So everyone knows the story of David and Goliath right? David was the smallest and youngest of his brothers and looked after the sheep, he wasn't a "warrior" but he stepped up and took on the challenge of killing Goliath, the giant. It says in 1 Samuel 17:34 that when a lion or bear came near the flock he would strike it and rescue the sheep from it. He then says "The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the paw of the Philistine" in verse 37.
I don't think David saw Goliath as "any bigger a challenge" than the lion and the bear. He knew that the LORD his GOD would deliver him from any challenge, because no challenge is too big for his God. He had this revelation in him that there was no fear when he saw the giant.
So, the significance of this story is that it was prophecied over me just over a year ago and I am only coming to grasp it's true meaning in my life now. I am realising that what I am facing now is nothing for God to overcome. That it isn't any more of a challenge for God than the last challenge I went through.
It is so easy to just read that and be like "yeah that is true" but there is more to it than that if you want to REALLY have it be truth in your life. Reading a verse once a week for a problem you are facing is NOT gonna cut it! Lately I have been reading and re-reading the same verse everyday and through out the day, I have stuck it in places I see regularly, I have memorised them so that I cain remember and speak them out in times of need.
I am getting it in my head his promises.
If you feel like you are facing a giant bigger than you, something bigger than you think you can handle then remember that no challenge is too big for God.
Remember also 2 Chronicles 20:15 "Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours but God's".
:)
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
♥ "Nothing is gonna change my love for you" God our Father says!
So I shouldn't really be blogging, I am currently on Jury Service this week and next and have limited spare time in the evenings to get through assignments and camp work for FITE camp in 2 weeks but you know what, it is more important to "be" than "do". And writing is my out, it is my way of working through what God is teaching me and a way of teaching others.
This blog is about a love song written and sung by a non christian but I am taking it from the angle of God singing it to us :)
"Nothing is gonna change my love for you" by George Benson
This song is a classic, my Dad use to always play one of his CD's in the car all the time and this was his, mine and my niece's favourite song. We thought it was a great song and could easily be changed to be sung from us to God or God to us.
I was listening to this song because I heard it come on from my Dad's computer and thought I would youtube it and find it, when I listened to it I was so touched by the words and of course the beautiful music as well.
What touches me so much is "nothing is going to change my love for you" these words reach into the depths of my heart. I really feel these words because I growing up I felt like I had to prove myself to be loved, I had the mindset of if I did something wrong like break my brothers toy by accident I wouldn't be loved by my parents anymore and this created a mindset of I had to perform for love and I wouldn't believe my parents really cared about me (even though they did and still do!) Parents aren't perfect and yeah it hurt at the time but God makes all things work out for those who love him and now I am learning that God's love is unconditional!
Unconditional means he has no conditions on his love, he doesn't care how messy we are, he doesn't care if I have cried for an hour and have snot everywhere and puffy eyes, he loves me even when I am angry, he loves me when I tell my brother to leave my room (he might not be terribly impressed by these things but he still LOVES ME!). Cause nothing is going to change his love for me.
Knowing that nothing will change his love for me has enabled me to find rest..It has given me the "ahhh I can stop trying now!"
So if anyone out there needs a deepening what God's love for you is like listen to this song, put it on repeat and pretend it is God your Daddy singing it to you :)
This blog is about a love song written and sung by a non christian but I am taking it from the angle of God singing it to us :)
This song is a classic, my Dad use to always play one of his CD's in the car all the time and this was his, mine and my niece's favourite song. We thought it was a great song and could easily be changed to be sung from us to God or God to us.
I was listening to this song because I heard it come on from my Dad's computer and thought I would youtube it and find it, when I listened to it I was so touched by the words and of course the beautiful music as well.
What touches me so much is "nothing is going to change my love for you" these words reach into the depths of my heart. I really feel these words because I growing up I felt like I had to prove myself to be loved, I had the mindset of if I did something wrong like break my brothers toy by accident I wouldn't be loved by my parents anymore and this created a mindset of I had to perform for love and I wouldn't believe my parents really cared about me (even though they did and still do!) Parents aren't perfect and yeah it hurt at the time but God makes all things work out for those who love him and now I am learning that God's love is unconditional!
Unconditional means he has no conditions on his love, he doesn't care how messy we are, he doesn't care if I have cried for an hour and have snot everywhere and puffy eyes, he loves me even when I am angry, he loves me when I tell my brother to leave my room (he might not be terribly impressed by these things but he still LOVES ME!). Cause nothing is going to change his love for me.
Knowing that nothing will change his love for me has enabled me to find rest..It has given me the "ahhh I can stop trying now!"
So if anyone out there needs a deepening what God's love for you is like listen to this song, put it on repeat and pretend it is God your Daddy singing it to you :)
Monday, 20 June 2011
The cry of my heart
Pain hurts, circumstances hurt, life hurts. Why does crap happen in our lives, why do we go through things that seem too much for us and we feel like were feeling more hurt and pain than any human is suppose to ever feel.
I keep on asking these questions in my head, why God! Why me! Why do I feel like this?
And you know what, I got the realisation that Jesus felt it all, 10000000000 x worse than me.
I feel like I am growing in compassion through all of this, my heart now cries out for others that are going through stuff. I feel like through it all I am learning to get DESPERATE for God. Because when I am at the end of myself and can't control or fix anything that is going on around me, I can't cry for an hour and it will get better, I can't do anything that will fix it. I actually am left with no choice but to pray, and it sucks that I would choose to fix things myself before giving it to God, that isn't right, but I am learning. I am learning to give it to God.
Almost 2 weeks ago I started speaking in tounges everyday and since then I feel like I have grown spiritually and God is edifying me and growing his heart in me for him and others. Yesterday I didn't speak in tounges, I slacked off (being a Sunday I must of thought it was alright) and I felt so discouraged about life all day, it is like I was a happy little floating balloon for the past 2 weeks then I poped. I feel like I am back to square one but I am not. I realised that sometimes you can start to "heal" from something and then a challenge comes your way and although I didn't exactly have victory yesterday I learnt a lot from it. I learnt to REALLY rely on God. Spiritually day to day. That reading a verse in the morning, or a good Bill Johnson book isn't going to cut it. I realised that once you enter the spiritual realm and decide to get serious in the spirit the devil isn't going to like it and will attack the moment you let your gaurd down. It is like having a lot of expensive items in your house and people can see into it and see that you have treasure in there then the moment you leave your house un-locked the local robber called satan comes to kill, steal and destroy.
So be careful, pain hurts, but it is worth it once it is over, it is worth the glory that is revealed (Romans 8) it is worth God's love and pressence you experience, it is worth sharing in his pain.
God bless :)
I keep on asking these questions in my head, why God! Why me! Why do I feel like this?
And you know what, I got the realisation that Jesus felt it all, 10000000000 x worse than me.
I feel like I am growing in compassion through all of this, my heart now cries out for others that are going through stuff. I feel like through it all I am learning to get DESPERATE for God. Because when I am at the end of myself and can't control or fix anything that is going on around me, I can't cry for an hour and it will get better, I can't do anything that will fix it. I actually am left with no choice but to pray, and it sucks that I would choose to fix things myself before giving it to God, that isn't right, but I am learning. I am learning to give it to God.
Almost 2 weeks ago I started speaking in tounges everyday and since then I feel like I have grown spiritually and God is edifying me and growing his heart in me for him and others. Yesterday I didn't speak in tounges, I slacked off (being a Sunday I must of thought it was alright) and I felt so discouraged about life all day, it is like I was a happy little floating balloon for the past 2 weeks then I poped. I feel like I am back to square one but I am not. I realised that sometimes you can start to "heal" from something and then a challenge comes your way and although I didn't exactly have victory yesterday I learnt a lot from it. I learnt to REALLY rely on God. Spiritually day to day. That reading a verse in the morning, or a good Bill Johnson book isn't going to cut it. I realised that once you enter the spiritual realm and decide to get serious in the spirit the devil isn't going to like it and will attack the moment you let your gaurd down. It is like having a lot of expensive items in your house and people can see into it and see that you have treasure in there then the moment you leave your house un-locked the local robber called satan comes to kill, steal and destroy.
So be careful, pain hurts, but it is worth it once it is over, it is worth the glory that is revealed (Romans 8) it is worth God's love and pressence you experience, it is worth sharing in his pain.
God bless :)
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Thoughts on Worship to GOD
I was thinking a lot today about what it means to worship in Spirit and in Truth... So it says in the Bible to love God with all your heart, all your mind and all your soul (Matt 22:37) so I suppose this is like saying Love God with everything in your body that can (Heart, mind and soul) and then in Romans 12:1 it says "Therefore, I urge you brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God-this is your Spiritual act of WORSHIP" So our spiritual act of worship is offer our bodies as sacrifices to God...Now what the flip does that mean... Bill Johnson says "fire always falls on sacrifice" and that worship is suppose to cost us, the lady with the alabaster jar (which was all that she had) that she spilt on Jesus and wipped his feet with, that cost her, it cost her her only source of money (selling the jar), it would of cost her the dignity (wipping Jesus's dirty feet with her hair and this oil). This act of worship was sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.
I looked up what worship meant and it meant to prostrate yourself before God so to lie down before him (note: spell it right before you google it otherwise you get prostate cancer for men...) and to lie down on the ground, face on the floor before someone would be costing you a bit of dignity and it would be pretty much humbling yourself before someone bigger and better than you I suppose? That is why people would bow down before Kings in the towns back in the day.
The English dictionary meaning of worship is to be devoted to something/someone, so for us as Chrsitians it would be to be devoted to God, loving him with every part of our being and living pleasing and holy lives.
So that is our Spiritual act of worship, and to worship Him in truth, from what I understand that means to worship him in our actions, not just the songs we sing or the things we speak but to honour him in truth, in words. It says in the word that the word was God and that he is the way and the truth. So to worship Him in truth would be to worship him through the word and living out the word and living out the way he has called us to be?
I looked up what worship meant and it meant to prostrate yourself before God so to lie down before him (note: spell it right before you google it otherwise you get prostate cancer for men...) and to lie down on the ground, face on the floor before someone would be costing you a bit of dignity and it would be pretty much humbling yourself before someone bigger and better than you I suppose? That is why people would bow down before Kings in the towns back in the day.
The English dictionary meaning of worship is to be devoted to something/someone, so for us as Chrsitians it would be to be devoted to God, loving him with every part of our being and living pleasing and holy lives.
So that is our Spiritual act of worship, and to worship Him in truth, from what I understand that means to worship him in our actions, not just the songs we sing or the things we speak but to honour him in truth, in words. It says in the word that the word was God and that he is the way and the truth. So to worship Him in truth would be to worship him through the word and living out the word and living out the way he has called us to be?
Monday, 13 June 2011
Outward or the inward, what are we more concerned about?
Yesterday at work I got talking to a customer for almost an hour about a lot of heavy stuff which has really hit home to me and is hanging round in my head and won't go away!
One of the things were tithing and how the Bible doesn't say that we must give 10% but that we desires all of our heart and from that we give him whatever he tells us too and that comes from a love relationship with him, so if he says I want 25$ of your weekly income you can give it to him. If he says I don't want your money I want all your time and I want you to quit your job and move to Africa then you will.
The other thing we talked about was how this generation at Church things that are pushed are attendance at services and life groups, and that generally that is pushed more than time with God.
This mother and daughter that I talked too go away to fix up their rental property in Feilding quite a bit and don't make it to Chuch and life groups week to week, however they said they still have a strong relationship with each other and they make sure they are still surrounding themselves with christian fellowship (each other and friends).
This made me think, how many times have I asked someone why they wern't at a Church event verses how many times have I asked someone how their personal relationship with God is?
I bet we spend more time (myself included) at Church or doing "Churchy" things verses spending time with God. Now there isn't enough hours in the week to spend more time in the word verses the Church commitments they might have for some people but what are we prioritising?
Am I more concerned about doing stuff or spending time with God? I am a Christian and that means choosing a relationship with the creator of the universe. It is like marrying someone then ignoring them, never talking to them, never wanting to hang out with them for the rest of the marriage... which I imagine wouldn't last long if that was the case.
So here is a challenge, if you are reading this and you are a Christian... How is your time with God going? Do you spend regular time talking to him (also known as praying...), do you spend time reading his love and encouragement letters he has written you (aka the bible) and are you aware everyday that you are in a relationship with the creator of the universe?
I am going to start asking everyone I am in relationship is how there personal relationship with God is going from now on and change the culture of the concern of the outward to the inward :)
Excuse all spelling, grammar and bad punctuation and all lack of capital letters, I wrote this very quickly cause I am suppose to be working on a assignment....
One of the things were tithing and how the Bible doesn't say that we must give 10% but that we desires all of our heart and from that we give him whatever he tells us too and that comes from a love relationship with him, so if he says I want 25$ of your weekly income you can give it to him. If he says I don't want your money I want all your time and I want you to quit your job and move to Africa then you will.
The other thing we talked about was how this generation at Church things that are pushed are attendance at services and life groups, and that generally that is pushed more than time with God.
This mother and daughter that I talked too go away to fix up their rental property in Feilding quite a bit and don't make it to Chuch and life groups week to week, however they said they still have a strong relationship with each other and they make sure they are still surrounding themselves with christian fellowship (each other and friends).
This made me think, how many times have I asked someone why they wern't at a Church event verses how many times have I asked someone how their personal relationship with God is?
I bet we spend more time (myself included) at Church or doing "Churchy" things verses spending time with God. Now there isn't enough hours in the week to spend more time in the word verses the Church commitments they might have for some people but what are we prioritising?
Am I more concerned about doing stuff or spending time with God? I am a Christian and that means choosing a relationship with the creator of the universe. It is like marrying someone then ignoring them, never talking to them, never wanting to hang out with them for the rest of the marriage... which I imagine wouldn't last long if that was the case.
So here is a challenge, if you are reading this and you are a Christian... How is your time with God going? Do you spend regular time talking to him (also known as praying...), do you spend time reading his love and encouragement letters he has written you (aka the bible) and are you aware everyday that you are in a relationship with the creator of the universe?
I am going to start asking everyone I am in relationship is how there personal relationship with God is going from now on and change the culture of the concern of the outward to the inward :)
Excuse all spelling, grammar and bad punctuation and all lack of capital letters, I wrote this very quickly cause I am suppose to be working on a assignment....
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