Been Choping too Hard?

In my life, I am not spenging enough time with God as I really should. I should spend an hour every day and read the bible and pray but it gets increaingly hard, and not nessecarily becuase I don't want to, or because I don't have the time. It is more because I get ditracted by worldly things and most of the time the worldly things seem a lot better and more fun than spending time with God. That is not true, but sometimes it really seems like it. I do spend time with God though. I read my bible and pray, but not as much as I would really like to.

There are lots of other Christians like that though. It is like our axes have become dull. So we need God to sharpen them for us, and the only way we can do that is by spending timw with him. We need to spend time with the Lord because without Him we are nothing but people who the world frowns upon with no real power. We have a God that can change that though. God can sharpen our axes so we no longer have to sit around and mope because no one is listening to us. We need to spend time with God so He can sharpen our axes.

My spiritual life is not as good as I would like it to be. I try to spend time with God but it is not easy. I try to pray, read the bible, listen to God and worship him, but when I do, I really should be alone and away. Away from all distractions and things that might lead me away from what I really need to do. If I were to do all those things on a regular basis, my relationship with God would be better, and it would work for you as well. So I challange you, go somewhere alone and spend time with God. No inturuptions, no ditractions, just go and be with Him.

A Message You Can't Afford to Miss Question 3

If I recieved this e-mail from the devil today, I would be real mad at him. I don't think I would even give his the courtesy of write back to him. Wait... That's what he would want me to do. So I think I will write back to him, but not before I prayed to God to help all the people who are not christians. I would pray to God to help me and other Christians to be strong and to get more disicples for him. Then I would pray for the nonchristians so God could help them to do it. Then I would write back.
I would say
"Hi Satan,
Feeling good aren't you. Well... you can stop. I just asked God to help me be strong and not to be tempted by you. I just asked God to help the other Christians to do the same and to go out to the nations to make disicples for him. Thought I was a fool? Well you were the one who go tkicked out of heaven because you thought you would be a better god than God! So, just to let you know, no hard feelings ok? I mean it was a rotten thing that you did, but I ended up leaving so, it's all good.
Bye for now,
Katie"

That is what I would say to Satan if he sent me that e-mail.

Are you in the Lord's Army?

I am very passionate about the cause of the Lord. When we go to battle I want to do the most for my Lord as to show that the enemy is nothing compared to him. I want to do what I can for the Lord is this fight but sometimes it is very hard to start. Also, there is the enemy camp who, at the beginning, just captures you. They lure you in and get you to think that maybe you too good for God and that one their side you can be better then anyone and do what ever you want. It is our human nature to want that and without God, we can't refuse it. We need to be in the Lord's  army to be able to escape the captivity. If not, we are lost forever.

I my opinion, I think that by Satan's point of view, I might be a prisoner on teh verge of escaping and rejoining my army. I try to do the things that the Lord wants we too and by that giving myself back to God and therefore escaping the Devil's claim on me. He is nothing compared to our Lord and even though he is more powerful than me or anyone else but God, God is more powerful, so why should I follow the Devil? It makes no sense. Lots of people do it though and I think that might be a reason. Peer preasure. It pulls is in and we can't have that, so we need to break free and go back to Jesus.

In the battle for the Lord, if we are a prisoner we need to get back into the fight. The one way to do that is to accept Jesus back into your life or even do it for the first time. Then you read your bible and pray and listen to God and do what he is telling you. Then you are back in teh fight on the front lines. Ready to fight, but also to take a knee in prayer. In the battle we must not be too eager to fight, nor must we be too hesitant.

Ignorance is Bliss - Response

I my opinion, the video "Ignorance is Bliss" is very sad bu t it is also very real to today's world. There are people like the man who commited suicide, who we meet on the street and we say nothing to them, but if we had them might have thought beter or themselves and would not have done what they did. They might have decided that their lives were worth it and would have stayed alive.

"Ignorance is Bliss" is a very fitting title for this film and for the world in general. We are ignorant of the things and the lives of the people around us. We are totally absored and we are happy about. We are ignorant and in that ignorance we are bliss. I find that an almost sickenign thing but that does not make it any less true. We don't see the need around us and when we do, most of the time we chose to ignore is saying "Oh, it's not my problem" or "someone else will come along and do it" or "Why should I? I don't even know this person. Well, I say to you "Get to know the person. It is your responsibility. We are brothers and sisters in the Christ even if they aren't a Christian. As Cain asked God once he had killed Able, "Where is your brother?" and Cain asked him "How should I know? I am my brother's keeper?" The answer is yes. You are Cain. We are. All of us are responsible for each other to teach, to love, and to care for one another.