Tombahamas: October 2017

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Pray The 7, "I AM" Statements of Jesus.

Pray the 7 ‘I Am’ Statements of Jesus
When your faith and hope need a boost, connect to His beauty and power.

by Bob HostetlerPosted in Pray Effectively, Jan 26, 2016

Pray the 7 ‘I Am’ Statements of Jesus
To some people, “Iams” is just a brand name for pet food. For others, it is a powerful and inspiring way to pray.

One of the unique features of the fourth Gospel, written by John (the beloved disciple) a few decades after the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, is its singular structure, which is more thematic than chronological. And part of that structure is the inclusion of seven striking statements Jesus made, which have come to be called “The Seven I Ams.”

The first occurs in John 6:35, soon after Jesus miraculously fed a crowd of 5000 with a few loaves and fishes. He said:

“I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” (John 6:35, NIV)

It was the first of seven metaphors Jesus used to portray his divine nature and redemptive mission. And those “I Am” statements can be a great way to pray, particularly when your faith and hope need a boost.

For example, you may make a list of the seven “I Ams” and pray something like this:

1) Lord Jesus, you said, “I am the bread of life.” Your nature is to provide and sustain life as You did for crowds on Galilean hillsides. I pray for You to meet my need today.

2) You said, “I am the light of the world.” It is Your very nature to dispel darkness. Please light the path ahead of me and shine Your light on me.

3) You said, “I am the door of the sheep.” You protect and shelter those who depend on You. Let nothing come my way that You have not approved.

4) You said, “I am the good shepherd.” Your nature is to care and lead and guide. Please do that for me today.

5) You said, “I am the resurrection and the life.” You banish sadness and impart vitality and abundance. Please resurrect my hopes and enliven me today.

6) You said, “I am the way, the truth and the life.” Your very nature is to drive away confusion, distraction, error, doubt and death. Please banish those things from my heart, mind and spirit today.

7) You said, “I am the true vine.” You impart Your divine beauty, grace and vitality to all those who abide in You. Help me to abide in You today and infuse me with Your nature.

Those prayers are offered as a mere example, of course. Yours will be more specific to your situation and need. And you may find, as I do, that the “I Ams” are so rich and meaningful that you can pray them every day for a week and never pray the same way twice.

Give it a try. It is a great way to connect your praying to the beauty, power and wealth of Jesus Himself.

Thank you Betty from Nassau, Bahamas. I needed this today.

Friday a day before Saturday. What does that mean? Not to much

The reason I say that is, I am retired an all the days are running into each other.

Well I had a dentist appointment today. I got to All Smiles Dentistry. The folks there are overly friend. I stopped there a couple of weeks ago to see if they would take my health insurance? They told me sorry, I only have health insurance thru Humana.

So I called my girl in Tampa, asking her if I have dental insurance? She called back and sent me two other programs on dental insurance. HMO and PPO. Both cost extra, HOM $12.00 a month. PPO is $36.00 a month.

Thinking let see what happens today.

I got my exam and the dentist told me I only need a cleaning and one crown. I got the cleaning and the exam for $89.00 plus a fluoride treatment, $43.00 so my time there was only $132.

But the crown is $1599.00. Now if I take their insurance, it will cost me $199. a year. I get two free cleaning and exams. Plus 20% off of any dental work. So the crown would cost me $1452.60 with the insurance.

I will try next week to go back down south to the dentist I had during working at Calvary. Maybe they will give me a break?

I cleaned her flower bed out almost 8 months ago. It sure looked like it too. But I had some spare time and why not make a buck or two?

It took me about a hour or so. But at the end it looks great and the owner is very happy too.

Let us PRAISE HIM TODAY.

Monday, October 30, 2017

Have a plumbing problem. Hey it is Thursday already.

This is Dan's home. He called me a couple of days ago. Telling me Terry (the guy I took to the airport) and him tried to replace a shower head. Meanwhile they got the head off, but putting it back on, they broke the 90 on top, where the shower head screws into.

Had to take one piece of sheet rock off. It was very fragile. By God's grace it didn't fall apart. I took it off and laid it on the floor and did the repair.

There is one more task Dan would like for me to look at. The bathroom light doesn't always come on. It is over 30 years old. So I will replace that too. Meanwhile, I got another call from a customer Bridget a couple of days before. She was staying the same thing about both of her bathroom lights. So I went to Home depot and bought three of them plus bulbs and fittings for Dan's shower.

I made it a little tighter than I needed to. But it will be okay.

I replaced the sheet rock and put the molding back on. Like I said it was by God's grace it didn't fall apart.

I replaced his bathroom light, that was the other bathroom.

He is all repaired now.

I left there and drove over to Bridget's home and replaced both of her bathroom lights and took two screen windows out and took them to the repair guy (Earl at Vero Mobile Home Supply) . I will get them back on Thursday. Hey I took screen to him a couple of weeks ago and he only charged me $20.00 to replace the mesh. So for me that sounds good enough for me.

I have replaced the mesh in many windows, back in the Bahamas. It is worth it to me to have Earl do it for me.

At the end of the day, I was very blessed to make a couple of bucks and enjoy the rest of the evening.

Sunday, October 29, 2017

Guess where I am? That is correct, Winn-Dixie Daily walk in refrigertor.

I got there and the truck has came in already. So as you look this place is a mess. I started out just taking the milk pallets out and stocking the coolers. I just kept plugging along. For the 8 hours I was there. I got most of the stuff worked up. Plus I re stacked the milk and tried to get the place in order.

Hey when I first saw this. I went to the asst manger and asked what happen here? He told me just do the best I can and he will talk with the daily manger the next day.

Hey I did my best and left this place looking pretty good. Folks this job is not that hard. It is only the daily department. But as I have been helping out here for a while now. I just don't understand why it is such a mess each day? I know there are others that stock the coolers. So why can't they look and try better?

Hey I get around $64.00 clear each week and get to talk with customers during that time. That is the part I enjoy. I miss retail and folks to talk with.

This is our HOA (homeowners association) meeting going on. There is a board that is over seeing Spanish Lakes Country Club.

They tell us about what is going on and if anyone has any thing to share, we are welcome to do so. They told us there are two spots open on the board. One is Activity Director and Communication Director. I asked before the meeting what does the Communication Director do? They told me just go buy the donuts ( for the meeting) and put the HOA sign out each time.

Plus write up a couple of articles in our news letter ( Village Voice) It is like 12 pages long. I only need inform our members about different events going on. The next day I called the guy(Jack) that did that job a couple of years ago. He told me it is a fun job to do an you get to hear what the board is thinking about and maybe my voice will be heard.

It is the board who elects the member. There are two of us, that asked.

Hey if my Lord wants me in there, it will happen.

If not that is His call.

Hey getting ready for church and I will be going back to Calvary PSL. Just seeing what is going on and see some of my brothers that are part of the men's Bible study on Monday nights.

Praise HIM today.

I pray you are going to church yourself today. He is looking forward ins seeing you there.

Saturday, October 28, 2017

I had a chance to drive some folks to the airports.

Let me start from the beginning of the day. I drove a friend's brother to the Orlando Airport. That was Terry, he is Rosey's brother. He came in for the wedding that happen on Friday afternoon. If you look back a couple of days ago. You would see some pictures from that wedding I was at.

Well Terry and I left his sister's home around 10:30am. As I was driving I had a chance to really get o know him. He has been around the block himself. Just to say, we have a lot of things in common.

His marries and just a neat guy to get to know more about.

The ride took about 1 hour and half, up and back there was some construction along the way home. They are replacing a guard railing on the north side. It sure looks like someone wiped out many poles. But after that is was clean sailing.

I got back home and sat for a little while and had some lunch and then it was time for another ride.

These are my good friends and neighbors Roy and Pat. They are flying out of West Palm Beach Airport. That is correct. I am now driving south. It really was a joyful ride. Roy did the driving and I got to relax and just sit back and watch the scenery.

Hey said our good bye and time to visit a future customer, down south in Deerfield Beach. I drove about another 30 miles and sat and talked with her. Then headed north again.

It sure was a long day and I was so happy to be back home and it was time to just chill and watch some TV.

It really is joy to be able to help others out and I am very blessed to be able to do that. Thank you Lord for all you give me each day.

Friday, October 27, 2017

One more time trimming bushes and trees.

This is at Carol's home. She is away now getting some work done on knees. I have been cleaning up here yard now for over 7 months. It really is getting to me. It is turning out to be more work than I want. I talked to her last month, asking if sh could find someone else to weed and trim? She told me she is on it.

I am not sure if anyone out there has ever trimmed a Date Palm? Well these branches have thorns on them and they are not small ones. I would say 2" to 3" longs. So when you get a prick. It hurts. I have gloves on but they really don't protect from these.

I got one side done and need to drive over to the land fill.

The day before I was riding my bike around the park here. I went by Clare's home and saw the carpet I pulled out still laying in her front lawn.I did that job last Wednesday I think? I drove over and picked them and took them to the dump too.

This is such a neat machine. It makes mulch.

Okay I stopped and got something to eat and came back again, not sure why? I just want to finish the job and say it is done.

It took two load to the dump but I am very happy to see how nice it all turned out. Prayerfully when she get back, she will find a another lawn guy or woman?

It took me 7 hours to get this done. That is driving to the dump and back. I was a tried guy at the end of Monday.

Oh I did stop at Dan;s house. He called me and asked if I could take a look at his shower. The pipe in back of the shower is broken and that is what I will be working on Thursday.

On Tuesday I will be driving folks to the airport. I have two runs to do.

Praise Him and Praise HIM again.

How To Destroy a Hard Drive

Now after finding it. What do you do to DESTROY IT????

I really how this helps others out there too. Hey if you are getting rite of a desk tower or even a lap top. You need to pull the hard drive out and destroy it.

You never know what someone MIGHT DO? There are passwords on there and maybe even some accounts.
so PLEASE MAKE SURE.

NO ONE NEEDS THE HASSLE.

I hope this helps you out.

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Some days are rougher than others.

Posted: 24 Oct 2017 01:03 AM PDT

“I have refined you but not in the way silver is refined. Rather, I have refined you in the furnace of suffering” Isaiah 48:10 (NLT).

No one likes those times when stress gets turned up, deadlines mount, and expectations seem unreachable.
But sometimes God uses heat in your life to burn off the stuff that’s tying you down.
You just need to trust God through the pain.
What’s got you tied up? What’s limiting you from being all God meant for you to be?
God can use the trials in your life to eliminate what’s holding you back.
God says in Isaiah 48:10, “I have refined you but not in the way silver is refined. Rather, I have refined you in the furnace of suffering” (NLT).
It’s highly unlikely you’ll literally go through a fiery furnace in your life, but you’ll go through the furnace of suffering many, many times. God will refine you with that fire.
It’s like silver and gold. When they heat it up, they get rid of impurities. Then you’re left with 100 percent gold or 100 percent silver.
If you ask a silversmith how to know when silver is pure, he’ll tell you it happens when you can see your reflection while looking into the cauldron.
God knows you’re purified when he can see his own reflection in you. You look more Christlike.
It’s the fire that does that.
Talk It Over:
– How has God made you more like Jesus through tough times?
– Sometimes it is easier to turn away from Christ in the midst of our suffering, instead of allowing it to make us more like him. Why?
– What does it mean for you to “be like Jesus” after God refines you through suffering?
By Rick Warren

Thursday, October 26, 2017

God is good to me each day.

Waking up on Saturday, getting ready to go to a men's breakfast. The old battery is dead and really is neat to say. I am at my own home and I am not stuck out at night on the side of the road. Went over I asked Roy to give me a jump and it started up one more time. Drove over to Advance Auto and bought a battery for $120. Thinking I might save a buck or two if I shopped on the web to see. But I need it now.

After the running around I came back home and put new wires in and prayerfully all is well now.

When doing wires for your spark plugs. Make sure to just do one at a time. The reason is, like you see here. The wires are all different lengths. But now all I need to change out is the fuel filter. I bought one and looked under the truck.

This is one job I really don't like to do. the reason is gasoline always runs down my arm and it goes ever where. I might still do it? I called Mark, Vero Visa Auto Repair. He will be able to replace it on Friday. I might wait to then?

It really is a easy replacement but messy.

It is nice to put the truck up on a rack and see what you are doing and get out of the way when you pull the lines off.

I just talked myself into waiting.

That is being SMART.

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Today I have a CHOICE

Email“You have shown me the path to life, and you make me glad by being near to me. Sitting at your right side, I will always be joyful.” Psalm 16:11(CEV)

Today, I have some important choices to make. God has graciously given me the next 24 hours as He promising to be near and show me my path. What will your day be like?

Asking three questions to jump-start a new day can help us focus.

1. What will I DO today with God beside me?
Whether in the workplace, a seniors home, parenting, or in relationships what can we do that will be God-honoring. A word of encouragement, hugging a child, a right ethical decision, or a listening ear can all be pleasing to God.

2. What will I SAY today with God beside me?
In the next 24 hours the words that come out of our mouths can be an effective example as a servant of Jesus Christ. Words can destroy or build up, say a lie or tell the truth, and can heal or hurt. God is there to help.

3. What will I THINK about today with God beside me?
Our brains are a mighty search engine. Asking God to help us fill our minds with good and pure thoughts will help us make positive choices today for now and in the future.

Our Father in Heaven, thank you for the next 24 hours. We are asking for guidance in what we do, say, and think. Thank you for walking beside us and showing us the path of life. We are so grateful for the fact that You love to be near us. That makes us joyful. Help us as we continue to walk all the 24 hours that You give us. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Thought: As you go throughout your day think of ways to be Jesus to others. What encouraging words can you say? When negative thoughts enter your mind, fill them with thoughts of God. With God beside you, look for ways to be His servant.

By Linda McCutcheon
Used by Permission

I was invited to a wedding Friday afternoon.

This is Al and Rosy. I think Rosy was my first customer to do some work on her home?

Well Rosy and Al have been friends now for about six months. They invited many friends and families to this beautiful wedding.

It really turned out to be a beautiful day too. What a great turn out of folks. I looked around and knew some. But I was pleasantly surprised to see so many.