Cathy's Heart

Tips For Storing Up Hidden Treasure I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you...The law from your mouth is more precious to me  than thousands of pieces of silver and gold...Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.   Psalm 119:11, 72 , 97   I wish I could remember who first taught me to memorize God's Word.     Whoever it was, gave me a small packet of business size cards. Each one with a different Bible passage. I was nineteen. A college student at Arizona State University. That was over thirty-five years ago, yet I vividly recall walking through the tree-lined campus, between classes, rehearsing the lines on my cards.   One of the first passages I memorized was  John 10:27-29 ,  "My  sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater t...

Born to Soar (Part 2) Welcome to week 2 of my cyberspace Bible Study. This fall, my posts will follow the heart of the messages I am teaching each week at my church. I pray you will be blessed.   Last week, I wrote that like an old caterpillar transformed and burst forth from it's cocoon into a beautiful new butterfly, God desires each of His children to enjoy a whole new way of life on this earth, while we expectantly look forward to eternity with Him in heaven. Years ago, the Lord showed me that one reason we don't enjoy the fullness of the abundant life He intends is because we don't change our thinking. I have found this to be true in my own life, and have witnessed it in others.   For years, I have observed that one of the greatest obstacles to renewing our minds is the lies that we believe. Lies we may have heard from others, lies we told ourselves, and the lies whispered to us by our enemy, the devil. However, until we recognize these lies and learn to dispel them, w...