last night a friend of mine brought to my attention the verse in the Bible (1 Corinthians 7:1) it says that a man shouldn't even touch a women. (Abridged obviously)
Touch is something that we take so lightly. a hug goodbye, a pat on the back, those little things don't even seem important, but they SO are.
It isn't that hugging is illegal, and high fives are from hell, but many men, well most men, struggle with these things, and a lot of women do too. we have to confess our struggles to close friends, so that they can help us in our walk to become pure and holy with God. If we don't confess than we can not improve. It is not a man's fault if he hurts a girls feelings obliviously, yet repeatedly if she never tells him that it hurts her feelings. and it is not a womens fault if she creates lust in a mans sight repeatedly, yet obliviously, if he does not confess his issue.
we have to be open with each other about our struggles so that we can help each other, and hopefully attain purity together. when we confront each other, and share with each other, we are helping each other grow closer to God and seeing God.
this is my prayer for my worship team, and my peers. that we would be open with each other about our struggles and what God is doing, so that we can all together grow more pure and holy and righteous. I want the youth of this entire nation to yearn for purity, and group together with fasting and prayer to completely rid themselves of the murky sin that blotches out their sight to see God, and covers up their emotions for God to take over. Not even babies are born pure, for they are born under the curse of sin from previous generations. I cry out for children to begin being raised in purity, that they would have greater gifts from God than i can even dream of, and that they would speak into MY life, and the life of MY friends. That we would begin to look on purity as not something rare and unique, but normal, every day life that we need to be living by.
I want my nieces and nephews to have a hunger for God and God alone in their hearts even as babies. Because when God puts a greater hunger in their hearts they are going to show the rest of the church that has grown cold, and away from God, how awesome and powerful God really is. We so need purity!
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
Hello?! wake up!
So, i was in florida for like the past idk... 6 days or so. but on the way back something happened to me that gave me a HUGE wake up call...
so i was reading some verses for my worship team, so i would be "prepared" for friday night... and the lady sitting next to me casually said, " what are you reading?"
see, my bible is red, and kind of looks like a boring book so i replied " my bible"...
so she goes "oh, i think i have heard of that"
"OH I THINK I HAVE HEARD OF THAT?!?!?!?!"
omg... i was so shocked by her response, i am pretty sure my response made me sound like an idiot or something.. i just kind of mumbled out how it was about God and my beliefs, but believe me, if anyone is to witness to her, they are going to have to undo the confusion i caused... i mean, she wasn't from like a third world country where they are stranded from literacy, she was from NYC... NEW YORK!
the state of our nation as is, is only leading us to death. If the Christian church makes up around 80% of the nation's religious beliefs, something isn't right when a women from one of our most famous cities has hardly any knowledge of what the Bible is...
I don't want to write this and have it seem like i am judging the Church, that is NOT my intention at all. i just think its crazy that we live in this bubble of "safety" while there are millions and millions of people out there completely oblivious to the hopelessness that they are currently in the midst of. If God does not purify his church, purify ME, than how are the nations going to recieve the gospel.
all we can do is cry out that God would release purity and answer the groan of his people for something more than our bubble... we have to get out there and do something!
God,
all i can do is ask for my heart to be changed.
that you would purify the hearts of the church that we would be able to see your will, and follow your path. that we would glorify you with every world that we speak. and that all the hearts of our generation would turn to you. let us not be satisfied living under the curses of earlier generation's sins, that our hearts would be the hearts that show your love. that our mouths would be the mouths that proclaim your glory and your return. that our hands would do your works. and our eyes would look to you and only you....
amen?
so i was reading some verses for my worship team, so i would be "prepared" for friday night... and the lady sitting next to me casually said, " what are you reading?"
see, my bible is red, and kind of looks like a boring book so i replied " my bible"...
so she goes "oh, i think i have heard of that"
"OH I THINK I HAVE HEARD OF THAT?!?!?!?!"
omg... i was so shocked by her response, i am pretty sure my response made me sound like an idiot or something.. i just kind of mumbled out how it was about God and my beliefs, but believe me, if anyone is to witness to her, they are going to have to undo the confusion i caused... i mean, she wasn't from like a third world country where they are stranded from literacy, she was from NYC... NEW YORK!
the state of our nation as is, is only leading us to death. If the Christian church makes up around 80% of the nation's religious beliefs, something isn't right when a women from one of our most famous cities has hardly any knowledge of what the Bible is...
I don't want to write this and have it seem like i am judging the Church, that is NOT my intention at all. i just think its crazy that we live in this bubble of "safety" while there are millions and millions of people out there completely oblivious to the hopelessness that they are currently in the midst of. If God does not purify his church, purify ME, than how are the nations going to recieve the gospel.
all we can do is cry out that God would release purity and answer the groan of his people for something more than our bubble... we have to get out there and do something!
God,
all i can do is ask for my heart to be changed.
that you would purify the hearts of the church that we would be able to see your will, and follow your path. that we would glorify you with every world that we speak. and that all the hearts of our generation would turn to you. let us not be satisfied living under the curses of earlier generation's sins, that our hearts would be the hearts that show your love. that our mouths would be the mouths that proclaim your glory and your return. that our hands would do your works. and our eyes would look to you and only you....
amen?
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