Something on my mind
So this was something I was just thinking about and my friend had told me about.. She told me how those times when we’re feeling angry and sad about life to tell God about it and ask Him why its happening! She explained to me that its okay to get angry with what’s happening and God doesn’t wanna just hear about all the great times in our life but the bad too. I think we forget that sometimes cause we forget Gods not just our heavenly father but our best friend too!! We need to build a closer relationship, a more intimate relationship, with Him which might be able to be found by telling him those times where you don’t understand why you keep fighting with your mom even though you’re praying for patience, or why your friend isn’t coming to youth group even though your praying for her, ANYTHING! But just remember that no matter what you’re saying, God is listening!!
Things I Know
- God doesn’t convict me so I need to stop convicting myself
- God made me the way I am for a reason
- God made each and every one of us in His image
- We all have flaws cause we’re human and not God, thus not perfect
- If someone makes fun of me, it’s not my fault it’s there’s
- NO MATTER WHAT I DO OR HOW I LOOK- GOD LOVES ME
- I need to accept anger as a normal emotion…anger itself is not a sin
- Anger is bigger than me but GOD IS BIGGER THAN ANGER
- God is pleased with my life cause I’m further then I was before by choosing to be with Him
- Things could be worse; perspective is everything!
- I matter more then I often think I do
- God choose me to help change my school
- My life will never matter until I realize it’s not about me; LESS ME! MORE HIM
- It’s not about the best grades, but how I can GLORIFY GOD
- I’ve been called out of the world, out of darkness, to be SEPERATED, to be HOLY
- Honesty leads to healing- I need to be honest when I’m talking to Him
- If I do what He wants me to do, I’LL BE OKAY! BE OBEDIENT!!
- We have a God who can do mighty things
- God is omnificent (He knows EVERYTHING)
- God is omnipresent (He is EVERYWHERE)
- God is omnipotent (He can do ANYTHING)
- Jesus’ power is at work IN me!
- Jesus’ power is at FOR me!
- God will take things away from me- He’s not working against me…but for me!
- Jesus’ power is at THROUGH me!
- We don’t plan to drift but it can happen to me
- Satan lies to me
- MY GOD WILL COME THROUGH IN PULLING ME OUT OF BAD WAYS, STRENGTHENING MY FAITH!
- Happiness isn’t going to come from worldly things it comes from God
- I can’t hang around trash and expect that I won’t smell like it (choose your friends wisely)
- We cause others to stumble these ways: how we dress, cheating, peer pressure, gossip, etc.
- If I give Jesus the opportunities, He’ll do work in my life
- Everyone needs God
- God wants us to know Him- get into the word!
- No matter how lonely or sad I am, He’s there!
- No matter what situation you’re in, God can handle it!
- I have hope not because of my circumstances but because I’m a saved believer
- I need to seek after what God wants to teach me! Put my pride aside!
- Jesus invites me to dinner; even though I am a gossiper, traitor, horrible
- We are all broken and in need of fixing- God can fix us!
- I AM WORTH DYING FOR
- One day the end of these troubles are going to come- that’s where my hope comes
- God doesn’t let go…even through the good and the bad times
- My value comes from Him
- God wants us to glorify Him
- Through persecution, the gospel gets spread more
2/16/12
I’ve just been using this week to reflect on what God is doing in my life and really trying to hear Him! I’m memorizing two verses (Romans 12:1-2 & 1 John 1:9) but before I did that I really spent some time trying to figure out like what those verses meant. I had trouble figuring out the verse from Romans so I did some research and I just think that this is really going to help me because I’ve been feeling sad and like I couldn’t hear God a couple days ago… but now I’m feeling the Holy Spirit again :) I’m gonna try to keep to memorizing scripture because I think it can really help!
Another thing I realized this week was about emotions. As believers in Christ we have something that others don’t, everlasting joy. Our joy will never diminish because it is not found in worldly things but God and He and His love for us is never changing!!!! That wasn’t something I just learned this week though but something I was confused with was about being sad. I knew that believers got sad..that we weren’t just not going to feel it anymore but I wasn’t sure how we were to deal with it. This week I’ve realized that it’s okay to be sad because sometimes life is unfair and we’re going to endure suffering (the bible says so!) but we need to be set apart from the world with the way our attitude is towards things and move on from things and rejoice no matter what our circumstances because of all the Lord has done!!!! So is it okay to be sad? Yes. But we can’t be sitting their miserable we need to move on and we need to take our problems to God and he will remove the burden of sadness from our lives so that we can go fourth with our lives continuing with the joy we have :) like i said, i’m not sure if thats correct cause ive been pondering it for awhile but thats what i think..!
1 John 1:9
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will purify us our sins from all unrighteousness”
Lord, let me be a woman who isn’t thirsty for attention but whose life is hidden in the shadow of Your glory in Christ Jesus.
(Source: givemeejesus)
High School Drama
Ahh. High school drama makes living for God harder then ever! Recently, I’ve been getting into arguments with a girl from another school. It is meaningless things really about nothing besides that we do not like each other. My first fault here is that I don’t know if it’s a problem that I don’t like her. It’s not even that she did anything our personalities just don’t click.. I see it this way. There are people you don’t become friends with because you dont match up personality wise. We tried to be friends despite this and afterwards found out it couldn’t work. Instead of just walking away it turned into a big ordeal. The next fault is that I don’t know how to let something go!! I have the biggest problem with forgiving because I always want to stand up for what I feel is right! But by doing this is I haven’t been living a life for Jesus. Recently she brought up how I fell away from God and I wasn’t sure if I should address this or not because like it was soo ironic of a situation.. how do you yell at someone for judging your relationship with God and telling them to stop?! (It’s not her place to judge my relationship with God but it’s not my place to yell at her either!). I ended up not bringing it up and knowing that it was in Gods hands. And I feel llike that is all you can do in situations like this. Pray for calmness and patience. Pray that God will give you the right words on how to address this. I dont think it’s our place to handle these situations only Gods but it can be tough which is why you need to call on God to help you out!!
Sheeee’s Baaaack
Hey guys! Okay, so you might have noticed that I have not posted nor reblogged anything in a really long time. I really just caught up in the world. I got overwhelmed with school, I’ve been so stressed out. I didn’t fall back on God and I didn’t trust that He would carry me through it and give me the energy to work through everything I had to do. I held my studies above Him and that is something you should never do. I find that something really hard to understand because all my life I lived off my studies, loved and idolized it. But I know that is wrong and that God is all I need. In the summer I never would have expected that would happen to me, but you never know how satan will attack. After this I got really upset and started crying all the time. I fell into temptation and my old ways. I continued to go to church and youth group, bible studies sometimes too. Because I still believed in God and I wanted soo badly to be happy and have my identity in Him like I use to I just didn’t know how to. What I suggest if you ever get like this is not to bottle it up. TALK TO GOD. TALK TO SOMEONE. Your mentor. Your best friend. Anyone! It is easy to feel convicted but when sometimes it takes time to truly believe that God forgives you and not believing it was something that prevented me from moving past my sad feelings and getting closer to God. I’m still working on smaller temptation that I have but it feels a lot better to know that God does forgive me for past ways. I can turn to His word for guidance, answers, anything. Thank You God!
Mad to Love: Apologies
Through Your mercy and beyond my repentance, these are my apologies:
I’m sorry I’m selfish.
I’m sorry I’ve ever considered my way over Yours.
I apologize for ever living for the approval of others instead of You.
I’m sorry I didn’t and don’t listen.
I’m sorry You died for me only to have me abuse…
Mad to Love: The Walk and Talk
I am a Christian. I’ve never denied this truth nor have I ever hidden it to gain favor with those who may not share my faith. I am a Christian, and I’m proud to say so. Every day and night, I do my best to live a life that can not only be classified as “Christ-like,” but is also, in the most…
"Your sins do not define you. Your identity is as a redeemed, reconciled, justified, cleansed son or daughter of our loving Father."
-(via insightme)
Spread God’s love everywhere you go and to whoever you meet, whether through your actions or conversations. God loves everyone, and everyone should know this.
