Haha yeah we all know that. The world lies to us all the time. We Christians know that as much as we know we are saved. Yet I find myself sometimes falling into lies that are the most ludicrous, most insanely stupid lies ever, and I believe them because something in my life doesn't make sense.
One I believed for a while was this simple, yet I had never verbalized it before: "God provides for the needs of all His children except your own emotional needs, because you have a special way of distancing yourself unwillingly from God."
Break that down.
Now laugh at it. It's dumb. It has no way of being true at all!
But we still have a way of believing it, even when we know it's wrong. WHY???
Because the human mind works that way. If we tell ourselves there is no solution, we will not be able to understand or accept one when it comes. And the truth is, "There is always a solution".
I am really happy right now.
Because God showed me something! He showed me that He invented success, beauty, all those things everyone seeks to achieve. He then showed me that the world has lied to everyone. It has said that success is doing well, and getting money/fame/dreams-come-true. But no! To be completely true, there is nothing farther than the truth. When people say success, what they are talking about is actually what comes with success. Success, is what we have because of what He paid. Success is what He gave us. It is the victory over sin and death. It is the life we have in Him. And when we believe we have success, we get the things the world calls success. Same with beauty. And life.
That brings me to the idea of faith.
For a long time I thought faith was forcing yourself to believe in something so that it would exist, or work, or whatever. But again, God showed me how the world lied to be about that one. He said that faith is believing in the solution you cannot yet see. It is definitely there, but if we don't actually act upon its existence, we will never see it.
Like success, again, when we believe that success is who we are, not what we do or gain, then we are able to gain what the world thinks is success. Blessing. Favor. Love. Life.
I'm not revising this one, unless someone comments and lets me know of something that needs it. :)
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Doing what you were made for
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, everything in them, and us, Mankind. We know this, but what was God's purpose for the beautiful people He created? To tend the garden, or to create an entire race? Well, what is it that they did right from the start? The thing that stopped when they ate the fruit?
They walked with God in the garden.
They talked with God in the garden.
They ate with God, worked with God, loved Him and loved each other.
They lived in close friendship with God Almighty!
So, then they were deceived into thinking that they could become more like God than they already were! How ludicrous! They were created in His image, and in His likeness! But, in the end, they ate the fruit, and saw their shame. They didn't know who the God Judge was, but they knew His glory and holiness apparently, because as soon as they saw their shame, they were afraid of God. Their best Friend, who had made them, loved them, and gave them each other and the entire world for their enjoyment.
But this fruit (and the decision with it) brought sin into the human race. It placed it in his DNA. When you were born, you were a sinner. Your parents (hopefully) didn't have to teach you to be selfish or rude, that was your natural tenancy.
So, when Jesus was crucified, and we were crucified with Him (Gal. 2:20) we are now dead in that sense, so sin has no power over us! This is good news! But wait, if what Jesus did reversed the curse in the sense of us humans, why do we Christians still walk as though sin has power, or that we have to wait till we die to see Him and know Him?
Do we really believe in Jesus? Do we actually expect to see Him how we did in the garden? Do we understand that He is walking with us now, through life, and is able to hear us and to respond to us?
Now, in one sense we walk by faith and not by sight. We will not always just see Jesus from the moment we put our trust in Him to the day we die. In fact, I would say that most people have not seen Jesus at all, let alone more than once.
So, if Jesus' death and resurrection defeated the curse, defeated sin, defeated death, why aren't we back to our state like it was in the garden? What was so important about how we lived then that cause Jesus to die? He didn't restore us to a place without weeds. He hasn't physically walked with us in a way where we can see Him. So what was the most important thing about the garden? What did He restore?
Friendship. Intimacy. Hope. Destiny. Life.
This week, as you go about your lives, when you think about this, just ask Him to show you really what He has done for you. What is different about you before and after you believed? What has He set you free from? Are we still holding on to things in our lives that are hindering us from seeing Him more clearly in our lives? Are we really, truly, completely free from sin?
If He tells you awesome things, feel free to share! You can comment below anytime.
They walked with God in the garden.
They talked with God in the garden.
They ate with God, worked with God, loved Him and loved each other.
They lived in close friendship with God Almighty!
So, then they were deceived into thinking that they could become more like God than they already were! How ludicrous! They were created in His image, and in His likeness! But, in the end, they ate the fruit, and saw their shame. They didn't know who the God Judge was, but they knew His glory and holiness apparently, because as soon as they saw their shame, they were afraid of God. Their best Friend, who had made them, loved them, and gave them each other and the entire world for their enjoyment.
But this fruit (and the decision with it) brought sin into the human race. It placed it in his DNA. When you were born, you were a sinner. Your parents (hopefully) didn't have to teach you to be selfish or rude, that was your natural tenancy.
So, when Jesus was crucified, and we were crucified with Him (Gal. 2:20) we are now dead in that sense, so sin has no power over us! This is good news! But wait, if what Jesus did reversed the curse in the sense of us humans, why do we Christians still walk as though sin has power, or that we have to wait till we die to see Him and know Him?
Do we really believe in Jesus? Do we actually expect to see Him how we did in the garden? Do we understand that He is walking with us now, through life, and is able to hear us and to respond to us?
Now, in one sense we walk by faith and not by sight. We will not always just see Jesus from the moment we put our trust in Him to the day we die. In fact, I would say that most people have not seen Jesus at all, let alone more than once.
So, if Jesus' death and resurrection defeated the curse, defeated sin, defeated death, why aren't we back to our state like it was in the garden? What was so important about how we lived then that cause Jesus to die? He didn't restore us to a place without weeds. He hasn't physically walked with us in a way where we can see Him. So what was the most important thing about the garden? What did He restore?
Friendship. Intimacy. Hope. Destiny. Life.
This week, as you go about your lives, when you think about this, just ask Him to show you really what He has done for you. What is different about you before and after you believed? What has He set you free from? Are we still holding on to things in our lives that are hindering us from seeing Him more clearly in our lives? Are we really, truly, completely free from sin?
If He tells you awesome things, feel free to share! You can comment below anytime.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
WE LIFT YOU UP!!!!!
Above our feelings. WE LIFT YOU UP!!!! Above our failures, above our victories, above our emotions, above what the world says, above all! WE LIFT YOU UP!!!!!!!
Thursday, January 31, 2013
I am different...
Wow... I um... The Holy spirit is soo thick in this room right now. I don't think I am ready for this, but here it goes! I was in the car and God was really speaking to me , about how so many times I feel like hardly anybody understands. They don't know how I feel about Jesus. These post aren't emotion or another one of Tyler's freakish, AHAHAHAAAAHAHHHH!!! JESUS!!!!!! Post. Jesus is doing something guys, He is real! Not just for me... John 17:24 says "Father, I desire that those whom You gave Me will be with where I am, That they may behold my glory, which You have given me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the earth." Thats pretty amazing. I suggest you read verses 20-26, to get a much deeper meaning behind what I am trying to say. Look guys, you are not going to find encounter with God through me, or what I say. It is only through Christ Love!!! If you read those verses, you now know (because of scripture, not what I say) That JESUS LOVES YOU JUST AS MUCH AS GOD LOVED THE SON!!!! His only begotten Son... Aahhh I dont even know where I am going with this. Okay... Ephesians 1:4-5... If you dont have your Bible with you, then you wont get very much out of this, because then its what Tyler says, but what He says! So, You were chosen... got that straight? Good. He LOVES YOU!!! I cannot stress that enough. BTW! News flash! Please test everything I say against THE BIBLE! ... None of its wrong... Haha! =) So... Ahhh.... I have no I dea what I am saying! Jesus COME!!! Your Life is hidden in Christ. You are set apart! Different... PERFECT! You are pure through the Blood! (1 John) Cool...
You guys realize, I mess up... a lot... and its ok...
Its all just words unless you know Him... Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness... So, If I din't have my life completely wrecked by God... This wouldn't mean anything. Yes I would be like cool, yeah, I agree with all that. It wouldn't mean anything... at all...
HERES MY POINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It would just be words, It would just be another song, it would just be another day, it would just be another Bible verse, I would just be another person, He would just be another God... Unless I knew Him. Unless something made me different....
Thats my heart. Thats why I spend the time to type this up. Thats why I say "Weird things" BECAUSE I AM DIFFERENT!!!! His blood makes me different! It makes me CLEAN!! It makes me PURE!!!!!!! It makes me LOVELY!!!! IT MAKES ME HIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (once again Tyler going off on his rants...) This is real....
He is real......
If you read this whole thing... then I hope you got something out of it. Ask me questions. Btw, I am not re-reading it, so there could be a few errors. ;)
You guys realize, I mess up... a lot... and its ok...
Its all just words unless you know Him... Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness... So, If I din't have my life completely wrecked by God... This wouldn't mean anything. Yes I would be like cool, yeah, I agree with all that. It wouldn't mean anything... at all...
HERES MY POINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It would just be words, It would just be another song, it would just be another day, it would just be another Bible verse, I would just be another person, He would just be another God... Unless I knew Him. Unless something made me different....
Thats my heart. Thats why I spend the time to type this up. Thats why I say "Weird things" BECAUSE I AM DIFFERENT!!!! His blood makes me different! It makes me CLEAN!! It makes me PURE!!!!!!! It makes me LOVELY!!!! IT MAKES ME HIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (once again Tyler going off on his rants...) This is real....
He is real......
If you read this whole thing... then I hope you got something out of it. Ask me questions. Btw, I am not re-reading it, so there could be a few errors. ;)
Sunday, January 27, 2013
No shame.
I had a wonderful day, a wonderful week for that matter! Yet here I am, looking over what God has done in me, and this shame begins to rise up. This condemnation telling me I'm really not all that good, and without Him I'd be in a slough. That's right. Without my Daddy I would be in a terrible mess! Thank You Papa for Your love and mercy!!!
Yet, the accusations still come. Accusations that I'm only faking this, or that I really don't have what it takes to be His chosen minister to His lost children, or that my task He's given me to do is less important than someone else's, or that I'm not equipped enough, or I don't know how to listen to Him well enough, the list goes on and on.
But my best friend Jesus is the Word. And the Word says: "(Romans 8:1) [There is] therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death."
Also, later in the chapter is says: "(Romans 8:31) What then shall we say to these things? If God [is] for us, who [can be] against us? 32. He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33. Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? [It is] God who justifies. 34. Who [is] he who condemns? [It is] Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [Shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36. As it is written: 'For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.' 37. Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39. nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Done. And done. Shame is defeated.
Now, don't go and just hope against hope that it won't come back. It doesn't have the authority to stay in you, because you are dead, and His life is in you! Literally!!! Look up Galatians 2:20 if you don't believe me!
But your feelings are just that. Feelings. They are not reality, they should not be your beliefs, they cannot be the standard by which you live your life! The Spirit of life in Christ has made me FREE from the law of sin and death! I don't have to live out of the pain that I feel! I don't have to live out of the shameful things I did in the past, or even the present and future! I don't have to be a slave! I can have fullness of JOY!!! I can worship Him without fear of dying! I AM worthy to be in His presence!
0_0
I know, right? How can I, a sinner, be worthy to be in His perfect, holy presence?
Well, just look up Collossians 1:21-22.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Col&c=1&v=1&t=NKJV#top
No like, now. Before you read on here.
... (reading Collossians) ...
I'm serious guys, you need to get this message straight from Him, not from a post online. So if you haven't read it yet, do it now.
...
Okay, did you hear that? You are holy before... the Holy One of Israel. Whoa. Jesus' blood must have worked! You are worthy to come into the presence of Almighty, Most Holy, Just, Righteous, God. And He wants you to come into the holiness of His presence! That's why HE TORE THE VEIL! That's why He poured out His wrath on Jesus! Because HE LOVES YOU!!!
If we understand this, by supernatural revelation, shame will not even be something we remember very well. It's hard to be ashamed when you know you're loved!
So, be blessed, be encouraged, be strengthened with boldness and courage to fight this one out for love! And may God bless you with peace that passes ALL understanding, and joy inexplainable in His presence!
Yet, the accusations still come. Accusations that I'm only faking this, or that I really don't have what it takes to be His chosen minister to His lost children, or that my task He's given me to do is less important than someone else's, or that I'm not equipped enough, or I don't know how to listen to Him well enough, the list goes on and on.
But my best friend Jesus is the Word. And the Word says: "(Romans 8:1) [There is] therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death."
Also, later in the chapter is says: "(Romans 8:31) What then shall we say to these things? If God [is] for us, who [can be] against us? 32. He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33. Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? [It is] God who justifies. 34. Who [is] he who condemns? [It is] Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [Shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36. As it is written: 'For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.' 37. Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39. nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Done. And done. Shame is defeated.
Now, don't go and just hope against hope that it won't come back. It doesn't have the authority to stay in you, because you are dead, and His life is in you! Literally!!! Look up Galatians 2:20 if you don't believe me!
But your feelings are just that. Feelings. They are not reality, they should not be your beliefs, they cannot be the standard by which you live your life! The Spirit of life in Christ has made me FREE from the law of sin and death! I don't have to live out of the pain that I feel! I don't have to live out of the shameful things I did in the past, or even the present and future! I don't have to be a slave! I can have fullness of JOY!!! I can worship Him without fear of dying! I AM worthy to be in His presence!
0_0
I know, right? How can I, a sinner, be worthy to be in His perfect, holy presence?
Well, just look up Collossians 1:21-22.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Col&c=1&v=1&t=NKJV#top
No like, now. Before you read on here.
... (reading Collossians) ...
I'm serious guys, you need to get this message straight from Him, not from a post online. So if you haven't read it yet, do it now.
...
Okay, did you hear that? You are holy before... the Holy One of Israel. Whoa. Jesus' blood must have worked! You are worthy to come into the presence of Almighty, Most Holy, Just, Righteous, God. And He wants you to come into the holiness of His presence! That's why HE TORE THE VEIL! That's why He poured out His wrath on Jesus! Because HE LOVES YOU!!!
If we understand this, by supernatural revelation, shame will not even be something we remember very well. It's hard to be ashamed when you know you're loved!
So, be blessed, be encouraged, be strengthened with boldness and courage to fight this one out for love! And may God bless you with peace that passes ALL understanding, and joy inexplainable in His presence!
Friday, January 25, 2013
Have your way in me!
My Jesus... He has set me on fire, He has wooed me into Love. His name is sweeter then honey! Nothing can separate me from my only Love!
He Loves me!! And I am soo in love with Him, and thats all there is to it!! NOTHING CAN SEPARATE ME FROM THE LOVE THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!! There is such a Peace I have found! His Sholom is my everyday!! I am so thankful that He Loves me!! In return I give Him all my love! All of my affection, All of my devotion is for Jesus!!!!!! Have your way...
Sunday, January 20, 2013
You are Enough
There's no place I can go
that's outside of Your embrace.
There's no pain too cold
to turn my heart from Your face.
There's no valley too dark
to blind my eyes from Your hope.
There's no storm too strong
to steer my gaze from Your throne.
~Ashley
~Ashley
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