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The Peace Of God
July 31, 2013 
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Philippians 4:6-7Β (VOICE)
Donβt be anxious about things; instead, pray. Pray about everything. He longs to hear your requests, so talk to God about your needs and be thankful for what has come. And know that the peace of God (a peace that is beyond any and all of our human understanding) will stand watch over your hearts and minds in Jesus, the Anointed One.
In Perfect Sync With Godβs Spirit
July 29, 2013 6 Comments
Galatians 5:13-26Β (VOICE)
Brothers and sisters, God has called you to freedom! Hear the call, and do not spoil this gift by using your liberty to engage in what your flesh desires; instead, use it to serve each other as Jesus taught through love. For the whole law comes down to this one instruction: βLove your neighbor as yourself,β so why all this vicious gnawing on each other? If you are not careful, you will find youβve eaten each other alive!
Hereβs my instruction: walk in the Spirit, and let the Spirit bring order to your life. If you do, you will never give in to your selfish and sinful cravings. For everything the flesh desires goes against the Spirit, and everything the Spirit desires goes against the flesh. There is a constant battle raging between them that prevents you from doing the good you want to do. But when you are led by the Spirit, you are no longer subject to the law.
Itβs clear that our flesh entices us into practicing some of its most heinous acts: participating in corrupt sexual relationships, impurity, unbridled lust, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, arguing, jealousy, anger, selfishness, contentiousness, division, envy of othersβ good fortune, drunkenness, drunken revelry, and other shameful vices that plague humankind. I told you this clearly before, and I only tell you again so there is no room for confusion: those who give in to these ways will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Paul has been preaching about the call of God to freedom, and so he now spells it out: we are done with the demands of the law; now we are free to live in the Spirit and to be truly right with God. As free people, the Spirit gives us the characteristics of Jesus; we, too, can freely love in joy and peace. We can have patience along with kindness and faithfulness that can only come from the Father. We can reflect the goodness of God while being gentle in operating with self-control. For those who follow Him and live in the Spirit, these characteristics or fruits are a gift from God. As we grow in the faith, we find that we belong to God and can walk daily in the Spirit.
The Holy Spirit produces a different kind of fruit: unconditional love, joy, peace, patience, kindheartedness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. You wonβt find any law opposed to fruit like this. Those of us who belong to the Anointed One have crucified our old lives and put to death the flesh and all the lusts and desires that plague us.
Now since we have chosen to walk with the Spirit, letβs keep each step in perfect sync with Godβs Spirit. This will happen when we set aside our self-interests and work together to create true community instead of a culture consumed by provocation, pride, and envy.
Prayer For Unity
July 28, 2013 5 Comments
Lord Jesus we prayed that your people would be one, forgive us Lord and take away the pride and arrogance which divides your church. Break down the walls that separate us; unite us by your spirit ant teach us how to love each other.
Help us to humbly kneel before you and surrender all, Please guide us to be transformed by the renewing of our minds as we seek to find your good and pleasing will, Amen.
My Thoughts πΒ
The church I attend on sunday mornings has been without a pastor for well over a year now, so I post this prayer to try and help the body of believers unite and stay faithful to our awesome God.
I’d also love prayers from all of my amazing sisters and brothers here for this church as we seek to find a spirit filled, mature and wise pastor.
Ask God For It!
July 28, 2013 9 Comments
James 1:2-11Β (VOICE)
Donβt run from tests and hardships, brothers and sisters. As difficult as they are, you will ultimately find joy in them; if you embrace them, your faith will blossom under pressure and teach you true patience as you endure. And true patience brought on by endurance will equip you to complete the long journey and cross the finish lineβmature, complete, and wanting nothing. If you donβt have all the wisdom needed for this journey, then all you have to do is ask God for it; and God will grant all that you need. He gives lavishly and never scolds you for asking.
Wisdom, as James understands it, is the ability to live life well and make good decisions. Wisdom doesnβt come from old age or hard knocks. Wisdom begins with knowing and depending absolutely on God, who is never stingy when it comes to wisdom for those who seek it. He supplies all the wisdom we need when we ask. But when we try to go it aloneβwithout Godβtrouble is around the corner.
The key is that your request be anchored by your single-minded commitment to God. Those who depend only on their own judgment are like those lost on the seas, carried away by any wave or picked up by any wind. Those adrift on their own wisdom shouldnβt assume the Lord will rescue them or bring them anything. The splinter of divided loyalty shatters your compass and leaves you dizzy and confused.
God’s Love Is Greater Than Our Doubts
July 27, 2013 13 Comments
1 John 3:2-3Β (VOICE)
My loved ones, we have been adopted into Godβs family; and we are officially His children now. The full picture of our destiny is not yet clear, but we know this much: when Jesus appears, we will be like Him because we will see Him just as He is. All those who focus their hopes on Him and His coming seek to purify themselves just as He is pure.
When we feel like we are not good enough to be loved by God, we should remember that Godβs love is greater than our doubts. We must silence the sounds of condemnation so we can hear the voice of Godβs loving assurance and remember that He has selected us to be part of His family.
Donβt Undervalue Yourself!
July 27, 2013 1 Comment
Donβt undervalue yourself. Your worth is what you are worth to God. In his eyes your life is priceless. You are of infinite value.
A Book That Understands Me
July 25, 2013 9 Comments
Father, I thank You for giving me a book that understands me.” By the power of your Spirit in me, stir up these words of yours in my mind and heart so that my life might naturally reflect who I am in you and who you are in me. Amen.
An Atheist & God
July 19, 2013 14 Comments
An atheist can’t find God for the same reason a thief can’t find a policeman.
Adrian Rogers
Become The Right Person!
July 10, 2013 7 Comments
The first command in Ephesians 5 tells us to be imitators of God by reflecting the way he loves us. Our love for others flows out of our sense of being deeply loved. Instead of constantly looking for the right person, God tells us to become the right person. Instead of looking for love, God tells us to realise that love has already found us! God loves as no one else ever can.
Chip Ingram
Putting Us In The Fire
July 6, 2013 8 Comments
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through the first. The greatest poets have βlearned in suffering what they taught in song.β In bonds, Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the Pilgrimβs Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make pre-eminent use of a person, He puts them in the fire.
George MacDonald
He’s Building A Palace
July 4, 2013 14 Comments
βImagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of β throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.β
C S Lewis
A World We Didn’t Make
July 1, 2013 1 Comment
The Hebrew evening/morning sequence conditions us to the rhythms of grace. We go to sleep, and God begins his work…We wake into a world we didn’t make, into a salvation we didn’t earn.
Eugene Peterson
Praise God
July 1, 2013 13 Comments
My Thoughts πΒ
Last night at our evening meeting, Ruth (one of our ministers) led us in an hour of praise and prayer to God. Ruth started with the prayer below and Sarah and I played 8 songs, and in-between the songs Ruth would say a prayer or a reflection which flowed beautifully for the whole hour.
It was deeply moving and I wanted to just share with you this opening prayer.
π Prayer 4 2day!Β
Praise God for: mountains and oceans, planets and stars
Praise God for big things
Praise God for: seeds and spiders, petals and drops of dew
Praise God for small things
Praise God for: rolling thunder and the crashing waves
Praise God for loud things
Praise God for: a breath of wind and a whispered prayer
Praise God for quiet things
Praise God for: soaring eagles and hairy gorillas
Praise God for strong things
Praise God for: snowflakes and cobwebs – a tiny baby
Praise God for fragile things
Praise God for: the flash of lightening and a humming bird’s wings
Praise God for fast things
Praise God for: the growth of a tree and the erosion of cliffs
Praise God for slow things
Praise God for: the moon, the sun, other worlds
Praise God for far away things
Praise God for: the person sitting next to me, my own heartbeat
Praise God for close-by things
Thank you that though you are so big,
you become small enough to meet us here on earth
though you are so strong, you show your love in gentleness
though you are loud as thunder, you speak to us in the sound of silence.
Thank you that though you could be faster than the speed of light
You choose to walk at our pace and to hold our hand.
Amen
Hand It Over To God
June 28, 2013 0 Comments
To take all that we are and have and hand it over to God may not be easy; but it can be done; and when it is done, the world has in it one less candidate for misery.
Paul Scherer
A Heart Of Compassion
June 26, 2013 7 Comments
Father, help remove my heart of selfishness, that stops me from caring for the downtrodden, abused, forgotten, and broken.
Please give me a heart of compassion so I can minister to anyone you put my way. In Jesus name,
Amen..
God Is The Strength!
June 24, 2013 8 Comments
Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalm 73:23-26
Are you Believing?
June 21, 2013 5 Comments
βJust because you canβt see the air doesnβt mean you stop breathing. And just because you canβt see God doesnβt mean you stop believing.β
God Took Me In
June 16, 2013 2 Comments
Psalm 27:9-10
The Message (MSG)
Youβve always been right there for me;
donβt turn your back on me now.
Donβt throw me out, donβt abandon me;
youβve always kept the door open.
My father and mother walked out and left me,
but God took me in.
Psalm 27:10
New International Version (NIV)
Though my father and mother forsake me,
the Lord will receive me.
Worship Isβ¦..
June 14, 2013 5 Comments
Worship is our response, both personal and corporate, to God for who He is! and what He has done! Expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live. ~Β Louie Giglio
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Is God Pleased With Your Worship?
June 14, 2013 11 Comments
Β Isaiah 1:11-17 ~ Bible Gateway
The Message (MSG)Β
11-12Β βWhy this frenzy of sacrifices?β
Β Β Β Β GodβsΒ asking.
βDonβt you think Iβve had my fill of burnt sacrifices,
Β Β Β Β rams and plump grain-fed calves?
Donβt you think Iβve had my fill
Β Β Β Β of blood from bulls, lambs, and goats?
When you come before me,
Β Β Β Β whoever gave you the idea of acting like this,
Running here and there, doing this and thatβ
Β Β Β Β all this sheerΒ commotionΒ in the place provided for worship?
13-17Β βQuit your worship charades.
Β Β Β Β I canβt stand your trivial religious games:
Monthly conferences, weekly Sabbaths, special meetingsβ
Β Β Β Β meetings, meetings, meetingsβI canβt stand one more!
Meetings for this, meetings for that. I hate them!
Β Β Β Β Youβve worn me out!
Iβm sick of your religion, religion, religion,
Β Β Β Β while you go right on sinning.
When you put on your next prayer-performance,
Β Β Β Β Iβll be looking the other way.
No matter how long or loud or often you pray,
Β Β Β Β Iβll not be listening.
And do you know why? Because youβve been tearing
Β Β Β Β people to pieces, and your hands are bloody.
Go home and wash up.
Β Β Β Β Clean up your act.
Sweep your lives clean of your evildoings
Β Β Β Β so I donβt have to look at them any longer.
Say no to wrong.
Β Β Β Β Learn to do good.
Work for justice.
Β Β Β Β Help the down-and-out.
Stand up for the homeless.
Β Β Β Β Go to bat for the defenceless.
Point Of View
June 11, 2013 8 Comments
I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view. ~Β Madeleine L’Engle
Be Not Angry
June 3, 2013 11 Comments
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas Kempis
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Extravagant Blessings
May 21, 2013 5 Comments
οΏΌ“I thank you, dear Father, for your wonderful and extravagant blessings. All that I have, all that I am, and all that I ever hope to be exists only because of the mercy or grace you have lavished upon me.
Thank you, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
My Only True Security
May 20, 2013 Comments Off on My Only True Security
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βAbba Father, I know that the only true security I can ever have is in you. Please give me wisdom as I seek to use my time, my talents, and my words to honor you and bring others to you.Β In Jesus name I pray. Amen.β
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β Music 4 2day by Christy Nockels
May 13, 2013 10 Comments
After i enjoyed playing “Hosanna” on the drums at our church meeting yesterday, it inspired me to share a few songs by one of my favourite worship leaders.
This next song Β brings me such comfort. So many people believe there isn’t a God or that God wants to punish them in some way so spend their whole lives running, but he just wants to Love you, so just ‘Be Loved’
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Don’t Compare Yourself With Others
May 8, 2013 3 Comments
π¬ Quote 4 2dayΒ
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“Don’t compare yourself with others. God made YOU. God loves YOU. No one can do a better job of being you than YOU” Β
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Don’t Move Ahead Of God
April 25, 2013 10 Comments
π¬ Quote 4 2dayΒ
When things aren’t working out as you wish, be patient. Stop trying to move ahead of God. His timing is perfect. Trust Him.
π Prayer 4 2dayΒ
Father,Β I have been waiting for so long now, and I come before You today to ask your help. I pray that You will increase my faith and patience so that I will put my whole trust in your perfect timing and plan for my life.Β I will put my complete trust in You with confidence and eager expectation of Your answer, whatever that answer may be and whenever that answer may come.
Thanks for being always with me.
Thanks that You hear my prayers and will answer in Your time and in Your way.Β
Thanks for Your unfailing word and that You always keep Your promises.
I believe with my heart, mind and soul Your plan for my life is the best one possible and I thank You for Your answer.Β Being in Your will is the safest place I can ever reside.
In Jesusβ name, Amen.
Do You Do All The Talking?
April 23, 2013 4 Comments
π¬ Quote 4 2dayΒ
Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking! ~Β Fulton J. Sheen
Thank You All!
April 8, 2013 7 Comments
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I was checking my notifications this morning and I was stunned to have found this badge. When I started this blog I had no idea of what the Lord had in store for me, only that he wanted me to share my story on here. I have no writing experience (as you may have guessed by now) and I’m a listener, not a talker so words don’t come easy for me.
Reading all of your comments of love and encouragement, and being able to learn so much through your personal testimonies, truly wise teachings, amazing photography and building friends through fellowship I feel deeply touched!
What I am trying to say is… THANK YOU ALL!Β
I hope I can continue to be a small blessing or inspiration to you! God bless you all!
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NO CEILING TO HOPE
April 8, 2013 0 Comments
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π¬ Quote 4 2dayΒ
NO CEILING TO HOPE
Hope is a refusal to accept a situation as it is.– XLP t-shirt.Β
Please check out XLP and the amazing work God is doing through them!
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Goodbye World
April 6, 2013 0 Comments
Goodbye world, at last
Your days, although many, are numbered
You will be left in the past
A new future is coming, unencumbered
Donβt get me wrong world
I know you are me and my kind
I just want you unfurled
In a new way, I want a new mind
I have been promised
That everything will change
That the serpent that hissed
Will soon be far out of range
While I am here still
Living with you, as you
I will keep changing until
These times are through
So I wont say anymore about how
You will be taken from me
I will just say goodbye now
For I donβt when that time will be
When our foundations are shaking
April 5, 2013 0 Comments
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π¬ Quote 4 2dayΒ
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God shaking them. –Β Charles West
Renew my mind
April 5, 2013 0 Comments
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π Verse 4 2day!Β
Romans 12:2Β (NIV)
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what Godβs will isβhis good, pleasing and perfect will.
I also like this translation…
Romans 12:2Β (MSG)12
So hereβs what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary lifeβyour sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around lifeβand place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Donβt become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. Youβll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
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π Prayer 4 2day!Β
“Father, I don’t want to be conformed to the Taoist thinking of the world. Renew my mind, help me to stop polluting it with the things the world would like me to see and hear. Transform me according to what is true about my true identity and my new self. Amen.”
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Safety
April 5, 2013 2 Comments
I ran away from safety because it was tasteless
My life was craving some more exotic flavour
Because of my attractions I drove a million miles to meet my desire
But when I got there it destroyed me, it tore me to pieces
Now I am broken, shattered. The things I loved hated me
Who can understand, who can make sense of this mess
How could the world be such a liar
How could I have been so stupid
I opened my eyes and looked around me, I found I was not alone
There were so many people littering the streets of this broken place
Then some quiet noise turned my head and I scanned the horizon
I saw a kind of light far in the distance, it seemed vaguely familiar but unknown
Now I have walked these streets, how I longed for the old way, whatever it was
Still I could sense that light, it seemed to be moving
If only I could go back, If someone could take me
I then I thought about that light, could that light be safety?
Perfection
April 4, 2013 2 Comments
What is perfection?
This thing that we mention
This mode that we talk of
This ancient convention
It sits in our minds and assesses our actions
It looks at whatβs out there and causes reactions
We want it, we crave it
Yet our senses are marred, can we trust our perceptions?
What is itβ¦β¦..?
Something exquisite
Or something of myth
That we never will visit
Or Maybe a path you can follow β a worthy direction
Or choices you make through some careful selection
Or is it chance
The hope of some future election
Or are they all aspects of this purest condition
This mindset beyond a pure human rendition
But something above us
The state that explains the creatorβs decision
Something outside us but in us in seed
Something in flowers as well as in weeds
Something in process
The nature of the only one worthy to bleed
Love Story
April 4, 2013 1 Comment
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Is love the story that underlines our life?
A story of husband and wife
But also of surgeon and knife
A story of cursed ground
Of people lost and found
Of little silence and too much sound
A story of shared and broken creation
Of relation against relation
And nation v nation
A story of confusion
Of many lies and evils intrusion
A story of pain β whatβs your conclusion?
Does this story have a turn?
A Saviour who came to burn?
A Saviour who lives, dies, lives β and returnsβ¦?
So what about you?
Is this a story thatβs true?
A story about your eternal life β your viewβ¦.?
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The Dynamic Force
April 3, 2013 5 Comments
What is Church?
People have various views on what the Church is but how many people have really grasped the full, world breaking extent of this divine institution?
Our idea of Church is so ingrained in us through years of mis-experience that the truth of Gods plan is buried beneath countless piles of confused Christians. To most people ‘Church’ says Sundays, Services, Buildings, Songs, and plenty of other things that tradition keeps alive, and that are not intrinsically bad but by the same token can meaning absolutely nothing.
The reality is that the scope of Gods plan for people has no limits, aside from those outlined by the things that destroy us; We can do whatever we want, as long as it’s good. Yet for years humanity has dedicated itself to doing exactly those things that break us and now we find ourselves in the unenviable position of wanting to escape the damage but having no idea how.
So, where does the Church fit in?
I am sure that, if the Church had always done what it was supposed to do then we would know exactly where it fits in and see that it is actually the perfect answer to that most important, totally non-religious question: ‘just how do we get ourselves out of this mess?’.
However….
The Church has misbehaved for so long that not even the Christians know what it should look like.
So….
It’s time we listened to God. It’s time the Church became a DYNAMIC FORCE that fills every area of life. A force that can change and mould itself to deal with any situation, powered by the Spirit Himself and defined by the humility and unquenchable forgiveness of all it’s members. The Church is everything or it should be and was designed by God so that, through Jesus we could learn the truth about life and choose it – rejecting all evil.
The biggest question……?
What is holding us back, because it’s not God.
And our point……?
This is what we are trying be in this one tiny corner of Gods plan: That DYNAMIC FORCE that WILL change everything. Let’s make it happen.
Dear Father
March 18, 2013 1 Comment
π Prayer 4 2day!Β
“Dear Father, I want to commit my way — my heart, my life, my future, my abilities, my wealth, my family… — to you. I want to be used by you for your glory. I trust that you love me and long to give me your blessing along with your grace and salvation. I love you and thank you in Jesus’ name. Amen.”
Look up!
March 16, 2013 0 Comments
π¬ Quote 4 2day!Β
“Don’t keep looking at regrets behind you, problems around you and sin inside you. Look up and see that God is with you.”
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Bark directions
February 27, 2013 2 Comments
β Quote 4 2day!
“God does not want to bark directions at His children or have to force us to do His bidding. God wants a people who know Him well enough to move at His slightest urging. ” – David Wilkerson
Spur one another
February 22, 2013 0 Comments
β Verse 4 2day! –Β Hebrews 10:24,25
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another–and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Christian Family
February 22, 2013 0 Comments
β Prayer 4 2day!Β
“Lord God, thank you for giving me a Christian family to encourage me and motivate me to serve others. Please use me to bless others when we gather in Jesus’ name to praise you. In the name of the Lord Jesus I pray. Amen.”
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God’s Band of Service
February 17, 2013 0 Comments
β Quote 4 2day!Β
“We canβt all play the same part in Godβs band of service, but we should all play in harmony!”
A Better Situation
September 28, 2012 0 Comments
Don’t look to the future when you might be in a better situation to serve God. Serve Him today, whatever your situation may be.
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