I was talking to an old friend, they haven't gone to Springs since grade 5, and I've kept in touch with them over msn, and Facebook(the hero of the internet). Anyway, I have been once again been feeling weighted with people at school being stupid. I asked this person what they thought of drinking and being drunk. I was extremely excited and refreshed when I found out that this person thought it was stupid. It was just so terrific to hear that someone who is openly exposed to that life style in their school, could have the wisdom and conscience not to do it. Yet people who claim to be a higher example do it on a regular basis... Once again I say, Mean what you say, and if you say you love God, act like it!
I encourage everyone to accept the call to be an example to everyone.
God Bless
Monday, March 23, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
I know it's cliché but Praise the Lord!
I have a thing for constantly going on myspace and checking out bands songs so I can get a feel for the sound. Usually I only check out bands that I am unfamiliar with, however, recently I went on to the Almost's myspace. I really dig this band and they haven't shown any signs of a new album... Or so I thought. Well Aaron Gillespie is at it again. He has a new album on the way. Usually a song written to appeal to the secular crowd don't catch me in the way that a praise and worship song would, but one of The Almost's new songs did. This songs lyrics definitely caught me off guard. I definitely was blown away by them.
Life has given me the comfort
i need you to make me weak
i have made my work my own, I've made it my own
and I've maybe been so alone
I can't stop this praise from moving
in an awful direction, Lord
I can't stop this hands from doing
but I don't want to anymore
I've been wrong, I've been right
but tonight I just wanna be yours
I'm planning this out to be all about me
I am broken, help me
i can't stop this praise from moving
in an awful direction, Lord
I can't stop this hands from doing
but I don't want to anymore
I've been wrong, I've been right
but tonight I just wanna be yours
I've got to let go of all this
cause it's dragging me down now.
I find myself in this position so many times. I find my self crediting my talents and skills all to myself, I find myself praising myself for what I have accomplished, I find myself doing the same things I don't like doing. So many times I focus on ME, and I find myself not searching, focusing, and praising God. I think this is something everyone struggles with. We try to get praise for what we have accomplished, or for our talents, and abilities. We focus on ourselves. Instead of focusing and crediting God.
I love the line "I've got to let go of all this, 'cause it's dragging me down now." I find myself thinking this same thing so often. We all have things we need to let go of so we can just focus on God. We need to let go of our own selfish ambition for praise, and our need to be first, we all need to let go of the sins we keep committing and just allow ourselves to be used by God.
Maybe I'm totally missing the meaning of this song, I don't know for sure, these are just my reflections on this particular song.
I encourage everyone to let go of their pride and desire for praise, and just give God the glory for our talents, and abilities.
Enjoy life and take the Lord along for the ride and be blessed.
Life has given me the comfort
i need you to make me weak
i have made my work my own, I've made it my own
and I've maybe been so alone
I can't stop this praise from moving
in an awful direction, Lord
I can't stop this hands from doing
but I don't want to anymore
I've been wrong, I've been right
but tonight I just wanna be yours
I'm planning this out to be all about me
I am broken, help me
i can't stop this praise from moving
in an awful direction, Lord
I can't stop this hands from doing
but I don't want to anymore
I've been wrong, I've been right
but tonight I just wanna be yours
I've got to let go of all this
cause it's dragging me down now.
I find myself in this position so many times. I find my self crediting my talents and skills all to myself, I find myself praising myself for what I have accomplished, I find myself doing the same things I don't like doing. So many times I focus on ME, and I find myself not searching, focusing, and praising God. I think this is something everyone struggles with. We try to get praise for what we have accomplished, or for our talents, and abilities. We focus on ourselves. Instead of focusing and crediting God.
I love the line "I've got to let go of all this, 'cause it's dragging me down now." I find myself thinking this same thing so often. We all have things we need to let go of so we can just focus on God. We need to let go of our own selfish ambition for praise, and our need to be first, we all need to let go of the sins we keep committing and just allow ourselves to be used by God.
Maybe I'm totally missing the meaning of this song, I don't know for sure, these are just my reflections on this particular song.
I encourage everyone to let go of their pride and desire for praise, and just give God the glory for our talents, and abilities.
Enjoy life and take the Lord along for the ride and be blessed.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Letting go.
Lately I've been thinking about following God's path for my life. I have had some confusing talks with friends, some that leave me feeling refreshed and relieved, others that make my mind run at 100 miles an hour (hard to believe I know). One thing I have been thinking about is, the times when we need to give something up in order to follow the plan God has for us. Giving something up didn't sound too hard to me. I've given things up before. Well, sometimes the thing we need to give up isn't easy and sometimes it's something we want to hold on to. There are times where what we want to hold on to the most are the things that are holding us back. Following God was never promised to be easy, and the life of a servant for Christ was never a walk in the park. Something I've known for a long time, but never really thought about. Sometimes we need to do something that feels impossible to follow God with everything. There are things that we love so much that we never want to let go, but God may have other plans for us.
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:1-2.
This is the verse that comes to my mind when I think of this topic. Maybe the things we are holding on to, are the very things that are interfering with us totally following God. We need to just look to God, hold on to Him and let go of the things that are blocking us from living for God with everything we are.
It is my encouragement to everyone, that we find the things holding us back, fix our eyes on God and throw off everything that hinders us.
"Enjoy life and take the Lord along for the ride!"-Alva Sample
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:1-2.
This is the verse that comes to my mind when I think of this topic. Maybe the things we are holding on to, are the very things that are interfering with us totally following God. We need to just look to God, hold on to Him and let go of the things that are blocking us from living for God with everything we are.
It is my encouragement to everyone, that we find the things holding us back, fix our eyes on God and throw off everything that hinders us.
"Enjoy life and take the Lord along for the ride!"-Alva Sample
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
How do we live?
Once again I am posting, and once again I am writing while I am feeling burdened and down from certain situations going on (Drama poo as I call it).
I am struggling once again with how I am supposed to act when I say I am living for God. I keep thinking of Titus 1:15-16 "(15)To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. (16)They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good."
When ever I think of how we are supposed to act and live our life this is these verses are the ones that come to mind. I don't know why exactly, maybe because of verse 16 when it says "They claim they know God but by their actions they deny him."
We all mess up on this so much. We say we know God and love Him but the way we act needs to line up with what we say. I know too many people(myself included) that do things they KNOW are wrong. It rips me apart to watch friends make these poor choices. It is my hope and prayer for all my friends that they will listen to the voice of God, and let it drive their life and actions. I encourage them to think about their decisions and that way I hope that by their actions they will show that they in fact know God and love Him.
I am struggling once again with how I am supposed to act when I say I am living for God. I keep thinking of Titus 1:15-16 "(15)To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. (16)They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good."
When ever I think of how we are supposed to act and live our life this is these verses are the ones that come to mind. I don't know why exactly, maybe because of verse 16 when it says "They claim they know God but by their actions they deny him."
We all mess up on this so much. We say we know God and love Him but the way we act needs to line up with what we say. I know too many people(myself included) that do things they KNOW are wrong. It rips me apart to watch friends make these poor choices. It is my hope and prayer for all my friends that they will listen to the voice of God, and let it drive their life and actions. I encourage them to think about their decisions and that way I hope that by their actions they will show that they in fact know God and love Him.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Thinkin'
So I've been thinking about prayer lately. The one story that always comes to my mind is the story of my grandma's middle of the night awakening to pray for some one she had never met, or even heard of. She awoke in the middle of the night thinking she had to pray for a man by the name of Casper Weinburger. Mr. Weinburger for those of you who don't know was the Secretary of Defense from 1981-1987 under President Ronald Reagan. Now my grandma didn't know what to pray for and why to pray for, she just prayed for Mr. Weinburger. This has got me to thinking.
God can use us for ANYTHING. It may not be as big as praying for the secretary of defense in the states, but it doesn't make it any less important. God can use us, and we will be blessed if we obey, and allow God to use us.
God puts people in our lives for us to be a witness to. He places people in our journeys for us to help. Whether it’s a small act or having to help someone through a rough patch in their life or faith. God doesn’t put these things in our lives for us to try taking on alone. If we try to take it on alone we won’t be able to do it. We need to pray and interact with God. The power of prayer is amazing. One way my family was blessed by prayer happened about 3 years ago. A friend of our family couldn’t sleep one night and so he prayed. My family came to his mind, he suddenly though that he needed to give us his car. This was a very big deal for us, see our one car had died and was no longer drivable, and our Jeep was having problems and wasn’t always starting. One summer day I was sitting at home and the phone rang, it was my mom asking me to come to Seven Eleven to help her carry some stuff home because the Jeep wasn’t starting. While we were walking up to the house I say the car. I thought “Wow that sure looks like Cody’s K-car.” When we got inside my mom checked the mail box and there was keys and a letter. The keys were for the car and the letter was describing why we were receiving the car. So after everything we purchased the car for $1. This was a huge answer to our prayers. The power of prayer is amazing. So if you feel God nudging you to pray for someone do not take it lightly. In the words of my grandma “Be a prayer warrior.” My grandma lived the life of prayer warrior and it is my goal to follow in her foot-steps and be a servant for God.
God can use us for ANYTHING. It may not be as big as praying for the secretary of defense in the states, but it doesn't make it any less important. God can use us, and we will be blessed if we obey, and allow God to use us.
God puts people in our lives for us to be a witness to. He places people in our journeys for us to help. Whether it’s a small act or having to help someone through a rough patch in their life or faith. God doesn’t put these things in our lives for us to try taking on alone. If we try to take it on alone we won’t be able to do it. We need to pray and interact with God. The power of prayer is amazing. One way my family was blessed by prayer happened about 3 years ago. A friend of our family couldn’t sleep one night and so he prayed. My family came to his mind, he suddenly though that he needed to give us his car. This was a very big deal for us, see our one car had died and was no longer drivable, and our Jeep was having problems and wasn’t always starting. One summer day I was sitting at home and the phone rang, it was my mom asking me to come to Seven Eleven to help her carry some stuff home because the Jeep wasn’t starting. While we were walking up to the house I say the car. I thought “Wow that sure looks like Cody’s K-car.” When we got inside my mom checked the mail box and there was keys and a letter. The keys were for the car and the letter was describing why we were receiving the car. So after everything we purchased the car for $1. This was a huge answer to our prayers. The power of prayer is amazing. So if you feel God nudging you to pray for someone do not take it lightly. In the words of my grandma “Be a prayer warrior.” My grandma lived the life of prayer warrior and it is my goal to follow in her foot-steps and be a servant for God.
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