hey y`all!
today was good. i went shopping with my mom this morning & then to nanas to help her out & then i walked 4 miles with candace & then we played with cameras for like 2 hours so today was pretty good! so last night for my devotion i read in Philippians 4 because mr allen said to spend some time in it & i thought it was a good idea b/c i had been prayin for God to show me something to do a devotion on because i've finished my book, i need to go to lifeway & get me a new devotion book! so anyway, when mr allen read out of Philippians 4 he talked about contentment. and how we'll never be content unless we have Jesus. and so mr allen told us the secret to being content. you wanna know what it is? its my favorite bible verse. Philippians 4:13, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." so by the worlds standards, we'll never be content, because there is always something better. but if we've got Jesus, we can get through anything thats thrown at us, & we'll always be content with what Jesus has given us. hes pretty amazing if i do say so myself. im gunna write about Philippians 4 tomorrow too because theres other stuff i want to say about it but for now i am sleepy because walking 4 miles will do that to ya :] so ill talk to y`all tomorrow
Church tomorrow, yessss.
God Bless!
- crystal jade
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Friday, June 29, 2007
Thursday, June 28, 2007
he put us here to have an impact...
hey y`all!
so i was looking through my sermon book, and i stumbled upon Pastor Chad's 'what if we dreamed big' sermon. that is one of my favorite sermons that hes preached and so i wanted to take the time to talk about it, now it was awhile ago almost 4 months ago that he preached it but i dont think i had my blog when he preached this sermon so i wanted to talk about that today :] so here are some of the points he made that i really liked:
-God didnt put us here just to exist. he put us here to have an impact.
-God is take us places we've never been before to do things we've never done before & to accomplish things that seem impossible.
-If we're following God we're accomplishing things that we cannot accomplish on our own.
-we need to say God, put me in a group of people doing something bigger than me-i just want to get on board.
-God gives the vision to a person, & he leads people to get this accomplished.
i really liked this sermon. because it is true, we all want to be a part of something bigger than ourselves, to see the amazing things God can do and to really accomplish what may seem impossible!
i love y`all!
God Bless!
- crystal jade
so i was looking through my sermon book, and i stumbled upon Pastor Chad's 'what if we dreamed big' sermon. that is one of my favorite sermons that hes preached and so i wanted to take the time to talk about it, now it was awhile ago almost 4 months ago that he preached it but i dont think i had my blog when he preached this sermon so i wanted to talk about that today :] so here are some of the points he made that i really liked:
-God didnt put us here just to exist. he put us here to have an impact.
-God is take us places we've never been before to do things we've never done before & to accomplish things that seem impossible.
-If we're following God we're accomplishing things that we cannot accomplish on our own.
-we need to say God, put me in a group of people doing something bigger than me-i just want to get on board.
-God gives the vision to a person, & he leads people to get this accomplished.
i really liked this sermon. because it is true, we all want to be a part of something bigger than ourselves, to see the amazing things God can do and to really accomplish what may seem impossible!
i love y`all!
God Bless!
- crystal jade
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
random thoughts :]
hey y`all!
well i did my homework for kims class, for my devotion last night so i really dont have anything to write about today so i figured i'd just share some random thoughts with y`all! today was good. i hung out with anna who i havent seen in a really long time & i got to go to my favorite place, new hope :] where mitchell FINALLY gave me my pen back. so now i dont have to beat him up. haha.
my first random thought, drama is no fun. like some people let other people just walk all over them, and i just cant stand to see them hurt. it just bothers me. i dont see how some people can just have so cold hearts to stab people in the back over & over again.
also. i need some feedback on my song-devotion ideaa. is it a good one? someone please tell me! haha. b/c i really love lyrics and i'd love to explain them & try to find the verses they're from soo if you think its a good idea, please tell me?
i have some prayer requests i'd like to share with yall:
-my uncle. hes an alcoholic & i really wish he'd come to church
-my dad. he gets mad over really dumb things and he cusses & screams and i just want to see Jesus work in his life.
-my mom. b/c she has to put up with my dads anger stuff.
-my friend. b/c theres this person who keeps hurting her
-and an unspoken.
-ohh andd cant forget kody's hip. haha promised him i'd pray for that.
so thats really all i have to write about today!
i love y`all!
God Bless!
- crystal jade
well i did my homework for kims class, for my devotion last night so i really dont have anything to write about today so i figured i'd just share some random thoughts with y`all! today was good. i hung out with anna who i havent seen in a really long time & i got to go to my favorite place, new hope :] where mitchell FINALLY gave me my pen back. so now i dont have to beat him up. haha.
my first random thought, drama is no fun. like some people let other people just walk all over them, and i just cant stand to see them hurt. it just bothers me. i dont see how some people can just have so cold hearts to stab people in the back over & over again.
also. i need some feedback on my song-devotion ideaa. is it a good one? someone please tell me! haha. b/c i really love lyrics and i'd love to explain them & try to find the verses they're from soo if you think its a good idea, please tell me?
i have some prayer requests i'd like to share with yall:
-my uncle. hes an alcoholic & i really wish he'd come to church
-my dad. he gets mad over really dumb things and he cusses & screams and i just want to see Jesus work in his life.
-my mom. b/c she has to put up with my dads anger stuff.
-my friend. b/c theres this person who keeps hurting her
-and an unspoken.
-ohh andd cant forget kody's hip. haha promised him i'd pray for that.
so thats really all i have to write about today!
i love y`all!
God Bless!
- crystal jade
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Matthew 7
hey y`all!
today was great! i went to the mall with ashley & then we went swimming. we got new purses, they're really cute :] and i think im going camping in her back yard with a bunch of the new hope girls tomorrow haha it should be a blast! i forgot to warn mitchell about the nasty pizza at drivers ed so now i feel bad. haha. oh well he survived. church tomorrow :] yay. so i read in matthew 7 last night for my devotion, & that chapter has alot of great stuff in it. Verses 1-6 talk about judging. we as Christians should not judge others, because that is up to God. and usually we tell others to fix their faults, without first fixin our own. its like telling someone they shouldnt be drinking when your an alcoholic. nobody is going to like to be convicted by someone who cannot see their own faults. so as Christians we should not judge others, but once we ourselves are through the situation someone is going through, we can use our knoweldge and tell others how God helped us through the same or a similiar situation. pastor chad preached on this like a few months ago. i also like verses 7 & 8 which say, "Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and ye shall find; kknock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh recieveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened." so whenever we need something, we should put our full trust in God and go to him about it. because he will give us what we want, if it be in his will. and also i like matthew 7:14 which says "Because the strait is the gate and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it" which means Gods path is the straight and the narrow, and not alot of people see that, but as Christians we should be on Gods straight & narrow path for us :] Matthew 7 also has the story of the man who built his house upon the rock, & the man who built his house upon the sand. this story tells of how if we build our foundation strong, on the rock, we will be safe. Jesus Christ is that strong foundation. and he saves us from our sin. so if we build our life on the rock-Jesus Christ-we will not fall but be lifted up in Jesus. because he is absolutely amazing.
i love y`all
God Bless!
- crystal jade
today was great! i went to the mall with ashley & then we went swimming. we got new purses, they're really cute :] and i think im going camping in her back yard with a bunch of the new hope girls tomorrow haha it should be a blast! i forgot to warn mitchell about the nasty pizza at drivers ed so now i feel bad. haha. oh well he survived. church tomorrow :] yay. so i read in matthew 7 last night for my devotion, & that chapter has alot of great stuff in it. Verses 1-6 talk about judging. we as Christians should not judge others, because that is up to God. and usually we tell others to fix their faults, without first fixin our own. its like telling someone they shouldnt be drinking when your an alcoholic. nobody is going to like to be convicted by someone who cannot see their own faults. so as Christians we should not judge others, but once we ourselves are through the situation someone is going through, we can use our knoweldge and tell others how God helped us through the same or a similiar situation. pastor chad preached on this like a few months ago. i also like verses 7 & 8 which say, "Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and ye shall find; kknock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh recieveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened." so whenever we need something, we should put our full trust in God and go to him about it. because he will give us what we want, if it be in his will. and also i like matthew 7:14 which says "Because the strait is the gate and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it" which means Gods path is the straight and the narrow, and not alot of people see that, but as Christians we should be on Gods straight & narrow path for us :] Matthew 7 also has the story of the man who built his house upon the rock, & the man who built his house upon the sand. this story tells of how if we build our foundation strong, on the rock, we will be safe. Jesus Christ is that strong foundation. and he saves us from our sin. so if we build our life on the rock-Jesus Christ-we will not fall but be lifted up in Jesus. because he is absolutely amazing.
i love y`all
God Bless!
- crystal jade
Monday, June 25, 2007
world or God? you decide.
hey y`all!
today was boring up until i went to candaces & we hung out, haha. the power went out so brad drug a cable from his car into the house & we hooked a tv up to it until the power came back on, thats the farthest i've ever seen anyone go for a tv, haha. i am really missin vbs. i wish we had church everyday all the time. so anyway, i was looking through my bible at some of the verses i had underlined. and i came across these two, Matthew 6:21, "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." and, Mattew 6:24, "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." so basically, whatever we are devoted too, is what we will serve, where our heart is. so if we're not completely devoted to God, we can not completely please him. if our treasure is Jesus, our hearts will seek him. and Matthew 6:24 tells us we cannot be devoted to money & God, we have to pick one to serve. God should be the only thing we worship. nothing else is worthy. those verses just stuck out to me.
so in my blogs for awhile i think im gunna start doing my devotions on Christian songs & their lyrics, because that really intrests me, so can y`all tell me what you think of that idea??
i love y`all!
God Bless!
- crystal jade
today was boring up until i went to candaces & we hung out, haha. the power went out so brad drug a cable from his car into the house & we hooked a tv up to it until the power came back on, thats the farthest i've ever seen anyone go for a tv, haha. i am really missin vbs. i wish we had church everyday all the time. so anyway, i was looking through my bible at some of the verses i had underlined. and i came across these two, Matthew 6:21, "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." and, Mattew 6:24, "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." so basically, whatever we are devoted too, is what we will serve, where our heart is. so if we're not completely devoted to God, we can not completely please him. if our treasure is Jesus, our hearts will seek him. and Matthew 6:24 tells us we cannot be devoted to money & God, we have to pick one to serve. God should be the only thing we worship. nothing else is worthy. those verses just stuck out to me.
so in my blogs for awhile i think im gunna start doing my devotions on Christian songs & their lyrics, because that really intrests me, so can y`all tell me what you think of that idea??
i love y`all!
God Bless!
- crystal jade
Sunday, June 24, 2007
people let us down
hey y`all!
today was the best day everrr. i loved it. i went to chruch this morning & pastor chad preached a great sermon which ima talk about in a few minutes. and then i went out to eat with a bunch of people from the church & then we went to brads && watched movies until time to go up to the church for VBS. all of the adults & students that put so much time into VBS did a GREAT job. and all the kids did wonderful at the performance! and pastor chad said 10-12 people accepted Christ?! thats amazing.
pastor chad preached on how people let us down this morning. it was a really good sermon so ima tell y`all the key points from it. the verse he used this morning was Isaiah 53:3, "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not" So anyway, pastor chad told us we should be able to take the persecution with help from Jesus because he could take it. he told us as Christians we need to live with thicker skin, to not let all the bad things bother us and get in the way of Gods plan for us. we shouldnt get caught up in what others say about us or do to us, we need to keep doing what God is leading us to do no matter what. the second thing pastor chad said was that we need to live with a soft heart. when we're saved we get a new heart, a heart of flesh and we need to be kind and compassionate to others. when others persecute us we need to treat them better than they are treating us. so the truth is, yes, people will ALWAYS let us down. but Jesus? he'll never let us down. and we always need to depend on him because he is the only one that can meet all of our needs perfectly
i love y`all!
God Bless!
- crystal jade
today was the best day everrr. i loved it. i went to chruch this morning & pastor chad preached a great sermon which ima talk about in a few minutes. and then i went out to eat with a bunch of people from the church & then we went to brads && watched movies until time to go up to the church for VBS. all of the adults & students that put so much time into VBS did a GREAT job. and all the kids did wonderful at the performance! and pastor chad said 10-12 people accepted Christ?! thats amazing.
pastor chad preached on how people let us down this morning. it was a really good sermon so ima tell y`all the key points from it. the verse he used this morning was Isaiah 53:3, "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not" So anyway, pastor chad told us we should be able to take the persecution with help from Jesus because he could take it. he told us as Christians we need to live with thicker skin, to not let all the bad things bother us and get in the way of Gods plan for us. we shouldnt get caught up in what others say about us or do to us, we need to keep doing what God is leading us to do no matter what. the second thing pastor chad said was that we need to live with a soft heart. when we're saved we get a new heart, a heart of flesh and we need to be kind and compassionate to others. when others persecute us we need to treat them better than they are treating us. so the truth is, yes, people will ALWAYS let us down. but Jesus? he'll never let us down. and we always need to depend on him because he is the only one that can meet all of our needs perfectly
i love y`all!
God Bless!
- crystal jade
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