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déjà vu, deerlifetrumpet, Fanny Crosby, God's sovereignty, hymns, joy, moving day, Nehemiah 4, Psalm 81, trumpet, WordPress, Xanga
After I moved two of my Xanga blogs over to WordPress:
http://deerlifexanga.wordpress.com (no longer a working link… please see below for the updated link)
http://zechariah821.wordpress.com
… it didn’t occur to me that it’d be illegal for me to use the Xanga name… so earlier today, I changed the name of my deerlifexanga WordPress blog to:
http;//deerlifetrumpet.wordpress.com
I ended up including trumpet in the new name, because of the use of the trumpet in Nehemiah 4. My vision and intention for starting up my original deerlife blog at Xanga was based upon Nehemiah 4.
Here’s an excerpt from my About Page on deerlifetrumpet…
I have been praying for some time God would bring together in a more cohesive way those of us who have a heart for revival and have received a calling to pray for revival. I believe we are spread too thinly on the wall (think Nehemiah).
Nehemiah 4:19 And I said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another. 20 In the place where you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.”
However, in the process of changing my blog name, it seems I managed to change my WordPress user name from naphtalideer! At this point, I’m not changing anything else, and have posted a question on the WP forums for help…
This past Sunday in our worship service, we sang Fanny Crosby’s hymn “All the Way My Savior Leads Me,” and as I’ve said and as I continue to say countless times, “God’s sovereignty is my sanity!” Here are the first two verses:
All the way my Savior leads me;
What have I to ask beside?
Can I doubt His tender mercy,
Who through life has been my Guide?
Heav’nly peace, divinest comfort,
Here by faith in Him to dwell!
For I know, whate’er befall me,
Jesus doeth all things well;
For I know, whate’er befall me,
Jesus doeth all things well.
All the way my Savior leads me,
Cheers each winding path I tread;
Gives me grace for every trial,
Feeds me with the living Bread.
Though my weary steps may falter,
And my soul athirst may be,
Gushing from the Rock before me,
Lo! A spring of joy I see;
Gushing from the Rock before me,
Lo! A spring of joy I see.
O! For Christ’s unadulterated cheer in these winding paths we tread in the blogosphere and elsewhere! May our God grant His children tastes of Living Bread and drinks of Living Water as we travel as pilgrims through this dry and thirsty land!
Psalm 81:10 I am the LORD your God,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Yours in Christ,
Karen
(Oh, yes, in case you’ve not heard, Xanga 2.0 appears to be a go, so for the time being, I’m not planning to move my naphtali_deer.xanga.com blog over to WordPress.)
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Naphtali Journal 
Sound’s like migrating all these blogs is a lot of work! Pretty soon you’ll be professional.
LOL – Actually the name change turned out not to be so bad after all. WP picked up all the links I made that had the previous name in them. I was happy & pleased with that. In the process, however, I did find some links & pics that I’d not updated correctly in the first place. I still have a few more posts to double check. Since I’d continued to use the old Xanga editor for writing (I used returns rather than actual paragraphs), a lot of my formatting was off, so since I finally figured that out, I’ve been updating that as well.
However, it turns out I did lose my naphtalideer wordpress user name in the process. At first I was annoyed with and upset over that, but still trusting God in it. (He is sovereign even over my computer illiteracy!) And I am really happy with how it’s been unfolding. I love the deerlifetrumpet name, and want to take time to ponder that more… I do think it signifies the place God has me am at now. naphtalideer was and is part of my identity (is still the address for this blog & my Xanga address), so I felt a part of me was ripped away. But I think the new name signifies God pushing me out of the nest, so to speak… representing a deer who’s more militant – growing up from the deer set free/satisfied with Christ’s favor/speaking beautiful words to a deer more militant, seeking to rally others to fight/pray for Him, pleading and laboring to see God’s Kingdom and the Gospel expanding throughout the earth. I continue to look at the promises of God in the Scripture and His activity throughout Church history, and I am trusting God will be gracious and merciful to us as we humble ourselves before Him and cry out to Him to revive us again. The Church is so very dry and barren and needs God’s Holy Spirit to fall afresh upon us, except few in the Church see that need at this point, so I continue to pray for God to make us all more and more thirsty, so we have no other place to turn but to Him ~ Isaiah 44:1-5.
I’m glad you’re new blogs are working well! One feature I haven’t learned is how to receive automatic updates when someone replies to a comment! haha, I just now discovered your reply. Sorry!
Yes, I yearn for revival in the Church and to see brethren awaking from the barrenness of this generation!
Pray also for those who do see this need; many who do see it and who have become dissatisfied with the dryness of many dead congregations have walked into the den of the lion as they search for more “spiritual” life. My own family, while I was away, awoke to this reality but got involved in a church which boarders along the lines of a cult and is in disorder making up their own way and departing from the way of Christ.
David, I just realized I’d never replied to this comment… I don’t know the particulars in your family’s case, but the reaction to seeing that deadness is to try to find life of any sort, but we know the appearance of life is no guarantee of true spiritual life ~ for Satan disguises himself as an angel of light! I am keenly aware of that danger, for I almost fell into that myself several years ago as I began to become dissatisfied. Praying along with you for your family and others who are searching, that their ears and hearts might be attuned to the voice of the Good Shepherd, so they might turn away from following false shepherds.
PS- which blog do you use the most? This one, or your new Naphtalideertrumpet blog?
**deerlifetrumpet…. sorry!
Hi David, Sorry for the delay in responding…
This blog (naphtalideer) is primarily a placeholder; I’m not expecting to do much blogging here, but only as a point of contact in case something goes wrong at Xanga. o.O
zechariah821 is a mirror site of my tent of meeting Xanga site (prayer for reformation/revival). I started that site here on WP in case Xanga shut down. At this point, I’m planning to double-post on Xanga as well as on that site.
deerlifetrumpet may have new/unique entries on occasion, but not very often. That’s the replacement for my deerlife Xanga blog which will be shut down with the Xanga changeover. I wanted to be sure to have a public archive of deerlife.
(I hope that makes some sense. 😛 )