Peace be Still written July 07
Oh here it is another late night thought. I love not being able to sleep cause I am thinking about life and how amazing God is. As I am preparing my lesson for tomorrow I find these songs that seem to speak to me at the times when I need it. Song that is on my profile is Peace be Still. We all pray for peace, patience and other things to be given to us by God like some type of medication. "If you pray this prayer you will have peace in your life". I really dont see God working that way. I see him using us and let us have an opportunity to use peace, patience in our day to day lives. We have to remember that when this world gets crazy and things seem out of control we have a place and someone to go to so the Peace in our lives can be still.
Come to me
You who are weak
Let my strength
Be yours, tonight.
Come and rest
Let my love
Be your bed
Let my heart
Be yours tonight
Chorus:Peace be still
Peace be still
Please be still
And know that I am God
And know that I am God
Come empty cup
Let me fill you upI'll descend
On you like a dove, tonight
Lift your headLet your eyes
Fall into mineL
et your fear subside, tonight
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Make you think
Make you think
These are diferent thoughts that Rick Warren the author of A Purpose Driven Life wrote. Read these thoughts and think about your life and your problems. Everytime life gets hard or good what do you do?
People ask me, What is the purpose of life? And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven. One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body-- but not the end of me. I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity. We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense. Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy. We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness.
Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life. No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on. And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.
You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems. If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness,"which is my problem, my issues, my pain." But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.
We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity? Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)? When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say,God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You moreand love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill ato-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.
These are diferent thoughts that Rick Warren the author of A Purpose Driven Life wrote. Read these thoughts and think about your life and your problems. Everytime life gets hard or good what do you do?
People ask me, What is the purpose of life? And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven. One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body-- but not the end of me. I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity. We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense. Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy. We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness.
Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life. No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on. And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.
You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems. If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness,"which is my problem, my issues, my pain." But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.
We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity? Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)? When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say,God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You moreand love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill ato-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.
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