most true Christians don't so much leave it all up to God when it comes to life. When things go wrong we are not taught to just sit there because Gods going to take are of it. No, we are asked to trust God that thee things are happening for a reason, whatever the reason maybe the reason is simply because he wants you to do something for yourself, to grow your faith. to get your attention, to help someone else later on with the same struggle. There are so many possible reasons for suffering and so many ways to deal with it.
A lot of people when they go through trials...I should speak for myself when I suffer in this world and say "I am believing God" it doesn't mean I'm not taking steps to make it better. We put our lives in Gods hands trusting he will place the people, the experiences, the thing we need at that moment to get us through.
We...I don't suffer because I'm not doing anything for myself though maybe some do, or maybe some just don't know what else to do...maybe they have tried everything tapped out all their resources and have nothing left but God. Who are you why someone is suffering. You don't know the condition of the heart.
I've been scolded because I made a comment that some belief systems believe they need to worship a certain god to get stuff in life ie food, rain, money, long life...., or that the gods are punishing them for some reason and that is why they are suffering...
No we suffer because we live in a sinful world, but we are told that Jesus has overcome the world.
John 16:33
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
Or
1 Peter 1:6-9
In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire —may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
And
To be on earth is to to be comfortable
Psalms 90:10
Our days may come to seventy years,
or eighty, if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,
for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
No, I'm not surprised when I encounter trials and hardships....
ah but this time, this time I've been so weak, I've dropped my shilds and now I'm struggling....
It was struggle tonight to go to community group and I thank God for a husband who steppe up and said "we are going:"...I'm angry, I'm selfish, and these weeds are strangling my faith.
Community group was wonderful tonight...just praying with people is a huge help in faith. I'm so glad I went...God is good.
I was reminded tonight of something I was ignoring...through all this past month, bad news. a cat dying, a car breaking, sudden unexpected expenses..the friends we have we are so blessed. One driving his truck here to help us move for a fraction of the price of a uhaul truck. Another fixing our car for a fraction of the cost of taking it to a shop, yes it sucks these expenses have come up and it's frustrating when your trying to cut down on debt and life happens and it's all for nothing. Yet I am so blessed to have people to turn to to help. I am so blessed that even when I'm wrongfully angry at God, he is still there waiting when I get over myself and give it to God. The peace to deal with the strains...they are not magically gone once you give it up to them, but they are now faceable...they are now just a little thing in the big picture...in the upper story...
I am blessed, and thanks for your prayers....
Just know, when I say "I'm counting on you God because I haven't go anything else" dosn't mean I haven't tried.
"Endure the storm just one more day, so you may fully appreciate the calm.?
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Monday, July 8, 2013
Please Pray (A confession in stream of consciousness)
I figured it out...today...
I'm really struggling with my faith right now.
the struggling...
it terrifies me.
How easy we...I...fall into the thought pattern when things go wrong of "Why?" "I'm a good person, this is not fair"
I'm. Worn. and Oh am I ever
selfish.....
I know all the right verses... I know time and time again God has proven himself my strength and my shelter...and I know my cup runs over.
Knowing doesn't help the believing and Believing doesn't help the knowing.
Pray.
because I feel
like my faith is failing
beyond repair
Fear.
It's the endless torment of the human soul, as old as Adam and Eve;In in the wake of a slithering snake
Fear.
because I feel
like my faith is failing.
All I can do is
Pray.
And
just
like
that.....
In a blink, in a breath, in a tear, hope can slip away...give way...break away. When all that holds you up falls to pieces around you, what are you left with if not faith?
re-evaluate who I really am.
God, your up to something, bigger then me....
bigger then this.
If I believe nothing right now, I have to believe that.
My bible gathers dust, my prayer journal is frozen in time....and even then..
time marches on...
Oh, I'm tired
a tired beyond sleep, a tired beyond physical,
I.am.tired.
of fighting the good fight....
but not tired enough to give in
not tired enough to surrender
"Because in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary."
Lord, help me in my unbelief.
Renew my mind, and keep my heart alive....Only you can save me.
Now in closing brothers...and sisters
pray, that our faith..... will catch like fire
because the whole world,
because you
because......... I
need encouragement.
In the wake of hate, and pain, persecution...in the face of the world we are all at the same time sinners...and
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I figure it out today
I'm really struggling with my faith right now.
and the struggling...
it terrifies me.
So please
Pray.
Sunday, July 7, 2013
The God of Sunday School, the God of Love....Stand Firm the world is spinning out of control.
"I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me."~ John 14:6~
that doesn't leave much room for worshiping or following or believing in another god does it?
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him (not any other god) shall not parish but have eternal life."
parenthesis are my own addition.
"That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.~Romans 10:9,10~
doesn't leave much room to say Jesus was just a prophet...
bold was added by me to show that according to the bible there is no other way to salvation. Yes, God is love Yes, God loves all mankind, Yes God wants EVERYONE to believe and be saved.
but
God did not leave room for other means of getting to heaven. No, God will not save you from eternal damnation if you do not believe in your heart he is Lord. No, God does not share his glory with lesser gods. No you can not worship the God of the bible and other gods and say you worship the same God as I do. Because if you truly believed in the God of the bible you would not have any need nor desire to entertain others.
and in the face of those who point to you and mock you...who pick out certain part of your faith of the bible and spit it in your face making you out to be a bad person and an even worse Christian (in the modern sense of the term) In the face of the world slipping out of control, in the face of morals being stripped down to make way for "human rights" in the face of babies dying before they even had a chance to defend themselves, in the face of the marriage God set up being turned into a mockery, in the face of fires, and storms, and global warming....in the face of everything bad in this world
and in the end feeling as if you are alone in your faith surrounded by the brokenness of the world...
remember..but for such a time as this...
as the 144.000 of Revelation remind us, there is a set number of people on this earth that have your faith, and multitudes already in heaven.
you.are.not.alone
and the world is still spinning because God's work and our work is not done, not until he claims his last into his hand. Not until his seal is stamped on those that are his.
Yes, God is love
Yes, we are to share his love
Yes, the world will mock you, point at you, scold you, and it will only get worse
Stand firm because our God has overcome the world!
We are his people, We can not be Shaken,
I don't fight with my knowledge, I don't stand up for my faith with words of others..if you are going to quote the bible to me, to prove "Christianity" a farce to make me look bad, then you better know just what your saying and you better have your facts about the bible straight.....Don't spew the bible in my face and expect me to fold my hands and take it, No the only thing I can fight with is God's word, it's what Jesus fought with when tempted by Satan in the desert. It's sharper then a double edge sword and it's the armor of God.
so. back. off. this. whole. Christians. are terrible. trip. and live the lifestyle you so passionately preach...tolerance and love. at least I don't pretend to tolerate everyone and every belief. I respect them and I love them as a person but I don't have to agree with them nor do I pretend too.
Hello, my name is "child of the one true King"
Come Lord Jesus....Come.
that doesn't leave much room for worshiping or following or believing in another god does it?
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him (not any other god) shall not parish but have eternal life."
parenthesis are my own addition.
"That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.~Romans 10:9,10~
doesn't leave much room to say Jesus was just a prophet...
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! 9 If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, 10 then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. 11 Jesus is
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”
bold was added by me to show that according to the bible there is no other way to salvation. Yes, God is love Yes, God loves all mankind, Yes God wants EVERYONE to believe and be saved.
but
God did not leave room for other means of getting to heaven. No, God will not save you from eternal damnation if you do not believe in your heart he is Lord. No, God does not share his glory with lesser gods. No you can not worship the God of the bible and other gods and say you worship the same God as I do. Because if you truly believed in the God of the bible you would not have any need nor desire to entertain others.
and in the face of those who point to you and mock you...who pick out certain part of your faith of the bible and spit it in your face making you out to be a bad person and an even worse Christian (in the modern sense of the term) In the face of the world slipping out of control, in the face of morals being stripped down to make way for "human rights" in the face of babies dying before they even had a chance to defend themselves, in the face of the marriage God set up being turned into a mockery, in the face of fires, and storms, and global warming....in the face of everything bad in this world
and in the end feeling as if you are alone in your faith surrounded by the brokenness of the world...
remember..but for such a time as this...
as the 144.000 of Revelation remind us, there is a set number of people on this earth that have your faith, and multitudes already in heaven.
you.are.not.alone
and the world is still spinning because God's work and our work is not done, not until he claims his last into his hand. Not until his seal is stamped on those that are his.
Yes, God is love
Yes, we are to share his love
Yes, the world will mock you, point at you, scold you, and it will only get worse
Stand firm because our God has overcome the world!
We are his people, We can not be Shaken,
I don't fight with my knowledge, I don't stand up for my faith with words of others..if you are going to quote the bible to me, to prove "Christianity" a farce to make me look bad, then you better know just what your saying and you better have your facts about the bible straight.....Don't spew the bible in my face and expect me to fold my hands and take it, No the only thing I can fight with is God's word, it's what Jesus fought with when tempted by Satan in the desert. It's sharper then a double edge sword and it's the armor of God.
so. back. off. this. whole. Christians. are terrible. trip. and live the lifestyle you so passionately preach...tolerance and love. at least I don't pretend to tolerate everyone and every belief. I respect them and I love them as a person but I don't have to agree with them nor do I pretend too.
Hello, my name is "child of the one true King"
Come Lord Jesus....Come.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
I am sure of what I hope and and certain of what I do not see.
I'm tired,
So much going on, so much to do, so much.....stuff.
If I hear or read one more time about the close mindedness of Christians. Christian being defined in this post as the followers of Christ and the Bible and the bible being viewed as the truth and the exact words of God...if I have to keep cool one more time when the Church as defined in the bible and the building I go too today are lumped together negatively as a man made and human, sin riddled thing I'll scream. Not because it's not true today but because the definition of Church is VERY different then the present day one.
Church is "anywhere two or more come together in his name." Simply that, nothing more.
We call it a church today because guess what two or more come together in his name. You do not have to attend a specific church to have a close and wonderful relationship with God. Though at some point if your faith walk is even a little legit you will crave it eventually because it is good for the soul, for the spirit and for your faith to have the fellowship that "Church" in the modern sense offers.
Have you ever gotten into a discussion with a radical? or even anyone who believes different then you do? have you ever noticed that each side argues from their perspective? Their opinions and ideas and thoughts. Have you ever found yourself in the middle of these discussions thinking...boy this is pointless.
The next time you think about throwing out the term close minded whether you be a Christian or not think twice for "who are you, or I to judge?" You do not know everything a person has been through to bring them to this point of faith or no faith. When you accuse them of not doing the "homework" for their beliefs maybe you should remember that you have no clue what they have gone through, studied and consciously chosen for a belief system already.
If I'm close minded because I am unwilling to just roll over when someone thinks they have an original and new thought to prove some detail about my faith wrong...Satan you got a new thing coming so far I've hear nothing I've never heard before.
"There is nothing new under the sun"~Ecclesiastics~
what if I just don't want to read other religious texts because I believe the words in the bible to be true each and every word and therefore that belief in itself renders any other religious text nil....Isn't that my choice? Isn't my choice in a belief system suppose to be tolerated?? call my faith blind, or call it foolish...it is what it is.
It's an ageless expectation.
Oh tolerance you are thrown around so lightly...My God loves but he does not tolerate.
I find myself lately having a hard time not slinging mud back, You've never seen a statues on my facebook dragging radicals or pagans, or Jehovah Witnesses or Agnostics, or any other sort of religious group through the mud, pointing at them and in trying to convince others of their weakness, their faults, really judge them simply because they are not what you believe. Not that I'm better then the person who does, for it is a temptation and it has crossed my mind, so I am no better then they.
No,world I will not roll over and take it, I will not read the Koran simply because I'm told to. No, I've done my research I've been stripped of my faith and I can now stand by it, defend it and in the end understand that it's okay to believe it with all my heart...and I have a right to share what I believe with others...but I have no right to tear into a belief system and deem it unworthy.I have no wish to destroy a persons faith simply because I think I know better then they do. That is now what Jesus meant when he sent us forth to Go and make disciples.
But I will pray and I will share the good news of Jesus over and over again and no one with logic or other words can stop me. We can bicker over doctrine and religious sects all we want but it does not change the fact that Jesus died for EVERYONE that Jesus forgives EVERYTHING...he is the way the truth and the light. The "I AM". Jesus is Lord as God tells Moses through a burning bush "I am the I AM" and Jesus tells in his trial "I AM" .
All we need to do is believe and be saved. Amen Hallelujah
I have no desire to understand fully everything in the bible. I am content to know what i know and trust God continue teaching me the rest. I love to learn more and dive in deeper to God's word and I will never stop learning....Why should that bother others so much? Why should my faith be trampled under arrogance and pried when my faith has never hurt anyone? Hurt has been done in the name of Jesus or in the name of a specific religious sinful group... but true faith will build up, will uphold will 1, always show respect 2.will always show love...the two exact rules I have in my summer room....
I am standing on the promises of God.
This I most certainly believe.
So much going on, so much to do, so much.....stuff.
If I hear or read one more time about the close mindedness of Christians. Christian being defined in this post as the followers of Christ and the Bible and the bible being viewed as the truth and the exact words of God...if I have to keep cool one more time when the Church as defined in the bible and the building I go too today are lumped together negatively as a man made and human, sin riddled thing I'll scream. Not because it's not true today but because the definition of Church is VERY different then the present day one.
Church is "anywhere two or more come together in his name." Simply that, nothing more.
We call it a church today because guess what two or more come together in his name. You do not have to attend a specific church to have a close and wonderful relationship with God. Though at some point if your faith walk is even a little legit you will crave it eventually because it is good for the soul, for the spirit and for your faith to have the fellowship that "Church" in the modern sense offers.
Have you ever gotten into a discussion with a radical? or even anyone who believes different then you do? have you ever noticed that each side argues from their perspective? Their opinions and ideas and thoughts. Have you ever found yourself in the middle of these discussions thinking...boy this is pointless.
The next time you think about throwing out the term close minded whether you be a Christian or not think twice for "who are you, or I to judge?" You do not know everything a person has been through to bring them to this point of faith or no faith. When you accuse them of not doing the "homework" for their beliefs maybe you should remember that you have no clue what they have gone through, studied and consciously chosen for a belief system already.
If I'm close minded because I am unwilling to just roll over when someone thinks they have an original and new thought to prove some detail about my faith wrong...Satan you got a new thing coming so far I've hear nothing I've never heard before.
"There is nothing new under the sun"~Ecclesiastics~
what if I just don't want to read other religious texts because I believe the words in the bible to be true each and every word and therefore that belief in itself renders any other religious text nil....Isn't that my choice? Isn't my choice in a belief system suppose to be tolerated?? call my faith blind, or call it foolish...it is what it is.
It's an ageless expectation.
Oh tolerance you are thrown around so lightly...My God loves but he does not tolerate.
I find myself lately having a hard time not slinging mud back, You've never seen a statues on my facebook dragging radicals or pagans, or Jehovah Witnesses or Agnostics, or any other sort of religious group through the mud, pointing at them and in trying to convince others of their weakness, their faults, really judge them simply because they are not what you believe. Not that I'm better then the person who does, for it is a temptation and it has crossed my mind, so I am no better then they.
No,world I will not roll over and take it, I will not read the Koran simply because I'm told to. No, I've done my research I've been stripped of my faith and I can now stand by it, defend it and in the end understand that it's okay to believe it with all my heart...and I have a right to share what I believe with others...but I have no right to tear into a belief system and deem it unworthy.I have no wish to destroy a persons faith simply because I think I know better then they do. That is now what Jesus meant when he sent us forth to Go and make disciples.
But I will pray and I will share the good news of Jesus over and over again and no one with logic or other words can stop me. We can bicker over doctrine and religious sects all we want but it does not change the fact that Jesus died for EVERYONE that Jesus forgives EVERYTHING...he is the way the truth and the light. The "I AM". Jesus is Lord as God tells Moses through a burning bush "I am the I AM" and Jesus tells in his trial "I AM" .
All we need to do is believe and be saved. Amen Hallelujah
I have no desire to understand fully everything in the bible. I am content to know what i know and trust God continue teaching me the rest. I love to learn more and dive in deeper to God's word and I will never stop learning....Why should that bother others so much? Why should my faith be trampled under arrogance and pried when my faith has never hurt anyone? Hurt has been done in the name of Jesus or in the name of a specific religious sinful group... but true faith will build up, will uphold will 1, always show respect 2.will always show love...the two exact rules I have in my summer room....
I am standing on the promises of God.
This I most certainly believe.
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Be Still and Know that I Am God
People, people are fascinating and the friendships are even more so.
People are exhausting, and some of my friendships even more so.
I generally don't like people, especially in large groups at a time, I'm not so much anti-social as selectively social. Its not that I don't love people I am suppose to love my fellow man, I just don't like to be around them all the time, I like to hang out, but I don't have to do it all the time, I like to go out but I like even more to stay in.
I've never ever been into the bar scene, hoping from one bar to another, up until this past year I had very rarely done it and even then it was to one bar and home. I'm over it, I never got into it, but i'm over it. I lived by the rule, if I didn't have line dancing, I didn't go. I wouldn't mind getting back to that.
I've never been much for talking, let alone small talk...even hanging out with a friend and a group of thier "other friends" that I know of or what not but don't know, makes me uncomfortable and tired..
some people just make me tired,
F. Scott Fitzgerald explains Tom and Daisy perfectly,
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 9
This weekend I couldn't help but going back to that quote a number of times, I had fun yes, and maybe they don't retreat into money so much as the world, in it's vast carelessness and this mad attempted of loving one thing then another, somehow maybe loving yourself back to life.
It's exhausting...
Give me books, a cup of tea, a kitty, and an open window, or a tree; over a room with walls, bar stools and a bunch of people trying desperately to make a good time out of living.
People are fascinating and my friends even more so. God gave us all such different temperaments and personalities oh such a great and wonderful diversity...and we all try to find someone that fits that personality, and in general me, and my friends have done a great job.
I know my limits it's take me years to discover them, I with my insomnia the general stress in my life, my faith walk, I know when it's time for me to grab that book and find a secluded spot, and just sit. I understand others can't do that.
This world goes so fast, and we cram so much into every second of it, one thing to the next, a phone call to ta text to facebook, the world at your fingertips as they say. Where it's considered bad if you can not multitask...People marching past one after another all with a story an thought a personality and no one with time to just sit, and watch, read, close your eyes and just breathe, let alone talk about anything that means anything.
We have to be busy filled with sounds, and surrounded by our stuff, and our friends.
Yes it's exhausting
and I'm reminded of how careless I so very often am, and how thoughtless I can be in words and actions.
"Be still and know, that I am God"
There is something to be said for staying home, alone with your thoughts and reflections, hopes, hurts and dreams. and maybe its those very things that we are so scared of that we are running from, drowning in a sea of endless noise and distraction logic and self gratification and consumerism I did it today with a simple watch..
That human thought maybe i'll feel better if...______ you fill in the blank
... Justification of the things God has given...peace is a grace he pours out on us, to be still and know that he is God...maybe I'll fill better if I remember to
put.God.first.
To be on earth is not to be comfortable, if you go to church expecting to be patted on the back for a job well done...to leave feeling like you've got it all figured out, then maybe it's time to sit down and examine exactly what your looking for from your faith from your church. Slow down...be still...God loves you no matter what and in the mad rush to love everyone and everything to open your mind to new ideas and beliefs...
at what coast does exhaustion, consuming, socialization, and yes even some friendships have on your faith?
Be still and know that I am God. ~Psalm 46:10~
People are exhausting, and some of my friendships even more so.
I generally don't like people, especially in large groups at a time, I'm not so much anti-social as selectively social. Its not that I don't love people I am suppose to love my fellow man, I just don't like to be around them all the time, I like to hang out, but I don't have to do it all the time, I like to go out but I like even more to stay in.
I've never ever been into the bar scene, hoping from one bar to another, up until this past year I had very rarely done it and even then it was to one bar and home. I'm over it, I never got into it, but i'm over it. I lived by the rule, if I didn't have line dancing, I didn't go. I wouldn't mind getting back to that.
I've never been much for talking, let alone small talk...even hanging out with a friend and a group of thier "other friends" that I know of or what not but don't know, makes me uncomfortable and tired..
some people just make me tired,
F. Scott Fitzgerald explains Tom and Daisy perfectly,
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 9
This weekend I couldn't help but going back to that quote a number of times, I had fun yes, and maybe they don't retreat into money so much as the world, in it's vast carelessness and this mad attempted of loving one thing then another, somehow maybe loving yourself back to life.
It's exhausting...
Give me books, a cup of tea, a kitty, and an open window, or a tree; over a room with walls, bar stools and a bunch of people trying desperately to make a good time out of living.
People are fascinating and my friends even more so. God gave us all such different temperaments and personalities oh such a great and wonderful diversity...and we all try to find someone that fits that personality, and in general me, and my friends have done a great job.
I know my limits it's take me years to discover them, I with my insomnia the general stress in my life, my faith walk, I know when it's time for me to grab that book and find a secluded spot, and just sit. I understand others can't do that.
This world goes so fast, and we cram so much into every second of it, one thing to the next, a phone call to ta text to facebook, the world at your fingertips as they say. Where it's considered bad if you can not multitask...People marching past one after another all with a story an thought a personality and no one with time to just sit, and watch, read, close your eyes and just breathe, let alone talk about anything that means anything.
We have to be busy filled with sounds, and surrounded by our stuff, and our friends.
Yes it's exhausting
and I'm reminded of how careless I so very often am, and how thoughtless I can be in words and actions.
"Be still and know, that I am God"
There is something to be said for staying home, alone with your thoughts and reflections, hopes, hurts and dreams. and maybe its those very things that we are so scared of that we are running from, drowning in a sea of endless noise and distraction logic and self gratification and consumerism I did it today with a simple watch..
That human thought maybe i'll feel better if...______ you fill in the blank
... Justification of the things God has given...peace is a grace he pours out on us, to be still and know that he is God...maybe I'll fill better if I remember to
put.God.first.
To be on earth is not to be comfortable, if you go to church expecting to be patted on the back for a job well done...to leave feeling like you've got it all figured out, then maybe it's time to sit down and examine exactly what your looking for from your faith from your church. Slow down...be still...God loves you no matter what and in the mad rush to love everyone and everything to open your mind to new ideas and beliefs...
at what coast does exhaustion, consuming, socialization, and yes even some friendships have on your faith?
Be still and know that I am God. ~Psalm 46:10~
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
March on my soul, be strong
I'm tierd...
I know it's just a cat...it's just a cat on top of everything else.
My vacation even if it is just two days, can not come soon enough.
I'm tierd
But I know you can give me rest...
It's so easy in this sinful word to just stop trying life just keeps going without you. Then you look at the little things, sunshine on red hair, the simple prayer request of a child, that bible you have had since kindergarten, weddings of wonderful friends, whiskers on kittens..the cross. In the wake of a broken heart in the midst of a world out to prove you wrong...God showers you with blessings.
Take heart "I have overcome the world."
Is my life out of control or is my life out of my control...
And come the next day will your faith be shaken? In the face of the beast will you soul crumble. But be aware even when you think you are standing strong...it takes just as little to fall as it does to believe. No, we won't be shaken. I'm ganna have a Revelation kind of faith..
Though I am tired....above all I'm not called to function according to the way I feel, no I'm called to take Gods word and apply it to my life daily.
No, we won't be shaken, in the shelter of each other and by prayer and petition we will stand.
I know it's just a cat...it's just a cat on top of everything else.
My vacation even if it is just two days, can not come soon enough.
I'm tierd
But I know you can give me rest...
It's so easy in this sinful word to just stop trying life just keeps going without you. Then you look at the little things, sunshine on red hair, the simple prayer request of a child, that bible you have had since kindergarten, weddings of wonderful friends, whiskers on kittens..the cross. In the wake of a broken heart in the midst of a world out to prove you wrong...God showers you with blessings.
Take heart "I have overcome the world."
Is my life out of control or is my life out of my control...
And come the next day will your faith be shaken? In the face of the beast will you soul crumble. But be aware even when you think you are standing strong...it takes just as little to fall as it does to believe. No, we won't be shaken. I'm ganna have a Revelation kind of faith..
Though I am tired....above all I'm not called to function according to the way I feel, no I'm called to take Gods word and apply it to my life daily.
No, we won't be shaken, in the shelter of each other and by prayer and petition we will stand.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Suddenly it's a new day.
You know that dreadful life changing news, the kind that slowly stabs a knife into your gut until it dawns on you what it really means...the can't your not sure you can keep going on? Ever noticed how suddenly in the midst of all that emotion...it's the next day....
Life changing maybe..but only for us and our plans
Gods not surprised at all.
Right now as I type I feel like its all I can do, to not let my heart bleed out, through my fingers and there is no way I can get up tomorrow let alone work....but it's gonna come; that bright new morning and no
I'm
not
alright now
...but I will be
the fact that there will be tomorrow
proves that.
Life changing yes, but not life ending and in the big mean face of reality of sin of humanity...where my own personal dreams and plans may have been just that...
Mine.not.Gods.
And that
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ
Is important to remember.
Tomorrow will come, and who knows maybe someday...........................
"For these present sufferings are not worth comparing to the glory that will be revealed in us " when the world caves in. For who hopes for what he already has?
What is hope?
It's ageless
An ageless expectation.
A hope through Jesus death on the cross, a promise of a life time..."for I know the plans declares The Lord..."
When I think I can't
Go
On
My heart beats despite the tears and in its compasity to hope I know the mind...
LIES.
The terrible life changing news....you know the kind that eats at you, that paralyzes you...
I.m tired, and I'm worn....
and I'm Gods child.
And it is suddenly a new day with a new hope born again from the pain that helps you know it's not your life to control...
It's.not.his.fault
It's.not.my.fault.
It's.not.Gods fault
No.
........
.........
..........
It's Gods plan.and who am I to complain?
"This is the day The Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it!"
Life changing, hard to swallow,
but with God?
He hasn't given me a chance to be weak no, hasn't given me a heart of fear
...NO.
God has been, will be, now and forever my strength and my song.
"My comforter, my all in all."
~parts of passages from Romans 8, Jeremiah, and the hymn "In Christ Alone"~
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