Philippians 4:4
Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should.
When I feel like I am not moving in my walk with the Lord, I pray one simple prayer. And after I pray this, I better have my seatbelt on and be buckled up with the Lord because I know it's going to be a bumpy ride!
I pray: "Lord, help me find something I need to work on, something that will better my life so that I can live more for you and convict me of what I need to do to be more like you."
Oh boy, does the Lord answer....
So, I prayed that this week. Ha! oh I think about it now.... and ugh! honestly, I'm exhausted! I know that in the end, it will be good, I am going to use the Lord to help me get through all of this that has been placed on my heart. He will help me, I know it.
2 Corinthians 5:15
And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
Philippians 2:5
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus.
My seatbelt is on, and My God is at my right hand! (Psalm 16:8!)
Luke 22:42
Father, if you are willing.... yet not my will, but yours be done.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Class
Taking a religion class in college.... what an undertaking!
I am in a Modern Spiritual Masters Class that is centered around Roman Catholicism Masters.....
If I have learned anything in the class, it is that I believe MORE in my beliefs and have justified reasons for them. Sometime I will be reading and I will actually agree with the Masters. In the reading I have to do for class on Tuesday, I ended up actually agreeing with three things of Flannery O'Connor.
1) Acknowledgment of Christ
"To acknowledge Christ means acknowledging himself as a sinner."
Romans 3:23-24
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
2) Action of Christian's life
"The creative action of the Christian's life is to prepare his death in Christ."
Luke 9:23
The he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me."
3) Hell
"Hell is what God's love becomes to those who reject it. Now no one has to reject it. God made us to love Him. It takes two to love. It takes liberty. It takes the right to reject. If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity. And remember the mercy of God. It is easy to put this down as a formula and hard to believe it, but try believing the opposite, and you will find it too easy. Life has no meaning that way.... "
Woah! After I read that, I ended up reading it again, and again! it just clarified sooo much! Especially since in class, with is all discussion based, we have had the debate on if everyone is going to heaven or not.... and I was like, "no!" and everyone else but one other sister of me where like, "Yes!" but after reading this paragraph, it just helps me translate so much to those who don't believe!
The question to ask the non-believers (thanks to Tom Short) : If you were wrong, would you want to know it?
I am in a Modern Spiritual Masters Class that is centered around Roman Catholicism Masters.....
If I have learned anything in the class, it is that I believe MORE in my beliefs and have justified reasons for them. Sometime I will be reading and I will actually agree with the Masters. In the reading I have to do for class on Tuesday, I ended up actually agreeing with three things of Flannery O'Connor.
1) Acknowledgment of Christ
"To acknowledge Christ means acknowledging himself as a sinner."
Romans 3:23-24
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
2) Action of Christian's life
"The creative action of the Christian's life is to prepare his death in Christ."
Luke 9:23
The he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me."
3) Hell
"Hell is what God's love becomes to those who reject it. Now no one has to reject it. God made us to love Him. It takes two to love. It takes liberty. It takes the right to reject. If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity. And remember the mercy of God. It is easy to put this down as a formula and hard to believe it, but try believing the opposite, and you will find it too easy. Life has no meaning that way.... "
Woah! After I read that, I ended up reading it again, and again! it just clarified sooo much! Especially since in class, with is all discussion based, we have had the debate on if everyone is going to heaven or not.... and I was like, "no!" and everyone else but one other sister of me where like, "Yes!" but after reading this paragraph, it just helps me translate so much to those who don't believe!
The question to ask the non-believers (thanks to Tom Short) : If you were wrong, would you want to know it?
Thursday, April 16, 2009
The want to be poor
Proverbs 13:8
A man's riches may ransom his life,
but a poor man hears no threat.
"Rich" or "wealthy" people are living for what they have. If they were to lose it, what do they have left? Nothing but themselves. Yet, if a poor man has nothing, his heart and life are not put into his possessions. If he loses the very little he has, he has no reason to weep and mourn the loss. He really didn't lose much, just the little he had. The poor man must have his heart set on something else, like God.... With his heart being on God, if he were to loss all of his "stuff" he would still have his God. In the end, everything that doesn't believe in God burns up.... so in the end, who really wins?!
Luke 12:34
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
A man's riches may ransom his life,
but a poor man hears no threat.
"Rich" or "wealthy" people are living for what they have. If they were to lose it, what do they have left? Nothing but themselves. Yet, if a poor man has nothing, his heart and life are not put into his possessions. If he loses the very little he has, he has no reason to weep and mourn the loss. He really didn't lose much, just the little he had. The poor man must have his heart set on something else, like God.... With his heart being on God, if he were to loss all of his "stuff" he would still have his God. In the end, everything that doesn't believe in God burns up.... so in the end, who really wins?!
Luke 12:34
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Friday, April 10, 2009
sins gone
The cross did what sacrificed lambs could not do.
It erased our sins,
not for a year,
but for eternity.
Hebrews 9:12
He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood.
It erased our sins,
not for a year,
but for eternity.
Hebrews 9:12
He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood.
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