If you read the bible, which I highly recommend. It will explain a lot of crazy things in this old world! And sometime help you make sense of what's going on in yours. Because face it, so many things happen to us that's just plain bad. Like the harmless guy who gets beat up and robbed and has never so much as hurt a flea his entire life! Or the lady who is so caring for others and she gets terminal cancer! Well God's people are not immune to this! Somehow somewhere we were told if you just follow Jesus you will be protected and nothing bad will happen to you. You will be under THE HEDGE OF PROTECTION! That makes me wonder what happened to Paul and Silas' Hedge? When they were beaten and thrown into prison for setting some random slave girl free from demon possession and her slave trafficking masters! ACTS 16-You really should read that NOW! Well this girl was following those 2 around for days yelling behind them, saying these guys no the way to heaven-listen to them. But that is so confusing. because everyone knew she practiced divination and sorcery! So it was like she was doing something that was credible for once yet she told the future by demonic influence! Just goes to show you the devil loves to confuse people about the gospel. That is why there is so many false gospels out there! Like the one that says, just be good and work your way to heaven! Or LOVE WINS- BY ROB BELL. Another heretic who claims there is no hell and everyone will go to heaven in the end because of God's love! so Bad things happen to God's people to advance THE TRUE GOSPEL! You know the one that involves pain, suffering, sacrificial love and nails and a CROSS! Its costly grace because it cost a man his life! And this Gospel also gives life! This woman was proclaiming that she possessed a gospel, but had yet to be delivered from the sin that possessed her. The Gospel is God's true saving power and if you really understand it, you will begin to understand why he allows bad things to happen. Let's face it, if this place wasn't filled with so much pain, hatred and evil- we would really never want to leave it. Its ok Jesus, just leave us here we will fix it up- we got plenty of duct tape and Jesus said, you can keep your duct tape, I will use these 3 nails, and make everything brand new! Amen
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SOMETIMES I THINK I am my own worst enemy...its true sometimes we are much to harsh on ourselves and other times we really are to easy on our flaws.....but most of us beat ourselves up..i think of an account where this guy named gideon Got a visit from GOD, well he hid. And even after God told him he had a Job for him to do and that he was a somebody he still made excuses.....so he puts together this army because the troops he is going against are vast.When God sees his recruiting numbers and says..uh..you got too many!! What I thought you wanted me to win??? well.. Ii do..but if you and the EXPENDIBLES along with seal team 6,7,8,9,10,11,12 ..(you get the picture) go into this battle and win you guys will get all the credit and glory.and dont we love that! Well God is not into that...he wants them to be in a postion so its basically impossible for them to pull it off nothing short of a miracle so he asks Gideon to begin a series of tests that reduces the army to 300 men.And to top it off they have to fight with out weapons. Sometimes thats what the christian life is like..its JUST LIKE YOUR SALVATION....impossible to do,,,WITHOUT GOD. See we like to do things in our own strength. that causes a lot of problems...WE LIKE TO DO ALOT OF THINGS WITHOUT GOD...like finding that perfect match for your life ..we get tired of waiting on God and being alone..so we get into illicit relationships..even with non-believers. Or we try to be CONTENT WITHOUT GOD this turns into addictions like spending money...entertainment.. porn- alcohol and drugs.And then once we realize we have crowded God out of our lives and we are trapped ....only by Gods grace again can we even become aware of this...we then try to free ourselves..WITHOUT GOD OR HIS HELP! What are we thinking??? Are we thinking That he is standing by saying.." MY CHILD WHEN YOU MANAGE TO WIGGLE FREE FROM YOUR LUST AND PUT ALL YOUR SIN BEHIND YOU THEN I WILL COME!!NO...NO..NO..NO..HE IS RIGHT THERE at your weakest point when you are wearing your sin stained garments.in your mess..at your weakest moment....he is there..ready willing to forgive ,heal, and listen as you leave the sin at his holy nail pierced feet... and he is still in LOVE with you as much as the day he created you!!You say but I cant leave my sin it follows me and then waits till i am weak and then pounces upon me...of course it does! The bible says the sin is waiting for you..crouching at the door...HIDING BEHIND THE DOOR.....DID YOU GET THAT??? QUIT OPENING THAT DOOR...Stop walking around it playing with the knob..i wonder what would happen if i opened it just a little bit.that starts in your mind........by justifying my sin........or looking at what i dont have.... and how unhappy i am......and how unfair life is......why i deserve...........you have just flung the door wide open again!!YOUR KING AND SAVIOR OVERCAME TEMPTATION....and he made a way for you..thats why he is called a refuge and a strength...a strong tower...a defense and a deliverer.Read matthew chapter 4. Begin to memorize Gods word..meditate on it when temptation comes. The temptation will have less power over you BEACAUSE GODS WORD IS POSSESSING YOU..not your earthly thoughts...seriously memorizing Gods word..and saying outloud can make all the difference between victory and defeat.THEN GOD WILL GET THE GLORY.GODS WORD IS ALL POWERFULL..ITS HOW PEOPLE ARE SAVED AND HOW WORLDS ARE MADE....READ IT..LIVE IT....PEACE................ THATS WHAT JESUS DID!
I HAVE a serious problem...with myself and the culture I live in....it is called entitlement....we western christians get the sense and message that we are supposed to be healthy, wealthy and wise...or as the old testament would say..sleek and fat.....fully satisfied! WELL I THINK WE ARE JUST THAT! WE ARE SO FULL of culture..entertainment and self that non essential worry becomes a way of life..and we begin to walk around in a constant state of distraction and fear! FEAR....WHEN WE SHOULD JUST BE THANKFUL...GRATEFUL....SO FULL OF THANKSGIVING TO GOD EVERY DAY IS A GREAT DAY! NOW I KNOW WE ARE ALL GOING THROUGH SOME SERIOUS ISSUES AT TIMES AND TO BE RUNNING AROUND WITH A SMILE PLASTERED ON YOUR FACE, TELLING EVERYBODY THE STANDARD PAT CHRISTIAN ANSWER TO HOW ARE YOU? BLESSED.....THATS NOT WHAT I AM REFFERING TO LET ME GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO THINK ON... Psa 30:1
A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of the temple. I will extol you, O LORD, for you have drawn me up and have not let my foes rejoice over me. IN YOUR SALVATION; GOD HAS SPARED YOU from the clutches of SATAN and his demonic host that would reek havoc on your everlasting frame for all eternity as they drink fromTHE CUP YOUR SOUL that is brimming with terror and misery and misfourtune forever! Psa 30:2 O LORD my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me. SO GOD IN HIS INFINITE LOVE,WISDOM,MERCY AND GRACE HAS HEALED THE INCURABLE WOUND OF YOUR SIN....something that could not be accomplised apart from the generous fountain of the ALL SUFFICENT BLOOD OF CHRIST..that heals this terrrible plauge upon the hearts of all mankind..a plauge so terrible science cannot identify it.... nor do doctors even acknowledge it... but it is there....... rotting the hearts and souls of men women and children from the first day of birth. AS IT EVEN EFFECTS ALL OF NATURE and the course of this world! Psa 30:3 O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit. SO THIS WONDERFUL GOD WHICH EVERYONE LOVES TO HATE,BLAME IGNORE AND CURSE......... HAS LAID BARE HIS HOLY ARM BY REACHING DOWN THROUGH TIME AND ETERNITY THROUGH THE BIRTH,LIFE ,DEATH AND RESSURECTION OF JESUS CHRIST ....REACHES TO YOU BY THE IMPARTATION OF FAITH AND THE DRAWING OF THE HOLY SPIRT SO YOU CAN SEE HIS GREAT HAND OF LOVE AND THE MAJESTIC GRIP OF THE GOSPEL AND YOU REACH OUT AND HE GRABS YOU AND PULLS YOU OUT OF YOUR SINKING CESPOOL OF RELIGION AND GOOD WORKS, SELF RIGHTOUSNESS AND HYPOCRISY..ONLY TO LIFT YOU ONTO THE BACK OF HIS EVERLASTING KINDNESS,MERCY AND ALL POWEFULL STRENGTH! and breath into you the everlasting gift of his holy GHOST! AND NOW DWELLING IN YOU..IS HIM!! Psa 30:4 Sing praises to the LORD, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name. SO I SHOULD BE THINKING ON THESE THINGS...THINGS THAT SHOULD MAKE A DEEP, DEEP MARK OF THANKSGIVING DOWN IM MY SOUL.... AND HIS LAW ETECHED UPON THE FLESHLY TABLETS OF MY HEART THAT I WOULD WANT TO OBEY HIM TO MY LAST DYING BREATH ALL THE WHILE CAUSEING TEARS OF REJOICING IF MEDITATED ON TOO LONG..AND EACH PRAISE OF REJOICING SHOULD CHANGE MY ATTITUDE TOWARDS MY WIFE AND CHILDREN...CO WORKERS AND FELLOW BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE WAY...AND TOTAL STRANGERS THAT ARE SITLL IN THE CLUTCHES OF THE ENEMY...UNSHAKLED AND UNHEALED...BLIND TO THE PERFECT LOVE THAT CASTS OUT THE FEAR OF LIVING AND THE UNKNOWN.......HIS NAME SHOULD NEVER LEAVE OUR LIPS...... Act 16:25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, Act 16:26 and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were unfastened. Isa 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor;fn he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;fn PEACE. ITS SO WEIRD getting brand new stuff. But everyone seems to love it. I actually like old things, cars, books, movies. You name it. But as a Christian you cannot stay in the old... Unless it is in the timeless truth of God's word. NEW STUFF VS OLD STUFF innovation vs. vintage. New isn't all its cracked up to be! As the preacher said there is nothing new under the sun. But we have become a disposable generation...we throw away everything that seems like it has no value...especially people! When we are done with them we just ...let them go...GOOD THING GOD ISNT THAT WAY. AND THE CRAZY THING IS..... GOD WANTS TO USE YOU...AND WHAT HE IS LOOKING FOR IS....CLAY. Jer 18:6
“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. DID YOU GET THAT..MAYBE YOU DONT FEEL WORTHY TO BE USED OR MAYBE READY TO BE USED!! OR YOU HAVE FAILED HIM SO MANY TIMES ..WHY WOULD HE WANT TOO??? OR MAYBE YOU FEEL YOU ARE NOT BEING USED ENOUGH....DONT MISS THE POINT OR HIS AGENDA...BY STIFFENING UP AND REFUSING TO YEILD TO HIS MOLDING HAND...YES IT IS PAINFULL WHEN HE PICKS THE TWIGS OF BAD HABIT OUT OF THE CLAY..AND IT IS ALMOST TO MUCH WHEN HE PULLS OUT THE ROCKS OF DISOBIEDIENCE OR SECRET SIN WE ARE IN LOVE WITH....BUT ITS ALL PART OF BEING THE CLAY. GOD IS PREPARING YOU FOR SOMETHING...SOMETHING GREAT...GREATER THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE.........HIMSELF! DO YOU SEE THIS9:18 So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. Rom 9:19 You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” Rom 9:20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” Rom 9:21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? Rom 9:22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, Rom 9:23 in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—WELL JUST REMEMBER THIS...YOU ARE STILL IN HIS HAND SOMETIMES I WONDER HAS GOD FORGOTTEN ME.....IN MY CURRENT SITUATION...IN MY HOPES ..IN MY DREAMS....I got out of the car..heading into publix ,Shanna had shut my door and all the locks had been pushed down leaving our 2 year old belted in the back seat of a boiling Caprice Classic. Now my baby was groing hysterical...looking at her mom and dad through the glass...I had to step away for a moment to get perspective and gain composure. The first repsonse was to break the window...cause when your baby looks at you in the eye and wonders why dont you help[ me..as a father youy will move heaven and earth to help..and i was read to move some earth through the heavens..i was gonna chuck a huge rock through the window..no..no..bad idea. Call the fire dept. So i had to step away to deal with Shanna and make the call. But in Naomi's mind..I must have forgotten about her...but she was never out of my gaze and her well being dictated my every action and thought. I think we are like that with God sometimes..... we tend to believe God Has forgotten me...or i deserve to be where i am..or he really doesnt care! Look at this, God says ...in Psalm 121.3 he who watches over you will not slumber. VS7 He will watch over your coming and going,both now..and forevermore. Friend, God has not forgotten you....He knows right now, exactly where you are..he is watching every step of your path...he knows and understands your weakness,what your going through...he is concerned about everything that concerns you.He knows you by name...he has numbered the vey hairs on your head....he knows all your thoughts, he knows all your fears, he knows all the things you worry about in your future he knows your deepest desires that have not been met....he knows the promises you hold onto..the dreams you once had that failed to come true..the people that have hurt you and left you in the dust,,,the pain in the inner most places of your heart that you hide so well ..maybe you have seemed to forgotten all that..and transfered it into worry, bad habits...and strange behavior...but he has not forgotten a thing....ISAIAH 49.11 THE LORD HAS FORSAKEN ME..THE LORD HAS FORGOTTEN ME VS 15, CAN A WOMAN FORGET HER NURSING CHILD,AND NOT HAVE COMPASSION ON THE SON OF HER WOMB? SURELY THEY MAY FORGET, YET I WILL NOT FORGET YOU. But sometimes we blow our stuff out of porportion...compared to the needs of others and compared to what he went through.HE REALLY PROVED HE CARES ABOUT YOU...IN THE WAY HE CAME FOR YOU..LEAVING HIS THRONE ...IN THE WAY HE LIVED FOR YOU...PERFECTLY KEEPING ALL THE COMMANDS YOU AND I COULDNT. THE WAY HE DIED FOR YOU...LOVINGLY GIVING IT ALL ON THE CROSS SO YOU WOULDNT BE ASAHMED IN HEAVEN. THE WAY HE ROSE FOR YOU SO YOU COULD HAVE HOPE THAT YOU WOULD LIVE FOREVER. IS 49.16 SEE I HAVE INSCRIBED YOU ON THE PALMS OF MY HANDS. SO what he is saying is where the holes are ...your name is written there....SO..HOW COULD HE FORGET...YOU..THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF HIS MISSION TO EARTH. He didnt......take heart he knows and he is working everything out for our good...we just need to have more________________. What did you put in the blank??? How could God ever forget you..the crowning achievment of all his creation...something he is so proud of it... bears his very image. PEACE
I REALLY THINK WE ARE ALOT LIKE THE people of the bible,wether it be disciples, religious leaders or what have you! We want the blessings of God with out the training and discipline it takes live a life that can be blessed, because we are so confused to what real blessing is. In the bible you see this notion that if things were going your way and your family was properous, God was pleased with you. But if trial or tragedy came you were a wicked sinner who was worthy of God's wrath. So this mentality has remained and evolved in todays Christian culuture and manifested itself into a whole wacked out theology..called The Prosperity Gospel. People actually believe if you can call things out in faith,you can make it happen....bending Gods will and desires to match your own...so you will never be sick..hungry and yes....... you can have that new lexus!! NOW THATS WHAT WE CALL BLESSING....BUT IS THAT WHAT GOD CALLS IT? ITS SO FUNNY THAT THIS TYPE OF THINKING EXISTS...REALLY..THE GUY YOU CLAIM TO FOLLOW....Jesus was a homeless guy who owned nothing but the clothes on his back and the things he did get from his FATHER HE ALWAYS GAVE AWAY. HE did not put alot of value on material things and saw sickness as a chance to Give THE FATHER GLORY! TO JESUS PEOPLE WERE VALUABLE....THATS WHY HE CAME.... FOR US....EVEN the twisted people who wanted to make him king because they saw his amazing power...I mean if this prosperity thing was real why did Jesus always say stuff that was backwards and upside down..in direct opposition to prosperity??????? if you want to be first ..then be last...if someone asks for your shirt give him your coat too...who ever wants to be great will serve everybody...its more blessed to give that recieve, if you want to save your life ..then lose it..... I mean come on this hardly sounds like the way to run a fourtune 500 company!! Gods kingdom is internal- HE LEFT HIS THRONE IN HEAVEN TO ESTABLISH A NEW THRONE ON EARTH..THE THRONE OF THE HUMAN HEART. THE GREATEST KINGDOMS TO BE CONQUORED WERE SATAN'S AND MINE. HE RULES ON THE FIRST BUT THE SECOND????? SEE TRUE BLESSING IS.......Jam 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. IS WHEN I START LIVING GODS WORD OUT,ACTING UPON IT..IN FAITH EVEN WHEN WHAT IT TELLS ME MAKES NO SENSE..... Jam 1:23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.Jam 1:24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. WE BEGIN TO TAKE GODS GRACE FOR AND PROVISION FOR GRANTED...FORGETTING WE too ARE SINNERS AND THE ONLY THING THAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT US IS HIS LOVE AND FORGIVENESS...AND WE ONLY HAVE TODAY...GRACE FOR TODAY....PROVISIONS FOR TODAY...CAUSE TOMMORROW IS JUST NOT PROMISED.Jam 1:25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. I GET THE BLESSINGS OF GOD AS I OBEY HIS WORD....THAT IN ITSELF IS LIFE...THE WORD COMING OFF THE PAGE AND INTO MY HEART AND INTO MY LIFE. THAT IS BLESSING. LOVING GOD ENOUGH TO OBEY HIM. EVEN WHEN ITS HARD,NOT POPULAR AND SEEMINGLY UNPROFITABLE IN A TANGIBLE SENSE. JESUS DID NOT GIVE HIS LIFE TO MAKE ME RICH ON EARTH,BUT RICH IN ....HIM! RICH IN HIS LOVE..RICH IN HIS GRACE....RICH IN HIS MERCY..that is BLESSING...TRUE BLESSING......AND MAN DO I NEED THAT.....WHAT ABOUT YOU????? Jam 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? PEACE OUR CULTURE...WE....NO I.. chase the latest breeze if it blows a cool wind MY way..or if we...I.. catch hold of the idea that we...(I)... are missing out we...(I).. will begin a relentless pursuit..of what we think we should have ..deserve or will make us....(ME).. HAPPY. But thats just it....its only lasts for awhile...i dont know if you have ever been headed in the wrong direction in pursuit of someone ..or something that would cause you harm....did you stop??? did you hear a voice saying this is the way walk in it?? or did you continue on and now you are paying for your poor choice....I wonder....if we would just listen to GODS VOICE....HOW MANY DANGERS we would avoid AND HOW MUCH PAIN WOULD WE HAVE BEEN SPARED....We had just moved to Germany and we had nothing...we didnt know how to use the currency or even get public transportation. So we walked alot to wherever we needed to go...i was coming back from the px...aka...( military walmart) trudging throuh the snow with my 3 year old...my arms were full of stuff so i could not hold her..we were only half a mile away from our apartment but to a little one barley walking and freezing in the snow it might as well have been MT. EVEREST. She was crying and I just kept talking to her..she got distanced from me..because she was behind..i crossed a street in a quiet military project and kept talking...encouraging her to come on...my heart was breaking as i could hear her soft cries tover the muffled snow...then i struck me..we were apart i was already across the street....and she was Not! AND NOW A CAR WAS COMING...DOES HE SEE MY BABY....SHE IS STILL WAlking..just as i have told her..will he stop in time will he skid.....STOP I YELLED AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS! SHE DID....AND THE CAR WHIZZED BY! Man what if she had not obeyed..or heard my voice....the pain....would have BEEN UNBAREABLE...I would have never forgiven myself.....something that could of so easily been avoided...when God speaks to us TO discipline us ..he is trying to avert pain..to keep us from hurting either him..or us...please listen for him..listen to him..is there something right now God has been speaking to you about....a practice that you need to stop because it is hurting you and your loved ones as well as him...PRAY ON THIS..are there circumstances you or others are in becaucse you fail to be disciplined by GOD? THINK...LOOK AROUND WHAT IS HE SAYING..SOFTEN YOUR HEART...AND TURN......TO HIS FACE AND LISTEN! PEACE.. Pro 3:11 My son, do not despise the LORD’s discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, IT WAS THE END OF SUMMER..I HAD JUST MADE THE MASSIVE CHOICE TO FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST ABOVE ALL...EVEN HONOR HIM WITH MY MEASLY 500.00 A MONTH. Sometimes that meant putting my grocery money in the offering plate...but hey God... I am supposed to be the provider for my family...NO SON....I AM. WOW talk about faith being tested..but over and over God comes through on every level.....and we seem\ to fail. BUT FEAR NOT...GOD KNOWS THE FUTURE..SO MY FAILURES DO NOT DISSAPOINT OR SURPRIZE HIM....AT ALL. Well my oldest daughter was going into the 6th grade and i was working at this new private Christian school...and i did not have the funds for the uniforms..we went to the specific store and found out they were 213.00. It might as well have been 213,000. it was friday afternoon and about thee and school started on monday...man i was sweatin...i had no idea on what TO DO. I was going about the routine of my day when the Pastor stopped by and said hey on your way out swing by the church office there is a letter for you. burning with curiosity i went straight there as soon he was out of sight. As i ripped it open there it was staring me in THE FACE........a check in the amount of 213.00. How did they know...??? Well no one did,,but God....HE KNEW. It seems they took some kind of offering on wednesday..and that was the Random amount it came up to...hahahaha....RANDOM... the Pastor was prompted to give it to my family....THE glory of an almighty FATHER, CARING FOR HIS CHILDREN by others who HONOR THE LORD WITH THEIR FIRSTFRUITS.Pro 3:9
Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops;Pro 3:10 then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine. iT WOULD SEEM WE SHOULD WANT TO honor God...scince he placed so much honor on us.....Isa 43:4 Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life. HE HONORED US AND ESTEEMED US...THROUGH CREATION...SALVATION...AND EVERYDAY...HE WANTS TO SHARE WITH YOU..EVERYDAY....SO WHY CANT WE SHARE WITH HIM ...AND WITH OTHERS WHAT WE HAVE....???PEACE. FEAR..ITS A HEALTHY CRAZY THING..GOD instilled in us. It gives us the ability to keep out of danger. But sometimes we are just afraid of really stupid stuff.A phobia can be defined as an aberrant and intense fear of an object or
situation, that poses little or no actual danger. Usually, a phobia is considered similar to a normal fear, but it is the extent to which a person is affected, that determines whether that fear has become a phobia. The most common fears or phobias that people usually suffer from include; heights, darkness, snakes, insects, closed-in places, etc. Read more at Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/list-of-all-phobias-and-their-meanings.html Alektorophobia: It is an intense and strange fear of chickens, in which the person may be frightened of every small thing related to a chicken, like, feathers, eggs or any other body part. The person suffering from this phobia gets terrified by the sight of a chicken or becomes scared even when people utter the word 'chicken' Arachibutyrophobia: It is an abnormal and exaggerated fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. The person having the phobia may get extremely annoyed or embarrassed to pull out the stuck butter from the upper part of the mouth, especially in a crowded or public place.Consecotaleophobia: It is an abnormal and rare fear of chopsticks.. Coprastasophobia: It is an overwhelming and persistent fear related to constipation. Didaskaleinophobia: It is an exaggerated and intense fear of going to or attending school. I SEE WE HAVE THIS FEAR RUNNING RAMPENT NOWADAYS! Ergasiophobia: It is an abnormal or unusual fear of work or functioning; also termed as ergophobia. HERE IS A COUPLE OF FEARS WE DONT HAVE: Chrometophobia: It is an unusual and persistent fear of wealth and money Cyberphobia: It is a strange and rare fear related to computers or working on a computer; also called logizomechanophobia Enosiophobia: It is an irrational and morbid fear of committing an unpardonable sin or of criticism; also known as enissophobia. Pro 3:7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil. THAT IS ONE THING FOR SURE WE DONT FEAR ANYMORE...GOD! HE IS EITHER ...GANDOLF.THE OLD BEARDED GRANDFATHER DUDE...OR OUR LITTLE BUDDIE WHO HELPS US WHENEVER WE GET IN TOO DEEP. A DEEP HOLY FEAR OF OFFENDING AN ALMIGHTY GOD.... THE WORD OF GOD SAYS FEARING GOD IS REALLY THE START OF ALL WISDOM IN A PERSONS LIFE.FEARING GOD WILL PUT THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE AND KEEP ALOT OF EVIL OUT OF YOUR LIFE...AND IT WILL GROW INTO A DEEP ABIDING LOVE..OF NOT WANTING TO HURT THE HEART OF GOD...BECAUSE OF HIS GREAT GRACE ..TENDER MERCY...AND CRAZY LOVE FOR US. ITS REALLY SIMPLE FEAR GOD....OR EVERYTHING ELSE. IN ALL YOUR WAYS......ACKNOWLEDGE HIM! AND HE WILL MAKE YOUR PATHS STRIAGHT! YOU KNOW,it is real easy to get lost these days...on a family trip in north carolina we were in the Pisgah National forest at sliding rock...not hard to find! Then we ventured to upper creek falls...the hard way..still not to bad..as we jumped in the freezing cold mountain water until we began to get dizzy from the body temp drop..we were talking with some familes and they said we should go to babel tower falls..there we could safley cliff dive into some swift moving unknown watrers 30 ft below...oxy moron!...so i just had to go find this place.. .a blue sign that said wilderness and babel tower/peice of cake...your kidding me right?? well i was on a quest and unfourtunatley for my family ..so were they. I found the sign and down the trail we went....we got into some very dangerous spots...as i began to question my sanity while looking over the edge of a mile drop straight down...it would take search and rescue days to get you out...with one wrong step..and believe me, the steps were narrow and uncertain. We all had to work together, holding onto each other at some points..and with alot of sweat and about a dozen nervous angels watching over us we made it down the mountain trail..alive. Only to find we were in the wrong place.BUMMER...Dads are not suppose to lead there families into danger and down the wrong path....what was i thinking. I didnt acknowledge a map, true north or anything..i just thought i saw the right sign...and went headlong into danger!!! In this proverb,GOD IS SAYING KEEP ME AS THE REFERENCE POINT OF YOUR LIFE...FOR ALL THE AREAS OF YOUR LIFE ..that seem grey or unclear..where the lines get blurred...just ask would this honor GOD/ all your ways means...ALL YOUR WAYS! do i honor God with my TIME? MONEY? ENTERTAINMENT? FRIENDS? CLOTHES? RELATIONSHIPS? ATTITUDES? THOUGHTS? I know thats alot to make god the center of ...but it says all your ways...there has to be a true north in your life a cental refenece point or you will get lost and drift with the culture on to destruction by the same things that carry them away from God....JUST ONE LITTLE DRINK....JUST ONE TIME....JUST THIS ONCE...WONT HURT ANYONE...HAVE you ever noticed how much stronger the temptation gets when you are walking down an unmarked path...meaning away from GOD..aka not praying or reading scripture..not really? Thats because when we get used to drifting our heasrt gets hard ..sin creeps in and we get farther from God...where are you right now? STOP I REALLLY WANT YOU TO JUST THINK FOR A MOMENT TAKE A DEEP LOOK INSIDE.....WOULD YOU LIKE TO REALLY AVOID DANGER...If you could jump up on a rock and get a panoramic view...where would you be? If you were God looking down at your life..would you be saying we have grown far apart??? consider your ways ..your paths...are you going down a trail that leads you away from him...simply because you choose this way while your heart was hard and blinded by selfishness and sin? Act 3:19
Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, TURN YOUR FACE FROM THAT WAY..RECOGNIZE HIS FACE..TURN TOWARDS IT..HIS FACE OF LOVE AND GRACE..AND RUN TO HIM....GET ON YOUR KNEES AND SPILL IT OUT ...PEACE! SOMETIMES I THINK GOD HAS THE GREATSET SCINCE OF HUMOR IN THE UNIVERSE.just look at monkeys,i am fascinated by them..they are so smart yet so dumb all at the same time...i have a horrible memory as a child being at the indianapoilis zoo and i was standing so close to the gorrila cage..before they where behind glass...and i was making fun of this hugh silver back...and i was at arms length...i think my grandmother was afaid for my life(i was warned) as i continued to taunt this huge monster while he stuffed his faced with a bag full of carrots.I was making monkey like gestures,scracthing my head and armpits and chewing.I was in his face...i coundnt belive how much he put in his mouth or how great it was to have all eyes on me, but when he decided to unload everything that was in his mouth all over my face and frontal body parts,everyone thought this was so hilarious...but me! I didnt understand..i was supposed to get the last laugh..but instead i left crying...and he... was rolling! Humorus situation...but sometimes life can just leave you in the dark...wondering. Sometimes its ok to admit yoiu are in over your head..you dont have all the answers,you dont have everything figured out. thats why God says...Pro 3:5
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; DO YOUY SEE THAT....DO NOT LEAN ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING....Do not put a whole lotta weight on what you can understand and figure out....for several reasons.There is a lot of things God is doing behind the scences of Your life that will only make sense when he puts it all togetherfor us in eternity.I know you are struggling with something that doesnt add up...why you never have enough money...why you cant seem to land that perfect job..why you just cant understand your parents divorce that scared your heart and shook your faith..why that person left you in the dust..or things...good things that it seems God is just witholding from you..why..you think..i am not a bad person..why is it always me?????? MAYBE SO YOU WILL STOP ALWAYS TRYING TO RESCUE YOURSELF..OUR TRYING TO ALWAYS FIX THE PROBLEMS..TO MANIPULATE...AND MAKE YOUR OWN MEANS OF DELIVERANCE...instead of waiting upon on him...Isa 55:9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. MY SON IF YOU ACCEPT MY WORDS AND STORE UP MY COMMANDS WITHIN YOU,TURNING YOUR EAR TO WISDOM AND APPLYING YOUR HEART TO UNDERSWTANDING,AND IF YOU CALL OUT FOR INSIGHT AND CRY ALOUD FOR UNDERSTANDING AND IF YOU SEARCH FOR IT AS SILVER AND HIDDEN TREASSURE,THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THE FEAR OF THE LORD AND FIND THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD............WE have to dig....mine...like gold.. our understanding to the things of life out of Gods word. iF SOMEONE TOLD YOU THERE WAS GOLD UNDER YOUR HOUSE...WHAT WOULD YOU DO..SCRATCH YOUR HEAD AND WONDER HOW IT GOT THERE....???? START DIGGING...PEACE Pro 3:5
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; IT seems as though we have grown to be very skeptical these days and it is rubbing off on even our childrens, children. We all have deep seated trust issues. And with good reason..look around who can find a good hearted Godly man that reflects THE HEART OF GOD in as sin sick fallen dark world. Most of our encounters with our human fathers are deeply disapointing leaving deep scars in our hearts and create life long trust issues. If youy say not me... I had an awesome dad....consider yourself with one of lifes greatest blessings that come with a HUGE responsability of passing on his values and impact to the people around you. Most of us did not get a good blue print to follow along in this life while growing up. I have some days i remember more than others of my step father, throwing my brother through the wall for stealing 32 cents from my sister.My mother crying in the back laundry room with a black eye...the day he moved out...and the day he took his own life. I was eight. Amidst all this dysfunction....I had a heavenly Father..perfect in every way...pursuing me...chasing me,loving me and protecting me and waiting on me for 34 years as i continued to push life to the limits. If we say we are with Christ The greatest act of obedience is TRUST! If you love somebody you will trust them..even if it looks bad..really bad. Think about the countless time THE LORD has proven his love for us over and over and over. By asking us to trust him..in the unseen things of our lives...just like Noah and a boat, Abraham and a knife...Isaac and a bride, Jacob and a brother..who wanted to kill him..btw...Joseph and a prision ..moses and a maniac king! you get the point! They all involved trusting Gods heart...his divine love. WHY DO WE ALWAYS TRUST OURSELVES MORE...our finances ..our flawed plans our messed up human logic and tainted hearts desires..that dont even have THE ABILITY TO MAKE GOOD PLANS APART FROM HIM. HE IS SO GOOD AND TRUST WORTHY.....PSALM Psa 139:17 How precious to me are your thoughts,fn God! How vast is the sum of them! 139:18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you. DO YOU GET THAT...THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A MOMENT in my life or your life when GOD has not been thinking about you...Psa 139:17 How precious are your thoughts about me,fn O God. They cannot be numbered! WE DESPERATLEY NEED THE TRANSFORMATION OF MIND THAT ONLY THE WORD OF GOD BRINGS...And GAIN a new understanding= that he only thinks good thoughts towards me... ALWAYS! AND when it is difficult to trust him,look at his magnificent display of wondrous love... the cross....paraphrased Paul said; I wish you knew how high, how wide, how deep his love for you is...how high ? as high as the crown of thorns on his brow. How wide? As wide as 2 arms thaty want to hold you for eternity cam be streched apart from each other and nailed down. How Deep? as deep as the wounds in his side...How long?... A love for all eternity! GOD...WHEN YOU CANT TRACE HIS HAND.(TRUST) HIS HEART.. Peace Everbody is looking for some kind of crazy secret to live longer....testosterone shots...NO thanks..how bout a big glass of green slime that looks like it was scraped of the bottom of ROCK from a north carolina creek bed...if that doesnt whet your appetite for holistic living how bout a handfull of i dont know whats in there... superduper expensive supplements...THAT WILL MAKE YOUR WALLET BLEED GREENBACKS LIKE A HOLE IN THE TITANIC AND will work over your liver like bruce lee in a enter the dragon!! God has some really great thoughts on this..and scince he is the creator and sustainer of your life as you know it might be wise to clue in on what he says.. 3:1
My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart,Pro 3:2 for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity. 3:3 Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. JUST FOR STARTERS WE ARE TO WEAR OUR LOVE FOR GOD AND OTHERS..... AND ENGRAVE IT UPON OUR HEARTS..love becomes something beyond what we do...to what we become.Its on the outside as well as the inside. LOVE becomes the greatest motive of all. Love for something or someone turns into a passion and a pursuit. BE A LOVER OF GOD...AND OF PEOPLE..BECAUSE OUR GOD IS THE GREATEST LOVER OF PEOPLE.. The hebrew word for Bind (Deo) means to attach or fasten or to make one a prisoner. So think about it..being so attached to Gods Love you have no hope of ever getting free....AMEN....You in fact are a prisoner. YOU ARE BOUND TO HIM ..THE LORD JESUS CHRIST..and its written all over your heart and displayed through your life for others to see. So it displays itself in faithfullness....to neighbors...strangers...family...Gods people. Because when you are chained to someone you cannot go anywhere with out them ..they have a say in everything you do. I saw an old movie about these 2 convicts that broke off from a chain gang...when they got free they almost beat each other to death,,but then got wise and started to work together..one couldnt do anything without the other...after much trial... they started to respect and depend on each other..then a bond. they were bound together..not only on the outside... but on the inside....................try it...let your love for God become faithfullness to others...PEACE Yes sir, it’s about to go down
It’s spiraling to the ground, but I don’t think it’s gon’ slow down This fallen world is falling, this building’s ‘bout to blow down We just goin’ in circles, we don’t get another go ‘round (It’s going down) What happens when your life is leveled, bro? A storm is coming, can’t nobody’s levies hold, It’s heavy bro, but I gotta let you know It’ll help you look beyond this world like a telescope (It’d be easy) Yeah, you can stack your money in the air Till it’s raining hundreds all around your atmosphere (It’d be easy) You can build a mansion sky high Till can’t nobody see the roof when they drive by But death’ll hit you like a drive by And to that stuff you acquired you gotta say “bye-bye” I ain’t gon’ lie, you might go down in history But everything will go down eventually [Hook – Lecrae] Everything is falling (down, down, down …) Everything is falling (down, down, down …) Everything is falling (down, down, down …) It’s going down … it’s going down It’s going down It’s going down, I see the sky falling It’s going down It’s going down, and ain’t no way to solve it It’s going down It’s going down, I hear the Lord calling It’s going down It’s going down It’s going down It’s going down, rather coming down wit’ it Cold world, condition is sin, here is the illness It’s sickening, affliction so erotic, sickness so hypnotic Desiring this virus even though we know it’s toxic Godless, hallowing the gods that is counterfeit We live from ‘de party of ‘de dearly departed The darkness is flowing from my nostrils We’re so psychotic, we still partyin’ like we not sick YOLO, homie, so pour another glass Roll another one up, let’s put on another mask Another bundle of cash, another shorty to bag, Same thing e’eryday, groundhog under grass Man, turn the music up ‘cause I don’t wanna hear the truth ‘Bout the things I’m living for; it’s dead and I’m the living proof Shoot, the sky’s falling, ain’t no need to panic Unless we party till it cracks, seeing Jesus standing, coming downThere’s a time for everything – a time to be born and a time to die. There’s a time when the world as we know it will end. When that is, I don’t know. But it is going down. [Verse 3 – Lecrae] Listen, it’s going down … holla “Mayday!” Them fiends lookin’ for candy and them dealers got that payday I seen them child soldiers, they was loading up some AKs Ain’t playing Modern Warfare. Don’t you know ain’t a war fair? Scales never even, but they be triple beamin’ They keep them fiends fienin’, the Devil stay schemin’ And dreamers steady dreamin’, but ain’t no hope here Ain’t no satisfaction in money, women, and clothes here Oh yeah! Them Christians in Christian Audigier Hey, can’t some young men say the stuff we gotta say? ‘Cause everything is fallen, it could happen any day Your world come tumbling down and ain’t no way to get away You ain’t never gon’ say you ain’t hear it from Lecrae If I die before I wake I pray to the Lord your soul He’ll take All these drunken nights are empty like the bottles that we break And you can’t get high enough to escape, it’s going down! by lecrae. The old super group QUEEN had a couple of hits back in the day...we are the champions...another one bites the dust ect...i think about one line that freddie mercury used to sing..NOTHING REALLY MATTERS...TO ME. BUT how you live between the 2 hospitals..REALLY DOES MATTER...THE 2 HOSPITALS= tHE TIME IN BETWEEN THE HOSPITAL WHERE YOU WERE BORN AND THE HOSPITAL WHERE YOU DIE, it really matters...thats all that matters...how you live! Not what you have..you see we have gotten a great deal of things backwards....like animals are more important than people...like things are more important than people ..like my stuff is more important than people. We can become hard hearted and calloused towards people....I was driving to lunch the other day and some guywith a gas can in his hand yelled at me as i went by HEy BUDDY CAN YOU HELP ME OUT???? I kept going by slowly..thinking about it...do you know how often i am approached..what do i have a wrapper on my head that says blow pop?? If my daughter had not asked me again ..i just might have passed it by...The opportunnity to make people more important than things,!!Jesus lived his life here on earth demonstating that priciple in his magnificant love that he displayed to people everywhere he went. Whether he was feedind people,healing them or sharing TRUTH... The love of the fathers heart poured through him.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.1Jo 4:11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. OUR STUFF IS NOT WHAT WE SHOULD FOCUS OUR LOVE AND AFFECTION ON... we have it backwards we tend to use people and love stuff...how do i know...cause i have stuff...anmd i live in a very materialistic ME FIRST culture. but GOD says something about our stuf.....2 peter 3.7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are RESERVED for Fire, being kept for the day of judgement....... its all gonna burn baby....so all my time and affection spent and wasted on things. aquiring thins..hoping for things...maintaining things....well probably not a wise investment. things we own are not bad in themselves..just the priority we put on them if above ohters and God.... hmmmm i wonder if freddie mercury made his reservations for heaven????? have you made yours..or will they say....NO RESERVATIONS WERE MADE FOR YOU IN the lambs book of life. ...think about it....be absolutly certain. peace Mat 21:21
Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and it will be done. So crazy to think of all the obstacles in our way these days.. things always seem to be blocking the perfect_________you fill in the blank. JOB, HOUSE ,RELATIONSHIP,GRADE,OUTFIT,CAR,....whatever....in this faith walk the main obstacle is ourselves. We always seem to have a need that needs to be met. So we spend alot of focus in our prayers and agenda to get our need met.But our greatest need is our relationship with God,and intimacy with him. Thats why Jesus told us..Mat 6:8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. He is saying i already know..its ok to ask but dont be obsessed with the tyemporary stuff that seems to drive you crazy and wont last.Instead keep climbing the trial of the christian life and if you have an obstacle that is in your way...by your faith you can move it. How you say..i have this thing in my life that just seems impossible to get over...or get through!!!! Well this to shall pass because God is for you not against you even if it seems everything an everone else is. he is with you..all the way...and he is THE UNFAILING ALMIGHTY GOD.AND SO IS HIS LOVE and care for you, Put your faith in that ...not in your ability to be a perfect person.... 73:22 I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you.Psa 73:23 Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand. SO AS GOD HOLDS YOUR HAND through these difficult times, by faith that mountain will either be under your feet in victory, or at you back as you walked through the valley... WITH HIM. either way it will be cast in to the sea of forgetfullness beacause Gods faithfullness and love wiill wash it away..AND ONLY THE GLORY OF HIS LOVE FOR YOU WILL REMAIN..PEACE. Have you ever went on a trip and things did not go as you planned? I really do not like my plans getting jacked up! At the time of Jesus birth there was a King..Herod, wicked and ruthless...and you know even those guys have plans...and they do not like anybody messing with their schemes! Well now this threat....( Baby Jesus) could of ruined him. A new kind of King...one who will actually care for his people and shepherd them..lead them in ways that are good for them..be concerned with there worries and have real solutions...release them from the bondages that steal the quality of family life! These fortellings of this Messiah King...it sounds like a Jewish fairytale....but lets make sure....just in case..another plan. He Gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem. Do we not realize..the selfish desires to dethrone Christ in our own hearts effects so many others. Out of fear this king hurt so many because he did not understand God's plan for good! I dont either....most times...I just see it as inconveinence. Most Christians do.But if you want to see God fresh and new today...trust him. Even if you feel as if where you are now was by your own leading. Maybe a mistake or detour.One Christmas my youngest daughter broke her wrist and man...my plans were all jacked up! Not to mention watching your child go through pain...i would rather have it double...so we packed up our campsite in seconds flat,prayed with our best friends and rushed back to get it casted.So just on a whim i picked a new destination and we were so blessed we go back there every year! Its those times when i dont plan and discover something new along the way that really makes the memories. Is God leading you or not? God's providence is personally and actively moving us towards his creation goal! Daniel 2;21 He changes times and seasons and he sets up kings and deposes them. Did you get that??? God is personally moving us along.....Psalm 73.23 Yet i am always with you..you hold me by my right hand. We are not in as much control as we think we are.. and thats a good thing.... by the way! its still today...no end of the world yet and many chances to trust him and give him glory through that!
Rev 3:17
You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.} The cold December wind ripped through his jacket like a knife,slipping on some ice he turned the corner away from the freezing bite of the winds fridged teeth.With his ears stinging , he moved his fingers to grab the door handle and flung it wide, the rush of warm air was welcome and full of life! the cinnamon and coffee teased his senses making his stomach growl. He tossed his jacket onto the coat rack just as he had done a thousand times before,HEY,we got orders up here people..let's look alive..its Christmas!His little dinner was buzzing with Christmas memories and shopping secrects as customers shared thier stories of that elusive gift of Aunt so and so.He felt a twing of pain shoot through his chest just as before and shrugged it off as he continued his order,but it gripped him.. he grabbed for the counter top as the sound of a LOCOMOTIVE pierced his ears, something like a 1000 pound wieght dropped like a thud on his chest,gasping he heard the faint echo of voices,Bob all you alright,losing his balanace several stacks of heavy dinner plates came crashing down silently shattering as he blazed forward into the brilliance of eternity,that beckoned him upward.TWO DAYS before Christmas Robert Ray Sanders left a gaping hole. Devoted husband,loving father, playful dad, God's Blue print of himself for the human family...my family....GONE! WHEN DEATH REACHES ITS BONEY HAND INTO OUR LIVES nothing is ever the same! When a family loses a father by death or otherwise may God have mercy, and he does. When you take a dominate leader and remove him from a setting what happens is other things and people begin to fill that void.The BLACK HOLE,THE GAP, THE VACUME, CALL IT WHAT YOU WANT, BUT ITS LOOMING OVER AMERICA, AND THE WORLD IN THE FORM OF LUST,GREED,CONSUMERISIM. A LOVELESS,LIFELESS VOID SUCKING PEOPLE IN, NEVER TO RETURN,BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD! GOD WHAT DOES HE HAVE TO DO WITH THIS? LEADERS,FATHERS ARE not to be as cbs portrays..power driven,moneyhungery,sexcrazed half wits with no integrity! THIS MIGHT BE THE PART WHERE YOU want to stop reading because you might get your feelings hurt because you love watching two and a half men and enjoy drinking from the cespool of filth that the media serves you! Also I am going to mention a name that is very offensive even to the VERY most open minded OF liberals-JESUS. Yes Jesus and his Idea of Fatherhood and leadership is quite the opposite of family guy or any other sick bent twisted and warped rendention we can come up with! Jesus has a story he tells in luke. Luk 15:11 Jesus continued: "There was a man who had two sons. Luk 15:12 The younger one said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the estate.' So he divided his property between them. This father loved his son so much,he was commited to him and was intrested in being involved in his life and future.When our fathers are abusive or M.I.A. ( missing in action) we see a path of dysfunction that follows. Right now in this country we have a true epedemic of loss of purpose among our young people today because they have been raised by the social media standards and sub-culture.This is where i throw some staggaring Barna poll statistics at you to back up my theology..I dont need them! I omly need 2.. The kid in lUKE and myself.tHis tenn wanted money,flow, and he wanted it NOW!Crazy part here...his dad gives it to him....he doesnt try to reason with him,argue or even say you"ll kill yourself...he loves him so much he just gives him what he asks for,the selfish wreckless desires of hius heart that could put him in grave danger..or just the GRAVE!! I AM JUST LIKE THAT ARENT YOU..WANTING EVERYTHING IN THIS LIFE..RIGHT NOW.I WONDER IF THATS WHY JESUS TOLD THIS..SO WE COULD SEE THE DESPERATION AND FUTILITY OF A HEART THAT TRYS TO SEPERATE ITSELF FROM ITS CREATOR..FATHER, SEEKING OTHER THINGS TO FILL THAT VOID OF SPECIAL, SUPERNATURAL, ALL SATISFYING RELATIONSHIP.Isa 51:1 "Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn; Being made in the image of God is what keeps us searching and seeking...what does that look like..what does normal look like, why do i always feel LIKE A PART OF ME IS MISSING? bECAUSE ITS ONLY FOUND IN CHRIST!Col 3:3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. Col 3:4 When Christ, who is your [fn] life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. jUST LIKE THE YOUNG SON, WE ARE ALWAYS IN PURSUIT, so ready to go out and conquor...because you know the old lie...you only live once! WE HAVE TONS OF GUYS WHO INSTEAD OF PURSUING GODS KINGDOM AND HIS RIGHTOUSNESS TRY TO IMORTALIZE THEMSELVES BY PHYSICAL FEATS OF GREATNESS, NOW I AIN'T A HATER, BUT THE TOUGH GUY RACE COME ON...JUST JOIN THE ARMY OR RESERVE OR SOMETHING,AT LEAST GET PAID TO BE TOURTURED!YEAH THATS WHAT I LIKE TO DO..PAY A TON OF MONEY,FLY TO ENGLAND,AND OFF YOU GO...FIRST YOU RUN UP A BUNCH OF HILLS WITH MONSTEROUSLY JAGGED ROCKS JUTTING OUT EVERYWHERE SO WHEN YOU FALL YOU CAN BASH YOUR HEAD IN.. OR WORSE CHIP A TOOTH..THAT YOU CANT FIX CAUSE YOU SPENT ALL YOUR MONEY ON THE FLIGHT! THEN YOU MUST JUMP OVER OR DODGE BURNING BAILS OF HAY...GREAT FOR YOUR BREATHING TECHNIQUE..AND THEN CLIMB A RICKETY 100 FOOT HIGH STRUCTURE THAT LOOKS LIKE IT WAS BUILT BY A ONE-ARMED OMPA LOOMPA. THEN JUMP OFF INTO THE DIRTIEST WATER ON THE PLANET..YOU KNOW THE KIND THAT USED TO COME OFF YOUR BODY AS A KID AFTER NOT TAKING A BATH FOR 2 WEEKS.ONLY THINGS LIVE AND MOVE IN IT... AND THERE IS NO DRAIN..ITS ALSO SHALLOW IN SOME PLACES...THEN CRAWLING OUT ..LITERALLY, YOU MUST LOW CRAWL UNDER BARBED WIRE WHILE PEOPLE SHOOT BULLETS AT YOU...WHICH IS HIGHLY OVER RATED IN MY BOOK...DID THAT! FORT KNOX BASIC TRAINING! SO...ONCE YOU HAVE INHALED 3 BAILS OF HAY, RIPPED YOUR EAR OFF , LACERATED YOUR TRICEP AND INGESTED 2 QUARTS OF BACTERIA INFESTED WATER..YOU RUN TO THE FINISH LINE ..MISSING TOOTH AND ALL..WHERE THESE 2 BIG BURLY GUYS TRY TO PUMMEL YOU TO THE GROUND WITH THESE HUGE BANTORS, AND BEAT THE SNOT OUT OF YOU. AND NOW YOU GET YOUR TOUGH GUY BADGE!! AND I PAID FOR THIS?? IF I WANTED THAT KIND OF TREATMENT I WOULD JUST GO OUT SATURDAT NIGHT AFTER 10 TO DINNER IN MANHATTEN. JK. NEW YORK IS AWESOME. OR IF YOU WANT TO GIVE 5 PINTS OF BLOOD AND LOSE AN APPENDIDGE YOU CAN TRYT HE SPARTEN RACE NEXT TIME..I THINK THEY GIVE MEDALS...WHAT A TRADE! I THINK THEY SHOULD GIVE TO THE TOUGH GUY BADGE OR MEDALS TO DADS...DADS WHO ARE WILLING TO DATE THEIR DAUGHTERS, STAY FAITHFULL TO THEIR SPOUSES AND STAY OFF PORN!!! GUYS WHO DONT CHEAT ON THEIR TAXES AND SACRIFICE FOR THEIR FAMILYS AND SERVE GOD TILL IT HURTS!!! GUYS WHO ARE NOT AFRIAID TO ADMIT THEY ARE WRONG,ASK FORGIVENESS WHEN THEY HAVE WRONGED..AND LOVE THERE WIVES, SO THEIR KIDS CAN FEEL SECURE AND SEE WHAT GODS REAL DESIGN FOR OUR SOCIETY IS. WHEN THIS YOUNG MAN IN JESUS' STORY EXCHANGED THE ONLY PERSON AND GODLY PATTERN FOR HIS LIFE FOR THE PLEASURES OF THE WORLD,HE LOST HIS POINT OF REFERENCE FOR LIFE AND HIS ABILITY TO MAKE SENSE 0F HIS DEEP INTERNAL LONGING FOR SOMETHING MORE OUT THERE! IT WASNT THAT HE DID NOT LIKE HIS FATHER..HE DID NOT KNOW HIS FATHER..NOR DID HE DESIRE TO. WHEN MY FATHER DIEDMY SISTER WENT TO HER STUDIES, MY BROTHER WENT TO CRIME, I WENT INTO THE BLACK HOLE. if you have ever wondered how close your walking with Jesus just slam your hand into the drivers door of a dodge durango and lock it. then stand back and wait for whatever comes out!!! it seems in my hurry of the season i forgot to pull my hand out as i shut the door and BOOM! I knew something was terrible wrong when 5000 jigawatt jolts of pain starts shooting from my fingertips in HUGE sunami LIKE waves to my poor little brain. so with my left hand trying desperatly to unloCk the door and my mouth wide open screaming i manange to get it out. RUNNING TO THE FRONT DOOR FASTER THAN BOLT...{WHERES AN OLYMPIC TIMER WHEN YOU NEED ONE} I SWING OPEN THE REFRIG AND START SCREAMING ICE I NEED ICE...SO MY WIFE GETS ME ICE CUBES AS I HOLD MY FINGERS UNDER THE COOL RUNNING WATER ,I TRY TO WRAP THE CUBES AROUND THE SWOLLEN SHREK SIZED FINGER TIPS..PAIN INCREASING BY 150% I SCREAM,,CRUSHED ICE!!! SHE THEN GEABS A HUGE POT AND BEATS IT PROFUSELY ON THE ICE,,CUBES FLYING EVERYWHERE...THERE THERE IS YOUR ICE..SHE SAYS! SO LIKE A HURT ANIMAL THAT GOES TO HIS CAVE, I RETREAT TO THE BEDROOM TO NURSE MY WOUNDS AND LOOK AT THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE. WHEN I HAD CALMED MY WIFE CAME IN IN TRUE CONCERN ASKING IF I WAS OK...I WAS...BUT NOT REALLY. LESSONS LEARNED= 1. DONT YELL AT SOMEONE WHO IS TRYING TO HELP YOU. 2. ALWAYS REPLACE THE BATTERY IN YOUR REMOTE KEY. 3.NEVER TRY TO UNLOCK A DOOR AND THEN LOCK IT AGAIN IN ONE SWIFT MOVEMENT USING THE MOMENTUM OF THE DOOR THEN GIVING IT AN EXTRA PUSH FOR GOOD MEASURE! 4. SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOW DOWN. THIS LIFE IS TRAVELING SO FAST AND SO IS THE SEASON OF CHRISTS BIRTH. IT IS IN THE STILLNESS...WHERE WE FIND HIM. PS 46.10 BE STILL AND KNOW....I AM GOD. THAT JUST SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE BUT IF YOU AND I DONT DO IT YOU COULD MISS EVERYTHING THIS SEASON IS ABOUT! GOD HAD PUT EVERYTHING TOGETHER WITH SPECIAL REVELATION FROM HIS WORD=PPROPHECY OF THE SCRIPTURES AND GENERAL REVELATION= THE STAR...TO INVADE THE PLANET EARTH WITH HIS BEST GIFT TO US EVER!!! HIS SON JESUS. CAN YOU IMAGINE ALL THEFACES OF THE PEOPLE IN BETHLEHEM THAT MISSED THE GREATEST EVENT IN HUMAN HISTORY BECAUSE THEY WERE TO BUSY TO BE TUNED INTO WHAT GOD WAS DOING! CAN YOU IMAGINE THE INN KEEPERS CLAIM TO FAME..JESUS NOT ONLY SLEPT HERE BUT WAS BORN HERE. HE MISSED IT.DONT MISS OUT ON WHAT GOD IS DOING AND WANTS TO DO THROUGH YOU THIS SEASON,,SS\LOOOOW DOWN WAIT ON GOD..GET IN HIS PRESCENCE WORSHIP THE NEWBORN KING...IF YOU RUN OUT OF THINGS TO PRAISE HIM FOR,,PRAISE HIM FOR THE SIMPLE REASON THAT HE WOULD LEAVE HIS THRONE AND HUMBLE HIMSELF TO BE BORN IN THE MOST FOUL PLACE ON THE PLANET... THE HUMAN HEART, YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN ..REV 3.20 BEHOLD I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK IF ANYONE HEARS MY VOICE AND OPENS THE DOOR,I WILL COME IN AND EAT WITH HIM AND HE WITH ME. JESUS WAS KNOCKING AT THE INNKEEPERS DOOR. HIS LIFE WAS SO FULL OF OTHER THINGS ...HE MISSED THE KNOCK ...DONT YOU....PEACE
WE WERE RECENTLY DOWN IN THE KEYS ON A BEACH FOR A MORNING WALK..IT WAS AMAZING,BUT WE NOTICED ALOT OF JUNK ON THE SHORELINE, IT WAS SO CLUTTERED. BUT WE SEIZED THE MOMENT AND WENT INTO SCAVANGER MODE..SOME COOL BOUYS AND DRIFT WOOD...BOUYS FROM LOBSTER TRAPS ARE EXPENSIVE ..SO WE WERE COLLECTING THEN WE SPOTTED ONE FROME THE ROAD...MY WIFE GOT OUT TO GO GET IT AS SHE WALKED ACROSS THE TOP OF THE ROCKS SHE SOON FOUND OUT WHAT LOOKED SOLID WAS Actually very dangerous///and the rocks were huge and you could fall thru what looked like solid ground,,and possibly break a leg! as she ventured out past the rocks NAOMI FOLLOWED AND started to sink///deeper and deeper with each step....WHAT LOOKED LIKE FUN AND SAFE BECAME DANGEROUS ..ONCE PAST THE ROCKS THE FURTHER THEY WALKED OUT THEY STARTED SINKING UP TO THEIR KNEE CAPS....AND NOW SHE WAS STUCK.....SOMETIMES LIFE IS LIKE THAT...WE GET STUCK!!!!! IN CERTAIN AREAS..CERTAIN UNGODLY HABITS//CERTAIN UNGODLY RELATIONSHIPS OR CERTAIN UNGODLY THOUGHT PATTERNS..when this happens YOU LOSE MORE THAN JUST YOUR FLIP FLOPS....IF YOU ARE A CHRIST FOLLOWER...JESUS DID NOT LEAVE YOU HERE TO PLAY SURVIVOR!!!! HE LEFT YOU HERE TO BUILD HIS KINGDOM AND TO SERVE THE CHURCH! SOMETIMES IF WE CANNOT CHANGE OUR SITUATION...INSTEAD OF SURVIVNG ...START SEEKING.......SEEKING GOD! IS 40.31 BUT THOSE WHO WAIT UPON THE LORD...SHALL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH.....THE CONCEPT ISNT JUST HANGING AROUND DOING WHAT YOU NORMALLY DO..WAITING FOR GOD TO CHANGE STUFF...TO WAIT IS TO BE KNIT TOGETHER WITH GOD...START PUTTING YOUR LIFE BACK TOGETHER WITH HIM AS THE MAIN FABRIC...WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU GOT ON YOUR KNEES..ALONE AND WAITED...WORSHIPED//AND WAITED SOME MORE+++ OR WENT TO HIS WORD AND WAITED FOR HIM TPO SPEAK"""" AND ONCE YOU HEARD YOU DID WHAT HE SAID..NO MATTER HOW SMALL ATHING? PRAYER" LORD HELP ME TO WAIT ON YOU..SHOW ME WHAT THAT MEANS TODAY/////PEACE
BACK IN THE DAY I WAS ON THE TALLEST LADDER I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE..IN A GYM WAY UP HIGH CHANGING A BALLAST...SOMETHING THAT MAKES A FLOURESCENT LIGHT WORK...AND THE POWER WAS STILL CONNECTED YOU COULD NOT TURN IT OFF! SO I HAD TO BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO TOUCH THE WHITE WIRE TO ANYTHING OR IT WOULD GROUND OUT AND I WOULD GET SHOCKED AND FALL TO MY ........WELL BACK THEN CELL PHONES WERE NOT AS POPULAR..SO EVERYONE HAD THESE LITTLE CLIP ON UNITS CALLED PAGERS OR BEEPERS. AND MINE WAS SET ON VIBRATE..WELL I AM TWISTING THESE WIRES TOGETHER AND TOUCHING THE WHITE ONE AND BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...... THE PAGER GOES OFF..BUT I THOUGHT I WAS GETTING SHOCKED AND ALMOST JUMPED OFF THE LADDER!! TURNS OUT I WAS SAFE...NO POWER SURGING THRU ME JUST A LITLLE 9 VOLT BUZZ ON MY POCKET...ITS FUNNY WHAT PEOPLE CONSIDER POWERFUL THESE DAYS..THEIR MONEY, POSTION, TITLE OR JOB. AND MOST PEOPLE NEVER REALLY TAP INTO REAL POWER.....THAT JUST KEEP ON USING THE SAME SORCE..THEMSELVES! GOLIATH WAS LIKE THAT.. HE WAS THE GUY EVERYONE GAVE KUDOS TO..AND THEIR LUNCH MONEY,,MAINLY BEACAUSE HE WAS SO HUGE...IN HIS OWN MIND! HIS POWER LOOKED GREATER THAT ANY OTHER MAN ..PHILISTINE OR ISREALITE..BUT HIS STRENGHT WAS LIMITED INDEED! THATS WHY HE WAS SO SHOCKED WHEN DAVID DID NOT EVEN USE CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS AGAINST HIM..IT WAS AND INSULT! ME I WOULD HAVE USED A ROCKET LAUNCHER OR MAYBE A SURFACE TO AIR MISSILE!! READ 1 SAM 17.43-52 WE SEE THE TRUE POWER SOURCE...GOD...THE NAME JESUS IS MOST POWERFUL..THE SCRIPTURE SAYS ABOVE ALL THINGS HE HAS EXHAULTED HIS NAME AND HIS WORD! GOLIATH CAME IN HIS OWN NAME..DAVID CAME IN THE NAME OF GOD... ITS FUNNY WHEN YOU CALL ON THE NAME OF CHRIST LIVE TO HONOR THE NAME OF CHRIST...IT BRINGS DOWN GIANTS A DISPLAYS A POWER IN YOUR LIFE THAT GIVES OTHER HOPE AND ENCOURAGEMENT..READ VERSE 52 AGAIN..PRAYER REQUEST- LORD HELP ME TO PLUG INTO YOU TODAY,,,STOP DOING THINGS IN MY OWN STRENGTH AND BE AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO THOSE AROUND ME WHO DO NOT KNOW OF YOUR GREAT NAME...AM
have you ever seen A BIG DUDE BEATING THE DAYLIGHTS OUT OF A LITTLE GUY..ITS NOT PLEASANT..YET MOST OF US WOULD SAY ..WE WOULD ACTUALLY STAND AROUND AND WATCH,,THATS THE WAY WE ARE WIRED!!! ITS IN OUR DNA..AND SOME OF US WOULD STANDING THERE BEGIN TO TAKE SIDES WITH THE LITTLE GUY,,GET HIM..MOVE TO THE RIGHT ..NOW HIT HIM!! MY FIRST DAY OF 5TH GRADE AT BATHROOM BREAK THE CLASS BULLY- YOU KNOW THE GUY..DESK NAILED TO THE TEACHERS DESK..FULL BEARD AT 11 AND KNUCKLES DRAGGING THE GROUND--HE HAULS OF AND BUST THIS KID IN THE JAW...HIS GLASSES WHIZ OF HIS HEAD,,HIS PLAID UMBRELLA SMACKS THE GROUND AND THE MOMENT IS FROZEN IN TIME..WITH EVERYONE LOOKING AT ME YELLING..STICK HIM!! I SHOWED WEAKNESS--I DID NOT STICK HIM! I MADE A MORTAL FOE THAT DAY WITH THE CLASS GIANT. SAME WITH ISREAL AND THE PHILISTINES... PLEASE READ/ 1 SAM 17:40-46 GOLIATH WAS TALKING MORE SMACK THAN MADIEA AT A FAMILY PICNIC...( DISCLAIMER:I NEVER SAW THAT MOVIE) THE REAL PROBLEM HERE IS LEADERSHIP AND FAITH. IF YOU HAVE FAITH..ONE DAY ITS JUST GOING TO BE TESTED,BECAUSE FAITH THAT CANNOT BE TESTED ..CANNOT BE TRUSTED...YOUR BELIEF IN GOD WILL COME TO THE TEST..MAYBE IT IS RIGHT NOW...AND YOU ARE GOING THROUGH SOMETHING THAT IS JUST DRAINING EVERY OUNCE OF YOUR THOUGHT WITH WORRY..AND THINGS JUST SEEM IMPOSSIBLE AND THERE IS NOTHING ANY ONE CAN SAY OR DO....PERFECT.THATS RIGHT WHERE ISREAL WAS...THEY HAD SO MUCH FAITH IN THERE PRECIOUS KING SAUL THAT IS WAS MIS APPROPRIATED AND STOLEN FROM GOD! I DO THAT TO..SO DO YOU...AND GOD ALLOWS THESE HUGE UGLY SITUATIONS TO COME IN...SO THERE IS JUST NO WAY WE CAN SAVE OURSELVES..AND WE GET TO WATCH HIM WORK...AND THEN WE GIVE HIM GLORY AND PUT HIM BACK ON THE THRONE....HE IS THE ONE AND ONLY....READ PSLAM 141.8 PRAYER REQUEST....LET GOD BE GOD...LET HIM TAKE THE THRONE..HELP ME LORD TO PUT MY FAITH BACK INTO YOU..NOT WAHT I SEE OR THINK AND MAY YOU BE GLORIFIED IN THIS DIFFICULT TIME WITH THE WAY I RESPOND TO YOU AND LET OTHERS SEE YOUR GLORY.
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