Just a Thought

I do and say things like my dad does. I've never been conscious to them, but as soon as I headed to the midwest to visit family, my grandmother picked up on them. It makes sense that I should act like him though, because I've been raised by him. Doesn't it stand then that we should speak and act like our Father in heaven? The One who created us to be like Him? That if we went to visit family, say our church family, would they see and hear Him through us? If they could see it, then would the world?

The Fourth Generation

Based from a revival service preached by Sis. Nancy Renner--

"The first generation grew; the second, peaked; the third, declined. Then there's the fourth generation. The fourth generation had revival."

"The second generation served the God of their fathers. They were never dedicated to their parents' God, they were never dedicated to their lifestyle. If you want to live for God, you've got to do it for yourself."

"The third generations of Israel served other idols. You've got to have more than what mom or dad had. You've got to have you're own experience with God. That experience has got to come from the heart. Israel's third generation had no experience with God. Their parents had served the God of their parents. They didn't pass down the dedication. The third generation rationalized everything--the more you rationalize, the farther you get from God."

"The fourth generation is a generation of revival. It is a personal, dedicated life to God. Only you can make the choice. Only you can be what God wants you to be, what He created you to be."

"We make the time to have fun, to do what we need to do, but when it comes to the church, we limit our availability. The church should never be last on your list." God, wanting His presence in your life, working for Him, should be first. "Make sure you have your priorities straight in your heart. Want to be at church, long to be in His presence. The first priority of your life should be to put God first and bring the lost to Him. Have an experience with God that will never leave you alone. Be dedicated to your lifestyle, not your mom's or your dad's. We have got to have a relationship, if we don't have it, we won't make it. The only thing that's important is what God wants us to be. We'll either be what God wants us to be, or we'll be what we want to be."

Without our own experience, something to fall back on when we're going through a storm, we will doubt God has ever been there for us. With our own, personal experience with God, we will not be able to doubt Him, because we'll doubt our doubt.

Get an experience, trust me, it's a good thing to have. When the relationship with God falters, the experience is there to remind you--He. Will. Never. Falter.

We've got to be the fourth generation. We've got to have an experience with God SO strong that we pass the experience down to our kids, and they pass it on to theirs, and them to theirs. We've got to have revival, we have to BE the revival.

Heaven is for Real

I just finished reading this book last night. It was extremely interesting, though there were a few parts when the boy described Heaven that I wasn't sure were based on scripture. What I mean by that is just the way he described it and his dad interpreted it. You could tell it was written by man and not God, but overall a very good book, one I'd recommend.



I still haven't worked on the bible study I want to do, instead I've been working on writing out my testimony. With help from my friend Amanda, I've written it out in six pages. The first few are the story and the last two or three are poems/songs that I wrote during that time and fit extremely well. I didn't even realize until I was looking at them in the same document how well they fit together. The way they fit, they practically tell the story themselves.


It's late and I should be sleeping so I'll go now, God Bless.

As For Today

I've been thinking of what I'd like for my next post to be about. I'd like to do a bible study or something on a passage of scripture in Matthew, my favorite in the bible (or what I've read of it so far), Matthew 6:24-34. It's sort of a long passage, and I haven't found a topic to focus on yet. I'm trying to figure out if there's a way I can use the lilies mentioned in verse 28 as an analogy for, well, being provided for. That's my basic thought anyway, I'm not even sure what I'll come up with. We'll have to see.

Until next time, farewell and God bless =)

Good Idea, But Would It Work?

So I'm thinking about making this blog about things I want to share from church or prayer or bible reading. I'm thinking it may be a good idea because no one is very likely to read it, and if they did they might appreciate it. I doubt these entries will be very long, but hopefully they'll be worthwhile...

So the mid-week service of the church I attend was tonight, and the pastor taught on Separation from the World. I'm just going to touch on a few points he made in his introduction.

On Separation from the World:

"Separation from the world brings the opportunity" for a relationship with God.

2 Corinthians 6:11-18, firstly focusing on 17,

"Therefore "Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you,"

It doesn't say not to hug or grasp or hold onto the unclean thing, it says don't even touch it.

Then in 2 Corinthians 7:1 it says

"Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God."

Every once in a while we have to purge from ourselves the things that slip in, the things that we make excuses for. "It's not that bad," "It's okay," if we have to make excuses, then we probably shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

We need to be separate from the world, not going back and forth over the line we draw and the boundaries we make. They're there for a reason.