Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
today
Today I'm not quite sure what's happening.
I don't have all the answers.
I wish I didn't need to know why.
So, I choose to come back to where I started. I will stay here in the good times and the hard times........ At the Cross.
I KNOW that my God is unchanging - I know His plans will not fail. He will never cease to amaze... This is my God and this is my declaration.
It's not all about me. I am not in charge. I have a future and I have a hope- Jesus.
Jesus, You are all I need.
This brings a smile to my face... You are always.
I love You.
I don't have all the answers.
I wish I didn't need to know why.
So, I choose to come back to where I started. I will stay here in the good times and the hard times........ At the Cross.
I KNOW that my God is unchanging - I know His plans will not fail. He will never cease to amaze... This is my God and this is my declaration.
It's not all about me. I am not in charge. I have a future and I have a hope- Jesus.
Jesus, You are all I need.
This brings a smile to my face... You are always.
I love You.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Jesus
For every broken heart, for every man who bleeds. One man gave every drop of his life. He took up OUR infirmities and carried OUR diseases. He tookOUR punishment and gave us peace. And by His stripes we... are... healed.
For every murderer.
For every lie.
For all the sins that we have created - He bacame sin.
For every cutter.
For all our shame, Jesus, You were disfigured beyond recognition.
For every prideful man, He made Himself nothing, to free you from the grasp of self.
That's why the STORY is Jesus, the MESSAGE is Mercy, the CENTERPIECE is Savior, the POWER is Forever, and the FRUIT is Freedom.
For every murderer.
For every lie.
For all the sins that we have created - He bacame sin.
For every cutter.
For all our shame, Jesus, You were disfigured beyond recognition.
For every prideful man, He made Himself nothing, to free you from the grasp of self.
That's why the STORY is Jesus, the MESSAGE is Mercy, the CENTERPIECE is Savior, the POWER is Forever, and the FRUIT is Freedom.
"For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified." 1 cor 2:2
When you understand what He did for you, how can you settle for anything less that what He died to give you?
"The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom."
Mark 15:38
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
"Fruitcake and Ice cream" -Louie Giglio
"Fruitcake and Ice Cream" - a message by Louie Giglio
http://www.northpoint.org/messages Home Free-Even Me
OR
http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=262317288
2 Cor 5:13
"For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. "
THE IDEA: when we fully get grace - grace gets us too... and when we get it it "will freak you out". When we understand the magnitude of grace (why it's called Amazing Grace) then we will just temporarily lose our minds!
We have to act "sane" in order to operate in this world - in order to communicate the message to people who haven't gotten it, so they can get it and you can both go crazy together! Ha! = )
Check it out in The Message Bible with verse 14:
"If I acted crazy, I did it for God;
if I acted overly serious, I did it for you.
Christ's love has moved me to such extremes.
His love has the first and last word in everything we do."
Verse 14 in the NIV says: "For Christ's love compels* us, because we are convinced** that one died for all, and therefore all died."
*(to Compel means 'to have a powerful and irresistible effect')
**('we ARE conviced' - aka - "we get it!")
May we never lose our passion for the sake of the Gosple, our wonder at the Cross and our joy in the love of our Creator.
http://www.northpoint.org/messages Home Free-Even Me
OR
http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=262317288
Have you gotten grace yet?
Louie Talks about this scripture - I love it!2 Cor 5:13
"For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. "
THE IDEA: when we fully get grace - grace gets us too... and when we get it it "will freak you out". When we understand the magnitude of grace (why it's called Amazing Grace) then we will just temporarily lose our minds!
We have to act "sane" in order to operate in this world - in order to communicate the message to people who haven't gotten it, so they can get it and you can both go crazy together! Ha! = )
Check it out in The Message Bible with verse 14:
"If I acted crazy, I did it for God;
if I acted overly serious, I did it for you.
Christ's love has moved me to such extremes.
His love has the first and last word in everything we do."
Verse 14 in the NIV says: "For Christ's love compels* us, because we are convinced** that one died for all, and therefore all died."
*(to Compel means 'to have a powerful and irresistible effect')
**('we ARE conviced' - aka - "we get it!")
May we never lose our passion for the sake of the Gosple, our wonder at the Cross and our joy in the love of our Creator.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Monday, June 30, 2008
I'm never giving up.
My God is truth.
My God's words are truth.
His words are forever.
I am in Him...
"Let all the earth fear the Lord, let all the people of the world revere Him. For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded and it stood firm. The Lord foils the plans of the nations; He thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of HIS HEART through all generations.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He chose for His inheritance. From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind; from His dwelling place He watches all who live on earth- He who forms the hearts of all, who considers everything they do.
No king is savcd by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; dispite all it's strength it cannot save.
But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.
We wait in hope for the Lord; He is our help and our shield. In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in His hol y name.
May your unfailing love rest on us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in you."
My God's words are truth.
His words are forever.
I am in Him...
"Let all the earth fear the Lord, let all the people of the world revere Him. For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded and it stood firm. The Lord foils the plans of the nations; He thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of HIS HEART through all generations.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He chose for His inheritance. From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind; from His dwelling place He watches all who live on earth- He who forms the hearts of all, who considers everything they do.
No king is savcd by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; dispite all it's strength it cannot save.
But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.
We wait in hope for the Lord; He is our help and our shield. In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in His hol y name.
May your unfailing love rest on us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in you."
Psalm 33:8-22
Saturday, June 14, 2008
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I'm so tired of this world.
God, You are: "Everything I want, everything I hope in, everything my heart cries out for."*
I'm so tired of everything being okay. So tired of living for our own fame. So tired of pleasing me, pleasing man. I just want you... Jesus.
*Song lyrics to pure by kari jobe
God, You are: "Everything I want, everything I hope in, everything my heart cries out for."*
I'm so tired of everything being okay. So tired of living for our own fame. So tired of pleasing me, pleasing man. I just want you... Jesus.
*Song lyrics to pure by kari jobe
Friday, June 6, 2008
i know i am NOT... i am thankful for Him... my I AM.
I am thoughtful, thankful and amazed as I again realize the WONDEROUS reality.
That is - God, the I AM of all creation, came down to this earth and became a man - took on the form of an I am not. So that I could have eternal redemption. He came - he became flesh and "moved into the neighborhood"*.
So, we "beheld" His glory... We where able to touch Him physically. And spiritually as He bridged the gap we had created between us and God.
We held him. He held us.
For more on this: see Louie Giglio's book - I am not but I know I AM. If you haven't read it -you need to.
*from The Message Bible
That is - God, the I AM of all creation, came down to this earth and became a man - took on the form of an I am not. So that I could have eternal redemption. He came - he became flesh and "moved into the neighborhood"*.
So, we "beheld" His glory... We where able to touch Him physically. And spiritually as He bridged the gap we had created between us and God.
We held him. He held us.
This is what I mean when I say that the cross never ceases to amaze me.
This is how we have hope always - Rescue came! Once and for all - forever!
And this is why this blog is called - i am not.
Without you, Jesus, i am nothing - thank you for what you have done for me!
For more on this: see Louie Giglio's book - I am not but I know I AM. If you haven't read it -you need to.
*from The Message Bible
Thursday, June 5, 2008
underground
Speaking about Christians around the world who are pursecuted for their faith, TobyMac said -
“These are the people who are changing our world by refusing to lay aside their relationship with Jesus for the mere sake of being accepted.”
And that got me thinking - these people stand up for Jesus under the threat of losing their lives, being imprisioned and tortured, or having their families taken away - and yet they still do it.
How can we, in all the freedom we possess, so easily lay aside our relationship with Jesus for
" the mere sake of being accepted."?
“These are the people who are changing our world by refusing to lay aside their relationship with Jesus for the mere sake of being accepted.”
And that got me thinking - these people stand up for Jesus under the threat of losing their lives, being imprisioned and tortured, or having their families taken away - and yet they still do it.
How can we, in all the freedom we possess, so easily lay aside our relationship with Jesus for
" the mere sake of being accepted."?
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