We must cherish new believers and keep them close to us. Why? So that we can build them up, but as well as ourselves. To fellowship with one another. We need to help them to make the right choices.
We are to pick up our cross and follow Jesus upon giving our life to Him. We are not to go back to our old ways, or to follow our old friends. We are to follow Jesus, not our friends. We are to do things with Jesus, not with our earthly friends. We can witness to the old friends in righteousness. Witness means to go in the name of Jesus. To claim that you are a follower of Jesus, and that I can no longer partake in sinful activities.
We need to F.E.L.L.O.W.S.H.I.P. with others that can help us to remain in the word of God.
"Cherish the ones we looove" is a song that rings in my ears.
We must fellowship together in the name of Jesus. To come together and do activities that of which the Lord says is OK.
Lord, I pray that You would begin to reach out to them through me. That I would go with BOLDNESS to all the nations and bring them to You.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Have I forgiven?
huh, I feel like I need to dump all that is on my mind. Lord, I surrender my mind, that it would be clear to take heed to you, for you have prepared my way... and this is the day of which you have made.
Let me be a good steward of my time.
Lord, what has happened to me in the past, I have given up at the cross. As I look to a potential confrontation with the one that has trespassed against me, I CAN walk amongst them with forgiveness.
To give it to the Lord, is to forgive. Do not cast down or judge them, for God will administer the consequences according to their deeds.
So, can I approach Koonuk with the genuine love that God has blessed me with? Can I present my testimony to him? Would I make myself available to the Lord to minister to him through me? The Lord will forgive anyone who asks, even the most despicable person on earth! The Lord wants him, so that means that I need to support the Lords will.
Lay down your pride and surrender it, because God says to be humble. We are to think His thoughts. To speak His thoughts. To act His thoughts.
I have died and no longer live, but it is He that is living in me. I have nothing to lose, but to gain all that He blesses.
Let me be a good steward of my time.
Lord, what has happened to me in the past, I have given up at the cross. As I look to a potential confrontation with the one that has trespassed against me, I CAN walk amongst them with forgiveness.
To give it to the Lord, is to forgive. Do not cast down or judge them, for God will administer the consequences according to their deeds.
So, can I approach Koonuk with the genuine love that God has blessed me with? Can I present my testimony to him? Would I make myself available to the Lord to minister to him through me? The Lord will forgive anyone who asks, even the most despicable person on earth! The Lord wants him, so that means that I need to support the Lords will.
Lay down your pride and surrender it, because God says to be humble. We are to think His thoughts. To speak His thoughts. To act His thoughts.
I have died and no longer live, but it is He that is living in me. I have nothing to lose, but to gain all that He blesses.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Makenna falling from cooler
Yesterday, I had a rough day as my thorn in my flesh was being gouged severely. I wanted to get away from everyone. I prayed about it, but it was still there. I knew it would pass, as I was on trial for something. So I waited it out, but I did not know what was going to happen. Makenna fell from the cooler to turn the light switch off and I blew up. Being repentive of my actions, I looked to the Lord intensely.
It is amazing how God will strike us down, to teach us. To dish out consequences!!! I was on trial by fire and was consumed by IT. IT- being me the person, of who I was- rather who I wasn't in Christ. The consequences come around the corner. The consequences is constructive, not a bad thing!!! God uses consequences as His tool to show us what will continue to happen if we do not conform to His teachings. He is trying to tell you something through it, and I hope you listen as I have.
I tethered my yoke upon my children, my laundry, my chores. I was shooting out bullets, now I should shoot out splats of His love. I rejected my children, being consumed in MY self perseverance, selfish. Worshipping Idols- my computer, my fantasy baseball... being content on doing NOTHING during the day, rather than being constructive. I was lazy in my complacency, but God put the joy in doing chores. The joy of the Lord is my strength. I will do laundry with joy, I will do dishes with joy, I will clean the house with joy. I have sacrificed the complacency that consumed my everyday life, being idle with my idols. But I have taken my tether off of my complacency and put it upon my children, family, chores... and will do it with joy.
I have been praying to be a good manager of my time, managing my children, laundry, chores... of which I had no joy in doing. I despised chores, living (rather NOT living) in joy, but in hatred.
Thank you God for showing me what I was made of and dealing with it, for without you, I would only be destructive.
hmmmm, todays devotional scripture reading is 2 COR 4: 5-10
5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Cast Down but Unconquered
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. 8 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— 10 always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
It is amazing how God will strike us down, to teach us. To dish out consequences!!! I was on trial by fire and was consumed by IT. IT- being me the person, of who I was- rather who I wasn't in Christ. The consequences come around the corner. The consequences is constructive, not a bad thing!!! God uses consequences as His tool to show us what will continue to happen if we do not conform to His teachings. He is trying to tell you something through it, and I hope you listen as I have.
I tethered my yoke upon my children, my laundry, my chores. I was shooting out bullets, now I should shoot out splats of His love. I rejected my children, being consumed in MY self perseverance, selfish. Worshipping Idols- my computer, my fantasy baseball... being content on doing NOTHING during the day, rather than being constructive. I was lazy in my complacency, but God put the joy in doing chores. The joy of the Lord is my strength. I will do laundry with joy, I will do dishes with joy, I will clean the house with joy. I have sacrificed the complacency that consumed my everyday life, being idle with my idols. But I have taken my tether off of my complacency and put it upon my children, family, chores... and will do it with joy.
I have been praying to be a good manager of my time, managing my children, laundry, chores... of which I had no joy in doing. I despised chores, living (rather NOT living) in joy, but in hatred.
Thank you God for showing me what I was made of and dealing with it, for without you, I would only be destructive.
hmmmm, todays devotional scripture reading is 2 COR 4: 5-10
5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Cast Down but Unconquered
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. 8 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— 10 always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Charles Stanley 6.2.09 - Psalm 42
Secure Hope
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READ | Psalm 42
God wants us to be people with desires and expectations that are motivating and enriching. But the disappointment of unrealized hopes is inevitable while living in this fallen world. How are we to determine where to place our hope—and how to respond if it is not fulfilled?
Hope is secure when it is aligned with the Lord’s desires, which are revealed in Scripture. However, many of our expectations are based on wishes or feelings. We long for job promotions, good health, or quick solutions to our problems. Though these are things we want, we have no absolute promise from the Lord that they’re part of His will for us.
Disappointment with God can occur whenever our expectations do not coincide with His plan. Even when hope is based on a scriptural promise, the Lord may not fulfill it in the way or the time that we expect. Although God appears inactive, He is moving beneath the surface, preparing us for the future.
The key to contentment and joy lies in placing all subjective hopes under the umbrella of our ultimate hope in the Lord. God is sovereign and good. He always wants what is best for us and never makes a mistake. His ways are higher than ours and, in many ways, beyond human understanding.
From a limited and fallen perspective, we may be like a five-year-old who wants candy at every meal. Sometimes God has to dash our hopes in order to give us what He knows is best. Ask Him to clarify and direct your desires to coincide with His way. Then rest in His goodness and keep your hope in Him.
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READ | Psalm 42
God wants us to be people with desires and expectations that are motivating and enriching. But the disappointment of unrealized hopes is inevitable while living in this fallen world. How are we to determine where to place our hope—and how to respond if it is not fulfilled?
Hope is secure when it is aligned with the Lord’s desires, which are revealed in Scripture. However, many of our expectations are based on wishes or feelings. We long for job promotions, good health, or quick solutions to our problems. Though these are things we want, we have no absolute promise from the Lord that they’re part of His will for us.
Disappointment with God can occur whenever our expectations do not coincide with His plan. Even when hope is based on a scriptural promise, the Lord may not fulfill it in the way or the time that we expect. Although God appears inactive, He is moving beneath the surface, preparing us for the future.
The key to contentment and joy lies in placing all subjective hopes under the umbrella of our ultimate hope in the Lord. God is sovereign and good. He always wants what is best for us and never makes a mistake. His ways are higher than ours and, in many ways, beyond human understanding.
From a limited and fallen perspective, we may be like a five-year-old who wants candy at every meal. Sometimes God has to dash our hopes in order to give us what He knows is best. Ask Him to clarify and direct your desires to coincide with His way. Then rest in His goodness and keep your hope in Him.
Psalm 42:5
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
For the help of His countenance.
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
For the help of His countenance.
No more pain, no more fears, no more tears.
I surrender ALL. I surrender all relationships. I surrender my activities. I surrender -my- ambitions. I surrender my right to life. I surrender it -all- for my Lord. I surrender my life, for it is wrong.
I have done everything on my own understanding.
I have dwelled in my depression... I now dwell in my Lord. He is greater than anything this world or my mind has to offer.
I could go waver and waste my life. I could revenge all that has been done wrong to me. I could go back to my old ways, or by example of others that don't have regard for the Lord.
My Lord has beat my down to nothingness. He has brought to my attention that I need nothing but His saving grace. I have nothing. Nothing is as relevant to me in my life than my Lord. Nothing is important on earth, for we will leave it behind some day.
No more pain, no more fears, no more tears. To those who don't understand, there will be none of that in Heaven.
Who knows what Jesus will do with me- nobody.
I have done everything on my own understanding.
I have dwelled in my depression... I now dwell in my Lord. He is greater than anything this world or my mind has to offer.
I could go waver and waste my life. I could revenge all that has been done wrong to me. I could go back to my old ways, or by example of others that don't have regard for the Lord.
My Lord has beat my down to nothingness. He has brought to my attention that I need nothing but His saving grace. I have nothing. Nothing is as relevant to me in my life than my Lord. Nothing is important on earth, for we will leave it behind some day.
No more pain, no more fears, no more tears. To those who don't understand, there will be none of that in Heaven.
Who knows what Jesus will do with me- nobody.
Ninety Percent Person
I don't need anything, anyone... but my Lord. I don't need sunshine, family, friends... but my Lord. I don't need love,, I need my Lord.
Thank you for my vertigo, for this is for my Father's glory. Thank you for my depression, for it is for my Father's glory.
I am alone, suffering as my Lord did. Rejected. Unappreciated. Uncared for......... alone. But I got my Lord.
I don't need to look for someone to help me in my circumstance, I just need my Lord.
He is my deliverer, He will bring victory in me. He is all I need right now.
I have messed up my life, I have dwelled on it. I have messed it up for my Lord. I am sorry for who I am, and it may take a while before I change, but only through the glory of my Lord.
Thank You for every thing in my life, for it is Your Will be done. Right now I am a 90 percent person... aren't we all? The rest is up to the Lord to finish.
Thank you for my vertigo, for this is for my Father's glory. Thank you for my depression, for it is for my Father's glory.
I am alone, suffering as my Lord did. Rejected. Unappreciated. Uncared for......... alone. But I got my Lord.
I don't need to look for someone to help me in my circumstance, I just need my Lord.
He is my deliverer, He will bring victory in me. He is all I need right now.
I have messed up my life, I have dwelled on it. I have messed it up for my Lord. I am sorry for who I am, and it may take a while before I change, but only through the glory of my Lord.
Thank You for every thing in my life, for it is Your Will be done. Right now I am a 90 percent person... aren't we all? The rest is up to the Lord to finish.
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