Today as I read one of my favorite devotionals “My Utmost for His Highest” by Oswald Chambers I am reminded. Oswald leaves today’s devotion with this last line, “it is not Christ for me unless I am determined to have Christ formed in me,” and I can’t help but think, “how true. How many [...]
Archive for October, 2007
A Growing Trend
Posted in Christianity, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Love, hope, tagged , discernment, Faith, false doctrine, false teachers, God, God's inherent Word, God's truth, holiness, Holy Scriptures, Jesus, Love, righteousness, sin, striving for Godliness, trends in the church, truth on October 29, 2007 | 5 Comments »
But The Greatest of These is Love
Posted in Christianity, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Love, Religion, hope, tagged filled with the spirit, forgiveness, giving all to God, God's Love, God's promises, God's protection, God's word, God's work, grace, Holy Spirit, hope, Jesus, joy, light of the world, Love, repentance, salt of the earth, salvation, sermon, testimony on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If you have never had the opportunity to hear Corrie ten Boom speak then now is your chance! I remember seeing a television broadcast of her once and thinking, “wow, now there is someone who has a testimony of just how deep, how wide, how far, and how high is the love of Christ!” [...]
Taking Inventory
Posted in Christianity, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Love, hope, tagged , all that God wants me to be, becoming, changing, God's changing love, grace, growing, looking at me, mercy, peace on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
And sometimes this is a good place to be; taking inventory. When God hands you a clipboard and says, “let’s see, shall we?” And I think even for myself that’s what God’s been doing with me over these last few weeks; taking inventory, “what’s really going on inside of me?” Those places God still [...]
Turn it Around!
Posted in Christianity, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Love, hope, tagged difficulties, finding our peace in God, fleeing sin, giving all to God, Struggles, temptations, trials, trusting in God on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Whatever it is, “turn it around!” Turn it around and give it to God. Infact, run! run it back to Him. Whatever it is! give it to Him. Feelings of inadequacy, depression, or loss? Or what about anxiety, fears, and frustrations, addictions, situations, and temptations? Turn it around and [...]
How Shall We?
Posted in Christianity, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Love, Religion, hope, tagged being the hands of Christ, brokenness, giving God everything, God's transforming power, grace, holiness, letting Christ dwell in you, Losing ourselves in Him, Love, mercy, prayer, redemption, repentence, seeking to do God's Will, surrender, the body of christ, the church on October 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »
How shall we reach the lost? How shall we reach the broken hearted, the wounded and those who live a life enslaved to sin? How shall we reach them Oh God? How shall the Body of Christ stir up the hearts so that we should all turn to You in repentance? [...]
The Eleventh Hour
Posted in Christianity, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Love, hope, tagged adversity, Faith, God, God is always there, God is good, God is our comfort, God is our strength, God's purposes are good, in everything God has purpose, Jesus, lessons, Love, trials on October 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
God is such a good Father, He really is and I guess today that’s what I want to reflect on; His goodness and His purposes. He has been working in my heart a lot over these last few weeks and teaching, always teaching. But He reminds me, that even in difficulties, even in [...]
Sandpaper
Posted in Christianity, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Love, hope, tagged , God is faithful, God is love, growing in our faith, growing in our walk with God, learning, lessons, sanctification, teaching, trials on October 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
These last few days I’ve been doing a lot of introspection and that’s a good thing sometimes, take time to re-evalute and ask God. “Ask God what?”
Oh, alot of things actually, could be anything, but I’ve found it’s always best to take whatever it is and just ask Him, ask God. [...]
Send Me Out!
Posted in Christianity, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Love, Religion, hope, tagged calling, Faith, God of hope, God of love, He gets us there, ministry, obedience, patience, promise, spiritual growth on October 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
And wanting to go but thinking, “how will I ever get there?” and to where? “Where am I going?” Makes me think of Abraham who God gave a promise to of bigger things, of a land flowing with milk and honey! And out of obedience He goes, “send me out!” And so [...]
Planting
Posted in Christianity, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Love, hope, tagged Faith, hope, Letting go and letting God, obedience, trust on October 5, 2007 | 3 Comments »
“Open your hands,” the Lord said.
“But I have nothing,” she insisted for she didn’t, she sat destitute before His feet, crying, tears as they streamed down her face, fists clenched.
“Open your hands” He said again.
And so she looked down at them, her hands, and they were so dirty. She had been out working, working [...]
A Consuming Fire
Posted in Christianity, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Love, hope, tagged and Love, but the greatest of these is Love, Faith, hope on October 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of my all time favorite writings concerning Love’s Consuming Fire and it was written by George McDonald from his “Unspoken Sermons”;
“Love is one, and love is changeless.
For love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Where loveliness is incomplete, and love cannot love its fill [...]
