Happy Brain-boosting-Wednesday!!!

HERE IS YOUR MIDDLE OF THE WEEK BRAIN BOOSTER!!!

Sooooooooo for my birthday this past summer, I told my sister that I wanted this Bible study series through the Pentecostal Publishing house. Basically, theres like 20-something workbooks that go over all different subjects. I believe they are for homeschoolers, buuuuuuut, I really wanted them just for more knowledge on basic things. The first one is all about God's Word, then repentance, then water baptism, the Holy Ghost, etc...

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Weeeeeeeeeeellllll I showed them to Denae and she was really interested and we actually start doing them together in our Monday night Bible studies. Over the past 6 months, we've learned some really interesting things that expounded on basic things that we already have been learning about all our lives annnnnnnnnnnnd I thought I would share some of them with you on BRAIN-BOOSTING WEDNESDAYS!!!

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Soooooooooooo I have a question for you all...

WHICH COMMANDMENT FROM JESUS COMES  FIRST: BELIEF OR REPENTANCE???

This is a little like what came first the chicken or the egg??? Buuuuuut answer this to yourself, which do YOU think Jesus commands first, BELIEF OR REPENTANCE???  Think about it...

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Did you answer it in your head???

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I would have picked BELIEF!!!

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BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT...

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"Did you know???..."

That THE CORRECT ANSWER IS...

REPENTANCE!!!!

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It almost seems impossible...HOW CAN YOU REPENT without FIRST believing???

YET JESUS SAID IT!!!

You can't truly believe UNTIL you have turned AWAY from everything you have previously known, you have to repent of all your former beliefs, to believe the truth!!! 

"...Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllll NOW YOU DO, annnnnnnnnd don't you FORGET IT!!!" (AIO BTV quote;)

♥Mary Frances :)

Just stupid, NOT Stupid-stupid!!!

Soooooooo miraculously, we ACTUALLY had some really nice weather this past weekend. Of course you all know what that means for me, I'm hitting the mountains!!!

Weeeeelllll I had been putting off buying new hiking shoes, cuz weeeeellll let's be real, hiking shoes are UGLY and although needed, they're kinda like buying new tires for your car-BORING!!!!On the way up the mountain, everything was JUST FINE!!!
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HOWEVERRRR, on the way down was a completely different story!!! First of all, a bee decided to chase me AGAIN!!! (Remember last year HERE!!!) I don't know WHY buuuuut they always want to just nestle in my hair and I'm like NOT cool with that!!!  

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Soooooooo I just take off running down the mountain and the bee starts chasing me. WEEEEELLLL all of the sudden my shoes lose traction and I slip and fall like I never have before. I slide down and fall on my back. One leg is pulled completely straight back behind me. Thankfully, i'm a very STRETCHY person and nothing was broken. Just a big cut on my elbow. (can you imagine the ambulance coming up the moutain-although it might be kinda fun being carried on stretcher down the mountain! LOL) 

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Buuuuuuuuuut the fall REALLLLLLY scared me. The whole time, the rest of the way down I kept praying and asking God not to let me fall again. Buuuuuuut then as an after thought, I said, AND GOD, I also PROMISE TO THROW THESE OLD, WORN OUT, HIKING SHOES annnnnnd will NOT go hiking again til I have bought new ones. And when I got home, I took those old shoes and threw them in the trash!!!

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You know why??? Because I can't expect to stay safe and then go directly putting myself back in danger!!! I may have been stupid to hike in them once, BUUUUUUUT I wasn't going to be STUPID-stupid!!!! 

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Often in life, we get ourselves into stupid spiritual situations. AND even though its all our own fault, God is merciful on us and brings us out of our own mess up. BUT we can't just keep the same old shoes and expect not to slip up again. We've got throw those old messed up shoes away, pay the spiritual price and invest in something new!!! 

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At one time or another, we can all be STUPID...

BUUUUUUUUUT...

We don't have to be STUPID-stupid!!!

 "For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him." (2 Chronicles 30:9)

♥Mary Frances :)