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Giving your Heart away Giving your Heart away by Dennis Thompson There are times in life that are so defining. What happens when you have a mentor that has loved you through thick and thin....helped you fight battles and grow. Then the day comes where you align yourself a little differently. People assure you that your mentor can not be right on because they do not line up with mans ideas of things. Yet when closely looked at if you were mature. they were right after all. I had this happen to me when I first received Christ. My friend Chuck that led me to the Lord tried to dissuade me from choosing a denominational stance that was different than what he had. I chose a path of holding onto and seeking after the power of God... what he could do for me in life instead of embracing his greatest gift to me in life. His Love. When you get involved with this type of stuff you tend to think it is most important and you protect it for all it is worth. You can spend decades in this life of seeking his power and what he could do. Then one day, you are all alone. You realize something is indeed missing. It has always been in front of your nose. It is Love. God tells us we can experience all things. Be great at all things and if we do not have Love, it is all for not. How true. So I said on that day about 10 years ago. Where am I Lord? What am I really doing. I have done all that the leadership has said to do and all I have when I am alone is this emptiness. Why? I have given all to my beliefs. He impressed upon me that day to forget all that i had learned with the exception of who Jesus is. I then began a journey for truth and the real teacher, the Holy Spirit began to teach me. Mans' opinions no longer mattered. I started to allow him to teach me. Many things he has taught me over the years are so precious. It also conflicted with what many men wished to believe. Then as time went on, I found out many people were learning the very same things. Everyone I met was excited about the Gospel of grace we were learning. Of course the big argument was always...Grace is just a license to sin. The real truth is people will do what they are going to do anyway. The real truth is the law makes people "sin" if they try and keep it as their justification before God. Christians are only justified because of what Jesus did. All things pertaining to our Christian walk is found in... because of what Jesus did. Our lives are about allowing God to live through us, not in trying to avoid sin. If we allow God to live through us, which is our strength....then what wrong will we do? People, its about relationship. When you have friends, and family...is your thoughts confined to trying never to offend them...or is it about the love in the fellowship of the relationship? Thats right we live. This is what God wants most from us. First to abide and secondly to use our gifting to have that abundant life he says we "can" have. We will find his will for our lives in the passions and gifting he has given us. Its a journey, not a burden. God Bless!!! *written in honor of my dear friend Deb Kenny and the inspiration she is to so many. we could learn a lort from the Seals and how they live and play together 
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10/19/2010 1:43 pm |
Good words here! Someone very wise told me once to let the Holy Spirit guide and direct you and then go on and do what you want to because He's not going to lead you wrong. Why do some people want to make it so hard! Tread softly on this heart of mine, it belongs to Jesus!
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agreed 
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thanks guys
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