..........  " And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness   for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.   The devil said to him, “I...

Remember back in the day when there was no internet?  We used to collect recipes by taking them out of magazines - or better yet, we shared recipes and passed them down through the generations. Oh what memories !  Our first recipe box.........                                                                           Look how the paper on some of the recipes is actually turning brown.  The Peanut Butter Bars has an adorable story….                                                                       We had just gotten married....(back in the early 70's) Mike was on his way into work l...

Unless otherwise noted, authors are unknown.                                                                                                       "Mother is a verb...........NOT a noun". Tenneva Jordan is quoted as saying,  "A Mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces that she never did care for pie". "I remember my Mother's prayers and they have always followed me.  The have clung to me all my life".    Abraham Lincoln The definition of a  sweater ..... "a garment worn by a child when their  Mother  is feeling chilly". Spanish Proverb  - "An ounce of Mother is worth a pound of clergy". "The heart of a Mother ...