Beautiful. It’s a word that some Christian females shy away from. Well, maybe I won’t talk in generalities. I’ll talk about myself.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
God be glorified... by any means necessary
Hey y'all,
This is my testimony. I posted it to Facebook a few months back, but I'm sharing it here as well and asking that God would use it to bless you and prepare your heart to fully receive Him.
Posted on Facebook on 7/28/10 at 8:23PM, entitled "the story of my life: uncensored, uncut and unedited":
I spend a lot of time on Facebook declaring God’s goodness and His redemptive power, but I don’t think I’ve ever shared what God has rescued me from, publicly on Facebook. So here it goes. Behind every saint is a story. And mine is, ha. Let’s just say God’s grace is SO amazing and He is the only reason that I am where I am today.
This is my testimony. I posted it to Facebook a few months back, but I'm sharing it here as well and asking that God would use it to bless you and prepare your heart to fully receive Him.
Posted on Facebook on 7/28/10 at 8:23PM, entitled "the story of my life: uncensored, uncut and unedited":
I spend a lot of time on Facebook declaring God’s goodness and His redemptive power, but I don’t think I’ve ever shared what God has rescued me from, publicly on Facebook. So here it goes. Behind every saint is a story. And mine is, ha. Let’s just say God’s grace is SO amazing and He is the only reason that I am where I am today.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
a different kind of prophetic
A self-fulfilling prophecy is, according to a trusty source called Wikipedia:
“a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback belief and behavior.”
This concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy is something I learned about in Social Psychology class. Pretty much, it means that you can believe something about a situation that isn’t true and act in ways that reflect this false belief and that can actually cause your belief to become true. For example, say you are about to meet a girl named Kim. Someone is spreading lies about Kim and tells you that she has a huge attitude problem. Before you even meet the girl, you don’t even like her. So when you finally meet Kim, you treat her poorly, which causes her to have an attitude with you. And then you say to yourself, “I knew she was a rude person.” That's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
“a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback belief and behavior.”
This concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy is something I learned about in Social Psychology class. Pretty much, it means that you can believe something about a situation that isn’t true and act in ways that reflect this false belief and that can actually cause your belief to become true. For example, say you are about to meet a girl named Kim. Someone is spreading lies about Kim and tells you that she has a huge attitude problem. Before you even meet the girl, you don’t even like her. So when you finally meet Kim, you treat her poorly, which causes her to have an attitude with you. And then you say to yourself, “I knew she was a rude person.” That's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Jesus: Lord, King, and Example
If you’re following man, you’re not going to get anywhere in the eternal life. At best, you’ll get to the place where they are.
When Christians look to other people to dictate how they live their lives instead of looking to the Word and the example of Jesus Christ, that’s when we run into problems. It’s in Christ where our example lies. If we don’t have an example in a friend or family member about how to live a Spirit-filled Christian life, then we should look to Christ. Case closed. Glad that’s taken care of. Moreover, even in the case that a person is surrounded by Spirit-filled Christians, the example of Christ still reigns supreme. And even greater, the Holy Spirit guides us into all truth in terms of how to live even from each day to the next, each moment to the next. Therefore, we have no excuse. We have no reason to say, “I didn’t have someone to show me the way,” when the reality is, as a follower of Christ it is literally our responsibility to follow Christ. Follow in His footsteps. Don’t settle for ordinary living. Christ did the extraordinary. Be inspired to live greatly by the example that Christ set while he lived on this same planet earth.
When Christians look to other people to dictate how they live their lives instead of looking to the Word and the example of Jesus Christ, that’s when we run into problems. It’s in Christ where our example lies. If we don’t have an example in a friend or family member about how to live a Spirit-filled Christian life, then we should look to Christ. Case closed. Glad that’s taken care of. Moreover, even in the case that a person is surrounded by Spirit-filled Christians, the example of Christ still reigns supreme. And even greater, the Holy Spirit guides us into all truth in terms of how to live even from each day to the next, each moment to the next. Therefore, we have no excuse. We have no reason to say, “I didn’t have someone to show me the way,” when the reality is, as a follower of Christ it is literally our responsibility to follow Christ. Follow in His footsteps. Don’t settle for ordinary living. Christ did the extraordinary. Be inspired to live greatly by the example that Christ set while he lived on this same planet earth.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
say NO to foolishness
This is a Holy Spirit-inspired blog. I have no idea what I'm doing here. But we'll see what happens.
At church on Sunday, toward the end of the sermon, I scribbled down something in the margin of the church bulletin: "Don't try and figure out what you were thinking."
At church on Sunday, toward the end of the sermon, I scribbled down something in the margin of the church bulletin: "Don't try and figure out what you were thinking."
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