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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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PRISONER OF HOPE - Held Captive By Hope	May 10, 2008 4:38 am 309 Views
This is part 2 In the word of God we can find many people who have been held captive by hope. For examples, there are Moses, Joseph, and Abraham. But I think my favorite is David. It is his honesty in the face of misery that attracts me to him. God had promised David the Kingdom of Israel, and Samuel had anointed him for it (1 Samuel 16:13). But after he had been anointed as king of all Israel he had to go back to tending the sheep. It was many years before the promise ever came to pass for David, and he spent many of those years being chased by the man whose throne he would inherit. I am sure he never dreamed, back in the pasture on his father's farm, that he would have to hide out in caves or that he would pretend to be a crazy man in order to save his life. After all, God said he was going to be a king. A king does not have to do things like that does he? In Psalm 119:82, David cries out to God in song and says, "My eyes fail, looking for Your promise." I can relate to that. It feels sometimes as though the promise will never be fulfilled. But in fact, it was fulfilled for David and it will be for you too, if you do not give up. Hopeless, No. Helpless, Yes! Do you feel sometimes as though you are hopeless? Well, you are not without hope; you are not hopeless, but helpless. God has put you in a position of helplessness or complete dependency on Him and you are helpless to help yourself. You struggle to gain back some measure of control over your life. But your pride (that you did not even know that you had) is being crushed, and the only thing for you to do is to surrender. You may feel hopeless, but really it is the condition of helplessness that is causing you pain. God wants you completely dependent on Him, and He will keep you a prisoner of hope until you are.
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PRISONER OF HOPE - Part 1	May 10, 2008 4:36 am 306 Views
For a while now I have been begging God to speak to me. I have been going through a period of utter desolation, while my world has been crumbling around me. As much as I have been in despair, God has come to me with a hope that I find hard to comprehend because the reality belies the hope. Yet it is there. I keep reaching out to Him, wondering why He wont just tell me. Well He just has........ Marilyn sent me this article and I found that every word in here relates to me. I feel like she is talking about me. I want to share it with you because if God is speaking to me through it, maybe He will be doing the same for you. If you are going through a period where you are literally hanging by your thumbnails, then please, I urge you to read this. I will post it in segments coz it is very long. I pray God does magnificent things for you, as I know He is doing with me, as much as I can't see it yet.... "Prisoners of HOPE--What Feels like a Prison Cell to You, God Sees as a FORTRESS" There are times during the birth of your destiny that you feel as though you would like to give up hope, but God will not let you. It feels as though you are held captive by hope. "Return to your fortress, O prisoners of hope..." Zechariah 9:12 There are times during the development of your dream when your hope seems to have turned into a prison. You cannot make your dreams come true, and you find it impossible to stop believing in them. You cannot go forward any faster than God will let you, and you cannot return to where you once were before you became pregnant with the promise from God. God will not let you give up! During this time you might feel like saying, "Okay, God, this is enough! I don't want to hope anymore! I am tired of being pregnant with this promise! I want out of this prison of hope!" It is during this time that your dreams feel so real to you, yet to others they are not. The conflict between what you feel in the Spirit and what is evident in the natural grates at your soul. You feel much like you are on a Ferris wheel. You have your up times when you can see your dream's fulfillment far into the future, but you also have your down time when you cannot see anything. You think to yourself, "Am I crazy to think that God could use me?" The enemy comes in like a flood and you begin to doubt, causing anguish to your soul. This is the time when God is doing His greatest work in you. It is Because He Loves You You feel as though you are ready for your destiny, but once again God directs you back to the refinery for more tweaking. Oh how weary you are of the awful refinery and that seemingly endless tweaking. "Okay, God, You can stop now," you scream. But He does not stop. You are caught in a prison of hope and He will not let you out until He is finished with what He began in you. It is like a child who has a sliver. They do not like the pain the sliver causes them, but they hate the misery of having that sliver taken out. Getting the sliver out is important, but they do not necessarily understand that. Even if they did, it is hard to keep still while it is being pulled out. Well, we all have spiritual slivers that we need God to take out, and sometimes it really hurts, especially when the sliver is way down deep in your heart. This is when the refining process REALLY hurts, because He is getting down to the very core of your soul, to the deep regions of your heart. He is developing things in you that you did not even know that you lacked; things you did not even know that you needed. You think, "Okay, God, this is deep enough." But every builder knows you must dig down deep to lay a proper foundation first, before you start to build upward. And the greater the height of the structure, the deeper the foundation must be. It is because God loves us that He will not allow us to enter our destiny until our foundation is secure. If He has held you back and you feel like a prisoner, He has done it out of love for you. He does not want to see all that He has worked to build in you crumble, because He did not take the time to develop a sure foundation. He loves you that much! Even though it hurts you, He needs to hold you in the prison cell of hope until it is safe for you to come out. Even though you are sick and tired of hoping, of believing, of waiting; He will still make you hope, believe and wait even longer. And this can be the hardest thing He has asked you to do yet. But when you feel like giving up, but continue to carry on, you begin to sense a strength rising in you that you did not know you possessed. And really you did not possess it previously, because it was your reward for enduring this painful process. It is a gift from God that the enemy cannot take away from you, because you have earned it.
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A LITTLE SECRET ABOUT WOMEN	May 10, 2008 12:30 am 455 Views
A woman would walk through fire for the man she loves! So here's a tip to remember fellas....... greet her with a soothing balm not a bucket of cold water!
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RUN AND HIDE!	May 9, 2008 7:02 pm 388 Views
Do you remember when you were a kid, if you did something wrong, you would run and hide? You did not want to be discovered, you did not want to face the consequences of your actions. Though even as a kid, you just knew you had done the wrong thing! Sadly, as adults we still do it....run and hide. Several months ago my boss sent an email telling us the things we were not allowed to do during working hours. One of those things was personal emails. At one point my boss was chatting with me and the subject of all these things came up. When the matter of personal emails came up she looked at me. Well to me it was as if she was looking right through to my soul! I was guilty! She knew it, I knew it....and she was waiting patiently for me to acknowledge it. I can honestly tell you, at that point, I wanted to run and hide! But what was the point of running and hiding? Who was I kidding if I did that? So I came clean and admitted I was guilty of personal emails. I expected a serious reprimand but she was actually pretty decent about it! She then told me that she was the boss and she knew EVERYTHING that was going on in the clinic. She said, even though she sat in her little office, she knew exactly what was going on beyond that door! YIKES!!! Kind of reminds you of God doesn't it? He sees it all! God is light, and there is no darkness in Him. When we walk in Him we walk in His light, there is nothing hidden from His eyes! When we do the wrong thing, why is it so hard to acknowledge it? For every action there is a reaction. There are consequences to our actions, and if we desire to walk closely with God, then rest assured that those little actions will be dealt with. We can only run and hide for so long! Sooner or later God will bring to your attention what needs to be changed in you. You reap what you sow! The wonderful thing about God, and this is a sure thing, unlike my boss who could have hauled me over the coals, if we approach the throne of God with a repentant heart......HE FORGIVES US! That my friends, is grace. We don't deserve it, but we get it.....given freely. So the next time you do the wrong thing, don't run and hide. You will be getting nowhere fast!
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PACK UP YOUR FEELINGS IN YOUR OLD KIT BAG....	May 9, 2008 3:47 pm 347 Views
Don't cry out loud Just keep it inside And learn how to hide your feelings Fly high and proud And if you should fall Remember you almost had it all This is a song that I have heard and it would have to be one of the saddest songs I have ever heard. It speaks of a sad and bitter heart. A heart that has known a whole lot of pain and disappointment. We should never disregard our feelings. There is a big difference between acknowledging what you feel, and trusting your feelings. Don't cry out loud....just keep it inside....let's face it, a lot of us have done that from time to time. It hurts and sits within our hearts festering bitterness. Learn how to hide your feelings....no no no!!! Your feelings may not matter to someone else, but they matter to you and they matter to God. Acknowledge what you are feeling, but don't put your trust in them coz our hearts are fickle and what we feel may not always be the way things really are. Whatever you are feeling....take it to God. Coz He understands. He will help you sort it out, if you allow Him to. Be open to Him, let Him guide your deepest thoughts. Speak out your feelings...to a close friend, someone you trust. Sometimes an objective listener can put rationality to irrational feelings, or help you to deal with whatever it is you are feeling. Fly high and proud......the stiff upper lip only makes it harder to smile! And if you should fall, remember you almost had it all......no way! no way! almost had it all??? The best is yet to come....trust HIM!
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Do You Think With Your Head or With Your Heart?	May 9, 2008 1:40 pm 426 Views
A pastor I know once brought it to my attention. Some people think with their heads and some with their hearts. Often a conflict of opinion can happen when the two opposites meet. Is one wrong and the other right? No way! It's just that both see things from opposite ends of the spectrum! If a thinking person and a feeling person can synergise what they are both trying to say then I guess you have a symphony of communication! I bet you can guess which one I am!! As I was reflecting, I realised a lot of the girlfriends I have are heart thinkers. We have this rapport, an understanding coz we think along the same lines. It's kind of special coz you don't always have to explain your feelings to them...they already know! Yet most of the men in my life (the zillions and trillions of them! ) have been head thinkers. Even my son is a head thinker. I think that kind of stabilizes me, keeps me from going over the top with my emotions, or when I do go over the top they have been able to help me rationalize. By the same token I have been able to soften them a little in their line of thinking! The men I have that are strictly friends, seem to be heart thinkers. They have this sentimental quality, much like a girlfriend. I'm not trying to say that it makes them less manly coz I have known some incredible manly men who are heart thinkers! But obviously I can still relate to them on the same emotional level or something! I wonder, when some of the misunderstandings happen here in the blogs, if it is a failure to understand the thinking of the other? Food for thought huh? Look around at your relationships with other people. The ones you click with, the ones you kind of do, and the ones you don't feel a compatibility with...interesting what you might find there! We are all unique, that is what makes us so special! To understand and accept each other for our differences, that is synergy!
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Bite My Blinkin Tongue	May 9, 2008 4:02 am 421 Views
Have you ever said something you regretted, especially when you are angry or upset? Words just kind of come tumbling out of your mouth and before you know it, you have shot someone down in flames. Well I did just that a couple of days ago. A lot of pent up pain and hurt came tumbling out in a torrent of tongue lashing. I kept digging the hole deeper and deeper until I was totally spent. The end result was a feeling of ugliness in my soul that left me feeling like a worm. I tortured myself with regret, wanting to make things right, yet knowing that I would probably only make matters worse. So I took it to the Father instead. Out of the heart, the mouth speaks, and unfortunately words can't be taken back. Check out Glo's post....it says it all![/SIZE] THE POWER OF OUR WORDS!
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HOW TO TITHE YOUR FILTHY LUGER.........	May 8, 2008 9:05 pm 483 Views
First you better wrap it in a big cloth so the Pastor doesn't get to see it...... Then when no one is looking, you just drop that filthy luger in the offering bowl..... Then you gotta pray that it doesn't make a huge clatter...... Or worse yet if you have forgotten to remove one of the bullets...... Course if you do it on July 4th no one would know the filthy luger went off....... Still it might be a good idea to remover the bullets BEFORE you tithe the filthy luger ok? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah it's good to be back in the blogs!!! PS If Dunk's looking for me....I'm on a Greyhound heading east! to Mars!
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IF YOU WANT TO SEE PART TWO OF THE PRINCESS STORY.........	May 8, 2008 5:47 pm 418 Views
Unfortunately you will have to visit my blog itself coz for some reason it isn't showing up on the viewing frame! Perhaps the title is considered "hate language"?????
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