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Name: Sherleen
Location: New York, United States
Birthday: 11/28/1987
Gender: Female
Interests: Procrastination
Expertise: I guess I am well-rounded..but I'm not really good at any one thing..xD
Occupation: Customer service/support
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| "When I think of the wisdom and scope of God's plan, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from His glorious, unlimited resources He will give you mighty inner strength through His Holy Spirit" (Ephesians 3:14-16 NLT). | | |
| There is no greater remedy for the kind of heart-loneliness that comes from a lack of self-worth than the cross of Christ. One will find comfort in the fact that Jesus died specifically for him or her. "Oh, Jesus died for all the sins of the world," you might say. But Jesus' work on earth and His death on the cross is only collective because He cares for everyone individually, He knows every individual's name, He knows what sins hold each of us captive. Jesus' death is only for "everyone" because it is for every individual who ever lived, lives now and who shall ever come to live. So don't lose yourself in the crowd. Do not cast yourself away as unloved when you have a personal Savior who designed the meaning of love. Every lash of the scourge, every hammering of the nail, every painful drip of blood he endured for you. To save you, His precious child, from what ails you and will bring you to your death, he endured with hope. To give you the chance to know Him, to bring you home to His Father, your Father, he endured with patience. To adorn you with precious jewels and to have you as His beloved bride he endured with a twinkle in his eye. He bore separation from God, He died to Himself, giving up everything that He so rightly deserves, that you could taste the riches of His kingdom. In the eyes of heaven, you are perfect, you are beautiful, you are what He intended you to be, all because of Jesus. All because Jesus knew that you were worth it. | | |
| Untitled God, what is it in me that keeps me far from you like this? I feel you burning in my insides, beckoning me to come to You, and I turn my ears so many times I seem to be spinning around. And I'm getting dizzy. My thoughts and beliefs are being distorted as I twirl faster and faster and the colors and sounds all blur into one big kind of confusion. I'm going to fall soon, God and I know that You're going to catch me. You'll hold my hair back as I seem unable to hold back the vomit or the tears. I'm running empty and I can barely feel my flesh and bones. My flesh is weak within me, O God. I pass out in Your able arms and nail-pierced hands and You nurse me back to health. This is grace. This is the meaning of mercy. No greater love hath any man than this-- that he should lay down his life for his friends. You made me Your friend. You just went and made Gomer Your friend. Wow God, You astound me to shame. Can I stay a bit longer this time? Can you teach me not to slip, trip, spin or stumble? Would you lead me in Your everlasting ways? Teach me, O God, please teach me Your ways, O God , that I might not stumble. I can't do this alone. Wow, does this poem describe the condition of my heart. It started out as just a journal entry, but God made it so much more. He used the words that flowed from His mind into mine and through my hands to ultimately convict and embrace me. Many are His thoughts for us, guys. I still can't understand why, and I really know that I don't deserve it. Let's just all learn to lean on God-- whether its for life or any of our circumstances, but especially for the grace to truly understand His Great Love for us, and with that understanding, live as He wants us to. | | |
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The Battle is the Lord’s
By Martha Noebel
CBN Staff Writer
CBN.com - God is moving by His Spirit in the lives of His people all over the world. Reports are coming in every day of His faithfulness to complete that which He has started.
As I thought about how our battles are not ours but the Lord’s, God showed me that the battles many of us are facing today are because we are taking the enemy’s territory. The Lord is enlarging our borders and moving our tent pegs. In the spirit realm, He is taking what once belonged to the devil and making it ours.
As Christians, we are trusting in the Lord for our families to come back to God, our finances to be increased, our health restored -- all this and so much more.
I looked at the situations in my life and saw how God was stretching my husband and me to believe for more, and to do more for the glory of God. Now, stretching hurts and is uncomfortable. We can’t see ahead everything that the Lord has in store for us or how He is going to work it all out. But we do know that if He is in the changes, it will be good.
When we are not able to see ahead, God is there. When the plans call for finances we do not have, He will provide. We will have all the wisdom and provision we need for every step of the way. God will give us the “power for our purpose.”
We do not need to fear and be filled with doubt and unbelief. What God has for us is for us.
You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance.
Psalm 32:7
Yes, with songs of deliverance, victory, prosperity, favor, and blessing, God will meet our needs. Be encouraged and rejoice. Look for God in your situations because He has His eye on you. He is there to carry you through the battles and storms of life. He is there.
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| Oftentimes in movies and on T.V. dramas we see people hyper-ventilating, screaming and talking really fast and irrationally, only to be stopped by a tight slap, a firm shaking and words of commanding comfort-- "Stop. Everything is going to be okay." Recently, I have been hyper-ventilating and thinking irrationally, in a way, with my life. Pondering upon my future, searching frantically for a feeling inside my heart that boldly proclaimed,"Yes, this is what you should do for the rest of your life." My problem is that I've come to think that doing what "feels right" is what God wants me to do. Seeing that my interests are varied, I could not put my finger on what exactly I wanted to major in. As time went on, and my majors changed frequently, I became panicked, thinking that indecisiveness and dissatisfaction was a sure sign of sin in my life. My prayers for direction were also not answered by sky-splitting, thunder-and-lightning accompanied epiphanies and as the water in the sea of life's many decisions began to rise over my head, I could feel myself suffocate. But this wasn't a persistent state of mind. Life went on as usual.
Somewhere in the middle of this, I went to Mexico with a team of eighteen others from my church. My spiritual condition was forced at best. I saw myself stuggling to deepen my relationship with God, trying to blabber out the circumstances of my condition, trying to shed a tear indicative of a contrite heart, but...I couldn't. I had nothing to say...no tears to shed...just silence. Laying underneath an enormous blue and white sky I struggled with my mental Mexico-time-meter thinking: "I've only got six days here..so I better be changed soon!" My prayers however, went something like this...
"Lord, I have...(wow that's a big cloud)...and God Your so good...(this is so comfortable)...Lord please let me not get chiggers..."
Throughout the week, our message was just to listen. I never realized how hard it actually was to just listen...laying underneath the enormous sky I saw that I didn't have to say anything at all for God to show me how big He is, how great He is, how gracious He is. I was in Mexico, and God was working in my life and sitting in silence, enjoying the breeze as He planted a seed in my heart. I took comfort in the fact that God is the same in all places and I see that the mysteries of shutting up and listening in Mexico are being unfolded now, as I continue to listen to God. The beauty of listening, in my experience, is the reality of then hearing God speak. I, a sinful human being, no longer have to make petition for my sins and at least for now, don't have to constantly name all the things I need from Him. For now, He is providing-- He has knowledge of all I need. My sin, is a thing of the past, the guilt something He is wiping away. For now, He is drawing near and only wants to speak face to face, have a friendly chat, and have me listen. The silence that I heard as I frantically searched for the reason all I heard was silence was not a result of sin, but of simply not calming my heart, trusting God to take care of my circumstancees and simply listening.
Today, days after the Mexico missions trip, I listened to God in the midst of my confused thoughts about life and felt Him shaking my shoulders and taking me into a firm embrace to calm my racing heart and to distance my fears. He whispered in my ear:
"But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the descendants of Abraham My friend. You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest regions, and said to you, "Your are my servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away: Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand." Psalm 41: 8-10
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