"The stone you builders rejected which has become the capstone..."
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Acts 3:12 -
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we MUST be saved...
Okay, so I've been reading Acts with my youthgroup, we've been studying the Holy spirit and every attachment thereof and it's AMAZING but, on my own heart lately (since convention) has been that christians are too conservative about their worship, save a few radical people who don't care what people think of their worship, only that God is blessed by their praise.
In Acts 4:31 it says this-
After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
An Exerpt from my fireBible says this-
Christs disciples (i.e, his loyal disciplined followers) needed renewed courage to testify and speak for Christ. /"
THINK ABOUT IT! these men, the disciples, faced persecution for the cause of Christ. You read in the bible about men being stoned for Christ! Would you take a beating for your faith? are you willing to DIE for your Lord? Most of us have to think about that question and i admit it is a harsh question but here is my point...
CHRIST died a horrid, torcherous death in which he suffered immeasureably for YOU and ME! but we stand in worship services worried about what the people around us are going to think or say about our worship or what we are doing?
God doesn't ask for much, He asks for EVERYTHING.
Im not saying that i'm perfect, because i am so very far from it (thats why i NEED God) I stood for a long time in services, not raising my hands or letting go and letting myself truely worship because i was worried about what people would think of me but lately I have been studying and praying and LIVING outloud in my worship; coming to realize that if i ask God for things it is not free to me! I must give something of myself to him that COSTS me. So someone a few rows back snickers when my hands go up and i worship my savior, whatever. Them not letting go and worshipping is their own loss. Some people hold back because if they enter in with God, he might see their flaws or find the deep dark parts that we try to hide from everyone but let me tell you, There is nothing we humans can hide about ourselves from God! He knows all parts of us and everything about us no matter how well hidden we think it is so why hang onto things that God knows about anyways!? :) Let him move in your spirit, bite the bullet and just PRAISE him, you'll be better for it trust me! God loves the praises of his people, he inhabits them!
Always His,
♥ Sealzy ♥
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EXACTLY! God is worth every praise that we can give him. He has saved us from the worst ending. I think we can praise him for that!
"Some people hold back because if they enter in with God, he might see their flaws or find the deep dark parts that we try to hide from everyone but let me tell you, There is nothing we humans can hide about ourselves from God!"
Blaine said something like this a couple weeks ago in youth group. It really got to me. We try to hide our faults and sins because we don't want anyone to think that we might not be perfect, or at the least a good person, but we can't hide any of that from God. God uses our faults to minister to others. We can use our faults to answer those who ask us why we believe what we believe.
Wow... long post! but your blog really got to exactly what I've been thinking lately. And it kind of got me off on a rabbit trail on some other things. Really made me think! Which is scary for me. haha.
One last thing: Your amazing! :)
You go girl! That's awesome. You're right, at some point you gotta just give up and go for it!
YOU COMPLETE ME JENNA DUNCAN! lol!!! you are exactly correct, flaws make good answers...
Thanks guys :]
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