There are many, many things I wanna do in life. But I want the #1 dream of my heart to be to love Jesus with all my heart, mind, soul and strength. Mike Bickel who leads the International House of Prayer in Kansas city, MO did SUCH a great teaching on the 1st commandent and I just cant get enought of it!! Its a teaching I could hear over and over and over again and hear something new each time.
He talks about loving God with our words, energy, money, time and influence. I know for myself I like doing what I want to do with my time, but I feel like I need to surrender that time to Him. Our identity and how we view ourselves should be by our relationship with God instead of what we accomplish and how many people know us, or how much money we make.
If we realign our idenity with the truth of God's word, it wont matter who likes us, how many friends we have or fear of rejection. We will be able to love God more.
Identity in God, GOD LOVES ME AND I LOVE HIM THEREFORE I'M SUCCESSFULL
Even though our love is weak, its real, and it really does move God's heart.
In the natural mind set and the world says you are successful if you have lots of money, if your famous, if you have a great job...which all those things are good but our real and true success should come from our relationship with God.
I want my assignment in life to come from the place of success, not by trying to earn success. We get burnout in life not because of hard work, but because we do our work with the wrong spirit.
All the above is from Mike Bickle's teaching...
Now back to cleaning my dirty house, so I can have dinner tonight with the family. Its such a beautiful day!! I love spring time!!!
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Society..
Its a Thursday morning and my sweet kitty (tador tot) is laying beside me, she is so sweet :) I think she acts more like a dog than a cat. I thought cats were independant? She follows me everywhere I go, its kinda cute but sometimes annoying!
Yesterday I came across a really neat web site: www. purefreedom.org. This site's main ministry is for pre teens, teens and women. I was watching a clip on the site and these words really jumped out at me. They talked about how the media is feeding us (girls especially) lies about how we should look and what is beauty. I'm learning how important it is to be rooted and grounded in what God says is beauty.
" Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit which is of great worth in God's sight. " 1 peter 3:3-4
Getting our value and worth from God's perpective is so important and is like a rock that cannot be moved. Our appearence is going to change!!! Then what? If we based our worth on how we look... Well then..ummm we are in trouble. What happens when your 70 :)
Its sad how the media and feminist movement have corrupted the our view of men, purity, marriage and motherhood! Dannah Gresh is great speaker talked about how women and girls today are affraid of marriage and motherhood because our society has attached a stigma.
Your never gonna get beautiful in front of the mirror each day, your gonna get beautiful looking into Gods word each day and asking him who he wants you do be!
Anyway, this really spoke to me today.
Yesterday I came across a really neat web site: www. purefreedom.org. This site's main ministry is for pre teens, teens and women. I was watching a clip on the site and these words really jumped out at me. They talked about how the media is feeding us (girls especially) lies about how we should look and what is beauty. I'm learning how important it is to be rooted and grounded in what God says is beauty.
" Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit which is of great worth in God's sight. " 1 peter 3:3-4
Getting our value and worth from God's perpective is so important and is like a rock that cannot be moved. Our appearence is going to change!!! Then what? If we based our worth on how we look... Well then..ummm we are in trouble. What happens when your 70 :)
Its sad how the media and feminist movement have corrupted the our view of men, purity, marriage and motherhood! Dannah Gresh is great speaker talked about how women and girls today are affraid of marriage and motherhood because our society has attached a stigma.
Your never gonna get beautiful in front of the mirror each day, your gonna get beautiful looking into Gods word each day and asking him who he wants you do be!
Anyway, this really spoke to me today.
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