The word 'no' is a very simple word. It is made up of two letters, N and O. They are even right beside each other in the Alphabet. The word "no" cna be a very dangerous word though. If you say it to anyone a whole string on consiquences are likely to follow. Especially if you say it to God.
Saying 'no' to God is somethign that we do on a regular basis, wether we are christians or not. We always try to say "yes" and sometimes we say no without even noticing, but we all use the word no. This is very dangerous water we are treading though. We say no and then ask why there are bad things happening. Here is an example. Say you had a cookie tin, and in that cookie tin was your favorite kind of cookie. It is before supper and you asked your mom if you could have a cookie. She says you can have one, but after you eat it, you decide that they are soo good and that you can't help buyt eat another. Then two becomes more and more and more until you get sick. They you have to tell your mom what you did and face the consequences. This is a mild example, but what I the Holy Spirit tells you to do something? If the Holy Spirit tells you to do something and you don't do it, it could be a life you are losing to hell and not just risking a stomach ache.
That is our nature though. We say no because it won't benefit us and it won't help us in anyway. I know a person, we will call him "Calvin." Well, I know someone named "calvin" and Calvin and my family were going to help move a frind of ours. Calvin had 2 friends named "Nick and Murray" and they were going to come and help too, but right before we all left to help, Calvin, Nick, and Murray decided not to help because there was no gain to it, another friend named "Imelda" had to bribe them into helping with a trip to a restaurant. That is our human nature though. We say no unless it helps us.
We also have to be listening to God though. If we are not listening, we cannot hear, and we cannot do. It is hard to listen sometimes and I still haven't really know if what I was hearing was my thoughts or Him, but we have to listen and we have to always try and never give up. We have to be willing to listen and to do what he tells us. Are you listening?
Friday, March 16, 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Ignorance is Not Bliss
It is interesting that with many things we do, it usually backfires on us. Even notice that? And ever notice how when you ask God to help you with it, it doesn't back fire? That is because He loves us and nothing we can do can change that. But we don't really asee that, so in return for his love, we act like animals to him. We run away down the wrong path and we sin agianst Him constantly. We are like dogs in fron t of Him. Maybe not all the time but for a approxomately 99.99% of the time. We do what we want all the time and usually don't even consider God. I have been like that. Dogs like to whine at evrything and we were tqalking about whining in my sunday school class on Sunday. We were doing an experiment and seeing how many times we whined in a week. I whined alot. I am one of the biggest whiners that I know and I complain constantly. I am like a whining dog in front of God, and that does bold well because no one likes a whining dog.
After saying that, is there a way that we can stop being like dogs in front of God? Not by ourselves I can asure you. We need the power of Christ and the Holy Spirit if we really want to change and since we ae in front of God, whining, we really do need a change. People don't really think about it, but we are in front of God right now and all the time. We stand thaere and we whine and we act like animals in front of the king of kings. It is embarrasing if you think about it. We are making fools of ourselves in front of the Master of the Universe! I can tell you it makes me sheepish when you think about that part. But He loves us, so it doesn't matter if we feel sheepish or not, he will never let us go.
We are liek whining dogs in front of God and we are also ingratful. We take everything for granted and never really understand that amount of stuff that God has given us. We just sit there and go along but we never really do anything. God made the world for us and he knew we were going to muck it uip, but he still gave us a chance! We don't even care though. We can't do anythign that God doesn't see and know and we can't think anything that God doesn't hear. He knows us better than anyone and for all He has done for us, all He wants is not only to be the God and Masters of our lives, but also to be our friends and companions. That is one way that we can appreciate all the things that he has done for us.
After saying that, is there a way that we can stop being like dogs in front of God? Not by ourselves I can asure you. We need the power of Christ and the Holy Spirit if we really want to change and since we ae in front of God, whining, we really do need a change. People don't really think about it, but we are in front of God right now and all the time. We stand thaere and we whine and we act like animals in front of the king of kings. It is embarrasing if you think about it. We are making fools of ourselves in front of the Master of the Universe! I can tell you it makes me sheepish when you think about that part. But He loves us, so it doesn't matter if we feel sheepish or not, he will never let us go.
We are liek whining dogs in front of God and we are also ingratful. We take everything for granted and never really understand that amount of stuff that God has given us. We just sit there and go along but we never really do anything. God made the world for us and he knew we were going to muck it uip, but he still gave us a chance! We don't even care though. We can't do anythign that God doesn't see and know and we can't think anything that God doesn't hear. He knows us better than anyone and for all He has done for us, all He wants is not only to be the God and Masters of our lives, but also to be our friends and companions. That is one way that we can appreciate all the things that he has done for us.
Friday, March 2, 2012
Who let the dogs out?
Being a Christian is a big responsibility. We are the ones who have to show the peopel of this lost world the way to Jesus. That is a big job. And He is the one who leads us and helps us to show those people the love of God, but can I ask you a question (besides the one I just asked)? When you serve God to please Him, is it because of guilt because all the things that he did for you, or is it because of grace because he loves and died for you? For me, the answer is grace. Jesus loved me so much that he would die for me so that I could live and I will serve Him.
Indirectly, this bring up another question. When you serve God, are you doing by yourself? Are you trying to spread the Word of Gof by yourself? Because I will tell you right now, you will fail. The Holy Spirit is in enabler and you need Him to help you. I weord for God with the help of the Holy Spirit. I asked him to come live in me and now we are buddies. I rely on Him to help me through the trials and to help me spread the word about him.
Now that we have that covered, we have to work on the mission field. In my church before it got painted, there use to be a sign over the door on the inside that said "You are now entering the mission field." This is true. There are many christians who think that the church is the mission field but when God cam into the worl, he preached in the towns and the countries to teh people, but not to the people in teh church. He siad to the Parisees "Why would you heal the ones who are not sick?" He is saying, why preach tot eh peopel who know the word? We are supposed to spred the word with the people who do not know him. Do you have people in your life who needs to hear the word of God? I do. I have friends and Family who need to to hear the word of God and it is my job to help them hear. By the Grace of God.
Indirectly, this bring up another question. When you serve God, are you doing by yourself? Are you trying to spread the Word of Gof by yourself? Because I will tell you right now, you will fail. The Holy Spirit is in enabler and you need Him to help you. I weord for God with the help of the Holy Spirit. I asked him to come live in me and now we are buddies. I rely on Him to help me through the trials and to help me spread the word about him.
Now that we have that covered, we have to work on the mission field. In my church before it got painted, there use to be a sign over the door on the inside that said "You are now entering the mission field." This is true. There are many christians who think that the church is the mission field but when God cam into the worl, he preached in the towns and the countries to teh people, but not to the people in teh church. He siad to the Parisees "Why would you heal the ones who are not sick?" He is saying, why preach tot eh peopel who know the word? We are supposed to spred the word with the people who do not know him. Do you have people in your life who needs to hear the word of God? I do. I have friends and Family who need to to hear the word of God and it is my job to help them hear. By the Grace of God.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Help is on the way
How do you feel when you know someone is praying for you? I know that I feel more secure and usually feel better because I know someone cares and is asking the Lord Almighty to help me. What if I told you that Jesus was praying for you? Just jumped a league here. Jesus praying for you?!!! Exciting and impossibly cool beyond repair. To have the master of the universe praying for you and to have Him fighting on your side is amazing and wounderous beyond comprehension. That's how I feel about it anyway. Whaty about you?
After answering that question, I'll ask you another. What about the way you pray? I tend to pray in my head. Usually because I think I'll fumble it up and say a bad pray. That iis silly of me because there are no bad prayers but I still feel like that. I pray to Jesus in my mind and usually I ask for something. I very rarely talk to Him as the friend he is. I need to change that, and now that it finaaly clicked that JESUS is PRAYING for ME!! It kind of got kicked up a gear. With the knowledge that the Master of the Universe praying for you, you kind of get excited, and pray like never before.
Now we get to the hard question. What about sharing your faith? Jesus is praying for you and he gives you the power to share your faith so now all you have to do it go out and do it. I usually am shy and am afraid to share my faith most of the time but with God on your side, how can you lose? Sharing your faith is important, and with Jesus' help, I am going to! Here is a Christian school, the problems like that don't really arise, but there is a starving world out there just waiting for it so why not give it to them. I am inspired to share my faith will those who are lost and with Jesus praying for me, I can and WILL do it!
After answering that question, I'll ask you another. What about the way you pray? I tend to pray in my head. Usually because I think I'll fumble it up and say a bad pray. That iis silly of me because there are no bad prayers but I still feel like that. I pray to Jesus in my mind and usually I ask for something. I very rarely talk to Him as the friend he is. I need to change that, and now that it finaaly clicked that JESUS is PRAYING for ME!! It kind of got kicked up a gear. With the knowledge that the Master of the Universe praying for you, you kind of get excited, and pray like never before.
Now we get to the hard question. What about sharing your faith? Jesus is praying for you and he gives you the power to share your faith so now all you have to do it go out and do it. I usually am shy and am afraid to share my faith most of the time but with God on your side, how can you lose? Sharing your faith is important, and with Jesus' help, I am going to! Here is a Christian school, the problems like that don't really arise, but there is a starving world out there just waiting for it so why not give it to them. I am inspired to share my faith will those who are lost and with Jesus praying for me, I can and WILL do it!
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
I'm a Loser Baby
Being a "loser" in the eyes of the world is a very easy thing to do. If you wear the wrong things, or say somehting that peopel don't like to hear or give to the poor or something, you are considered to be a "loser." The world isn't everything though. There is something a whole lot better than the world, and that is Jesus. Having said that Jesus is better, what would Jesus say to the same situation. I guarantee that he wouldn't call you a "loser" I don't even think that word is in His vocabulary but I am fairly sure that He would say "Back off World. You have no hold on them because they ae mine and they are beautiful, loved, and prescious in my eyes." The world would scoff at this, and keep trying to persude you to become a "winner" for the world or just stay a loser. To be a winner in the world is to be rich and famous and have everything for yourself, but didn't Jesus say "Blessed are those that have few for they will be given much"? Think about it. Who is it better to be a winner for?
Having said that, what is considered a "winner" in the eyes of God? Well, I'm not going to presume I know what God you say about it but to me being a winner for God... is like what Jesus did. You help the poor and the needy and spread God's word and bring other peopel to the Lord. This won't get you into Heaven, and asking Him to come and be your savior is definatly part of being a "winner" for God, but I think being a winner involes helping peopel and teaching them the ways of the Lord.
After that, can I ask a question. How do you feel when you d things like that? Probably good inside. But what if you are having the most rotten day in teh world where everything just seems to be going wrong? How do you feel then? Well, what if you were on a team of somesort and you had the biggest game ever and the other team was really strong and really good, and you knew you were just going to get killed. Then suddenly, Jesus comes and joins your team and turns it into a massacre for the other team. How would you feel then. A bad day which suddenly turns into a good day beyond belief. I feel great after days like that. As if nothing could be better. What about you?
Having said that, what is considered a "winner" in the eyes of God? Well, I'm not going to presume I know what God you say about it but to me being a winner for God... is like what Jesus did. You help the poor and the needy and spread God's word and bring other peopel to the Lord. This won't get you into Heaven, and asking Him to come and be your savior is definatly part of being a "winner" for God, but I think being a winner involes helping peopel and teaching them the ways of the Lord.
After that, can I ask a question. How do you feel when you d things like that? Probably good inside. But what if you are having the most rotten day in teh world where everything just seems to be going wrong? How do you feel then? Well, what if you were on a team of somesort and you had the biggest game ever and the other team was really strong and really good, and you knew you were just going to get killed. Then suddenly, Jesus comes and joins your team and turns it into a massacre for the other team. How would you feel then. A bad day which suddenly turns into a good day beyond belief. I feel great after days like that. As if nothing could be better. What about you?
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Sleepy Saints
There are manyu Christians today who do not understand the goodness or the power of God. In that, the move away from Him and gradually become more and more distant until they can no longer even remember what He is like. Then they jsut drift along on a woeful life with nothing to do or say to anyone with no faith, for they have lost their own. What if this was true for everyone? What if noone had the Holy Spirit living in them or Jesus to save them? It would be a really empty world, let me tell you. Without God in our lives, there is really no point in getting up everyday and doing things, because without God, they are all meaningless and we can't even do things right without the help of God so they would also be failures. Think about it... What would your life be without God. Mine would be a meaningless dump.
After having said this, I want to ask you a question that my pastors askes my congrigation offened. "If being a Christians was against the law, would there be enough evidence to convict you?" This question is a pretty steep one and it had... haunted me for a long time. It has done this because for me, i am not sure of the answer. Would I be convicted? Would they not see Him through me and let me go because He does not seem to be in me? I am unsure of the answer and it troubles me, but what about you? Do you know the answer? Would you be set free or would you go to jail as a believer? What do your family and friends say about it? I don't know what mine say, but what abut you? Do people tell you that they can see Him working through you?
This is a very important question with a very important answer to your life. It also helps us to stay "spiritually awake" in the Lord so our fire for Him does not extinguish. How can we nake sure of this though? How can we stay awake for the Lord? Even in Luke in the garden of Gasemene the disciples fell asleep because they are just as worldly as we are. We have to stay awake in the Lord though, and a good way to do that is to pray. Jesus asked his disciples to pray with Him to stay awake, and this is what we must do.
After having said this, I want to ask you a question that my pastors askes my congrigation offened. "If being a Christians was against the law, would there be enough evidence to convict you?" This question is a pretty steep one and it had... haunted me for a long time. It has done this because for me, i am not sure of the answer. Would I be convicted? Would they not see Him through me and let me go because He does not seem to be in me? I am unsure of the answer and it troubles me, but what about you? Do you know the answer? Would you be set free or would you go to jail as a believer? What do your family and friends say about it? I don't know what mine say, but what abut you? Do people tell you that they can see Him working through you?
This is a very important question with a very important answer to your life. It also helps us to stay "spiritually awake" in the Lord so our fire for Him does not extinguish. How can we nake sure of this though? How can we stay awake for the Lord? Even in Luke in the garden of Gasemene the disciples fell asleep because they are just as worldly as we are. We have to stay awake in the Lord though, and a good way to do that is to pray. Jesus asked his disciples to pray with Him to stay awake, and this is what we must do.
Sleepy Saints
There are manyu Christians today who do not understand the goodness or the power of God. In that, the move away from Him and gradually become more and more distant until they can no longer even remember what He is like. Then they jsut drift along on a woeful life with nothing to do or say to anyone with no faith, for they have lost their own. What if this was true for everyone? What if noone had the Holy Spirit living in them or Jesus to save them? It would be a really empty world, let me tell you. Without God in our lives, there is really no point in getting up everyday and doing things, because without God, they are all meaningless and we can't even do things right without the help of God so they would also be failures. Think about it... What would your life be without God. Mine would be a meaningless dump.
After having said this, I want to ask you a question that my pastors askes my congrigation offened. "If being a Christians was against the law, would there be enough evidence to convict you?" This question is a pretty steep one and it had... haunted me for a long time. It has done this because for me, i am not sure of the answer. Would I be convicted? Would they not see Him through me and let me go because He does not seem to be in me? I am unsure of the answer and it troubles me, but what about you? Do you know the answer? Would you be set free or would you go to jail as a believer? What do your family and friends say about it? I don't know what mine say, but what abut you? Do people tell you that they can see Him working through you?
This is a very important question with a very important answer to your life. It also helps us to stay "spiritually awake" in the Lord so our fire for Him does not extinguish. How can we nake sure of this though? How can we stay awake for the Lord? Even in Luke in the garden of Gasemene the disciples fell asleep because they are just as worldly as we are. We have to stay awake in the Lord though, and a good way to do that is to pray. Jesus asked his disciples to pray with Him to stay awake, and this is what we must do.
After having said this, I want to ask you a question that my pastors askes my congrigation offened. "If being a Christians was against the law, would there be enough evidence to convict you?" This question is a pretty steep one and it had... haunted me for a long time. It has done this because for me, i am not sure of the answer. Would I be convicted? Would they not see Him through me and let me go because He does not seem to be in me? I am unsure of the answer and it troubles me, but what about you? Do you know the answer? Would you be set free or would you go to jail as a believer? What do your family and friends say about it? I don't know what mine say, but what abut you? Do people tell you that they can see Him working through you?
This is a very important question with a very important answer to your life. It also helps us to stay "spiritually awake" in the Lord so our fire for Him does not extinguish. How can we nake sure of this though? How can we stay awake for the Lord? Even in Luke in the garden of Gasemene the disciples fell asleep because they are just as worldly as we are. We have to stay awake in the Lord though, and a good way to do that is to pray. Jesus asked his disciples to pray with Him to stay awake, and this is what we must do.
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