Day 34/365 Bible in a Year

Today I read Isaiah 23-28..

My, oh my! This is the longest passage I've read since I started this Bible in a year thing. I definitely cannot write a blog about it because that would kill those who DO read them. So my only other option is for you to read this section and contemplate on if this area of Isaiah is prophecy or what was going on in that time, or both mixed together. There is a lot of despair in it if you put yourself into the people's foot steps like I did. I actually almost cried a couple times. Hmm.. God bless!

Lanie

Ps. Tomorrow I am reading Matthew 11-13. Enjoy if you can.

Day 33/365 Bible in a Year

I just had this entire blog written and it deleted itself so I had to start over again... darn it. I guess things happen for a reason, ha ha! So it's going to be a LOT shorter than it was originally going to be. Sorry guys, buut it's late. I guess God wanted me to take it in a bit more.

Today I am reading Psalms 12-14 and Job 9-10. This blog is over Job 9-10.

Chapter 9

God is amazing and has created everything. Done miracle so great and indescribable! He is so great a God and so good a God, yet Job feels like He is out to get him. He feels he can't answer to God because, though he is blameless, He is full of misery and shame. He is as innocent as a puppy. Job feels like God is out to get Him. Have you ever felt that way? God, in this case, let Satan harm Job as a test of faithfulness. Job still has not cursed God. He even wished for a mediator between he and God so he did not have to approach Him with strength instead of weakness..

Chapter 10

Job is absolutely disgusted with his life. He feels like God hates him and just looks for ways to punish him. Like God created him, watched him grow, and just sat and WAITED for him to mess up just ONCe and sin just ONCeE so He could punish him and never forgive him. But wait, guys. Don't forget how we have a loving and FORGIVING God, He loves his creation, sinner or saint. He only hates sin and Satan. So Job is absolutely....WRONG about God here. He is only in agony and is trying to rationalize the goings on. He feels that even though he is innocent that God will still punish him because he is full of misery and shame. Even if he did hold his head high, he feels like God will hunt him down like a lion and attack him, and witness AGAINST him. Basically he feels God is doing the deeds of the evil one... How sad. Why did God not take Job as a baby, so it would be like he never lived and never suffered such pain of loss and boils. His life was going down a dark path of almost no return, but have you noticed? He HAS NOT CURSED GOD ONCE! 

Isn't is about time we took a hold of our lives and told ourselves God is the amazing God. The ONLY God? Isn't it about time we stood up for ourselves against Satan and told him, "You know what, Satan? I can live a better life without you and your ugly temptations, anger, and lust. Without your evil thoughts, your distractions, your name calling, your idol worshipping self. I can do without all of these things. You are gone from my life. God is Lord of my life and Jesus died for me so I wouldn't have to deal with you and all your self-righteous demons.Buh-bye!"

Take a stand for the Lord and tell others about Him. He is glorious. Even though Job is suffering, the time will come when He will receive everything back twice over in Heaven.

Prayer requests? Comment below or email me at livin4christ0129@yahoo.com!!

Thanks!

Mwahahahaha!!!

Mwahahahaha! Have you ever just felt like you needed to do that evil laugh?I don't know why I do sometimes, but I do. Ha ha!

Well, this guy that I usually debate with on Twitter has slowly become somewhat of a good acquaintance. We seem to be able to talk and NOT disagree, and if we do, we just discuss it. No heated arguments, no anger. It's weird. But the world is so spontaneous. God is great. Ha ha, my dad just got his jury duty papers. First time for him and he's 41 ha ha!

My next blog is coming up next!! ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

I wrote two today.. So I am catching up on the days I missed before.. Sorta.. Well. have a nice night!

Lanie

NEWS!!

AHH! They caught 2 of the guys who were starting the fires here in East Texas! Yay! God is awesome to have given the guys one mistake to leave DNA behind! Amazing! I think there is one more guy left, but I haven't read the report. Last time I did they had sketches on 3 guys, or 2 guys and one girl. But it's all good now. :D

Amen!

Day 32/365 Bible in a Day

Today I am reading Psalm 12-14 and Job 9-10. But this blog is only from Psalm.

Chapter 12 was one of those chapters that makes me happy the Lord is always telling the truth. :D He is honest, totally and completely honest! No one else is so honest, so faithful. Even us, in all the faith we may have COMBINED cannot amount to God's faithfulness. The righteous people were slowly dwindling down to nothing in David's time. The liars and prideful people were taking over, leaving God's side, and literally telling each other that God didn't control anything, that their bodies were their own, no one else's. How sad would it be for so many people to turn their back on the Creator? But God heard all of this and instead of punishing everyone in the area He only punich the evil doers. He picked through the people and saved and uplifted the righteous people. God protects His followers and loves us ALL.

Chapter 13 Ever felt like you were in so much despair that the world could end and you really couldn't care less? That's how David felt when he wrote this Psalm. He felt like God had literally forgotten him. But then in the midst of his suffering he remember! OH my goodness he remembered that God could return "the sparkle to his eye" and that he could definitely trust God and His "unfailing love". This is so beautiful that we have a Creator who loves us, provides for us, and even cared enough to make the place we dwell a beautiful land and not a trash can. :D I just love God.

Chapter 14 brings one word to mind. WOW! Have you ever met that profound atheist? The one who swears up and down on their own life that there is no God. There never was, there never will be, we are all our own person, no one can tell us what to do...? I know I have. Especially on Twitter.. Oh my. Haha, but do you see what God says about them? It is totally different to not know a God like ours exists than to "know" and deny. God says through David that "Only fools say in their heart, 'there is no God'". So true. God also says, "He looks down to see if anyone truly seeks God" and that He will protect His people from the oppression of the ungodly. :D Our God is an AWESOME God!

Prayer requests? Comment below or email me at livin4christ0129@yahoo.com

Thanks! God bless!

Lanie

Day 31/365 Bible in a Year

Joshua 21 through 24 actually finishes up Joshua for us. The entire last section consist of:

Chapter 21

Joshua dividing out the land and the cities to the clans of Levi, Gershon, Merari, Judah, Simeon, Benjamin, descendants of Aaron, Dan, and so on, dividing up the land and the towns and pasturelands. I think that out of all th epromised land God gives them, and all the scriptures following, my favorite is verse 45. Wow, does it actually say that? Read it again!

"Not a single one of all the good promises the Lord had given to the family of Israel was left unfulfilled; everything He had spoken came true."

Can you imagine hearing God make decisions, promises, conversation? And then later pointing things out that He said would happen...HAPPENING!! That's what happened here. The people knew when God made these promises to them and they kept enduring for them, just like God told them they'd have to do. AND not only that, but they got to experience God actually doing these things and finishing them in that generation. Wow.

Chapter 22

Joshua just told the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh to go to the land promised to them. So they begin to go and they see the land of Gilead and they build this HUGE altar that is just all KINDS of in the way. The people of Gilead think they are opposing them and that they don't follow their God and they get offended and begin to get ready to attack them! WHAT!? But before they do so the tribes tell them the real reason why they built the altar. It is a sign for them in the future to know that the two lands share the same God.

Chapter 23

Joshua has seen and heard it all from almost the beginning and he is tell his fairwell to Israel. He tells them all of the miraculous things God has done for them, as to repeat it and have them remember more fondly. He tells them that God fights for them in their trouble times, that if they betray Him and know what He did for them that they will vanish from the good lands the Lord has given them, His anger will be poured out on them.

Chapter 24

God renews His covenant with Israel. He reminds them of some more things He did for them. Splitting the Red Sea and bringing it down on the Egyptians, the time they all crossed the Jordan River to get to Jericho and the walls fell down after they ran around a few times and yelled.. All a thing of God. The people choose to follow God. Joshua makes a covenant with the people that they will follow the Lord and he tells them that a simple rock has heard everything they had just said. Which to me kind of emphasizes the point that "if this puny, insignificant ROCK heard it, then God most definitely heard it." or the 'this rock is representative of God, our Rock and Salvation." Then Joshua and several other leaders all die of old age and are buried in the lands given to them,

This conclused the book of Joshua. Tomorrow I am reading Psalm 12-14. I'm actually gonna read it tonight before I go to bed, which is in about 5 minutes HAHA! and reread it tomorrow and I will also read and write 2 blogs!!! I am also reading Job 9-10. This should be interesting :) Goodnight world!

Prayer requests? Comment below or email me at livin4christ0129@yahoo.com

Lanie

Day 30/365 Bible in a Year

Today I read Genesis 16-19.

Chapter 16
The verse I want to really pop out here is verse 13. Hagar has been running from Abram and Sarai because of Sarai's anger, but in the midst of her running from the troubles God's angel came down to tell her to go back. My guess is that the Lord's angel may be an element of the Lord himself, kinda like Jesus and the Holy Spirit, because Hagar praises God for seeing her. She mentions seeing the One who sees her. Amazing to have seen God, right? That doesn't happen much today. The truth is in today's world we hardly "have time" to focus on God's word. We hardly "have time" to be still and quiet, or to listen for God. JUST DO IT, it could mean a world of difference in your relationship with Jesus.

Chapter 17
Verse 22 just baffles me. God came DOWN FROM HEAVEN to talk to Abram, changed his name and Sarai's name to Abraham and Sarah, blessed their children, and get this! He "went up from him". God used to actually come down and talk to His people, now He doesn't always do that either. Hardly ever. He may whisper in your ear or show you something in a dream, but come down physically? I think not. We can feel His presence, we can hear Him calling us, but see Him, no. We need to have FAITH!!

Chapter 18
Verse 14, is anything impossible with the Lord? No. God asks a rhetorical question to Sarah and Abraham. Nothing is impossible with the Lord, pray about everything in God's will for you and guess what? If it's His will, it will happen! God is a great God, and wonderful God, and sometimes He seems like more than a Father than usual. He's supposed to seem that way. When you're down in the dumps, pray. When your as happy as a grasshopper on a sunny day, pray. When everything seems to be going just about as horrible as it could go, pray. Prayer is essential in this relationship with Christ. It is our talking with Him, Prayer is so large a topic. Even in your worst times, praise God for it! He puts you in those times to test you and give you virtues. For instance, let's say that you got into a wreck on your way to the airport and you ended up in a coma for 2 weeks. You woke up and 3 of your friends were dead because the plane that you were driving to the airport to get on crashed.. God saved you from the loss of life because He wasn't finished with you yet, and your friends are in a better place. He is now sending you on a trip to Nicaragua to help families who are coping with death. God has prepared you, has He not? Now it's not always that big an event, but you get my point right?

Chapter 19
Verse 16. God has compassion for us, always. He knows what we are going through, He understands. In a way, HE'S BEEN THERE TOO! Just take comfort in God's arms. Take comfort in Him, and build a relationship with Him.

Pray!! Pray for Jose! For real, that's a prayer request. No details, sorry. It's personal to a friend of mine. Prayer requests? Comment them below or email me at livin4christ0129@yahoo.com!

Lanie

Tomorrow I am reading Joshua 21-24