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This morning in Church I felt God calling me, he has a job for me to do. I don't know what or where it is yet. But please pray me to be open to the will of God.

Wow it's been a while....It hasn't been intentional but college starts, jobs have akward hours ect.......
Anyhoo...I really liked my pastor's message today..He preached from John 5

5 Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”
7 The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”
8 Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” 9 And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked.

what i love so much about this passage was that Jesus didn't care about why the man thought he couldn't be made well, he was only interested in making the man well....RISE....we Christians make up so many excuses as to why we can't do something
...sometimes it's something as simple as a handshake or a hug, much less be made well...Rise...If you think God has the solution to your problem(trust me he does) then you should act like it, talk like it, breath like it, eat like it, sleep like it, LIVE LIKE IT....Rise out of your negative attitude...GET UP...God's got the solution but you got to STEP UP, REACH OUT ,AND GRAB IT!!!!!!! If you want to be made well, don't roll around in it!!! GET UP...

I don't mean to be harsh, but God's love is simply to good to lay around in your problems, just get up grasp his gift



Matthew 7:7 (New International Version
Ask, Seek, Knock
7"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

yeah i haven't been too good with the updating recently

get up one morning look at the sky, and listen to the birds, and think about God.

i'm going back to myspace but by my rules

it's gonna be tight as a vault

so yeah i'll go ponder

Love is a huge theme of the bible, after all the bible does that God is love, but in our day and time love is so misunderstood and has been cheapened by the media, court system, and at sometimes even the Christian church.

Why is our divorce rate so high?
Why are so many teenage girls mothers?
Why are people turned away from the church?

Because of a lack of love......

You know every day on t.v. sitcoms there are unmarried couples who "love" each other, and so that makes it o.k. for them to go jump in the bed, you and I both know this isn't the truth, but so many are o.k. with this perception of love, it just isn't.

1 Corinthians 13 is the love(N.I.V)/Charity(K.J.V) chapter

(I looked it up: charity in the bible is widely considered to be the love between men or people, i was curious, so there we all go, and the word charity is defined as love in the dictionary)

But included in that chapter it states....Love (charity) is patient...hmmmm...If that aplies to love between man and women, which i am convinced it does, that means that love waits for the altar, so keep it in your pants buddy

Also in included in this chapter are statements that say even the gifts of God (tongues/testifying, and prophecy) are worthless without love, so if the very gifts of God are worthless without love, what is a church withoout love?


Charity suffereth long
and is kind
charity envieth not
charity vaunteth not itself
is not puffed up,
Doth not behave itself unseemly
seeketh not her own
is not easily provoked
thinketh no evil;
Rejoiceth not in iniquity
but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things
believeth all things
hopeth all things
endureth all things.
Charity never faileth
but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

so love is.....

mathew 6:34

Therefore do not worry about tommorrow, for tommorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

that's pretty simple yet so easy to ignore. I ask you all to pray for me,i've been having issues with stress(college, money,work) and it's hurting me in the physical,spiritual,and mental relms. and i urge you all to get your worries into place before you're in my shoes

Ok, my last update, was a good biblical definition of faith. My update for today is about a faith that's alive versus a faith that's dead...

What do you think dead faith is?

any guesses?

Dead faith is faith without works. The bible says so in James Chapter 2

James 2:15-17

What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? 15Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. 16If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? 17In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

Now don't get my wrong i don't believe that you can work your way into God's grace...If you had to work for it, it wouldn't be grace now would it? But it will do no one any good for you to say I believe and never act like it. When you live by faith and not by words, you will become a different person, you will step out of the comfort zone,give money you are not sure you can afford to give(your first ten percent), and give up your fleshly desires in order to be a good and FAITHful servant..So yeah i guess i'm done for today

This one is short and sweet my favorite bibical definition of faith

Hebrews 11:1 KJV

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

NIV

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

Message

The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It's our handle on what we can't see. The act of faith is what distinguished our ancestors, set them above the crowd.

This is a song i started writing while dealing with somethings, i decided to try and finish it in a way that glorified God and not my problems..

Wave a magic wand
and wish it all away
It ain't working now
and it didn't yesterday

Try to wash my hands
but it's all stains
i deny my guilt
but my conscience remains

only you have the power to wash my stains
only you have the mercy to ease my pains

You oh God, You alone, have the power to fix this broken dream

You oh God, will come to my aid, when to your glory i scream

And so i try my life
on the narrow trail
because it is right
to the name i hail

And when take a fall
because of my pride
to you i confess
and in you confide

only you have the power to wash my stains
only you have the mercy to ease my pains

You oh God, You alone, have the power to fix this broken dream

You oh God, will come to my aid, when to your glory i scream
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that's rough and incomplete i'm still working on the glue to get it togother just right musically, but tell me what you think

Lord, my god, in the morning
Show me how I can serve you today

Lord, my god, in the evening
Let my song rise up to you.

I know that you are holy,
I know that I’m unclean
And I’m afraid to come into your presence.
I know that I’m unworthy,
To call upon your name
From all the way down here.

So I say
Lift me up
From my lowly estate
Lift me up
Where I can see you clothed in majesty and light
(repeat)

If you’d saved even one man
Surely this is undeserved
But the saints by your mercy
Stand with you uncountable
Is this not amazing
Isn’t your name grace
Aren’t you the sovereign God of justice
Haven’t we offended
Did we not crucify
Guess that we can only wonder why

So I say
Lift me up
From my lowly estate
Lift me up
Where I can see you clothed in majesty and light