What's up peeps/girl! So, what did you think about last night? Any thoughts or questions?
Did you think it was deceptively simple?
Did the "You know This" part make any sense?
Did you ever think about your "Relationship" with God's word before?
-Smog Away,
-P. James
As always... I fall so short... but hey thats why we'er doing this right :) because we need help!
ReplyDeleteI did have a thought! when we were talking about the word bring new life forth and making us a new creation... I have been reading about the emergent church, and one of the things that seems like a big deal to them is the Bible. From what I have read, they don't like the idea of the bible being the foundation... they seem to think that if it is the foundation then you are putting it before God!
for me it is the slow to speak one that is the killer! I so often find myself coming up with reasons why i can't do this or that, or why something doesn't apply to me!
The last point made about anger was a good reminder... we never know what people are going through... We are so good at wearing masks, sometimes I think we really want people to just see through it. But we are to scared to put it down and let others know that we are struggling.
We need to remember that people around us could be/are hurting. we need to be carful with what we say or do... example: you wouldn't put alcohol in front of an alcoholic
I thought it was really good! Although when I first saw the verse, I thought it was talking about us. Or our attitudes. I never thought about it talking about the Bible.
ReplyDeleteYeah it is very deceptively simple! It seems like such an easy thing to do, you don't talk too much and don't get mad. How hard can that be?... REALLY hard!!
Over all I thought it was really good! And I have really enjoyed James.
YYYYYYEEEEEAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so happy!!!!!!!! somebody else said something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHaha, yes I finally remembered to get on :)
ReplyDeleteNow we just have to get others to remember!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteA 2 da Men girlfriends!!!
ReplyDeleteFrom mickey D's in AR!!
God's word reigns supreme if we allow it or not nothing will stop it!!!
Talk with you soon!
God's Grace,
Pastor James-Miss you all
Oh, how was Wed. night???
amazing... slightly hard... very challenging... thought provoking, and very exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteMy heart goes out by Warren Barfield
ReplyDeleteSo i heard this song and the lyrics are crazy... the second chorus is definitely close to my heart... I so want to do something for the people I see, and I know I should... but still doubt glues me to my chair...
"She sat a table away
Staring into space
In her own little world
And I saw a tear in her eye
Like a window to the mind
Of a frightened little girl
She never said a word
But I know I clearly heard
A cry for help
And I wanted to answer
I wanted to tell her
CHORUS:
My heart goes out to you
You don't even know me
You don't even know
Oh my heart goes out to you
And I don't know what else to do
To reach you now
My heart goes out
But I'm still glued to my chair
She's unaware
There's little time
And though my intentions are good
If I'm misunderstood
The price could be high
I can't fix whatever's wrong
But if I fail to pass along
Someone cares
The price could be greater
This can't wait til later
BRIDGE:
For God has loved the world so much
He send His only Son
From Heaven to earth
Well there's a distance love covered
She's just a table over
All she needs is a shoulder
CHORUS:
My heart goes out to you
You don't even know me
You don't even know
Oh, my heart goes out
Lord, help me do what I can do
To reach her, to reach her
Oh my heart goes out to you
You don't even know me
You don't even know
Oh, my heart goes out to you
Let me do what I can do to reach you now
My heart goes out
Yeah"
I just had a thought. Comfort zones are caused by doubt. Doubt in ourselves (Gods creation) and much worse then that, doubt in God.
ReplyDeleteWe get worried about what people are going to think about us. What we really need to do is let go. Its not about me anymore, its about Christ and His glory.
God will get us through it. It wont be easy or comfortable. But we don't really need to worry about that because christ will never leave us or forsake us.
Every time I think about something like this it tares me up... I know what I need to do in my heart (not that that makes it easier) but my heart and my head don't always line up.
My head tells me I can't. My heart tells me Christ can. My head tells me Christ can do it without me. My heart tells me christ wants to do it through me.
I want to be bold. I really do. But my head tells me thats just not who I am. My heart tells me in christ I am a new creation, and that I can do all things through Him. My head says people will criticize. My heart says does it really matter as long as I look good in His eyes?
My head says I am nothing. My heart says I am a precious first fruit to Christ.
My head tells me I will fail. My heart tells me that Christ will be there to put me back on my feet (he didn't let peter drown when he doubted and started sinking did he?)
My head says it will cause personal suffering, my heart says I will have a reward beyond imagination.
So I was listening to John Mark Mcmillan's version to "How He Loves Us" and i saw it in a new light.
ReplyDeleteHe is jealous for me
Loves like a hurricane
I am a tree
Bending beneath
The weight of his wind and mercy
When all of a sudden
I am unaware of these
Afflictions eclipsed by glory
And I realize how beautiful you are
And how great your afflictions for me
Oh how he loves us so
Oh how he loves us
How he loves us so
Yea He loves us
Oh how
We are his portion
And he is our prize
Drawn to redemption by the grace in his eyes
If grace is an ocean we're all sinking
So heaven meats earth like a sloppy wet kiss
And my heart burns violently inside of my chest
I don't have time to maintain these regrets
When I think about the way
He loves us
Oh how he loves us so
Oh how he loves us
How he loves us so
Yea He loves us
Oh how
I thought about you
The day Stephen died
And you met me between my breaking
I know that I still love you God
Despite the agony
See people they want to tell me your cruel
But if Stephen could sing
He'd say its not true
Cause your good
How He, the I AM, loves us. That right there is the most powerful thing to me. How even though I am not worth any of God’s mercy or love, he is there loving me and holding my hand. I can not even fathom what it means for God to be jealous for me, my mind can only see “being jealous of me” and so I can’t begin to comprehend how He is jealous for me. In my heart there is an extreme river of happiness that overflows knowing that God wants me, I feel like I have unconditional love a different kind of love then earthly love, and it’s hard to explain. It’s like there was a whole that has been filled everytime I listen to the words of this song especially that line “He is jealous for me.” Hurricanes are very big and very powerful and thinking about God’s love like that is so true!!! It is huge and so powerful my tiny little mind can’t even begin to comprehend how mighty and deep His love for me is. God had so much compassion and Grace on us it crazy!!! Sometimes I tend to overlook how much mercy I am really receiving from God. Today as I sat outside for maybe 15 minutes there were clouds in the sky. I couldn’t help but think of how great God’s creation is!(: “And I realize just how beautiful You are” today I really saw a glimpse of how beautiful God is just by looking at the clouds and God’s creation.
ReplyDeleteHow He Loves Us! God’s love is amazingly amazing((((: I am not worth any of God’s love, but He gives me it unconditionally, which for me is something I can not do no matter how hard I try because I am a sinner and I am not perfect. How God can be so loving and so forgiving, gives me the strength to pursue loving him and seeking him.
We are God’s portion and He are our prize. That is the best prize in the world. Sometimes it seems like its not fair that God gives us his all, and we sometimes never even give him the praise he really deserves. That just shows how merciful and forgiving he really is! What if Grace were an ocean????? I don’t think anyone would know how to swim, and we would drown. In fact we are already drowning in the grace that God had poured down on us! Just like the song “Grace Like Rain” Hallelujah grace like rain falls down on me. God really and truly wants us, and I really like the words “Sloppy wet kiss” because it really gives a good mental image of God’s love for His creation! I really and starting to find out what it means for my heart to burn violently. It sounds painful when you read it like that, but really and truly its one of the most amazing feelings in the world! Its like you want to know God and your heart is “on fire” for him.
What really touched me the most in this song besides “How He loves us” and “He is jealous for me” is John’s last verse that are his own words that are very near and dear to him.
“I thought about you
The day Stephen died
And you met me between my breaking
I know that I still love you God
Despite the agony
See people they want to tell me your cruel
But if Stephen could sing
He'd say its not true
Cause your good”
These words are so simple but so powerful. It has a major impact on my life knowing that even through His friend dying, and how things seem to go wrong, John is still able to Love and Praise God. If I had somebody that close to me die, my thoughts probably wouldn’t be the best thoughts toward God, but John and something different on his Heart. He knows that it was in God’s will for Stephen to die and he still loves God for it.
God you are not cruel, you are loving and the I AM and you are so good, and you love me(: I know I haven’t praised you for everything God and I really should. God oh How you love me so, its unfathomable to me. None of this might not make any sense to anybody else, but Lord you know how powerful this song meant to John and how powerful it means to me! Oh how You, God, love me(:
Wow! Nice Kierian and Laura!
ReplyDeleteI got on, and there is no new posts from last Wed. :( But I am really looking forward to tonight!