Just something that has been in my heart recently....How can someone learn to love an enemy? This past week somethings happened that just opened my eyes to see how truly hateful and MEAN some people really are. I thought people at work were evil but MAN, these people are even more eviler. The people you see every weekend, the people you say hi to, play with, laugh with, worship God with.....thats what made them so much more eviler; its because as a body of church we love them and they us but with conflicts arising and people hating, its turned a lot of us (christians in general) into children not of God, but of Satan.
What we need is the Holy Spirit to come and live in us so that we can love others such as these. God's love is the only love and if we cannot love the way God love, then in an instance the devil can and will take that opportunity to turn our humanly love into hate...
Matthew 5:43-48
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor[a] and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wii Workout Day 3
I gained a pound..hahaha. Oh wellies. I'm not really trying to lose weight actually. I'm just trying to tone up and get back into shape...as if I ever was in shape. hehe. I'm progressing quite well actually. Yor told me to go and set a workout time, but so far, I've been working out at different times...which is probably why, but as long as I'm feeling my abs getting sore then thats a good progress right?
I'm excited to go to Toccoa Falls College next Fall. I'm going to be studying in Cross Culture Tesol. I was going to go into Cross Culture Business but since alot of my credits didn't really count towards the TFC classes, I didn't want to have to retake some of the accounting classes because honestly....I really did not do so well in them the first time or the second time. It was all LUCK that I pass those accounting classes. Since my major is missions anyway, I rather do english incorporated with missions. If nothing else, I still have by Associate degree for Accounting to back me up to so if I look at it, I will have 3 degrees total=Mission, English, and Accounting. :)
I've thought about it over and over and prayed about it for quite a while, but Mission is definitely a passion and a goal that I've set. I haven't been this excited to study for or prepare for a career since...well since forever. I've never really wanted to go into Accounting and although its good for my resume, I would never have pursue Accounting if it wasn't for my dear old Pa. Accounting isn't all bad, its pretty tough with math equations and stuff and Math was never really my strong point so....you get what I mean right?
Onto other news, Yor and I are going shopping tomorrow for Iverson's 2nd Birthday. Yay! I was thinking about giving him toys but Yor said that he doesn't really play with them and he just mostly throws them around but then again..HELLO--he's only 1 turning 2 dude. I might just end up buying him clothes...but thats no fun.. :)
Alrighty, thats it for updates. Siyan-Nara!
Love Mags
"The Lord shall reign forever and ever" -Exodus 15:18
I'm excited to go to Toccoa Falls College next Fall. I'm going to be studying in Cross Culture Tesol. I was going to go into Cross Culture Business but since alot of my credits didn't really count towards the TFC classes, I didn't want to have to retake some of the accounting classes because honestly....I really did not do so well in them the first time or the second time. It was all LUCK that I pass those accounting classes. Since my major is missions anyway, I rather do english incorporated with missions. If nothing else, I still have by Associate degree for Accounting to back me up to so if I look at it, I will have 3 degrees total=Mission, English, and Accounting. :)
I've thought about it over and over and prayed about it for quite a while, but Mission is definitely a passion and a goal that I've set. I haven't been this excited to study for or prepare for a career since...well since forever. I've never really wanted to go into Accounting and although its good for my resume, I would never have pursue Accounting if it wasn't for my dear old Pa. Accounting isn't all bad, its pretty tough with math equations and stuff and Math was never really my strong point so....you get what I mean right?
Onto other news, Yor and I are going shopping tomorrow for Iverson's 2nd Birthday. Yay! I was thinking about giving him toys but Yor said that he doesn't really play with them and he just mostly throws them around but then again..HELLO--he's only 1 turning 2 dude. I might just end up buying him clothes...but thats no fun.. :)
Alrighty, thats it for updates. Siyan-Nara!
Love Mags
"The Lord shall reign forever and ever" -Exodus 15:18
Monday, February 21, 2011
Proposal
Yor has been such a sweetheart lately...I really wonder why? He asked me how I would like to be propose to and I really thought to myself: I really don't know. When I think about it, I've never really thought about how I would like to be propose to. I mean sure, I want it to be sweet and romantice and let it be a memoriable event where I'll cherish and remember it for the rest of my life on earth, but to go about having it done...hahaha.
Yor said that I'm suppose to tell him how I want to be propse to so that way when he does it, it will be perfect. See what I mean? Such a sweetheart. Haha.
I finally told him that it would be nice if he propose to me while we watching the meteor showers. He asked me all these questions about when and where, and what season, and just oh so many other things. I love that guy.
--Gyahh. I need to go running. RUN RUN RUN. I'm doing a Running March-A-Thon for the month of March. Would you like to support me? If you do, all you have to do is pray for me and leave me words of encouragement. :) Most gracias.
Love Mags
Yor said that I'm suppose to tell him how I want to be propse to so that way when he does it, it will be perfect. See what I mean? Such a sweetheart. Haha.
I finally told him that it would be nice if he propose to me while we watching the meteor showers. He asked me all these questions about when and where, and what season, and just oh so many other things. I love that guy.
--Gyahh. I need to go running. RUN RUN RUN. I'm doing a Running March-A-Thon for the month of March. Would you like to support me? If you do, all you have to do is pray for me and leave me words of encouragement. :) Most gracias.
Love Mags
Friday, February 4, 2011
Life Through the Spirit: Faith, Mercy, and Righteousness
Abba Father, I thank you for allowing me life to breathe on this day. Thank you Abba Father for showing me grace and mercy. Thank you Abba Father for loving me.
God has been gracious to me. I've been praying for the anointing of the Holy Spirit, for His Spirit to come and fill me and live in me. (But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. -John 14:6)
Everyday as I pray and seek more of Him, I feel as if I'm getting closer and closer to Jesus Christ. Although I don't hear the Lord speaking to me, I pray and hope that I will. Retha Mcpherson (http://www.rethamcpherson.com/) wrote in her letters that if you don't hear the Lord speaking to you, go into His words (the Bible) because that is where the Father speaks.
The Bible is a powerful weapon given to us by the Father. For those who don't take use of it and read it and treat it as if it was just another book ready to be toss out, then I tell you this: PRAY and ask the Father to reveal His Spirit to you so that when you read His Word, His word will come ALIVE for you. I use to be like that. I use to treat the bible as if it was just another book. I mean sure I read it and I believe the words written in it, but to actually live out the commands and be obedient to God was something that I lacked. It wasn't until I started seeking for the Lord's guidance and the Lord's Spirit that I began seeing the Bible as a weapon, as a mean of Life given to us by the Father.
For the past few days as I was seeking and praying for guidance from the Lord and for the Lord to anoint me with His Holy Spirit, I was led into reading Romans.
The Lord took me to Romans, and took me back to the basics of who He is and what He has done for us. Only through His mercy and grace in His Son Jesus Christ, can we receive rightouesness. (Romans 4:2)
Romans 8:5 says: "Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires, but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.
You will NOT be able to please God if you are controlled by sinful nature.
I kept asking God, 'Abba Father, I want to be fill with Your Holy Spirit! Please Lord, Anoint me with Your Spirit.' It wasn't until I read this passage that I asked myself, 'Maggie, what are you hiding from the Lord? What have you not done to repent for the Blood of the precious lamb to wash away your sins?'
In all honest truth, I have this bitter and angryness build up inside of me. I asked and repented for the Lord to forgive me and for His precious blood to wash away my sin, that bitterness and angeryness that is a sinful nature.
A mind controlled by sinful nature leads to death, but a mind controlled by the Spirit leads to life and peace. (Romans 8:6)
I felt the Lord spoke to me as I read this verse. I CANNOT please God if I am controlled by sinful nature. NO ONE can. "I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me." (Romans 7:18-21)
But I give thanks to our Lord Jesus Christ for making it possible so that we in our minds are slave to God's law(Romans 7:25)
I just wanted to share a bit of what I've been learning in my seeking and praying for the Lord Jesus Christ to come and anoint me with His Spirit.
Continue to Seek for the Lord.
Love Mags
God has been gracious to me. I've been praying for the anointing of the Holy Spirit, for His Spirit to come and fill me and live in me. (But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. -John 14:6)
Everyday as I pray and seek more of Him, I feel as if I'm getting closer and closer to Jesus Christ. Although I don't hear the Lord speaking to me, I pray and hope that I will. Retha Mcpherson (http://www.rethamcpherson.com/) wrote in her letters that if you don't hear the Lord speaking to you, go into His words (the Bible) because that is where the Father speaks.
The Bible is a powerful weapon given to us by the Father. For those who don't take use of it and read it and treat it as if it was just another book ready to be toss out, then I tell you this: PRAY and ask the Father to reveal His Spirit to you so that when you read His Word, His word will come ALIVE for you. I use to be like that. I use to treat the bible as if it was just another book. I mean sure I read it and I believe the words written in it, but to actually live out the commands and be obedient to God was something that I lacked. It wasn't until I started seeking for the Lord's guidance and the Lord's Spirit that I began seeing the Bible as a weapon, as a mean of Life given to us by the Father.
For the past few days as I was seeking and praying for guidance from the Lord and for the Lord to anoint me with His Holy Spirit, I was led into reading Romans.
The Lord took me to Romans, and took me back to the basics of who He is and what He has done for us. Only through His mercy and grace in His Son Jesus Christ, can we receive rightouesness. (Romans 4:2)
Romans 8:5 says: "Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires, but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.
You will NOT be able to please God if you are controlled by sinful nature.
I kept asking God, 'Abba Father, I want to be fill with Your Holy Spirit! Please Lord, Anoint me with Your Spirit.' It wasn't until I read this passage that I asked myself, 'Maggie, what are you hiding from the Lord? What have you not done to repent for the Blood of the precious lamb to wash away your sins?'
In all honest truth, I have this bitter and angryness build up inside of me. I asked and repented for the Lord to forgive me and for His precious blood to wash away my sin, that bitterness and angeryness that is a sinful nature.
A mind controlled by sinful nature leads to death, but a mind controlled by the Spirit leads to life and peace. (Romans 8:6)
I felt the Lord spoke to me as I read this verse. I CANNOT please God if I am controlled by sinful nature. NO ONE can. "I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me." (Romans 7:18-21)
But I give thanks to our Lord Jesus Christ for making it possible so that we in our minds are slave to God's law(Romans 7:25)
I just wanted to share a bit of what I've been learning in my seeking and praying for the Lord Jesus Christ to come and anoint me with His Spirit.
Continue to Seek for the Lord.
Love Mags
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