This Is The day that the Lord has made We will rejoice and be glad in it:
You Know this may seem like a hard thing but with practice and time it comes easy.
The Bible says that Praise is comely to the upright. I will never forget one day when I was feeling down and I was sitting on my sofa focusing on what I was going thru and that scripture came to my spirit....I am not trying to be deep just real. When I thought about that, I said to myself..I am upright so that means that I should be praising God....right?..yes...Hallelujah!!. At fist I wasn't but the word of Christ is a mirror and when I saw what i wasn't doing that I began to do it. The flesh will constantly tug and pull at you and gnaw at you very soul but if you don't use, the SWORD of the spirit which is the word of God(Ephesians's 6:17) you will always be defeated.the weakness and disinterest you may feel and lack of strength is because you are not spiritually built up.
To praise God is sometimes a consistent battle , it takes alot of faith to look past how you feel and what we see and choose to believe God. Just because you don't "Feel" like it doesn't mean you don't do. God's word is true speak until you believe it. It takes perseverance lots of it and strength and the power of God. this is how it works(do it all even when you don't feel like it this will help build your spiritual muscle)the word of God says that the,Kingdom of God is not in word but in power 1corinthians4:20. God not only looks at what we say but mostly at what we do.
1. Pray
2.Obey
3.Fast
4.obey
5.worship
6.obey
7.praise
8.obey
9.deny old man(Roman8:5-14,Ephesians4:32)
10.follow new man(1peter1:5-10)
We have to understand that we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers and rulers of darkness and spiritual wickedness in high places Ephesians 6:12. The enemy of our souls wants us to constantly focus on ourselves and our problems this my friend is self worship idol worship, you are making your self a god and Jesus says that he will have no other gods before him. we as Christians have to understand that this is the only weapon that satan understand along with worship and a pure clean life.
*****please note you cannot live how you want to live and talk about i will just praise God anyway it doesn't work like that. your life must line up with the word of God. To be safe anything that God does not agree with and that is not in agreement with his word is sin.*****
A sword is used to cut and destroy use the spiritual sword. you can not fight satan with flesh he is a spirit you have to fight with the word of God. remember the word of God is quick and powerful sharper than a twoedged sword.
So Let the High praise of God be in your mouth and a twodeged sword in your hand Psalm 149:6. Use it to fight the good fight of faith lay hold on eternal life 1timothy6:12
You Know this may seem like a hard thing but with practice and time it comes easy.
The Bible says that Praise is comely to the upright. I will never forget one day when I was feeling down and I was sitting on my sofa focusing on what I was going thru and that scripture came to my spirit....I am not trying to be deep just real. When I thought about that, I said to myself..I am upright so that means that I should be praising God....right?..yes...Hallelujah!!. At fist I wasn't but the word of Christ is a mirror and when I saw what i wasn't doing that I began to do it. The flesh will constantly tug and pull at you and gnaw at you very soul but if you don't use, the SWORD of the spirit which is the word of God(Ephesians's 6:17) you will always be defeated.the weakness and disinterest you may feel and lack of strength is because you are not spiritually built up.
To praise God is sometimes a consistent battle , it takes alot of faith to look past how you feel and what we see and choose to believe God. Just because you don't "Feel" like it doesn't mean you don't do. God's word is true speak until you believe it. It takes perseverance lots of it and strength and the power of God. this is how it works(do it all even when you don't feel like it this will help build your spiritual muscle)the word of God says that the,Kingdom of God is not in word but in power 1corinthians4:20. God not only looks at what we say but mostly at what we do.
1. Pray
2.Obey
3.Fast
4.obey
5.worship
6.obey
7.praise
8.obey
9.deny old man(Roman8:5-14,Ephesians4:32)
10.follow new man(1peter1:5-10)
We have to understand that we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers and rulers of darkness and spiritual wickedness in high places Ephesians 6:12. The enemy of our souls wants us to constantly focus on ourselves and our problems this my friend is self worship idol worship, you are making your self a god and Jesus says that he will have no other gods before him. we as Christians have to understand that this is the only weapon that satan understand along with worship and a pure clean life.
*****please note you cannot live how you want to live and talk about i will just praise God anyway it doesn't work like that. your life must line up with the word of God. To be safe anything that God does not agree with and that is not in agreement with his word is sin.*****
A sword is used to cut and destroy use the spiritual sword. you can not fight satan with flesh he is a spirit you have to fight with the word of God. remember the word of God is quick and powerful sharper than a twoedged sword.
So Let the High praise of God be in your mouth and a twodeged sword in your hand Psalm 149:6. Use it to fight the good fight of faith lay hold on eternal life 1timothy6:12
1 comment:
hey there - i ended up in the discussion forum started by texas atheist teen a bit ago and read a few of the posts, then a bit of your blog. i just felt like i wanted to stop in and leave you a note to say after reading a few of your posts, i can tell that youre a really sincere, genuine believer, and that i really believe you are probably able to touch a lot of people with your knowledge of Scripture and your heart for the Lord.
im a 24-yr-old girl from chicago and ive been a christian all my life, but it wasnt until after high school when i moved to denmark for a Bible school that my perspectives on living out my faith kind of changed...because moving to a completely different part of the world taught me so much about how people can meet and interact with God in ways that i never imagined or could - and so i learned in a really relevant way that my job isnt to present like, the super hard lines of the black and white stuff we know is in the Bible (which is really more like the solid food that mature believers need, and not the milk that seekers or non-believers will grow from), but first and foremost to love with our actions and our words the way Christ did.
so i sort of felt like...i dont know...when people were calling your posts annoying and you said that was a huge compliment because then you must be in the light, since they are in the dark, it sort of made me sad. i know i dont know you at all and that, of course, online stuff can be super impersonal and the tone in which something is written can get totally lost, but i thought i would share the way i see it - because if the words i speak, even if they are the absolute truth upon which the universe is built, cause someone to form a negative (or really anything other than a positive) impression of the Gospel and what it means to be a Christian, it just makes me a little sad, you know? i am seriously not even trying to be critical at all, just expressing my belief on this issue...because i have had a lot of first-hand experience with stuff like this and i can tell you, even as a solid Christian, sometimes true words spoken without the proper gentleness (and sometimes, too much gentleness, when its needed) - can really do some damage.
i feel as though if anything we do or say puts the message of Christ in an "annoying" context, it cant be a compliment at all. its like - what can i do or say to get that person into the light with me, instead of just telling them that they are confirming their own darkness by being annoyed? im just thinking of that section in phillipians 2 - heres the link to the chapter... http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=57&chapter=2&version=31 ... im mostly thinking of verses 1-11 ... because its like, the goal as i see it is to share the light not by standing on the outside alongside only those who share our beliefs and ideologies, but by imitating Christ like crazy and getting in there to get our hands dirty in conversations and whatever with people that the Lord is desperate to reach. we cant do that by making distinctions between "us" and "them" - rather, we should consider others better than ourselves, loving them because He first loved us, and remembering that we have all sinned and fallen short of His glory.
i think thats pretty much what i wanted to say. hope this doesnt feel wildly inappropriate to you and i really hope it didnt land the wrong way...like i said, ive just been through a lot that deals with this kind of thing so im pretty sensitive to it and felt like i should share. i dont know - maybe you could just pray about it and if you feel any confirmation, i hope it helps. otherwise, just wanted to say hello.
hope its a good week :)
rebecca
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