Revelation 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
The lukewarm Christian. To be or not to be as I am sitting here in Huston Texas, the weather I unusually cold. Hot chocolate and hot tea warm my chilled bones and hot soup comfort me. en I read this scripture, it make me think of my hot chocolate and how I would be disgusted to drink it warm. I like my food either extremely hot or extremely cold. As a culinary student, we learned serving warm food create and speed up pathogen and germ. to be lukewarm in Christ will produce spiritual pathogens in your life. Pathogens of sexually immorality, lying, swearing, drinking, smoking and the list goes on. when you are spend less and less time with god, praying, reading the bible your get relationship gets strained. It is easier to make decisions that don’t include him or decisions that are not in sync with what he says. God want you to be on fire for him or not. Have you ever met an indecisive person…maybe or maybe not. Don’t you feel like saying ”make up your mind already, it’ either yes or no.” Being lukewarm displays the wrong message to other how are maybe searching for something more. For an example, going on to party on Saturday night getting drunk and turning around on Sunday to go to church. what type of message are sending out? would God be pleased? How does that honor him? we are to honor him in ALL that we do, not some thing that we do. God wants us to honor him when no one is looking. God knows our heart and our every thought. I chose this scripture mainly for me. I have been sitting on the sidelines…to be or not to be…the question was for me. I know what I want to be. I don’t want to send mixed messages or be lukewarm for god. He has blessed my family so much and I want to give him my all. What is your choice/
If you are not saved and want to know Jesus on a personal level, say this prayer;
"God, I recognize that I have not lived my life for You up until now. I have been living for myself and that is wrong. I need You in my life; I want You in my life. I acknowledge the completed work of Your Son Jesus Christ in giving His life for me on the cross at Calvary, and I long to receive the forgiveness you have made freely available to me through this sacrifice. Come into my life now, Lord. Take up residence in my heart and be my king, my Lord, and my Savior. From this day forward, I will no longer be controlled by sin, or the desire to please myself, but I will follow You all the days of my life. Those days are in Your hands. I ask this in Jesus' precious and holy name. Amen."
After you have said this prayer;
Get baptized as commanded by Christ.
Tell someone else about your new faith in Christ.
Spend time with God each day. It does not have to be a long period of time. Just develop the daily habit of praying to Him and reading His Word. Ask God to increase your faith and your understanding of the Bible.
Seek fellowship with other followers of Jesus. Develop a group of believing friends to answer your questions and support you.
Find a local church where you can worship God
Sunday, December 6, 2009
lukewarm christianity
Revelation 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
The lukewarm Christian. To be or not to be as I am sitting here in Houston Texas, the weather I unusually cold. Hot chocolate and hot tea warm my chilled bones and hot soup comfort me. en I read this scripture, it make me think of my hot chocolate and how I would be disgusted to drink it warm. I like my food either extremely hot or extremely cold. As a culinary student, we learned serving warm food create and speed up pathogen and germ. to be lukewarm in Christ will produce spiritual pathogens in your life. Pathogens of sexually immorality, lying, swearing, drinking, smoking and the list goes on. when you are spend less and less time with god, praying, reading the bible your get relationship gets strained. It is easier to make decisions that don’t include him or decisions that are not in sync with what he says. God want you to be on fire for him or not. Have you ever met an indecisive person…maybe or maybe not. Don’t you feel like saying ”make up your mind already, it’ either yes or no.” Being lukewarm displays the wrong message to other how are maybe searching for something more. For an example, going on to party on Saturday night getting drunk and turning around on Sunday to go to church. what type of message are sending out? would God be pleased? How does that honor him? we are to honor him in ALL that we do, not some thing that we do. God wants us to honor him when no one is looking. God knows our heart and our every thought. I chose this scripture mainly for me. I have been sitting on the sidelines…to be or not to be…the question was for me. I know what I want to be. I don’t want to send mixed messages or be lukewarm for god. He has blessed my family so much and I want to give him my all. What is your choice/
If you are not saved and want to know Jesus on a personal level, say this prayer;
"God, I recognize that I have not lived my life for You up until now. I have been living for myself and that is wrong. I need You in my life; I want You in my life. I acknowledge the completed work of Your Son Jesus Christ in giving His life for me on the cross at Calvary, and I long to receive the forgiveness you have made freely available to me through this sacrifice. Come into my life now, Lord. Take up residence in my heart and be my king, my Lord, and my Savior. From this day forward, I will no longer be controlled by sin, or the desire to please myself, but I will follow You all the days of my life. Those days are in Your hands. I ask this in Jesus' precious and holy name. Amen."
After you have said this prayer;
Get baptized as commanded by Christ.
Tell someone else about your new faith in Christ.
Spend time with God each day. It does not have to be a long period of time. Just develop the daily habit of praying to Him and reading His Word. Ask God to increase your faith and your understanding of the Bible.
Seek fellowship with other followers of Jesus. Develop a group of believing friends to answer your questions and support you.
Find a local church where you can worship God
The lukewarm Christian. To be or not to be as I am sitting here in Houston Texas, the weather I unusually cold. Hot chocolate and hot tea warm my chilled bones and hot soup comfort me. en I read this scripture, it make me think of my hot chocolate and how I would be disgusted to drink it warm. I like my food either extremely hot or extremely cold. As a culinary student, we learned serving warm food create and speed up pathogen and germ. to be lukewarm in Christ will produce spiritual pathogens in your life. Pathogens of sexually immorality, lying, swearing, drinking, smoking and the list goes on. when you are spend less and less time with god, praying, reading the bible your get relationship gets strained. It is easier to make decisions that don’t include him or decisions that are not in sync with what he says. God want you to be on fire for him or not. Have you ever met an indecisive person…maybe or maybe not. Don’t you feel like saying ”make up your mind already, it’ either yes or no.” Being lukewarm displays the wrong message to other how are maybe searching for something more. For an example, going on to party on Saturday night getting drunk and turning around on Sunday to go to church. what type of message are sending out? would God be pleased? How does that honor him? we are to honor him in ALL that we do, not some thing that we do. God wants us to honor him when no one is looking. God knows our heart and our every thought. I chose this scripture mainly for me. I have been sitting on the sidelines…to be or not to be…the question was for me. I know what I want to be. I don’t want to send mixed messages or be lukewarm for god. He has blessed my family so much and I want to give him my all. What is your choice/
If you are not saved and want to know Jesus on a personal level, say this prayer;
"God, I recognize that I have not lived my life for You up until now. I have been living for myself and that is wrong. I need You in my life; I want You in my life. I acknowledge the completed work of Your Son Jesus Christ in giving His life for me on the cross at Calvary, and I long to receive the forgiveness you have made freely available to me through this sacrifice. Come into my life now, Lord. Take up residence in my heart and be my king, my Lord, and my Savior. From this day forward, I will no longer be controlled by sin, or the desire to please myself, but I will follow You all the days of my life. Those days are in Your hands. I ask this in Jesus' precious and holy name. Amen."
After you have said this prayer;
Get baptized as commanded by Christ.
Tell someone else about your new faith in Christ.
Spend time with God each day. It does not have to be a long period of time. Just develop the daily habit of praying to Him and reading His Word. Ask God to increase your faith and your understanding of the Bible.
Seek fellowship with other followers of Jesus. Develop a group of believing friends to answer your questions and support you.
Find a local church where you can worship God
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Ripe for the Harvest
Do you ever just seems stuck? Sometimes it seems that people who live unrighteous lives thrive. It seems like doing the right thing only puts you further behind. Don't be discouraged. Gal 6:9 "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."
What can you do from fainting or growing weary? Isaiah 40:31, says "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." How do you wait upon the Lord...by praying, having faith and reading the Bible. How can you trust in someone you know nothing about? How can you know someone without spending time with them? In order to know who or what you are trusting in requires time with Him. You wait unpon the Lord by being with Him.
"You reap what you sow," "what goes around comes around," or Karma. I think you know what I am getting at. Everything we do in life sows a seed whether good or bad. If you ever planted a garden or observed a farm you would know that things go in a natural order...plant...cultivate and THEN the harvest. Oftentimes, we or should I say I, would like plant, harvest and THEN cultivate. Although we may not see anything now, harvest time will come. Sometimes during the cultivation process there might be too much rain or too many storms, but in due season harvest comes forth. There is a saying, "He may not come when you want Him, but He will be there right on time." God does not operate in T.T. aka Tonya Time. He will allow harvest time when He thinks I am ready.
God is a God that never grows weary. He is never caught off guard by your situation. I am not going to pretend to understand or even like everything that happens in my life, but God knows. Isaiah 40:28 "Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainted not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding."
What can you do from fainting or growing weary? Isaiah 40:31, says "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." How do you wait upon the Lord...by praying, having faith and reading the Bible. How can you trust in someone you know nothing about? How can you know someone without spending time with them? In order to know who or what you are trusting in requires time with Him. You wait unpon the Lord by being with Him.
"You reap what you sow," "what goes around comes around," or Karma. I think you know what I am getting at. Everything we do in life sows a seed whether good or bad. If you ever planted a garden or observed a farm you would know that things go in a natural order...plant...cultivate and THEN the harvest. Oftentimes, we or should I say I, would like plant, harvest and THEN cultivate. Although we may not see anything now, harvest time will come. Sometimes during the cultivation process there might be too much rain or too many storms, but in due season harvest comes forth. There is a saying, "He may not come when you want Him, but He will be there right on time." God does not operate in T.T. aka Tonya Time. He will allow harvest time when He thinks I am ready.
God is a God that never grows weary. He is never caught off guard by your situation. I am not going to pretend to understand or even like everything that happens in my life, but God knows. Isaiah 40:28 "Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainted not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding."
Friday, October 9, 2009
For God so loved the world.....
John3:16 AMP For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten ([unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.
17For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.
For God so loved the World...A very simple message, but so few understand. Jesus was sent here by God to save us. As a mother I could not imagine sending my ONLY son to save a world that would mock and reject Him. This shows the magnitude of the love of God. To some, God is a God that hoovers over us and waits for us to fail so that He can chastise us, but that is not true. He put His son a cross to bring us closer to Him. God knows that we are not perfect, but If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9
To me my father and mother are an example of God's love, but his love is far greater! When I was growing up, my parents wanted the best for me and they still do. They are wiser and smarter than me because they have lived longer. When I did wrong as a child, I got a spanking or some other form of discipline. Why did they discipline me? Just to hurt me? No! They wanted to make sure that I was headed in the right direction. Sometimes my parents would give me chance after chance, warning after warning, but sometimes it took a spanking, discipline or me learning the "hard way," to realize what I was doing was wrong. God, is the same way. He doesn't tell us not to sin because he doesn't want you to have fun. He is doing it for your own good. The best thing about when I younger was I knew even though I messed up my parents loved me regardless. How much more does God love you?
17For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.
For God so loved the World...A very simple message, but so few understand. Jesus was sent here by God to save us. As a mother I could not imagine sending my ONLY son to save a world that would mock and reject Him. This shows the magnitude of the love of God. To some, God is a God that hoovers over us and waits for us to fail so that He can chastise us, but that is not true. He put His son a cross to bring us closer to Him. God knows that we are not perfect, but If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9
To me my father and mother are an example of God's love, but his love is far greater! When I was growing up, my parents wanted the best for me and they still do. They are wiser and smarter than me because they have lived longer. When I did wrong as a child, I got a spanking or some other form of discipline. Why did they discipline me? Just to hurt me? No! They wanted to make sure that I was headed in the right direction. Sometimes my parents would give me chance after chance, warning after warning, but sometimes it took a spanking, discipline or me learning the "hard way," to realize what I was doing was wrong. God, is the same way. He doesn't tell us not to sin because he doesn't want you to have fun. He is doing it for your own good. The best thing about when I younger was I knew even though I messed up my parents loved me regardless. How much more does God love you?
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Psalm 51
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had sinned with Bathsheba.
1HAVE MERCY upon me, O God, according to Your steadfast love; according to the multitude of Your tender mercy and loving-kindness blot out my transgressions.
2Wash me thoroughly [and repeatedly] from my iniquity and guilt and cleanse me and make me wholly pure from my sin!
3For I am conscious of my transgressions and I acknowledge them; my sin is ever before me.
4Against You, You only, have I sinned and done that which is evil in Your sight, so that You are justified in Your sentence and faultless in Your judgment. 5Behold, I was brought forth in [a state of] iniquity; my mother was sinful who conceived me [and I too am sinful].
6Behold, You desire truth in the inner being; make me therefore to know wisdom in my inmost heart.
7Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean [ceremonially]; wash me, and I shall [in reality] be whiter than snow.
8Make me to hear joy and gladness and be satisfied; let the bones which You have broken rejoice.
9Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my guilt and iniquities.
10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right, persevering, and steadfast spirit within me.
11Cast me not away from Your presence and take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
12Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit.
13Then will I teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted and return to You.
14Deliver me from bloodguiltiness and death, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness (Your rightness and Your justice).
15O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise.
16For You delight not in sacrifice, or else would I give it; You find no pleasure in burnt offering.
17My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.
18Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
19Then will You delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, justice, and right, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering; then bullocks will be offered upon Your altar.
I love to read Psalms. I love to read how David pours his heart before God. If you read the story of David, he has made many mistakes, but he repents of his sins.
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had sinned with Bathsheba.
1HAVE MERCY upon me, O God, according to Your steadfast love; according to the multitude of Your tender mercy and loving-kindness blot out my transgressions.
2Wash me thoroughly [and repeatedly] from my iniquity and guilt and cleanse me and make me wholly pure from my sin!
3For I am conscious of my transgressions and I acknowledge them; my sin is ever before me.
4Against You, You only, have I sinned and done that which is evil in Your sight, so that You are justified in Your sentence and faultless in Your judgment. 5Behold, I was brought forth in [a state of] iniquity; my mother was sinful who conceived me [and I too am sinful].
6Behold, You desire truth in the inner being; make me therefore to know wisdom in my inmost heart.
7Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean [ceremonially]; wash me, and I shall [in reality] be whiter than snow.
8Make me to hear joy and gladness and be satisfied; let the bones which You have broken rejoice.
9Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my guilt and iniquities.
10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right, persevering, and steadfast spirit within me.
11Cast me not away from Your presence and take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
12Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit.
13Then will I teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted and return to You.
14Deliver me from bloodguiltiness and death, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness (Your rightness and Your justice).
15O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise.
16For You delight not in sacrifice, or else would I give it; You find no pleasure in burnt offering.
17My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.
18Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
19Then will You delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, justice, and right, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering; then bullocks will be offered upon Your altar.
I love to read Psalms. I love to read how David pours his heart before God. If you read the story of David, he has made many mistakes, but he repents of his sins.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
YouTube - MORE THAN ENOUGH ( the brooklyn tabernacle choir )
YouTube - MORE THAN ENOUGH ( the brooklyn tabernacle choir )
I love this song. My mom played this CD when we were younger.
I love this song. My mom played this CD when we were younger.
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