Showing Love

We always hear about John 3:16, but what about 3:17? Its one of my favorites! It says, For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. That’s an awesome thought! Jesus didn’t come to point fingers or to pick on our faults, but to save us from them! So often in the church, when someone falls down and uber messes up, we trash them or act shocked, OH MY, I can’t believe they done that! "GASP" What would you have done, if when you went to Jesus to ask forgiveness, he said those things to you? It would really hurt. I thank God that he has given me a soft heart for those hurting people. I know what its like to mess up uber after being born again, and if someone I looked up to hadn’t said, its going to be alright, I probably would have just quit right then! COME ON PEOPLE! When Peter tried walking on the water he walked out to where Jesus was, but when he saw the waves and wind he took his eyes off of Jesus, he fell. Jesus reached down his hand and lifted him up! What would have happened if Jesus had said, OH MY PETER I CANT BELIEVE YOU FELL! That wasn’t the only time Peter fell either. Three times he denied the Lord! Three Times! Did Jesus then say, OH MY PETER I CAN’T BELIEVE you did that.......Three Times no less? Peter messed up many times, but Jesus always forgave him. Now, I say this to Christians everywhere, are we more holy than Jesus? Are we to be less forgiving than Jesus? We are to be the image of Jesus for we are his body! Let’s help folks when they fail. Let’s help them in the turmoil. Let’s lift them up and not kick them down farther! I don’t care if they mess up fifty five blue million times, we are to be all about loving them, not trashing them! To you who have fallen...I have fallen too, I have missed the mark whether on purpose or by accident, and I am here to say, IT'S NOT OVER! IT'S NEVER OVER! He will never leave you or forsake you, which is his promise. When you become Gods child, he doesn’t toss you away when you mess up; he helps you to get back on your feet again. He is a loving God and he loves you so much, that he gave up everything he loved, that he might gain your love! Gods mercy is renewed every morning........he loves you and so do I. In Jesus name be blessed, comforted, and overwhelmed by Gods GREAT LOVE! AMEN!

God's Love, Mercy and Grace

Hey all! I would like to speak specifically to those people who have fallen in God. First thing you need to know is that Christians aren’t perfect, only forgiven! This is an awesome concept. We have all sinned and fallen short of Gods glory, but his love covers a multitude of sins. If you are down in the pit now, it seems dark and that Gods love and forgiveness are out of sight, but I can assure you that he, at this very moment, is holding you in his loving arms, longing so much for you to turn to him and let him comfort you. Never give up, NEVER! We have all been there. I have been there, and its so lonely and miserable, and the reason it is that way, is we think we have to come out of it before we can talk to God again, feel his love again. Kind of like he won’t love us if we are dirty. It is in that very state wherein he loves us the most! We are the neediest of his love at that point. We need a comforter more than ever at that point. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for the ungodly, so how much more now being a child will he freely give us all things. He sent the Holy Spirit to comfort us in those times, not to condemn, but to uplift. In your moment of most need, that’s when he longs to be needed the most. In his hour of worst pain and suffering, HE saw us on the cross, and that pulled him through. Likewise, in our greatest moment of trial, let us see him and he will pull us through! God is so good to us and more than ever when we don’t deserve it the most. In the middle of your sin, look to God, he understands. He isn’t mad, or shocked that you messed up, but he is longing so much to comfort you. Sometimes sin is hard to overcome, therefore we go through cycles of trying to make our minds change, or put in it is what impossible to do in the flesh, to have the right desires to do the right things. But to my amazement, the desire to do what’s right is already in us. It’s not something we develop. We have a born again spirit in us, one that has the desires of God. We still have a flesh part too, one that battles against the spirit part, and it’s a real battle. First of all, God sees your heart, he knows you desire to do what’s right, and if you don’t have victory over all of your problems, he knows it already. Even the most mature Christian has certain personality faults, although as you grow in God you will overcome more and more of them, but to God sin is sin. What he requires is for you to give him what you have in your hands. The little boy with the five loaves and two fishes brought Jesus what he had. Jesus had need of enough food to feed 5000 people, so the loaves weren’t much to offer. NO matter what that little boy done, he didn’t have enough strength to develop enough food for that requirement. So what he did was, give Jesus what he had and Jesus multiplied it to make it enough. WHAT GOD REQUIRES IS PERFECTION, BUT WE NONE HAVE THE STRENGTH TO DEVELOP IT. Even when faced with the snags of sin, we have sometimes little strength left to fight it, but give Jesus what you have.......if only a desire to do what’s right and he will multiply it. All he requires is Your Heart. Give him what you have, it may be little, it may be next to nothing, but give it to him and he will make it great in Him! Lord we love you so much, thank you for your mercy and grace that covers us in our weaknesses and shortcomings. We thank you for your strength and power to develop in us what we don’t have and we thank you that you give us a fresh heart to love you with. Lord, there are so many of us who are wild for you on the inside, but things on the outside get in the way, Lord forgive us from our sins, and our transgressions. We thank you that you promised to love us and never leave us. We thank you that you are our Father, and a perfect father at that. Thanks for all the times you have forgiven us and all the times you will forgive us, and thanks for us always being on your mind. In Jesus name Amen!

Through It All

Just thought I would drop a few lines today. I was just thinking about how in life we go through struggles, and it’s so hard sometimes to see that it’s going to be ok. I think we can take a lot from our past experiences, or if you are a new Christian, take from someone else’s, the point being, that through these struggles, we don’t always feel or see God working, but if we look to those past problems, in our lives or someone else’s, we can see that God was there all along. When you come through your troubles, and you will for God says, This Too Shall Pass; you will see that he was there all along! I have had so many down times in my faith, times that seemed so dark that I couldn’t feel God, couldn’t sense his presence, but he was there, and it wasn’t until I came out of it that I saw he was there, that he hadn’t left me. HE IS WORKING EVEN IN THE NIGHT. He neither sleeps nor slumbers, but in the darkness it shall even be as light around you. Just trust him. I know it’s hard sometimes, really hard when you don’t have a correct image of him, but he is worth trusting, and he won’t let you down. You may think your problem is surrounding you, but KNOW THAT GOD holds you and your problem in his MIGHTY HANDS! Don’t try to figure it all out in the middle of it. In his time he will show you! GOD IS IN CONTROL! Jesus loves ya. AMEN!

New Beginnings

All of us need new beginnings at some point or another. Whether we have messed up totally, just need a refreshed outlook, or a new direction, this is something we probably will all go through at some time or another. A new beginning can be God telling you to go in a certain direction that’s new, or telling you something that goes against the mindsets you have formed over the years. That can be really scary! God has done a lot of that with me, tearing down old mindsets and building up new ones. It even feels wrong sometimes, but you feel it in your gut its God. That’s where faith and confidence comes in. Confidence in God, that whatever happens, He has your back! Tonight we are having a ministry outing, and I must admit I’m scared somewhat. It’s been a while, as we have all been learning from God in different ways, all the while waiting for the ministry God has spoken to come to pass. Sometimes I don’t feel adequate; I think, how can God use a mess like me! I was trippin on that the other day, and he said you have love don’t you; people need love more than anything! So whether you are stuck in a rut, or feeling far from God, don’t give up! There is always a time for a new beginning. Every morning is a new beginning for God, for his mercy is renewed every morning. So if you have had a bad day, week, month, or even year, let today be a new beginning with God. Just be real with Him. He knows everything about us anyway, even where hair # 2203 is located! Ask him simply to help you, where your at, give him what you have, you can’t give him what you don’t have, and he will multiply it! In Jesus Name AMEN!

Pondering About God

Hey everyone. I was just thinking about the goodness of God. We are soooo blessed! It doesn’t always seem that way, buy we are. I know life seems so hard sometimes, and it is, life isn’t easy, but it could be so much worse. I often find myself feeling down and far from God. A lot of this is due to issues from my past, but I'm so thankful for it. I know he is going to use what I go through to help others as they go through. Just think of that, the very thing the enemy means for evil, God turns and uses for good. I heard a minister the other day say, we always ask God why, but he said to think of it as, God, thank you for trusting me to go through this. The bible says he will not put more on us then we can bear. So if it seems like it’s a lot, it’s a sign of how much he trusts you. Think of it, God trusts us! That’s pretty cool! He has been working with me on a lot of stuff, mostly my relationship and view of him. IT CAN GET SO DISTORTED SOMETIMES! BAH! I thank God that I am improving in that area....and so many people will benefit from it! AMEN! That rocks! I am and will continue to help people realize Gods love for them, His fathership of them, His desire to cuddle and hold us close as we realize WE CANNOT DO IT! It takes him! Whatever it is, we CANNOT do it. The flesh profits nothing, but the spirit profits to eternal life. If we do it in the flesh, on our own strength, we must maintain it in the flesh, but what is done in the spirit is maintained in the spirit. That’s Him maintaing it, that’s us resting in his rest and that’s GLORIOUS! One more quit thing, when God looks at us, he sees out born again spirit, the one that’s born of the incorruptible seed of the word of God which lives and abides forever! He sees Jesus. When we do sin, He isn’t the Judge, but the Father, who wants what’s best for his kids. AMEN! Pretty cool thought, I’m Gods kid! Once my little girl said to her grandmother, “Granny, My Daddy sure is a pretty big man......but he sure cuddles good!" If I being an earthly father can cuddle well, how much more can our Father in heaven cuddle with us! God bless, stay tuned for more. Love ya in Jesus!

Creationism vs Evolution

It seems pretty unreal that the scientific community gets so wound up over the prospect of teaching creationism along side of evolution in public schools. Most of us have heard of the "theory" of evolution. That’s the point, it’s only a theory. It's never been proven as scientific fact. Too many presumptions and holes fill the theory for it to be stated for fact. Here are some interesting things according to Karl Popper's definition of the scientific method.

1. OBSERVATION -steps of evolution have never been observed (Stebbins).
In the fossil record we view our data as so bad that we never see the very process we profess to study. (Gould)
2. EXPERIMENTATION -The processes would exceed the lifetime of any
human experimenter (Dobzhansky)
3. REPRODUCTION impossible to reproduce in the laboratory. (Dobshansky)
4. FALSIFICATION -cannot be refuted thus outside empirical science. (Ehrlich)

According to this, Evolution cannot be proven as fact by scientific method and therefore must retain its status as a theory. Now, the word theory means:
Theory, an assumption or system of assumptions, accepted principles, and rules of procedure based on limited information or knowledge, devised to analyze, predict, or otherwise explain the nature or behavior of a specified set of phenomena; abstract reasoning.
According to Encarta, this is the definition of theory. It is merely an assumption based on limited information or knowledge, but yet they contend that creationism isn’t factual, but only a myth. According to what we little we have talked about on the subject of evolution, it seems like evolution itself is in the same boat, a myth. So with these two theories standing on at least on equal ground, it seems that the elite in society would look at all the possibilities, including creationism. So I contend that teaching both with equal attention is not only appropriate, but required if true science is to prevail. Just some of my thoughts on the subject. The information listed above about scientific method is from the website www.creationevidence.org, by Dr. Carl Baugh. God Bless You All. I will be posting more blogs later on, STAY TUNED!