Getting away is the best when you are stressed and weary. Like a breath of fresh air, getting away and intimate with the one who created you is overpowering, overwhelming, weakening, yet so peaceful...
Time away from the 619 was much needed and awesome. Being in Riverside has made me realize that I really don't have a place to call 'home'. This doesn't mean that I don't have a place to live. I do live in a house with other bros and usually crash at other friends places when traveling. But 'home' is no longer a place that I can go to now.
My home is not here and never will be. I had a home; but til I leave this life on earth I will never be 'home'- that place of rest and comfort where I can simply stay and know that I belong there and nowhere else
Nothing here will satisfy like being home with my maker, your maker, our maker- God Almighty.
There is that need also. That need to remain faithful as He is faithful. Why is it so tough to be full of faith? faith-full to Him that gives all and is all?
Why do we put our flesh before blood?? Why do we fall so quickly?!
We need a covenant. A covenant to stay true, to stay pure, to stay in the light.
In the words of Thommy Green from SG:
Your Heart is Mine. COVENANT. Your Heart is My Heart. NEVER FORGET.
never forget.
never forget.
Holy Spirit- Convict us. Guide us. CHANGE us.
Blood before flesh. Christ before me. Christ the King...
May I stay true to my name. May I follow Him Always.
Stay True- you who are called Christian- Stay True
11/28/08
11/24/08
Dirty Vegas
Dirty Vegas is right- days really do go by.
We are all being worked on; we all are growing, changing, learning, seeking, loving, gaining, losing.
Though all this is happening- I somehow have found some peace. I get anxious though. But it's because of my wants not being met, my desires and expectations and plans being frustrated and thown out of wack.
Yet through all that has and is happening- LOVE has the final word; it just does.
I have no idea of what's going to happen beyond this moment in which I am in now.
We are supernaturally provided with all that we need and more.
Gotta have faith.
God is gracious.
I don't deserve none of this; I wasn't even seeking it!
yet- God is gracious and has provided His blessing on preparing me for something greater to come.
Gotta have faith.
We are all being worked on; we all are growing, changing, learning, seeking, loving, gaining, losing.
Though all this is happening- I somehow have found some peace. I get anxious though. But it's because of my wants not being met, my desires and expectations and plans being frustrated and thown out of wack.
Yet through all that has and is happening- LOVE has the final word; it just does.
I have no idea of what's going to happen beyond this moment in which I am in now.
We are supernaturally provided with all that we need and more.
Gotta have faith.
God is gracious.
I don't deserve none of this; I wasn't even seeking it!
yet- God is gracious and has provided His blessing on preparing me for something greater to come.
Gotta have faith.
11/13/08
DELIGHT?
Turkish delight.that's a picture/photograph/image/jpeg of it.
Take a good look.
It changes after you go deep into it.
Turkish delight?
OR
Turkish counterfeit crack that's different colors??!!!
...
Sketchy stuff, my friends
Sketchy stuff
11/11/08
Always pushing forward- TO THE DEATH!
I read Phil3:12-16 and what struck me was 13 and 14...
"Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do:
forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus"
For most of my walk with Christ I have been a person who seeks to live with no regrets- so far so good- it's all about perspective really (read previous entry for some insight).
But it's not that we are to disregard our past, our roots, where we've come from- that would mean forgetting all the blessings that God Almighty has bestowed upon you in times past. Rather it's seeking God's call in the here and now and beyond; while also using hindsight to gain wisdom and understanding as you push forward.
Now, I'm not trying to preach to you but just sharing how the Word has guided me to see that what I have been seeking and pursuing in the past- which were not the right places but rather lessons learned- has been in front of me during this whole time...and it's now, in His time, for me to see that it has been in front of me this whole time- except now it's glowing brightly like a neon sign.
No need to complicate it, no need to look elsewhere...cuz' it's right there!
***What you've been stretching and straining to seek in high and low places is actually within easy reach...hmm.
Let's do this then...I've got nothing to lose but much to learn...
Thank God for HINDSIGHT
"Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do:
forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus"
For most of my walk with Christ I have been a person who seeks to live with no regrets- so far so good- it's all about perspective really (read previous entry for some insight).
But it's not that we are to disregard our past, our roots, where we've come from- that would mean forgetting all the blessings that God Almighty has bestowed upon you in times past. Rather it's seeking God's call in the here and now and beyond; while also using hindsight to gain wisdom and understanding as you push forward.
Now, I'm not trying to preach to you but just sharing how the Word has guided me to see that what I have been seeking and pursuing in the past- which were not the right places but rather lessons learned- has been in front of me during this whole time...and it's now, in His time, for me to see that it has been in front of me this whole time- except now it's glowing brightly like a neon sign.
No need to complicate it, no need to look elsewhere...cuz' it's right there!
***What you've been stretching and straining to seek in high and low places is actually within easy reach...hmm.
Let's do this then...I've got nothing to lose but much to learn...
Thank God for HINDSIGHT
SIMPLY_SAID...
If you could see what I can, then you would understand
If you could see what I can, please open your eyes
Open your eyes, open your heart, open your eyes, open your
How could you see what I can, how could you understand
How could you see what I can, please open your eyes
Open your eyes, open your heart, open your eyes, open your
He loves you, He loves you, He loves you, He loves you
~Open by No Innocent Victim~
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