Thoughtful in Selah
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
God blesses those who bless Him
Here's a very interesting thing that I'm sure is going to start some sort of debate. I'm feeling up for it though.
I don't have time to go through and find scriptures to prove all this because it is really late but I just want to get the idea out...
I believe that, enabled by God, I can foresee events in life. Not everything that is going to happen but only certain special things. For example:
Last Saturday I was about to go to bed after Refresh and I had the thought "don't worry about getting up in the morning to go to church because we aren't going". Well I pushed it aside and the next morning got up and headed for church with the family. However, we never actually set foot inside the church. Mom started not feeling well and wanted to go home, so we turned around and came home.
That is just one example. There have been a couple more things like this, where I can say how something will happen and it usually does. But I don't predict it myself. It is just a thought that jumps into my head that even I in all my randomness could not makeup.
Let me know what you think... I'm excitedly waiting to see what God will give me next. I know it is from God because there is no other power that can stand against Him.
I don't have time to go through and find scriptures to prove all this because it is really late but I just want to get the idea out...
I believe that, enabled by God, I can foresee events in life. Not everything that is going to happen but only certain special things. For example:
Last Saturday I was about to go to bed after Refresh and I had the thought "don't worry about getting up in the morning to go to church because we aren't going". Well I pushed it aside and the next morning got up and headed for church with the family. However, we never actually set foot inside the church. Mom started not feeling well and wanted to go home, so we turned around and came home.
That is just one example. There have been a couple more things like this, where I can say how something will happen and it usually does. But I don't predict it myself. It is just a thought that jumps into my head that even I in all my randomness could not makeup.
Let me know what you think... I'm excitedly waiting to see what God will give me next. I know it is from God because there is no other power that can stand against Him.
Labels: Posts of my Faith
Sunday, October 28, 2007
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Mark of The Beast vs. Seal of The Almighty
Now I'm not going to go too far into eschatology here, but I found this interesting. First let me provide you with the decision chain of how I got here in the first place.
1. I received two comments
2. These inspired me to do a follow-up post
3. I needed something to talk about
4. I went digging through an interesting book of the Bible
5. Found something very interesting in the interesting book of the interesting Bible...
Interestingly enough, I found a verse in Revelations that talks about 144,000 people from the tribes of Israel. Now I was quite perplexed when I read a couple versus from chapter 7.
"'Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.' Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel."
When I read this at first I was really thrown into a whirlwind because I just saw 'seal' and 'marked' and the first thing I thought of was the mark of the beast. I didn't think that was right and I didn't understand what was going on... thank goodness I have a study Bible! Let's take a look at the footnotes...
"SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD" - The seal was a tool or ring that stamped an owner's mark of identification on something. God's seal on a person identifies that person as belonging to God, devoted to his service and under his care."
WOW!!! I WOULD LOVE TO BE BRANDED BY GOD!!!
So now I have learned something new that is really interesting which just makes me want to serve a God because I've been branded by him and I am in His service and under His care. Sweet....
1. I received two comments
2. These inspired me to do a follow-up post
3. I needed something to talk about
4. I went digging through an interesting book of the Bible
5. Found something very interesting in the interesting book of the interesting Bible...
Interestingly enough, I found a verse in Revelations that talks about 144,000 people from the tribes of Israel. Now I was quite perplexed when I read a couple versus from chapter 7.
"'Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.' Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel."
When I read this at first I was really thrown into a whirlwind because I just saw 'seal' and 'marked' and the first thing I thought of was the mark of the beast. I didn't think that was right and I didn't understand what was going on... thank goodness I have a study Bible! Let's take a look at the footnotes...
"SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD" - The seal was a tool or ring that stamped an owner's mark of identification on something. God's seal on a person identifies that person as belonging to God, devoted to his service and under his care."
WOW!!! I WOULD LOVE TO BE BRANDED BY GOD!!!
So now I have learned something new that is really interesting which just makes me want to serve a God because I've been branded by him and I am in His service and under His care. Sweet....
Labels: Posts of my Faith
Monday, October 1, 2007
And thus I succumb NO LONGER!
That's it I'm finished, I'm through....
This post is for the guys mainly but I want to make, ...uh... a praise report if nothing else.
You know how when your 13-16 you go through that stage of life that is just filled with junk and trials and temptations? You know what I'm talking about...
Well who doesn't deal with that?
For the past couple of days I've been thinking about hard it is to over come this stronghold that has its grip on me. I am no longer obsessed about thoughts or fantasies of sin. Now all of a sudden a great burden is being lifted off of my shoulders. I'm beginning to lose interest in what use to be a daily focus and a daily battle. I just feel so revived that I can praise and worship the Lord so much more!
Today I was surfing the web looking through some pieces of software when these popups kept coming up. Okay I know that a couple of my readers have told me time and time again to get a popup filter installed but I said I didn't need it. Well usually these things don't happen but one popped up and of course it was just the thing that we fear the most. Let's just say it was "adult content". So what do you do... You have two choices. Either X-Out or sit there and stare and follow the links to the sinful web pages. No before when this would happen I would do what any random Joe would do; I would go looking through the website. Only today was different. I became just so--I don't know the words for it--"enraged" that I just said in my heart, "I'm walking with God and I will not stumble nor fall". So I closed out of Firefox and felt proud of myself for taking the stand!!! And if you were in TFC last Tuesday than you know that that is what I talked about.
They say that the first step is the hardest. With the Lord on my side and I on His than I will begin fighting a winning war than a losing battle.
"I cry freedom from the chains that bind our children,
Freedom from the chains, that bind our praise to You,
Freedom from the lies of the enemy!
FREEDOM!!!!"
"I'm no longer chained, no longer bound,
I'm no longer lost 'cause I've been found,
No longer dead 'cause I'm alive,
HE lives in me He's Jesus Christ!"
This post is for the guys mainly but I want to make, ...uh... a praise report if nothing else.
You know how when your 13-16 you go through that stage of life that is just filled with junk and trials and temptations? You know what I'm talking about...
Well who doesn't deal with that?
For the past couple of days I've been thinking about hard it is to over come this stronghold that has its grip on me. I am no longer obsessed about thoughts or fantasies of sin. Now all of a sudden a great burden is being lifted off of my shoulders. I'm beginning to lose interest in what use to be a daily focus and a daily battle. I just feel so revived that I can praise and worship the Lord so much more!
Today I was surfing the web looking through some pieces of software when these popups kept coming up. Okay I know that a couple of my readers have told me time and time again to get a popup filter installed but I said I didn't need it. Well usually these things don't happen but one popped up and of course it was just the thing that we fear the most. Let's just say it was "adult content". So what do you do... You have two choices. Either X-Out or sit there and stare and follow the links to the sinful web pages. No before when this would happen I would do what any random Joe would do; I would go looking through the website. Only today was different. I became just so--I don't know the words for it--"enraged" that I just said in my heart, "I'm walking with God and I will not stumble nor fall". So I closed out of Firefox and felt proud of myself for taking the stand!!! And if you were in TFC last Tuesday than you know that that is what I talked about.
They say that the first step is the hardest. With the Lord on my side and I on His than I will begin fighting a winning war than a losing battle.
"I cry freedom from the chains that bind our children,
Freedom from the chains, that bind our praise to You,
Freedom from the lies of the enemy!
FREEDOM!!!!"
"I'm no longer chained, no longer bound,
I'm no longer lost 'cause I've been found,
No longer dead 'cause I'm alive,
HE lives in me He's Jesus Christ!"
Labels: Posts of my Faith
