{"id":490,"date":"2018-08-18T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/beam-me-up-scotty\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:14:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:14:54","slug":"beam-me-up-scotty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Beam Me Up, Scotty!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yesterday I stopped by my children\u2019s home and I saw this aluminum foil creation with a point on the top (and, of course, a bow to show it was designed with a woman in mind!). Alexia (my creative granddaughter) had made it the night before. <\/p>\n

I’m not sure where her imagination was going to but immediately Star Trek came to mind and \u201cBeam me up, Scotty!\u201d Those words were used when the crew of the Enterprise \u201ctransponded\u201d down onto an unexplored planet or, when things got out of hand, back up to the safety of the Enterprise as it continued to go where no one had gone before. Scotty was the engineer who operated the transponder and was responsible for those who were being sent out on a mission. Those being sent seemed to \u201catomize\u201d before our eyes as they disappeared and then reappeared somewhere else. <\/p>\n

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Before I left to go home, Staci put the foil cap on me and she, Larry and I had a time of prayer for their ministry mission in Alvin, TX this weekend. We prayed for protection and an outpouring of God\u2019s Spirit to the precious people in Alvin, many of whom lost their homes and businesses in Hurricane Harvey and are still recovering and trying to get their lives back again. Wearing the foil cap during prayer wasn\u2019t in any way to spiritualize the cap which was rather funny, but then I started thinking about one day when my mission here is completed, I\u2019ll say \u201cBeam me up, Lord. Mission accomplished.\u201d <\/p>\n

In the meantime, we have on our helmets of salvation (Ephesians 6:17) which not only protects our minds, but we have Holy Spirit Who is always helping us to discern, understand and know God\u2019s love and heart for us. \u201cBeam me up, Lord\u201d, is a way of saying \u201cLord, I\u2019m keeping my mind off of so many distractions in my world. Beam me up to where you have a 30,000-foot view of all that is earthbound and temporary. Beam me up to trusting and believing in your ways that are so much higher than my ways. Beam me up to be conscious of my blessings instead of my worries and concerns. <\/p>\n

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God has given us so many \u201cmission\u201d tools that will help us successfully run our race and complete each assignment and mission He has given us until we\u2019re beamed up to heaven. We have been equipped for great adventures and awesome explorations that have been deployed to us. God, our great navigator, and captain of our \u201cEnterprise\u201d ship, always has a plan for us to accomplish our mission. Jeremiah 29:11 \u201cFor I know the plans I have for you,\u201d declares the LORD, \u201cplans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.\u201d <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard some folks say \u201cIf I can just make through this old world to my mansion in the sky’. If that’s what life is all about, the minute we become a follower of Christ, God would beam us out of here. But, here\u2019s the truth in this silly little aluminum cap story of mine. We are here for a purpose. We are not here just to take up space! God’s master plan is for us to live our life with excitement, enjoyment, determination, and zeal……and to fill that space with loving, caring and spreading God’s love everywhere and to everyone! With that mindset, when our time here has ended, we\u2019ll know that we lived with no regrets because we gave this life everything we had. Let\u2019s finish what God started in us\u2026\u2026right to our finish line. In the meantime, let\u2019s believe we\u2019re here for a purpose and assignment\u2026..and when that assignment is completed, God WILL beam us up right out of here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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