{"id":169,"date":"2019-03-22T11:38:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T11:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2019-03-22T11:38:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T11:38:56","slug":"spring-is-close-at-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Spring is close at hand!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it finally happened even here in the north as well. Spring is in the starting block. The snow is melting and everything is turning into a greyish slush. Soon the green tender leaves will start to sprout. A new clean sheet is being given. Just as God has done for us. He has forgiven us and taken away our sins. I might have said something about this before, but it is an important thing to remember that we are saved! We that have confessed that Jesus is our Lord and Saviour, Gods only begotten son. So there is nothing to fear, because we have been adopted into His family. Our sins have been forgiven and we are restored and lifted up by Him. We have been given a clean sheet that is blank, a new life.<\/p>\n

2 Samuel 9<\/span><\/h4>\n
David and Mephibosheth<\/span><\/h5>\n

9\u00a0<\/span>David asked, \u201cIs there anyone still left of the house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for Jonathan\u2019s sake?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

2\u00a0<\/sup>Now there was a servant of Saul\u2019s household named Ziba.\u00a0They summoned him to appear before David, and the king said to him, \u201cAre you Ziba?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt your service,\u201d he replied.<\/span><\/p>\n

3\u00a0<\/sup>The king asked, \u201cIs there no one still alive from the house of Saul to whom I can show God\u2019s kindness?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ziba answered the king, \u201cThere is still a son of Jonathan;\u00a0he is lame\u00a0in both feet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

4\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cWhere is he?\u201d the king asked.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ziba answered, \u201cHe is at the house of Makir\u00a0son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

5\u00a0<\/sup>So King David had him brought from Lo Debar, from the house of Makir son of Ammiel.<\/span><\/p>\n

6\u00a0<\/sup>When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed down to pay him honor.<\/span><\/p>\n

David said, \u201cMephibosheth!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt your service,\u201d he replied.<\/span><\/p>\n

7\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cDon\u2019t be afraid,\u201d David said to him, \u201cfor I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan.\u00a0I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

8\u00a0<\/sup>Mephibosheth\u00a0bowed down and said, \u201cWhat is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog\u00a0like me?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

9\u00a0<\/sup>Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul\u2019s steward, and said to him, \u201cI have given your master\u2019s grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his family.<\/span>\u00a010\u00a0<\/sup>You and your sons and your servants are to farm the land for him and bring in the crops, so that your master\u2019s grandson\u00a0may be provided for. And Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will always eat at my table.\u201d (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)<\/span><\/p>\n

11\u00a0<\/sup>Then Ziba said to the king, \u201cYour servant will do whatever my lord the king commands his servant to do.\u201d So Mephibosheth ate at David\u2019s[a<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0table like one of the king\u2019s sons.<\/span><\/p>\n

12\u00a0<\/sup>Mephibosheth had a young son named Mika, and all the members of Ziba\u2019s household were servants of Mephibosheth.<\/span>\u00a013\u00a0<\/sup>And Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king\u2019s table; he was lame in both feet.<\/span><\/p>\n

If David a human king to do this, then think about what God can do for you when he restores you and lifts you up. Let this be a guide to what God can do for you in your life and remember that you are a new person and part of a big family.<\/p>\n

God bless!<\/p>\n

Lady Birgitha<\/p>\n

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So it finally happened even here in the north as well. Spring is in the starting block. The snow is melting and everything is turning into a greyish slush. Soon the green tender leaves will start to sprout. A new clean sheet is being given. Just as God has done for us. He has forgiven us and taken away our sins. I might have said something about this before, but it is an important thing to remember that we are saved! We that have confessed that Jesus is our Lord and Saviour, Gods only begotten son. So there is nothing to fear, because we have been adopted into His family. Our sins have been forgiven and we are restored and lifted up by Him. We have been given a clean sheet that is blank, a new life. 2 Samuel 9 David and Mephibosheth 9\u00a0David asked, \u201cIs there anyone still left of the house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for Jonathan\u2019s sake?\u201d 2\u00a0Now there was a servant of Saul\u2019s household named Ziba.\u00a0They summoned him to appear before David, and the king said to him, \u201cAre you Ziba?\u201d \u201cAt your service,\u201d he replied. 3\u00a0The king asked, \u201cIs there no one still alive from the house of Saul to whom I can show God\u2019s kindness?\u201d Ziba answered the king, \u201cThere is still a son of Jonathan;\u00a0he is lame\u00a0in both feet.\u201d 4\u00a0\u201cWhere is he?\u201d the king asked. Ziba answered, \u201cHe is at the house of Makir\u00a0son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lady-shares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladybirgitha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}