Sorry to my readers that it has been so long since I have posted!
I have been falling in love with the Bible by seeing it from a totally different perspective! I am reading the Bible the whole Bible in chronological order. From a little bit of Genesis to Job I have found a completely different way of understamding the scripture. The text is truly beautiful, the simple verses to the complicated that I have to read several times to understand it is so wonderful. I am addicted to the Bible. I used to not like Job but that was because I didn't fully understand the story. I highly recomend reading the Bible in chronilogical order. You will gain a comletely different understanding of the Bible. It's like that book that you can't put down because it is so deep and so wonderful!
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Where's the line to see Jesus?
Hello my lovely readers, I hope you have had a wonderful holiday so far! Sorry for the delay in posting I've been busy with many things over this holiday break.
But over this time I have had a lot of time to think about things and I had this video sent to me called "Where is the line to see Jesus". This song was about how parents go and take their child to see Santa and get the kids picture taken with him. However, where is the line to see Jesus? Never has crossed my mind. I mean I do know what the true meaning of Christmas is but to look at it that way. Wow! People around the world are worshipping SANTA!!!! Why??? He gives us presents... yes... But JESUS gave us the ULTIMATE GIFT.... FORGIVENESS! Now that is a gift! We should be worshipping God and giving glory to God. So think about this are you more focused on Santa and the presents under the tree instead of Jesus and the gift he gave us? I don't actually have a Bible verse to go with this besides the story of the birth of Jesus, but I hope you will take time out to read it!
Merry Christmas. God is love.
But over this time I have had a lot of time to think about things and I had this video sent to me called "Where is the line to see Jesus". This song was about how parents go and take their child to see Santa and get the kids picture taken with him. However, where is the line to see Jesus? Never has crossed my mind. I mean I do know what the true meaning of Christmas is but to look at it that way. Wow! People around the world are worshipping SANTA!!!! Why??? He gives us presents... yes... But JESUS gave us the ULTIMATE GIFT.... FORGIVENESS! Now that is a gift! We should be worshipping God and giving glory to God. So think about this are you more focused on Santa and the presents under the tree instead of Jesus and the gift he gave us? I don't actually have a Bible verse to go with this besides the story of the birth of Jesus, but I hope you will take time out to read it!
Merry Christmas. God is love.
Friday, December 16, 2011
What is love?
So.... " If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
(1 Corinthians 13 ESV)
Now this video is one that makes you think, like it makes you think about what love is and how you are to others.
Would you be willing to give up your life for your friends and family? Probably but, your enemies?
can you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKyLHzfa8ks&feature=share
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
(1 Corinthians 13 ESV)
Now this video is one that makes you think, like it makes you think about what love is and how you are to others.
Would you be willing to give up your life for your friends and family? Probably but, your enemies?
can you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKyLHzfa8ks&feature=share
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Ask and it will be given!
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
(Matthew 7:7-11 ESV)One thing I have learned is to not be afraid to ask God for things. He will listen and help. However, not always in the way we want Him to. He does what is best for us even though we may not understand. He always answers with one of the three answers: yes, no, or wait. Those answers I still have trouble understanding. I ask for a lot of things... and well maybe I am to anxious to get the answer. So: “Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!”
(Psalm 46:10 ESV)
Be still! And listen and trust Him!
Ask and find your answer! That's what I have been doing...especially this week.
Have a Blessed week!
God is Love.
(Matthew 7:7-11 ESV)One thing I have learned is to not be afraid to ask God for things. He will listen and help. However, not always in the way we want Him to. He does what is best for us even though we may not understand. He always answers with one of the three answers: yes, no, or wait. Those answers I still have trouble understanding. I ask for a lot of things... and well maybe I am to anxious to get the answer. So: “Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!”
(Psalm 46:10 ESV)
Be still! And listen and trust Him!
Ask and find your answer! That's what I have been doing...especially this week.
Have a Blessed week!
God is Love.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Giving thanks!
This past week was a hard week to face for many in my high school. This boy I have known since 7th grade passed on Friday. He had been battling brain cancer for several years and I watched this boy struggle through it. But the thing is I never saw him truly struggle! He always looked so happy always seemed to be able to find happiness and the good in all things. This young man was smart also, in advanced courses and all! But he lived his life to the fullest. Most of us take advantage of the life we have: good health, our family, friends, our home and clothes, etc. Earlier this month a students house burnt down another sad event that occurred. However, it seems like these events didn't touch some. Why don't we live life to the fullest? But most of all why aren't we thankful for what we have? Most of the time it seems we don't appreciate what we have until what we have is gone, till it is too late. And why just think about the things we are thankful on or around Thanksgiving? Why not everyday? God has blessed us with wonderful gifts! Thank him for giving you such wonderful things!
1 Praise the LORD! Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever! (Psalm 106:1)
Thank the Lord for the wonderful things he provides for you. Because no matter how bad things get God is still God and God is Good! He loves you no matter what! Thank Him for loving you! And because He loves you he provides things for you! So everyday we should be giving thanks for what we do have. Yes, there are things that we don't have that we want... But have you ever said thanks for the things he has provided you with? That is one thing I even have to do better at. God is love!
Have a blessed Thanksgiving!
1 Praise the LORD! Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever! (Psalm 106:1)
Thank the Lord for the wonderful things he provides for you. Because no matter how bad things get God is still God and God is Good! He loves you no matter what! Thank Him for loving you! And because He loves you he provides things for you! So everyday we should be giving thanks for what we do have. Yes, there are things that we don't have that we want... But have you ever said thanks for the things he has provided you with? That is one thing I even have to do better at. God is love!
Have a blessed Thanksgiving!
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Plans Up Ahead!
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile."
(Jeremiah 29:11-14)
One thing stressful to any high school Junior is college. We grow up preparing for it always trying to be perfect to get there. And now that it is here I am stressed. I keep asking myself where I am going next? What else do I do? How do I just leave, how does someone just leave the nest? These are questions I used to think I knew and I still do know. But now that I am preparing my final year and a half or so with my family and in high school I tend to get stressed. I thought I always knew what University I was going to apply for, where I wanted to go. But the question I left out was... What plan does God have for me? He already has a plan and here I have been almost changing it. So do I think I know where I am going? Yes. But I want to go there trusting the Lord to guide me. So trust the Lord. I know that can be scary but He has a plan! He has a plan far greater than we know! Pray to Him and He will listen to you. He will protect you. Don't be afraid of your future, it will be great, we all have an important purpose we just have to wait and see what it is! God is love.
(Jeremiah 29:11-14)
One thing stressful to any high school Junior is college. We grow up preparing for it always trying to be perfect to get there. And now that it is here I am stressed. I keep asking myself where I am going next? What else do I do? How do I just leave, how does someone just leave the nest? These are questions I used to think I knew and I still do know. But now that I am preparing my final year and a half or so with my family and in high school I tend to get stressed. I thought I always knew what University I was going to apply for, where I wanted to go. But the question I left out was... What plan does God have for me? He already has a plan and here I have been almost changing it. So do I think I know where I am going? Yes. But I want to go there trusting the Lord to guide me. So trust the Lord. I know that can be scary but He has a plan! He has a plan far greater than we know! Pray to Him and He will listen to you. He will protect you. Don't be afraid of your future, it will be great, we all have an important purpose we just have to wait and see what it is! God is love.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Beauty
Today, I am going to start out by giving you a few verses to think about.
"9likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, 10 but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works." ( 1 Timothy 2:9-10)
"3 Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— 4but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious." ( 1 Peter 3:3-4)
When you read these I hope you thought of yourself. As women of God how do we represent ourselves? Do people even recognize that we have a relationship with God? Now yes these can be looked at as oh, but that is in reference to marriage or others. However, " For the Maker is your husband the Lord of hosts is his name..." (Isaiah 54:5) So with that said why represent ourselves immodest? We represent Him people should look and think why is she so different? When we cover up ourselves in fancy clothes and make-up we hide who God made us to be. When we wear inappropriate clothes we make ourselves look impure, even if we are not. Ladies, we get it all wrong! We are all beautiful! With our good works and godliness and big heart we are beautiful! People recognize this beauty! We are all beautiful inside and out but when we dress out of control and cake on make up we hide that beauty we hide the most unique things about ourselves. And remember, "7 You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you." (Song of Solomon 4:7) I walk around a high school and see the generation I live in hide their
beauty like there is something to be ashamed of. We shouldn't be ashamed to be God's child. I hope that women can realize how beautiful they really are.
God is Love.
"9likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, 10 but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works." ( 1 Timothy 2:9-10)
"3 Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— 4but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious." ( 1 Peter 3:3-4)
When you read these I hope you thought of yourself. As women of God how do we represent ourselves? Do people even recognize that we have a relationship with God? Now yes these can be looked at as oh, but that is in reference to marriage or others. However, " For the Maker is your husband the Lord of hosts is his name..." (Isaiah 54:5) So with that said why represent ourselves immodest? We represent Him people should look and think why is she so different? When we cover up ourselves in fancy clothes and make-up we hide who God made us to be. When we wear inappropriate clothes we make ourselves look impure, even if we are not. Ladies, we get it all wrong! We are all beautiful! With our good works and godliness and big heart we are beautiful! People recognize this beauty! We are all beautiful inside and out but when we dress out of control and cake on make up we hide that beauty we hide the most unique things about ourselves. And remember, "7 You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you." (Song of Solomon 4:7) I walk around a high school and see the generation I live in hide their
beauty like there is something to be ashamed of. We shouldn't be ashamed to be God's child. I hope that women can realize how beautiful they really are.
God is Love.
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