Today was a good day. I woke up early today because I was feeling productive and I needed to do some stuff since I have been procrastinating for a while. I spent most of my morning/afternoon working on a website that I needed to be worked on because its been something I have been kind of avoiding for a while. After working on it for 3 hours, Mark came over and we decided to make roast beef sandwiches with cheddar cheese and put them in the oven for dinner. We went to Meijer first to get the stuff to make it. They were really good and much better than you could ever get at Arby's. Store bought potato salad went along with it which is always good.
After eating, Mark and I went to the Chocolate Bar Cafe and I worked more on the website while on facebook. I got my usual cherry soda and talked to Mark about random computer stuff. We only stayed for an hour since the Chocolate Bar Cafe closes an hour earlier than in the summer time.
After going to Chocolate Bar Cafe, Mark and I went to Starbucks and a couple of my friends were up there and I got to spend around an hour with them. I found out that one of my friends is really good at writing so she brought me some of the poems that she wrote and they were really good.
I really enjoy reading peoples poems or looking at someones drawings from someone who can draw well or listen to someone who can sing or play music well because I find amazing when people have those kind of talents. I really don't have any of those talents, except maybe writing, which I have heard from a handful of people, but my grammar sucks and you could probably find 100 errors in this blog.
Anyways, I am not trying to bash myself but I its cool to see everyones uniqueness in talent that I don't have. I have thought about maybe learning some of those talents but I have my own interests and want to improve on them. Some people have told me that I have some talents and they say they wouldn't be able to do them because of they way I am or the way I think.
I don't really know where I am going with this right now except that we are all unique people and we all have talents and we should use our talents if possible to help other people and to pay attention to other peoples talents because they could possibly help you.
So my next blog should make more sense ;) and here are the "...of the day"...
My thought of the day is "being more specific when telling something to someone".
Passage of the day is Proverbs 30:24-28:"Four things on earth are small but they are exceedingly wise; the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer; the rock badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the cliffs; the locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank; the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces."
The song of the day is "He'll take care of the rest" by Keith Green
Word of the day is Zeal: eager interest in pursuit of something.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Hey Noah, keep building that boat, its a matter of time before they see who is gonna float.
So I was inspired to keep a blog because I have a friend, Melody, who is in Honduras, doing work for God, who wants to update her friends and family what is going on and I was telling her that I love knowing what things she is doing and that I wanted to make my own blog because I have had some random good thoughts lately. If you care to read Melody's Blog Click Here, she is a very good writer.
I guess I will start off by explaining what happened throughout my day today.I woke up this morning and actually laid around because I was in a weird depressed mood today which doesn't happen often. I got out of my depressed mood around 5pm because I have a friend who kind of works with me by helping me out with goals that I need or want.Today we were gonna make dinner together, which was exciting to me because my goal is to learn how to cook and Mark knows how to cook very well. Him and I made lemon chicken, curry rice and green beans with garlic. I helped tenderize the chicken, bread the chicken, inspect the green beans, and make sure Mark didn't burn down the house (Just Kidding on that last part). I also did some other random things to help out. In the end the food was really yummie. The chicken was so tender and moist you could cut it with a fork. The rice was very good and it was the first time I had curry in it. The green beans were amazing because they were fresh and they had garlic in it (I love garlic). As we were eating my friend Steffie joined my family and ate with us
After eating Steffie, Mark, and I all went to this place called The Chocolate Bar Cafe. I got 2 cupcakes and a cherry soda. We got there later than we wanted to so we could only stay for 20 minutes before they closed but it was worth the drive. Since we couldn't stay at the CBC we decided to go to Starbucks, which is normal for me, and I got to see an old acquaintance that I see every so often at random Christian events. I found out today that he is brother of a person who I randomly met at Starbucks a couple months ago. When I was talking to him he was explaining to me how he was doing great and how God has been using him lately and that he has been on a couple of mission trips since the last time I talked to him. Him and I had a little conversation about healing and I was telling him and that it was probably a year ago or longer when I didn't know that healing was for me. Mind you I have a birth defect called Spina Bifida and so I have been living with it all my life, and I never thought God could heal me.
I will try to tell the story of how I first believed that I could be healed. I once used to go to a young adults/college age Christian group and we were in the sanctuary at the church and my friend Steve spoke about healing. I really don't remember what he said in particular but I remember feeling uncomfortable and leery about what he was saying because I didn't believe it was completely true because I didn't think it could happen to me. After he spoke his sermon he gave us the option to go into another room and he will pray healing on you. Well, even though I didn't think I could be healed I wanted the healing. Feeling so confused about healing I talked to my friend Anthony, who also has the same disability about healing. He wasn't sure either so I went to go find Pastor Aaron who was the young adults pastor that usually spoke. It took me a while to find him and I after about 45 minutes of looking for him and being patient he sat with me and explained to me and Anthony that if colds could be healed and aids can be healed and my disability is somewhere in the middle I can surely be healed. He went into detail and explained that sometimes healings can be spontaneous or they can take years to see the results, and he didn't have a reason on why God chooses healing to take longer in people than others. He also mentioned that God might direct you in a way to heal yourself from something. For example, if you have massive pains in your stomach, God might direct you to read about something about appendicitis. God will even direct you to read about it before it happens because God knows everything and he will warn you so you can take care of it (which is a true testimony from somebody I know).
After hearing all this from Pastor Aaron I was excited. I then talked to Steve and explained to him that I was very skeptical about healing but not so much anymore. So he was so excited that I had that revelation that he took me to a quite area and he personally prayed over me. It was so amazing because he was speaking with authority and faith and I felt so special knowing that he was taking his time to pray for me and doing it so well, He had such faith that he was waiting for me to walk out of my chair at that moment. Honestly, because I didn't have that much faith I was kind of humored because I was thinking to myself "Its not possible for me to get healed right away, I am accepting that I will be healed eventually but I have been disabled 25 years, its not gonna happen right away." So after Steve didn't see the healing right away he asked me if I was having trouble believing and I told him kind of, so he was praying for me to have God give me more faith and after about 15 minutes Pastor Aaron saw us and he started praying with Steve too. After another 15 more minutes of praying Pastor Aaron was reminding Steve that sometimes God will heal people over a period of time and so we ended the amazing prayer time and that was the start of my journey of knowing that God can heal me.
From that moment till now I have heard many, many messages of healing and I have met 1 or 2 people who have been healed after years of being disabled and I have had people speak over my healing. I now have more faith that I can be healed and that I start walking and I am just waiting for that day to happen (that doesn't mean that I have that kind of faith everyday, just like everyone else I have days that I have struggles with faith). Its cool because I even have friends who joke with me and say stuff like "There is a rule that you have to walk in to service to get in" or "Why don't you just get out of your chair and start walking"
I don't mind the jokes because the friends that say that are in an agreement that I will be healed also. So the question that I always ponder "What if it isn't in God's plan to heal me?" Which I sometimes ask myself when I don't have the faith and also not knowing if God heals everyone and why not...My answer is most of the time "Who cares, God will use me for His purpose and I want to be willing to do that".
My main reason I want to be healed is because I want people to see the before and after of my miraculous healing and when they ask me "How is it possible for you to be walking when you were always in a wheelchair?" I want to say "All I can say is that it is God" and I am hoping many peoples hearts will be turned to God. I also have little reasons that I want to walk. One reason is that I want to hug people in a normal way. It is so hard to hug someone when they are much taller than you and me being in a wheelchair. Also, Melody loves to dance and since I have met her I have always wanted to dance with her. I also want to learn to dance in general, I will certainly take dancing lessons when I start walking. I would take all the traditional ones like the waltz and tango and maybe take hip hop lessons. :) I most certainly want to dance in worship too. I sometimes visualize myself dancing in church and it makes me happy. :)
So to go back to talking about me talking to my random acquaintance Adam at Starbucks, he was telling me that he has seen healing miracles on mission trips he has been on. He was excitedly to tell me about one girl who was deaf and was just making noises instead of words. He was telling me that he was praying about somebody else while 2 of his friends were praying for this girl. Well, out of a sudden he stopped praying and looked over at the girl and she and her family were crying joyously because for the first time every this little girl could hear and speak. It was amazing to hear that kind of testimony. Adam also explained that he has seen legs grow and tumors instantly go away and crazy things like that. I was telling Adam that I had never seen a healing that happen before, I have only read or heard from other people. I believe that is one of the reasons that I sometimes lose faith in healing some days because I have only heard and not seen, but Romans 10:17 says "So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.", And that is where my faith comes from, and eventually I will be seeing it in my life.
********I thought about this after reading this blog, and I wanted to mention that anything that I say that seems like I am boasting or trying to boast other people, that is not my intention. I am saying these thing and using examples to boast in the Lord. 1Cor. 1:28-30 says "God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.""********
So to end this blog I decided that I would end every blog with a couple of "...... of the day".
My thought of the day is "Pavlovs Theory", which I will probably write in my next blog once I get my thoughts together.
The scripture that I have been trying to meditate on is "Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding." -- Proverbs 3:5.
The song of the day is "Holy Ghost Party" by Cory Asbury ..... Ain't no party like a Holy Ghost party, because a Holy Ghost Party don't stop....
The word of the day is "Maven:a trusted expert in a particular field, who seeks to pass knowledge on to others. The word maven comes from the Hebrew, via Yiddish, and means one who understands, based on an accumulation of knowledge." (I might not be an expert in something but I like sharing my knowledge.)
I might implement more ".... of the day" but this is the end till next time. :)
I guess I will start off by explaining what happened throughout my day today.I woke up this morning and actually laid around because I was in a weird depressed mood today which doesn't happen often. I got out of my depressed mood around 5pm because I have a friend who kind of works with me by helping me out with goals that I need or want.Today we were gonna make dinner together, which was exciting to me because my goal is to learn how to cook and Mark knows how to cook very well. Him and I made lemon chicken, curry rice and green beans with garlic. I helped tenderize the chicken, bread the chicken, inspect the green beans, and make sure Mark didn't burn down the house (Just Kidding on that last part). I also did some other random things to help out. In the end the food was really yummie. The chicken was so tender and moist you could cut it with a fork. The rice was very good and it was the first time I had curry in it. The green beans were amazing because they were fresh and they had garlic in it (I love garlic). As we were eating my friend Steffie joined my family and ate with us
After eating Steffie, Mark, and I all went to this place called The Chocolate Bar Cafe. I got 2 cupcakes and a cherry soda. We got there later than we wanted to so we could only stay for 20 minutes before they closed but it was worth the drive. Since we couldn't stay at the CBC we decided to go to Starbucks, which is normal for me, and I got to see an old acquaintance that I see every so often at random Christian events. I found out today that he is brother of a person who I randomly met at Starbucks a couple months ago. When I was talking to him he was explaining to me how he was doing great and how God has been using him lately and that he has been on a couple of mission trips since the last time I talked to him. Him and I had a little conversation about healing and I was telling him and that it was probably a year ago or longer when I didn't know that healing was for me. Mind you I have a birth defect called Spina Bifida and so I have been living with it all my life, and I never thought God could heal me.
I will try to tell the story of how I first believed that I could be healed. I once used to go to a young adults/college age Christian group and we were in the sanctuary at the church and my friend Steve spoke about healing. I really don't remember what he said in particular but I remember feeling uncomfortable and leery about what he was saying because I didn't believe it was completely true because I didn't think it could happen to me. After he spoke his sermon he gave us the option to go into another room and he will pray healing on you. Well, even though I didn't think I could be healed I wanted the healing. Feeling so confused about healing I talked to my friend Anthony, who also has the same disability about healing. He wasn't sure either so I went to go find Pastor Aaron who was the young adults pastor that usually spoke. It took me a while to find him and I after about 45 minutes of looking for him and being patient he sat with me and explained to me and Anthony that if colds could be healed and aids can be healed and my disability is somewhere in the middle I can surely be healed. He went into detail and explained that sometimes healings can be spontaneous or they can take years to see the results, and he didn't have a reason on why God chooses healing to take longer in people than others. He also mentioned that God might direct you in a way to heal yourself from something. For example, if you have massive pains in your stomach, God might direct you to read about something about appendicitis. God will even direct you to read about it before it happens because God knows everything and he will warn you so you can take care of it (which is a true testimony from somebody I know).
After hearing all this from Pastor Aaron I was excited. I then talked to Steve and explained to him that I was very skeptical about healing but not so much anymore. So he was so excited that I had that revelation that he took me to a quite area and he personally prayed over me. It was so amazing because he was speaking with authority and faith and I felt so special knowing that he was taking his time to pray for me and doing it so well, He had such faith that he was waiting for me to walk out of my chair at that moment. Honestly, because I didn't have that much faith I was kind of humored because I was thinking to myself "Its not possible for me to get healed right away, I am accepting that I will be healed eventually but I have been disabled 25 years, its not gonna happen right away." So after Steve didn't see the healing right away he asked me if I was having trouble believing and I told him kind of, so he was praying for me to have God give me more faith and after about 15 minutes Pastor Aaron saw us and he started praying with Steve too. After another 15 more minutes of praying Pastor Aaron was reminding Steve that sometimes God will heal people over a period of time and so we ended the amazing prayer time and that was the start of my journey of knowing that God can heal me.
From that moment till now I have heard many, many messages of healing and I have met 1 or 2 people who have been healed after years of being disabled and I have had people speak over my healing. I now have more faith that I can be healed and that I start walking and I am just waiting for that day to happen (that doesn't mean that I have that kind of faith everyday, just like everyone else I have days that I have struggles with faith). Its cool because I even have friends who joke with me and say stuff like "There is a rule that you have to walk in to service to get in" or "Why don't you just get out of your chair and start walking"
I don't mind the jokes because the friends that say that are in an agreement that I will be healed also. So the question that I always ponder "What if it isn't in God's plan to heal me?" Which I sometimes ask myself when I don't have the faith and also not knowing if God heals everyone and why not...My answer is most of the time "Who cares, God will use me for His purpose and I want to be willing to do that".
My main reason I want to be healed is because I want people to see the before and after of my miraculous healing and when they ask me "How is it possible for you to be walking when you were always in a wheelchair?" I want to say "All I can say is that it is God" and I am hoping many peoples hearts will be turned to God. I also have little reasons that I want to walk. One reason is that I want to hug people in a normal way. It is so hard to hug someone when they are much taller than you and me being in a wheelchair. Also, Melody loves to dance and since I have met her I have always wanted to dance with her. I also want to learn to dance in general, I will certainly take dancing lessons when I start walking. I would take all the traditional ones like the waltz and tango and maybe take hip hop lessons. :) I most certainly want to dance in worship too. I sometimes visualize myself dancing in church and it makes me happy. :)
So to go back to talking about me talking to my random acquaintance Adam at Starbucks, he was telling me that he has seen healing miracles on mission trips he has been on. He was excitedly to tell me about one girl who was deaf and was just making noises instead of words. He was telling me that he was praying about somebody else while 2 of his friends were praying for this girl. Well, out of a sudden he stopped praying and looked over at the girl and she and her family were crying joyously because for the first time every this little girl could hear and speak. It was amazing to hear that kind of testimony. Adam also explained that he has seen legs grow and tumors instantly go away and crazy things like that. I was telling Adam that I had never seen a healing that happen before, I have only read or heard from other people. I believe that is one of the reasons that I sometimes lose faith in healing some days because I have only heard and not seen, but Romans 10:17 says "So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.", And that is where my faith comes from, and eventually I will be seeing it in my life.
********I thought about this after reading this blog, and I wanted to mention that anything that I say that seems like I am boasting or trying to boast other people, that is not my intention. I am saying these thing and using examples to boast in the Lord. 1Cor. 1:28-30 says "God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.""********
So to end this blog I decided that I would end every blog with a couple of "...... of the day".
My thought of the day is "Pavlovs Theory", which I will probably write in my next blog once I get my thoughts together.
The scripture that I have been trying to meditate on is "Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding." -- Proverbs 3:5.
The song of the day is "Holy Ghost Party" by Cory Asbury ..... Ain't no party like a Holy Ghost party, because a Holy Ghost Party don't stop....
The word of the day is "Maven:a trusted expert in a particular field, who seeks to pass knowledge on to others. The word maven comes from the Hebrew, via Yiddish, and means one who understands, based on an accumulation of knowledge." (I might not be an expert in something but I like sharing my knowledge.)
I might implement more ".... of the day" but this is the end till next time. :)
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Blogrimage Day 1
So, I joined this group called “30 day Blogrimage”. A blogrimage is a blogging pilgrimage. A pilgrimage is in religion and spirituality, a long journey or search of great moral significance. So what I am going to blog about is things that I hear daily that pertains to God or Christianity in any way. I will either write about what I hear or see randomly as I go through my day, or post a picture, or anything of that sort.
I will start off by writing that this morning I was watching Destination Truth. It is a tv show on the sci-fi channel. Here is the description of what the show is about: “Led by intrepid world-adventurer Josh Gates, each episode of Destination Truth takes viewers on a trek across the globe as Josh investigates stories of the unexplained. Accompanied by his small crew, Josh dives into the local cultures, and searches for clues to the existence of strange creatures, and paranormal phenomena.”
In one of the shows they were looking for this dragon-like thing in Africa and another episode they were hearing voices coming from the outside of Australia saying things like “help me” and stuff like that. I thought to myself that these people were just hearing things or trying to make something that it isn’t and it is not possible for it to be a person that is haunting them because people either go to heaven or hell and there is no in between. I then hypothesized that the haunting that they are hearing are from their imagination or its demons playing tricks on them to make them believe it is people from the dead.
Another thing that happened today was I showing one of my friends a Youtube video of this video called “A letter from hell”. It’s about this fictitious character that dies and goes to hell and writes a letter to his Christian friend. He writes to him what is happening to him and that he is mad at his friend for not telling him about Jesus. I think it’s a really great video for Christians to watch because it should remind Christians to spread the Gospel and why they should. Here is the video:
The reason I am mentioning this video is because I read one of the comments that was written for this video and it is this… “wow. so this guy josh goes to hell jst because he didnt know about jesus? what a load of crap. his friend zack should be the one burning in hell. i dnt even believe in heaven or hell. my christian friend sent this to me. an this just makes me think that this religion is based mostly on fear. i dnt mean to offend anyone who believes in god tho. i respect ur religion.”
After I read that comment I thought to myself that a Christian’s first approach should not be to show this video to an unbeliever. The reason I believe this is because an unbeliever doesn’t fully understand the heaven and hell idea. They don’t believe that they will go to hell and believe that they are good people. What I believe needs to be preached first is how great God’s love is. So much as to show that God’s love is greater than peoples love. Everybody always wants more love and what better way than to express that God is love. After they have grasped God’s love then they need to understand that unbelievers will go to hell and that they need Jesus to be saved.
One last thing that I experienced today is I was talking to a friend from my church today and he was talking about this one sermon that was being preached about the Book Of Revelations. The pastor was speaking about Revelations 4 and 5. He talked about how there are these creatures with eyes and horns in heaven that worship God and also that there are 24 elders sitting on thrones that are surrounding the one throne that God was sitting on. He mentioned that scholars and other people have tried to figure out what the creatures were and who they 24 elders were, and that is kind of a problem. It is good to try to think about the small and trivial things, but the big picture of it all in this story is that God is in the middle of the elders and that the creatures are worshiping God.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Trinity
Lately I have been researching about the Trinity. Instead of talking about what the Trinity is I will explain what its not. First They are not three roles played by one person (that is modalism), nor are they three gods in a cluster (that is tritheism), nor saying that Jesus was not of one substance with the Father and that there had been a time before Jesus existed (that is Arianism).
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