{"id":13118,"date":"2020-09-09T04:45:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T09:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=13118"},"modified":"2020-09-09T04:45:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T09:45:24","slug":"you-are-welcome-at-my-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=13118","title":{"rendered":"You are Welcome at my House!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019m going to be a bit feisty in today\u2019s blog. I can, because this Facebook\/Blog space is my house, so to speak. I welcome you to stop by and check out what\u2019s going on and to see what God\u2019s download is for us. I have some “house” rules that include kindness, encouraging each other and everyone is especially welcome if you need a friend, a confidant, or a shoulder to cry on and to have someone who will pray with and for you. I\u2019m expressing my heart and the absolute non-negotiables in my life. I\u2019m sharing the values that we built our faith and family upon for generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This blog was inspired by my 16-year-old grandson, Brennan, who I\u2019ve hung out with over the last several days and when he came to Frisco a few weeks ago. Something, rather, Someone, of monumental importance has happened to him. This guy has had a major encounter with God \u2013 not that he hadn\u2019t before, but this time, he is all in and is undaunted in making his love for God known. He is daily on Tik-Tok and Instagram speaking to young people about making the most important decision in their lives, which is to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. He is unashamed — Mr. Cooler than Cool guy has had a radical transformation. And the best part, is that others have noticed this 180 \u2013 as he lives by example now. He wants to be a difference-maker. I was so blessed on Sunday when I saw him up at the front of the church on Sunday with other young people — singing and raising their hands in praise and worship to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, he has taken this new zeal for Christ seriously and is taking it to school with him in an audacious way. His friends have noticed. Not everyone is excited about it as he was the cut-up, attention-getting, not-taking-God-real-serious guy. I saw him in his room playing a video game, while listening to a minister speaking on his computer. We binged on the three \u201cGod\u2019s Not Dead\u201d movies and ended with \u201cThe Case for Christ\u201d movie. Brennan and these movies fired me up too — with the certainty of the reality of Christ\u2019s birth, death and resurrection. Among the many reasons for knowing it is true, over 500 eyewitnesses saw Him alive. (1 Corinthians 15:6)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brennan inspired me so much that I want to make my values and beliefs known too. My values are found in the Bible, God’s Holy Word. I agree with the psalmist\u2019s words \u201cYour Word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.\u201d (Psalm 119:105) And in Joshua 1:8-9: \u201cThis book of the law shall not depart out of my mouth, but I shall meditate on it day and night, that I may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then I will make my way prosperous, and then I will have good success.” Scriptures undergird my values which are the absolute non-negotiables in my life. These are some of my statements of faith and my “house” rules:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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** Love, peace, joy and God\u2019s grace are fluently spoken here
** I believe in God our Father. I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son. I believe in the Holy Spirit \u2013 our God, all three in one. I believe in the resurrection. I believe that in the name of Jesus, we can be healed and set free from any bondage. I believe in a real enemy of our souls, but more importantly, I believe we can live in complete freedom because \u201cGreater is He who lives in us, than he that is in the world.\u201d (1 John 4:4)
**I believe that if we applied Jesus’ “house rules” to our life — we would make our world a better place. His “house rules” (aka commandments) are to \u201cLove God with all our heart, mind and soul\u201d and to \u201cLove our neighbor as ourselves.\u201d (Matthew 22:37-38) Keeping those “rules”, reveals the depth of love we have for God and each other.
** I am Pro-Life. I believe ALL LIVES MATTER from the moment of conception to the grave.
** I believe in our \u201cone nation under God\u201d in our Pledge of Allegiance; in supporting our military; in supporting and praying for Israel; in the ability to worship God and practice our faith without being hindered by government; in patriotism where I stand for my National Anthem and my American flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When God made us, He planted within us certain things that we value deeply. They\u2019re hardwired in our heart. Through our life experiences \u2013 from the environment we are raised in, the schools we go to, the friends we associate with, and the religious foundation we receive, God makes them clear to us. Those things are our core values. Now, you know mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m going to be a bit feisty in today\u2019s blog. I can, because this Facebook\/Blog space is my house, so to speak. I welcome you to stop by and check out what\u2019s going on and to see what God\u2019s download is for us. I have some “house” rules that include kindness, encouraging each other and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18520,12882,18519],"tags":[1210,6767,1769,18516,1348,2014,1392,267,1084,18521,40,18513,18515,18518,18514],"class_list":["post-13118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-core-values","category-gods-not-dead","category-the-case-for-christ","tag-blog","tag-casual-acquaintance","tag-christian","tag-close-friend","tag-conscience","tag-core-values","tag-facebook","tag-faith","tag-family","tag-gods-not-dead-3","tag-inspiration","tag-my-house","tag-non-negotiables-2","tag-philosophies","tag-the-case-for-christ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13123,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13118\/revisions\/13123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}