Day 15/365 Bible in a Year

Today I am reading Romans 5-6. The first part is called "Faith Brings Joy", you know? Those little title type things they label sections with in your Bible? That's what I mean.


Chapter 5
Key verse, and favorite verse from this chapter is 17.

"For the sin of one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God's wonderful grace and His gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one Man, Jesus Christ."

Adam, the first man on earth drove us all down to the sinful pits of...well...SIN! He and his wife betrayed God's trust. They sinned before there was a law to sin against. Yes, people sinned before there were laws, they just didn't know they were sinning. God gave us laws so we could see how bad off we were into sin...but it just became a common thing to do.

God gaves us grace after that. Grace was something not many found for a while. It was the light in the darkness, the good amongst all the bad. But God then sent His son Jesus to die for us. He died for a bunch of sinners like us. Like it says in verse 7, most people wouldn't even die for a righteous man these days..maybe for a really good guy.... but sinners? Jesus did it. Thank you Lord, you saved us all from Hell. We just need to belive in you the way you believe in us.

Chapter 6
This section is actually titled "Sin's Power is Broken". Already sounds amazing right? THe first paragragh of this chapter gives me chills. Go read Romans 6:1-4 and tell me it doesn't give you chills. It actually tells you what a baptism is and what it stands for.

There are a few verses I ABSOLUTELY love in this chapter.

Verse 6
"We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. WE ARE NO LONGER SLAVES TO SIN."

Verses 10-11
"(10)When He died, He died once to break the power of sin. But now that He lives, He lives for the glory of God.(11)So you should also consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus."

Amen?

And finally verse 22-23
"(22)But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life. (23)For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord."

Amen.

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

Lanie

Today I listened to these songs during my blog time. They are awesome!

Dwell by Casey Corum
Your Presence by Darren Clarke
If You Say Go by Diane Thiel
Holy by Brebton Brown

Kindness and Compassion

Today was pretty fun. I read my Bible, I wrote my blog.. about to post it here in a few.. I watched movies with my family and had family time.. Pretty much a great day. Then I studied. Haha.

I was thinking aabout things along the lines of kindness and compassion earlier. We have this essay we are writing a rough draft for in Composition. The quote we started with was "Kindness gives to another, compassion knows no other" It was only to get our minds stirring for this esay, but I swear up and down...maybe even left and right that Ms. Wijntjes was once a motivational speaker.. Had to be.. She literally puts yu into the shoes of other people. I have been a compassionate person for a bit (ever since right before I was called to do mission work) and here lately it's been getting deeper. I have begun thinking about how I can be MORE compassionate. And then I realized it's no thinking thing! Compassion has started to just come to me! I understand why Jesus died for everyone. He had been in their place, He had been tempted and tried.. He had been there with the sinners and dined with them and told them stories. He loved them! Love people, people! Love them, love everyone!

Love y'all!

Day 14/365 Bible in a Year

Today I read Matthew 3-4. But I am going to read ahead a few days soon.

Chapter 3 was about Jesus being baptized. My main focus is verses 13-17. Jesus went tomeet with John the Baptist. John thought that Jesus should baptize him, but you know what Jesus said? "It should be done [that John baptize Jesus], for we must carry out all that God requires."

Notice that? God REQUIRES this. It's not an option. It's not probably going to happen. It WILL happen. Once you are saved you follow up with a baptism. It's how you profess publicly for the first time your new faith in Christ. I LOVE THIS!

God calls down from Heaven that He is proud of His son, He says, "This is my dearly loved Son, who brings me great joy." Amazing right?

Chapter 4 is a little rougher and a lot less easy (harder). Jesus, after His baptism, is sent into the wilderness. He fasts for 40 days and 40 nights and prays. My favorite verse in this chapter is verse 10. Satan is tempting Jesus with th world. He offers all of the kingdoms to Him if He would bow to Satan himself and worhsip him just once.

Jesus says, "Get out of here, Satan, for the scripture says, 'You must worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.'"

Then Satan leaves and the Lord's angels come down and take care of Jesus.

Then Jesus begins His ministry. He tells people of who He is and who God is and how they should worship according to God. He tells them to repent and turn to God. And he finds a few of His apostles. The first 4 are brothers. (2 are brothers and the othe 2 are brothers hehe not all 4 brothers :D)

Simon (Peter) and Andrew
and
James and John.

They all just up and left what they were doing to be with Jesus.

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

Lanie

Day 13/365 Bible in a Year

Tonight I am reading Isaiah 7-11. I didn't have enough time to write a blog about it, but I would really like for this one to be a reflection type thing. Read the passage and comment your thoughts about the piece. I'll comment later behind you.


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

Lanie

PS: I'll do this once every 2 weeks!!

Day 12/365 Bible in a Year

So remember when we read Job 1-2. Job's whole family died besides his wife. All his livestock and shepherds died..everything was taken from him. In this chapters 3-4 he finally breaks his silence of mourning to say that he wishes he had never been born. He was in such agony he wished he was stricken dead. But his friend, Eliphaz, told him to stop. He bring people up (makes them happy) all the time, he inspires people to be happier in life, he supported people who were falling in life all the time. But when something bad happened to him, he moped, (not mopped). Moped. He moped around, wanting to die, but never dying..

Don't be like this when someone you know dies, guys. Know that they aren't suffering anymore. If they were saved, know that they are going to heaven. Don't mourn forever, God is there to take their place. To fill the whole they occupied. Don't waste anytime in this world. Spend time sharing God.

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

Lanie

PS: I'm reading Isaiah 7-11 tomorrow!

Crave Life

Today was fun I guess. I studied...studied....studied...and oh yeah! Studied. And I am STILL not done. I went to Crave tonight. It was amazing. A guy names Stephen was saved last night at Great Escape. AMAZING! But now I am going to read Job 3-4. Night guys!

Booyah!

Prayer/Praise

Life is grand, God is great!
He's the way, that's no debate.
Love, He does. Hurt Him, we do.
And why? No reason. He died for you!
Come on people, praise the Lord.
Sing with me, a beautiful chord.
God's love is shown in the world around us,
faith, love, and hope, and peace surround us.
So thank you Lord for this beautiful life,
this wisp of fog in You wonderous light.
Thanks for answering the prayers that have been, and for being so evident in my life,
Amen.

Original piece, thanks!