Posts Tagged ‘Delirious’

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!

If you have chosen Christ, I’d ask you to join me in the following prayer to acknowledge Him as our Lord and Saviour:

Dear God,

I am a sinner and separated from you. I believe Jesus is the Messiah and that He died on the cross to pay for my sins. I believe he rose again on the third day and that by receiving His gift of love I will have the power to become a child of God because I believe fully in His name.

Thank you for hearing my prayer and thank you for saving me, and I pledge the rest of my life to you.

Amen.

It’s all well and good, preaching God‘s message to others but preaching at people just isn’t enough to convince some of God’s love for them.

So how do we convince them?

We’ve got to BE God’s message!

But how do we be God’s message?

We pray to God and trust Him, to help us live the kind of life He wants us to live.

So when we see people hurting, people who have no desire to trust us or indeed trust God, don’t preach at them, be God’s message to them by showing them God’s message in action!

Ephesians 2:8-9 (NIV)

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works so that no one can boast.

Have you been saved by God?

If not, what’s stopping you?

If so, I bet the day you got saved, was the happiest day of your life! When we get saved not only does it make us happy, it makes God happy because we are accepting God’s presence in our lives, and committing to live our life for Him.

But what makes God even happier?

When you get saved, God puts a smile on your face. When you grow up, you put a smile on God’s face.

i.e. When our faith and trust in God grows, so does what we can achieve for God, and that is what makes God smile.

Have you every come across someone who seems to be habitually unhappy? I guess we’ve all known someone like that at some time in our lives…aren’t they a bit of a misery!

I read the following quote from Abraham Lincoln yesterday that reinforces the fact that happiness can often be a state of mind:

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be

I guess those who are habitually unhappy, do not try very hard to be happy. After all, take a look around you, I’m many of the people you work with, attend school or college with all have things going on in their lives which could make them unhappy and upset if they let it. However most of us do our best to be happy when we’re in public and “pretend” all is well.

When we see someone smile, it can often make us smile even if inwardly we really don’t feel like it. So let’s endeavour to make happiness our state of mind and spread a little happiness wherever we go.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things – Robert Brault

During our life time, many events occur, some instantly have a huge impact on us, others, as the above quote says, don’t seem to be huge events to us until we look back on them at a later time.

Doesn’t this just remind us that we should enjoy every event in our life, as who know which event may turn out to be one of the most significant in our life, so don’t let any moments pass by unnoticed because they may just be the making of you.

Every little thing is important, and every little thing can be the huge thing you’ve been waiting for for so long, so enjoy every little thing about life.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted – Aesop

Every act of kindness is never wasted because if it’s been done with the best intentions, to help another person and not for personal gain, it has always been done for the right reason.

No act of kindness ever goes unseen, as even if the intended recipient ignores the act of kindness, God sees it.

God uses each of us to performs acts of kindness. He guides us in all we do so that we can help others. So don’t ever think any act of kindness you perform has ever gone unnoticed, as God has noticed it and loves you for helping some else.

Sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference between those who are friends and those who are true friends.

A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart ~ Heather Pryor

There are a lot of people in our lives who I guess we’d call friends if we were describing our relationship with them, to someone else, but think about this…how many of those people would actually reach out and help you in your time of need?

It’s when life it tough and you’re in need of someone to support and comfort you, that you find out who your true friends are. As the above quote says, true friends are the ones who reach out to you and touch your heart.

God commanded us to love one another, therefore our true friendships are from God, so give thanks to Him for every true friend you have.

1 John 4:7 (NIV)

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

How many times have you said, or heard someone else saying, “If only I had said/done……before it was too late”?

Don’t spend your life regretting having missed your chance to say or do something which could have meant the world to someone. Take your opportunities when they arise as you never get that opportunity again to tell someone just how you feel about them.

In the same way that we must take our opportunities to tell others how much they mean to us, or do a good deed for someone, make sure you don’t miss out on knowing God because you put off giving your all to Him until tomorrow.

God is the only one who truly knows what lies ahead of us, so don’t forget to tell the ones you love how much they mean to you today, because you never know when it may be the last time you’ll ever get that chance. God can help us through every situation that we come face to face with, so now is the time to accept Him into your life, not tomorrow, but NOW!

 

Do you consider yourself to be a Christian? Do you follow the instructions provided to us in Philippians 2:1-4 (The Message) ?:

If you’ve gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care— then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don’t push your way to the front; don’t sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don’t be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.

Can you say honestly that you always adhere to these instructions? I know I sometimes fail in following these instructions, but it’s not because I mean to break these rules, it’s simply that I’m human!

God knows that we cannot be perfect and do all He expects of us if He is not actually part of our life. Therefore we must ensure we have given the whole of our life, our everything to Him if we ever want to be able to achieve all He wants us to.

By putting our life firmly in God’s hands, He can guide us and help us to be live as He desires us to 24/7.