Day 82
Even if I have to miss some AI, I'm staying here until I finish this. I really need to do something about that alarm. It's ridiculous.
God. I need to pray about college. I don't do enough of that. It's crazy that I think you can lead me when I don't persist in my prayer for it. I know you will guide me, but I am asking for your wisdom and guidance! Proverbs tells me that you're the one who figures everything out. Well, help me with this! I can't believe I can be so stupid!
I gotta keep my eyes on you, trust you, and all will go as planned... your plan, obviously, not mine. My plan will never go right. If they do go right, they were actually your plans haha.
Keep alert! Watch for the Master to come home! And know that we are in a battle. The devil is real. He is powerful, but there is one who is way more powerful than him, and there's no way that the devil can ever touch me for very long, because I am enslaved in Christ and there's no way that he's going to let me go. !!!!
Thank you Lord. Your love. You care about what happens to me. And you're active in my life. Help me see more of you. I'm so weak and so capricious, and I love to go my own way. I can be proud, stubborn, apathetic, and I can go my own way. But I also love you, I want to know you more, and I want to go your way. Deep down inside, I know there's no happier way.
Love,
Luke 11-12
Lord, teach us to pray.
Keep praying. Be persistent. You will get what you need if you are persistent, even if the person isn't even your friend. But God loves you and wants to give gifts to you, so there's no way you won't get what you need. I know what I'm getting A for her birthday, but I'm not perfect, but I can get A something she wants. God's perfect and knows exactly what we want/need.
Blessed rather are those that hear God's word and obeys it.
If your eye is on the light of Jesus, all is awesome!
Luke 11:45 Jesus... don't you know you're being callous and mean and offensive? Don't you know you're including us in that censure? It may be true for those Pharisees, but us experts in the law are much better. Jesus: oh, well, if you insist... woe especially to you experts of the law...
I hope no one died from the trampling. Of course, you could always bring him/her back to life, but it'd be better if it didn't happen in the first place, no?
12:4-5 I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
Sometimes I dream that I'm running away from the bad guys, and it's hard to run and hard to breathe and most of the time it's like I'm running through water. I'm not terrified, because I know it's a dream, but I get scared sometimes. If someone were after me in real life, the terror would be overwhelming (especially if I didn't have God). How often am I scared of the devil? I mean, I already put some stuff into practice, knowing that God wins, the devil doesn't have power over me unless I let him. But I don't get scared enough for other people. I don't get scared of how the devil can pull me away from the promptings of the Holy Spirit. I suppose scared isn't the right word. "Fear" is better- the right kind of fear--almost respect for what the devil can do. We are in a battle, we need to fight back!
Rambling over.
A man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions. But how often does it appear in this American culture?? It's ridiculous! When you die, you're not taking any of it with you!
The Luke version of the famous Matthew "don't worry" section. The thing that struck me was he also put in the store your treasures in heaven, where moth and thieves and time can destroy it.
Live like the master's coming.
It's better to not know, and sin than to know, and sin. But the best is to know and not sin :-)
I have come to bring fire on this earth--I wish it was already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo. Jesus' whole purpose is the cross.
Proverbs 16
Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. I'm submitting my college decisions over to you, Lord. Whatever you want. It's all yours.
In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps. Once again Lord, determine my steps, even though I have a plan. I'm up to any changes, or a complete discard of my previous notions.
Give heed to instruction and trust the Lord.
There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. Listen to God and he will tell you if it's right, or only seems right.
Chance is actually God.
Revelation 16
Lord God, I honestly do not want to be on earth still at the end of the world. I'd much rather be watching it from heaven. But if you want to come earlier, I know you'll prepare me for whatever needs to happen. Still. Sores? Thank goodness that's not for me. Blood? Ewwww. Hail? That would be terrifying--one hundred pounds?!! ridiculous. But it's all you. Just stay faithful to You, and it'll be all good.
God. I need to pray about college. I don't do enough of that. It's crazy that I think you can lead me when I don't persist in my prayer for it. I know you will guide me, but I am asking for your wisdom and guidance! Proverbs tells me that you're the one who figures everything out. Well, help me with this! I can't believe I can be so stupid!
I gotta keep my eyes on you, trust you, and all will go as planned... your plan, obviously, not mine. My plan will never go right. If they do go right, they were actually your plans haha.
Keep alert! Watch for the Master to come home! And know that we are in a battle. The devil is real. He is powerful, but there is one who is way more powerful than him, and there's no way that the devil can ever touch me for very long, because I am enslaved in Christ and there's no way that he's going to let me go. !!!!
Thank you Lord. Your love. You care about what happens to me. And you're active in my life. Help me see more of you. I'm so weak and so capricious, and I love to go my own way. I can be proud, stubborn, apathetic, and I can go my own way. But I also love you, I want to know you more, and I want to go your way. Deep down inside, I know there's no happier way.
Love,
Luke 11-12
Lord, teach us to pray.
Keep praying. Be persistent. You will get what you need if you are persistent, even if the person isn't even your friend. But God loves you and wants to give gifts to you, so there's no way you won't get what you need. I know what I'm getting A for her birthday, but I'm not perfect, but I can get A something she wants. God's perfect and knows exactly what we want/need.
Blessed rather are those that hear God's word and obeys it.
If your eye is on the light of Jesus, all is awesome!
Luke 11:45 Jesus... don't you know you're being callous and mean and offensive? Don't you know you're including us in that censure? It may be true for those Pharisees, but us experts in the law are much better. Jesus: oh, well, if you insist... woe especially to you experts of the law...
I hope no one died from the trampling. Of course, you could always bring him/her back to life, but it'd be better if it didn't happen in the first place, no?
12:4-5 I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
Sometimes I dream that I'm running away from the bad guys, and it's hard to run and hard to breathe and most of the time it's like I'm running through water. I'm not terrified, because I know it's a dream, but I get scared sometimes. If someone were after me in real life, the terror would be overwhelming (especially if I didn't have God). How often am I scared of the devil? I mean, I already put some stuff into practice, knowing that God wins, the devil doesn't have power over me unless I let him. But I don't get scared enough for other people. I don't get scared of how the devil can pull me away from the promptings of the Holy Spirit. I suppose scared isn't the right word. "Fear" is better- the right kind of fear--almost respect for what the devil can do. We are in a battle, we need to fight back!
Rambling over.
A man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions. But how often does it appear in this American culture?? It's ridiculous! When you die, you're not taking any of it with you!
The Luke version of the famous Matthew "don't worry" section. The thing that struck me was he also put in the store your treasures in heaven, where moth and thieves and time can destroy it.
Live like the master's coming.
It's better to not know, and sin than to know, and sin. But the best is to know and not sin :-)
I have come to bring fire on this earth--I wish it was already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo. Jesus' whole purpose is the cross.
Proverbs 16
Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. I'm submitting my college decisions over to you, Lord. Whatever you want. It's all yours.
In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps. Once again Lord, determine my steps, even though I have a plan. I'm up to any changes, or a complete discard of my previous notions.
Give heed to instruction and trust the Lord.
There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. Listen to God and he will tell you if it's right, or only seems right.
Chance is actually God.
Revelation 16
Lord God, I honestly do not want to be on earth still at the end of the world. I'd much rather be watching it from heaven. But if you want to come earlier, I know you'll prepare me for whatever needs to happen. Still. Sores? Thank goodness that's not for me. Blood? Ewwww. Hail? That would be terrifying--one hundred pounds?!! ridiculous. But it's all you. Just stay faithful to You, and it'll be all good.