Crossed Out(X)

If x marks the spot the treasure is yet to be revealed

If x indicates the wrong answer there is an opportunity to learn what's right

although x closes the window when a new one opens it is refreshed

if you cross out the picture only the portrait is defaced

Being x'd or crossed out is never the end 

but what you do with the cross out 

how you perceive the x

the mark that you allow it to leave 

determines the effect it has on you and the effect you have on others

Jesus said if anyone would come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me for whoever would save his life will lose it but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. Luke 9:23 through 24

The Wonder of your beauty.

The Wonder of your beauty overwhelms my mind. Whenever I look up how I long to stop time. Your brushstroke is amazing. Your radiance lights the sky. Your breath moves the tree and makes me wonder who am I to have this opportunity to take in all the wonders. I even stand in awe to hear the heavens thunder. I see you in the miniscule things. Like the sand around the oceans you are greater than my eyes can see. Greater than my preconceived notions. I can't imagine not knowing you or not thinking on your goodness. For all the hurt and pain surrounding it's all drowned in your love and kindness.

Who's Report

When you see no way remember that God's way and thoughts are not our own they are both higher than our own.

When you think there is no way remember Jesus is the way the truth and the life.

Faith

Below you will find two definitions that Google uses to define the word faith. Then below each definition you'll see scripture from the New international version Bible that you can use the preceding definition to substitute for the word faith. Try it and see if the scripture hits different.

FAITH

1. complete trust or confidence in someone or something.

-For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—

Ephesians 2:8 NIV

-“Have faith in God,” Jesus answered.

Mark 11:22 NIV

-And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

Hebrews 11:6 NIV

-know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

Galatians 2:16 NIV

FAITH

2. strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.

-For we live by faith, not by sight.

2 Corinthians 5:7 NIV

-Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

Hebrews 11:1 NIV

-By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

Hebrews 11:3 NIV

-fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 12:2 NIV

These are just a few scriptures where you can take the two definitions of faith and substitute them for the word and hopefully get a better understanding of faith. 

After God put the word faith in my spirit, number one it stuck and then everywhere I turned, everything I listened to was talking about faith. Even now it is continuing to resonate with me to just dig deeper to seek more understanding of faith. The entire first chapter of Hebrews is all about faith! Faith means something. Faith is required. Faith has everything to do with your relationship with Christ, even in relationships with other people. Faith is believing in something. Even if someone doesn't believe in God or in Jesus they have faith in something. Meaning things that we believe in, put our hope in, trust in, or have confidence in. Everyone has faith in something but oh to have faith in God the outcome is amazing. There are those who never saw some of the things that they were believing God for. Read Hebrews 1. However, it wasn't just them having faith. It wasn't just them believing. It wasn't just them trusting. It wasn't just them having confidence in God. They showed it in their actions, in their worship, in their service to God. They didn't just believe in what he said they acted upon it. When God said go they didn't just believe they could go, they actually went and this is what pleased God.

 Have faith in God. Where is your faith? What do you believe and how do people know it and how does God know it?

In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

James 2:17 NIV

-And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

Hebrews 11:6 NIV

Faith!

Father God I thank you that your burden is easy and your yoke is light when we are yoked with Christ and I pray for every person reading this right now may the testing of their faith produce perseverance may they seek you like never before and may their faith grow may they have faith in you God like never before and like they've never had anything else. Help us to increase in our faith and help us in our unbelief in Jesus name amen.

Burden Barer

We are not meant to take on the full weight of someone else's burdens, worries, problems, issues, or circumstances. We can barely bear our own weight in those areas. To take on other people's weight is crushing. We crumble under the weight of our own circumstances. This we can not do alone. Jesus said come unto me all that labor and are heavy laden and he will give us rest (Matthew 11:28-30). His word also says for us to Bear each other's burdens(Galatians 6:2), not to take it all but to help one another. Know your limits but also know to do it with him(Christ). Seek him first for your own loads and seek him first for other people's loads. In this we will  know where we can help, or talk, know when to step back, and when to move out of the way so you are not crushed. 

There's so much going on in the world around us. So much going on in our own personal lives. Jesus is standing there waiting with open arms for us to cry out to him so that we may be saved. No He may not eradicate all the issues but He will give you hope where things seem hopeless. He will give you peace in the chaos. He will restore your heart and your compassion toward others. Even when people are attacking you. We can have all this in Jesus Christ who gives us strength. He paid the price to lift our burdens, to save us from ourselves, and from the crushing weight of this world. Call on him today with a sincere heart. Call on him out of your tiredness, out of your weariness, and out of your own striving to do it all by yourself. We need Him- creator of heaven and Earth, God of All flesh. Nothing surprises him. You don't have to dress yourself up. You don't even have to put on a fake smile. Go to him in all your wellness, give all of your heart and all of your pain and all of your burdens, even in all of your joy. Go to Christ Jesus, he loves you on your darkest day and in your worst actions. He loved you before you took your first breath, hallelujah.

Go to The God who created the universe because he is able to make the universe bow to you. The power of life and death is in our tongue. Our words have power. Find out what God's word says and speak that into your life. Know him for yourself. He will change your life because he makes all things new. God bless you. We are praying for you. Blessings on blessings! C-ya

Sowing seeds

In the Bible it says that you reap what you sow which can be applied to our natural Life as far as the things that we do in life that will produce something later on in our lives. so the seeds that we plant/sow whether we're sowing seeds of Love, sewing seeds of hate, sewing seeds of envy, sowing seeds of unforgiveness, sowing seeds of bitterness sowing seeds of anger; whatever seed you are sowing, whatever you are doing to other people, whatever actions you are taking in every area of your life; those are seeds that are being sown and will produce something later on in your life. understand that every seed that is sown whether it is metaphorically, physically, spiritually, agriculturally from the food that we gather from the ground; every seed that is sown is smaller - so much smaller than the harvest that it produces. so please understand that whatever you do it may seem small to you and you may not think that it's going to come back to you, but every seed that is sown produces something greater than the size of the seed. please be careful of the words that you use, of the actions that you take, of the thoughts that you think because what it produces in your life later on when you have forgotten the words that you said, when you have forgotten the actions that you've taken, when you have forgotten the thoughts that you think; it comes back greater than what you put out. Galatians 6:7 do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. a man reaps(gathers) what he sows(plants). 

Proverbs 12:12 (NIV)

The root of the righteous flourishes. Proverbs 12:12

When you think about the roots of a tree or a tree root they go in many different directions and they dig deeper to secure themselves or to secure the tree. A root doesn't just go straight down, nor is there just one root but the roots dig deeper and deeper to get the nourishment or the water and the foundation it needs to thrive. So when you think of this scripture 'the root of the righteous flourishes' understand that we that are righteous because we believe who Jesus is and we take God at his word; everything that flows from us, every gift that he's given us, every talent every area of our life flourishes. It may not look like it at this very moment but God is using it for his glory and to work for the good of those that love him according to his purpose.