WHAT IS THE WORLD GOING TO DO

I hate pornography. I wish there was no such thing! It destroys lives and families. It tempts our men to sin and lust. It creates rifts and divides among couples.

People need to know what the Word says. Jesus said you cannot love Him but hate your brother – then you don’t love Him! If you are angry at your brother you have already committed murder in your heart. If you look on another person with lust you have already committed adultery in your heart!!

Jesus looks at your heart! What goes on in there is what counts to Him – not your actions!! To the world actions speak louder than anything – but to God your heart reveals the real you.

“The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love” Henry Scougal

What is the object of your hearts love? Is it money? Is it sex? Is it power? Or is it Jesus?

You can hide what is in your heart from the world – for a time…..

But you ca NEVER hide what is in your heart from God. He is the Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent – all knowing, all powerful, ever present God. Even the dark is like daylight to Him.

Pornography is an evil trick of the devil. Convincing you its ok because you are only watching. When you watch pornography you may as well invite another person physically into your bedroom, because your are letting them into your mind and heart. Don’t allow satan to trick you by telling you the World says it’s ok!! By God’s standards it is not ok, it is immoral and wrong. Why do you think He destroyed Sodom and Gomorra? They were an evil, immoral people. Thank God he sent Jesus to die for our sins, because I shudder to imagine what kind of wrath He would rain down on us today for the way we live.

I have such a righteous anger within me today because of this evil, horrible, disease that man has made. Sex is supposed to be an intimate, personal and beautiful thing between to MARRIED not “consenting” people. And the World has turned it into a dirty, sordid, addictive, drug. Women are used as sex symbols to sell everything!

We need to educate our children against this worldly way of looking at sex. Teach them that Pornography is wrong, it is evil. Teach them God’s way and teach them that Jesus is the only way. And true happiness can only be found in Him, by His standards. Let’s not allow this filth to reach our children. Protect them and raise them under God.

Let Jesus be the object of your hearts love!!!!

ARE YOU READY?

Last night at our prayer meeting, our Elder read a passage from a devotional book – I cannot remember the books title or author right now, it was about being ready for God. But one line that stood out for me more than anything else was this

“Jesus expects to use us the same way God used him”

And you know, we can expect to be used. We must not disqualify ourselves because of our circumstances, whatever they are. God can use us right where we are, right now. And we need to be ready and expectant of it. We need to be faithful in the very little we have now and then we will be able to be faithful with much later.
We can’t have the attitude of “wait till I make my million Lord – watch me work for you then.” Or “Wait till I have my own house Lord, then I can do what I want to do for you.”
No, God is watching us now, and He can and wants to use us now.

Jesus expects to use you, the same way God used Him, so be expectant, be open and know that God doesn’t call the equipped. He equips the called. We are all equipped and qualified by Him. We are all part of the Royal Priesthood because of Him. So be expectant, be ready so that when God says to you “go” then you can go without hesitation.

Imagine an athlete training for a race. He works hard training and getting his body into shape and his muscles stretched and supple. Just before the race starts he is there behind the starting line ready, and waiting and keeping his muscles warmed up so that when the official says the word and he can get into his starting block he knows that when the gun goes off or the official says GO he can go with all his might and he can finish strong too.

We are like that athlete and our training is our quiet time and our prayer time and no matter how long we may have to train we must keep training and waiting behind that start line so that when God says we can move into the starting block and when He tells us to go we are ready and well trained to GO and to finish strong.

So, be expectant and keep training, because when God tells you to GO, you want to be able to GO!!!

TAKE YOUR MARK, GET SET...
GO!!!!

I SURRENDER...

HERE WITH ME – by Mercy Me

I long for Your embrace, every single day.
To meet You in this place and see You face to face
Will You show me, reveal Yourself to me?
Because of Your mercy, I fall down on my knees!

And I can feel Your presence here with me
Suddenly I’m lost within Your beauty.
Caught up in the wonder of Your touch
Here in this moment I surrender to Your love

You’re everywhere I go, I am not alone.
You call me as Your own to know You and be known
You are Holy, and I fall down on my knees

And I can feel Your presence here with me
Suddenly I’m lost within your beauty.
Caught up in the wonder of Your touch
Here in this moment I surrender to Your love

I surrender to Your Grace
I surrender to the one who took my place

And I can feel Your presence here with me
Suddenly I’m lost within your beauty.
Caught up in the wonder of Your touch
Here in this moment I surrender to Your love

This song has been in my heart all day!!

I will really try sometime to get to your blogs - just too busy

I WANNA BE USED BY YOU….

This morning I woke up with the Betty Boop song in my head but instead of the words going “I wanna be loved by you…” I was singing “I wanna be used by You…” and that was exactly my prayer, to be used by the Lord. I want Him to use me in every way He can and wants to.
I want to be a voice, a light, a servant – everything just for Him – boop boop beedoop, Ooh!

Here I am Lord – send (use) me!

A CLEAN HEART AND A RIGHT SPIRIT

I have been backsliding a lately, I have been slipping back into old ways and thought patterns. I was ashamed, not before man - but before God. This weekend again I slipped back without even a thought of what I was doing. And the whole time afterwards I felt marked, dirty and unclean. I felt embarrassed at losing myself to worldly things as I did - especially as a Christian who wants to live life according to God's ways. Now I know that to most people having a few drinks and getting a little drunk now and then is not that serious, maybe even something that is acceptable. The thing is though, I have been convicted by the Holy Spirit (quite a long time ago) regarding alcohol and I know that the Bible says one should not get drunk on wine (alcohol) but on the Spirit of God (I am not exactly sure of the wording there). And I am not writing this post to get sympathy or to get an "it's ok" from anyone. I am writing this because it has been on my heart and because I feel led by the Spirit to share this with you. Maybe there is someone who needs to hear this - I don't know what God's reasons are for asking me to write this testimony.
All I know is last night I could not sleep until I had gone on my knees before my God and asked Him to forgive me for slipping back, to create in me a clean heart (the prayer David prayed) and to strengthen me against temptation. And I know that He has heard my prayer and forgiven me and cleansed me. And I know that I need not justify or explaine myself to anyone but God - I just feel that as a person who holds her faith and her God so high in her life, and to whom other people often look for an example, I have not been a very good one lately. I know we all fall short and make mistakes, and I am so thankful that I have a God who loves me no matter what and who has forgiven me and cleansed me.

I guess what I am trying to say is, everyone has a moment where they slip back into old ways or thoughts, and for everyone it is something different. What is so amazing is the forgiveness we already have in Jesus, He loves and forgives us no matter what. And for that I am grateful. Eternally grateful.

I feel like I am just babbling senselessly here so I will stop now, but I urge you if you are feeling convicted in your heart because of something you did which you know is not right before the Lord (remembering there is no in between, no grey area in God's eyes) then call on Him right now for forgiveness and ask him to create a clean heart in you too. He will forgive you - I can promise you that!