My Life as Mama Jodi

Karen from WriteFromKaren has started a new meme, appropriately titled the ‘Monday Morning Meme’. It’s a lot of fun – won’t you join in?

1. What book is currently on your nightstand? Please offer the blurb to your readers. What attracted you to this book? If you?re reading it, what do you like about it? If you haven?t read it yet, what are your expectations? “The Bait of Satan” by John Bevere. This was recommended to me to read by my pastor’s wife. I am going through some things, that she is helping me with. I have just started reading it, but I am expecting that I will be a new person by not living with past hurts.
A blurb from the book:
Every single person has been offended one time or other. How do I know? The Bible says it is so! No one who lives in a time like this is free from offense, but the offense does not need to color the way we see things, how we view life, and how we perceive the people who have offended us. The offense can grow to become bitterness and take root in our lives. This book helps us identify that we have been offended, and the great need to forgive and release the offense.

“Offended people produce much fruit, such as hurt, anger, outrage, jealousy, resentment, strife, bitterness, hatred, and envy. Some of the consequences of picking up an offense are insults, attacks, wounding, division, separation, broken relationships, betrayal, and backsliding.” (pg. xiv)

Why is the book entitled “The Bait of Satan”? Well, Bevere explains that the Greek word for “offend” in Luke 17:1 comes from the word skandalon, which originally referred to the part of the trap which the bait was attached. Hence, the word signifies laying a trap in someone’s way. In the New Testament it often describes an entrapment used by the enemy.

The following are some quotes from the book:
- Our response to an offense determines our future.
- An offended Christian is one who takes in life but because of fear, cannot release it.
- When we filter everything through past hurts, rejections, and experiences, we find it impossible to believe God.
- There is only one person who can get you out of the will of God, and that is you!
- It is righteous for God to avenge His servants. It is unrighteous for God’s servants to avenge themselves.
- Acquiring an offense keeps you from seeing your character flaws because blame is deferred to another.
- When we ratain an offense in our hearts, we filter everything through it.
- Jesus offended some people by obeying His Father, but He never caused an offense in order to assert His own rights.
- A slave is one who has to serve while a servant is one who lives to serve.
- A person who cannot forgive has forgotten how great a debt God has forgiven them.

2. Please finish this line: Sometimes I wish I could go back to the days when I was six and my biggest problem was?. wondering who I would play with at school

Now, what is your biggest problem today? (Either be specific or general, whatever you feel comfortable revealing). Trying to figure out our finances, since I will be unemployed as of this Friday.

3. Name your three favorite teachers and tell us what grade or subject they taught. Why were they your favorite? If you have children, what do you like, or dislike, about your children?s teachers? Ms. Franks ~ she was my 5th grade teacher, she was just a fun teacher. Mr. Woodhull ~ my accounting teacher in high school ~ he was so laid back and an awesome person! and finally Mrs. Thayler ~ I had her a few times, once in 7th grade for a reading class I believe, and then again as my volleyball coach in high school. She was an awesome lady, I still admire her to this day. As for my kids ~ when Christopher first started school he was in a district that I didn’t care for all that well, the teachers, in my opinion, were there just for a paycheck, they didn’t care about the kids one bit. Now we are involved with a charted school, and have been blessed with awesome teachers. My favorite by far has been Mr. Decker ~ he has an awesome way with kids! He is truely missed by everyone at this school, we wish him all the best!

4. Name three things that make a woman or man sexy. Now, please tell us WHY you think these attributes are sexy. Name three things that you think are sexy about you. (NO negative answers, please, stay positive – you?re beautiful as you are) Eyes, smile, butt (on a guy) ~ I have always looked at a guys eyes first and then their smile, that always gets me; and it doesn’t hurt if they have a nice butt too! Now 3 things on me… I guess my eyes, smile and ?? … I can’t think of 3.

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