Posts Tagged ‘Christ’

Feelings

Posted: May 20, 2013 in friendship, heart, life, love, music, religion
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You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel ~ Unknown

…and the most important thing you can feel in your heart is God!

When God enters your heart, there is no greater feeling.

When you accept God into your heart your life will change forever.

When did you let God into your life?

Is God still in your life?

Is He still at the centre of your life?

God can make your life feel brand new, and help you see and experience life in a whole new way, so kneel before Him today and give your life to Him. I can promise you it’ll be the best feeling you’ll ever have when you let Christ into your life!

Quick to Believe or Not?

Posted: May 17, 2013 in bible, books, life, love, newspapers, religion, words
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I read the following by Mark Twain the other day and it amused me:

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

It just amused me as I can think of one or two people I know who, whenever they get a pain or feel a bit off colour, they try to diagnose what’s wrong with them. Unsurprisingly, their diagnosis is just about always wrong, as none of them are medically qualified in any way…unless googling their symptoms counts as a medical degree these days!

bibleAnyway, my main reason for mentioning this quote from Mark Twain, is that it reminds me that we are all quick to believe what we read in newspapers and books, but are we as quick to believe what we read in the bible?

It’s funny how we’re quick to believe the words we read in newspapers which are written to make profit for their owners.

It’s funny how we’re quick to believe what we read on internet sites which have no authorisation or qualifications to say what they do.

It’s funny how few of us read our bibles regularly and believe God’s promises contained in it.

Let’s make sure we believe all God’s promises to us, and live our lives as He directs us to.

I Will Testify

Posted: May 14, 2013 in friendship, life, love, music, pray, prayer, religion, words
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Testify To Love by Avalon

All the colours of the rainbow
All of voices of the wind
Every dream that reaches out
That reaches out to find where love begins
Every word of every story
Every star in every sky
Every corner of creation lives to testify
For as long as I shall live
I will testify to love
I’ll be a witness in the silences when words are not enough
With every breath I take I will give thanks to God above
For as long as I shall live
I will testify to love
From the mountains to the valleys
From the rivers to the sea
Every hand that reaches out
Every hand that reaches out to offer peace
Every simple act of mercy
Every step to kingdom come
All the Hope in every heart will speak what love has done.

How about you, will you testify to love for as long as you live?

I will do my best to testify for God for the rest of my live, but I know I will only be able to achieve this with God’s help. That is why I pray each day that He will continue to help and guide me each day.

My Pilot

Posted: May 6, 2013 in bereavement, death, depression, family, friendship, Health, heaven, life, love, religion, Rutherglen, Salvation Army, transportation, words
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In the last couple of months I’ve spoken several times about how I’ve felt as if I’m running on auto pilot. But do you understand what i mean?

A pilot is normally associated with aeroplanes, however a pilot is really just described as someone who leads or guides. So for me what that meant was, I was going through the motions, doing and saying all the things I was supposed to without really feeling as though I was really there or really in control of what I was saying or doing…I was there in person but my mind was definitely elsewhere thinking about my Dad and my Aunt Mae  who died within 6 weeks of one another earlier this year.

I am just thankful that particularly in these last couple of months, I’ve had a great pilot to guide me…Jesus!jesus is my pilot

I’m reminded of a chorus we used to sing:

I have a pilot who guides me
Night and day;
Through cloud and sunshine I trust him,
Come what may.
Dangers may threaten but I never fear;
I’m full of confidence while he is near;
I have a pilot who guides me
Along life’s way.

I have certainly found those words reassuring in the last while, I hope you do too.

Mentoring

Posted: May 3, 2013 in blogging, children, family, friendship, language, life, management, personnel characteristics, religion, school, words
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Well, just like yesterday (in Manners), I’m going to have a moan…

In many areas of our lives we can find ourselves “mentoring” others in what they should be saying and doing and how they should be saying or doing it, both at work, in our family lives as well as with our friends.

During our lifetimes, it’s been proven that we can be influenced the most when we are children. So here’s my question for you today…are you mentoring your children, and those you come into contact with, in your bad habits, or are you mentoring them in God‘s way?

politenessWhy am I asking this? Well (here’s my moan), my main reason is, just like yesterday, my concerns over the way our society has changed over the last years. It feels to me, that even during my lifetime, and I’m not that old, that the basic standards of decency and politeness have all but disappeared from our society.

Where is our respect for others?

Why are we no longer willing to help a stranger in need?

These are just a couple of questions to highlight my concerns, but the bottom line is, if we want our society to change for the better, it’s down to us to be the example of decency that others need to see. Jesus wants us to be Christ-like in all we do, so take up that challenge today by acting how Jesus would have acted, by being polite, honest, decent and caring in all you do.

Effective Prayer #6

Posted: April 26, 2013 in bible, friendship, life, love, music, pray, prayer, religion, Salvation Army
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In your presence there is comfort
In your presence there is peace
When we seek to know your heart
We will find such blessed assurance
In your holy presence, hope

Prayer is not merely about asking God for things, but about enjoying His presence. When praying to God you should pause for a moment, and acknowledge that you are in the presence of infinite Love.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. ~ Revelation 3:20 (NKJV)

 

Effective Prayer #2

Posted: April 21, 2013 in bible, blogging, friendship, life, love, music, pray, prayer, religion, Salvation Army, words
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1 John 5:14 (NKJV)

Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

Yesterday in Effective Prayer #1 I touched on the fact that God hears our every prayer. Today, I want to remind you that in order to pray effectively, we must fully believe and understand that God has the power to do what we are not capable of doing for ourselves. i.e. He alone can answer our prayers.

Mark 11:24 (NKJV)

Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

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How To Be More Effective

Posted: April 18, 2013 in friendship, life, love, religion, words
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We all live very busy lives these, running around from one task to another, without having any time to stop and consider how effectively we are at actually achieving anything. So here’s a lovely poem I came across which give us some guidance on how to live more effective lives:

To Be More Effective by M.S.Lowndes
 
I know I need to concentrate
Wholly Lord on you
But why does that always seem
So hard for me to do
 
I get so easily distracted
With so many worldly thoughts
Unable to stay focused on you
And on the things I ought
 
Lord I long so much to know
Your tender loving ways
And to be much more effective
When to you I humbly pray
 
I need your Holy Spirit
Filling me this hour
So I will be fully equipped
Inspired and empowered
 
Then I can face the day ahead
And be ready for what may come
To continue to walk and to flourish
In the things that you’ve begun
 
To bring it into maturity
A full completion in you
So when others may behold your works
They will long to know you too

Care You Not

Posted: April 17, 2013 in cross, death, Easter, friendship, life, love, music, religion
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Care You Not By William J Shannon
 
In the paths along the way,
Countless souls are passing by,
Many lost and some are saved.
Shall we stand idly by?
 
So you not care for those in pain,
Those we love, in sin do die.
When by a word, or some kind deed,
Will cheer some soul in need.
 
Blessed Saviour, be our Guide,
To have us bring the light
To souls that are lost,
Down to the foot of the cross.

Do you care about those in pain?

Do you care about those in need?

Do you care about those who haven’t found Christ?

All those of us who answered “Yes” to these questions, will be doing their best to help those of you who said “No”, to accept Christ as their saviour.

Let’s knee down before Christ, at the foot of the cross, and thank Him for giving His life for us, and in turn accepting Him into our lives.

Would You Know Why I Love Jesus?

Posted: April 15, 2013 in cross, death, Easter, friendship, life, love, music, religion
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Would you know why I love Jesus, why He is so dear to me?

This is why I love my Jesus, this is why I love Him so:
He has pardoned my transgressions,
He has washed me white as snow.

Yes, I love Jesus.

Yes, He loves me.

Yes, He gave His life for me, so my sins could be forgiven.

Jesus loves you, and will forgive your sins…you just need to ask Him to forgive you!

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