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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671</id><updated>2024-02-19T19:00:45.568+04:00</updated><category term="Salvation"/><category term="Christian Poems"/><category term="Eternal Life"/><category term="Friend"/><category term="Love"/><category term="Satisfaction"/><category term="Anger"/><category term="Bible"/><category term="Christian Articles"/><category term="Christian Living"/><category term="Failure"/><category term="Faith"/><category term="Forgiveness"/><category term="Gift"/><category term="God's Love"/><category term="Hope"/><category term="Money"/><category term="Obedience"/><category term="Opportunity"/><category term="Personal Testimony"/><category term="Service"/><category term="Share"/><category term="Sin"/><category term="Soul Win"/><category term="Success"/><category term="Talents"/><category term="Trust"/><category term="Authority"/><category term="Beliefs"/><category term="Bible Stories"/><category term="Bitterness"/><category term="Book of Life"/><category term="Change"/><category term="Chosen"/><category term="Christmas"/><category term="Comfort"/><category term="Confess"/><category term="Conflict"/><category term="Death"/><category term="Decisions"/><category term="Dying"/><category term="Emptiness"/><category term="False"/><category term="Fame"/><category term="Fear"/><category term="Friends"/><category term="Friendship"/><category term="Future"/><category term="God Says"/><category term="God's Anger"/><category term="God's Promises"/><category term="God's Word"/><category term="Good News"/><category term="Guidance"/><category term="Healing"/><category term="Help"/><category term="Letter"/><category term="Meditation"/><category term="Mercy"/><category term="Miracle"/><category term="Mockery"/><category term="Nurse"/><category term="Prayer"/><category term="Priority"/><category term="Problems"/><category term="Procrastination"/><category term="Promises"/><category term="Question and Answer"/><category term="Rapture"/><category term="Reason"/><category term="Relationship"/><category term="Responsibilities"/><category term="Sacrifice"/><category term="Second Coming"/><category term="Shut up"/><category term="Silence"/><category term="Social Media"/><category term="Special"/><category term="Stories"/><category term="Surrender"/><category term="Temptation"/><category term="Time"/><category term="Treasure"/><category term="Video"/><category term="Wisdom"/><category term="Worry"/><title type='text'>Inspired by the Word</title><subtitle type='html'>Walk by faith and not by sight. Lean on to God's Word. Trust His promises. Be inspired.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25&redirect=false'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>43</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-4900450882557350055</id><published>2012-09-16T20:13:00.000+04:00</published><updated>2012-09-22T19:13:39.141+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bible"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Priority"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Social Media"/><title type='text'>The Bible and Facebook</title><content type='html'><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bored at work while I was waiting for people to assist on chat, I decided to search the internet and stumbled reading articles at&nbsp;<a href="http://m.blogs.christianpost.com/building-his-kingdom/are-you-being-distracted-by-facebook-10751/">ChristianPost</a>&nbsp;website. One article captured me. It is worth sharing.&nbsp;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May I ask how often do you read your Bible? What about your checking your Facebook?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those were the ideas or the questions that made me ponder. It was like a lightening that struck straight to my heart.&nbsp;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Am I reading my Bible more than I get on my Facebook account? Is Facebook a priority more than learning God's word?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After reading the article, I was full of guilt. I felt it was like a slap on my face. I can still even feel it while I am writing this blog post. I feel so ashamed of this occurrence.&nbsp;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think there is nothing wrong having a Facebook account. What is wrong is if we drool first hour of the day to check for "Friend Request" or "Notifications". Facebook became our god. We even post our success and failure first on Facebook before we can even thank the Lord. We check our Facebook for hours but we find it boring reading God's word in 15 minutes or less. It is about setting our priorities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let us remember that anything that takes your love or your time for Jesus is our idol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Exodus 20:3-4 "<i>You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on earth beneath or in the waters below."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is anything that steals our focus in the Lord. It could be money, relationships, car, house, gadgets and even the things we spent time on, like Facebook.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is not just Facebook, it could be Twitter or any social networking sites that pulls you away from the Lord.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'd be an hypocrite if I will not admit that sometimes I can stay online on Facebook the whole day but sometimes drag by self in reading Bible the last minute before I passed out because of sleepiness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So this has been my prayer after reading that article.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Lord, please forgive me. Forgive me for being lax in reading your Word, the Bible. I am very sorry that I get on Facebook more often that reading the Bible. I am so&nbsp;embarrassed by this reality. You are so good to me but I failed to please and worship you. Lord, please give me the grace and the joy in reading my Bible more often than checking my Facebook. Please allow me to use Facebook to share your Word and to win souls for you. Please give me the strength to fight the lure of Facebook. Thank you for making me realize I was wrong. I pray for the&nbsp;enlightenment&nbsp;of other Christians that your also guilty of this feat. I ask this and pray in Jesus' name, Amen.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The title of the article is&nbsp;</span><a href="http://m.blogs.christianpost.com/building-his-kingdom/are-you-being-distracted-by-facebook-10751/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are You Being Distracted by Facebook?</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am made some progress. I realize that I have not been writing articles for my blog. So instead of spending time staring, liking and commenting on Facebook, I'd rather write blogs about the Lord.&nbsp;</span>
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</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/4900450882557350055/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=4900450882557350055&isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/4900450882557350055'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/4900450882557350055'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-bible-and-facebook.html' title='The Bible and Facebook'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-7322284163358630325</id><published>2012-05-11T16:22:00.001+04:00</published><updated>2012-05-11T16:22:44.795+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Book of Life"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Friends"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Good News"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Salvation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Share"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Time"/><title type='text'>No Time</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I knelt to pray but not for long,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had too much to do, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Must hurry off and get to work,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For bills would soon be due,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And so I said a hurried prayer,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jumped up off my knees,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Christian duty now was done, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My soul could be at ease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All through the day I had no time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To speak a word of cheer,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NO TIME to speak of Christ to friends,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They would laugh at me I feared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NO TIME, NO TIME, too much to do,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That was my constant cry,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NO TIME to give those in need, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At last it was time to die..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when before the Lord I came, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I stood with downcast eyes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With His hands lie held a book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was the BOOK OF LIFE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He looked into the book and said, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But never found the TIME.</span></div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/7322284163358630325/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=7322284163358630325&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/7322284163358630325'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/7322284163358630325'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2012/05/no-time.html' title='No Time'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-7348704142918153161</id><published>2012-03-16T20:14:00.008+04:00</published><updated>2012-03-22T18:23:36.594+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Change"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Christian Living"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Eternal Life"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Personal Testimony"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Salvation"/><title type='text'>180° Change</title><content type='html'><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span>Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. - 2 Corinthians 5:17 </span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span>I must admit, being a Christian is not easy. People looking at you; observing your next move; and waiting for you to make mistake and fall.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span>I am not a perfect Christian -nobody is- and I have struggles as well. I feel sad sometimes if people don't see the Christian in me. It is like when two friends meet in a Christian event and the two would say "Oh, you are a Christian?!?" I feel ashamed that I am not being a good example in my actions and words everyday. It could be that I am living in the "safe mode". Church people see me as very faithful person on Sundays but my friends and others do not really see the light in me. I don't smoke. I don't drink nor do drugs. I don't even go to movie theaters nor any night bars or party houses. Still, sometimes they don't see the Christian in me. I know I am missing something.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span><br /></span></div><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmd3oRU2biSFIWuhZptPgmKageM1bdfzQH8kkJAlX2C04DfmtqDSRC9cBq7N-h8REa8wGxyZUddz798VXBsjUjVa125azn6_PNkHH-dhG85XeMnuYHUcoNwrdAqHzFeucnRCV808a2vvE/s1600/1271384869vb3jl1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 197px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmd3oRU2biSFIWuhZptPgmKageM1bdfzQH8kkJAlX2C04DfmtqDSRC9cBq7N-h8REa8wGxyZUddz798VXBsjUjVa125azn6_PNkHH-dhG85XeMnuYHUcoNwrdAqHzFeucnRCV808a2vvE/s200/1271384869vb3jl1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722726743167630962" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: normal; ">180°. In mathematics, it is a straight line. It doesn't really portray change. However, in the Bible, it symbolizes a person who was in the dark and now is in the light; a new creature. A person that used to satisfy himself and now cares what others would think and most of all what does the Lord think about it. Hundred eighty degrees</span> <span>is a representation of a new person from darkness to light; a person that was once was lost and now have found and especially sees what's the difference of the old life in sin and a new life in God. It also represents a change in every aspect of your life. Just like a song, <i>"There's a great change since I was saved. It says "The things I used to do, I do them no more. The things I used to say, I say them no more, The books I used to read, I read them no more. "There's a great change since I was saved." </i></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; "><span>Sometimes it is difficult to show who you really are in a world that is too difficult to please. However, I admire these famous people who took a stand to what they believe is right and what pleases the Lord. They have surrendered their earthly profession for the sake of the calling and for the glory of God. </span></div><div style="font-style: normal; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; "><span>Lately, the runway has been surprised when the 21 year old, Kylie Bisutti, announced her decision to quit being a Victoria's Secret angel/model for her faith. Many had criticized her for the decision since she was chosen over 10, 000 wannabes. However, convicted of her faith, she chose to honor her husband through not exposing her body and glorify the Lord. Here is a video clip of hers. </span><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5CDKLrsUyco?fs=1" width="480"></iframe><br /></span></div><div><span><br /></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span>A few years back, the same decision was made by Brian Welch better known as "Head" of the rock band Korn. Brian came to know the Lord through his business partners. Brian suffered emotional turmoil as a husband and a father to her daughter. He was a drug addict. After he came to know the Lord, he eventually quit drugs and Korn. People think that drugs got into his brain already but he shows to the world that he made the right decision. Here is his story.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Fs7i_ckEHVA?fs=1" width="459"></iframe><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span><span style="font-style: normal; ">Are you claiming that you are a Christian? Remember your attitude is the aroma of your soul. If your attitude stinks there might be something wrong inside of you. Can others see the change in your life; the light in you? </span><i>Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. </i>Matthew 5:16</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span>Are you still living in the darkness? Why not have a 180° change? Jesus can only make you change. Just like what Brian said, he didn't go to rehab. He surrendered everything to God. God changed him. The Lord is waiting for you. If there is one thing I learned being Christ like is difficult but if our desire is for others to know the Lord let our actions and our words reflects what our Master is. Give your best to Him and what pleases Him. I hope people in the dark can see our light. I hope we will not live in the "safe mode". There are martyrs in the Middle East that would die for their faith. The Lord is not asking us to go to the Middle East and die for him. The Lord needs us to be like Him in our actions and in words that others may came to know the Lord as well. </span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span><span>Surrender to the Lord all the things you have not changed when you were still in the dark now that you are in the light. Only God can change you and only by His grace that change could happen. </span><span>It is not easy but rewarding.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/7348704142918153161/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=7348704142918153161&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/7348704142918153161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/7348704142918153161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2012/03/hi.html' title='180° Change'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmd3oRU2biSFIWuhZptPgmKageM1bdfzQH8kkJAlX2C04DfmtqDSRC9cBq7N-h8REa8wGxyZUddz798VXBsjUjVa125azn6_PNkHH-dhG85XeMnuYHUcoNwrdAqHzFeucnRCV808a2vvE/s72-c/1271384869vb3jl1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-2041911653197508053</id><published>2012-02-22T20:41:00.003+04:00</published><updated>2012-02-22T20:57:55.119+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Failure"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mercy"/><title type='text'>Mercies in Disguise</title><content type='html'><span ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfePbmbR_KbwQCwmqsqzkvDBrJytvOQ-c43PhSTLfWNF8WLQ6Xy57nCxY4abaplei-sOVZv06UfnG9ExSeZvpvWnRs1vVwQ8zQEdR5n0mMFqMaPzckYJmDmaMXKyL5IFQAB4bhsUhwd58/s1600/F%252520Grade.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 162px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfePbmbR_KbwQCwmqsqzkvDBrJytvOQ-c43PhSTLfWNF8WLQ6Xy57nCxY4abaplei-sOVZv06UfnG9ExSeZvpvWnRs1vVwQ8zQEdR5n0mMFqMaPzckYJmDmaMXKyL5IFQAB4bhsUhwd58/s200/F%252520Grade.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712001902389537250" /></a><span style="text-align: justify; ">I HATE failures!!! Who would love failures anyway? Of course, we would love to win in every single competition and examination.</span><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span >It has been... (counting) 7 months since I have posted an article in my blog. Whoa! That is not good!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span >More than a year ago, I passed an interview for a nursing job in the United Kingdom. The interviewer gave me an A- in the interview saying I speak good in answering question for a young foreign nurse. I was ecstatic and in several weeks I decided to take the IELTS (International English Language Testing System). Without that much review, I took the test. I prayed hard to the Lord that this is the answer to my financial problems and of course, my desire to pursue my nursing career for good. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span >The exam came and I took the test. Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. I practiced much in reading and in listening as I thought that these were my low points. I had to take all 7 in all tests to pass the UK's standard in English. So in my mind, I thought I will be fine in writing and in speaking as I converse well and I receive good feedback in how I write my articles. So I was a little confident that I focused on the other tests. After the examination, I had this feeling that maybe I didn't make it. My tongue was tied when I had the speaking test and all I said was in one liner answers and puzzles of words for writing but I was still praying hard and hoping that God will answer my prayer.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span >Few months later, I received an SMS that the result was already available. I went to the center with a very heightened anxiety. Before I opened the envelope, I said, Lord, pass or fail I will still worship you. I open the envelope and in one glanced I see I got a 6.5 overall. I was silent the whole time but I was trying to think of the brighter side of the failure. I will not deny it. I was sad though.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span >I talked to my pastor and mentioned that I didn't make it. He said, hat it's okay. God has a better plan for you.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span >In the back of my mind, my lowest was writing!!! Seriously? Then speaking?! That is the reason behind I haven't written any blog articles for several months. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; ">I was frustrated that every time I try to think of a good article, there is this idea. Come on! You got your lowest score in writing! I was</span><span > thinking how can I write good articles if I can't even pass a writing test; the whole English language test. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span >I was sad but I was still focused in serving the Lord. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span >A year later with my fellow nurses talking, one of them mentioned an agency that I applied and passed. He said he quit that agency because those who got in the UK went back after several months. They were promised of a 4 year contract for a working visa.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span >Right there and then, I realized that God indeed has the best plan for me. What if I spent thousands of pesos for the placement fee and other expenses for nothing? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span >Then, this made me smile. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span >I ponder this every now and then. God is using our failures to protect us. It may look a downfall on our end, a big failure as other people see, however, we may want to thank God for our failures. As He prepare something big and beautiful for us in the future. He knows better than we do. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span >You may wonder, of all the days... why did my car stopped working?!, why did it rained?!, why did I fail?! We may not understand it now as how it happened to me, but in due time you will thank the Lord for the failures you had in your life. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span >In my case it was for my protection and I think lesson as well that I need to review everything and I can't be confident even if I know something already. For you, it could be for you to stay grounded, maybe for you to strive hard or maybe for you to focus on what pleases the Lord.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span >As the Scripture says, All things work for good to those who love the Lord (Romans 8:28). This means ALL things not just good things. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span >Indeed, mercies in disguise.</span></div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/2041911653197508053/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=2041911653197508053&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/2041911653197508053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/2041911653197508053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2012/02/mercies-in-disguise.html' title='Mercies in Disguise'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfePbmbR_KbwQCwmqsqzkvDBrJytvOQ-c43PhSTLfWNF8WLQ6Xy57nCxY4abaplei-sOVZv06UfnG9ExSeZvpvWnRs1vVwQ8zQEdR5n0mMFqMaPzckYJmDmaMXKyL5IFQAB4bhsUhwd58/s72-c/F%252520Grade.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-8021652488975178708</id><published>2011-06-29T16:59:00.004+04:00</published><updated>2011-07-05T07:25:22.076+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Money"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Salvation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Satisfaction"/><title type='text'>Worthless Treasure (What Money Can't Do)</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >You can buy <span class="Apple-style-span" ><b>a bed</b></span>; not sleep. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i>Sure! You can buy the biggest, the most comfortable and the most cozy bed man can ever make but it is useless if you can't sleep naturally.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >You can buy <b><span class="Apple-style-span" >a book</span></b>; not brain.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i>You might be a son or a daughter of a famous scientist but wasn't able to inherit your dad's brain. Sad to say you can hire the best tutor or purchase a good book and you can't buy a good spongy brain in the hardware.</i></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >You can buy <b><span class="Apple-style-span" >food</span></b>; not appetite.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i>Jealous how our beyond healthy friends eat the very last crumbs and you can buy all the menus you like but has no appetite for a bite.</i></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >You can buy <b><span class="Apple-style-span" >a house</span></b>; not home.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i>You can build a great house but sad to say it is useless if you have a broken home.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >You can buy <b><span class="Apple-style-span" >medicine</span></b>; not health.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i>The ex-president of our country died because of cancer. For sure they have the money to finance the medicine and the operation but money can't buy health.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >You can buy <b><span class="Apple-style-span" >amusement</span></b>; not joy.</span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i>You can be in Disneyland all the days of your life but there is always an emptiness inside of you.</i></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >You can buy <b><span class="Apple-style-span" >a crucifix</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" >; not the Saviour.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; "><i><p style="display: inline !important; ">For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:Not of works, lest any man should boast. </p></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >We always keep ourselves busy earning money. We toil hard to buy things that we need. My questions is, is this really want we really need or just a lucrative want?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >As the Bible says in Matthew 6:19-20 "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; "><sup class="versenum" id="en-KJV-23303" style="font-size: 0.65em; line-height: normal; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: text-top; ">20</sup>But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal" </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; ">I am so blessed I am to know the real source of true happiness despite of life's hardships and failure</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; ">Have you found the greatest treasure of all? Meditate on God's Word today and know the greatest treasure of all, no other than Jesus Christ.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/8021652488975178708/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=8021652488975178708&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/8021652488975178708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/8021652488975178708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2011/06/worthless-treasure-what-money-cant-do.html' title='Worthless Treasure (What Money Can't Do)'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-8737919543198224715</id><published>2010-10-16T09:33:00.006+04:00</published><updated>2010-10-16T10:11:02.603+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Christian Poems"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Comfort"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Satisfaction"/><title type='text'>The Eyes of My Beholder</title><content type='html'><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(248, 248, 255); line-height: 16px; "><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">In the eyes of my beholder</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I am beautifully and wonderfully made.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">In the eyes of my beholder</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I have a love that time can’t break.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">He has planned each of my days.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Then walks beside me</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">to guide me in His ways.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I don’t fear abandonment.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Not even in great discouragement.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Nor, times when I have turned from Him.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Sometimes I try to trudge my own path,</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">but He waits constantly calling me back.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Back to His side where times still can get rough.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">But I live in a peace,</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">and an unwavering trust.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">He has seen every blemish,</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">every mistake, every fault.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">He was right beside me</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">when I was hoping no one was watching at all.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I feel an ache in my heart</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">that I know is from Him.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Saying, daughter don’t keep coveting this sin.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I drop to my knees</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">in tears and shame.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">He reaches out to me,</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">and I can clearly see</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">the scars on His hands.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">That reminds me of His great plan.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">He lifts me to my feet again,</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">but I drop back down in front of Him.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This time not in grief or shame,</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">but in worship to His great name.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">In the eyes of my beholder</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">what He sees in me no single word would suffice.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">But He clearly showed me that</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I was worth the greatest sacrifice.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">By Sarah Misch</span></span></p></span></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/8737919543198224715/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=8737919543198224715&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/8737919543198224715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/8737919543198224715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2010/10/eyes-of-my-beholder.html' title='The Eyes of My Beholder'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-4011194039676790941</id><published>2010-09-25T13:32:00.003+04:00</published><updated>2010-09-25T13:47:29.316+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Money"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Problems"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Salvation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Satisfaction"/><title type='text'>I am a Billionaire!</title><content type='html'><a href="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/09/61056391_31343afdc6_b_opt.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 296px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 201px" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/09/61056391_31343afdc6_b_opt.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Do you want to be a billionaire? We all want to. There are a lot of tutelages in forms of seminars, books and publications that teach us how to be a billionaire or even just a millionaire. Forbes Magazine currently released a brand new list of America’s billionaires. Topmost, as usual, is Bill Gates with 54 billion US Dollars. Wow! That’s a lot of money, isn’t? All of us wanted to be a billionaire too. For sure everyone wanted to be Bill Gates’ son or daughter. </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">All I aim in life is to be debt free and live a simple life. Being a billionaire can’t do really a lot of things that everyone thinks. Well it can buy lots of possessions, and bits and pieces but it can’t buy a cure for AIDS or for cancer. In fact, the late President of the Philippines – Corazon Aquino died of cancer even she has lots of money. Money isn’t the solution. It is not everything.</span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Money can buy guns or hire security guards but it can never buy you peace of mind and security. It can buy you a cozy comfortable queen size or even the largest bed but can not buy you a sound sleep without any help of pills. It can make you travel the world but doesn’t assure safety while you travel. It can make you buy a nice huge house but never a home. </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I am thankful to God that I grew up being poor. If I wasn’t, I might have been astray. I might have been a single mom at an early age or a drug addict. Most of all if I wasn’t poor, I might have been so independent, away from my Creator, thinking my life is my own. Since, I didn’t grow up in a well-off silver spooned family; I learned to be a business minded person at early age. I learned to study hard to get a scholarship because my parents can’t afford to send me to school. Most of all, I realized that being poor with an eternal security is way much better than being rich and hopeless. Anyway, earth is only my temporary residence.</span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I think I forgot to mention that I am a billionaire myself. Yeah. Seriously, I am. Psalms 10:26 says “For the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.” It’s more than billions of dollars. Then, Bible says in Galatians 3:26 “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” In view of the fact that I am a child of God, I am more than a billionaire!</span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">So I say to you reader, the Lord our God is the only one who can give your true riches. You might be toiling everyday even on God’s day to earn money but turned out it is not enough. You are stealing/robbing others money for you to have something. Worst, you are selling your body for the sake of money; for you to surpass poverty. My brother/sister in the Lord, I have been through a lot of instances that I want to do those things as well, but I stayed focus on God’s promises. He owns everything in this world. If God owns the everything why worry? The Bible says in Matthew 6: 25-33:</span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, <em><strong>what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?</strong></em> <span style="color:#009900;"><em>(This verse tells us we are more blessed to have life. How can you eat, how can you drink, what’s the use of clothes and what's the purpose of money if you are dead.)</em><br /></span>6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet <strong><em>your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?</em></strong> <em><span style="color:#009900;">(If God can feed animals how much more us; created in the image and likeness of God.)</span><br /></em>6:27<strong><em> Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?</em></strong> <em><span style="color:#009900;">(If you worry about this everyday do you think it will make you rich? It will just add freckles to your beautiful face)<br /></span></em>6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:<br />6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.<br />6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?<br />6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?<br />6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for<br />your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.<br />6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">My life is a testimony how God is so good. His grace is sufficient in my life. He never leave me nor has forsaken me. God promised if we seek Him first and trust His word, all things we desire can be ours through Christ Jesus our Lord. </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Why not come to the Lord an ask Him to be a billionaire just like me. Ask for forgiveness and ask Him to come to your life and reign on your heart. Only God can make you rich, if its not now, if its not physical money, you have the billions no one can steal – your eternal security- no insurance company can offer but only true Jesus Christ our Lord. </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">So I say this, for those like me who have bank accounts with zero deposits. No worries. God never left us empty handed if He closes the windows, He opens the door. </span></div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">LET THE POOR SAY I AM RICH!:D</span></div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/4011194039676790941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=4011194039676790941&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/4011194039676790941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/4011194039676790941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2010/09/i-am-billionaire.html' title='I am a Billionaire!'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-2439653182728483209</id><published>2010-05-15T01:49:00.021+04:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T20:45:38.089+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Death"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Emptiness"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Fame"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mockery"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Salvation"/><title type='text'>In a Blink of an Eye</title><content type='html'><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">People tend to be delusional when they are in the zenith of their success. They think they are more powerful than their Creator. Being in a good shape, we think we are capable of doing things without dying. With fame, success, money and popularity; we called ourselves "god" and became misguided. I have friends who say they don't need God and they can do it themselves. But whether you admit it or not. There is an empty space in your heart not fame, nor, success, nor money nor popularity. That's the time you search for the truth; experimenting with drugs, sex and other pleasure that you think can complete you - saying you do not need nor believe God.<br /></span></div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Death is certain but the Bible speaks about untimely death! Other people think they are too young to die, they are too healthy to die or they are do good to die. Sad to say you are not completely in charge of yourself. Death is inevitable. Are you ready to face your MAKER?<br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br />Make a personal reflection about this.<br /><br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">It is written in the Bible "Be not deceived; God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man sow, that shall he also reap. (Galatians 6:7)<br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Here are some men and women who mocked and Did NOT believe in God :<br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><strong><span style="color:#663333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">John Lennon</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> (Singer): Some years before, during his interview with an American Magazine, he said: 'Christianity will end, it will disappear. I do not have to argue about that. I am certain. Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple, today we are more famous than Him' (1966). Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot six times.<br /><br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#663333;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Tancredo Neves</span></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> (President of Brazil): During the Presidential campaign, he said if he got 500,000 votes from his party, not even God would remove him from Presidency. Sure he got the votes, but he got sick a day before being made President, then he died.<br /><br /></span></div><div align="justify"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Cazuza</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet): During A show in Canecio (Rio de Janeiro), while smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some smoke into the air and said: 'God, that's for you..' He died at the age of 32 of LUNG CANCER in a horrible manner.<br /><br /></span></div><div align="justify"><strong><span style="color:#663333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The man who built the Titanic after the construction of Titanic</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">, a reporter asked him how safe the Titanic would be. With an ironic tone he said: 'Not even God can sink it' The result: I think you all know what happened to the Titanic.<br /><br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#663333;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Marilyn Monroe</span></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> (Actress). She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a show. He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her. After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said: 'I don't need your Jesus'. A week later, she was found dead in her apartment.<br /><br /></span></div><div align="justify"><strong><span style="color:#663333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Bon Scott</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> (Singer). The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his 1979 songs he sang: 'Don't stop me; I'm going down all the way, down the highway to hell'. On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked by his own vomit. </span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div align="justify"><strong><span style="color:#663333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Campinas (In 2005) In Campinas, Brazil, a group of friends, drunk, went to pick up a friend.</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> The mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried about the drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter holding her hand, who was already seated in the car: 'My Daughter, Go With God And May He Protect You.' She responded: 'Only If He (God) Travels In The Trunk, Cause Inside Here. .It's Already Full'. Hours later, news came by that they had been involved in a fatal accident, everyone had died, the car could not be recognized what type of car it had been, but surprisingly, the trunk was intact. The police said there was no way the trunk could have remained intact. To their surprise, inside the trunk was a crate of eggs, none was broken.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><p align="justify"><strong><span style="color:#663333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Christine Hewitt</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> (Jamaican Journalist and entertainer) said the Bible (Word of God) was the worst book ever written. In June 2006 she was found burnt beyond recognition in her motor vehicle.</span></p><p align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">And, just last month, we had a Bible study at a church member's house. She invited their neighbor across the street. Unfortunately, they refused the invitation and chose to go to the festive activity in my place that night. After the Bible study, we heard an ambulance siren; the church member even said that we should check it so that we can help. I was joking saying I am a oncology nurse and what will I do with them...chemo them and we laughed. The next day a friend of my church member went to say something to the church member that the guy across their street got hit by a "tricycle" (pedicab) together with their househelpers. Drastically, the guy died and one of the helpers' femur cracked. In that tricycle, there are 7 passengers and out of 7 only the 3 of them got hit and got injured. In that junction, the church member told me those are the 3 persons who refused to listen to God's Word.</span></p><div align="justify"><a href="http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee170/karlk9/101306angrygod.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 490px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 324px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee170/karlk9/101306angrygod.jpg" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br />Many more important people have forgotten that there is no other name that was given so much authority as the name of Jesus. Many have died, but only Jesus died and rose again, and He is still alive. </span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Jesus Christ is the only person who can vacuum that empty space in your heart. No one can. Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but my ME. John 14:6</span></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Fame, success, money, beauty, and popularity. These I can consider temporal. God is offering us permanent and eternal gift that no one can give. All you have to do is ask Him to be your Saviour and Lord. The Bible says as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. Hebrews 9:27 </span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">You can me be an arrogant and smug about what you have and what you can do. But then, death is inevitable. God can take your life in a blink of an eye. TAKE NOTE</span></div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/2439653182728483209/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=2439653182728483209&isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/2439653182728483209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/2439653182728483209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2010/05/in-blink-of-eye.html' title='In a Blink of an Eye'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-3937822943266670427</id><published>2010-04-21T15:36:00.010+04:00</published><updated>2010-09-05T00:10:13.428+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Beliefs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="False"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Hope"/><title type='text'>False HOPE</title><content type='html'><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Accept the teaching of the world<br />And hopeless you will be,<br />But trust in God’s eternal plan<br />If you want life that’s free.<br /><br /></span></div><p align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">I subscribed for a daily Our Daily Bread article and today's message is very true and clear. I've known people who called themselves "religious" and they do good. They donate their lands for community work, they give their money for social services and they give their time to be with the needy. When you asked them why, they'll say that's the only way we can go to heaven or that pleases the Lord. If this is the case, since, I am not rich financially this means I'm going hell? Good thing this is not what the Bible says. Take time to read the article, I subscribed this in my Facebook page.<br /><br /></span></p><p align="justify"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The name of a pretty Bavarian town in Germany shares the name of a place of horror—Dachau. A museum on the grounds of this infamous Nazi concentration camp attracts many World War II history buffs.</span></em></p><p align="justify"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">As you look around, it would be hard to miss the misleading words welded to an iron gate: Arbeit Macht Frei. This phrase—Work Makes You Free—was just a cruel lie to give false hope to those who entered this place of death.<br /><br /></span></em></p><p align="justify"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Many people today have false hope that they can earn a place in heaven by working at being good or by doing good things. God’s standard of perfection, however, requires a totally sinless life. There’s no way any of us can ever be “good enough.” It is only through the sacrifice of the sinless Savior that we are made righteous. God made Jesus “who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor. 5:21). Eternal life is given because of God’s gift of grace—not because of our good works (Eph. 2:8-9).<br /><br /></span></em></p><p align="justify"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Don’t let Satan trick you by giving you false hope that your good works will save you. It is only through Jesus’ work on the cross that you can have real freedom. — </span></em><em><a title="Cindy Hess Kasper" onclick="(new Image()).src = parseURL(');/ajax/ct.php?app_id=6826718196&amp;action_type=3&amp;post_form_id=2e387c9daef63e87bc46d8df12c45def&amp;position=3&amp;' + Math.random();return true;" href="http://www.vivalaproxy.com/browse.php?u=Oi8vd3d3LnJiYy5vcmcvZGV2b3Rpb25hbHMvb3VyLWRhaWx5LWJyZWFkL0NpbmR5LUhlc3MtS2FzcGVyLmFzcHg%3D&amp;b=2" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Cindy Hess Kasper</span></a></em><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br /></span></em></p><p align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Jesus came to the world not to condemn it but He instead died for our sins at the cross. Examine the faith you have right now. Ask God for forgiveness. Come to Him in prayer. </span></p></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/3937822943266670427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=3937822943266670427&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/3937822943266670427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/3937822943266670427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2010/04/false-hope.html' title='False HOPE'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-4903891090903040070</id><published>2009-12-24T19:28:00.004+04:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T20:48:48.465+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Christian Poems"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Rapture"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Salvation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Second Coming"/><title type='text'>Twas the Night Before Jesus</title><content type='html'><span style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">T</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">was the night before Jesus -and all through the house<br />not a creature was praying- not one in the house.<br /><br />Their Bibles were lying all closed on the shelf.<br />Everyone was just into their own self.<br />The children were dressing to get into bed -<br />Not once ever kneeling or bowing their heads,<br /><br />And mom on the sofa with baby on her lap,<br />was watching TV while I took a nap.<br />When outside the house there arose such a clatter<br />-I got to my feet to see what was the matter.<br /><br />To the window I flew in a hurried flash,<br />opened the shutter, threw up the sash,<br />when to my surprise what should appear,<br />but angels proclaiming that Jesus was here!<br /><br />With a light like the sun sending forth a bright ray<br />-I knew in a moment this must be the day!!<br /><br />The light of His face made me cover my head,<br />it was Jesus' returning just like he said.<br />Though I possessed worldly wisdom and wealth<br />- I cr1ed when I saw Him, in spite of myself.<br /><br />In the Book of Life, which He held in His hand<br />- was written the name of every saved man.<br />He spoke not a word as He searched for my name,<br />then He said, “it’s not in there" my head, hung in shame.<br /><br />The people whose names had been written with love,<br />He gathered to take to His Father above.<br />With those who were ready He rose without Sound,<br />while the rest of us were left standing around.<br /><br />I fell to my knees, but I was too late,<br />I had waited too long and thus sealed my fate.<br />I stood and I cried as they rose out of sight,<br />if only I had been ready tonight.<br /><br />The words of this poem - and the meaning is clear<br />- the coming of Jesus is drawing near!<br />We have only one life and when comes the last call,<br />we’ll find that the Bible was true after all!<br /><br />- Author Unknown</span></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/4903891090903040070/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=4903891090903040070&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/4903891090903040070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/4903891090903040070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2009/12/twas-night-before-jesus.html' title='Twas the Night Before Jesus'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-8702048945622279198</id><published>2009-12-24T19:01:00.005+04:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T21:03:18.590+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bitterness"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Christmas"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Eternal Life"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Forgiveness"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Gift"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Salvation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Stories"/><title type='text'>The Reason for the Season</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">M</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">arcus and his sister were to spend Christmas at their grandparents farm. Helping to care for the cattle and mend the fences was exacting work. But the reward that Marcus received was well worth it!</span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">“Markus,” his grandfather placed his large hands upon Markus’ shoulder, “I have a present for you. You have proved yourself responsible and capable. So I am giving this to you as an early Christmas present.”</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">And with that, his grandfather placed into his hands a slingshot. The wood was firm and strong, and the band was supple and snappy. It was the most treasured and wonderful thing he had ever seen!</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">“Now you must promise me something! You must </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">promise</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> me that you will never aim this at people or animals.”</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Markus nodded his head so vigorously that the ruffled hair waved like wheat in a windstorm.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Markus shot an almost everything! He found that he could hit cans and send them flying for yards! Trees, twigs, fence posts… he was fast becoming a crack shot. But as he grew bored with the ‘little stuff’ he began to wonder just how FAR a stone could be propelled.</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Looking across the pond, he spied grandma’s duck waddling around the edge of the water.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">“I’m going to sink a stone right in front of grandma’s duck and scare it!!!” he chuckled to himself.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">So saying, he pulled back upon the band with all his might, and let the rock fly. Fly it did! Such a great distance! Right toward the duck…</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">… yeah, you guessed it. It hit the duck in the side. It squawked at the first, but flopped around in circles. Marcus was horrified!!! He dashed up as fast as his eight year old legs could carry him!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Before his feet crashed through the weeds at the edge of the pond, his heart told him what he would find. It sank deep down inside as he came upon the still, lifeless form of grandma’s favorite pet.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The blood drained from Marcus face, and he felt weak and sick.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Quickly, he forced himself into action. Seizing the duck, he carried it a few feet over to the wood shed. He buried the carcass in the earth and piled the neatest stack of wood atop you would ever see! It looked picture perfect. But as Marcus stepped back, he spied his sister on the porch watching. She had seen everything.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Rachel held up her finger in judgment and accusation! Then turned and dashed inside.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Marcus wanted to drown himself.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">That evening at dinner, Marcus had no appetite. Every time his grandma encouraged him to eat, his conscience would sting and he would flush. Rachel would just look at him and widen her eyes and smile.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">After supper, grandma asked Rachel to help clear away the dishes. She looked right at Marcus.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">“I’d love to, Grandma… but Marcus told me HE wanted to clear away the dishes and wash them!” she said sweetly, staring daggers of blackmail at her brother. “Didn’t you Marcus?!?”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Marcus jumped to his feet. “Yes! I want to do it, Grandma! Let me get those!” he blurted out and rushed to the task.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The next two days were completely miserable. Christmas was supposed to be a time of joy and celebration. But for Marcus, there was no such thing. He had to skip an ice fishing trip with his grandpa because Rachel decided that he should fold the laundry for Grandma that afternoon. He missed licking the bowl after Grandma made fudge because sister decided that Marcus ‘promised’ to clean the bathroom and mop the floor. And, he missed the decorating of the tree because Rachel had reminded him that he ‘promised’ to chop and stack the wood.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The cold bit into the tears on his cheeks as he stood just feet from where the ‘crime’ had been committed. Marcus could not even make eye contact with Grandma anymore. It was like she was reading him with every gaze. Reluctantly he gathered the broken branches and chopped logs and put them into neat piles.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">That was when he noticed Grandma standing beside the shed.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">“Grandma!” Marcus cried out, unable to take the guilt anymore, “I killed your duck! Your favorite duck, I killed it!!!” Tears burst forth and regret choked back his words of repentance.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Grandma held him close.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">“I know, Marcus. I know,” she said.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Marcus was horrified.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">“I watched you from the kitchen window. I saw everything,” she said. Then she hugged him. “Marcus, I wondered how long you were going to let your sister torment you before you would come to me and confess.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">That Christmas, Marcus made an </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">incredible discovery</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">…</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">What do you want for Christmas?!?</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> A laptop or toy? Can it be purchased at a sporting goods store? Is it edible? Does it weigh more than a pound of butter? (IS it a pound of butter?!) Is it World Peace?!? (We’ll never have world peace until everyone just decides to do what I say!!!! Psh! :-P )</span></span></div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">In America, Christmas is a </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">huge</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> thing! Its commercialized, packaged, advertized, plagiarized, and publicized! Which… is a good thing, I guess, because it help ensure that it will never go away!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">But, what is Christmas really all about? Many song writers will tell you it’s about love and family; happiness and peace to the world. But why limit that to one day?! If the magic and formula was as simple as:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">"</span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Setting aside time</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> to do all that on purpose," = "love, joy, peace, and happiness!"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">... why not do it EVERYDAY!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">That would save a lot of expensive wars, and leave more ammo for the rest of us to shoot! :-P But just ‘choosing’ to be happy isn’t really on option for most people. Christmas is kind of about Love, but it is something more.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Companies and manufacturers tell us that Christmas is about gifts and giving! And THEY know </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">exactly</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> what your loved ones want and need! But they, too, are only partially right.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Christmas is about one very Special Gift of Love… the </span><strong><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Ultimate Gift!</span></em></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> The one everyone desires to have, one that everyone has the power to give, but one that is the HARDEST to part with. What is this wonderful gift?!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Forgiveness.</span></strong></span></div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The very first Christmas was centered around a humble manger… a stable. The Biblical ‘parking garage’ for modes of transportation. Imagine if you were traveling home for the holidays and the hotels were all booked. So much so, that you and your pregnant wife were welcome to stay, not in the lobby, but in the </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">parking garage</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">?!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Not a very fitting place for the arrival of the very Son of God! However, arrive, He did. He was born of a virgin, fulfilling the promises of prophecies of old! Born, not to be a King, but rather, to be the Promised Sacrificial Lamb. Man’s disobedience and rebellion, from the Garden of Eden to the present day, broke the heart of God, and caused Him to provide the sacrifice needed to pay for our transgressions. A Good Loving God reaching out to a bad, selfish and rebellious people!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Forgiveness available for the asking. So powerful was that Sacrifice of God’s Own Son, that it can wash away the sins of all who will place their faith and hope for heaven in that blood. Who will come to God and </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">ask</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> for forgiveness?! </span><em><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Whosoever will</span></strong></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">You know what </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">forgiveness </span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">is? </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Forgiveness is giving up the right to the hurt you have</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">. It is seeing that all things are brought across your path by God Almighty and with His consent and approval. And that, even though you do not understand it at the time, trusting the Lord to work through the hurt. It is choosing to thank the Lord for the hurt/problem He has sent.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Too often we think we are good people (</span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">because we compare ourselves to people worse than us.</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">) but in actuality, we fail to understand just how </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">bad</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> sin is.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Sin is </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">bad</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> because it </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">HURTS</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> other people! There is no such thing as a local sin. One statistician claimed that every person effects at least one hundred others. I have no earthly clue </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">how</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> to even go about getting exact enough numbers to make a statement like that, however I believe, realistically, it would be </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">much</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> higher than that!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">In my home state, a mother was arrested for driving to a bridge and slitting the throats of her two children. One was only a few months old, and died immediately. The seven year old son survived. Why? Sin hurts other people. A man in a city near me, a few Christmases back, was accused of embezzlement charges, and went home and shot and killed his wife and kids, and then attempted suicide. The ripple effect of his sin was devastating! Sin </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">hurts</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> other people. Two years ago, and not more than thirty-five miles from my home, a janitor was doing spring maintenance on a college swimming pool. He removed the winter cover of the pool, only to discover the floating body of a student who had committed suicide. His family, who had been searching and hoping for almost 6 months from his ‘disappearance’ were absolutely </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">devastated</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">! Did I mention that sin </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">hurts</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> other people?! God is not 'mean' for labeling ‘drinking’ sin. Putting toxins into your bloodstream not only harms you, but has destroyed families across the WORLD! It is related in almost 80% if the traffic deaths in America! Smoking, drugs, free extramarital sex, gossip, lies, stealing, hate, bigotry, self-centered living, murder, lust, greed… all these things and </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">more</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> PEOPLE do. And if you ask them, they will tell you that they ARE good people!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Psh!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><em><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><em><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Bitterness is a cancer of the soul</span></b></em><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">.</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> It effects you not only inside, but also outside! One of the greatest travesties of mankind is our self-centered desire to hold grudges! Christ, the Symbol and Standard of forgiveness has forgiven us of so much. But not just forgave sins… but paid the penalty that was owed Himself!</span></span></div></em><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">If there are three Christmas gifts that you could give yourself for Christmas, I would ask that it be these!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">1.) </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Accept</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> whatever hurts or wrongs have come your way. Don’t lie to yourself and deny them, or pretend that they didn’t hurt or matter. Or worse, insist that no one understands you or what they did to you! Accept the hardships of life as having been sent to you, personally, by God Almighty for your benefit, and for your growth!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">2.) </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Forgive</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">. Give up the right to be hurt or offended. Give up the desire for revenge. Let it all go. Let the Lord’s grace and forgiveness He extended on the cross shine through your heart to those you feel had wronged you. Understand that all things are done for a very good reason and are allowed by God.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">You would be foolish to judge a book by a random sentence on the middle of a random page, how much MORE foolish to judge all of life by one action.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">3.) </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Thank</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> the Lord for bringing those hurts and tragedies across your path. God’s stamp of ‘allowance’ was placed upon those circumstances. Thank the Lord for those things which you have no control over!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">In giving yourself these three things, you are also enabling yourself to give to God your depression, your guilt, and your self-defeat!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="color:#ff9900;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color:#ff9900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">“</span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">”</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> – I Peter 5:7</span></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">But that’s not all! There are TWO parts to </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">forgiveness</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">! There is the FORGIVER, and the RECEIVER!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The FORGIVER has the ‘</span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">RESPONSIBILITY’</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> to forgive. It is NOT an </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">option</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">. It is not a ‘</span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">you really should do this thing</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">’ matter. It is something you HAVE to do. If you are a Christian, you are </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">REQUIRED</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> to forgive!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">“</span><em><span style="color:#ff9900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">” – Luke 17:4</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">“</span><span style="color:#ff9900;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive our trespasses.</span></em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">” – Mark 11:26</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">If you ever </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">want</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> the forgiveness of God for your lousy, second rate, self-righteous </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">act</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> as a Christian, you are going to HAVE to make a regular habit of </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">forgiving</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> those around you! Forgiveness is not forgetting the offense. Forgiveness is giving up the right to harbor a hurt against those who have wronged you. Let go of the hurt. Give it, instead, to the Lord. Forgive.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">However, the </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">2nd half</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> of forgiveness is the ‘</span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">receiver</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">.’ The one who has wronged </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">must</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> receive the forgiveness. This requires </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">repentance</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">. God didn’t tell Peter to just ‘forgive and forget.’ Peter was </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">required</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> to extend forgiveness in each case. But the process wasn’t beneficial to the receiver until the receiver came forth with a repentant attitude. The repentant soul gains the ABILITY to be forgiven! The ABILITY to be accepted and restored. They gain unmerited compassion and mercy. In Peter's case, each time the offender came and humbled himself, and apologized.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">When a person wakes up to their sinful condition, and instead of comparing themselves to worse people around them, they compare themselves against the </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Law</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> and </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Commandments</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> of the Lord, they are in a position to be ‘repentant.’ God is </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">ALWAYS</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> ready to extend forgiveness to the ‘repentant’ soul.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">“</span><span style="color:#ff9900;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and cleans us from all unrighteousness.</span></em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">” – I John 1:9</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Repentance, however, is what makes the process complete and fulfilling. Non-repentance walks all over compassion, and wipes its filthy feet upon mercy. It kicks justice and blemishes forgiveness. This is why God cannot simply write off and ignore all sin and let everyone into heaven. It’s the same reason that you cannot simply ‘forgive and forget.’ Forgiveness can be offered indefinitely, but unless the transgressor understands that he/she are in the wrong, and are in need of forgiveness, it will be rejected, ignored, and unneeded/unappreciated… in short – of no effect.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">A Christian’s responsibility is to forgive. To keep that forgiveness extended. The transgressors responsibility is to be repentant. When this works together, it is a perfect picture of Christ’s sacrifice on Calvary for our transgressions! Since the very first transgression of God’s law in Genesis, God has extended the promise of forgiveness. That promise became a reality when Christ came to earth in the form of a child… that, my friends, was the </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">1st Christmas</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Christmas is about forgiveness. The greatest, most powerful gift of all!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">“</span><em><span style="color:#33ff33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">When are you going to decide that you are NOT going to go through this life without people doing you wrong?! Injustice from imperfect, fallen, and fickle people is unavoidable!</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">” - unknown</span></div></div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/8702048945622279198/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=8702048945622279198&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/8702048945622279198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/8702048945622279198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2009/12/reason-for-season.html' title='The Reason for the Season'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-3316441810464658354</id><published>2009-11-11T17:13:00.007+04:00</published><updated>2014-05-09T18:35:52.923+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Letter"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Meditation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Prayer"/><title type='text'>My Letter to God for My 23rd Year</title><content type='html'><div align="justify">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Dear Lord,<br /><br />Today, I am celebrating my 23rd year of existence in this world. Herein, I can never recall a day that you've left me nor you've forsaken me. Your grace and mercy surpassed all my sorrows and troubles I’ve had in my life.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Today, I remember how You have been good and faithful in my life. From how/where I was born, as to the color of my skin, hair, face, personality and my whole being, for the family that you have chosen for me to be with, for the kind of parents and sibling/s I have, for what friends I have around me, as to the schools I’ve been and to whatever accomplishments I’ve had; Lord, it is all because of You.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Today, on my 23rd years in this world, without a doubt I can never deny Your love for me. I might feel empty sometimes, telling myself that nobody loves me; that I am always second best in people’s lives but that’s a big lie. You were and will always be there on my side and will always embrace me when no one is left to hang on.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Your protection. For 23 years in my life You have shown me that you are the greatest Defender and will never put me into danger. You are my source of strength to be brave to go home in the middle of the night or in the break of dawn. You are always my rescue when illicit, immoral creatures attempt to pester on me or take advantage of me. Surely you are my protection and one thing I know, “Vengeance will always be Yours.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">You are my God. Your faithfulness is overwhelming. Why? You deal with my shortcomings. I’ve been through a lot of temptations as to wrong decision makings. Still, You welcomed me, open-handed ready to forgive all my trespasses.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Twenty-three years is just as fast as yesterday. All I see is your unfailing love. You have chosen carefully everything to be part of my life. I might not be the most beautiful but You have created me in your own image. I might not be the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">&nbsp;smartest but I was never dumbest. I was never rich but grace will always be satisfying. I may not a product of a good school but you made me pass my examinations. I might not be the greatest but You chose me to lead groups. My parents may not be the best but You gave them as to what I am supposed to be molded. I might not be working as a nurse full time but unquestionably Your</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">&nbsp;purpose in my life will never be hindered. I don’t know what might happen as I start my 23rd year in this world, all I know is, You will always be faithful, forgiving, loving merciful gracious and protective God to me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Things may not be so good and perfect in my eyes but definitely Your promises will never failed. I have tendencies to a slack in reading my Bible but then You are using guilt and other people to remind me of the duties and responsibilities as a Christian. Personality-wise, I am inconsistent but for you Lord I’ll try to change my shortcomings and downsides. I can’t change in a day or so but with the help of the Holy Spirit I’ll find myself someday faithfully serving You with boldness in my heart to share and 100% serve you without holding back.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Lord, I know You have prepared a guy for me. A guy who will be with me for the rest of my life; who will honor me as his partner and together we will serve you Lord. He might not come today but bless him. I know someday I’ll get to see him in the right time and place.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Lord, I don’t know what future might bring where I will be a year from now. I surrender to You everything. You have printed a very nice blueprint for me. Mold me Lord for Your glory and honor. Make me a better Christian, a witness for You, use me everywhere I go and always lead me to right decision makings. Thank you for all the blessing You have giving me and for all those to come.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Let this be my prayer; my letter for You.</span></div>
</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/3316441810464658354/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=3316441810464658354&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/3316441810464658354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/3316441810464658354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2009/11/my-letter-to-god-for-my-23rd-year.html' title='My Letter to God for My 23rd Year'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-7141728954362442284</id><published>2009-08-29T08:44:00.007+04:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T21:24:58.854+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Decisions"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Question and Answer"/><title type='text'>Think Twice</title><content type='html'><style>  </style> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Stop! What are you doing? Are you sure you want to do that? Why? What makes you say yes? And why no? Is that your final answer?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Decision making is such an immense thing to do. Everyday, great or small, we make decisions. These decisions make us succeed if we planned it so meticulous for success; failure for those decisions drawn from anger, jealousy, pride and selfishness. When people settle on ideas and undertakings, they might get to the point were they’re thinking without acting or acting without thinking. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As to the world view, morality is considered to be what you feel is good and what you feel is bad. There are times that what you think is right may not really right in the eyes of our Almighty Creator. Take an instance, drinking (alcohol or something fermented), some might say it is not wrong to drink because it removes stress from a long day of work or it gives us a good sleep. Or staying in front of the computer for like the rest of your life doing nothing for a day may not be offensive to the public or to the morality we have. You decide to do it thinking that you didn’t break any law or you can say morality says it’s good.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Thinking of these issues I can say sometimes I am thinking the same. Such example would be sleeping. Sleeping is part of our basic needs but oversleeping is still part of my discretion. I realized that I missed several points in decision making.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Asking questions before taking any steps and seeing the possibilities if you are making a right decision that pleases the Lord based on His Word will never harm you for sure. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Bible says:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Is it an indulgence in earthly desires?</span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Do not love the world or anything in the world” (1 John 2:15)<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Would it be pleasing to God or to humankind? </span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Everything you do should be for God’s benefit, not your own or anyone else’s.</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> “Whatever you do, work at it with all your hearts, as working for the Lord, not for men. (Colossians 3:23)<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Could God bless it? </span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If it’s not something you could take before in good conscience, you have your answer. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“The blessing of the Lord brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it” (Proverbs 10:22)<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Could you thank God for it? </span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Would it be something that would be inappropriate to thank God for? “</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him” (Colossians 3:17).<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Would it be a stumbling block to others? </span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">You should never do anything that would offend or harm others. “</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block of the weak” (1 Corinthians 8:9).<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Would I want God to see me do it? </span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">You must remember that God sees all –you can’t hide anything from Him. “</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">You know my folly. O God; my guilt is not hidden from you” (Psalms 69:5).</span></span><span style="display: none;">lly. O God; my guilt is not hidden from you"edom does not become a stumbling block of the weak"od the Father through him"t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What would its consequences be? </span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">God forgives your sin, but you will still have to live with the results of your decisions. “</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Do not be deceived; God is not mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Galatians 6:7).<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Would it hinder my walk with God? </span></span></span></b><i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us” (Hebrews 12:1).<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Would it bring God glory? </span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Bless the Lord in all you do. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“So whether you eat or drink whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31).<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">How would Satan react? </span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The last thing you want or need is Satan celebrating your decision. “</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour” (I Peter 5:8).<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Would it bring me closer to God? </span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Our daily lives should be bringing us ever closer to the heart of God. “</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Everything is permissible’ – but not everything is beneficial. ‘Everything is permissible’- but not everything is constructive” (1 Corinthians 10:23).<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Have I sought godly counsel? </span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ask advice from godly people who have a proven track record of wise decision-making. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“For lack of guidance a nation falls, nut many advisers make victory sure” (Proverb 11:14).<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Have I asked the Lord about it? </span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">How many decisions do you make on a daily basis without first seeking God? He will never speak something that contradicts His Written Word. “</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight” (Proverbs 3:5,6).</span></span><o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/7141728954362442284/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=7141728954362442284&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/7141728954362442284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/7141728954362442284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2009/08/think-twice.html' title='Think Twice'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-2454280551842810225</id><published>2009-08-09T22:20:00.014+04:00</published><updated>2010-09-10T23:21:44.208+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Christian Living"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Faith"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Obedience"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Opportunity"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Relationship"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Responsibilities"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Salvation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Soul Win"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Success"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Treasure"/><title type='text'>Two Sacks of Money</title><content type='html'><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiqXYjxb3xNXZVpNQ1qDOTQPQ3Ry-3iKlnK5H3tNmcjuINTfj7DN6TOC056ovxCIvDSErlXIu6-SerkcNeB606OPbVCs9qQ7Q41Z2h-2swc0AaXzA0Vpm7H5XMPv6bahZPefIh28reNU18/s1600-h/money+basket+copy.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368052082952434034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 137px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiqXYjxb3xNXZVpNQ1qDOTQPQ3Ry-3iKlnK5H3tNmcjuINTfj7DN6TOC056ovxCIvDSErlXIu6-SerkcNeB606OPbVCs9qQ7Q41Z2h-2swc0AaXzA0Vpm7H5XMPv6bahZPefIh28reNU18/s400/money+basket+copy.jpg" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br />Suppose there were two enormously large sacks of money on two sides of a room. One sack was filled with $1 bills. The other sack was filled with $1,000 bills. And supposing you were given a small basket, and told you had only 60 seconds to fill your basket with as much money as you could…<br />… which sack would </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">you</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> choose to take from?!<br /><br />Money is a very temporary object, as it is here one day and gone the next. Jail cells are filled with people who once had great wealth. Life, also, is short. The Scriptures liken it unto a vapor, a flower, and a single day. So, friend, which would be the </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">wiser</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> use of our ‘day’ on earth? To gather up as much as we can from the low-dollar self-serving worldly sack, or to reach into God’s Will, and attain that which will last all eternity!?<br /><br />That said, allow me to act as your CPA (</span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Certified Public Accountant</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">) and let’s review your assets in this matter. In short, “</span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">How successful are you at leading souls to Jesus?!</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">” Take a piece of paper and write down how many years it has been since you first found Christ. Now, below that number, please write down the total number of people who have placed their trust and hope for Heaven in Christ because of your witnessing/testimony.<br />If the top number is larger than the bottom number… you need what I am about to say. If the bottom number is much larger than the top, you already know what I am about to say.<br /><br />Here’s the secret to becoming a fruitful Christian:<br />“</span><em><span style="color:#ff9900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightiest war a good warfare; Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">” -- I Timothy 1:18-19<br /><br />Young Timothy had a Greek, unsaved father. His mother was a Christian, and took great care to teach her child, Timothy, the scriptures. Paul reminds Timothy, (</span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">In the book aptly named 1 Timothy</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">.) That God gives us TWO UNIQUE WEAPONS to being an effective Christian witness.<br /><br />1.) </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Faith</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">. Without FAITH it is impossible to please God. We like to SAY we have faith, but in truth… it takes faith the size of a mustard seed to move a mountain. Have you re-arranged any mountainous terrain lately? No? Since you lack even the most rudimentary level of terraforming, mayhaps your faith is SMALLER than even a grain of mustard seed! LOL!<br /><br />Actually, your problem may very well lie in the book of James.<br />“</span><em><span style="color:#ff9900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew my thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith BY my works. Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils ALSO believe, and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">” -- James 2:17-20 [emphasis added]<br /><br />Sadly, many Christians believe that since they are saved, there is no need to live a separated life. Their THEOLOGY (</span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">How they view God and His Commandments/Laws</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">) are based on their MORALITY (</span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Their comfortable and preferred lifestyle.</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">) Paul reminds Timothy that the scriptures taught to him in his childhood would be the ‘ammo’ for fighting a good warfare. Christian friend, if you do not spend time thinking on scriptures, and meditating upon God’s precepts, you are trying to fight a war with no ammo… and those wars tend to be short ones!<br /><br />Your faith becomes as DEAD in the eyes of those you are trying to witness to if it contains no works. God DOES see the heart, but man is stuck seeing the OUTSIDE. What are the works that establish our faith in man’s eyes? Knowing and keeping God’s precepts and principles! Forgiveness. Love thy neighbor. Love thine enemies. Bless them that curse you. Go the second mile. Care for the widows and fatherless. Turn the other cheek.<br />… you KNOW most of them. But KNOWING and DOING are two very different things. It only takes faith to trust Christ as Savior, and be saved! But it takes faith + works to convince others.<br /><br />2.) </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">A Good Conscience</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">. Let’s build a sling shot. </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">(</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">You remember those from childhood, right?</span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">)</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> We must find a ‘Y’ shaped stick, and then we need a pebble. And what else….!? Oh! And we must not forget the thing that sends the pebble flying! What works best for that? STRING? Tape? How about a USB cable?!<br />No. A pebble will not go far without proper energy transfer method. (</span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Throwing always works.</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">) Rubber bands will work, yes, but a piece of bungee cord is the absolute BEST!<br /><br />A Christian armed with a Good Conscience is like using an elastic band to launch a pebble! It is what gives the words you say ‘Oomph!’ ... </span><em><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">POWER</span></strong></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">!<br /><br />The younger you are, the easier it is to maintain a clear conscience! When you make a huge blunder, or commit a terrible sin, you are in a wonderful position to use the Grace that God gives you to ask forgiveness and keep your slate clean with both God and man.<br />However, the older you get, the </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">harder</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> this becomes. Especially if we have neglected the necessary repairs from our youth. Why is it so hard to go to those we have wronged and apologized? No excuses. No cop-outs. No placing or sharing the blame.<br />Guilt is probably the all time GREATEST preventer of Christianity! It nullifies our words, and causes them to be meaningless and doubtful.<br /><br />Foolish people attempt to balance their guilt with blame. Why is it that our actions and attitudes are always someone else’s fault? Why is it that the words we say in anger, or our actions-in-response are always someone else’s fault? WHY? Because we have guilt, and look to balance that guilt with blame. But to do this brings on depression, anger, bitterness towards self and others, discouragement, disorientation, and devastation.<br /><br />A Wise Christian understands that it is better to balance GUILT with FORGIVENESS! If you mess up… when you fall… when you hurt others… when you lose your temper… when you fail to act in accordance to God’s Wise and True Preciepts… it is BETTER to humble yourself and ask for forgiveness.<br /><br />“</span><em><span style="color:#ff9900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrigheousness.</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">” – I John 1:9<br /><br />Keep things level and </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">clean</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> between God and Man. Go to those you have wronged in your past. Make those slates CLEAN. Apologize to those you have offended. Make restitution to those you have stolen from or cheated. Correct with honesty those to whom you have lied. Make amends with those whom you have fought with. Let everyone know that you are trying your best to be a TRUE Christian with a CLEAN conscience. While some may choose NOT to forgive you, at least God will know that you have honestly and truly tried.<br />And keep the slate clean by granting mercy and forgiveness to those who have wronged you.<br /><br />As Christians, we are responsible for every thought we dwell on. (</span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">II Corinthians 10:5</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">); every word we say (</span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Matthew 12:36</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">); every deed we do (</span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">II Corinthians 5:10</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">); every attitude we display (</span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">I Peter 3:10</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">); and every motive which drives our actions (</span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Jeremiah 17:10</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">)!!!<br /><br />That’s BASIC human responsibility! How can we expect to be a happy, effective Christian if we choose to neglect our basic responsibilities and live a slave to the world’s philosophies!<br /><br />Chose to grab from the sack of eternal treasures… Things you will be able to present to the Father on that judgment day. Live for HIM because He, alone, is </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Worthy</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">. Live by FAITH… constantly attentive to God’s Word. And live by a Clean Conscience… faithful to those God has placed around you.<br /><br />I part with this advice: “</span><em><span style="color:#ff9900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works.</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">” – Hebrews 10:24 Christ </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">died </span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">for others... can we not </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">live</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> for others?</span></div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/2454280551842810225/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=2454280551842810225&isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/2454280551842810225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/2454280551842810225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2009/08/two-baskets-of-money.html' title='Two Sacks of Money'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiqXYjxb3xNXZVpNQ1qDOTQPQ3Ry-3iKlnK5H3tNmcjuINTfj7DN6TOC056ovxCIvDSErlXIu6-SerkcNeB606OPbVCs9qQ7Q41Z2h-2swc0AaXzA0Vpm7H5XMPv6bahZPefIh28reNU18/s72-c/money+basket+copy.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-4074242500787244082</id><published>2009-06-18T16:52:00.005+04:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T21:10:54.825+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bible Stories"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Help"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Talents"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Trust"/><title type='text'>Nurses & YOU</title><content type='html'><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t185/jetski_07/2354711855_0c96b1c0bc_b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t185/jetski_07/2354711855_0c96b1c0bc_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Half past eight, Sunday after church, together with my little brothers in the Lord, we were sitting outside the church building when suddenly something crashed. The youngest son of my church pastor took a look where it happened and he said 'twas vehicular accident and there was a man lying on the road followed up with the statement…JOKE! I told him to stop teasing or else I’ll pull his ear. (Of course, I was just teasing). Unhappy with his sort of investigation, he walked closer to the place where we heard the loud crash, and he told us that it is for real". There was an accident. Together with the other boys we walked closer to the scene and found out it was real.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br />"Lub dub lub dub" says my heart. The instinct of a nurse to help run through my veins, I pulled the youngest son of my assistant pastor and we ran to the scene just across the street of our church. There I saw a guy lying on the road, crashed windshield of the van, the smashed up motorcycle, the bystanders (which actually just watching and DID NOT DO ANYTHING, and of course BLOOD! I identified myself as a nurse and I was caught off guard. Isn’t it I am an oncology nurse?! I took a deep breath and whispered a prayer. I begin assessing the patient with my heart racing like a galloping horse. The guy was still on the motorcycle with his left extremity underneath the motorcycle. I asked him if he’s ok and if he can hear me. He nodded. I asked help to the bystanders if they can move the motorcycle so that I can assess the patient more and if he has leg fracture or what. The funny thing was, of all the people who were there no one dared to call the police or an ambulance! I left the patient and called the police to report the collision and asked for an ambulance too. We went to the hospital and after few hours he was lying okay intoxicated with his wound cleaned and dressed. Their family friend dropped me home past midnight. Adrenaline rushed I can’t sleep I begun writing this article.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br />When I was in the emergency room waiting for the doctor to finish suturing the patient’s nose, I begun to think of Jesus Christ who helped the wounded Samaritan. </span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br />Luke 10:25-37 (Words of Jesus in red.)<br /><br />25Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he said, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" 26He said to him, </span><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">"What is written in the law? What do you read there?"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> 27He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself." 28And he said to him, </span><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">"You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> 29But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" 30Jesus replied, </span><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">"A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan while traveling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity. 34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, 'Take care of him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend.' 36 Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> 37He said, "The one who showed him mercy." Jesus said to him, </span><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">"Go and do likewise."</span></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">It is God's command to help others who are in need, eventhough you are not in the medical field. Prayer, donation and simple words of encouragement has a huge impact to the patients. Help others just like Jesus did. Let us be Christ-like in words and in deeds.</span></span><br /></div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/4074242500787244082/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=4074242500787244082&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/4074242500787244082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/4074242500787244082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2009/06/nurses-you.html' title='Nurses & YOU'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-7053192130507972880</id><published>2009-06-06T09:43:00.006+04:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T21:27:44.825+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Fear"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="God's Promises"/><title type='text'>Fear Factor Challenge</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: courier new;"><style>  </style> </div><p style="text-align: justify; font-family:courier new;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Phobia, fear of something or anything, some are rational like heights or close spaces but some are irrational like fear of breathing or ugly people. We all have fears within ourselves. Even the most influential, strong and the most respective personality you are looking up to have fears either rational or not. My fears? Oh, I have lots of those but I am not going to tell of what I fear.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify; "> </div><p style="text-align: justify; font-family:courier new;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">As a nurse I have learned that the most feared thing of all the patients especially for those who will be going in an operation (surgery) is the fear of the unknown – what will happen if I fell asleep in the operation? Shall I be able to gain consciousness again or shall I die? What do nurses fear? We have our own fears too. Fear of being infected with our patients diseases, fear of giving wrong medications – negligence and malpractice at all, and fear of percutaneous injuries (pricking, sorry for being technical) from patients with untreatable diseases such as AIDS or Hepatitis B. Our own health is at stake, even our lives.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify; "> </div><p style="text-align: justify; " class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Nowadays, we are in a world of uncertainty. The world that is full of chaos, disasters and calamities, wars and conflicts, global warming and financial crisis. You do not really know if the place where you live is safe for you and for your family or the food you are eating is still good for your body. Horrible, isn’t it? <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; "> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family:courier new;" class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">“For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you. “ Isaiah 41:13<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family:courier new;" class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” John 14:27<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div style="text-align: justify; "> </div><p style="text-align: justify; " class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">“Be not afraid” occurs more than 365 times all throughout the Bible. There are 365 days in a year. This means we should not be afraid every single day of our lives. Ninety-two percent of what we worry about never happens and the 8% is usually manageable. Our God is great for us, His’ people, to fear. Lay down your worries and fears to Him. For our God is in control! Be bold and say MY GOD IS BIGGER THAN MY PROBLEMS. I SHALL NOT FEAR! I just want to leave you with two of my favorite verses in the Bible that I usually cling on when I am afraid.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; "> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family:courier new;" class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">“So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” Hebrews 13:6</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; "> </div><p style="text-align: center; font-family:courier new;" class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convince that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ our Lord.” Romans 8:37-39</span><o:p></o:p></i></p></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/7053192130507972880/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=7053192130507972880&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/7053192130507972880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/7053192130507972880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2009/06/fear-factor-challenge.html' title='Fear Factor Challenge'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-5529337454142668840</id><published>2009-05-24T09:44:00.007+04:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T21:15:10.118+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Eternal Life"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Forgiveness"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Friend"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Salvation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Surrender"/><title type='text'>Give Up to Go Up</title><content type='html'><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Think about the best friend you’ve ever had and what made your relationship great. Isn’t it about hanging out, talking and trusting friend enough to share your secrets with him or her?</span></div><div align="justify"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Have you ever thought that you could have relationship with God as good as the relationship that you have with your best friend? </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">You don’t just get a close friendship with God because of what your parents tell you about Him or by spending an hour a week in Sunday school. Just like it took hanging out with your best friend, talking and testing his or her trust, it takes hanging out with God, talking to Him and learning to trust Him.</span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">So where does God hang out? Wherever you are! He’s been running after you – yearning intensely and persistently for you. Perhaps you know what pining feels like. Have you ever wanted to be good friends with someone for a long time, yet he or she managed to ignore you or to not realize what a great person you are? Stop for a second and think: have you possibly ignored God lately? Have you talked to Him? </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">In case you’re wondering how to talk to God, you pray –constantly. Not just before that exam you didn’t even study for; you pray throughout the day. He’d like it if you prayed for everything and anything. He’d just like to hear from you. Of course, you don’t get to know someone if you’re doing all the talking. Let God take a turn talking to you. One way you can let Him do that is to read His Word, the Bible. Come on, don’t say you don’t’ like to read. If your best friend wrote you a 10-page letters, you’d read it immediately, over and over again. </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The Bible is filled with letters and poems from God addressed to you, treasures just waiting for your discovery. Your Bible, which hopefully isn’t dusty, is yelling, “Open Me! Search Me!” How you hear God speaking to you is by inserting your name into the scripture you’re reading and seeing how it applies to your personal life. You’ll soon realize that it really was written with you in mind!</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">As you begin reading God’s Word every day (or if you already are, try spending ever more time reading it, you’ll also begin to trust Him more, and you begin to get closer like a best friend that always around in your success and failures. For the Bible says in 2 Timothy 3:16 “All scriptures is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” </span></div><div align="justify"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Your trusting God will cause your relationship with Him to grow. Think of the person you’re closest to. Do you sometimes find yourself knowing what he’ll say or what she’ll do? Do you know what makes him happy or what annoys her? In the same way, soon God’s desires for you will become your own desires! And Psalm 139:4 will be the case: “For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.” </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">When your best friend’s birthday comes, don’t you want to give him or her something nice? When your relationship with God becomes close, you’ll also want to give Him something. After all, hasn’t God given you everything? In return, how about giving Him the best of your time, your money, your energy, and your love? Most important, how about, giving Him your heart-surrendering yourself to Him? </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">God is Holy and He hates sin. We are human. We were born in this world with a sinful nature. Romans 3: 10 and 23 says There is none righteous, no, not one; for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. See the difference? There is a barrier between God and us, it is SIN. And we can’t be His best friend in that case. BUT praise be to our God, He sent His son Jesus Christ to be our mediator for us (1 Timothy 2:5), our supplications and prayers to be heard. Jesus Christ died for our sins. He tore the veil between God and man. </span></div><div align="justify"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Now you might ask me, how can I make God as my best friend? By trusting Him; accept Jesus Christ to be your only Savior and Lord, Believe that He died for your sin and He is the only way to eternal life, Confess your sins to Him and live a new life. For the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away behold, all things are become new.” </span></div><div align="justify"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">How do you learn to trust God? By getting to know Him. And do get to know Him? By spending time reading His Word, fellowshipping with other Christians and praying to Him every day. </span></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">God say in Isaiah 41:9, “I have chosen you.” Now He’s just waiting for you to choose Him-to surrender to Him in response. </span></div><div align="justify"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Say this prayer if you want to surrender your life to Him as a response. “Dear God, I realize that I am a sinner. Thank you for sending Your son, Jesus Christ to pay for my sins and save me. Lord Jesus, I believe that you died on the cross and rose from the dead for me. I repent of my sins and receive You into my heart as my Savior and Lord. I accept your gift of eternal life. Thank you for coming into my heart and for saving me. In Jesus’ name, Amen. </span></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Now, congratulations! You didn’t only gain your best friend but you can also be with Him through all eternity in Heaven. :)</span></div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/5529337454142668840/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=5529337454142668840&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/5529337454142668840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/5529337454142668840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2009/05/give-up-to-go-up.html' title='Give Up to Go Up'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-2865636463937689928</id><published>2009-05-12T12:19:00.015+04:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T21:20:43.484+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sacrifice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Service"/><title type='text'>Summer Means Service</title><content type='html'><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:courier new;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In my country, summer cool breeze and boiling hot weather starts in the month of March to the month of May. Well that was before, before when I can’t feel the effects of human abuse to nature. I am talking about Global Warming. This year, summer started early and sad to say it ended early too. Summer is such a great season for me. It means “Service”. In fact, God is really the greatest scheduler ever. Why? Well, my contract as an ESL (English as Second Language) Tutor expires in summer. Sweet isn’t it? I didn’t renew my contract. I want a full service this summer for the Lord. I want to have a fruitful Summer ’09. Anyway summer season is not really long. What is 2 months without job anyway? It will not kill me. The truth is it will give me a break from work and have a fresh start after it. You have to try it. You can’t explain how fulfilled you are deep inside. <br /><br /></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:courier new;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The day I ended teaching, we had our 7 Sayings Service and I sang a song. It was a good start for me for a great summer. The next day my church have had a Church Retreat. Of course I was there. For some people it doesn’t really sound good. Summer and I have no job. I beg to disagree though. I am under the divine providence of my Lord and Savior. He is the source of what I’ve got right now. It is just time for me to bring back what is due to Him. <br /><br /></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:courier new;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For the past years I’ve been actively involved in Vacation Bible School. I started teaching children when I was 17 and I still did this year; hopefully for the years to come. Where ever God will take me. I want to serve Him – with all I am. The theme this year is “SonTreasure Island” – Discovering God’s Love based on 1 Corinthians 13. I know for other countries especially the United States of America, this theme was for the year 2006. Anyhow it doesn’t matter as long we use it for the Lord. This year I am task to be a Music Teacher. Anyway I volunteered. It is really overwhelming how children respond and how they are enthusiastically singing the songs you are teaching them. How did I know? I was the Music teacher last year too. How these little children ages 3 up moving there hands, singing loudly and giving there best for the Lord is just simply amazing. Thinking how there little souls wanted to worship the Most High. If we are all like children open and willing to be teach by God’s word; no resistance and no murmuring. It is just pure willingness to listen. <br /><br /></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:courier new;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Thinking of what God has done in my life; service will not stop or just be around during summer season. It must go around the whole year, everyday. Have time for God like He has all the time listening to your problems and supplications. Anyhow, we are in this world by Him, through Him and for Him. Is your Master satisfied with your service? Think of it.</span></span></p></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/2865636463937689928/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=2865636463937689928&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/2865636463937689928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/2865636463937689928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2009/05/summer-means-service.html' title='Summer Means Service'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-3878856457508115090</id><published>2009-01-19T05:24:00.001+04:00</published><updated>2009-01-19T05:38:05.657+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Friendship"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Healing"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Miracle"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Personal Testimony"/><title type='text'>Jevohah Rapha - God Heals</title><content type='html'><div align="justify">For the past several months, I came across different types of people that in a long run became my good friends. Some stayed, some went away. I had a friend that I’ve known for a year now, however she’s not talking to me anymore. She got cancer. As a friend, I comforted her saying all things work for good. Trust God and have faith. He is miraculous that He will heal you. Sad to say, she rejected it and chose to stop talking to me. <br /><br />Jesus Christ made the lame to walk again (Luke 5:17-25), blind to see (John 9:1-7), and raise the dead (John 11). These were just few of the miracles Jesus Christ performed in this world when He was here. My point is, these people faithfully believed that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, can heal them and they were healed.<br /><br />Base on my personal experience in life, my father committed suicide when I was small. He’s in the Intensive Care Unit for several weeks that we never knew anytime he will pass away. My family and friends wept and prayed for God’s miraculous healing. After 2 months my father survived from that near death experience. He survived because we prayed, we believed, there was faith. To tell you, that was the over all change in our family’s lives. We became Christians. <br /><br />The Bible promised us in Hebrews 13:5 that “…I will never leave the, nor forsake thee.” God is a great God. He is a healing God. In God nothing is impossible. (Luke 1:37). Lean on His promises – promises that never fail. God is always in control.<br /><br />Think about it. Why not pause for a prayer and ask God for forgiveness, accept Him as your personal Lord and Savior. Pray for healing. Whatever you feel, whatever sickness is in you, have faith. Exodus 15:26 says “I am Jehovah who heals you” both body and soul, In body, by preserving from diseases, and by curing then when afflicted with them and in soul, by pardoning their iniquities. Jehovah-Rapha (The Lord Who Heals).<br /><br />A song of healing by Don Moen – Heal Me O Lord. Have time to listen. God bless you and heal you.<br /></div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/3878856457508115090/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=3878856457508115090&isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/3878856457508115090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/3878856457508115090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2009/01/jevohah-rapha-god-heals.html' title='Jevohah Rapha - God Heals'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-1960509158573754393</id><published>2009-01-04T12:10:00.002+04:00</published><updated>2009-01-14T12:48:28.928+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Gift"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Opportunity"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Service"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Talents"/><title type='text'>Another Year of Service</title><content type='html'><div align="justify">“What you are is God’s gift to you; what you do with yourself is your gift to God”<br />Danish Proverb<br /><br />It’s New Year. My church annually nominates new sets of officers for each group, in my case, Young People’s group. I’ve been an officer for quite sometimes in this group. It’s not that I don’t want to serve God anymore, I told my siblings in Christ not to nominate me and give way to new potential leaders. They asked why. I told them, it’s time for a new set of faces in the office - new sets of people to be use by God. As what I’ve asked them, I am not part of the new set of the officers anymore.<br /><br />Our new president, an 19 year-old guy, asked why me in a low tone of voice like his in doubt if he can manage to be the president of the group. Suddenly, a preachy me came into action saying something. God gave as talents that we can use for service –for Him. Some are in born. Some need to be discovered. I told our new president that “It’s time to shine. Let God use you this year. I know it’s quite intimidating to be a president without any experience but God doesn’t look on our resume or our degree for us to serve Him. He wants our best, the willingness to serve, despite of our shortcomings.<br /><br />Discover what talents and abilities you have to be use for God’s glory. You will never know what you’re good at until you try. Let God use you this year. 2 Timothy 2:15 says “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.<br /><br />God is using me now and I want Him to use more of my abilities and capabilities this year and the years to come. What about you? How can you make the best use of what God has given you?</div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/1960509158573754393/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=1960509158573754393&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/1960509158573754393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/1960509158573754393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2009/01/another-year-of-service.html' title='Another Year of Service'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-8782339767622076893</id><published>2009-01-01T11:03:00.004+04:00</published><updated>2009-01-14T12:49:02.587+04:00</updated><title type='text'>Farewell Fruitful 2008. Welcome Prosperous 2009.</title><content type='html'><div align="justify">Two thousand eight (2008) has been a fruitful year for me. My heart is full of thanksgiving as to what the Lord has done in me. In connection, my first blog for 2009 is all about the blessings I received for the past year. I will cite the eight (8) major highlights of all the blessings I received that made 2008 extraordinary for me.<br /><br />The first thing I want to thank God last year was the blessing to pass the December 2007 Philippine Nursing Licensure Examination released February of 2008. The night before the result was released I prayed to God that He had supplied my needs for four years in college that I knew He would make me pass. Human as I am the fear of failing was there, though. I prayed just to pass it be it 75% for a general average I would not mind. God was so good. He let me passed and the good thing was, I passed with satisfactory grade. My comforting song during that worrying and bloodcurdling night was “He never sleeps” by Don Moen. (You can found this song in the player I have in my sidebar below.) I played the song for hours while crying and praying to pass. The lesson I learned, as the Bible says, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things just be added unto you” Matthew 6:33. The verse is true and God’s promises will always be true.<br /><br />Next to my list for my thanksgiving for the last year, I fell in love for the first time. I don’t want to talk about it but for the sake of the blog I will talk it over a little. I fell in love with an unbeliever. I struggled to keep the relationship; however, it ended up a failure. Until then I appreciate my pastor’s advice regarding the Bible verse about equally yoking with the unbeliever (2 Corinthians 6:14). My first was a failure; nevertheless, it’s with a purpose.<br /><br />The succeeding blessing, the third I suppose; another year to serve God through Vacation Bible School (VBS), 5 days of classes pointing to God’s goodness. It was my first time to be a VBS Music Teacher. It was a big challenge for me, the fact, that I have this stage fright. What motivates me to do so was the opportunity to serve God through the message of the songs and the voices of the children singing for the Lord. I love kids – the reason why I enjoyed it. An opportunity to serve God is a blessing too.<br /><br />June. It’s been a year since I’ve seen my father that time. God is really good for using somebody just for His will to push through. My aunt invited me and my mother to visit their place where my father is working for them. Tears of joy and sadness stir together when I saw my father. No matter what, that’s a blessing, a wonderful one to thank God.<br /><br />August. Out of desperation of failing the interview I had with the manager of a Korean Academy in my place I resolved to volunteer my service as an oncology nurse in one of the hospitals in my place. I did not experience any difficulty applying for that position. The head nurse just scanned my papers and said I can start that date. Well, another blessing to thank. I was the last person who got the last slot.<br /><br />September. Funny thing happened. Surprisingly, I passed the exam and the interview with the Korean Academy I applied last August. I jumped for joy that I made it. I was trained together with my batch mates things that I don’t know. It was another learning experience that I never expected to happen. It’s a blessing to thank God.<br /><br />My second to the last thanksgiving, 5th day of November, I had in my hand the white card with my picture and of course my name and the title nurse. I am talking about my license card as a nurse of my country. It’s a double celebration because that day I was celebrating my 22nd birthday anniversary. No party was prepared but handling my license was the greatest present I had received.<br /><br />To wrap up my last and the most important thing I want to thank God for the last year, is the opportunity to serve Him. The eternal life He gave me that I will always keep. I can’t have those things I’ve mentioned above without a life obviously. God has been good in my life for the past years and unquestionably will be good for the years to come.</div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/8782339767622076893/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=8782339767622076893&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/8782339767622076893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/8782339767622076893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2009/01/farewell-fruitful-2008-welcome.html' title='Farewell Fruitful 2008. Welcome Prosperous 2009.'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-2222189059972431731</id><published>2009-01-01T10:43:00.003+04:00</published><updated>2009-01-14T12:49:45.188+04:00</updated><title type='text'>No Blog. My Bad</title><content type='html'><div align="justify">So rude of me! I haven’t posted a single blog for 7 months. I have several reasons I can explain why this thing happened but some of my reasons are not so valid but still I will acknowledge.<br /><br />First, my heart was awaken in the middle of nowhere but sad to say it’s with the wrong guy. It didn’t last long that therefore I can settle to an idea that God is protecting me from the worst part that might happen. Yes, I was brokenhearted but as what the Bible says “All things work together for GOOD to those who love God.” Romans 8:28. I am a daughter of God. I don’t deserve someone that is an enemy of God. I know it sounds so witless but in this life we can say we don’t really decide in sound mind all the time.<br /><br />In addition, I lost my internet connection at home. The cost of the monthly fee was out of my budget those times so it needed to be cut off. Other reasons were, I was busy processing my Board Exam Rating and my license card as a nurse, looking for a job until I got hired and a lot more. I hope my justifications are reasonable and acceptable.</div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/2222189059972431731/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=2222189059972431731&isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/2222189059972431731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/2222189059972431731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2009/01/no-blog-my-bad.html' title='No Blog. My Bad'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-3415374760938418650</id><published>2008-05-29T16:43:00.003+04:00</published><updated>2008-05-29T17:01:30.165+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sin"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Temptation"/><title type='text'>Temptations. Can You Handle It?</title><content type='html'><div align="justify">Every temptation is an opportunity to do what is right and what pleases our Lord. Temptation is a sign that Satan hates you. Everyone is tempted of all kinds. Lustful desires, covetous minds and hidden agendas only are mind knows, are just few examples. Come to think of it. Even our Lord and Savior was tempted by Satan three times but never sinned. Being tempted is not bad, but yielding to it is a sin. We think temptation lies around us, but God says it begins within us. How can we avoid yielding to it? What are the ways to be victorious against temptations? Here are the ABCs over temptation...<br /></div><br /><span><span><span><strong><span>A</span></strong></span></span></span> void situations where temptation occurs.<br /><strong><span><span><span><span>B</span></span></span></span></strong> ecome more familiar with the Bible.<br /><span><span><strong><span><span>C</span></span></strong></span></span> ount on God's promises (1 Corinthians 10:13).<br /><strong><span><span><span><span>D </span></span></span></span></strong>evelop accountability partnerships.<br /><span><strong><span><span><span>F</span></span></span></strong></span> ocus on Jesus' example.<br /><span><strong><span><span><span>G</span></span></span></strong></span> o to God in prayer for strength.<br /><span><span><strong><span><span>F</span></span></strong></span></span> ind a friend that you can count on when you feel like tempted.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/3415374760938418650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=3415374760938418650&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/3415374760938418650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/3415374760938418650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2008/05/temptations-can-you-handle-it.html' title='Temptations. Can You Handle It?'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-1184532916624095407</id><published>2008-05-03T16:59:00.003+04:00</published><updated>2008-05-03T17:19:40.972+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Eternal Life"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Friend"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Salvation"/><title type='text'>Your Most Important Decision</title><content type='html'><div align="center"><a href="http://static.flickr.com/41/93679057_6d10cad27c.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/41/93679057_6d10cad27c.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div align="justify">Have you ever felt that you were all alone, with no one who really understood you?<br /><br />Would you like to have a good friend who would never leave you, who could help you whenever you needed it?<br /><br />You can meet a friend like this right now. His name is Jesus. He has written you a “letter” to let you know about Him, about who He is and what He did to try to become your friend. The most personal part of that is the book you have in you hands.<br /><br />Jesus wants to be with you all the time, but there is a problem. He cannot stay where there is sin. Every time we lie, cheat, disobey or do other wrong things, we move further from Jesus. We must remember He cannot stay where there is sin.<br /><br />But Jesus loved everyone in the world just as they are and he keeps loving us the same way today, even though we have sinned.<br /><br /><strong><em>“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:36)<br /><br /></em></strong>In His letter Jesus tells us the best way a person can show the love is to be willing to even die for his friend.<br /><br /><strong><em>“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13)<br /></em></strong><br />That’s just what Jesus did for us. But why did He have to die? In order to show us just how He wanted to be our friend, Jesus decided to take our punishments for us. That way we could be forgiven without having to pay for our own sins. God could treat us just as if we had never sinned, and Jesus His Son could be our friend forever.<br /><br />So do we have to die too? Not for our sins, because Jesus died for them so we wouldn’t have to. And not forever, because Jesus died and resurrected so we could live forever with Him. In the letter He says:<br /><br /><strong><em>“In my Father’s house are many rooms….I am going there to prepare a place for you….I will come back and take you to be with Me that you also may be where I am.”(John 14:2,3)<br /></em></strong><br />That is what “eternal life” means in His letter.<br /><br /><em><strong>“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life.” (John 3:36)<br /></strong></em><br />What do we have to do to get rid of our sin so Jesus can be our friend? It’s really easy. First we have to believe that what He wrote us in His letter is true. And then all we have to do is ask Him to do what He said He would do. In the letter it is called “praying”. Some of Jesus’ closest friends one asked Him to teach them how to pray. They had seen Him doing it all the time, so they wanted Him to show them how to pray. He taught them to pray to their heavenly Father and ask him to forgive their sins. So He taught them to pray:<br /><br /><em><strong>"Our Father in heaven….forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sin against us.” (Matthew 6:9, Luke 11:4)<br /></strong></em><br />So why not do it right now? Just say:<br /><br />Sinner’s Prayer<br /><span style="color:#006600;"><strong>“HEAVENLY FATHER, THANK YOU FOR SENDING YOUR SON JESUS TO DIE FOR MY SINS. PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR ALL THE BAD THINGS I’VE DONE. I WANT JESUS TO BE MY SAVIOUR AND FRIEND, NOW AND FOREVER.” AMEN.<br /><br /></strong></span>With Jesus in your heart, you have eternal life<br /><br /><strong><em>“God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life.” (1 John 5:11, 12)<br /></em></strong><br /><strong><em>“He who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me….has passed from death into life.” (John 5:24)<br /></em></strong><br />When your body dies, you are present with the Lord. </div><div align="justify"><br /></div><p align="center"><a href="http://static.flickr.com/53/114474935_70c1f37ff0.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/53/114474935_70c1f37ff0.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><div align="justify"><em><strong>“We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” (2 Corinthians 5:8)<br /></strong></em><strong><br /><em>“Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27)<br /></em></strong><br />If you have prayed the sinner’s prayer, <span style="color:#33ccff;"><strong>CONGRATULATIONS! &amp; “WELCOME TO GOD”S FAMILY.”<br /></strong><br /></span>How to keep following Jesus?<br /><br /><strong>ü</strong> <strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">Go to Bible-believing churches.</span></strong> I recommend churches that only believe that Jesus Christ is the only way to eternal life and no other than like good works or graven images. </div><div align="justify"><br /><strong>ü</strong> <span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Read verses from the Bible</strong></span> (the Word of God) every day and hide them in your heart by memorizing special verses which help you.<br /><br /><strong><em>“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine (what you believe), for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness”2 Timothy 3:16)<br /></em></strong><br /><strong>ü</strong> <strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">Talk to Jesus in prayer anytime.</span><br /> § </strong>Thank Jesus for all the good things in life.<br /><strong> § </strong>Praise Him for things He has done for you and for saving your soul. Pray for any need you have. Pray in Jesus’ name.<br /><br /><strong><em>“If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.” (1 John 5:14)<br />“Whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.” (John 16:23)<br />“….pray for one another….” (James 5:16)<br />“Pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.” (Matthew 5:44)<br /><br /></em>ü <span style="color:#ff6600;">Jesus wants you to witness to others </span></strong>(at home, at school, at church, anywhere)<br /><br /><strong><em>“Go home to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He has had compassion on you.” (Mark 5:19)<br /></div></em></strong></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/1184532916624095407/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=1184532916624095407&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/1184532916624095407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/1184532916624095407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2008/05/your-most-important-decision.html' title='Your Most Important Decision'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476343634799555671.post-5723487834546754363</id><published>2008-04-25T04:16:00.001+04:00</published><updated>2008-04-26T05:17:11.342+04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Authority"/><title type='text'>Awesome Authority</title><content type='html'><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Bible Background</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style="">Psalms 119:137-144; 2 Timothy 2:15; 3:16, 17<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""> </span>Psalms 199, the longest psalms in the Bible, is an acrostic poem of 22 sections, one for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Verses 137-144 contain the lines that begin with the letter <i style="">tsadhe. </i><span style=""> </span>In this section and throughout the psalm, the writer uses several terms to describe God’s Word: “laws,” “statutes,” “words,” “promises,” “precepts,” “commands.” The writer expresses his joy in learning God’s Word, meditating on it, and guiding his life by it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""> </span>In the New Testament, Paul urges his disciples Timothy to handle God’s Word responsibly. Where the <i style="">King International Version </i>captures the meaning better: “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved.” Paul wants Timothy to understand, teach, and preach God’s message in a way that I will never have cause of which to be ashamed. When Paul calls Scripture the “word of truth,” he describes its quality of God’s true message for His people.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""> </span>Later in this second letter to Timothy, Paul refers directly to Scripture (2 Timothy 3:16, 17). All of it is “God-breathed,” he says, as though God exhaled the very words into the minds of the individuals who wrote them down. More than that, Scripture proves itself useful in equipping God’s people to do good. It corrects our errors, highlights our sins, and teaches the Old Testament (all Scripture available at the time), what he says applies equally to the New Testament/</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""> </span>We call the Bible “God’s Word,” and so it is. But the biblical concept of the Word of God reaches beyond the printed page to include everything God communicates to His people. Our task is to respect God’s Word, put it into our minds and hearts, and let it guide our lives.<br /><o:p></o:p><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Devotional Thought</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""> </span>Authority…absolute…truth…the bottom line. No matter how you say it, God <i style="">is</i> in control. God’s Word is the final authority, think about your own life. Does God have control? Do you work in His kingdom without being ashamed of what or how much you do? Do you allow Scripture to correct and train you in righteousness? Pray, asking God to shape you into a person most useful for Him.<o:p><br /></o:p></p></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/feeds/5723487834546754363/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6476343634799555671&postID=5723487834546754363&isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/5723487834546754363'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6476343634799555671/posts/default/5723487834546754363'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://inspiredbytheword.blogspot.com/2008/04/awesome-authority.html' title='Awesome Authority'/><author><name>вłeššeđмe¢ячø</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16597485676830601230</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>

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