Thoughts on 1 Timothy 4:12-15

Recently I happened to be rereading the following versus from 1 Timothy 4:12-12 as i had read them awhile ago in a devotional about we are to make sure that we are using godly speech that is to engourage and buil one and other up, as others may be looking at us for an example. what i found intresting upon reading it is when you read a few more veruses down it is talking about also to not just let other not be looking down on you because you might be young or inexperienced at doing something just beacuse you might not be all that old but to not forget to keep on teaching and using your your gifts which you recieved. i thougth that this was rather intersting since it is talking about using not only the role you might be in but also make sure that you don't forget about the gifts of the spirit that you recieved. just thought i would share with you all since we had talked about the the one versus on thur nite.
Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young,but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. Until I come,devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture to preaching, and to teaching. Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through a prophetic message when the body or elders laid their hands on you. Be dilgent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress.
The other thing i found intresting upon reading these versus is that there was alos a note about versus 12 which was the one that had been mentioned thur nite. it says that the because you are young part was probally referring to Timothy who they are saying was probally in his mid 30's or younger and in that day such an influential postion was not held by so young. for this reason , perhapse it was say that his leadership had been called into question. I found this to be a rather intresting in that it really should have matter if that was what God had wanted him to do. i don't think i ever really paid attention to that explantation of that verus from this set of versus before. thougth if you think about it does make shed a bit of light on to these versuses. Just thought i share my findings upon finding these versus as i was more a less looking up the exact reference of the whole versus that was shared thurs nite and happend to read the few versus after versus 12 to get more of an idea of what was being talked about in these versus.

Scripture Memory

Hi!
I know that I have not been on here to post in while. one year ended and we are begining a new year. actually the first month of 2011 is almost over in about a another week or so. I occassionally read Beth Moore's blog and she had decided to start her scripture memory contest up again on her blog at the beginning of this month. i had happened upon when checked to see if she any new updates and if anything new would be going on. upon reading particular blog post i decided that as part of my new year that would try to memorize scriptures more often so that i would have then when i need them to fall back on in my thought closet, as i have also been doing a Jennifer Roth Child bible study with a few friends we had begun to work on it in about sept and we are just now at some point or will be at some point getting around to finishing up The Me Myself and Lies bible study about have a thougth closet makeover. it has been a good as well as really needed study and i have am gainign alot out of it. this was the other part of me reason for wanting to try and memorize more scripture to be able to fall and replace the lie and such that come up against that the devil try to get me to believe. so anyway i had found the seista scripture memory contest that beth moore has going on her blog. i decided that i would give it a try,the ideas is that you take scripture versus a month ,one on the first of the month and then again on the 15th of the month and work on committing them to memory. you can take 3x5 index cards to write your versus down on and carry them around to help you memorize them . this goes all year so that when the year is done you will have done 24 scipture versus that you have memorized. the first two verus are done , there was one on jan 1st the the second on jan 15th. so i have done two so far and planning on keeping going and seeing if i can finish out to the end. feel to follow along on this blog if you wish. so to end i am posting my 1st two versus.
versus one was; May the words of my mouth and meditation of heart be acceptable( pleasing in your sight, O Lord my Rock and Redeemer. Psalm 19:14. this versus was actually one that i have been working one as well with me my self and lies bible study it was given to me in that study and suggested that we memorize while doing that study. my second versus is : For the Lord God is a sun and a sheild; he bestow favor and honor; no good thing does he with hold from those who walk is blameless. Psalm 84:12 hope that will inspire you some to maybe decide to either follow along or to work on you own scripture memory youself, and any one intrested in more then welcome to join me as well in this little adventure.

stepping out in faith

Stepping out in Faith

Why is that at times the more I try to follow you and let you guide and lead my way the more I am unsure where I might be going? The more I try to step out in faith and trust you with the decisions I need to make the more I know that you have the answers that I am trying to find and that you know where you want me be next. I just feel like the more I am unsure where I am going the more questions I seem to have but still am not sure that I am that much closer to the answers I seek, or if I seem to come closer to what appears to be the answer and where you might want me to be, it turns out it not be where you want me to be and yet I know that you are working in my life and that I will in your time find where you want me to go next. It just seems as if I can’t quite tell where the next step on the path that I am trying to follow is as of yet. I desperately need you to help me through this time of uncertainty and transition or whatever it is that I am going thru is. Please help me and reassure me that all things work for my good like you say that they will. I know that your plans for me are for good and not to harm to me and that you are working in my life. Help me to know that you are there and that you have me in your hands, or that I will make it through and be stronger for it than before. I know that you can and will bring good out of this situation. Please give me dreams or and a sense of what you want for me to do next, where you want me to be. Show me what my talents are and how I might use them. Give me a sign that I am going in the right direction even if it means I have to step out in faith in an even bigger way. Help me to believe in myself and know that I can do all things through you. Show me that my desires are the same as what you want for me. It seems like it been too quite for too long and that I feel as if I may have missed something that you were trying to tell me. Could it be that you want me keep trying to rest in you and wait on you then I‘ll find the answers I need along with trusting and believing in you. Help me to rest in you and wait on you so that all the rest will fall into place in your time.

prayer to Faith based on A Beth Moore Study

As I was sitting around earlier this evening I had come across the Believing God workbook from the bible study that I had taken part in a while back and happened to flip to the back and came across the Commissioning of Faith that Beth Moore had written for that study. while I was reading throught it again I started to think that not only was it a great reminder but i decided that i would use it and turn into a pray of sort to write about it. It is/ was a great tool that I felt a need to read though again. so here is what I am thinking. there were several thing in it that i needed to be reminded of again. SO I am thinking that pray thru it in the form of this blog and point out the parts that stuck out to me again. God today I am accepting my calling from you not be a perfectionist or performance but to that of Faith. You have choosen me for this Generation, I have a place in the Heriitage of Faith. I will stop wishing and whining and not only start believeing but keep on believing and reciveing. What it is that you have told and your Word tells me is mine. I am not going to let others steal my hope. I am not to argue with a Pharisee. I am going to believe and therfore speak, You are my God and you are huge. There is not anything that is too hard for you. The world around me needs your wounders. May you Rise up Oh Lord! Please Renew your Works in this Day. I am confessing the unbelief that I mayself at time may posess and that is a part the generation today. I ask you to being Your Revival of faith in my own heart. For You are Who you Say You Are. You Can do what You say You can do. I am Who You say I AM. I can do all Things through Christ. Your Word is Alive and Active and in Me. Satan here what I am saying very Clearly : My Father is the Maker of heaven and earth. I am placing you under my feet and that is where you belong. Because for Today as well the rest of My Days, I'm Believing God ! there are few things that I am learning and that I was reminded of through the above little writing. 1st that I am called to have faith, and to stop wishing and whining but start believing and recieving all that God and His word says is Mine. I won't let other tell me differently and seal the hope that I have in Christ. I am going to Believe and speak. 2nd the God is huge and that nothings is too hard for him. 3rd but not lastly that He is who he says he is, he can do what he say he can do, I am who he says I am which is something that I am have been working on and not letting or believeing what other say about me become louder than what God say about me, or to believe it. That I can do all things through Christ, that His word is alive and active in Me, and that Satan is under my feet. Since I choose to believe God for all my days starting today. my prayer is that those who end up reading this come away with something to think about or a change they'd like to make. hope this impacts your life in someway. God Bless

Who You Are: From God to One of His Childern

You are my daughter whom I love unconditionaly.
You are a Kings Kids and one of my own.
You are saved by grace and therefor a princess.
You are a unique and special gem that I am in the process of refining and making to shine brighter by polishing.
You are beautiful and lovely in my eyes.
You are a warrior princess who had the courage to keep going when times
get tough.
You are pure and spotless I have made you that way, and see you that way.
Learn to see yourself and I see you and see youself as who I say you are and believe that
is who you are.
You are my Favorite One and remember that you are that as well as so much more once you
came to me and I forgave you and you entered into a right realationship with me thur my son.
You have free access to my throne room since you are mine and you are able to lie you burdens at my feet. though you may not think that you deserve all you have become once you
were adopted by me. Yet you are all those things I have said that you are.
Keep looking to me and remember who you are and stand firm in who you are in me.

Love

As I was sitting here thinking about what to write about .i thougth that i would write about how we are called to love first off God but then from there we are called to show that love to other thur being of service to them and just plain loving them. there are time that i stop and think and wounder how well am going about this mission not only to love god. there are various ways that we can love him. we show him our love by obeying what he tells us to as well as thru our worship to him. we can also love him by making sure we at peace with other people and doing the things that we know would please Christ. Love is what makes us valuable and gives us value. according to John 13:34,35 Jesus told us the we are love one another as he has loved us so in turn we are take that love and show it to others. According to 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 Love is the key to all other things. also by that it how the world knows that we belong to Christ. According to Philppians 2:3,4 when we love we are placing other above us as more valueable. We are not to just think of ourselves but we are asked to consider other as more important. We are called by Chirst to be Other centered. one of Chirsts greatest commandents is from Mark 12:30,31 which tells us that there is No Greater Love than to Love God, your neighbors, and ourselves. also we are asked accrording to Matthew5:43-47 to love our enemies. Love is something that takes faith even in our toughest times. also though Love is where forgiveness flows from. We need to have a firm idea of who we are in Christ then we will be able to love other thru christ's help. It by Christ that we are empowed to Love other even when we feel like we may not know to are not even sure how to go about doing so. love involves a sacarfice on our part. we can only get sacrfical love from Christ. as we love it becomes the force and avenue for the value of anything else that we are doing.
I will admit that i am still trying to ask for God's help to be able to not only show him that I love him though what i do for him and to be able to grow in love for him and them to his love to other through how i realate to them. i still have time when i wounder how well i am reflecting God's love to those that are around me. Sometime our actions and we are trying to sacrafice so that we are able to love speak louder than i our would as to the love we are showing to other. Love is one of the Fruits of the Spirit that I am working and have been trying thinking about how well am i doing at this command that has been given to us by god and if i am being effective at what i am doing. it seem like it would be easy to say however it might not be as easy as you think to reflect God's love to other all the time.Keep in mind that Love is said to be patient, kind, does not envey,ect. Think about the passage from 1 Corinthinas 13:4-8. these are the qualites of love when we are able to show and have these qualties we are in fact showing others that we love them and that we love God. It is through giving our lives to Christ that we are empowed to love and that we experince his love for us and be able to soak in his love for us as it falls on us.

Learning to be Joyful and Rejoice no matter what

It is amazing how you can be reminded of something when you are going thur a hard time time or a trial or the likes. a friend of mine had posted the scipture philippians 4:4 as part of her status the other day on her facebook page. I happened to see it and automatically thought wow what a great reminder ,and i knew that the reference looked familiar so i felt that little tug from God saying that i should look up the scripture when I had the chance. well I did and when Iread it I realized that it was God's way of saying that this is what I needed to do even given the fact the fact that I am going thur a hard time right now and am having a hard time with the situation that I am going thorough. We are told by God to be Joyful and Rejoice. This is not something that come easily especially when thing are hard ,or when you are going though a hard time. It is amazing how you can see something or hear some thing but have a hard time doing it. This is the case for me at time. I at times find it hard to always be joyful and rejoice no matter what else is going on in my life. Philippians 4:4 - Rejoice in the Lord always and I will say it again Rejoice! It's funny that I had come across the versus when I did the way that I did. It has not only been a great reminder and encouragement to me since reading and seeing that my friend posted it but it as also turned out be a small reminder and lesson from God among the other things that i have been learning , along with those other things given the circumstance that i have been going through and the reminder that God has been given me during this time and in the situation that I currently find myself in. some thing are easier to learn than other but this for me is not one of them that I find myself having a easy time being able to do even though I know that i should be joyful and rejoice. I guess if I had to sum up one the things that God has been teaching me lately it would this this to be joyful and rejoice no matter what else is going on in my life or no matter what else I happen to be going through at the time. I am working on this even when don't particularly fell like rejoicing. the more you do some thing i am learning the easier it become to do the same thing goes for if you know something that you should believe but are having a hard time believing it will become easier the more you decide to pratice believing it. that thought it thoughts for another time.