Hungry??

At my college group bible study, our teacher gave us these pictures of what the bible is for us and it made me sooo starvinggggggg to read the bible!!! So, I just need to share them with you in case you weren't hungry today... we need to eat guys. haha

1. SWORD -- Heb 4:12 "For the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even into the dividing apart of the soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
Okay can I say WOW!! wow, wow, wow! Okay guys, Gods word is truth right!!!??? YES! So this scripture that is so loaded with beautiful pictures of how Gods word can work on us is TRUTH and all we need to do is READ it. Our teacher was talking about how we can picture this kinda like a surgery, and how God is using that sword to do a surgery on our hearts. Each and every cut is to SAVE our lives and make us whole and new again. so so so awesome.

2. WATER-- Eph 5:26 "He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word."
God's word is WATER to our souls! Can you imagine if you didn't drink water for like three weeks?? (I know I have gone even longer than that without reading my bible..) You would be BEYOND thirsty! haha Then you get a huge gulp of water and then you're thinking "why on earth didn't I drink water before!?" You can literally feel it FILL up you're insides and nourish you're body! SAME THING GOES for you're soul. When we don't read the word our soul starts to dry out and become weak like that little shriveled up thing on the little mermaid!! BUT WORSE because at least that thing could see.. and probably think.. our souls just become MUSH without the word. DRINK IT UP guys. drink it up. GIVE you're soul revival through the word. Give you're walk with the Lord LIFE and strength!

3. FIRE-- Jer 23:29 " Is not my word like a fire? says Jehovah;.."
This find of fire is one that is going to burn us from the INSIDE, OUT. It is going to purify us. yeah it might hurt.. we will totally see a LOT of ugly coming out of us.. but it is going to stay out because this fire will not let that stuff in. It might hurt.. but it is going to be so worth it. We will be closer to God through this new holiness that the TRUTH will bring to us! GOD IS SO GOOD!

4. HAMMER-- Jer 23:29 "...and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?"
A hammer... how cool! think of this as another remodel. say you are redoing the bathroom.. and you need he bathtub out.. you take a huge sledge hammer and BASH the bathtub in pieces so that you can put a new and more beautiful one there!! God is going to do this through His word. He is going to take the rock that we call out heart and He is going to BREAK it in pieces! and then give us a new heart.. the old has gone and the new has come.. but HOW will we know this if we don't read our bibles?? how would we begin to even capture the awesomeness of it all???

It's not just a book guys...
take the time to read it.. and to get to know YOUR SAVIOR and CREATOR and KING.

The Prodigal-- by Sovereign grace music

You held out Your arms, I walked away
Insolent, I spurned Your face
Squandering the gifts You gave to me
Holding close forbidden things
Destitute, a rebel still, a fool in all my pride
The world I once enjoyed is death to me
No joy, no hope, no life

Where now are the friends that I had bought
Gone with every penny lost
What hope could there be for such as I
Sold out to a world of lies
Oh to see Your face again, it seems so distant now
Could it be that You would take me back
A servant in Your house

You held out Your arms, I see them still
You never left, You never will
Running to embrace me, now I know
Your cords of love will always hold
Mercy’s robe, a ring of grace
Such favor undeserved
You sing over me and celebrate
The rebel now Your child

"No pit is so deep that God's love is not deeper still."
— Corrie ten Boom

All things are possible.

Mark 3:1-5
1 He entered again into a synagogue; and a man was there whose hand was withered. 2 They were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. 3 He said to the man with the withered hand, “Get up and come forward!” 4 And He said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to kill?” But they kept silent. 5 After looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

At my church bible study tonight, our leader started talking about this passage.. and he was saying how when God asks us to do something.. He is going to give us the strength and ability to do it when we obey Him. This man with the withered hand might have been thinking "what? are you crazy? my hand has been this way my whole life and you tell me to just stretch it out like no one's business???? don't you think I have been TRYINGGG to stretch it out???" but no, that man didn't say that. He simply just obeyed Jesus and trusted that Jesus would see him through even though this task must have seemed impossible. and Jesus DID see Him through. That man's hand was restored!

This makes me think of another thing too... Jesus totally used that man's withered hand to bring Himself amazing glory! That man might have been wondering whyyyy he had a withered hand and none of his friends were going through anything like that.. he might have been sad about it.. it might have caused him pain.. it might have caused him sorrow.. or he might have trusted that our God is an awesome God and have him that tribulation for a purpose! I have no idea what that man was going through!! BUT I do know that THIS STORY is the reason for his poor withered hand.. God worked everything together so perfectly... I'm kind of just rambling and not making sense but this is the first time I have thought this part of it through.. it's so awesome though!

I want to just write forever right now about how awesome God is.. and so many things that He has put on my heart right now to say.. but for now I will just leave you with this. If you feel like God has called you to do something that you feel like you can't do, just remember that He will ALWAYS give you the strength you need to do it. Keep reading your bible and keep obeying Him!

20 seconds..

I'm falling apart.. I'm not alright! chaos has taken me over.. this pain is too much.. its just too much..

I tilt back my head to the sky.. and close my eyes.. 1...2..3..4..5. and everything fades out.. all I can feel is my heart beat.. making my body sway..

its this beat that brings me pain.. and before a second it starts over again..6..7.. I breathe in.. and let it all out.. I shake..

"do not cry.. do not start crying.." is all I can think to tell myself..8..9.. I want to scream.. but I don't make a sound.. I lift up my hands..

because its all I can do.. its all I can give.. I know its all I need.. 10..11..12..
I know I'm not going to gather strength from anywhere else.. this is enough..

I start to calm down.. a chill runs through my being.. 13..14.. a tear escapes.. but only one.. because He tells me to be strong.. I wipe it away..

I am now overwhelmed by the love that I feel.. and the assurance that everything is going to be okay.. 15..16..17.. I can make it through this.. because He has a purpose.. He never wastes a heart ache..

I smile.. let out a quiet laugh.. I feel insane because this peace doesn't make sense..18..19.. its because of His goodness that I am living through this pain.. I lower my head and hands.. then open my eyes.. I will be alright..

..20.. .. .... because of His love.. I will be alright.

absolutely beautiful!

"So turn around you're not too far to back away, be who you are, to change your path, go another way, its not too late you can be saved.
If you feel depressed with past regrets, the shameful nights, hope to forgets, they can disappear, they can all be washed away.
by the one who's strong, can right your wrongs, can rid your fears, dry all your tears, and change the way you look at this big world!
He will take your dark distorted view and with His light He will show you truth and again You'll see through the eyes of a little girl that there could never be a more beautiful you."

I don't deserve this kindness!!!

He has brought me to His banqueting table... and His Banner.. over me.. is LOVE. pure love.. what a beautiful God.. THIS IS AMAZING LOVE.. this is amazing GRACE. its nothing of myself.. its ALL His love.

I can feel it God!!! I'm spoiled in your love! I don't feel the same!! I will never feel the same again!!! because Your love CHANGES ME! It changes me from the INSIDE OUT! I cant get enough Lord Jesus! let me never FORGET your goodness!!! Let me never forget YOUR faithfulness. shine Your light! keep shining your light!!! I'm so in love with You! You are ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!