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A Follower of Christ
  
Nobody worries about Christ as long as he can be kept shut up in
churches. He is quite safe inside. But there is always trouble
if you try and let him out.

-- G. A. Studdert Kennedy


A Christian……..a follower of Christ……how do you follow Christ? How do you love Christ? Whose will………His will? How do you hear Him when He speaks? Do you hear Him? Do you listen?

Which are you…….one like the woman caught in adultery……..or the prideful scorner hurling stones?

Are you like the humble tax collector who comes before God admitting your brokenness……….or are you like the Pharisee…..better than the broken one?

Are you saved? You know the beginning…….you know the ending…….but what comes between?

What does this mean?
Luk 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

What does it mean to you?

I have to admit, there is nothing easy in being a follower of Christ. It’s easy being saved, easy reading the Bible, going to church, praying but when it comes to actually living our belief and faith……we fail miserably.

Mat 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Mat 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

I have taken these two verses to heart in a big way. Because being a follower of Christ is sometimes burdensome. Giving up your desires for His desires, asking for His will in your life as opposed to your own….this is not an easy thing. But He equips us, and gives us the strength we need to walk the walk with Him.

Psa 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

When you ask God to create in you a clean heart…….it means sometimes He has to break you down, bring you to your knees……..and it hurts! Coming face to face with God with all your brokenness has got to be one of the most painful things you will ever do….but I can tell you from the depth of my heart that it is the most spirit refreshing thing you will ever do!

The closer you draw to God, the lonlier you feel as a Christian. There is nothing sadder than talking with a fellow believer about the wonders of the Holy Spirit, the amazing grace of God, and they look at you with glazed eyes. I know this because I too once stood with glazed eyes, just “not getting it”. When I talk about listening to His Word while I sleep, or listening to His Word on my IPOD as I walk, other Christians look at me as though I am whacko!

Mat 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

What does that verse mean to you? It means exactly what it says to me.

And if we are mocked for loving God this way……….who is being mocked……is it me………is it God’s work in me……..is it God Himself?

Mt. 11:15
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Over the Rainbow........... May 31, 2008 3:17 pm
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Over The Rainbow

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Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true

Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?

At least I know I don't have to wish on a star....

Jesus, You make ALL my dreams come true!
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I took a hit.....but He brought the smile back! May 31, 2008 2:10 am
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I took a hit, but here I am, still standing! It was shaky there for a while, but I saw it through. I'm kind of proud of myself! I've always been a woman who loves life, and though the devil tried to break me.....he didn't succeed.

I love my Lord...He has carried me, constantly teaching me through it all, helping me to stand tall and strong, and when I did fall, when it all got too much, He dressed my wounds, applying His healing salve, and helped me back to my feet...coz I can do it, with Him by my side. In fact, I can do ANYTHING with Him by my side...as long as He leads I can be brave enough to follow.

Who knows what my tomorrows may bring, but I am smiling again...and praise God, He will make me, "me" again...but the new and improved version...still striving to be the woman He created me to be!

How You Live (turn Up The Music) - Point Of Grace

Verse 1:
Wake up to the sunlight
With your windows open
Don't hold in your anger or leave things unspoken
Wear your red dress
Use your good dishes
Make a big mess and make lots of wishes
Have what you want
But want what you have
And don't spend your life lookin' back

Chorus:
Turn up the music
Turn it up loud
Take a few chances
Let it all out
You won't regret it
Lookin' back from where you have been
Cuz it's not who you knew
And it's not what you did
It's how you live

Verse 2:
So go to the ballgames
And go to the ballet
And go see your folks more than just on the holidays
Kiss all your children
Dance with your wife
Tell your husband you love him every night
Don't run from the truth
'Cause you can't get away
Just face it and you'll be okay

Chorus:
Turn up the music
Turn it up loud
Take a few chances
Let it all out
You won't regret it
Lookin' back from where you have been
'Cause it's not who you knew
And it's not what you did
It's how you live

Bridge:
Oh wherever you are and wherever you've been
Now is the time to begin

Verse 3:
So give to the needy
And pray for the grieving
E'en when you don't think that you can
'Cause all that you do is bound to come back to you
So think of your fellow man
Make peace with God and make peace with yourself
'Cause in the end there's nobody else

Chorus
Turn up the music
Turn it up loud
Take a few chances
Let it all out
'Cause you won't regret it
Lookin' back from where you have been
'Cause it's not who you knew
And it's not what you did
It's how you live

'Cause it's not who you knew
And it's not what you did
It's how you live
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Who's coming for dinner at my house? May 31, 2008 1:00 am
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Yes YOU.......that's right......YOU!

I have made Thai Chicken Curry Soup with hot crusty rolls......

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!

If I say so myself!

And I'm alllllll alllooooonneee!

So get on your horse, get on your bike, get on your jumbo jet, crikey you can even swim if you want.....just get here and have dinner with me!!

And for dessert.......chocolate....LOTS OF CHOCOLATE......one for you, two for me, one for you, two for me.....

And finally.....some of Corrie's finest!!! (just don't tell her!!)

SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?????
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BC IS REALLY GETTING MY GOAT TONIGHT!!!! May 30, 2008 3:14 am
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I did a post and now it says I have deleted it! I go to view someone's post.....when I go to their blog, the post has disappeared.

WHAT THE BLINKIN HECK IS GOING ON?????

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
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The agonizing flow of grief May 30, 2008 2:22 am
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This morning, totally out of the blue, I suddenly thought about my dad....and I found myself in tears.....19 years after his death.

My dad committed suicide, asphyxiating himself in his car.

Two weeks prior to his death, my dad rang me and wanted to see me. At the time, I was going through some "stuff" of my own so I wasn't totally receptive to his invitation. When I told him I would come by in a day or so, he got angry and hung up on me. I then got so upset that he hung up on me, I "punished" him by not visiting at all. Two weeks later my father took his life.

At the funeral, a friend of his came to me and told me that my father loved me so much, he never stopped talking about me.

When he was alive my dad never once told me he loved me.

When there is no closure to grief, it becomes unbearable. I guess I still carry the guilt, of not being there for my dad when he obviously needed someone, and the fact that I was that someone....cuts me deep.

Perhaps that is why I struggle with things that are unfinished.....

Grief is a process that you have no choice but to work through, painful step by painful step. There are moments of despair, guilt and anger. The unspoken question is always there, hanging in the air....."if only"......

And grief never really leaves you. The intensity and constancy lessens with time, but waves of grief can hit even 19 years later.

I got pregnant a few weeks after my dad died.

Sometimes I just cry because my son never got to meet his grandfather. I think, "dad you would have loved Brayden, and he would have loved you just as much".

There comes a point when you reach acceptance. This is how it is, there is nothing you can do about it, and finally all you are left with are memories.

When there is no closure, there is GOD. Only He can give you the closure you desperately seek. Nobody knows grief like God does. Not only did He have to watch his son suffer and die on the cross, but He also had to endure the days leading up to the cross. And for a short time, He actually had to turn His face away as His Son took on the full weight of our sin on His shoulders.

Life isn't always fair, sometimes it can be downright cruel, but as our hearts are torn, we can turn to the One who has not only endured all that we have, but so much more.

And lastly, I know that grief is not wasted. God uses the process of grief to strengthen us. He uses it to refine us, to make us more into the character of Jesus, and He equips us to minister to others who all suffer grief.

Grief turns to victory when it brings glory to Him.

Why was it so hard, daddy, to tell me you loved me?

Give love because life is short......reach out because you never know what tomorrow will bring....forgive, rather than regret.....just love

Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door

I know that I'm a prisoner
To all my Father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage
To all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Crumpled bits of paper
Filled with imperfect thought
Stilted conversations
I'm afraid that's all we've got

You say you just don't see it
He says it's perfect sense
You just can't get agreement
In this present tense
We all talk a different language
Talking in defence

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

So we open up a quarrel
Between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future
It's the bitterness that lasts

So Don't yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective
On a different day
And if you don't give up, and don't give in
You may just be OK.

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

I wasn't there that morning
When my Father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say

I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye
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Hebrew, Greek.......or Holy Ghost? May 29, 2008 2:59 am
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Some people read their Bible in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost. -- Smith Wigglesworth


Oh yeah!!! Now that's what I'm talkin about!!
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Whatever You're Doing...... May 29, 2008 1:19 am
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I heard this song on the radio tonight, and thought, yeeeeeeeeeppppp this is me alright!!!

Whatever You're Doing - Sanctus Real

It's time for healing time to move on
It's time to fix what's been broken too long
Time make right what has been wrong
It's time to find my way to where I belong
There's a wave that's crashing over me
And all I can do is surrender

(Chorus)
Whatever You're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but somehow there's peace
It's hard to surrender to what I can't see
but I'm giving in to something Heavenly

Time for a milestone
Time to begin again
Reevaluate who I really am
Am I doing everything to follow Your will
Or just climbing aimlessly over these hills
So show me what it is You want from me
I give everything I surrender...
To...

(Chorus)

Time to face up
Clean this old house
Time to breathe in and let everything out
That I've wanted to say for so many years
Time to release all my held back tears

Whatever You're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but I believe
You're up to something bigger than me
Larger than life something Heavenly

Whatever You're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but now I can see
This something bigger than me
Larger than life something Heavenly
Something Heavenly

It's time to face up
Clean this old house
Time breathe in and let everything out
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Aaaaaah.......My Love......... May 28, 2008 1:39 pm
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Joh 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

This was my key Bible verse this morning....

But...

Last night....

I lay in my bed and this came to me....

I walk through the desert, the hard ground dry and cracked under my bleeding feet.

Then I find Him, my love...

He sits in a cool glade, breeze whispers softly, caressing my face. Leaves gently moving in the breeze, like background music. A waterfall nearby, gently cascading, more music.

Peace.....

He shows me......rolling hills, green grass, majestic mountains.....beauty as far as the eye can see....

I see a woman dancing on the rolling hills, carefree, arms open wide, smiling.........

The woman is me.

And all I can say is.....

Aaaaaaah.....My Love.......
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The Rose May 28, 2008 4:19 am
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Some say love it is a river

that drowns the tender reed

Some say love it is a razor

that leaves your soul to bleed

Some say love it is a hunger

an endless aching need

I say love it is a flower

and you it's only seed

It's the heart afraid of breaking

that never learns to dance

It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance

It's the one who won't be taken

who cannot seem to give

and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely

and the road has been too long

and you think that love is only

for the lucky and the strong

Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows

lies the seed

that with the sun's love

in the spring

becomes the rose


This song has been playing in my head all day....

I wonder why some people just can't seem to love or be loved.....

The absence of love is fear.......

Fear is not of God.....

LOVE IS OF GOD!

I think God keeps bringing this song to my mind to prevent my heart from going cold
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LEARNING AND HEARING May 28, 2008 2:07 am
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Some read the Bible to learn and some read the Bible to hear from heaven. -- Andrew Murray

Opening the Bible used to be a very mechanical experience. Sure, there were times when I read something and felt convicted or blessed etc but mostly it was just part of a routine coz I knew it was expected of me as a Christian.

How it must have saddened my Lord, coz He wanted to share so much with me, and I was lukewarm and uninspired. I bow my head in shame that I took Him so much for granted.

Just as the quote above states.....I basically just read the Bible to learn......

And then it happened!!!!

The Holy Spirit filled my entire being, flowed through my veins, gave me LIFE!!

Suddenly I realised I was in love with Jesus! Opening the Bible is like opening mail from my very Best Friend....and I know....I just know He will tell me something important. He teaches me and blesses me and gives my very existence a depth I never knew was possible!!



It's like a love letter from heaven!


Psa 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
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