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Bible in 90 Days: Day 2 Reflections

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Bible in 90 Days: Day 2 Reflections

July 6, 2018July 5, 2018 InnaLeave a comment

Genesis 17 - 28:1-19 Out of all these chapters, chapter 22 was the one I zeroed in on most. God promised Abraham that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars and finally, many years later he was given a son by Sarah named Issac. Looking at Abrahams life, it wasn't hard to see… Continue reading Bible in 90 Days: Day 2 Reflections

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Why Should I Accept Jesus?

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Why Should I Accept Jesus?

July 5, 2018November 6, 2018 InnaLeave a comment

Why should I accept Jesus? Until you accept that Jesus died for you on Calvary and believe that in faith, you will live and die without any real satisfaction in your soul. You will life your life without truly experiencing God's love towards you. You will live day by day in stress without ever experiencing… Continue reading Why Should I Accept Jesus?

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/ / A life of Obedience / / If we want to please God, then it’s essential that we obey Him. Yes, obedience may be fairly difficult and yes, it may be harder than just doing whatever we feel like doing. But it’s a key standard to life as a Christian. . Through His commandments, God commands us to obey these commandments; principles by which we have to live. He commands us to obey Him. God gave us these commandments not as limitations but instead as a protective shield that protects us from evil IF we don’t stray from it. . When we are faced with a choice to sin, we often ask ourselves the following question: ‘will i experience greater happiness by committing this sin than I would if I obey God?’ A lot of the time, we choose whichever one that will bring us happiness at THAT moment. . God command us to obey Him not because He wants to limit us BUT because He knows the affect and consequences sin will have in our lives and on us.

/ / D I S A P P O I N T M E N T / / The crazy and amazing thing about Our God is that He never disappoints us. In our relationships with other people, one person is constantly disappointing the other or the other way around. Disappointment is part of any and very relationship you have. However there is one relationship that doesn’t come with this disappointment, our relationship with God. No matter what we’re going through, how hard things may be, how annoying or indecisive we can be, etc., God doesn’t disappoint us. We may feel like He does when He doesn’t answer our prayers right away, or give us what we wanted, we always know there’s something better in store. We can always count on God to have our best interest in mind no matter how much we disappoint Him, which I’m sure is a ridiculously high number of times. In our relationship with God, we are the only ones capable of being a disappointment. Whether it’s when we give into our temptations, indulge in a sinful life, only come to God when we need something, or blame Him for our mistakes, He doesn’t love us any less. On some level, this is absolutely unbelievable. Honestly just think about it, would you be able to love someone who spread many false rumors about you, or someone who talks bad about you behind your back, or someone who cheated on you in a relationship? Probably not in the slightest. Yet WE cheat on God everyday when we choose sin over His righteousness and Holiness. Yet it is said that God CAN’T love you anymore than He loves you now. He is a never changing God meaning that His love for us DOES NOT change no matter if we do. Yes, God loves us but He HATES our sin. One way we can try to stop disappointing God is by choosing Him over our sins.

“Don’t chase people. Be an example. Attract them. The people that belong in your life will find you and stay.” The people that are truly meant to be in your life, will find you...eventually(almost always when you least expect them). When you spend your time chasing people whether it’s friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, whatever type of person it is you want in your life, you miss out on valuable time with God. God specifically gave YOU that time alone so that your focus can be fully on Him with no distractions. So when we go looking for the people we need on our time instead of God’s, we end up with the wrong people in our life. People who don’t feed our spirit. People who take away our joy. People who leave us confused. People who constantly take but never give. People that leave you high and dry. People who take you for granted. When we start to question God why our friends make us feel empty it’s because you choose your friends instead of letting God help you with it.

We don’t always understand God’s methods. His ways don’t always make sense to us, but we have to realize that God sees the big picture. Consider this possibility: you may be ready for what God has for you, but somebody else who is going to be involved is not ready yet. God has to do a work in another person or another situation before you’re prayer can be answered according to God’s will for your life. All the pieces have to come together for it to be God’s perfect time. To live your best life now, you must learn to trust God’s timing. Let God do it His way. The answer will come, and it will be right on time. - Unknown

A best friend is someone who knows you better than yourself. Someone you can rely on. Someone who is loyal to you at all times. A best friend offers a shoulder to cry on. They’re someone you can trust with your life. Someone who goes everywhere and anywhere with you just so you won’t be alone. Someone who I’ll protect you at all costs. Someone who will be real with you. Someone you can talk to about anything and everything. Someone who knows how to brighten your day after it all went downhill. It’s someone who won’t walk away after a nasty fight. Someone who’ll tell you that eventually at some point, it’ll all be okay. Someone who shows you how much they love you with every action. Someone who knows all your deepest, darkest secrets yet doesn’t judge you. Someone who reminds you that they “got you” and actually mean it. I want THAT person to be JESUS in my life.

// L E T M E H E A R Y O U S P E A K // I’ve realized that all this time, I’ve been asking God to speak to me, to reveal Himself to me. Yet the sad part about that is that I haven’t been listening. He may as well have said a whole lecture but I got none of that because I didn’t step out of my comfort zone and put myself in a place where i could hear Him. God is always talking to us whether it’s through a song, a sermon, our parents, the guy on the radio, it could be anything but when we choose to focus on ourselves, we miss it. We miss what God has been trying to tell us over and over again because we’re so caught up in ourselves. Im not saying that you’re all vain people, because it’s not like that. Well yes, there are a many vain people out there but then there are those who don’t realize that they are being vain. A lot of times when we turn our focus on ourselves and refuse to look at our surroundings, we’re literally giving God no room to speak life to us. We’ve completely blocked Him out and made a box for ourselves, one that is only full our ourselves and has no room for anything or anyone else. If we want to hear God in our lives, we have to KEEP our focus on Him at all times AND He has to be the CENTER of our focus. This is the only way we’ll ever be in a position to where we can hear what God has to say, only when we give Him our complete attention.

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