Sing of the Lord's great love!

I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever! Psalm 39:1

“Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, “ Ephesians 5:19

This little songbird will sing out her praises all day to the Lord without reservation and with such joy and sweetness. I will sing out loudly only in the safety of my car or when our congregation is lifting their collectively voices in praise. I am so thankful that the song that is most sweet to the Lord is not necessarily that which sounds the best to our ears, but that which comes from our heart as we praise and worship Him in spirit and in truth! May He give us hearts that rejoice through the trials and troubles of this life as we look to the One who can, will and (if you are trusting in Him) HAS delivered us from the guilt of your sins and, therefore, from death and hell. Who is that One? The Lord Jesus Christ. He is the one who said, "No man has greater love than this, that he lay down his life for his brother, " and then went on to do just that; and not just for one, but for all who will repent and believe!

ODBDSLC94 Love Recipe

For this week’s Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge, the team challenges you to a Love Recipe- Use items that remind you of Valentine’s including the word Love or Loves, hearts, lace and the colors red and white, pink and white, or all of them(must be more than minimal. . .make these colors the main colors)

 

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Friday, February 3rd at 8 a.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday. If you are not using ODBD stamps, please do not enter more than once. Additional entries without using ODBD stamps will not be commented on or will they qualify for prizes.

While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them. As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing one to two creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Friday, Feb. 3 at 8 a.m. EST.  If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC94. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

For some really beautiful work, please take a bit of time to visit  my fellow challenge team members blogs. . .I know you’ll just LOVE what you see!

Wanda Cullen

Debi Southard

Lori Ulrich

Chris Olsen

Rosemary Dennis

Jan Keen

Sabrina Jackson

Kathy Roney

Project Details

Stamps Used: ODBD Sing to the Lord

Ink: SU Pink Pirouette, Early Espresso, Memento Black.

Card Stock: SU Early Espresso

Designer Paper: SU Bella Birds

Accessories:  Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels and Donna Salazar’s Rose Creations, Sizzix Birds with leaves and flowers die, SU Framed Tulips Embossing Folder, Tattered Angels Shimmer Mist, SU Pearls (colored pink!), EK Border Punch, lace, twill tape, Bic and Prisma color markers

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

Godliness with contentment. . .

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. 

 1 Timothy 6:17

 

They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life. (Verses 18 and 19)

Earlier in this chapter of the book of 1 Timothy, where Paul instructs, encourages, exhorts and commissions this young man of God, we read, "But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world."

The book of 1 Timothy isn't a lengthy book, but it is packed solid with godly instruction; wise counsel that we would all do well to heed. May the Lord give us grace in living our lives in a way that would honor Him! Godliness with contentment is great gain!

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge 93

It's time once again for the Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge. This week, the team challenges you to create a card or project using the sketch below.

 

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Friday, January 27th at 8 a.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday. If you are not using ODBD stamps, please do not enter more than once. Additional entries without using ODBD stamps will not be commented on or will they qualify for prizes.

While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them. As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing 1 to 2 creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award.In order to qualify for this award, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Friday, January 27th at 8 a.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC93. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

For more ideas and to see the diverse intrepretations of this Our Daily Bread Challenge, please visit my design team sisters. If you take a moment to leave the girls some love at their blogs, I am sure they would greatly appreciate it.

Wanda Cullen

Debi Southard

Lori Ulrich

Rosemary Dennis

Jan Keen

Sabrina Jackson

Kathy Roney
Angella Crockett (DT)

Project Details 

After reading through the sixth chapter of 1 Timothy, it seemed fitting to pair the bird and border corner stamps with this scripture. That's because most birds seem to always be content as they sing and go about the tasks for which they were created. I say most because the magpies and blue jays around our place always seem to be squawking about something!

ODBD Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Bird and Border Corners;  Scripture Series 2
Card Stock: SU Early Espresso, Old Olive, Naturals Ivory
Ink: SU Old Olive; Ranger Distress Antique Linen and Embossing
Designer Paper: Prima Londonderry, Basic Grey Curio
Accessories: Paula Deen Cupcake liner, Wilton doily, Zva Creative pearls, Stampendous Clear and Periodot Embossing Powders, vintage seam binding and button
Tools: ODBD Vintage Brocade embossing plate; Cheery Lynn Border Carnivale die, Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 8 and Labels 17, ATC gold Shimmer Mist
Challenges:

• Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge 93
• Sugar Creek Hollow - Go Girly
  
• Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge 122: Rev 21:5
• Use something new. . .new stamps; new-to-me-but-otherwise-old button

Blessings! jme ~ SDG