Classic Mary Moments: First TIME!!!

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

First TIME!!!

Sooooo we ALL know HOW IMPORTANT IT IS that we...

READ OUR BIBLE!!!

Weeeeellll I feel like I acomplished something pretty AMAZING at the beginning of this year...Bible reading!!! For the first time everrrr...in my whole entire life...I can HONESTLY say that I have NOW OFFICIALLY read my Bible ALL THE WAY THROUGH!!! From Genesis thru Revelations...

NOT in one year...it took FOUR YEARS!!! HAHAHAHA!!! BUT who cares...

I DID IT!!!

I remember all my life growing up Bishop Abbott would always tell us this story about a man that was brought to court for something like wanting to use the Bible as a text book in school. He felt like he needed to defend God's word and was willing to go to court over it.

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Weeeeelll when he was in the court and sworn under oath to tell the truth...THE WHOLE TRUTH...and NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH...The judge asked him, sir, you obviousley love this book, but let me ask you a question, have you EVERRR actually read this book from cover to cover? And the man who was a Christian, and had sworn to tell the TRUTH had to be honest and answer with a NO!!! The judge then said to the man, How can I take your side seriousley then, if you have NEVER even read the book you are trying to defend all the way through???

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Oooooo MAN that story has ALWAYS stuck with me...and yeah...it took about 21 years to ACTUALLY take the story to heart and acomplish this BUUUUT it did work!!! When I was 24 years old I was like I HAVE GOT TO READ THE BIBLE ALL THE WAY THROUGH!!! AND so at some point that year I started and then at some point I was traveling SOMEWHERE and began to fall behind and before I knew it was soooo far behind I was like MAN, once again there is NO WAY I am going to be able to catch up and READ MY BIBLE THROUGH IN A YEAR!!!

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Then I thought, you know what, who cares if I don't get it done in a year, I'm just gonna keep going from where I left off!!! AND thats what I have done!!! AND here I am, four years later, the beginning of 2012, at age 28, on the airplane from Honalulu to Manila...FINALLLLLY completely read my Bible ALL THE WAY THROUGH!!! I was sooooo HAPPPPPY!!! I told my mom and she started cheering for me right there on the plane!!!

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This year my goal is to just get through the New tesament...basically I just read about three pages a day...I sit there with my pen and highlighter and anything I like I mark and stuff!!! If you don't think you can read the Bible through in a year then don't...THE MAIN THING is that you ACTUALLY READ GOD'S WORD and absorb it in your heart!!! If you have NEVER read your Bible all the way through...DO IT!!! It feels sooooo awesome to know that you have!!! Genesis to Revelations...

THIS GIRL HAS DONE IT!!!

Woot!!! Woot!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

The Votaws!!!

He has preached all over the US, China, Taiwan, the Philipines, Vietnam and many more Asian countries. He preaches in underground churches in communism countries. He converted a man on death row in prison to Christ and 3 hours before that man died he baptized him in Jesus name. He prayed the first man in Vietnam to kill and americn soldier through to the Holy Ghost and Baptized him in Jesus name. He has converted trinitartin preachers all over to the Oneness doctrine...BUT ABOVE all else...I thank God that I TOO am ONE OF THOSE souls he reached out too...he gave 7 years of his life to New York City!!! I thank God that he answered the call!!! It wasn't until his 6th & final year as pastor there, that our family came into church...we were there for 9 months before we came to AZ and then right after that the Votaws left NYC for the mission fields of Asia...I THANK God that someone had a burden for NYC!!!

Sis. Kathy!!!

This is the woman that invited my Momma to a Pentecostal church!!! She told me that she was actually new in the church herself and that she would see my mom in the front yard of our house playing with us kids and she just wanted so badly for my mom to have what she had just recieved herself. It may have been just one person that she was witnessing to at that time, but that one person has had an affect on her own five children and now its her Grandchildren that are still recieving the blessing of Sis. Kathy's witness. 25 years ago, it wasn't just my mom...I may have only been two at the time, but it was ME she was winning too! I thank God she wasn't afraid to be a witness and that she didn't give up on my mom. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. (Acts 2:39) When you decide to live for God it doesn't just stop with you!