God has been speaking so much to me and I feel if I don't dump this on 'paper' I wont be able to receive more. Im overflowing. I'm sure you know how that feels. I've been jotting down notes on random pieces of paper. It's a miracle that I didn't crash because many times, it would be while driving.
Of course, these are all puzzle pieces that I collect, and I'm not sure what the picture will look like at the end. But I believe it will be an amazing work of His art.
I was introduced to a person who was once "me", as she put it. "Very spiritual, God loving, church going, following-all-the-rule- of-the-book type of girl." I have known her now for maybe a couple of months, and we have been chatting about life and other unsolved mysteries. Now, as she puts it, "I fell out of love." After personal trials and hardship she has overcome, she actually drew closer to God, but now, she feels "cold hearted" she feels her heart is "hardened" and while she still believes we are intricately designed by "a Higher Power" she doesnt really care whether there is a God or not.
ouch.
So, now that you have that, I started to pray for her. I didnt pray intently on a daily basis or anything. Just when the Holy Spirit prompted me to (a brief flash of her name in my brain)is how.
I have been reading my one year bible and sometimes I was ahead of the game, and now, I'm chasing those dates. What I find mind boggling is this:
I've been reading Job. the umptieth time. I was able to draw different lessons from it. This time in particular it was (in a nutshell) it's ok to complain to God when it hurts. Secondly, I found that his friends were saying some great things that were greatly wrong. Also that if I had not known the behind-the-scene situation of God testing Job, I would probably say the same things to Job...
Now, one night we were up talking until about 130am. while she was expressing her feelings, or lack thereof...I was experiencing an amazing work of God in this: The "comfort" words or "wise" words I wanted to say were actually the cheap and degrading words of Jobs' 'friends'. Every time I was about to say something like "God is perfect and, well, we are not." God told me to be quiet and listen. Then, when I wanted to say "God is perfect and allows things in our life for many reasons, more than just you." God told me to say "It's ok to come to Him and complain."
Just come to Him. Even if you are struggling with faith. Even if it is to say "God, I have a hard time understanding this, or believing in You." God will show you.
why the title? because we always chat over coffee. This time, I spilled it on my shirt. but everything else? it was Perfect.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Show Them God. They will go on Rejoicing.
Today we had Baptism at church and the First Preacher mentioned the following verses, the story of:
Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch
26Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. 27And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship 28and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. 29And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.” 30So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” 31And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. 32Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this:
“Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter
and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,
so he opens not his mouth.
33 In his humiliation justice was denied him.
Who can describe his generation?
For his life is taken away from the earth.”
34And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” 35Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. 36And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?”e 38And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. 39And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.
The preacher pointed out that when the angel took Philip away, Eunuch wasn't worried or saddened...he didnt search for Philip. Eunuch, who was now filled with the Spirit of God, knew he gained The One who is bigger than Philip. He gained an everlasting Love.
THe preacher was calling me to be the light rays of the Sun. To reflect God. To offer Him alone and to be able to do it in a way the person will gain that understanding of what they now really possess. That way, They too will be able to live, go on their way "REJOICING". For they have what no one can ever take away.
Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch
26Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. 27And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship 28and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. 29And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.” 30So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” 31And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. 32Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this:
“Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter
and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,
so he opens not his mouth.
33 In his humiliation justice was denied him.
Who can describe his generation?
For his life is taken away from the earth.”
34And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” 35Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. 36And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?”e 38And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. 39And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.
The preacher pointed out that when the angel took Philip away, Eunuch wasn't worried or saddened...he didnt search for Philip. Eunuch, who was now filled with the Spirit of God, knew he gained The One who is bigger than Philip. He gained an everlasting Love.
THe preacher was calling me to be the light rays of the Sun. To reflect God. To offer Him alone and to be able to do it in a way the person will gain that understanding of what they now really possess. That way, They too will be able to live, go on their way "REJOICING". For they have what no one can ever take away.
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