Hope

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

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Breathing

friend (noun): a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
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Would you not agree that we should be to our friends what Jesus is to us? I truely believe that once you fall in love with Jesus, the love you feel for people changes completely. It's revamped. It's filled with new meaning. It becomes true, to the core, deep down, fill your whole heart and mind, genuine love. It's a love with no limits, no beginnings or endings, no boundaries, no fear.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm in love. I'm in love with so many people it's overwhelming. And the love I feel is different then ever before and I honestly don't think I know how to handle it. I want it to stay true and genuine and innocent, but I also want it to be open to everyone being themselves and not "sensoring" it to please the majority or perhaps the minority.... society. Society ruins so many good things. Society is so quick to judge, so quick to throw out rules of acceptability. Society doesn't know anything. Society doesn't even exist... who is society? Who sets the trends, who sets the right and wrong, who is the "they" that society is made up of?
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How did I get from talking about love to trying to figure out the concept of "society"?
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My challenge to you is to be less judgemental. Be less judgemental and feel less judged. Whether we are being judged or not we shouldn't dwell on the thoughts of others because who are they to judge? Didn't Jesus say "he who is without sin throw the first stone"? No one on earth is better then you or I, and you and I are no better then anyone either. God created us equal. God created us unique. God also created us human and he gave us the gift of choice.
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Don't judge and make good choices.
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That is my sermon to you tonight :)

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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