Keep Helping

Let me start this out by helping myself be honest. I have been falling away from Christ for about a year now after finding him and having an amazing relationship with him. After I had to leave college and a fall out with a Church I had been teaching  youth at I have been struggling to find another place to call home. That’s why this blogging has arisen, not only to continuously remind myself how I once loved God and still am searching for that same relationship once more but to continue helping people.

Hebrews 13:16 

Do not neglect to do well and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

It speaks amazing things to me because I love to help people through hard times but so many times I feel like my efforts do nothing. I have to continuously remind myself that even though someone who I am helping may not be changing the way I want that Jesus is doing something inside of them and that he brought me into their lives for a reason. Even if it is just for a small period of time, I helped change the course of their lives. As well it pleases God when I continue to pursue the betterment of another son or daughter of Christ.

Philippians 2:4 

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

As well don’t try and help someone because you think it will help you. Help them because you want to see them happy and triumph in this harsh world. If they have dreams they are trying to achieve help them achieve it. Make yourself a part of the betterment of their lives.

Luke 6:38 

Give and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

If you help others just to help them and make them happier, continue to preach the word of God, and work to please him. If you follow his calling for you and do his will. He will bless you a thousand times over. By helping others God will help you. He will make your life a blessing on others while also blessing you. All around you cannot lose through Christ.

Divorce in Gods Eyes

Below are two verses out of the book of Matthew. The subject is divorce and how God sees it. Both verses are similar but I would like to elaborate on them for those who may not understand it.

Matthew 19:9 and I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Here he is saying a man/woman who seeks divorce and then remarries commits adultery in Gods eyes. There is one reason why God allows divorce to go unscathed and that is if your spouse commits adultery with another being. If a man cheats on his wife she is there for freely allowed to divorce him and remarry without punishment after death. Same goes for if the wife cheats on him.

Matthew 5:32 but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

These verse same as before states the only way to seek a divorce without punishment later is by being cheated on. This verse also states though that a man who marries a divorced woman with judgment against her, same with a woman marrying a man , if they did not divorce on God’s terms that they also commits adultery.

I truly believe the Lord is correct in his beliefs on divorce. When someone takes their vows they say they will love each other through sickness and health until death do they part. Anyone swears those vows to Jesus and then breaks them is breaking a promise to God. This should be punished, but like he states those who are adulterated against should not have to live unhappily and faithful to Jesus if their spouse is not faithful also.

So much I’d like to say to those who judge before they truly know a person.

Matthew 7:1-5

7 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. ² For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.³ “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? ⁴ How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? ⁵ You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

This verse could not say it better. I get so tired of people who judge others. The girls who call others whores and tramps yet go home to a different man every night. Or the young man who leaves his girlfriend because she smiled at another guy when he kisses another girl around a corner, better yet, the families who sit and talk down about other families because they are not happy with their own.  

This world could be such a better place if we all accepted each other for who we are. It would all have to start with loving ourselves. God loves each and every one of us the way he made us. Who are we to Judge God’s work? For we are not only judging some person on earth, we are judging our creator. Who of you would approach Jesus in prayer or person and ask him why he made someone such an idiot or ask why you’re so ugly compared to your friends. I am pretty sure no one would. 

Some People

“Some people like to talk out their butts because they think they are superior to everyone. Those are the people who will go nowhere in life and wallow in their problems, that they take no initiative to fix, because of their problems. Those people are perfect and I do not want to be one of those people.” –Meg Ash

This little spurt of thought came from a day at work. I have this one co-worker that assumes all trials he faces are because people want to hurt him and do bad to him. Nothing that he goes through is ever his problem. This is where I say he will go nowhere.

James 1:12 

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Like James 1:12 say he should remain steadfast through his problems and seek to fix them, not seek support from others in his complaints. Instead of moving forward he wallows for days in his problems until he becomes an angry monster.

James 1:22 

But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

This same co-worker seeks love in all the wrong places.  Bars and through friends who have previously been with his mates. It makes me sad to see someone with so much potential repeatedly give himself away to women who may want nothing more from him then somewhere to stay. Church is not even in this persons mind unless it deals with meeting someone. That is truly sad. Among my trials to get him to church and find the lord it always comes back down to women and wallowing in his self induced pain.

I pray that one day he might find a Christ fearing woman who can set him straight with the Lord and the he can live up to his full potential with Christ.

I say at the end that these people are perfect and I do not want to be one of them because they are perfect in today’s media’s eyes. These people are the ones who spend too much, drink too much, say too much, and none of it for God’s will.  These are the people that some think live the perfect lives. I see more than that. I don’t want their lives. I want my life where I fight daily to find Christ in my life. Where daily I fight to find what Gods goals are for my life. I want to live my life for God and praise him for my trials because he won’t give me anything I am not strong enough to handle.

Corinthians 10:13

¹³ No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

                                             

Luke 11:9 & The Bridge Ministry

I love this verse. Anytime I hear it I think about Candy Christmas and her Bridge Ministry in Tennessee.

I listened to her testimonies at a women’s conference located in Branson about two years ago now and she is still my daily inspiration. Her ministry holds services under a local bridge every Tuesday where the homeless, hurt, volunteers, or travelers can attend for a warm meal and teaching from God. 

The testimony that stood out the most for me was the night she almost didn't have food for the people. Their food serving trailer was too small to handle the amount of people they serve and the donations were slim to none with little to no money to help out her. She went home and broke down praying to God for an answer and guidance as too what she was to do about it all. She stated that when she walked outside there was a pallet of food for her and someone else donated almost an entire truckload of coats for them as well.

Her Bridge Ministry inspires me to help people everywhere.

I want to be a part of bettering someone’s life and leading them to the cross. I just hope that is what God 

has in store for me.

http://www.bridgeministry.org.

Hebrews 12:11-13

I was given this verse in a Dave Ramsey course I am taking at a local church here in Washington. It spoke to me in so many ways. The first obviously dealing with finances, because having to live with less is not always pleasant at first, but when you see what you have accomplished with in such a short amount of time. That first debt free moment is worth it.

The second was an aid in my Weight Loss Challenge. All through out high school I was 170 lbs within the next six months after graduation I was up to 200 lbs with a steady increase to where I am today at 265 lbs. I am not proud by any means that I let myself go like this, but I am determined to fix it and will post before & after pictures when I am done. I just need some constant encouragement. :)

Christ is always there for me. I would like to say he is always in the back round but he isn't. He is always right along side of me calling me to his will. It has been by my choice and foolish actions that allowed him to get shoved behind such minuscule things in my life. That is changing also!

This blogging for me is a stress reliever and hopefully a new beginning for me. Hopefully, one day my life challenges and conquering's will help others with theirs. 

Ephesians 4:32

This verse rings heavy on my ears daily. I, as all of us, have been hurt by many. I was hurt recently by someone closer to me than anyone else. My mother! What she did I won't open up for the public but I will say it ended up in our family separated.  For  the past two years I have been harboring so much resentment  towards her that it has been eating my spiritual life to a pulp.

I questioned many times, WHY! If God is with us why would he allow her to hurt her family like this. However, in the past few weeks in helping her relocate I have slowly learned to forgive her. Her intentions weren't to hurt us kids or our my family and I have made many mistakes of my own. Who am I to judge her when I have sinned also. This resentment was ruining what i had built with my mom in the past 21 years of my life. 

I just wanted to post this verse so I can tell others not to harbor resentment. You will ruin your relationships and there's no one to blame but yourself. It is not our place to judge. That right is reserved for God himself. Please make the best of your life and forgive all who have hurt you. It will make you feel so much better and who knows 

YOU might even change their lives. :)