If you would look at my life people might say its messed up or are you really satisfied? To answer both questions..you have to understand me. I really am happy with my life and no it is not messed up. its just has some chaos but what Christan doesn’t have a messy life. No one is perfect. Even though i have made some bad or weird choices doesn’t mean its wrong. I just have to figure out some things and God will help me through it. I’m not as worried as everyone else seems to be.
To answer the second question..am I satisfied?… With life? Yes..With the choices i made recently? somewhat…with God?..yes and no I say that because I know I could be doing more for the Lord and reading the bible more but Im happy where I am though for the most parts. God recently has answered many prayers for me and hopefully more to come.
What really is are purpose in life? Are we suppose to reject the people we don’t like? Are we suppose to sit and soak? Are we suppose to go out make repeatedly mistakes and repent? AHHHH so may questions and so little time. These are the ends of the days and its sad that people are still asking these questions…Only if everyone in the world really knew who our Lord and Savior is…Why wouldn’t you want to have a personal relationship with him? He’s perfect, trusting, loving, caring, answers prayers, respectful, mature..The perfect man, father, and friend anyone could ever have.
Our purpose in life is to worship, rejoice, love, follow and thirst for him.
My life has been busy. Lately I have been struggling with my thoughts and actions. I just can’t seen to find my place again. My head has been focusing on materialistic and the world too much. The whole boyfriend thing is so overrated. I’m trying my best not to worry about it and focus more on you. I’m only 19 years old and have my whole life ahead of me. Boys are icky. I feel that I’m having more fun with my friends then have to worry about a boyfriend.
Also God you have been showing me things throughout Experiencing God and putting my faith to the test. Also since Experiencing God is now over it has taught me to be patient on hearing what God has in stored for me. In John 8:47, He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”I have been pondering this question for a while. How do you know if its God speaking to you or your conscious speaking to you? In Experiencing God this verse came up and now I understand. In the past it was my conscious has been telling me to do things because my heart has not been in to God 100%. I have only been a surface christian. That’s what I call people when they don’t dig deep into the word and is just trying to get by the easy way. I have been doing that and I can really see a difference from then and now. i feel I have been putting more effort and more passion in to Christ. We all should be. He’s our risen savior and our almighty God. He didn’t have to die for us but HE Wanted to and that’s so amazing. I’m so speechless.
In the past couple weeks Pastor Mike Sanders has been teaching on the Antichrist and tribulation period in the book of Daniel. I love learning about the end times because we are in the last of the last days. How exciting is that. Its beyond my imagination sometimes and i love to think what its going to be like and I’m just waiting for the day to come. We all will get to see out loves ones like Tim and Ethan, one on one time with Jesus, worship and fellowship with one another. No more fears, tears, pain, hurts, jealously, murder, SIN, hunger…and the list goes on…Thinking about gives me a high about it. I just can’t wait.
Its the last week of Experiencing God for theadults and I’m sad to say that I’m going to miss it. I have learn so much through this book and it has made me think about my life and my decisions for God. Its not like I’m going to stop devoting my life to him but its just going to be harder for me because of not meeting with my group every week or actually making myself do the workbook every week. I feel that I have gotten closer to God. It feels like when you get back from a summer camp or a missions trip and you promise yourself that your going to devotions everyday and read the bible more. Well I’m not going to make a promise to anyone because I’m probably going to break it. But I’m going to try harder to get in the flow of the word more.
Its hard being a teenager and I’m not going to lie. I have so many decisions to make and its hard. I want to go to a different college and get away from Chambersburg. I want a new job and get away from all the drama at Starbucks. I wish I just could hit the restart button and start all over. Then I have to decide if i want to take that internship for my major this summer or go on a missions trip with the youth group. AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! So many decisions and I want to make the right one. Its not like I don’t talk to God about it because I have been everyday. I’m just hoping for some results soon!!!
Jesus has a lot of names. I have never knew someone to have so many different names. If you think about it..its actually amazing what He is called.
Advocate (1 John 2:1)
Almighty (Rev. 1:8; Mt. 28:18)
Alpha and Omega (Rev. 1:8; 22:13)
Amen (Rev. 3:14)
Apostle of our Profession (Heb. 3:1)
Atoning Sacrifice for our Sins (1 John 2:2)
Author of Life (Acts 3:15)
Author and Perfecter of our Faith (Heb. 12:2)
Author of Salvation (Heb. 2:10)
Beginning and End (Rev. 22:13)
Blessed and only Ruler (1 Tim. 6:15)
Bread of God (John 6:33)
Bread of Life (John 6:35; 6:48)
Bridegroom (Mt. 9:15)
Capstone (Acts 4:11; 1 Pet. 2:7)
Chief Cornerstone (Eph. 2:20)
Chief Shepherd (1 Pet. 5:4)
Christ (1 John 2:22)
Creator (John 1:3)
Deliverer (Rom. 11:26)
Eternal Life (1 John 1:2; 5:20)
Gate (John 10:9)
Faithful and True (Rev. 19:11)
Faithful Witness (Rev. 1:5)
Faithful and True Witness (Rev. 3:14)
First and Last (Rev. 1:17; 2:8; 22:13)
Firstborn From the Dead (Rev. 1:5)
Firstborn over all creation (Col. 1:15)
Gate (John 10:9)
God (John 1:1; 20:28; Heb. 1:8; Rom. 9:5; 2 Pet. 1:1;1 John 5:20; etc.)
Good Shepherd (John 10:11,14)
Great Shepherd (Heb. 13:20)
Great High Priest (Heb. 4:14)
Head of the Church (Eph. 1:22; 4:15; 5:23)
Heir of all things (Heb. 1:2)
High Priest (Heb. 2:17)
Holy and True (Rev. 3:7)
Holy One (Acts 3:14)
Hope (1 Tim. 1:1)
Hope of Glory (Col. 1:27)
Horn of Salvation (Luke 1:69)
I Am (John 8:58)
Image of God (2 Cor. 4:4)
Immanuel (Mt. 1:23)
Judge of the living and the dead (Acts 10:42)
King Eternal (1 Tim. 1:17)
King of Israel (John 1:49)
King of the Jews (Mt. 27:11)
King of kings (1 Tim 6:15; Rev. 19:16)
King of the Ages (Rev. 15:3)
Lamb (Rev. 13:8)
Lamb of God (John 1:29)
Lamb Without Blemish (1 Pet. 1:19)
Last Adam (1 Cor. 15:45)
Life (John 14:6; Col. 3:4)
Light of the World (John 8:12)
Lion of the Tribe of Judah (Rev. 5:5)
Living One (Rev. 1:18)
Living Stone (1 Pet. 2:4)
Lord (2 Pet. 2:20)
Lord of All (Acts 10:36)
Lord of Glory (1 Cor. 2:8)
Lord of lords (Rev. 19:16)
Man from Heaven (1 Cor. 15:48)
Mediator of the New Covenant (Heb. 9:15)
Mighty God (Isa. 9:6)
Morning Star (Rev. 22:16)
Offspring of David (Rev. 22:16)
Only Begotten Son of God (John 1:18; 1 John 4:9)
Our Great God and Savior (Titus 2:13)
Our Holiness (1 Cor. 1:30)
Our Husband (2 Cor. 11:2)
Our Protection (2 Thess. 3:3)
Our Redemption (1 Cor. 1:30)
Our Righteousness (1 Cor. 1:30)
Our Sacrificed Passover Lamb (1 Cor. 5:7)
Power of God (1 Cor. 1:24)
Precious Cornerstone (1 Pet. 2:6)
Prophet (Acts 3:22)
Rabbi (Mt. 26:25)
Resurrection and Life (John 11:25)
Righteous Branch (Jer. 23:5)
Righteous One (Acts 7:52; 1 John 2:1)
Rock (1 Cor. 10:4)
Root of David (Rev. 5:5; 22:16)
Ruler of God’s Creation (Rev. 3:14)
Ruler of the Kings of the Earth (Rev. 1:5)
Savior (Eph. 5:23; Titus 1:4; 3:6; 2 Pet. 2:20)
Son of David (Lk. 18:39)
Son of God (John 1:49; Heb. 4:14)
Son of Man (Mt. 8:20)
Son of the Most High God (Lk. 1:32)
Source of Eternal Salvation for all who obey him (Heb. 5:9)
The One Mediator (1 Tim. 2:5)
The Stone the builders rejected (Acts 4:11)
True Bread (John 6:32)
True Light (John 1:9)
True Vine (John 15:1)
Truth (John 1:14; 14:6)
Way (John 14:6)
Wisdom of God (1 Cor. 1:24)
Word (John 1:1)
Word of God (Rev. 19:13)
Also friend, father, brother, master…the list is endless. But it just fascinates me what we call Him.
AMAZING!!!! The concert was so awesome! Jeremy Camp and TobyMac sounded so good live!! Jeremy Camp sounded really good and spoke right to my heart!! Also he was sick and he still sounded great!! Then TobyMac came on last and let me just say he blew me away!!! I wasn’t a really big fan of him going into the concert but now he’s one of my favorites!! He can dance, sing, and even look good at 43 years old!! I’m really happy I got to go and can’t wait to go to another one!!
Next Concerts: Thursday…March 27th 2008 in Greencastle..Kutless will be playing. Tickets: $15 advance, $18 at the door
Friday…March 28th 2008 in Hershey…Casting Crowns will be playing
I strongly advise you to go and see one of these bands. They are both amazing!!!
Last night at youth group Jeremy asked me if I would share my testimony and my thoughts on Experiencing God. So in my mind I kinda had something i was going to say, but I was just going to wing it. I was in Arlene’s small group helping her out while Nicole was sick. Their group has about 8 young students and very talkative about God. (By the way I was very surprise) Anyways, I did not know these girls as well but God just spoke through me and i was telling them things that i thought i would never have. I put total trust in God and into these girls. There young and I don’t want them to grow up and make the same mistakes as I did. But I think I got their undivided attention and Arlene’s. But I had a lot of fun with the group and Arlene is so amazing!! But thanks Jeremy for giving me the chance to let me speak.
Tonight is the concert and I absolutely can’t wait and I’ll tell you all about it on my blog tomorrow!! Have a good day and God Bless ya’ll!!
Yeah I’m still alive…i just got so caught up in the world that I keep forgetting to write. But I’m back and I’ve been struggling to keep up with Experiencing God. Wow!! I didn’t think it would be so hard to keep up with it. Two weeks ago, I didn’t even do it at all and I realize that is did effect me. But this week I have been doing it everyday and I even did the rest of the weeks yesterday because I know the rest of my week will be crazy!
Tomorrow my family from West Virginia is coming up and we are all going to Jeremy Camp and Toby Mac concert in Hershey! I can’t wait I have been looking forward to this for months! Then they are staying until Saturday..and I’m going back with them to WV! I’m on Spring Break! Whoopee!!!!
So I’m looking forward to spend time with my aunts and grandparents!! I’m very close to them and don’t get to see them that often. So this is my spring vacation!! Yay! No parents around. (Just Kidding)
But I’m going to try my hardest to keep up with this blog next week while I’m gone!
So, please keep me in your prayers and God Bless you!
Just take a moment to look at another religion..it might just interest you or even educate you.
~Hinduism is the third largest religion after Christianity and Islam.
~Hindu’s believe in the repetitious Transmigration of the Soul. This is the transfer of ones soul after death into another body. This produces a continuing cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth through their many lifetimes.
~Karma is the accumulated sum of ones good and bad deeds. Karma determines how you will live your next life.
~The primary sacred texts of Hinduism are the Vedas: the Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda.
I’m going to take a short break today, from talking about different religions.
I just want to let everyone know how God is working in my life!
Yesterday around 2pm i was in a car accident. As you all know it was very icy and my car started to fish tailing around the turn behind Ruby Tuesday. My car slid into the guardrail and crushed the whole front. By the way I’m fine and just have a couple of bruises. But let me just say that it could have been worse. Right beside the guardrail was a hill with a creek at the bottom of it. So things could of been very bad. But God had a plan for me and apparently it was suppose to happen like this. So now my beautiful car is totalled and now were on the search again for another one.
After this whole nightmare, I have been asking many questions like, Why does this stuff happen to me, Why didn’t he just let me die, or Why now? then I keep playing the What If game over and over again.
But God is in control and this is how he wanted my life to go. Apparently he has more to my life and just like the police officer said to me you can always get a new car but not a new me. He’s exactly right!
I just need to cast all my worries all over to God and let him take Care of it.
1 Peter 5:7: Cast all our cares to Him as he did for you.
So just keep me in you prayers and remember God is in Control!!
Lately, I have been interested in other religions. Its good to understand others beliefs so you’ll be more educated about them and also if someone would come up to you and start telling you their beliefs, you’ll be more able to know whats right and whats wrong. So I decided that I’m going to be doing my blog’s on some of the different religions of the world throughout this week.
Today, I want to tell you the facts about Buddhism:
*It becoming one of the leading, well-known religions of the western hemisphere.
* They are divided into two categories: Theravada (small vessel) and Mahayana (large vessel). Theravada is the monastic form which reserves ultimate enlightenment and nirvana for monks. Mahayana Buddhism extends this goal of enlightenment to the laity as well, that is, to non-monks.
*Buddha’s never like to call themselves “God”, but a “way-shower”.
*Sin is largely understood to be ignorance.
*Therefore there is no need for a Jesus’ character to rescue people from their damning sins. For the Christian Jesus is the only means of rescue from eternal damnation over our personal (and imputed) sins. For the Buddhist there is only ethical living and meditative appeals to exalted beings for the hope of perhaps achieving enlightenment and ultimate Nirvana.
*Who created the world? Buddha is said to have kept silent because in Buddhism there is no beginning, and no end, instead there is an endless circle of birth and death.
WOW, I can’t imagine being a part of this religion. They have very opposite beliefs and I have no idea what I would think, knowing that i’m part of God’s family.
But please leave comments on what you know or think about Buddhism.
