In some Christian circles "prosperity" is a bad word. Some groups love spouting scripturee verses like the one in Matthew that talks about harder for a camel to go through the eyes of the needle than for a rich man to get into heaven, or using examples of what king soloman did, and how he wass so wealthy yet he turned away from God. But way too often there are key verses that get overlooked because of the close-mindedness of this religious belief. Verses like "I have come that you may have life and have life MORE abundantly" or "the Lord will what is good and our land will yield its increase" there are so many verses that talk about Gods desire for us to be abundant, and examples of Gods favor being on someone He loved and his financial abundance was upon that person. So why do so many of Gods people have such a negative view of financial properity?!
Where in Gods Word does God say 'I want you to be sick, poor, and sad and go preach the Good News and people will accept you.' ... I don't know what "Bible" you read. But the one I read says. That Jesus came for us to have an abundant life. One without limits. Jesus told us we would be able to even MORE than the things He did. More! Not less! So whyis everyone doing less?! The same Spirit that opperated in Jesus, the same one that rose him from the dead, we as Spirit filledChristians have that... but where is the evidence? Ok, I'm going off on a tangent here.
So let's look at this in the natural sense. If for example God told me to go to China to preach the gosple, but I believed that I should be poor cause if I were poor then it would be easier to get to heaven... I have three choices... 1) bum some money off my broke friends who also believe they shouldn't have money, 2)swim to japan or 3) borrow money from the wealthy muslims who hate the gosple but believe in prosperity. Hmmm...
TBN the largest television network... ever! Its a christian network. It brings the gosple all over the world! Not just that but it makes it available to nations that would otherwise outlaw this network. But can't because its done through satelite so the government can't restrict it. God surely has blessed that network. You may not agree with every teaching they have, or all of what they stand for but every day hundreds of people are turning to God and repenting from their sin because of this. You cannot put a price on the salvation of souls! But this was not done because they were poor. Or because they begged their poor friends to give their last two dimes. No, God has blessed them because God knew what they would do with the money! They use it to reach millions of people, bringing the knowledge of Christ into a dark place. God gives us money as a way to provide for ourselves and as seed. But if we are not giving into the kingdom of God that's seed that we are burrying in the ground hoping no one will steal it. Invest your seed. Even if its just two cents. Even if you have no money in your bank, you may have two shoes to sow, or a tie, or a hat, maybe even some homemade bread or cookies. God has given everyone SOMETHING! It may be next to nothing but when you show your faithfulness with what you do have God will increase that so you ave more to give... not moreto buy yourself fancy things with. Not more to spend on your flesh, not more to indulge in sin with. More to further Gods kingdom with, more to give to the pooor, more to keep the lights on in a church near you so that someone in need has a place that they can receive prayer. God wants your faithfulness with what He has given you becausse God wants to give you so much more.
Don't hide your seed folks, do something with it. And God multiplies it. He promises it.
This wasn't premeditated it was mostly just a rant, so I'm sorry for the lack of refrences. But I'm sure you can find it on your own if you look ;)
Peace out friends
-Sher
Monday, August 8, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
Faith is Essential
"Doubt is a luxury we cannot afford" I was praying the other day and this line from The Incredibles popped into my head, immediately followed by the verse in the Bible that says if you believe in him (Jesus) with all your heart, not doubting, you will be saved. (Romans 10:9-11) I thought to myself, wow a kids movie just said something so profound, and yet so so many have missed it (no, I'm not saying that there is a secret hidden message in the Pixar film) But how many times have you doubted something, and then because of that doubt you have been held back? Doubt and fear go hand in hand a lot of thw time, if you doubt your ability to preform a certain task, you are afraid of the failure you might produce. Living in fear. God says "fear not for I am with you, be not dismayed for I am your God" (Isaiah 41:10) If you doubt tthe existance of Jesus. Or that He is the son of God, you will not see all the glory that God has planned for your life. The salvation God has for you is in your assurance of His death and rising for your sake!!
When you are walking in doubt, you are stripping yourself of any worth. If you are in a relationship with Christ, a meaningful and one on one relationship with the one who gave His life foryou, then your worth and value is in Him! Not in your deeds, good or bad. You become the heir to a kindgdom, one greater than this earth has ever seen or been able to imagen. Galatians 3:29 talks about being heirs to a promise, the greatest, most amazing, faithful promise ever written in the History of mankind! Gods Word is the end all. The final say! When God promises you life, believe and you shall receive! (John 10:10) when God promises you abundance, overflowing, believe and you shall receive! (Malachi 3:10), When God promises you peace, believe and you will receive (Philippians 4:7).
The devil has come to steal, kill, and destroy you life. (John 10:10) and the most. Important thing you can hold onto is your faith! So stop doubting and start believing! "Those who bhave faith are blessed" (Galatians 3:9) "Faith come through hearing, and hearing through the Word of God" (Romans 10:17) So if you feel a little, or a lot, weak in your faith, if you feel easily swayed, read Gods Word! It never returns void, God will guide your eyes, and heart and He will plant that seed of faith in you.
You are called to be free (Acts 13:39), but if you doubt Gods faithflness, if you doubt that you can do all that God wants you to do then the devil has already won. Don't give your life over to darkness by doubting. Have some faith, read Gods Word.doubt is what keeps us in bondage. It will bring you to a place so low, that all you can see are the miserable, messed up things you have thought/said/done and your worth will be lower than the scum on the bottom of you shoe... IN YOUR OWN EYES! Not in Gods!that's not who God created you to be! He said "There is NO condemnation for those in Christ!!! (Romans 8:1)
God called you out of the pit just to be with Him, and if he thinks you are worth dying for then believe it! Because no one, and I mean no one except the Jesus the Son of God, ever died for your freedom (john 3:16)
Accept that amazing gift, and believe that He loves you and your worth is greater than what the devil keeps telling you!
When you are walking in doubt, you are stripping yourself of any worth. If you are in a relationship with Christ, a meaningful and one on one relationship with the one who gave His life foryou, then your worth and value is in Him! Not in your deeds, good or bad. You become the heir to a kindgdom, one greater than this earth has ever seen or been able to imagen. Galatians 3:29 talks about being heirs to a promise, the greatest, most amazing, faithful promise ever written in the History of mankind! Gods Word is the end all. The final say! When God promises you life, believe and you shall receive! (John 10:10) when God promises you abundance, overflowing, believe and you shall receive! (Malachi 3:10), When God promises you peace, believe and you will receive (Philippians 4:7).
The devil has come to steal, kill, and destroy you life. (John 10:10) and the most. Important thing you can hold onto is your faith! So stop doubting and start believing! "Those who bhave faith are blessed" (Galatians 3:9) "Faith come through hearing, and hearing through the Word of God" (Romans 10:17) So if you feel a little, or a lot, weak in your faith, if you feel easily swayed, read Gods Word! It never returns void, God will guide your eyes, and heart and He will plant that seed of faith in you.
You are called to be free (Acts 13:39), but if you doubt Gods faithflness, if you doubt that you can do all that God wants you to do then the devil has already won. Don't give your life over to darkness by doubting. Have some faith, read Gods Word.doubt is what keeps us in bondage. It will bring you to a place so low, that all you can see are the miserable, messed up things you have thought/said/done and your worth will be lower than the scum on the bottom of you shoe... IN YOUR OWN EYES! Not in Gods!that's not who God created you to be! He said "There is NO condemnation for those in Christ!!! (Romans 8:1)
God called you out of the pit just to be with Him, and if he thinks you are worth dying for then believe it! Because no one, and I mean no one except the Jesus the Son of God, ever died for your freedom (john 3:16)
Accept that amazing gift, and believe that He loves you and your worth is greater than what the devil keeps telling you!
Monday, June 27, 2011
For my Grandma, and Gods Glory!!!
((This is an email from my grandpa about mygrandma, please pass this along and help give my grandma a great birthday, complete with cards and healing!! ))
Mom (Betty) is about to reach another “milestone” at age 70 on July 12 th . Secondly, she is now well over a year of pain in her left arm with one more option to try in the next week or two. Here’s what I would like each one of you to do as both a treat for Mom and also a prayer request for God to bring healing to her arm and remove the pain, either through the medical field or He does it Himself.
I would very much appreciate all of you join together with me to contact as many people as you can whether they know Mom or not, and ask them to send her a birthday card with a note assuring her that they have prayed for her and asked God to give Mom (Betty) a very special birthday gift…the healing of her pain.” Some of you have seen her crying with pain when you were here. I have watched her both day and night for over a year as she has struggled to just have a portion of a day or night that was painless.
Even with all of this pain and stress she has never blamed the Lord or angrily asked Him why she has not had one normal painless day since about March of 2010. She has and continues to reflect a strong spirit and love for her Heavenly Father. I have prayed for her hundreds of times…often many hours of the night while listening to her whimper and weep next to me in bed. So, I hope you will help me in “swamping” Mom with cards from people far wide for God to open the doors of Heaven and send to earth a very special gift for her…..a healed arm and a “normal” lifestyle again. He just answered one of my greatest prayers ever this past week as He and I, together met the problem head on. Indeed, I do believe in prayer
NOTE!! Ask people to send their birthday and prayer card to arrive here as close to July 12 th . as possible…a little early is better than late. We will put her under the mound of cards and I will take a picture for all of you. Thanks…VERY much I love and appreciate each one of you. For Mom’s sake and God’s glory.
Mom (Betty) is about to reach another “milestone” at age 70 on July 12 th . Secondly, she is now well over a year of pain in her left arm with one more option to try in the next week or two. Here’s what I would like each one of you to do as both a treat for Mom and also a prayer request for God to bring healing to her arm and remove the pain, either through the medical field or He does it Himself.
I would very much appreciate all of you join together with me to contact as many people as you can whether they know Mom or not, and ask them to send her a birthday card with a note assuring her that they have prayed for her and asked God to give Mom (Betty) a very special birthday gift…the healing of her pain.” Some of you have seen her crying with pain when you were here. I have watched her both day and night for over a year as she has struggled to just have a portion of a day or night that was painless.
Even with all of this pain and stress she has never blamed the Lord or angrily asked Him why she has not had one normal painless day since about March of 2010. She has and continues to reflect a strong spirit and love for her Heavenly Father. I have prayed for her hundreds of times…often many hours of the night while listening to her whimper and weep next to me in bed. So, I hope you will help me in “swamping” Mom with cards from people far wide for God to open the doors of Heaven and send to earth a very special gift for her…..a healed arm and a “normal” lifestyle again. He just answered one of my greatest prayers ever this past week as He and I, together met the problem head on. Indeed, I do believe in prayer
NOTE!! Ask people to send their birthday and prayer card to arrive here as close to July 12 th . as possible…a little early is better than late. We will put her under the mound of cards and I will take a picture for all of you. Thanks…VERY much I love and appreciate each one of you. For Mom’s sake and God’s glory.
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You Alone God (poem)
When my heart can find no joy,
When my eyes are tired,
When I have seen too much,
You God take my heart.
You replace my burdens,
You set in me a longing to praise You!
So its not in my life,
Its not in my money,
Its not in me.
Only in You Lord, I can live again!
Only in You Lord is my joy,
Only in You Lord is my peace.
I am free! I'm forgiven.
No more chains have bound me,
For Jesus set me free!
I am free!
When my eyes are tired,
When I have seen too much,
You God take my heart.
You replace my burdens,
You set in me a longing to praise You!
So its not in my life,
Its not in my money,
Its not in me.
Only in You Lord, I can live again!
Only in You Lord is my joy,
Only in You Lord is my peace.
I am free! I'm forgiven.
No more chains have bound me,
For Jesus set me free!
I am free!
Friday, June 10, 2011
True reverance of the Lord
Proverbs 2:5 Tells us that Understanding the fear of the Lord is finding knowledge and wisdom!
When I was growing up I seriously thought that unless I was scared of and frightened by the very thought of God then I couldn't truly make God happy. And while in some aspects I really was afraid of God, I thought it was kind of messed up that I was supposed to cower in fear of someone who supposedly loved me enough to give me His only Son so I could spend an eternity with Him.
This extreme misunderstanding pushed me pretty far from my loving Savior. The true and right fear of the Lord certianly did not reside in my heart, and neither did any clue to what true fear of the Lord was. I just simply thought that if I lied or sinned I should be afraid of a lightening bolt striking me right then and there! I know I was not alone in this very wrong belief.
My eyes had yet to be opened to the magnitude of His truly incomprehensible greatness! Sure I knew He made the heavens and Earth, but I was still blinded to His greatness, and will not see The full extent of His greatness untill the day I see Him with my true eyes. In Job 38 God repremends Job for talking about God as if Job knew everything, God says how He fashioned the earth and clothed her in garments of clouds, how He made the stars and named the constilations, how He knows the number of stars because HE made each and every one! And Job was not there, who does he think he is talking as if he knows the plans of God?! God simply spoke, and it came into being! And all that, God can fit the universe in the palm of His hand, yet he knows every little detail about you Matthew 10:25-30 talks about how God made beautiful lillys (which happen to be one of my favorite kinds of flowers) and how God loves you so much more than a simple lilly that dies in a day, God has clothed you AND knows every itty bitty detail, down to the very hair and freckle on your body! Godknows you have x amount of split ends and if you're like me He knows the amount of freckles that you couldn't count if you tried. Because Gods very hand formed you and continues to form and fashion you.
So there is more to fearing the God than just knowing How big He is or How much He loves and cares for you. The other part is about knowing how Good and perfect God is. Psalms 25:8 says good and upright is the Lord! And in verse 10 it says ALL the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful to those who keep His commandments. God is so good, He hates sin, He hates evil, and he hates all the injustice in this world! And if you are thinking that maybe God doesn't hate it enough to punish them, then check yourself! Though corruption is all over this planet and continues to go on, it is not without Gods knowledge. And NO God has not let them get away with it. Gods word says that the have not been given light and knowledge. The gift of Knowlegde is prized and those who search after it find it in the Hands of God, in the Word of His mouth. Hosea 4:6 says Gods people die for lack of knowledge. God wants you to have knowledge, and wisdom, God wants you to come to Him for it. And those who don't die. (No, not by some lightening bolt) die spiritually. Die without light ever entering their life.
If you read Malachi it makes a very clear distinction of what the fear of the Lord looks like. Those who say God doesn't see the injustice and that they get away with whatever... there...lack of fear. Lack of respect lack of knowledge of how Great our God is. Nothing is Hidden fromGod, and those who fear the Lord are written down in a book or rememberance, and they are spared. Honor God, Obey God, Trust God, and challenge yourself to obtain as much knowledge of God as you can. The knowledge of God is limitless. Don't fool yourself.
I encourage you, if you've ever doubted that God punishes the wicked, first, repent, and ask God to open your eyes, then go read that tiny book in the Bible, right before Matthew, called Malachi. Its gonna really give you the description of the kind of fear of God, that we are called to have. I am so glad I don't need to be frightened by God every time I fall short. I am excited to be loved and cherished when I feel like I don't deserve any amount of it. It may be true, I don't deserve Gods grace, but God is merciful and amazing to me. And I am so thankful and grateful That He is MY God and nothing will ever change that! :) God says do not be afraid for I am with you. So there ya have it. Don't be scared. But hate what is evil.
That's just what's on my heart right now. Hopefully it sheds some light on the truth for ya :D
Peace out my friends
When I was growing up I seriously thought that unless I was scared of and frightened by the very thought of God then I couldn't truly make God happy. And while in some aspects I really was afraid of God, I thought it was kind of messed up that I was supposed to cower in fear of someone who supposedly loved me enough to give me His only Son so I could spend an eternity with Him.
This extreme misunderstanding pushed me pretty far from my loving Savior. The true and right fear of the Lord certianly did not reside in my heart, and neither did any clue to what true fear of the Lord was. I just simply thought that if I lied or sinned I should be afraid of a lightening bolt striking me right then and there! I know I was not alone in this very wrong belief.
My eyes had yet to be opened to the magnitude of His truly incomprehensible greatness! Sure I knew He made the heavens and Earth, but I was still blinded to His greatness, and will not see The full extent of His greatness untill the day I see Him with my true eyes. In Job 38 God repremends Job for talking about God as if Job knew everything, God says how He fashioned the earth and clothed her in garments of clouds, how He made the stars and named the constilations, how He knows the number of stars because HE made each and every one! And Job was not there, who does he think he is talking as if he knows the plans of God?! God simply spoke, and it came into being! And all that, God can fit the universe in the palm of His hand, yet he knows every little detail about you Matthew 10:25-30 talks about how God made beautiful lillys (which happen to be one of my favorite kinds of flowers) and how God loves you so much more than a simple lilly that dies in a day, God has clothed you AND knows every itty bitty detail, down to the very hair and freckle on your body! Godknows you have x amount of split ends and if you're like me He knows the amount of freckles that you couldn't count if you tried. Because Gods very hand formed you and continues to form and fashion you.
So there is more to fearing the God than just knowing How big He is or How much He loves and cares for you. The other part is about knowing how Good and perfect God is. Psalms 25:8 says good and upright is the Lord! And in verse 10 it says ALL the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful to those who keep His commandments. God is so good, He hates sin, He hates evil, and he hates all the injustice in this world! And if you are thinking that maybe God doesn't hate it enough to punish them, then check yourself! Though corruption is all over this planet and continues to go on, it is not without Gods knowledge. And NO God has not let them get away with it. Gods word says that the have not been given light and knowledge. The gift of Knowlegde is prized and those who search after it find it in the Hands of God, in the Word of His mouth. Hosea 4:6 says Gods people die for lack of knowledge. God wants you to have knowledge, and wisdom, God wants you to come to Him for it. And those who don't die. (No, not by some lightening bolt) die spiritually. Die without light ever entering their life.
If you read Malachi it makes a very clear distinction of what the fear of the Lord looks like. Those who say God doesn't see the injustice and that they get away with whatever... there...lack of fear. Lack of respect lack of knowledge of how Great our God is. Nothing is Hidden fromGod, and those who fear the Lord are written down in a book or rememberance, and they are spared. Honor God, Obey God, Trust God, and challenge yourself to obtain as much knowledge of God as you can. The knowledge of God is limitless. Don't fool yourself.
I encourage you, if you've ever doubted that God punishes the wicked, first, repent, and ask God to open your eyes, then go read that tiny book in the Bible, right before Matthew, called Malachi. Its gonna really give you the description of the kind of fear of God, that we are called to have. I am so glad I don't need to be frightened by God every time I fall short. I am excited to be loved and cherished when I feel like I don't deserve any amount of it. It may be true, I don't deserve Gods grace, but God is merciful and amazing to me. And I am so thankful and grateful That He is MY God and nothing will ever change that! :) God says do not be afraid for I am with you. So there ya have it. Don't be scared. But hate what is evil.
That's just what's on my heart right now. Hopefully it sheds some light on the truth for ya :D
Peace out my friends
Monday, June 6, 2011
Taste and See it, for real!
Gods Word tells us to taste and see that the Lord is good! (Psalms 34:8) I find this a really intreguing commandment. It seems to say that God wants all our senses involved when we come to Him. God tells us over and over to "listen and hear my voice pay attention and hear what I say" (Isaiah 28:23) with that said, have you ever wanted to be a food taste tester? You know, sit down and have high end chefs pay you to bring you their fabulous creations while you dine on their food... and get payed to do it? Well, I have. Sounds like a nice job, and I don't know anyone who wouldn't like to do it! (P.s. if you want to hire me to do this please contact me!) Lol. God is the greatest most satisfying abundant thing that you will ever be given and told to taste!
The reward is so far beyond any earthly reward. The reward for taking part in this amazing Bread of life" is so much more than just a "ticket" to heaven, but ONLY if you taste, hear, smell, see, and feel the true goodness of the Lord. Let me remind you, finding God is absolutely not about recieving a reward, and if you go before the Lord with that mentality you will be unable to find Him. What I am trying to convey to you, is that God made us with five senses, not just for our daily life, but so we can truly experience God as He really is! We were made for the Lord, but we were not made as drones that cannot think/feel for themselves. God has opened up Himself to us, and for so many of us we have only experienced God with one or two senses.
I want to encourage you to savor God, savor the flavor, take it in, soak it up, when ou read Gods Words don't just skim through it, savor each flavor, each morsal! Smell it, breath in the Word of Life, come before God asking to be able to experience Him with every sense He gave you to experience Him with.
When Jesus being human, could experience God so much to the point where he said they are one, and even saying he wants US to be one with God JUST as He is, that's when you know we were created to know God more than just reading about Him in a book, or hearing about Him in a Sunday service! God said we are able to do anything we set our minds to. (Genesis 11:6) If God said that "nothing will be impossible for them" He wasn't excluding anything, God is not man that he lies! So I want to encourage you to set your mind to experience God justas He enabled us to experience Him. Search after Him as if there was nothing more important, because the reality is, THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT! When we can come into the full presence of God, we walk out with the glory of the Lord shining upon us. (Isaiah 60:1)
Want to be satisfied? Want to help others be satisfied? Taste and see all that God is, all His goodness, and share that abundance with everyone you know! (John 10:10)
The reward is so far beyond any earthly reward. The reward for taking part in this amazing Bread of life" is so much more than just a "ticket" to heaven, but ONLY if you taste, hear, smell, see, and feel the true goodness of the Lord. Let me remind you, finding God is absolutely not about recieving a reward, and if you go before the Lord with that mentality you will be unable to find Him. What I am trying to convey to you, is that God made us with five senses, not just for our daily life, but so we can truly experience God as He really is! We were made for the Lord, but we were not made as drones that cannot think/feel for themselves. God has opened up Himself to us, and for so many of us we have only experienced God with one or two senses.
I want to encourage you to savor God, savor the flavor, take it in, soak it up, when ou read Gods Words don't just skim through it, savor each flavor, each morsal! Smell it, breath in the Word of Life, come before God asking to be able to experience Him with every sense He gave you to experience Him with.
When Jesus being human, could experience God so much to the point where he said they are one, and even saying he wants US to be one with God JUST as He is, that's when you know we were created to know God more than just reading about Him in a book, or hearing about Him in a Sunday service! God said we are able to do anything we set our minds to. (Genesis 11:6) If God said that "nothing will be impossible for them" He wasn't excluding anything, God is not man that he lies! So I want to encourage you to set your mind to experience God justas He enabled us to experience Him. Search after Him as if there was nothing more important, because the reality is, THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT! When we can come into the full presence of God, we walk out with the glory of the Lord shining upon us. (Isaiah 60:1)
Want to be satisfied? Want to help others be satisfied? Taste and see all that God is, all His goodness, and share that abundance with everyone you know! (John 10:10)
Monday, April 11, 2011
V-I-C-T-O-R-Y
"Let me hear your battle cry, V-I-C-T-O-R-Y" I think that's how it went anyways. I heard the kids at church chanting this last week and I must say it really stuck with me... really. I cant stop thinking it. Like a song that gets stuck in your head and you can't get it out.Yep, been there for nearly two weeks now. I'm going to venture a guess and say God is probably trying to remind me of something.
It's amazing to hear little kids saying this. Man, what I wouldn't give to have had that instilled in me from childhood! Buuut I suppose thats one of the reasons why we have kids. Not so we can make them live the lives we lived, but so they can live what we couldn't. Im pretty convinced that every parent in some way, lives vicariously through their children. For me it's showing my children that they are worth something! As well as teaching them that the Holy Spirit is our helper and He gives us amazing Gifts if we ask and believe. For my husband its buying them toys that he wished HE had when he was a kid. The lego sets... its really for him ;)
I think though sometimes the childrens department at church chooses verses or stories that will also give parents a reminder of the simple amazingness of God! And the strength that God gave us to pull through.
In the Bible it says in Hebrews 12:1 to run with ENDURANCE the race that is set before us. I cant tell you how many times I've thought of that verse BUT (and maybe this is just me) theres a first part of the verse that i dont think about, and completely forget about until I look it up (you know, actually cracking open my Bible and finding "endurance" in the concordance because I've completely forgotten the scripture refrence...) it says "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses let us also lay aside EVERY weight and SIN which clings so closely"
If you are constantly striving for victory, and feeling like you always fall short this is for you. (Okay, and me too!) You absolutely, in no way can be victorious if you allow the baggage of life to "cling" on to you. Your past, (not a pretty one? Always reminding you of crap that you really dont want to be reminded of?) Your present, (always staring you in the face just how difficult everything is, and feeling like you are looking at a mount everest that your expected to climb) or your future (got "nothing" going for you and can't find ANY solution to make it out of this world any less dependant than when you first came into this world) thats all baggage that i must say, at different points in my life I have had! But not today! And not anymore!
1Peter 5:7 says to "Humble yourselves, therefore, under the Mighty hand of God so that at the proper time He may exalt you, Casting ALL your anxieties on HIM because...HE CARES FOR YOU!" Also in Matthew 11:28-30 "come to me(Jesus) all who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls"
If you are human you have been burdened at some point in your life! But when Jesus says take My yoke upon you, he isnt saying he's going to give you a different burden, He is talking about walking in union with Him, and THAT is what will give you rest. Just like two ox plowing a field yoked together have to walk in unison, step by step, to make the job easier, that is what God wants. He wants to be so close to you that you and Him are knit together.
Jesus even prayed that very thing in John 17:20-22 "I ask also for those who will believe in me... that they also will be in us (Jesus, God) so that the world will believe that You have sent me. The Glory that You have given Me, I HAVE GIVEN THEM!!" WOW! Jesus gives us the same glory he recieved from God!
How can we NOT be victorious with that?! Ok, so maybe I'm talking to myself here and thats fine, but man I'm pumped! I can lay it down (and heres the key...) dont pick my burden back up! And find myself operating in the same glory of God himself, and being one with Jesus! If that doesnt scream victory... then I will give you one more thing that does: Jesus Christ died and lay in a tomb(dead) for three days, then conquering death got up, walked out of the tomb and ministered to his Disciples for 40 days as if death never happened. Now thats Victory! So with that said...
"Let me hear your battle cry, V-I-C-T-O-R-Y!!!"
Until next time :)
Sheri
It's amazing to hear little kids saying this. Man, what I wouldn't give to have had that instilled in me from childhood! Buuut I suppose thats one of the reasons why we have kids. Not so we can make them live the lives we lived, but so they can live what we couldn't. Im pretty convinced that every parent in some way, lives vicariously through their children. For me it's showing my children that they are worth something! As well as teaching them that the Holy Spirit is our helper and He gives us amazing Gifts if we ask and believe. For my husband its buying them toys that he wished HE had when he was a kid. The lego sets... its really for him ;)
I think though sometimes the childrens department at church chooses verses or stories that will also give parents a reminder of the simple amazingness of God! And the strength that God gave us to pull through.
In the Bible it says in Hebrews 12:1 to run with ENDURANCE the race that is set before us. I cant tell you how many times I've thought of that verse BUT (and maybe this is just me) theres a first part of the verse that i dont think about, and completely forget about until I look it up (you know, actually cracking open my Bible and finding "endurance" in the concordance because I've completely forgotten the scripture refrence...) it says "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses let us also lay aside EVERY weight and SIN which clings so closely"
If you are constantly striving for victory, and feeling like you always fall short this is for you. (Okay, and me too!) You absolutely, in no way can be victorious if you allow the baggage of life to "cling" on to you. Your past, (not a pretty one? Always reminding you of crap that you really dont want to be reminded of?) Your present, (always staring you in the face just how difficult everything is, and feeling like you are looking at a mount everest that your expected to climb) or your future (got "nothing" going for you and can't find ANY solution to make it out of this world any less dependant than when you first came into this world) thats all baggage that i must say, at different points in my life I have had! But not today! And not anymore!
1Peter 5:7 says to "Humble yourselves, therefore, under the Mighty hand of God so that at the proper time He may exalt you, Casting ALL your anxieties on HIM because...HE CARES FOR YOU!" Also in Matthew 11:28-30 "come to me(Jesus) all who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls"
If you are human you have been burdened at some point in your life! But when Jesus says take My yoke upon you, he isnt saying he's going to give you a different burden, He is talking about walking in union with Him, and THAT is what will give you rest. Just like two ox plowing a field yoked together have to walk in unison, step by step, to make the job easier, that is what God wants. He wants to be so close to you that you and Him are knit together.
Jesus even prayed that very thing in John 17:20-22 "I ask also for those who will believe in me... that they also will be in us (Jesus, God) so that the world will believe that You have sent me. The Glory that You have given Me, I HAVE GIVEN THEM!!" WOW! Jesus gives us the same glory he recieved from God!
How can we NOT be victorious with that?! Ok, so maybe I'm talking to myself here and thats fine, but man I'm pumped! I can lay it down (and heres the key...) dont pick my burden back up! And find myself operating in the same glory of God himself, and being one with Jesus! If that doesnt scream victory... then I will give you one more thing that does: Jesus Christ died and lay in a tomb(dead) for three days, then conquering death got up, walked out of the tomb and ministered to his Disciples for 40 days as if death never happened. Now thats Victory! So with that said...
"Let me hear your battle cry, V-I-C-T-O-R-Y!!!"
Until next time :)
Sheri
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