THE AWESOME BLOG CONTENT AWARD

The ABC Award

I thank writinggomer  http://believinggodtoday.com/2012/01/31/abc-award/  for awarding me with the ABC Awesome Blog Content Award.

I accept this award, not for myself, but for the One who directs my mind and my abilities and enables me to write here. I have known, loved and served my loving heavenly Father, through the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the power and enabling of the Holy Spirit, for 53 of my 75 years.

A requirement of receiving this award is to use each letter of the alphabet to give a word about myself, but since He alone is worthy, I am taking the liberty of changing the rules slightly, by giving you details of my God.

The (a) is one of His names and/or His attributes.
The (b) is gifts He has given me (thus giving information about myself as well)

A     (a)  Advocate, Almighty, amazing, awesome, absolute, able, Alpha

(b)  Atonement, adoption, abundant life,

B     (a)   Burden-bearer, Benefactor, benevolent, bounteous,

(b)  Bountiful blessings, blamelessness, blood of Christ,

C     (a)  Creator, Counsellor, Cornerstone, capable, constant,

(b)  Changed life, commission, calling, certainty, conqueror

D     (a)  Deliverer, Divine, devoted

(b)  Daughter, deliverance, destiny, direction,

E     (a)  Eternal, excellence, Emmanuel,

(b)  Elect, enabling, equipment, exchanged life, everlasting life

F     (a)  Father, Friend, faithfulness, forgiving

(b)  Fruit, faith, fellowship, forgiveness, freedom, future, fulfilment

G     (a)  Guide, giving, great, glorious, gracious

(b)  Grace, guidance, guarantee, growth, goals,

H     (a)  Helper, Head, holy, honourable

(b)  Heir, heaven, hope, His abiding presence

I      (a)  Immortal, Incarnate, inestimable, infallible, immaculate, invincible,

(b)  inheritance, inspiration, instruction, in His everlasting arms,

J      (a)  Justifier, Just, Jesus, Judge,

(b)  Justification, joy, joint-heir with Christ,

K     (a)  King, kindness, Keeper,

(b)  knowledge of Him, kindred,

L     (a)  Lord, Love, Leader, Light, Lamb of God, Lion of Judah,

(b)  love, life, looking for His coming,

M    (a)  Majesty, Messiah, Master, Man of Sorrows,

(b)  Mercy, mission, ministry,

N     (a)  Never-ending love, Name above all names,

(b)  New nature, new life,

O     (a)  Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Only God,

(b)  Overcomer, opportunities, order,

P     (a)   Preeminent, Perfect, powerful, Potter, Protector, Provider, Pure, Prince of Peace

(b)   Peace, passion, power, praise, prayer, privilege, promises, patience

Q     (a)   Quick, Quencher [of the fiery darts of the wicked one]

(b)   quietness (in the middle of troubles)

R     (a)  Redeemer, Ransom, Refuge, Rescuer, Righteous, Rock, Reconciler,

(b)  ransom, redemption, rejoicing, rest, restoration, rewards,  reconciliation,

S     (a)  Saviour, Sacrifice, Sanctifier, sinless, sincere

(b)  salvation, safety, sanctification, security, service, stability,

T     (a)  Trustworthy, Teacher, Truth,

(b)  treasure, triumph,

U    (a)  Unparalleled, Ultimate, Upright,

(b)  united,  under His wings, undeserved blessings,

V     (a)  venerable,

(b)  Victory, value,

W    (a)  Way, Wonderful, Word,

(b)  witness, worth, worship,

X     (a)  Xcellence, Xtraordinary,

(b)  Xtensive blessings

Y     (a)  Yahweh,

(b)  youth ministry

Z     (a)  He is A-Z or Alpha & Omega

(b)  zeal,

This list is by no means complete. No doubt you can think of many more.

One thing is certain:
We serve an awesome God!