Hope

hope: /hoʊp/ [hohp] – noun: to believe, desire, or trust

Friday, September 7, 2007

Week One

It's been a week since I began this trip and it's been an interesting week. I think mainly I've focused on goals and my plans for the future. It's been a good week, but I still have a long way to go.
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"30 Days with Jesus" by F. LaGard Smith - The Gospels in Chronological Order.
This is what I'm using for my daily devos. It's neat to read about Jesus in order of how things happened... it helps me get a better understanding and glimpse of how Jesus lived.
I'd recommend it to anyone.
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I think one of my biggest struggles is going to be closing my ears. I shouldn't be listening to some of my favourite music. And what technically is ok to listen to? Just Christian music or is it ok to throw in some other stuff too? I love 70s classics. Love. Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Beatles, Mamas and the Papas... Bob Dylan. The messages that some of these bands offer aren't always the greatest... but does the fact that they are classics make it ok? It shouldn't... music is music right? The message is the message, no matter what era it comes from, I'd be applying it to my life today. Perhaps my plan to live a carefree hippie life should be revised...
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His Plan For Me

  • Get In To the Word and Deep In Prayer
  • Prayer Journal - To see God's amazing power through Prayer
  • Committment Journal - Record my struggles and successes to visually see progress over time
  • Personal Goals - Start doing more of the things that make me happy and save some "me" time (art, writing, reading, etc.)
  • Work - Pleasing to God, to be happy in what I do and offer my abilities whenever I can
  • Tithing and Saving - Respecting my money and using it appropriately
  • Education - Study God's word and begin thinking more about my future
  • Touch Cleansing - Relationships (family, friends, dating, God, etc.)
  • Taste Cleansing - What I eat and put into my body (food, drink, nutrition, health, etc.)
  • Smell Cleansing - Waking up and smelling the roses, appreciating small things
  • Sound Cleansing - What I listen to and hear (music, language, people, messages, truths, etc.)
  • Visual Cleansing - What I watch and see (movies, television, magazines and media, pictures, people, etc)

God's Amazing Power

In Christ Alone

In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand

In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
'Till on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost it's grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Brought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life's first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
'Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand