February 2012
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†=♥: Looking through the eyes of love... →
headoverheelsforjesus:
Looking through the eyes of love…
So a couple of weeks ago I was traveling up to see Olly Murs at the O2 and I was meeting my friend at Paddington station. Basically my 60/60 beeper went off (for those that are reading my blog and don’t know what 60/60is I’m going to make a page about it soon :)) And I asked God to fill in the time and if he wanted me to talk to someone...
January 2012
23 posts
Tumblr Goodbye
(Possibly temporary, possibly permanent)
I went to a youth workers conference with Newfrontiers this weekend, and God has challenged me a lot. There was such an abundance of truth about the victory we have in Christ, casting off all that hinders us to run to Him, and such a vibrant Spirit-let environment. As Stef Liston said, all it was was just being washed in the truth of God’s word.
One...
Anonymous asked: looking at your question and blog on reformed theology is this what you believe? Just wondering as you didn't make it clear....
Anonymous asked: what is calvinist? and how is it different than other christian denominations?
Anonymous asked: how do you feel about Christians who want to get tattoos or Christians who smoke weed as medicine?
He tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young...
When the Holy Spirit was upon His people in the Old Testament, He used them for radical changes in world history. Judges and deliverers like Othniel were raised up, conquering kingdoms at war and bringing peace to Israel. These wars, these judges, ensured that the line of Israel was preserved, and they altered cultures and nations around them for centuries down the line. By the power of the Holy...
The purpose of the original story was to show David’s identity as the true king of Israel.[1] Post-Classical Jewish traditions stressed Goliath’s status as the representative of paganism, in contrast to David, the champion of the God of Israel. Christian tradition gave him a distinctively Christian twist, seeing in David’s battle with Goliath the victory of God’s King...
I serve the LORD, the God of Heaven.
We are nothing without Him, and we have everything in Him.
As small as atoms are to oceans, our planet is to the universe, and the universe is to God, and He is more. One pixel of the night sky contains billions of galaxies never seen before, each with billions of stars that dwarf our own. If the sun was twelve metres in diameter, the earth would be a golf ball. If a star called Canis Majoris was...
"Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind...
We can be a lot like Job’s friends. Spurting out doctrines and ideas and concepts, ‘multiplying words without knowledge’. I would give examples but I fear that would defeat the point. They all make sense in their own little way, founded upon a few verses here and there. They may seem learned, or eloquent, or profound. But when God speaks out of the hurricane, it blows all these...
And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of...
I’ve been trying to do everything my own way. My plans, my will, everything I think God should want me to do. Human exertion, my own efforts, my understanding. Trying to say the right words, do the right thing. While it bred contempt and pride, I tried to tear down my pride with pride, “I’m better than this!” Blind is what I was. But it’s when you try your hardest and...
Looking back at prophetic words I’ve been given, and then looking at my life and how it’s turned out by following my plans rather than His commands, it makes me think how much I’ve underestimated what God could use me for. It’s like driving a battle ship down a river, when it should be in the sea. The sea is scary, and the waves are crashing, and the waters stirring. But...
Praise
Lately I’ve learned a lot about the background of hymns written. When you see the rich content of these old songs, they strike you to your core. The last verse of ‘The Love of God’ was written on the wall of an insane asylum. ‘O Love That Will Not Let Me Go’ was written by a man who’s fiance left him after he turned blind. ‘It Is Well With My Soul’...
Buddhism
I don’t normally write about other religions, because I tend to prefer explaining why I believe in Christianity than explaining why I don’t believe in other religions. But, I asked God what He wanted me to do just this hour, and I felt Him ask me to write about Buddhism. Also, I have only briefly studied it, so my knowledge may be limited.
Buddhism says that to eliminate suffering, we...
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Librarian Questions: About A Book
Yesterday morning I prayed that God would give me opportunities to speak to people about Christianity. I know that every conversation is an opportunity, but I meant people asking me questions. I started to pray for other things, but I felt the strong impression on my heart to stay on this. As I prayed, it was as if the Spirit gave utterance to my words, penning each word on my lips. “I see...
Testimonies: Hearing God
Before I left for the group I help lead on Wednesday, God bagan teaching me about how we should hear Him - the Bible, through prayer, the prophetic, through revelation, etc. It turned out Joelle had planned to teach about hearing God! So I was able to contribute what God had taught me just before to build up those there.
We prayed at the end, and a girl who came to Christ not too long ago prayed...
The Lord's Prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
The Lord’s prayer is a good prayer to pray. I used to love it before I was a Christian, it sounded cool in the King James Version - ‘thee, thou, thy, hallowed’. When I became a Christian, however, I considered it too ‘legalistic’ to pray word for word, over and over.
But the Lord’s prayer is not a mantra. Jesus told us to ‘pray then like...
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“If any one should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say, it is in that one word “prayer.” If I should be asked, “What will take in the whole of Christian experience?” I should answer, “prayer.” A man must have been convinced of sin before he could pray; he must have had some hope that there was mercy for him before he could pray....
God's Voice of Iceland
[Accidentally deleted this, so I’m re-posting it]
Over the end of Christmas, I went to Iceland with my parents for a few days. It was absolutely incredible, beyond all words. But by far the most majestic thing was the sound of God’s voice.
On the plane I gazed out the window at tiny cities of lights which adorned an earth blackened by night. In the movie ‘Dead Poets...
“‘But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.’ Luke...”
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the...”
– (Galatians 5:16-18 ESV)
27 million slaves, and $14,066,670 to free them.
If you’re on Tumblr, you’ve probably heard of Passion 2012. Most of you probably already know about it. But just take a step back and look at what God’s done here.
Being in England, I hadn’t heard of Passion before, other than for some of the music that comes out of it. But I had no idea what it was. But this year, everybody seemed to be talking about it. It was...
December 2011
17 posts
Hoc est tumblr meum.: Christmas is over..... →
revelation19:
But you wouldn’t know it from looking around The decorations are still out and the lights still shine a christmas song or two straggles over the radio, as if they never got the message And here we are, not sure if were back in the daily grind or not We try to suck as much magic out of the “holiday” as we can, because for those few days we actually feel good. We try to hold onto...
Life Re-Evaluation / Change Me / Compassion / Do...
On Tuesday, me and parents traveled up north to Manchester to visit our family. On the Tuesday night, everyone had gone to bed and I was alone downstairs in my grandad’s house watching Russel Howard Live. At 1:00am it finished, leaving me satisfied, uplifted and appreciating life, as Russel Howard always does. But as I stared at the black inactive television screen, I asked myself why on...
“” Father Damien was a priest who became famous for his willingness to...”
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- From John Ortberg’s God Is Closer Than You Think
Blessings,
David Jee [Eternity Bible College]
Wow.wow.wow.
(via solideogloriaa)
Shabba!
God Became Flesh; For What?
It seems there are on and off times as to when debates about God seem to spring up in my school. They either all happen at once, or no one utters a word. Trying on my own to give answers to whole groups of people questioning me in ongoing debates, the questions began to swim through my head until I thought, “Why don’t I just ask God Himself?” So I did. And He, like most times,...
†=♥: Money...Money...Money →
headoverheelsforjesus:
The last couple of months God has really been testing my faith in His provision over money,a few things have come along and challenged the money flow but I’ve been praying and reminding myself that Our Father is faithful. Yesterday I read a tumblr post by my friend Leah about how God has given her money through random and anonymous donations. I’ve heard many...
As I got in the car, with the sound of the closing doors echoing throughout the car park, after going to the cinema, I thought. I saw a presentation of a timeline not too long ago, tracing back the origins of when and where scripture was written and by who. Tracing back disciple of who’s disciple of who’s disciple of who’s disciple. Who wrote to who, and who wrote about...
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Hi.
I’m here.
Beside you.
Open ears.
Open arms.
Speak to me.
Let’s talk.
- Jesus
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Christian Constipation and Spiritual Poo
As I was on the toilet earlier, I was thinking about my blog. The toilet seems to be the place where God speaks to me most profoundly - it’s like His classroom! I was thinking how few ‘theologically deep’ posts I post. Even though I read a lot of articles and blogs about theology and apologetics, I don’t actually post a lot of that on my blog. And it got me thinking: I...
Right, I’m going to man up Christ up and love my head of sixth form and be more like Jesus.
Forgiven, therefore forgive.
Feasting without excretion is called constipation. It’s the same principle when we feast on God’s Word.
Three Years
It didn’t really sink in until today. I knew it was three years ago yesterday, on the 10th of December, but I didn’t really realise until today.
“In December 2008, passengers George Hamon, 17, and Guy Knight 16, were killed when the Peugeot driven by their friend was involved in a collision with a Mercedes on Brading Road, near Beaper Shute. Two other passengers survived and the driver survived....
I just want to pray this over a few of you who I know need this. I would love to be there and actually pray with you, but this will have to do.
Father, your children are a blessing to You and to others. We are all signs that our God saves. That You are not another empty fleeting thing who does not fulfill His promises. But Lord, You are a God who reaches down into the darkest and dirtiest of...
Some Recent Testimonies
On Saturday, our church youth group arranged a poker day, with other games, at my house. Towards the end, Katie had left the room because she had a headache, and it looks like it was pretty painful. It probably didn’t help that I was playing Teach by The Chariot pretty loud through the speaker system. So Amy suggested that we all go over and pray for her, so we got in a circle around her and...
Embryos To Dust Motes
I’ve thought a lot about timelines and testimonies today. The embryos who are so unaware of such a vast world they are being born into, the babies who dribble at the table having no idea about Noam Chomsky or Socrates, and the old veteran who’s mind carries a library of wisdom. I read an article in Newfrontiers’ last magazine about the future of the movement, I read a testimony...
My Jesus
When I open the pages of the gospels, I see a real Jesus. Not concepts and theoretic stories about Him that often distract us, but a breathing man known as God.
The raising of the dead, walking on lake Galilee, breaking bread and drinking wine; my Jesus did those things. He met twelve men who followed Him to His death. They were a contrast to each other; taxmen, zealots, fishermen, and cowards....
Thoughts on John 5:19-29
For such a long time I’ve had this idea in my mind that I don’t really know the Father that well. It’s been less than a year since I truly realised what it means that He is my Father. Before that I thought He was just called that because Jesus is the Son. Since then, I’ve been building on that revelation and ‘getting to know the Father’ much more.
But, to my...
November 2011
18 posts
John 5:18-47
18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. 20 For the Father...
Oh I do love it when God speaks Shakespeare to...
I was just sitting in my room, thinking about what the effects of some choices I may have to take soon in my life could be, when something fell behind me. After looking around for a while, I saw a piece of paper that had fallen off my shelf. From a distance I thought it was a Psalm that I had printed out to stick on my wall, and in hope I thought I’d find some scripture to help me. But, in...
Jesus Pahhty.: How Do I Stand Up For My Christian... →
jedbrewer:
This question was posed to me recently – how do I stand up for my Christian beliefs? It’s a great question, and a pertinent question, and an easy one to get wrong.
If you want to stand up for your Christian beliefs, start by sitting down.
If you want to be a great lion of the faith, start by sitting down with a hurting person and asking, “Tell me your story.”
If you want to be a...
John 5:1-18
1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. 5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there...
The real, living God.
While I was in Windsor yesterday, I put on the new Newday album as I went round the shops. We Are Here For You was the first song (The Newday version is so much better), and as it got to the last chorus “WE WELCOME YOU WITH PRAISE! WE WELCOME YOU WITH PRAISE!” I just imagined the glory, awe and power that would fill the earth if Jesus appeared right then for all the world to see....
Death
I went into the Christian bookshop in town today to buy the new Newday album, and there was a woman in there looking at cards. She told the cashier that, “They’re all to do with healing, and that’s not appropriate. I’m new to all this. And death isn’t appropriate either. It’s for a relative, she’s ill and it’s terminal.” I asked her if I could...
God is faithful to His word
A while back, my friend Amy gave me some prophetic art. The prophetic word was that if I seek to find God is circumstances and look to see where He is in any situation, my eyes would be open to see Him all around me. If I ask Him, He will reveal.
God has been so faithful in answering that. Today I reminded myself of it, and whenever a moment which caught my attention happened, I’d ask God...
Healings!
At my youth group, we had a time for prayer requests at the end again. I swear, we are the most injured youth group in the world! Nearly all of us had some sort of sickness or injury hahaha. So we all lifted up our voices in prayer for healing.
Katie’s bone in her wrist isn’t where it should be - you know that bone that sticks out a bit on the site, well it was kinda on top of her...