Ok this is my last one for the night! Like always my words look like this!

Determine waht may have lept you form being more involved in ministry by seeing which of hte following four characters you identify with the most.

JEALOUS JENNY/JOHN: Do you focus on hte gifts others have been given and, therefore, never find your own niche in ministy? Have you unwisely compared yourself wiht other women/men? (1Cor 4:7; 12:7; Rom 12:3)

PRIMA DONNA PAULA/PAUL: Do you want to serve God on your terms? Do you want to write the script and have the leading role? (Jn 4:34; 7:16,18; Mt 23:5)

FEARFUL FRANCES/FRANK: Do you fear what others think? Are you afraid of becoming too involved and being labled a fanatic? Do you hesitate to be a Lady/Man of Diligence because you feel so inadequate? (Prov 29:25; 2Tim 1:7, 1 Thess 5:24)

DOUBTING DORIS/DON: Faith is believing what God says about you.  Do you long to become more involved in a number of ministires, but feel your faith will fizzle before you finish? Have you struggled with serving the Lord in the past, so you doubt yourself today? (Part of minhistry is learning, so don't let yesterday's sturggles prevent future successes.) (1 Jn 4:4; 2Tim 1:9; 1Tim 6:12)

To get involved in any  ministry demands a sacrifice.  have you allowed your self-centeredness to dominate your daily schedule?

Ok that is my last one i promise for this week and maybe for a few weeks it depends on my access to a computer and the internet! Here are a few other scriptures to look at that jackie & debby added at the end of the chapter....2Sam 24:24; Phil 2:3-4; and Mt 19:29.  As always give me your feed back i like questions and comment.  Until Next Time, I'm Out! MaryP

Hey i know i am sharing alot tonight but i may not be able to get ot a computer for a week or so and i wanted to get the rest of this chapter finished up! After this one I have one more i want to share tonight. As always my word look like this!

Richard Foster briliantly penned this thought 'If all of our serving is before others, we will be shallow people indeed.' Jesus spoke clearly about the constant public displayof our service in Mat 23:5.  The next time someone asks you to help out in service that is monotonous ans non-newsy, don't hesitate.  Teaching Bible studies, going our on evangelism teams, mission tris, and even prayer groups - all these are priceless opportunities to serve, but they are not the only avenues.  Serving in the preschool department at church, going to kids' camp, nad even cooking in the kitchen for a junior high banquet are all honorable services that the Lady/Man of Diligence can embrace with respect. Look at your schedule and decide how some of your free time that was wasted yesterday might be redeeemed today.  Allow no more room in your schedule for 'pity parties.' Such wise use of your free time will give you the gift of 'no regrets.' Your future service will be focused and no longer destracted.

Free hours,                                                                                          

Not wasted by me,                                                                              

using my free time,                                                                                 

To serve only Thee.                                                                      

Realizing how temporary free time will be                                           

Never to regret a missed opportunity,                                                   

For others to be blest,                                                                      

Through yielded me.                                                                          

JMK

As always share your comments and questions. Later MaryP

Hey guys i am going to share these parts tonight also they are not that long so here goes!

The ministry or writing requires a pen, paper, nad a willing heart.  A personal note, ..serves as oxygen to the soul or hte recipient.  'He who refreshes other will himself be refreshed' Prov 11:25b  The Lord wants you to be involved in the lives of those around yo and writing is one of those opportunities. 

A ministy of listening is available right now.  When someone is grieving your presence provides more power than words.  When someone is burdened, you may want to just listen and silently pray rather than verbally give the solution to the problem.   Being content to listen to someone tody is a gift you can give.  A listener provides a healing audience for someone who is hurting.  Deing content to listen is a gift you can give soemone today.  'Like one who takes away garment on a cold day, or like vinegar poured on soda, is one who sings songs to a heavy heart' Prov 25:20. This ministry requires noe seminary training, but a loving, listening heart.

Simply coonig for others is a significnt ministry, especially dueing illness or bereavement.  What a wan to shar the love of Chirst with someone who needs to see Christianity in action.  Please do not limit ou ministry of hospitality ro candlelight dinners for the man/woman of your dreams.  Think how a beautiful, candlelight dinner for a group of single women/the singles, or even high school girls/agian why not the high school group, or for the elders and their spouses or all the couples in your Body, get creative!, would minsiter to them.

This ministry requires time, but it is invaluable.  Helping others with the 'dailies' of life is a gift that breaks their exhausting monotony.  Mere physical labor may seem so insignificant in comparison to church visitation, but the Word of God speaks clearly to such a misconception.  'Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God' 1Cor 10:31.  'Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working fo rhte Lord, not for men' Col 3:23.

I hope this was not to long and you enjoy! As always give me your comments and questions! Until Next time! MaryP

Whats up people! I wanted to share another section with you this week! I hope you are all doing well! As always my words look like this.

It is doubtful that there could ever be a better time to serve Jesus than this 'moment' of singleness, though this is true and i totally agree i have also realized that there is no better time to serve Jesus and to fullfill the things YahWeh has layed on our hearts as right now weither we are single or married.  It is time for us to get off our butts and do as a whole Body of Christ! Rather than wasting precious moments fantasizing about an earthy lover, take advantage of your free hours each day to serve the Lord of Heaven.  If you are frustrated and distracted, rather than fuitfully serving Jesus, then ask Him right now to adjust your vision.  Don't worry about that certain guy/girl you have had our eyes on for a while.  If he/she is God's best for you, he/she will be there when you return.  Your single state may not be permanent, but if definitely is not to be a conatose state until your Prince Charming arrives and whisks you off to his castle/until it is time for you so go and wake your Sleeping Beauty and whisk her to your castle. If ther an opportunity of service that you have avoided because you can't give up your 'post on the castle wall' looking for your knight in shining armor/fair maiden?  As you get older, you assume more obligations and responsibilities that demand your time and attention.  Such distractions will make serving Jesus even more difficult.  Have you given Jesus full reign over your time?  Limitless ministry opportunities exist for hte Lady/Man in Diligence.  These ministries are available right this moment.  The only requirement is a single woman/man (really any woman or man single or married but what they are saying here is as single we have more time than a married man or woman and less responsbilities than a married man or woman) who desires to use her/his time wisely in ministry.

I hope you got as much out of this as i did even this time as i was sharing it with you! As always please give me your feed back, comments or questions.  Until Next Time! I'm Out with Much Love! MaryP

Hey everyone i decided to go ahead and post the prayer one tonight as well.  Hope you enjoy as much as i did!

A prayer partner can help you pray for others. This prayer partner should be one who can encourage you to keep God's perspective on your commitment to being all God wants you to be whether married or single.

"A prayer partnership serves as one the the greatest assets for accomplishing the deepest nad highest work of hte human spirit: prayer." Prayer regularly with someone (or a small group) is such a vital part of your service to God.  To intercede on behalf of someone else's need is a privilege.  When you intercede with a partner, the "duet" of harmony before God can change your world.  Matthew 18:19 describes this harmonious duet: "Again I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father on heaven." The little verb agree refers to harmony.  Do you have someone with whom you can prayerfully approch God in harmony? Rather than searching for a life-partner, look for a prayer partner.  Togehter you can participate in God-given prayer projects.  Together you can discover how you can take your concerns for tohers and turn them into prayer projects. 

I really enjoyed this sections and i only left out like three sentinces from the book in the blog.  I hope you enjoyed as well.  This is a very close thing to my heart and i encourage everyone to Come to a place were you can commun with YahWeh that you know His heart for others and can pray in the Spirit for those people that He shows you.  You have to enter truely into Worship to Our Lord and Savior in order to know His heart and He longs to have this with everyone! Well let me know your feed back and also any questions! Luv You all! Until Next Time! MaryP

Hey peps how are things! As always my words will look like this!

Almost as dangerous as neglecting the Word is a habit of taking it in but not putting it into practice. "Impression without expression can lead to depression." The future may hold more distractions that would continue to keep you from your goal. 

Read Is 50:4, 'The Sovereign Lord has given me an instucted tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary.  Hs wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like on being taught.'

also

Prov 15:4, 'The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.'

Ok this is just a few random phrases from those two sections in the book i am reading and sharing with you guys......the next one will be on Ministry of Prayer! Luv you all! MaryP

Hey guys hope all is well....here is what I would like to share today!

Singleness is an enviable condition.  An unmarried woman/man has something a married woman/man gives up on her/his wedding day: extra time for Jesus.  As a single woamn/man, she/he diligently hit the books without neglecting a mate or a child.  Her/His single state served as the perfect qualification for the pursuit of a doctorate.  This is not to say that a woman/man can't pursure her/his dreams after she/he  us married, but she/he will have a much higher price to pay and often the pursued dream turns into a nightmare!

If you love serving jesus, please do not waste any of hte free time you have.  Do not consider yourself too unhappy to help anyone else.  Selfcenterness will rob you of hte joy of serving.. Satan, who is effective at distracting you form God's best, wants you to continue dreaming about how "one day" you will get involved in ministry.  He wasnts to sidetrack you form making a lasting investment.  Too many woman/men foolishly beleive his lies.  Therefore, they lose sight of opportunities to get involved in any form of outreach to others.  Unsatisfied adn unfullfilled, they sink deep into the quicksand of "maybe next year."

Undistracted and unrelenting describes different facets of the word diligence.  The Lady/Man  of Diligence embodies these terms.  Read 1 Corinthians 15:58: "Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm.  Let nothing move you.  Always give yourselves fully to the work of hte Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain." Do these terms describe your attitude and approach to using your free time in Jesus?

I hope you will really sit and ponder these things! YahWeh has called us to Now not One Day When! We all need to get off our butts and do His work and for those of us who ar single we need to take advantage of that time and do all that we can put our hands to! I Love You guys...Until Next Time ! MaryP

Hey guys sorry it has been a week or so since the last blog but i have been unable to really sit down at the computer and type anything. 

A former college friend remained single longer than any of us ever expected.  She had dated incessantly in college, so we assumed if any of the girls would marry, it would be Donna.  Ten years after her graduation from college, she was not married.  Someone asked waht helped her to be so satisfied as a single woman.  Her immediate response was, "A full place setting." She had lived for servearl years eating her meals on paper plates while her good china and falteware wer snugly stored in her hope chest.  Then the Lord showed her that she did not have to wait for a "mate" to bring beauty to ther private world.  The story goes on to tell of her meeting her husband and that she is now sharing her chiana and crystal today, but her feelings of saticfaction did not come because of a husband.  She found satisfaction by serving the Lord.  Many single men and women live their lives never buying anything.....thier lives on hold while they are waiting for mr/mrs right they are living in the 'Paper Plate' mind set and not living thier lives to the fullest in YahWeh.  As Jackie & Debby say in the book, they are leaving the generic version of life.  Living this generic life is not living the abundant life in which Jesus Christ came so that we may have (John 10:10). 

Do you believe that the abundant life is only for the married woman/man? Do you think that a woman/man with a husband/wife, two children, a nice home, and two insurance policies is more satisfied with life than you are?  Life is satisfying only when you diligently serve the Lord, whatever your circumstances. 

I hope this made you all think about the way you are living your life now.  Are you living it to your fullest or are you 'waiting for mr/mrs right.' I don't know about you but i am tired of waiting for One Day When and i am startig to live my life in the Right Here And Now.  Well I love you all and would love to hear your feed back.  Until Next time! I'm Out! MaryP