Newly Added

Lemonade Stand By The Creek added a new page to the website, Lemonade Stand Stories. Check out the link: www.lemonadestandbythecreek.web.officelive.com/lemonadestandstories.aspx



Home written stories about our homestead and life on the farm.


My husband and I were both 'city' dwellers. We grew tired of the chaos and noise of the city. My husband's dream has always been to have a home and some land 'somewhere over the rainbow'! I just desired a comfortable home where I could care for my husband and welcome our families. God provided us an opportunity to move out into the American countryside in 2008.


The home has been neglected for some time. It is built mostly from limestone blocks. It is very charming and is a most welcoming home. There is alot of landscaping issues and lots of overgrown brush and trees to clear. There is electrical, insulation and heating tasks to accomplish. ALL the bedrooms and the two baths still have 'pull' chain lights!! There are two quanson huts that onced provided a home for chickens. There is an old hog barn and an old corn crib. The old barn was fallen down and only the skeleton shell remains.


I am ever grateful to God for bringing us here. The peace of country living has taken some of the distractions away in order to hear God's voice better.


Meanwhile, please follow the link above to read about our adventures about adjusting to our farm life and our walk with God.

Welcome To Our Chapel

My Thoughtful Place Ministry Blog is an open [interdenominational] chapel forum. Welcoming the internet community to observe and discover God’s gift of eternal life through the life, death and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ.

1 John 5:20 New Living Translation explains: "And we know that the Son of God has come, and he has given us understanding so that we can know the true God. And now we live in fellowship with the true God because we live in fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the only true God, and he is eternal life."

This blog is the door to our family of websites and blogs that offer Bible Study newsletters, a daily Scripture reading plan [just suggestions if you are not sure where to start], daily devotionals [coming soon], journal pages [printable], and more. You may enter our chapel through the links listed below.

Lemonade Stand By The Creek Home: A website designed for ALL internet ‘surfers’ searching for a deeper, personal relationship with Jesus or understanding the accepting of Jesus Christ into your life. This site is updated on a monthly basis. Visit the link:
http://www.lemonadestandbythecreek.web.officelive.com/

Lemonade Stand By The Creek Blog: This blog encourages the internet community to become active participants in following our pathway with Jesus Christ. It provides an opportunity to add comments, share testimony and submit prayer requests about our devotion to Jesus. This blog is updated regularly. Visit the link: http://www.lemonadestandbythecreek.spaces.live.com/

Keeper of the Hearth Home: A woman’s ministry website. This site is created for the woman following after God’s heart. This site is updated on a monthly basis. Visit the link: http://www.keeperofthehearth.health.officelive.com/

Keeper of the Hearth Blog: As an extension of the Keeper of the Hearth website, this blog offers women the opportunity to share testimony, submit prayer requests and add comments about our praise and worship of Jesus. This blog is updated regularly. Visit the link:
http://www.keeperofthehearth.spaces.live.com/

By scheduling personal prayer time, daily Scripture reading, applying God’s Word to our life, we are better equipped, through Jesus’ teachings, to face personal challenges. We discover that the Bible is relevant and applicable to our life today. Learning more about God cultivates the desire to build the life God designed for each of us.

“What’s more, I am with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. One day I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything I have promised you.” ~Genesis 28:15 New Living Translation~

How Do I Accept Christ?

God created us to enjoy friendship with him. Though we were citizens of the kingdom of darkness, he pursued us with his unconditional love. Even though we chose to sin against God and against others, Jesus chose to pay the debt for our rebellion. He had each one of us in mind when he went to the cross. And he pursued each one of us specifically until through faith we recognized that he died and rose again for us.

Perhaps you are unsure of your relationship with God and need to deal conclusively with this choice now. We cannot pay for our sins. Christ has already done this for us as a gift [Ephesians 2:8-9]. Christ died on the cross to save us from our sins. He took our place.
If there is any question about whether you have fully accepted Christ's substitutionary death to pay for the wrath you deserve for your sins, take some time to reflect on His love and forgiveness.

He longs for us to come to Him with our own 'free will'. He knows all about us from before we were ever born and knows what our path in life will consist of:

“For You did form my inward parts; You did knit me together in my mother's womb. I will confess and praise You for You are fearful and wonderful and for the awful wonder of my birth! Wonderful are Your works, and that my inner self knows right well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was being formed in secret [and] intricately and curiously wrought [as if embroidered with various colors] in the depths of the earth [a region of darkness and mystery]. Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the days [of my life] were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them.” ~Psalm 139:13-16 (Amplified Bible)

Hello there weary internet traveler…

Have you visited this blog out of curiosity?
What a wondrous choice..
In life, we often have to walk down unfamiliar paths
Paths that may feel threatening.
So how do we do that without making costly mistakes?
We take Someone along who knows the way.
The psalmist recognized that Guide when he wrote,
"Lead me, O Lord, in Your righteousness...
make Your way straight before my face." ~Psalm 5:8
Does your path today seem unfamiliar?
Ask God our Father to travel the road with you.