Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them."
People complained of the sons of Samuel. In our time we call them nepo babies, but Samuel was appointed by God and the people who complained were meddling with the commandments of God. "Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand." (Rom.14.4)
"for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them." God saw through their complaints but the root cause lay elsewhere.' now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.' The nation wanted to be like in their likeness and not after the likeness of the Son, the Priest-King of whom God said,"The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek."(Ps.110.1-4) For this reason Melchizedek brought bread and wine to Abraham and the patriarch paid him tithes. This in fact was binding on both parties since he gave as a token of receiving the blessings. " And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of al."(Gen.14.20)
God sent his only begotten Son in fulness of time. He came into his own but they received him not. Before Pilate they solemnly declared the had no king but Caesar. So God had foreseen through their sham revernce, "According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods" Unto this day is a phrase the Spirit to set the context in terms of the Son to whom God has decreed the day. The nation of Israel is refuse in the eyes of God yet we have CUFI the work of the devil to deceive Christians,- 'my name is in him' is the definition of a Christian.
I don't wish to answer for someone else but as I read through the same post, I had no idea what CUFI was either. I typed in the letters in a search engine and found what it stood for. I will leave that up to you if you want to either look it up or wait for a response from Bennymkje. I must say that I still don't understand what his message is, even after looking some things up.
Also, an update on my home repair. Our insurance sent us a check, and we found a contractor to do all the repairs. So far, we had our roof replaced and the entire back siding on the house replaced. So far, things are going well. Thank you so much for the prayers. I do hope things are going well with you and your neighbor.
I think it is better to do it now than later, because;
1) We would be paying more later for the work
and
2) If such an event occurs, the one who is disabled would have to wait for the work to be done before being able to shower!
So you can pray for Steve to come to see that this is more important than his shop. I do wat him to have a shop, but I ma more concerned about our home being accessible to us for the remaining years of our lives. I imagine I will outlive him because I have longevity on my side of the family and he has outlived both of his parents. I do not want to stuck in a bind if he is gone and I cannot do stairs. Sometimes I get frustrated when he is unable to see down the line and make decisions for that when I am definitely a person who looks ahead. We are finally in a position where we can do all that we need to do to our home now that we know we will stay here and not move and I hate to stop short of making our home completely first floor living. To me, it is worth taking a home equity loan because it is something we truly need to keep us from moving to a care center earlier thana we would need to if we do this addition. Senior care is really expensive and such an addition would save us money in the long run.
Jesse, I hate to complain on this but it is a big concern for me. I have had two T.I.A's since I turned 60, my husband has not. We both have high blood pressure. I guess I am more realistic about the possibility of having a stroke event that could prevent me from ambulating up and down stairs. Because he has not had any events like I have, Steve does not consider this addition as being very important right now. Please pray for us to find a resolve to this. I think the bath addition takes precedence over a shop but he sees it as him working long hours for 45+ years and now with retirement he feels he deserves a shop. I do, too, but I want to prioritize our safety and ability to stay together in this home for as long as we can.
Sounds like your home will be very nice when finished. Two large decks, very nice! We have one deck out back and it's nice to sit out and enjoy the view when the weather is nice. We are up on a hill so our view of the valley behind us is beautiful.
We still need two broken windows replaced, a new banister leading down the steps from the rear garage door, a new back garage door, rain gutters replaced, and our deck pressure washed and re-finished. All these things were damaged from very large hail and 83 mph wind.
There's a difference between complaining and being concerned. In no way did I feel like you were complaining. I did pray for your situation last night and I agree with your way of thinking and priority. Being a guy, I also can understand where Steve is coming from. I couldn't wait to put together my workshop, but now that it is finished, I hardly spend much time in it. The excitement seemed to quickly wear off, sort of like being excited about buying exercise equipment and shortly after the excitement is gone!
To me, it sounds like what you are wanting to have done would take much less time to do than it would to build a workshop from scratch. So, I do hope and pray that Steve might take that into consideration.
When we lived in California, we didn't have stairs and never wanted them, same reason. My wife is 65 and I turn 65 later this year. But we moved to the Midwest where almost every house has a basement (Stairs!)
I hope you get your master bath first. I was pondering on this last night, and I thought maybe if you were to tell Steve how excited you are for him to get started on building his workshop so you can put a craft room and indoor garden in there, maybe he might not be in such a hurry anymore. But then I thought that might backfire and then I would be on your "mud list" for a while!
My prayers go out to you both, and I pray for your health. I trust whatever the Lord's will is, will be satisfying for you both.
Your humor amuses me! Actually, the workshop will be primarily for woodworking projects that we plan to learn to do together. I am looking forward to this, too. I am learning to use power tools, although Steve watches over me to be sure I am doing it all right. When I want to do things on my own I go to my friend's house and we experiment with these tools without "guy" interference. We are capable of learning in the same way they learned how to use power tools, but there is still some vestige of "old-fashioned" male thinking in our men.
My hope is that God will make a way for our finances to stretch in such a way to include a master bath so that Steve will be more willing to begin that soon. I know that he would like us to have this, too. But he historically has put what he plans to do first and what I would like second. I do not ask for much. We have been in our home 30 years and this is the first remodel (and perhaps the last) we have done. Our home was so outdated and in need of replacing most interior elements because they had spent their "life use" for the most part even when we moved in. We have waited a very long time to do this and we both are so happy with how things have come together and turned out. Steve is very pleased with how I designed the remodel as he was unable to envision any possible changes let alone determining the best use of space and flow of design for movement throughout he home. I am very thankful that we have been able to do what we have done so far.
We are only building one deck 12' x 30' with a roof to cover it. Then there is landscaping around it to clean up the effects of the construction. We will make a gravel fire pit next to the deck and re do a bit of lawn. After completing the fence, there will be landscaping to do along that and some leveling of the lawn and reseeding. I love the landscaping part. Bought some nice plants today for that part.
But the need for the bath is crucial for us until God calls us home.
Thanks for that I look up what Bennymjke meant by his acronym.
I am glad your remodel is coming along. it must feel good to get the roof and siding completed so that your house "wrap" prevents the insides from damage from rain.
Our inside is 99.999% done. Just one more project for our contractor, Eric, to build for us. He is working on the deck at this time. He took out all the cement patio and is framing the deck (which we expanded from what the original patio measured). Steve, my husband is helping him and this is working well. The deck will be 12' x 30' and will also have a roof built over it.
We still need to replace the remaining old windows. We will order them next week and Eric will install when they arrive the first part of June. Then he will paint the house and our small shed. Next will be building the roof over the deck. And after that removing our front porch and walkway and build a deck in place of the cement porch with a ramp and also extending the porch the full length of the front of the house.
There are still other things we want to get done, but we need to reassess what remains inn our savings after these projects above are completed.
We need to remove our existing driveway and repour it now that we have the big tree removed by our neighbor. Its roots were breaking up our driveway.
Steve hopes to build a shop in back.
I would like to add a master bath and enclosed room for a swim spa off of the downstairs bedroom so we can truly have first for living for the remainder of our years living here.
With our home being paid off for over ten years and with paying for all these improvements with our savings, we may need to take a home equity loan out to complete these remaining projects. Steve will not like doing this as being debt-free is something he wishes to maintain. But, if something occurs to one of us where he or I would not be able to do stairs anymore, we would have to do the bath anyway. See Pt. 2
Galatians 3:28-29 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.
Romans 10:12
"For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him."
Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them."
People complained of the sons of Samuel. In our time we call them nepo babies, but Samuel was appointed by God and the people who complained were meddling with the commandments of God. "Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand." (Rom.14.4)
"for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them." God saw through their complaints but the root cause lay elsewhere.' now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.' The nation wanted to be like in their likeness and not after the likeness of the Son, the Priest-King of whom God said,"The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek."(Ps.110.1-4) For this reason Melchizedek brought bread and wine to Abraham and the patriarch paid him tithes. This in fact was binding on both parties since he gave as a token of receiving the blessings. " And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of al."(Gen.14.20)
God sent his only begotten Son in fulness of time. He came into his own but they received him not. Before Pilate they solemnly declared the had no king but Caesar. So God had foreseen through their sham revernce, "According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods" Unto this day is a phrase the Spirit to set the context in terms of the Son to whom God has decreed the day. The nation of Israel is refuse in the eyes of God yet we have CUFI the work of the devil to deceive Christians,- 'my name is in him' is the definition of a Christian.
Can you tell me what you mean by CUFI. I want to better understand your post. Thanks.
I don't wish to answer for someone else but as I read through the same post, I had no idea what CUFI was either. I typed in the letters in a search engine and found what it stood for. I will leave that up to you if you want to either look it up or wait for a response from Bennymkje. I must say that I still don't understand what his message is, even after looking some things up.
Also, an update on my home repair. Our insurance sent us a check, and we found a contractor to do all the repairs. So far, we had our roof replaced and the entire back siding on the house replaced. So far, things are going well. Thank you so much for the prayers. I do hope things are going well with you and your neighbor.
God Bless!!!
Pt. 2
I think it is better to do it now than later, because;
1) We would be paying more later for the work
and
2) If such an event occurs, the one who is disabled would have to wait for the work to be done before being able to shower!
So you can pray for Steve to come to see that this is more important than his shop. I do wat him to have a shop, but I ma more concerned about our home being accessible to us for the remaining years of our lives. I imagine I will outlive him because I have longevity on my side of the family and he has outlived both of his parents. I do not want to stuck in a bind if he is gone and I cannot do stairs. Sometimes I get frustrated when he is unable to see down the line and make decisions for that when I am definitely a person who looks ahead. We are finally in a position where we can do all that we need to do to our home now that we know we will stay here and not move and I hate to stop short of making our home completely first floor living. To me, it is worth taking a home equity loan because it is something we truly need to keep us from moving to a care center earlier thana we would need to if we do this addition. Senior care is really expensive and such an addition would save us money in the long run.
Jesse, I hate to complain on this but it is a big concern for me. I have had two T.I.A's since I turned 60, my husband has not. We both have high blood pressure. I guess I am more realistic about the possibility of having a stroke event that could prevent me from ambulating up and down stairs. Because he has not had any events like I have, Steve does not consider this addition as being very important right now. Please pray for us to find a resolve to this. I think the bath addition takes precedence over a shop but he sees it as him working long hours for 45+ years and now with retirement he feels he deserves a shop. I do, too, but I want to prioritize our safety and ability to stay together in this home for as long as we can.
Sounds like your home will be very nice when finished. Two large decks, very nice! We have one deck out back and it's nice to sit out and enjoy the view when the weather is nice. We are up on a hill so our view of the valley behind us is beautiful.
We still need two broken windows replaced, a new banister leading down the steps from the rear garage door, a new back garage door, rain gutters replaced, and our deck pressure washed and re-finished. All these things were damaged from very large hail and 83 mph wind.
There's a difference between complaining and being concerned. In no way did I feel like you were complaining. I did pray for your situation last night and I agree with your way of thinking and priority. Being a guy, I also can understand where Steve is coming from. I couldn't wait to put together my workshop, but now that it is finished, I hardly spend much time in it. The excitement seemed to quickly wear off, sort of like being excited about buying exercise equipment and shortly after the excitement is gone!
To me, it sounds like what you are wanting to have done would take much less time to do than it would to build a workshop from scratch. So, I do hope and pray that Steve might take that into consideration.
When we lived in California, we didn't have stairs and never wanted them, same reason. My wife is 65 and I turn 65 later this year. But we moved to the Midwest where almost every house has a basement (Stairs!)
I hope you get your master bath first. I was pondering on this last night, and I thought maybe if you were to tell Steve how excited you are for him to get started on building his workshop so you can put a craft room and indoor garden in there, maybe he might not be in such a hurry anymore. But then I thought that might backfire and then I would be on your "mud list" for a while!
My prayers go out to you both, and I pray for your health. I trust whatever the Lord's will is, will be satisfying for you both.
God Bless!!!
Your humor amuses me! Actually, the workshop will be primarily for woodworking projects that we plan to learn to do together. I am looking forward to this, too. I am learning to use power tools, although Steve watches over me to be sure I am doing it all right. When I want to do things on my own I go to my friend's house and we experiment with these tools without "guy" interference. We are capable of learning in the same way they learned how to use power tools, but there is still some vestige of "old-fashioned" male thinking in our men.
My hope is that God will make a way for our finances to stretch in such a way to include a master bath so that Steve will be more willing to begin that soon. I know that he would like us to have this, too. But he historically has put what he plans to do first and what I would like second. I do not ask for much. We have been in our home 30 years and this is the first remodel (and perhaps the last) we have done. Our home was so outdated and in need of replacing most interior elements because they had spent their "life use" for the most part even when we moved in. We have waited a very long time to do this and we both are so happy with how things have come together and turned out. Steve is very pleased with how I designed the remodel as he was unable to envision any possible changes let alone determining the best use of space and flow of design for movement throughout he home. I am very thankful that we have been able to do what we have done so far.
We are only building one deck 12' x 30' with a roof to cover it. Then there is landscaping around it to clean up the effects of the construction. We will make a gravel fire pit next to the deck and re do a bit of lawn. After completing the fence, there will be landscaping to do along that and some leveling of the lawn and reseeding. I love the landscaping part. Bought some nice plants today for that part.
But the need for the bath is crucial for us until God calls us home.
Thanks for that I look up what Bennymjke meant by his acronym.
I am glad your remodel is coming along. it must feel good to get the roof and siding completed so that your house "wrap" prevents the insides from damage from rain.
Our inside is 99.999% done. Just one more project for our contractor, Eric, to build for us. He is working on the deck at this time. He took out all the cement patio and is framing the deck (which we expanded from what the original patio measured). Steve, my husband is helping him and this is working well. The deck will be 12' x 30' and will also have a roof built over it.
We still need to replace the remaining old windows. We will order them next week and Eric will install when they arrive the first part of June. Then he will paint the house and our small shed. Next will be building the roof over the deck. And after that removing our front porch and walkway and build a deck in place of the cement porch with a ramp and also extending the porch the full length of the front of the house.
There are still other things we want to get done, but we need to reassess what remains inn our savings after these projects above are completed.
We need to remove our existing driveway and repour it now that we have the big tree removed by our neighbor. Its roots were breaking up our driveway.
Steve hopes to build a shop in back.
I would like to add a master bath and enclosed room for a swim spa off of the downstairs bedroom so we can truly have first for living for the remainder of our years living here.
With our home being paid off for over ten years and with paying for all these improvements with our savings, we may need to take a home equity loan out to complete these remaining projects. Steve will not like doing this as being debt-free is something he wishes to maintain. But, if something occurs to one of us where he or I would not be able to do stairs anymore, we would have to do the bath anyway. See Pt. 2
We need
Romans 10:12
"For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him."
Blessings
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