Thanksgiving

We had an AWESOME Thanksgiving in Berlin. It was even quoted as "The best Thanksgiving ever". Kathie cooked up an obnoxious amount of food. All I'll say about the food is ... we had 3 turkeys. It was so much fun to spend time with Micah, Cliff and Donna. They arrived on Thanksgiving day just as all the food was finished getting ready. We also had Ann Margaret's mom here for 10 days. It was so much fun to spend time with Lesley, who is basically our second mom. It was such an time of relaxing and laughing and having a taste of America here in Berlin!

Oxford Conference

Some photos from a great Conference in Oxford. More to come!

Our Position in Christ

Notes from a Woman's Bible Study this past Saturday night that Ann Margaret shared:

The key to our life is being occupied with our position in Christ, so we see ourselves as God sees us. This gives us the desire to want to know God more.

6 Points on how God sees us:

1. Perfect Matt. 5:48 God sees us as perfect as our Father in heaven.

2. Beautiful Psalm 149:4

3. Sanctified (set apart) Heb. 10:10-12

4. Blameless Psalm 32:1-2

5. Enriched I Cor. 2:16

6. Receivers of grace

When we focus on how God sees us, it takes our eyes off ourselves. Our relationship with God is not focused on what we can get from God. My position motivates me to get to know God.

We get 1) quietness 2) rest 3) stillness when we live in our position. Is. 26:3 living in these three things in our position gives us perfect peace.

When we are occupied with our position in Christ we have perfect peace and that gives me security placed in my heavenly Father.

The only way we have authority over Satan is by knowing our position!

Amen!