Jesus Culture Consumed - Oh Lord You´re Beautiful

This song ministers to me everytime I hear it! When we begin to fall in love with Jesus and realize how good He is to us it will change your whole view on everything from how you read the Word to how you worship and how you pray, knowing what He really has done for us out of His pure love for us. God is a good God and He wants you to understand how good He is and how much He loves you so that you can fall more in love with Him and let that love flow through you to everyone around you!!! I know in my own life it has been understanding how much He loves me that has changed everything. I can't help but fall more and more in love with Him the more I learn and understand this.

THE BALANCE OF GRACE AND FAITH

I wanted to share this video because this is something that is a big question with many people in the "church world". People don't understand, according to the Word, what our part is and what God's part is. This little clip of Andrew's sermon is really powerful in showing us what God already did and what we do now to receive it. Listen to this short video, it will set you free!

THIS IS LOVE!

So many times in church and in the "Christian circle " we are told to love God and people more. Fall more in love with God and the rest will fall into place. This is what I was always taught and it sounds really good but what I realized time and time again was when I tried my hardest to love God and people but it was in my own strength and I failed and got discouraged time and time again. I heard in a teaching one night that I was listening to that we are given the definition of love in the Word. It it in IJohn 4:10 Here in is love, not that we love God but that He loved us and sent His son to be the propitiation for our sins. Love is knowing God loves us. Until we begin to understand how much we are loved by our creator, Father God, we will never be able to really love Him and those around us. We will be trying to do that and the rest of our walk with the Lord with our will power and mind and we will continue to fail. When we understand that He loves us and allow Him to love us, that love will naturally flow through us back to Him to those around us and into all of our life affecting everything we do for God. We can do nothing without Jesus. since I have been meditating on this verse and Gods love for me, I have noticed my life lining up with the Word Without me getting wore out because His love is that powerful and I need to be connected to it in order to be able to fulfill everything that He has called me to on this earth. So get connected to true love, The one who first loved you out of sin and let His perfect love change your life!

Serve the care taker not the care!

I was going over all my bills and their due dates and getting things in order a few days ago. Directly after I finished I went to get into the Word for a bit. I had just started reading Matthew again a couple days ago and I had left off at chapter 6. I opened up and began to read I got into Matthew 6:24-34 which I have read many times before but it felt this morning like God had written this scripture personally to me. All this scripture is talking about serving God and not mammon and taking no thought for your life. I felt so much peace. I was telling a friend so many times our "thought" or our "care" takes over our life. we go to worship the Lord or read the Word and all we can think about is the "care", how our bills will get paid or family issues and How they will get solved and millions of other things going on in our life. We put the care before God.We need to put God before the care. It says we cannot serve both. If we would learn to take no thought and cast our care on Him we would begin to truly worship the Lord and we would forget the care and by getting closer to our savior we would begin to understand how much He loves us and receive all His blessings and benefits and then we will realize like the scripture says we don't need to take the care on because we know the care taker!!! Thank you Jesus

Passion with a purpose!

We had a powerful service this last Sunday about being passionate about the Lord. It made me realize how easy it is to fall into a passive, complacent Christian life. I was talking with a good friend about the goodness of God and we began talking about the difference between the world and the church. We have realized that the world is passionae about their sin, their lifestyle while much of the church world are living these boring Christian lives that aren't appealing to even themselves. Our Christian walk should be the exciting life people see and want to live not the other way around.In order for this to be true we must become passionate about the things of God. Everyone is passionate about something. Look around you and think of yourself and the people in your life and you will realize what people are passionate about whether it be a sport, television, art, drinking,etc. Their is always something tha drives a person. When we become born again our spirit man becomes alive and automatically is passionate about the things of God. We just need to stir that passion up on te inside of us. We serve a God that raises people from the dead, heals the sick, delivers the bound, and so much more. We serve a God that can do what no man or devil could ever do! We serve a passionate God and we should be a passionate people. When we Turn our passion towards the things of God we will Begin to see the awesome things of God begin to manifest in every area of our lives and people will be desperate for what we have. Get passionate about our God!