in him is the fullness of all things

Great is His love towards us, the faithfulness of the Lord endures. Nothing particularly special about today other than the fact that tomorrow is the last day of the fast. I went to prayer tonight and was just reminded of God's goodness. HE IS GOOD. Can I get an amen?! For those of you who don't know, Matt Chandler is my favorite pastor in the whole world. Literally the ENTIRE world. Today I was listening to a sermon out of a series that he is doing on Habakkuk(I know, right?) and God totally rocked me with something he said. I literally re-winded it 3 times. With regard to the bad things that happen to us he said these things are not punishment from God. How do we know? Because ALL of Gods wrath towards me was absorbed on the cross when Jesus hung on it. So I have nothing on my life but mercy and grace. And this road of mine? Wherever it leads and however it leads, has everything to do with God's glory and my joy. Selah.

What do I mean by this. Well, a wise man (Solomon!)once said that "life and death lie in the power of the tongue" There is an incredible amount of power in your testimony. God has done such a unique work in your life but I don't believe that it's supposed to stop with you. One way that the enemy tries to isolate us is just by making us think that we are the only ones struggling with________ and that isolation can be instrumental in keeping us in that cycle of sin. I think that God brings us through certain things because he knows that by us sharing them it will be an encouragement and a blessing to somebody else and even give them the courage to share what they've been through or even ask for prayer for what they are struggling with. Sometime I will share my whole testimony but seeing as I'm supposed to be sleeping/or doing homework, I gotta make this short. My 2nd pastor(basically), Matt Chandler of The Village Church in Flower Mound, TX encourages the memb...

I love playing games. I love making up games to play with certain people. I love playing fun games with fun people . But there are some instances where it is ABSOLUTELY not ok to play games. It is not ok to play games with your teacher when they are lecturing. Or with your parents when they are grounding you. Or with God...ever. But I totally play games with God, like all the time. I'm pretty sure that we all do. And these games are not fun but we play them in order to stay in our own comfort zone, but in the end they only lead us farther away from the Lord. Game # 1: Create our own Jesus. Have you ever heard from Christians or otherwise the following statement or variations of: Jesus would not ask me to do________because he wants me to be happy and that would not be conducive to my happiness therefore he would not really want me to do that. Unfortunately, this Jesus does not exist, but sometimes we re-create our own Jesus. We mistake God's love for us as meaning that because ...

Just read it. A friend of mine and I have been trying to get into the habit of memorizing verses from the bible and I came upon this passage the other day: Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 3Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been j...