tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807457038664390833.post8471693797650293982..comments2023-08-08T07:11:08.958-05:00Comments on in my life: Bible Study About Martha (And Her Family)~Part TwoAmyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05336144938479561819noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807457038664390833.post-46582947924094565942008-08-31T01:17:00.000-05:002008-08-31T01:17:00.000-05:00I love the messages that you share with us from yo...I love the messages that you share with us from your devotionals. This is a great post AND yes, I too wish I was more like Martha in her faith. That's a beautiful testament - she still believed even when it looked as if all were lost...How many of us can say that??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807457038664390833.post-49142451245610543642008-08-30T22:48:00.000-05:002008-08-30T22:48:00.000-05:00Thank you so much Amy for revealing the other side...Thank you so much Amy for revealing the other side of Martha. Just like us, she had some areas that could use work and some she had allowed God to develop well. Thank again for the great insight!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16147593138737484614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807457038664390833.post-79682487201319820522008-08-30T13:57:00.000-05:002008-08-30T13:57:00.000-05:00Amy, I found you from Pamela's blog, though I kno...Amy,<BR/> I found you from Pamela's blog, though I know I have visited here before.<BR/><BR/> I too am reading "Anonymous". I am LOVING it!<BR/><BR/> I too wrote a devo on Martha for the Internet Cafe.<BR/>I think she's gotten a bum wrap. I wrote from a different angle, more from how her story has been taught and what might have been her heart in what she did. If you want to read about it you can find it on my blog.<BR/><BR/> Thanks for sharing your heart here. I agree with what you've written.<BR/><BR/> JulieJuliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13553121852669901186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807457038664390833.post-77637311836527804622008-08-29T22:57:00.000-05:002008-08-29T22:57:00.000-05:00Thanks so much for sharing!Thanks so much for sharing!Jamiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09567398445753025662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807457038664390833.post-17952012188363286782008-08-29T20:19:00.000-05:002008-08-29T20:19:00.000-05:00Amy, you did it again! Amazing how you share your...Amy, you did it again! Amazing how you share your words along with the Bible that make such an impression. I love you!<BR/>MOM :)sa061545@bellsouth.nethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04467912009935947765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807457038664390833.post-48294386312869303442008-08-29T18:07:00.000-05:002008-08-29T18:07:00.000-05:00inspiration.inspiration.Karmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03362993956760008738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807457038664390833.post-64511517647016674322008-08-29T17:14:00.000-05:002008-08-29T17:14:00.000-05:00Amy,I just read your comment on Sharon's blog. I ...Amy,<BR/>I just read your comment on Sharon's blog. I can identify with your feelings about life changing events. I'm much older than you but I've had a lot of surgeries in my neck and last year in my back. Things are different and I can't do the things I use to do. I've missed so much church this past year that when I go I feel like I'm in a different place. A lot of change have been made and it's just not the same.<BR/><BR/>The Bible study with Rachel Olsen has been a great blessing and I have met so many wonderful people.<BR/><BR/>I just thought it might help to know your not alone in how you feel. If you would like to you can read my post on Reach Out and Touch. It's about the things that have happened to me and how God has brought me through so much and spared my life twice.<BR/><BR/>I enjoyed reading your post about Martha. Very good.<BR/><BR/>I would love to know how you changed your cursor to a daisy. I would love to have a heart, that is if you don't mind sharing.<BR/><BR/>Please feel free to visit my blog anytime.<BR/>Be blessed,<BR/>AliceE.From the Hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06612517670775886165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807457038664390833.post-30804307307774741472008-08-29T16:14:00.000-05:002008-08-29T16:14:00.000-05:00I love the story of Mary and Martha. Thanks for y...I love the story of Mary and Martha. Thanks for your spin on it. It made me look at Martha differently.<BR/><BR/>Love,<BR/>NicoleNicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298677165838555844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807457038664390833.post-1577240352203816192008-08-29T13:33:00.000-05:002008-08-29T13:33:00.000-05:00Ames, for some reason when I read verse 22 "But I ...Ames, for some reason when I read verse 22 "But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask."<BR/><BR/>That just hit me. I cannot describe the feelings within my spirt as that "intense" moment has passed. This happens to me quite often...I feel something so strange and so intense within my spirit but it lasts only for a moment. I'll try to explain. Those words just rang in my heart thinking of just WHO Christ is. Her words speak volumns...wow, knowing God would give Jesus WHATEVER He asks. <BR/><BR/>This very well probably sounds like rambling. Many times I have these intense feelings while mowing and focused on prayer or a song on the MP3 Player. They fade so quickly that I can't recapture them to record them in written word. It's just like a spiritual reflection or feeling.<BR/><BR/>Okay. I'm done rambling. For anyone who reads, by no means am I saying I have something another doesn't. It's just like reading something in the word for the 100th time and a huge light bulb going off. I mean I've always known God provides to Jesus what He asks but these words that hit me in this moment spoke to me differently. <BR/><BR/>Just to know that God would give you whatever you ask. I know God's Word actually says this in Matthew 21:21...if you believe you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer. Yet, we know we've not received everything BUT Jesus would receive anything He asked. <BR/><BR/>Reading this just wants me to be in HIS presence...to see the physical flesh of the Son of God. <BR/><BR/>One last thing your post brought to my mind...not sure as it's way out in left field. <BR/><BR/>But I love the scene in the passion (and maybe other movies) where Jesus splashes His mother Mary with water when He's washing His hands presumably before a meal. To me, that is the most precious view of Jesus...a part we don't see or think about as much....Him playing with His mother. Teasing, laughing. :-)<BR/>Much love my friend.<BR/>PaulaPaula Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13948349907036852384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807457038664390833.post-9014413144448208392008-08-29T12:32:00.000-05:002008-08-29T12:32:00.000-05:00Amy-you responded on my blog post you had purchase...Amy-you responded on my blog post you had purchased the workbook and book. Which book were you referring to as I had two in that post. I looked up "Anonymous: Jesus hidden years" and "Behind those eyes" and and didn't find a workbook for either. If it is out there I want to get it!!<BR/><BR/>PamPamela (His maidservant)https://www.blogger.com/profile/15611570804370035595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807457038664390833.post-58032722350316951442008-08-29T11:04:00.000-05:002008-08-29T11:04:00.000-05:00I love looking at another side of Martha. I mean, ...I love looking at another side of Martha. I mean, after all, do any of us want to be pigeon-holed because of a mistake we made a dinner party once upon a time? Women are complicated. Always have been. Always will be. I love how you say it: she is bold in these verses. We don't hear people in the Bible state so plainly who Jesus is very often. <BR/>Thanks for blessing me this morning!Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08263995875732832349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807457038664390833.post-68686003853065135002008-08-29T10:10:00.000-05:002008-08-29T10:10:00.000-05:00Great post, Amy! He loves us even when we are hard...Great post, Amy! He loves us even when we are hard headed. ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807457038664390833.post-45857928002541460822008-08-29T09:51:00.000-05:002008-08-29T09:51:00.000-05:00Oh if I could only be BOLD like Martha! To know an...Oh if I could only be BOLD like Martha! To know and be secure in the fact that Jesus is right there with us weeping for our losses and sadness and trials....<BR/>Thank you friend, I always am so blessed by your sharing your devotions every week. : )<BR/>Love,<BR/>MiaMiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17385660766206748792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807457038664390833.post-49015892463278220792008-08-29T09:24:00.000-05:002008-08-29T09:24:00.000-05:00I think Martha gets a bad rap sometimes too. I lik...I think Martha gets a bad rap sometimes too. I like your take on her faith and her certainty of who Jesus is. Thanks for sharing!<BR/><BR/>God bless,<BR/>GinaGinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00841268139240190940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807457038664390833.post-59302725080322183442008-08-29T08:59:00.000-05:002008-08-29T08:59:00.000-05:00Amy, OOOh my, Sounds like a re-inacting, of my lif...Amy, <BR/>OOOh my, Sounds like a re-inacting, of my life, or even other's lives. Jesus knew that Martha had a honest heart, I noticed when reading Martha, She needs to slow down and smell the roses~~~~as the saying goes. But so do I, I have realized this of myself. But I have done what martha has done, and then turn around and, please God Just help me get through this one more time, or what ever I am in need of.<BR/>Sad,sad I just received a confirmation from this, Amy Thank You, Wonderful post<BR/>God Bless You<BR/>SharonSharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13292404509675099875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807457038664390833.post-69908082414837191082008-08-29T08:44:00.000-05:002008-08-29T08:44:00.000-05:00Thank you for sharing that devotional with us toda...Thank you for sharing that devotional with us today. I love the story of Mary, Martha and Lazarus.<BR/>I love that Martha was honest with Jesus about her feelings and Jesus was fine with that. He still is...<BR/>and we are free to pour our hearts out to him. He knows anyway!<BR/>I've done that many times where I've cried out to him and actually complained and even asked why? and then did the same thing Martha did...follow up with "I know you are a huge God and You've done it before....Lord, do it again!" <BR/>David poured his heart out to God all through the Psalms.<BR/>Thanks again and I hope you have a great weekend!<BR/>Love,<BR/>Valerievaleriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03506291993756087418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807457038664390833.post-68638044102295610462008-08-29T07:38:00.000-05:002008-08-29T07:38:00.000-05:00Sigh, just lovely. I know exactly what you mean b...Sigh, just lovely. I know exactly what you mean by oh to be like her in that way. I think a lot of issues we have as women could be solved if we only had that kind of self worth and faith.<BR/><BR/>Thanks, as always, for your inspiring words.Deehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470580327314877574noreply@blogger.com