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the grace of god that saves |
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Posted by:
ifnotforgrace 
(Posted: 06/27/08 10:39am)
I was 10 years old the day that I asked Jesus Christ to come into my Heart and Save me. I was sitting there trying to listen to the preaching of my, then, pastor Dr. Estep @ Charity Baptist in Oh, I have not a clue to what he was preaching, all that ran through my mind was a message that I had heard a week prior on the aweful place called hell. I knew that I was on my way there, but did not want to go. I had given my friends and family the impression that I was saved, but deep inside I knew that I had not in fact asked Jesus to save me.
I was worried that if I went foward and and accepted that great free gift of salvation, my friends would have looked down on me for being an hypocrite. (I know that I was only ten, but ten year olds have thoughts of not being accepted just like older folks) I finally came to the reality that no one person or thing thing in this world was worth dying and going to hell over. I went forth and asked Jesus to forgive me...
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- Category: Testimonies & Praises - 2 Comments (view first comment - view last comment by youaregolden)
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i dont knowww |
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Posted by:
christian101
(Posted: 06/18/08 1:04pm)
okay soo..i just dont know, i really dont. i know that i need/should go to church, but its like..okay. let me sort it all out. one part, im scared to go into a church with people i dont rele know even tho ive gone to my bfs and have made friends there, but it would still make me nervous. it makes me nervous because i guess im afraid to like, act/be myself, in there. its weird but im not one to be a very social or that type of person at all. second..my mom doesnt want me to go to a church/doesnt rele support me in this. she's tried but i can tell she doesnt like it because everytime i bing it up she gets upset/frustrated. which brings me to my next point..i get asked to church and i use my mom as an excuse to not go, which instantly covers that fact that im nervous and my mom doesnt want me to go. NOW... i know church is an experience i should have and need to have and be around people who believe in what i do especially since i dont have that many christian friends who understands me....
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- Category: General - 3 Comments (view first comment - view last comment by kreynolds)
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haven't talked to you in a while. |
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Posted by:
jakeydies
(Posted: 06/16/08 2:54pm)
havent logged onto this thing for a while.
ive tried many times to get back to the blogging scene, and each time is an attempt failed.
i just dont think im supposed to do it.
i looked at my bio, and it was from 2 years ago, about. i am now a freshman in college, and the bio said i was a junior in high school.
it spoke of my aspirations as an actor, and those have now matured into the art of directing.
while i do not have my solo music project up and running anymore, i do find time to stay loyal to the local music scene, as well as listen and absorb as much musical culture as possible. i also play music with my friends a lot, in a sort of passing manner, but never anything serious. the closest i got was doing guest vocals at one of my friends bands gigs.
the only thing really taking off anywhere is my directing career. i have done 3 films of my own so far, and i have 2 more in the works, and 1 is planned for after that.
compared to some things you will find online, i...
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god's mysterious ways |
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Posted by:
janley
(Posted: 06/10/08 6:27pm)
Hello, all. Been awhile since I've been able to visit. Started a part-time job that turned into almost full-time but it's going well. Am patiently trying to be a Christian and witness to my boss. Am learning the submitting to authorities on every angle these days.
If you read my last blog, you know the trials & suffering I just went through in April/May with my husband of ten years on the 20th of June. Definitely in restoration and renewal...he is having breakfast weekly with our pastor. Praise God!
Anyways, onto tonight's concern. We do not have any children (other than fur babies) yet. I just found out on Saturday that I'm pregnant. We've told family and close friends so far. And I can already see how this is drawing us closer to each other and to the Father. Am very grateful for the support of friends who have been told already. So this afternoon I started spotting...and being my first pregnancy, I have no clue what to expect at all. Our biggest desire now is to have a healthy baby. We discussed it earlier and said if there's something medically/physically wrong and we lose the child, then it's okay....
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- Category: Family - 2 Comments (view first comment - view last comment by allforhim)
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professing |
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Posted by:
ichimj
(Posted: 05/30/08 11:50am)
I tried to tell one of my best friends today about my conversion. I hadn't a clue what to say. How exactly do you explain it to a person who doesn't really know anything about the Bible?
I sat with her, having lunch, and I had my F.R.O.G. bracelet on, hoping that she would see it and ask what it was. I could go from there, if it was asked about. But it wasn't, so I just spent 4 and a half hours with her and a couple of other friends. I was scared to bring it up myself, I really was. I'm a feardy cat. I just know that if the bracelet was spotted, I would have explained. Oh well, another time maybe?
I'll have her and our other friend in my prayers. Friend #1 (who I had lunch with) has sky-high blood pressure and has been told to cut down her alcohol intake (averaging 24 units per week) and lose weight (her BMI is almost 30). Friend #2 had an operation on her knee at Christmas, and on Wednesday night another friend of ours pulled her leg while she was sitting down and pulled the knee out, which...
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ughhhh...so frustrated |
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Posted by:
xodramaqueensk8r
(Posted: 05/19/08 5:48pm)
I am SO not happy. Seriously! The day AFTER my birthday! Okay the friend that i was talking about. She got mad at me for 'forcing my religiion on her.' even though i only told her that marriage was wrong. God intended marriage to be for a man and a woman. She said that I couldnt make a difference in the world and i want to cry so hard right now. The last tthing she said before she blocked me was 'f u'.I AM gonna make a difference. Maybe i should have mentioned that I feel God is calling me to be an actress. I want to change so many things in this messed up world. I want to shine God's light to people who normally wouldnt have heard His word. Is that so wrong? Oh but the thing is, I dont have the money for transportation to auditions. So yea....
Im frustrated and just realized that some of my friends have been my friends at their convenience except for a few.
My birthday was great for those of you who asked. I'm gonna learn how to straiten my hair! [Hopefully I wont burn all of it off lol]
God...
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- Category: General - 2 Comments (view first comment - view last comment by battleofbritian)
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my testimony |
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Posted by:
dadof44christ
(Posted: 05/19/08 11:46am)
I have a testimony that to a non-believer probably makes me sound rather stupid and maybe that is the case. I have struggled my whole life with my Christian walk and only in the last few years have come to realize what it really means to be a child of God. I was raised in a Christian home. I was saved when I was about 7, but there was no real change in my life. When I was 17, my mom determined she had never truly been saved, so I guess I thought I must not be either and I gave my life to the Lord. There were some changes in my life, for a little while, but now I think I just knew what "a christian" was supposed to do so I did it. Once I went off to college, well God was not exactly the most important thing in my life, I participated in the college experience and continued to live a life disappointing to God and my parents for several years afterward. During this time, about eight years, I always knew I was not behaving the way I should, but I didn't have the desire to change...
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my testimony |
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Posted by:
thesweetmamma
(Posted: 05/18/08 4:16pm)
I grew up in a Christian family and we attended a very pentacostal church. My mom would minister to poor people all over, help those in need (and we were very poor), counsel people. I grew up seeing the right things. Then my dad stopped going to church and stopped reading his bible. So I wanted to stop going to church. Long story short, I turned into a wild girl because my dad was very depressed and spent no time with us and my mom wanted to get away from my dad so she was never home. So at the age of 16 I was out partying with older people while my parents thought I was with friends. I started drinking, a lot. I have never smoked a cigarette or done a drug but I've drank enough to make up for it. I would be in the city hanging with drug dealers, going to New York getting tons of drugs with my drug dealer boyfriend. My parents didn't know and didn't care. I finally ran away from home and lived with my drug dealer boyfriend in a bad part of the city. About a month later, he went to the...
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i need help witnessing! |
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Posted by:
xodramaqueensk8r
(Posted: 05/08/08 6:06am)
Hey everyone! This is my first blog entry.
Okay, so as you can see by my title, I need some help witnessing to my friends. You should probably know some background information though. A few months ago, I was IMing a girl i met at my friends birthday party. I was telling her how much I enjoyed my youth group and how she should try to go to one. She took it the wrong way and sent the conversation to my friend who I was trying to witness to. She got so upset at me that I got an IM saying how mad she was at me and how just because I'm a Christian doesnt mean that I should think of myself as better than anyone. [which i NEVER did or will do] So she said that the friendship wasnt working out and that we were no longer friends. I felt like I had missed something and didnt even know what she was talking about. She blocked me from AIM before I got to explain my side of the story. Some of my friends from school who had her screename talked to her and got a chatroom going with them,...
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- Category: Christian Life - 3 Comments (view first comment - view last comment by pastormarkdaniel)
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discovering |
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Posted by:
crazychristian
(Posted: 05/02/08 1:20pm)
I know I am not perfect and know I have a high scale of selfishness, I am discovering that the only person I can't live without and that is God.
I am scared to get close to anyone because I have finely been hurt enough, and I know that most people don't mean to hurt me but it happens, I love them but I am just staying some distance away. I can hurt others as well, and cause them to not want to be close to me either and that's why I have choosing to be by Myself for a while. I am afraid of hurting others at the same time I am afraid of them hurting me too, (I don't really know if this is still selfish or not?) (Probably)
Some people say I am a good friend but, sometimes I just don't feel like I am. I have some major issues and I know me, I thank the compliments I receive but, I just don't even trust myself right now.
I want to be a better person and a better friend but, I feel like I am to selfish to be. And I have to get to a...
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- Category: General - 4 Comments (view first comment - view last comment by paprika89)
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a prayer for our nation on prayer day |
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Posted by:
papillionkiller 
(Posted: 05/01/08 1:08pm)
Forgive our Nation for its sins Almighty God.
Our all seeing Lord, root out our hidden sin so we might see it as a Nation and change our ways as a people; to serve you, the Maker and Breaker of all Nations.
Help us, God of our Ancestors, to see the way you intend for our Nation to grow and be, to ourselves, our friends and our enemies.
Make us a Nation that knows to Rejoice and Praise your Holy Name, that we might bring Glory to Your Name in all dealings with our friends and enemies.
Bless our peoples from the highest of our leaders to the lowliest of our workers, so we all may know you are God; that our salvation lies in no other than your son Jesus.
Then together as a people and Nation we might be a light to all other Nations.
Hold back your wrath, let your anger become peaceful to our people for your peoples sake. Help us bring all the Body together in our Nation to heal our woes and be its leader and guidance in this time of trouble and turmoil.
Give your people wisdom and understanding so we might set...
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thankful. |
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Posted by:
purealoha
(Posted: 05/01/08 10:22am)
i have yet another reason to praise God: my friends.
i've done many things in my life, especially recently, that i'm not too proud of
i momentarily forgot about God
i hurt some that i care about
i lost touch w/ people who are close to my heart
& i let down those who i love the most.
i've lied & i've been hypocritical.
i've asked people for their opinions, then went & did what everyone told me not to do.
but through everything
my friends have been there for me
& i thank God everytime i pray for keeping them close to me
i've turned my back on them in the past
but they never turned their back on me
there are no words to express my thankfulness that they're still here for me
the life i led was not a life of positivity & righteousness
& the choices i was making were hurting some of my friends
because they knew i was a good person
they knew that i was smarter than to live the life i was living
but recently i saw the light
& i realized that the decisions i was making were sending my on...
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jobology |
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Posted by:
bfirstag
(Posted: 05/01/08 4:13am)
I called this "Jobology" because as I was reading my devotions this morning I begin to hear the same thing that was going in with Job. Here is the passage... Psalm 102:1-5 (GW)
A prayer by someone who is suffering, when he is weary and pours out his troubles in the Lord's presence.
O Lord, hear my prayer,
and let my cry for help come to you.
[2] Do not hide your face from me when I am in trouble.
Turn your ear toward me.
Answer me quickly when I call.
[3] My days disappear like smoke.
My bones burn like hot coals.
[4] My heart is beaten down and withered like grass
because I have forgotten about eating.
[5] I am nothing but skin and bones
because of my loud groans.
And then when look at In Job 4-14. You meet Jobs friends telling that everything that is going on in his life is because he has sinned and need to repent. But after every time his friends he begins to ask God questions about why this is happening to him.
How does this apply to us as Christian because we are so perfect? Well, I just think we...
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prayer request |
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Posted by:
jogip
(Posted: 04/23/08 10:17am)
Hello all!
I would like today to ask for prayer for a situation that is going on in our lives at this time. Without going into too much personal detail, my brother became disabled over 2 years ago, He had worked in the medical field as an RN and a hyperbaric chamber operator for the last 15 years. About 12 years ago he was on his way to work during an ice storm, he came upon an accident and stopped to help. The ambulance was not able to make it to the site due to the ice. He was giving medical aid to the injured person in the car when another car slid sideways and trapped his legs and body in between the two cars. It was hours before he could get him self loose and get to the hospital. His legs were damaged very badly. I don't know what they call the actual thing he suffers from due to this accident, but he has constant pain, (at times unbearable) in his legs. The lay terms he put it in so I could understand was: our nerves in our bodies are like wires in a cord. On those wires there...
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what are you living for? |
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Posted by:
childofjesus
(Posted: 04/15/08 9:49pm)
what are you living for? boys? girls? friends? to be popular? what are you living for? who are you living for?
i see so many people who wrap themselves around boyfriends,girlfriends, and even just best friends then when they are gone they dont know what to do, it breaks my heart to see all these lost and broken people.
who are you living for?
everybody lives for something or someone?
i live for God
who are you living for?
you waste your time with boys, girls, friends, family,
you waste your time doing drugs, alcohol, having sex.
addicted to things you know you shouldnt be addicted too.
wanting to live for someone or something
but finding that everything you try fails you.
when your best friend walks out on you who will be there?
when your boyfriend/girlfriend dumps you whos going to be there?
when the drugs wear off,
when the sex doesnt satisfy anymore,
when the p**n addictions arent bringing you the peace you long for.
who are you living for?
im living for Jesus, he is everything to me, he is the only one who can truly satistfy, ive searched, for perfection, ive searched for love, and they...
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my testimony |
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Posted by:
songbird
(Posted: 04/13/08 7:06pm)
This Is How I Know!!
How do you KNOW God is real?? That He's really there??
I'm sure everyone has come upon this question over and over in their Christian walks.
And have had to defend their beliefs at some point in time!!
Or felt a need to try to explain it, and have ended up fumbling around for words to convince the doubting Thomas!
I know this has happened to me!!
Just when I needed the right words to fall off my tongue,
I fumbled, I knew instantly what was playing out in my heart and mind,
memories of every instance that God showed Himself to me in my life.
But I couldn't bring myself to open up THAT much of my personal life to that person.
I didn't want to lay bear my heart for this doubting Thomas to rip apart with his worldly text book taught diagnoses of my belief in God!!
I couldn't bring myself to expose the pain and humiliation, the joys and laughter,
that had been mine alone as witness to His being.
So I let the moment pass by with a feeble, or what ran through my mind later as feeble, proclamation that...
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cold love |
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Posted by:
psalm73
(Posted: 04/11/08 4:07pm)
Lately, I've been thinking more and more about Matthew 24:12 "...and the love of many will grow cold." This scripture comes to mind so often. It seems that people that I've known for years are gradually becoming less caring. People I am not close too, yet have known for a while, seem more critical of others. There is a lack of helpfulness and service lately. Whether I can identify it in a close friend or a department store employee, it seems to be everywhere.
I won't exclude myself from this perspective either. At times I react to others in a way that is uncaring and selfcentered. I find myself being critical of people, complaining about them at the drop of a hat.
I don't know exactly what Jesus meant when he said that love will grow cold. I wonder if the lack of concern, helpfulness, etc. can be considered as love growing cold. I especially question the cold love theory with family and friends that seem to be emotionally distant recently.
Of course, it's not 100%. I have wonderful friends and family who care and love openly and selflessly. I pray to the Lord that my love will not grow...
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god is always true |
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Posted by:
mistletoe
(Posted: 04/07/08 10:06pm)
Romans 3:4 says that God will always be true even if no human being can be relied on. I have a lot of friends who are going threw some trying times. I myself have been threw some bad times. People betray us, let us down hurt us. In Jer 9:3-4 it says "Let each be on his guard against his friend do not trust a brother for every brother aims to surplant and every friend is a peddler of slander. Each one cheats his friend never telling the truth." This kind of threw me for a loop. Yet I look around at people. Then I look at myself. I think of my friend whose husband has left her. I have another whose sister betrayed her. Still another whose neighbor stole from her. I have one friend whose husband abandoned and disowned her child tried to say it was not his. I myself have been disowned by my parents and kicked out threw out my life.
The thing is humans are flawed. They will always fail us eventually. I think that is what that means in Jer. 9:3-4 People will always eventually mess up. Even we will. I will. You will....
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more on my testimony |
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Posted by:
rosiehunny
(Posted: 04/02/08 2:16pm)
I believe I was a bit too young to fully understand that in order to call myself a Christian, I have to follow the teachings of Christ. This involves learning about him through prayer, reading and studying the Bible and discussing this with other people (and other things as well). I was only seven when I chose to become a Christian, and I really feel like I've been under attack ever since then.
Promptly following my voluntary baptism at the ripe old age of 8, the wonderful church I was really growing in was infiltrated by evil and collapsed before my very young eyes. Divorces ensued, rage and anger attended every church meeting, and Mom was always crying. My parents' relationship became very strained and yelling became a constant force in the house. The pastor of our church (either voluntarily or not...I'm not sure on this, most adults from this time do not want to talk about this) left the church and we more or less disbanded. Some families left sooner, others later. We tried to hang on but no one could fill the hole in our hearts left by this very powerful man of God. That, and the evil...
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my testimony |
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Posted by:
cbheath65
(Posted: 03/28/08 10:09pm)
I was "saved" when I was 8 years old, but I never really "got it." Sadly I got in with the wrong crowd. At age 13 I began smoking and drinking. I continued this habit until I turned 15. We were having a lot of problems at the church I had attended my whole life and I blamed God for leaving me to go through those problems alone. I refused to pray or really have anything to do with God and the time. Through high school I pretty much was an ungrateful teenager who didn't care about anyone but myself. I became distant from my family and developed depression.
My now husband and I dated all through high school. We got engaged in Nov of 2000 and in Mar of 2001, I got pregnant with my first daughter. I felt so guilty. I had disappointed my parents and myself. I ended up having to give up on what I wanted to do with the rest of my life and focus on what was best for my kid. I got married and had my baby which led to a DEEP post-partum depression and being put on medication. I went to college...
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do you dare to trust god with all of you? |
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Posted by:
kreynolds
(Posted: 03/25/08 1:41pm)
A blog written by B2Y regarding attacks by the enemy caused me to remember back to when I was in 7th grade and a group of girls brutally attacked me on the way home from school. My four "friends" continued walking as if nothing was happening. I still remember hearing their voices continuing in conversation and seeing their feet pass by me as I was being held down and beaten. You can imagine how this was used to cause me to distrust friendships although God did keep a few wedges in the door I tried to slam shut.
I also remember how I became more and more disatisfied with my state over the years. This culminated about a year and a half ago. I cried out to God because it was not only hindering my impacting my world for God; it was also destroying me. It's been a wild ride but today I can say that God has truly broken the chains which were used by my "nemesis" to bind me. Almost daily attempts are made to slip those chains back on me but God has revealed this to me.
However, deliverance has come with a price. In order to...
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can i be sure? |
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Posted by:
praisethelamb
(Posted: 03/20/08 5:42pm)
Wow. I'm not sure quite where to begin. I'm amazed at how many "hoops" I had to jump through in order to get an account with ChristianBlog. But I guess that's for the best. And I'm not sure this is what I'm looking for, either. I titled this entry, " Can I Be Sure?" because I thought it would be "catchy." Not only that, I really am wondering if I can be sure. I'm not wondering about my salvation - I know for sure I'm going to be in heaven one day, thanks to the grace of God and the precious blood of Christ. But my self confidence is at an all time low these days. Now, I'll tell you that I was born with low self esteem. But because of my past, I've spent a lot of time feeling as though I'm not worth diddley squat. Now I feel as though my entire family is against me. I don't even feel as though I have any friends. I'm thinking, gee - did I ever even have friends? For all I know, those people who called themselves friends only wanted something from me. How can I be sure of people?...
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the walls of my heart |
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Posted by:
h0lalaric0h
(Posted: 03/19/08 12:36pm)
Why is it so hard for me to open up to people? I constantly feel like I have to guard myself, protect my heart, and hide who I really am. I have a lot of friends, but I feel like I can't talk to any of them, because they wouldn't understand, or they're too busy to sit down and have a long conversation with me, or they don't want to be bothered with the details of my life. The thing is, somewhere deep inside me I know that they wouldn't just walk away. But that nagging fear won't leave. Every time I pick up the phone to call one of my good friends just to talk about what's going on in my life, and to ask what's going on the theirs, I stop because of that fear. I wish I could open myself up. I wish I wasn't scared of being hurt or rejected or judged. I know that God made me, and He made me beautiful, and that I have something wonderful to offer. It's easy to tell myself that, but much much harder to believe it. I still go through my day thinking that I'm a burden to...
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the commitment of a disciple of jesus christ |
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Posted by:
shawmane
(Posted: 03/17/08 6:02am)
I am VERY new at this, and English is not my home language, but HERE I GO.
This morning I read the following: "There is no question of your turning back, Much-Afraid. No one, not even your own shrinking heart, can pluck you out of my hand."
I have these words engraved in my heart. They mean a lot to me - the fact that NOTHING can pluck me out of His hand.
Sometimes I still have a struggle accepting the fact that He loves me more than anything, because I am still learning His awesome love for me. But, little baby steps at a time, I'm beginning to see who He is. I'm beginning to know Him for who He is, and not who I think He is.
I am committed, so turning-back is NEVER an option. Sometimes the road is hard - VERY HARD, but each time He helps me through EVERYTHING - no questions asked.
When I came to know Him almost 6 years ago, I had nothing and no-one. Everybody that had meant anything to me were gone. My husband left me, had taken my two daughters, he gave my home to his new wife, he...
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my testimony |
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Posted by:
hischosen1
(Posted: 03/15/08 6:23pm)
Woah! My Testimony. Well, it's nothing really anything deep. I didn't do drugs or anything like that. I was born and raised as a Pastor's kid. I felt I always has to please certain people because of who my dad was. Well, he wasn't a senior pastor, but an assistant pastor. Now, he is a senior pastor. I gave my "mind" to the Lord when I was 9 years old, but not my heart. I served Jesus with my mind and not my heart. Who He was and what He did for me didn't pierce my heart. Yeah, I knew all about Him, but I didn't know Him. And well, it got me into trouble. I went to church every Sunday because I "had" to, not because I wanted to. I played church. Then it got to point where I wanted to "fit" in. I tried everything to be who I was, not who my dad was. When I turned 13 is when everything changed. I wanted to be lovely or loved. Even though I knew my parents loved me, I wanted something deeper, deeper than the ocean...if there was such a love. I then turned 14. It was 2004....
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my testimony |
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Posted by:
pounders
(Posted: 03/10/08 7:08pm)
Since the testimony thing won't fit this in, think I'll share some of my stuff with you guys.
In my freshman year in Highschool, things were going great, had great friends, awesome girlfriend, life was great. I didn't know God and could have cared less. A month later, life went down fast. Girlfriend was gone, dating my best friend. My friend turned my entire football team against me. The team would clip my knees out from under me, and during a drill, I tore a muscle in my hip. Coaches didn't care and they made me keep playing on it. So I was physically incapacitated, beaten down by " friends" and was pretty depressed because of how bad life had turned. At this point I actually thought about suicide, didn't attempt it,, but wasn't too worried about anyone missing me if I was gone. Still, I didn't pray often, went through the motins but was still down and out. My pastor, wanting me to go therough confirmation, made me go through it( i did it willingly, just didn't know why). Went through all that, life improved, started to stablize mentally, hip healed up as much as it could. Last June...
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