It will be Lili's 5th birthday on Sunday and she wanted to celebrate her birthday at the apple orchards. We went last year and she just loved it! Saturday we made the trip again and couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day! The girls loved the treats, our picnic lunch, the pony rides and the pumpkins. Here are some of our pictures:
The family photo op! T, Lili, Fess, Deuce, Fenori holding D.C.
Fess, Deuce and Lili in the pumpkins!
T and D.C. in his favorite position!
Fess wearing her little backpack.
Fess, Lili and Deuce taking a tree break!
Lili loves horses and she couldn't wait for her ride!
Deuce took her turn and a couple more, too!
Family picture at home later.
Lili with the doll she chose on our shopping trip.
Lili opening her new Bible with pink (her favorite color) case.
We had a great time and it was a very full day. The apples were great and so was the picnic lunch Grandpa brought. Thank you, Jesus, for a most blessed day!
We really need to take the time to appreciate how blessed we are! To be grateful for our families, church families and friends, and to show them how much we care. It's too easy to be too busy and not take the time to really live our lives as God intends. He says in the Gospel of John:
John 10:10
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.(KJV)
The Amplified Bible says:
John 10:10
The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).
The word life here is the Greek word, Zoe, which means "absolute fullness of life" or life as God has it in Himself! Believers in Jesus Christ have this Zoe life inside. God's life! John's Epistle tells us this:
I Jn 5:11-12
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.(KJV)
This is that same life (Zoe). If you have the Son, if you have received Jesus as your personal Savior, then you have that same life in you! If you have never received Jesus Christ of Nazareth as your personal Savior, then you do not have this life. Is there any reason you can't receive Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior right now? If you have questions, please contact me. If you would like to pray to receive Jesus as Lord and Savior, please go to the Spoken Word Church link to the right and you will find a prayer to guide you. Don't live another day without His life in you!
Have a wonderful week, living in His life!
Love and Shalom,
Robin
