Friday, December 31, 2010
Sunday, December 26, 2010
I'm in Florida!
Right now I am on vacation in florida...:) I want to write another post and I want it to be about worship but I'm not sure what exactly I am wanting to write about yet. If anyone has any suggestions comment and I will think about it :)
Monday, December 13, 2010
Talents and Dance and The Bible
Jeremiah 31:13 says, “Then shall the young women rejoice in the DANCE, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.”
To me, Dance isn't just something I do for fun in my afternoons and evenings. It isn't just an activity that I love to do and want to continue doing in the future. It isn't just a relaxing
exercise that I do to stay in shape. There is a bigger and better purpose for me dancing. The verse above states "Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance..." Dancing is also a way to REJOICE and PRAISE God for what he has done for us.
Psalm 150:4 says, “Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!”
Dance is one of the most sacred ways we can worship the Lord. This verse is a very special one to me because it is commanding us to praise God with dance and music. To me, Dance and music are not just things I like to do because they are pretty to watch and listen to or fun to do or play. They are tools and talents God has given me to give glory and praise to his name. We are commanded to worship God in everything we do. So when we're dancing or playing music, the focus should always be on God. He is the one who as given us these gifts and he wants us to use them to glorify Him.
God doesn't want us to hide our talents in the ground and keep them away, he wants us to use them to increase His kingdom! I really like when it says: "You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27Then you ought to have INVEST my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with INTEREST."
God wants us to take the talents He has given us, INVEST in them and then Give them back to God with INTEREST! The way we do that is we take our talents that God has given us, mine being dance, and use it in a way that will glorify God. Using our talents to glorify God is giving back to him what he has given us.
Psalm 89:5 says, “BLESSED are the people who know the passwords of praise, who shout on parade in the bright presence of God. Delighted, they dance all day long; they know who you are, what you do—they can't keep it quiet! Your vibrant beauty has gotten inside us— you've been so good to us! We're walking on air! All we are and have we owe to God, Holy God of Israel, our King!”
Think about some talents that God has given you. God has given everyone talents so don't say you don't have any. How can YOU use your talents to glorify God?
To me, Dance isn't just something I do for fun in my afternoons and evenings. It isn't just an activity that I love to do and want to continue doing in the future. It isn't just a relaxing
exercise that I do to stay in shape. There is a bigger and better purpose for me dancing. The verse above states "Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance..." Dancing is also a way to REJOICE and PRAISE God for what he has done for us.
Psalm 150:4 says, “Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!”
Dance is one of the most sacred ways we can worship the Lord. This verse is a very special one to me because it is commanding us to praise God with dance and music. To me, Dance and music are not just things I like to do because they are pretty to watch and listen to or fun to do or play. They are tools and talents God has given me to give glory and praise to his name. We are commanded to worship God in everything we do. So when we're dancing or playing music, the focus should always be on God. He is the one who as given us these gifts and he wants us to use them to glorify Him.
The Parable of the Talents
14"For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. 15To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. 17So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. 18But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money. 19Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 20And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.' 21His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.' 22And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.' 23His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.' 24He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, 'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.' 26But his master answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. 28So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. 29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 30And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'God doesn't want us to hide our talents in the ground and keep them away, he wants us to use them to increase His kingdom! I really like when it says: "You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27Then you ought to have INVEST my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with INTEREST."
God wants us to take the talents He has given us, INVEST in them and then Give them back to God with INTEREST! The way we do that is we take our talents that God has given us, mine being dance, and use it in a way that will glorify God. Using our talents to glorify God is giving back to him what he has given us.
Psalm 89:5 says, “BLESSED are the people who know the passwords of praise, who shout on parade in the bright presence of God. Delighted, they dance all day long; they know who you are, what you do—they can't keep it quiet! Your vibrant beauty has gotten inside us— you've been so good to us! We're walking on air! All we are and have we owe to God, Holy God of Israel, our King!”
Think about some talents that God has given you. God has given everyone talents so don't say you don't have any. How can YOU use your talents to glorify God?
Saturday, December 11, 2010
My Prayer for Tami
From the Glorious Unseens Hear our Prayers...
Hear her cries Lord,
Hear her prayers.
Take her burdens,
Calm her fears.
God will you make us, A people that love You.
Please take our offerings That we set before You.
God hear her prayers That she's lifting up to You.
God see her tears That she's struggling to see through.
God, hear her prayers to You.
In our weakness,
You remain.
When we're broken,
You sustain.
God will you make us, A people that love You.
Please take our offerings That we set before You.
God hear her prayers That she's lifting up to You.
God see her tears That she's struggling to see through.
God hear our prayers. we lifts them to You.
God hear our prayers,Lord make our hearts true.
Will You make our hearts true?
God will you make us, A people that love You.
Please take our offerings That we set before You.
God hear her prayers That she's lifting up to You.
God see her tears That she's struggling to see through.
God hear her prayers As she lifts them to heaven. She's praying the angels Receive and embrace them.
The hopes of the empty,The cries of the broken.
She's reaching her hands out, Oh Lord will You hold them?
I love you Tami and my prayers are with you and God is with you through everything your going through...:) <3
Hear her cries Lord,
Hear her prayers.
Take her burdens,
Calm her fears.
God will you make us, A people that love You.
Please take our offerings That we set before You.
God hear her prayers That she's lifting up to You.
God see her tears That she's struggling to see through.
God, hear her prayers to You.
In our weakness,
You remain.
When we're broken,
You sustain.
God will you make us, A people that love You.
Please take our offerings That we set before You.
God hear her prayers That she's lifting up to You.
God see her tears That she's struggling to see through.
God hear our prayers. we lifts them to You.
God hear our prayers,Lord make our hearts true.
Will You make our hearts true?
God will you make us, A people that love You.
Please take our offerings That we set before You.
God hear her prayers That she's lifting up to You.
God see her tears That she's struggling to see through.
God hear her prayers As she lifts them to heaven. She's praying the angels Receive and embrace them.
The hopes of the empty,The cries of the broken.
She's reaching her hands out, Oh Lord will You hold them?
I love you Tami and my prayers are with you and God is with you through everything your going through...:) <3
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Something that has been on my mind recently.
I have recently been thinking a lot about the way I see Christians judging people and condemning people for things they've done or said when they have just as much other sin in their own life. It started bugging me so much that I didn't relize that I was actually JUDGING THEM for JUDGING OTHERS! I started searching for verses about judging and I found a good one:
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
~Matthew 7:1-5
That's what it hit me. I was just as bad as them. Judging people for judging others. Who am I to judge? Only GOD has the authority to judge sin in someone's life. Take a look at this verse:
"Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? "
~Romans 2:1-3
Therefore WE have NO excuse. Every one of us who judges. For when we judge another we are condeming ourselves because because we, being the judge, are doing the same exact things! The judgement of God RIGHTLY falls on those who judge. Do we suppose---as those who judge people for things yet do them ourselve's---that we will escape the judgement of God? No we won't. So we cannot be the ones to judge. Only God has the authority to judge.
"Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?"
~James 4:11-12
GOD is the only one lawgiver and judge. He is the one who is able to save ans destroy so who are we to judge our neighbors? This verse says that the one who judges his brother speaks evil against the law and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not obeying the law, you are a judge of the law!
I'm gonna challenge myself to quit judging people for judging people. Can you think of anyway in your life where you are being a judge? I challenge you to take the challenge with me and to quit taking God's position and judging the specks in people's eyes, while the chances are, you have a log in your eye that you need to get rid of before you can see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
~Matthew 7:1-5
That's what it hit me. I was just as bad as them. Judging people for judging others. Who am I to judge? Only GOD has the authority to judge sin in someone's life. Take a look at this verse:
"Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? "
~Romans 2:1-3
Therefore WE have NO excuse. Every one of us who judges. For when we judge another we are condeming ourselves because because we, being the judge, are doing the same exact things! The judgement of God RIGHTLY falls on those who judge. Do we suppose---as those who judge people for things yet do them ourselve's---that we will escape the judgement of God? No we won't. So we cannot be the ones to judge. Only God has the authority to judge.
"Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?"
~James 4:11-12
GOD is the only one lawgiver and judge. He is the one who is able to save ans destroy so who are we to judge our neighbors? This verse says that the one who judges his brother speaks evil against the law and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not obeying the law, you are a judge of the law!
I'm gonna challenge myself to quit judging people for judging people. Can you think of anyway in your life where you are being a judge? I challenge you to take the challenge with me and to quit taking God's position and judging the specks in people's eyes, while the chances are, you have a log in your eye that you need to get rid of before you can see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
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