Psalms 139:16

(3)Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. (4) No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier. Faith is a battle. Life is a battle. You seriously cannot just sit there and tell me the thoughts that are racing through your mind, the temptations you face every day, are just thoughts or just temptations. They aren't just that. They are ideologies and principles satan lays down as he tries to invade our lives with ungodliness. The TV for example, it sits so innocently, but behind the plot of a simple story line, lies false doctrine and ill ideologies, that if we aren't aware will get the best of us. How many times have I seen inappropriate relationships, those outside the covenant of marriage, blasted through that TV screen today? Too many to count, and I watched TV for about an hour and half. And that was only one of the many principles that this world tries to feed ...

Throughout the Bible, there are these great things that is ascribed to David. For example, we know that he was this great warrior. Killed 200 Philistines for a bridal present for his bride. A good king. Handsome. A humble shepherd. He played the harp, among an array of various instruments. David sang, was a great worship leader, wrote many Psalms that constitute a large sum of our contemporary praise and worship music. In addition to the great things David did, the Bible says that David followed God's own heart . In 1 Samuel 16:7, it says that God doesn't look at the outside appearance, God looks at the heart. And God looked from above at that teenage heart, and God was pleased. So pleased, that God gave David an anointing and the promise of the crown and the glory of Israel. These last weeks I've been trying to discover how exactly he pursued God's heart. And something that so common with David is that David always sought after what God wanted. So many times, David wo...

I start work Monday morning. This is a job I thought I wouldn't get. I got it. And I don't even know for certain this is where God wants me. In 1 Samuel 9, God whispered to Samuel in his ear of the things to come. That's what I need now. To hear a whisper of God. Its so easy to question and murmur. Its hard, sometimes even painful, to have faith.

During the time of the Judges there happened to be a civil war within Israel. A civil war brought on by the injustice and the wickedness of the tribe of Benjamin. (Judges 19-20) So all of Israel went against the tribe of Benjamin. With the Israelites of one side, the Benjamites on the other, Israel sought the Lord. God said 'GO', they went with such fervor. Such passion. Such motivation. Such determination to do the Lord's work. And the first day of battle comes, they fail. All walk home with their heads hung low, disappointed, after all they were doing what God desired them to do. That first night, they encourage themselves, seek God, who says 'GO' so they muster up a little more strength, a little more passion as they get ready for the second day. Second day, they stand at their post, the sounds of war approaches, and once again they are met with defeat. Oh, the shame. Oh the sound of such bitter failure, for after all, it was God who said 'Go'. (20:26-28)...

Gal 2:18- For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. Paul said that he does what he doesn't want to do and doesn't do what he knows he should do. I find myself there too. More often than not. Those things that I am convicted in my heart as wrong, dead wrong, I find myself doing. In realizing it, I don't even stop. What does that make me other than guilty, sad, and sorry. It makes me a transgressor. A sinner. Those sins that I once tore down with the declaration that I would never walk that line again, I build those very sins up if I keep on doing it, after the fact. It doesn't end there however, because (20) "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me" Everyday, every moment, every second in a life drenched in sin, I MUST remember that I am DEAD to this life as I...

Deuteronomy 7:21-23 "You shall not be terrified of them; for the Lord your God, the great and awesome God, is among you. And the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you little by little...But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, and will inflict defeat upon them until they are destroyed" God will drive those troubles from our lives cause vs 21 says He is your God. That claim that He is ours comes from God directly, He is your God. The great and awesome things God did and does can be obtained in our lives because of the fact that He is ours. He is OUR God. When trouble rushes into our lives and stubborn situations seem like they cannot change; answers are not found and solutions are far from reach, the great and awesome God is our God. The God who healed the blind and the lame, He is our God. The One who gave wisdom to a naive Solomon, He is our God. The One who turned made the sea a road for the Israelites, He is our God! He is our God, who heals ...

When I started high school, I was so sure I wanted to be a journalist. Then one day, the wind blew that desire from my heart. A couple of years ago, I was so sure I wanted to be with "this guy". Today, that idea is a joke. So many times I've prayed for the things I wanted, only to realize, days or months or years later, I didn't/don't want that. Today, I want what He wants. Only what He wants. I will not be a Balam , a man of God, who casually ignores the voice of God, so much so that his donkey had to speak for him to realize what God wanted. Remember when Jesus called Peter satan ? Jesus rebuked Peter in Matthew 16, (i think it was Mt. 16) and said Peter you're interests are not God's interest. Oh God, rebuke me if my interests are selfish. I desire what you desire for me! I don't want to be dumb as a donkey or evil canevil satan who deviates from the planning of God's purposes. I want so many things today. I want my dream job with my dream hou...