"The Family Table"

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****** A New Day! ******

Dear Family Member! You have come here to sit with Jesus and enjoy a meal made especially for you by Him. I know He is anticipating talking to you about your family and praying for each family member, name by name. Today, at the Family Table, Chef Jesus has prepared a fine cuisine for you to enjoy, a Prayer Exhortation Meal He calls: “A New Day!” Enjoy!

	A NEW DAY - A NEW LOVE ****** Loving Infinitely ******

	****** A NEW WAY ****** Reshaping Family Hearts In Unfailing Love

IT IS TIME FOR A FAMILY HEART CHECK UP
God Is Reshaping Hearts Of Families With His Unfailing Love! God is asking us to have an intense-unfailing love for one another. Is this happening in our family lives? Check the heart of your family! Is your love towards one another unconditional or do you have heart attitudes expressing judgmental - back biting conditions that are fueled by family strife? Can a stress-filled tired family love each other with an excellent God-filled love? Is your busy family life shutting down the supernatural flow of God's love in your home? Conditional - Tired - Stressed Love! This is an old way we need to discard because God is doing something new in the heart of families, He is making His love our completely enough! To love and be loved by Jesus Christ is simply-significantly our first enough! Jesus is the only Way-Maker to His Love and without Him, we are not able to love others as He loved us. Families: Jesus is all we need! He is not excess, He is simply enough! AWE-GOD!

DISCARD THE OLD
Adversity And Strife Have Walked Right In The Front Door Of Our Homes Completely Unchallenged With A Devisive Goal Of Shutting Down The Flow Of God's Love! Family life in our generation has been hit hard by the spirit of adversity and strife. Our enemy wants to destroy families and is succeeding mostly because of our choices in the face of all the cultural excess our enemy sets before us. Over indulgence in the excesses of our culture and the result of self absorption, has left families beat up by dissatisfied-restless-stress! Why? Because American families are too busy to notice or guard against enemies that used to be easily recognized. These enemies used to be shut out before they crossed the threshold, yet now they comfortably sit on the hearth of our homes and dust us in disagreement as we busily fly by!

Discard The Excess! We Have Too Many Choices And American Families Are “Choiced Out”! Run, run, run we are always on the run trying to keep up with the cultural status quo. Families are just plain “spent” – tired and worn out. The enemy keeps families way to busy and then stirs up strife in the midst of exhausting family schedules. Strife! This divisiveness plays out to our enemies advantage in families who are running on emotional, physical and spiritual empty. Adversity picks at the soul of the family and strife splits relationships and the family loses its God-given balance and falls!

Make Some Changes America Families! Discard The Cultural Excesses! Overindulgence in our culture leads to unbalanced families that will topple! How sad is this? Very! It happens every day as another family bites the dust and our enemy smiles sinisterly while the wounded family is in shock, wondering how did it suddenly get to this place of brokenness. The family was so busily steeped in culturalism, it never felt the divisive imbalance of strife and adversity as they began tipping the scales with the gathering of excess; out of true by the weight of cultural indulgence, the enemy finished off - destroyed their God given family balance, which they had no clue was in jeopardy until it was too late! Discard The Excess – Get Back To The Basics Of God's Life-Love-Truth-Way!

Slip The Cultural Excesses Off Your Family And Saturate The Soul Of Your Family In God’s Abundant Life-Love-Truth-Way! Release your family from the grip of "friendly culture captivity" with the ways of this generation and God will lavish the heart of your family in His Love! Infinitely So! When you discard the old, God will bless your family with a new day in a new way that you could not even begin to imagine, expect or hope for. AWE-GOD!

BRING IN THE NEW
There Is Never A Time, As The Time Such As This One - Right Now, Where We Need To Shatter The Oppression Of Excess By Breaking Ties To “Friendly Cultural Captivity”! Are we representing Jesus in our family lives? Are we walking in the stability of God’s Love! Is our family clinging exhaustedly to culturalism or courageously in God’s strength, advancing the Kingdom of God? These are tough questions to answer! We must look deep within our hearts and break the cultural trend of busy family isolation! It is time to open wide the doors of communication within our families with the tools of God’s unconditional love and the activated wisdom of God for times such as these. It is time for American Families to start making wiser and less choices for cultural excess for our families. Say No to cultural excess, say Yes to God's Love lavished upon our families!

Bring In The New - Let God! Give God's Love The Quality Time It Needs To Bloom In The Heart Of Our Families! Stay home – talk to one another instead of the hurried fly by night from this to that, with conversation and relationship getting less priority time. Families! God is doing a new thing, He is saying for us to get back to the basics of life and stop letting the pursuit of cultural excess wear us thin and keep our love for one another crabby, cranky and burned out.

We Need To See Some FAT Families: Faithful to God 1st - Available to God 1st - Teachable by God 1st. The receiving and sharing of God’s love within our family life makes our family spiritually FAT! Families need to get F.A.T. again! It is a new day for families to be: Faithful to God - Available to God - Teachable by God. The Holy Spirit needs to be fully engaged in our family life with discernment that keeps our family guarded with a sharp eternal edge, from the trap of friendly captivity within our culture. Loving God 1st, being called to God 1st, will develop a strong-quality of devotion between family members.

Our Families Need To Develop A New Habit Of Quality Face Time! Fully Face Our God! The key to having family communication filled with selfless love and sacrificial care is quality face time with God and one another! The priority for quality relational time in times such as these, is especially high by God’s design, for family life in this generation. The pursuit of excess and of cultural status quo is the common denominator of exhausted family members who don’t relate to God or love each other well! God’s love is made complete in well balanced – soul-rested families who are not self absorbed or over indulged in the pursuit of cultural excess.

Make Right Choices For Your Family And You Will Gift Your Family With A New Day, In An Old Culture! Choose God’s wisdom, walk in His discernment and your family will have a new way out of the old cultural trappings of excess; a new vitality in the love of Christ that shakes off the bondage to culturalism and sets a new family tradition in place! Put God's Love at the center of your family traditions and you will stay culturally relevant and spiritual relevant.

Choose God’s Love, God’s Life For Your Family! Position God's Love On The Hearth Of Your Home Today! God is giving families submitted completely to Him, a new freedom that grows spiritually relevant as it is seeded with a strong priority of God’s love! Choose a family life embellished in God’s love for your family and create for your family a new cultural relevance, grounded by the eternal heritage of God’s Infinite Love! There is no better way for Your family to live, laugh and love then with God’s new life infused into your old culture! Choose God’s Love, God’s Life For Your Family!

It Is A New Day For Families! Know It! Today, kneel before our AWE-GOD and ask His Holy Spirit to open up a newness of life in your family! Ask God to stir up communication by His wisdom of doing less with cultural choices and gaining more in quality relational time.

Jesus Renew Our Families In Your Love – Teach Us How To Take Time With One Another, To Love As You Loved With An Excellent, Sacrificial Devotion. This Is A New Day To Love Each Other In The Best Way – God’s! Make It So In Us! AMEN!

Unfailing Love is love undergirded by God’s wisdom; it is not culturalized in any way, but is impassioned by God’s Holy Spirit. Make It So In Us! AWE-GOD! It is a new day! God’s Love Will Lead The Way!
Isaiah 43:18-21
Forget the things that happened in the past. Do not keep on thinking about them. I am about to do something new. It is beginning to happen even now. Don't you see it coming?
New International Reader's Version (NIRV) Copyright © 1996, 1998 by Biblica

“We cannot be right with God when we are wrong with others. ” Quote by – –Lehman Strauss

A Good Encouragement For You Today Is This:
1 PETER 4: 7-11
Everything in the world is about to be wrapped up, so take nothing for granted. Stay wide-awake in prayer. Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for practically anything. Be quick to give a meal to the hungry, a bed to the homeless—cheerfully. Be generous with the different things God gave you, passing them around so all get in on it: if words, let it be God's words; if help, let it be God's hearty help. That way, God's bright presence will be evident in everything through Jesus, and he'll get all the credit as the One mighty in everything—encores to the end of time. Oh, yes!
The Message (MSG) Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene

A NEW DAY!
God sent His Son Jesus to this earth and when He stepped out in the dust of humanity, the face of love changed – Oh My Gosh – everything changed! AWE-GOD! The heart of the gospel is change - a radical - intense change - impassioned and driven by an irrational - unconditional love that we will never fully understand, because it is sovereign and infinite! Why? Why would the King of heaven come to this earth as a man and be subject to human conditions and dysfunctions that eventually would lead to his horrible death? Why? Can you understand this kind of love? I don’t, but I wish, I really wish I could walk in a way that reflected it in my life! This is where I believe God is wanting a new day in our family life, in the way we love Him 1st, before our culture and love each other with His perfect love.

A NEW PERSPECTIVE
In my family life, if I love only with the perspective I have gained by my life experiences and if I judge others by the comfort of my personal safety zone, am I truly living in Christ and by His love and power? Or is my life all about maintaining my cultural comfort zone? Do my family relationships speak of God’s kind of love or do they say: “Get out of my personal space! Talk to my hand! What about me? It is all about me and what I want!” Our new point of view is seeing others through God’s eyes, through His Kingdom wisdom. We need to take our natural and combine it with His Super, therefore producing a supernatural that has no room for culturalism or for your best impulsive, educated guess about others! Our culture says to judge from the outside, yet our God works from the inside out. Assumptions destroy unconditional love! No assumptions! Our culture says: Hurry up! Right now is good to go because what you see is what you get and God says: Let Me Work! Give Me Time To Work! Don't judge by the surface! How can you see the heart motive of someone in your family? You can't, only God can! Therefore how can you judge them? Look at your family members through the eyes of Christ, and live relevantly in this culture with His Kingdom wisdom. Be willing to know God's heart of compassion for your family and for His Kingdom. True love is not willfully demonstrated, it is passionately displayed, action by action and attitude by attitude it is experience - seen as God's genuine love! A God-Perspective is not culturally self-indulgent and it sees others needs before it sees the wants of personal culture comfort. A God-Perspective stretches the tent-pegs of your life-style into the holy ground of unconditional, selfless love.

A NEW WAY
Life was never meant to be lived within a bubble of our own personal perspective. I was born to change you and you were born to change me. If we hold each other safely at arm’s length by personal judgments and pre-conceived conditions, will we be all God created us to be? Does Iron Sharpen Iron In Your Family Life? Are the doors of communication in your family home propped open by unconditional love and held firmly open by truth? The new way of family life must be in following Jesus, being called to Followship 1st. Jesus is the Way-Maker of our families and our 1st way is in Him, being found in Him as He makes a new way for us as families each and every day! Followship! Jesus 1st! Everyday – Everyone – Everywhere!


A NEW DAY 4-FAMILIES = A NEW GOD-CHALLENGE 4-FAMILIES
Is God beckoning you to grow past your cultural comfort zone and leave the cultural indulgence and excess behind? Does God desire for your family to live in the adventure of His Holy Spirit!? Do you safely live in a bubble of yesterday’s life-perspective, clinging to your life of "friendly cultural captivity"? I Do! I Have! I Did! Yet, I find myself more and more open to change this - to submit myself completely to Jesus, get back to the basics of life and become the person in my family that loves the most with the excellent Love of God! So Just Do It! Be The Person In Your Family That Has Abandoned Following After Culturalism And Follows A Call To God 1st! Be The Family Member Who Has Committed Themselves To God's Kingdom 1st! Be The Family Member Who Loves More And Most In The Spirit And Truth Of Jesus Christ! AWE-GOD!

Side Dishes Available With This Meal

This meal is served with the side dishes that complement it's fine cusine! The side dishes are on the bar to your right. Click on the name of the available side dish! Hope you enjoy your selections! The side dishes available today are: