Extream Return

"Who wouldn't want to be brave like Peter, impulsively striking those who came to arrest Jesus Christ? Yet, who isn't also weak like Peter, denying Christ in almost the same instance under the threat of opposition? God does not chide us for our humanity. He accepts our weakness and works with us until we are strong again. Just as God restored Peter and other believers, He can restore our stout courage again. Have you suffered from the memory of a missed opportunity to stand up for Christ? Ask God to restore you today. He will begin to prepare you even now for your next opportunity to stand strong." - Extream Devotion

This was great encourgement to me as I was reading my devotions, we do fail, we are human but we can still rise to His calling again through His strength and His strength alone!

Fireworks

Fireworks

Reminders of past mistakes

Reminders of a broken heart

Reminders of present embarresments

Reminders of my girly stupidity

Reminders of future uncertainties

Reminders of my discontentment

I hated standing there

As they sat together on the lawn

He ignoring me

Me kicking myself

Watching was making me explode inside

Watching made me realize how stupid I am

How selfish I am

Watching made me angry

-against men

-agaisnt my co-workers

-agaisnt my friends

-against myself

I walked admidst a hundred people

Walked by myself, tears welling up in my eyes

My phone rang....7 times

Hearing made me realize...

Realize how God was using this day...

Hearing made me understand him and me

Hearing made me realize....

What I need to do...

There are bigger things in this world....

Like fireworks.....

To Be Like a Child

"Jesus said, "Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."
Matthew 19:14

I read this the other day in my book In His Own Words and it really hit me how so often we don't like to be treated like children or how we try not to act like children. When in reality, sometimes we should. Children are so eager to make someone happy, to please someone, to make someone laugh. Sometimes what people need is just that for there hurting souls. I love how it says "for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."
I for one want to act like a child. TO laugh as a child, to be pure as a child, to cry as a child, to be honest as a child, to give as a child, to be loving as a child, to come to Jesus as a child: humble, un-worrying, and eager. Try to live as a child today.....

"Watch you step. Use your head. Make the most of every chance you get. These are the desperate times!!" Ephesians 5:15

"Be wise in the way you act with people who are not believers, making the most of every opportunity." Colossians 4:5

"These things I have told you are all true. I want you to insist on them so that everyone who trusts in God will be careful to do good deeds all the time. THese things are good and beneficial for everyone" - Titus 3:8

"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. THerefore, as we have opportunity. let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers." Galations 6:9

"See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all." - I Thess. 5:15

"So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart" - Pslam 90:12

Quotes:

"Jesus loved everyone, but He loved children most of all" - Mother Teresa

"Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so; little ones to him belong;they are weak but he is strong." - Anna B Warner

"The gospel says that the inescapable condition of entrance into the divine fellowship is that we turn and become as a little child." - Elton Trueblood

"The stops of a good man are ordered by the Lord as well as his steps." - George Muller

"He loves each one of us, as if there were only one of us." - Saint Augustine

"I love little children, and it is not a slight thing when they who are fresh from God, love us." - Charles Dickens

"Jesus, friend of little children, be a friend to me; take my hand and ever keep me, close to thee." - Walter J. Mathams

"Did you ever litsen to children pray? Their faith knows no bounds. And who are the least surprised people when God answers prayer? The children. But then we get older and grow too sophisticated for that. We use phrases like, "Lets be realistic about this." We lose that expectancy, that urgency of hope, that delightful, childlike, wide-eyed joy of faith. But God hasn't changed. He still delights in doing impossible things."
Five Meaningful Minutes a Day