G.I.R.L. Newsletter *Special Edition*

Special Message from G.I.R.L. Newsletter...    This Christmas Day many people around the world are celebrating.  Some are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, while others are just caught up in the hustle and bustle of the season and all the excitement that goes with it.      Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, celebrate Hanukkah, or choose to not celebrate anything at all, my prayer for you today is that you experience the love of our Savior Jesus Christ.  That is what is most important, it's not the day, it's not the fancy meal we eat or gifts we receive, but it is that you have a personal encounter with the Messiah Jesus Christ.    You might be an atheist, someone completely lost in Christmas traditions forgetting God, or perhaps you are questioning your belief that God even exists.  I want to tell you that He does!  He is as real today as ever.      The Creator of the world wants to have a personal relationship with you!  He wants you to get lost in His love, in His mercy, and in His forgiveness.  It doesn't matter what you've done or where you've been, He loves you with a love that no one can quench.        Call out to Him today before it is too late.  You can say "I'll do ittomorrow", but in reality we are not promised tomorrow.  We are given today, and today is the day we need to choose to serve God with our lives.  He is waiting for you right now, call on Jesus our Redeemer and He will save you!   In my distress I called upon the Lord, And cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, And my cry came before Him, even to His ears. Psalm 18:6  For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Romans 10:13 Cry Out To Jesus - Third Day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3yCod-IfjY  Love, Deborah Allyn

G.I.R.L. Newsletter Issue #62

Song of the Month:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-hd7roEfqk
Open Up Our Eyes - Elevation Worship 

Bible Verses:

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. Philippians 4:8

Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
Ephesians 4:29

A perverse man sows strife,
And a whisperer separates the best of friends. 
Proverbs 16:28

Keep your tongue from evil,
And your lips from speaking deceit.
Psalm 34:13

Where there is no wood, the fire goes out;
And where there is no talebearer, strife ceases.
Proverbs 26:20

And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise. 
Luke 6:31




Devotion:
   This month I would like to talk about gossip and our words. I'm sure when we hear the word gossip we all have something that comes to mind, perhaps a time maybe when someone gossiped about us. Let's first establish what gossip actually is. The dictionary defines it as "idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others".  Based on that description this is definitely not something we want part of our lives! Even more importantly, the bible commands us against it.  It can be so easy when we are out with our friends to start talking about something we know about a mutual friend.  A lot of times we like to say "oh well that isn't gossip, I'm just stating a fact", when really we should not be talking about that person behind their back.  Another good thing to remember is Luke6:31, doing unto others as we would want them to do to us.  I know that I sure don't like it when I've heard that someone was talking about me behind my back and saying things about me, so I shouldn't want to do that to others either. In closing, let us strive to keep our talk encouraging and positive, to build one another up, and to be respectful of other people's feelings.  The Bible has a lot to say about this topic, so I encourage you to study the verses listed above and look up some more on your own.

Love & Prayers,
Deborah Allyn

Happy Thanksgiving 2013

Happy Thanksgiving  from G.I.R.L. Newsletter

A Thanksgiving message from Deborah! Click the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFSnesKmn_8 Here is a great song to listen to at Thanksgiving.  It talks about how faithful our God is to us!  What a great time of year to Thank Him for His faithfulness to us throughout the year. Never Once - Matt Redman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1bXG4WIesA  G.I.R.L. Newsletter Archives Remember that you can read all previous newsletters on my blog!  http://girlnewsletter.blogspot.com/

G.I.R.L. Newsletter Issue #61 *5th Anniversary*!!!

Song of the Month:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOkImV2cJDg

Whom Shall I Fear - Chris Tomlin




This month is the 5 year anniversary of G.I.R.L Newsletter!  I can hardly believe that 5 years have passed since I started sending it out.  I'm so thankful to God for giving me this opportunity.  Thank you all for your support throughout the years of this ministry.  If you know any gals who would like to receive it, feel free to give them my email and they can email me to sign up!

Email me at: musicgirl4jesus@gmail.com  

Remember that you can read all previous issues of G.I.R.L. Newsletter at http://girlnewsletter.blogspot.com

Since this month is Thanksgiving I thought I would share some verses about Thankfulness with ya'll!

 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.  1 Thess. 5:18

Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
Psalm 100:4

I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving,
And will call upon the name of the Lord.
Psalm 116:17

I will praise the name of God with a song,
And will magnify Him with thanksgiving.
Psalm 69:30



Love & Prayers,

Deborah Allyn

G.I.R.L. Newsletter Issue #60

Song of the Month:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nQy-aP_Koo
Love Never Fails - Brandon Heath

1 Corinthians 13

New King James Version (NKJV)

The Greatest Gift

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things , believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.


Show the Love of Jesus Christ
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Praying for you,
Deborah Allyn

G.I.R.L. Newsletter Issue #59

Song of the Month:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5xEYgGr6ms

I Shall Not Want - Audrey Assad 




When I read today's "Our Daily Bread" I was really blessed by it and wanted to share it with you all.  I know we are all at different stages of life, but something we all need to know is God's Will.  I pray you are blessed!  You can read the Daily Bread each day at http://odb.org/  



Devotion: 

Bible reading Psalm 37:23-40  http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+37%3A23-40

We’re often looking for God’s will—especially when we’re in a difficult situation. We wonder, What will happen to me here? Should I stay or does God want me somewhere else? The only way to know for sure is to do what He asks you to do right now—the duty of the present moment—and wait for God to reveal the next step.

As you obey what you know, you will be strengthened to take the next step and the next. Step by step, one step at a time. That’s how we learn to walk with God.

But you say, “Suppose I take the first step. What will happen next?” That’s God’s business. Your task and mine is to obey this day and leave the future to Him. The psalmist says our steps are “ordered by the Lord” (37:23). This day’s direction is all we need. Tomorrow’s instruction is of no use to us at all. George MacDonald said, “We do not understand the next page of God’s lesson book; we see only the one before us. Nor shall we be allowed to turn the leaf until we have learned its lesson.”

If we concern ourselves with God’s will and obey each day the directions and warnings He gives, if we walk by faith and step out in the path of obedience, we will find that God will lead us through this day. As Jesus put it, “Tomorrow will worry about its own things” (Matt. 6:34).

God knows each winding way I take,
And every sorrow, pain, and ache;
His children He will not forsake—
He knows and loves His own. —Bosch

Blessed is the person who finds out which way God is moving and then goes in that direction.



Love & Prayers,
Deborah Allyn

G.I.R.L. Newsletter Issue #58

Song of the Month:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb7TSGptd3Y
While I'm Waiting - John Waller

It's time for another video devotion!  The theme for this month is "Waiting".  I pray that you are blessed by it.  Just click the link below. =)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiEGiOUcCTI&feature=youtu.be

Love & Prayers,

Deborah Allyn

G.I.R.L. Newsletter Issue #57

Song of the Month:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9_caMq_iYc

Have Your Way - Britt Nicole





Hi Everyone!  I wanted to share this story with you of something that happened to me this month and I pray it is a blessing to you in some way.  Be assured that when you do what God says, He will bless you!
-Deborah

Right now there are so many thoughts running through my mind it is almost impossible to sort through them all.  The mixture of emotions that are within me are very difficult to separate.  I have happiness, but yet pain, joy, and yet fear.  You are probably wondering what has caused all of this.  Well, on July 5^th while I was at work, someone came to my dad to ask if he could date me and get to know me better.  It was so exciting, I was happy, and felt very flattered.  But yet, I did not have peace about it.  I would have loved to just jump up and down and say “Yes!”, but that is not what God had in mind.  He showed my parents, and me, that the best thing to do was for us to remain friends at this time in our lives.   
     It says in Ecclesiastes 3:1 “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.”  God has a perfect timing for everything, and this just wasn’t the right timing for a relationship between us.  This is not to say that it was an easy thing to do, it was really, really, hard.  I know though that God will be pleased because we followed His guidance and listened to His voice.
     Sometimes doing what God wants is very difficult.  We have our own ideas of how we think things should go, and we have our own plans.  Guess what? God has plans too! And you know what? His plans are so much better than ours.  “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9”
     I just want to encourage you that wherever you may be in your life to keep trusting God.  He has a plan for your life that is so amazing and wonderful we cannot even begin to comprehend it. 
 Put your life in God’s hands, it’s the best place to be!  
                    
For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
The Lord will give grace and glory;
No good thing will He withhold
From those who walk uprightly.
Psalm 84:11

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Ephesians 3:20-21

For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear,
neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee,
what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Isaiah 64:4

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 1 Corinthians 2:9



Praying For You,

Deborah Allyn

G.I.R.L. Newsletter Issue #56

Song of the Month:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UracNSSlfTo

You Alone Can Rescue - Matt Redman

Bible Verses:

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Matthew 28:18-20

 

Devotion:

Happy Summer everyone!  It's hard to believe half of June is already over.  As summer is on its way I just wanted to encourage you all to be finding opportunities to share your faith in the things you do this summer. Whether you are at your job, on vacation, or just at home, you can share the love of Jesus with others! The next two weeks I will be counseling at a kids camp and I am so excited to be a good influence on the children that I work with there.  I encourage you to get involved somewhere this summer where you can minister to others.  You don't have to be on a mission trip somewhere far away, there are so many people right in your own community that are in need of a Savior.  So what are you waiting for? Get out and do it! 


Love & Prayers,

Deborah Allyn

G.I.R.L. Newsletter Issue #55

Song of the Month:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a95f8_q2s54

Sing of Your Glory - Bebo Norman

Hi Everyone!   This month I would like for the Word of God to speak to you as you read the following passage of Scripture.  Be Blessed!   

Matthew 6:25-34

New King James Version (NKJV)

Do Not Worry

25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Sister in Christ,
Deborah Allyn

G.I.R.L. Newsletter Issue #54 - God is moving! Testimony!

Song of the Month:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wClKDTdKhCM

Greatness of Our God - Natalie Grant








Devotion:

Hi Everyone! This month I want to share a testimony with you of what God is doing through the G.I.R.L. Newsletter!  As you may know, I have a blog website where I keep all of the G.I.R.L. issues so people can go back and read them again if they like.  A couple weeks ago I was on blogger and I noticed there was a comment waiting to be approved to be posted on my newsletter blog.  I clicked on it, and what I was about to see shocked me! The comment was from a pastor in Mumbai, India!!!  At first I was not sure if it was real, or if it was a spam or something, so I typed his name in to google and I was able to find out that he indeed was a pastor in India, and also the superintendent there for the Nazarene Church.  My blog is public, and to this day I do not know what he searched for to be able to find the G.I.R.L. Newsletter...all I have to say is GOD IS AMAZING!!  I just want to encourage you that even though you might not be seeing direct results from your ministry or the sharing of your faith, know that there is someone out there being touched and God is being glorified even though you may not see it!  If God can take a newsletter written by a girl in Minnesota and have someone read it over 8,000 miles away...He can do anything!  God is good!   



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Trusting in Jesus,
Deborah Allyn

G.I.R.L. Issue #53

Song of the Month:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIpIHfZ88PM

Help Me Find It - Sidewalk Prophets 

This month I wanted to share with you some encouraging verses from the book of Psalms!
There are so many wonderful verses in Psalms, here are a few of my favorites. 

I will love You, O Lord, my strength.
² The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;
My God, my strength, in whom I will trust;
My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
³ I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised;
So shall I be saved from my enemies.
Psalms 18:1-3

Wait on the Lord;
Be of good courage,
And He shall strengthen your heart;
Wait, I say, on the Lord!
Psalms 27:14

4I sought the Lord, and He heard me,
And delivered me from all my fears. 
8Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good;
15Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!
The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
And His ears are open to their cry.
17The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears,
And delivers them out of all their troubles.
Psalms 34: 4, 8, 15, 17 

Now I know that the Lord saves His anointed;
He will answer him from His holy heaven
With the saving strength of His right hand.
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses;
But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.
Psalm 20:6-7



Love & Prayers,

Deborah Allyn