I Believe in God, in Jesus Christ.

First, I believe in God because there is no good evidence that atheism, or believing there is no God, is true.  Now I say this, but some people might say well there is no good evidence that God exists either.  But If God didn’t exist then who or what created the universe? If God didn’t then the universe would have had to come from nothing.  I’d rather believe in a superior loving God creating me and the world I live in, than know I come from nothing and it’s just by chance I’m on earth.

Second, if there is no God then who or what put the intelligent design in the universe, especially in life’s DNA sequence?  There are so many amazing things in our universe; the way certain animals are created, the way our sun and moon work together, everything in our universe is perfectly put together so that we can live on our planet.  How can we say there is no God, with all these amazing things around us keeping us alive?  All things had to be created by some intelligent and magnificent designer. How could anyone believe they come from nothing?  Also, If God didn’t exist then I am just a person who has no real purpose. I’m not fearfully and wonderfully made (I really am, lol, Psalm 139:14).  I’m not original. I’m just one of many and how could I have confidence in myself to do anything great, because I’m just like everyone else.

 Thirdly, where do our universal moral values come from? If there is no God then why should I care about what I do on earth?  Why should I live how people want me to live?  If God didn’t exist I would do whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted.  I’d give into myself and live only for myself. If there were no moral standards, no God, to keep me accountable then I should live for myself and today’s satisfactions, because when I die I’m just nothing again.

            I believe there is a God because he has revealed Himself in the person and work of Jesus Christ with the origin of Christianity, the empty tomb, and in resurrection appearances. Also, the Bible and its message have been examined by every test and found to be genuine and accurate throughout.  There are fulfilled prophecies which are authenticated by the Dead Sea Scrolls, also the Bible is historically accurate, and archaeology has been verified back to King David. With so much evidence for Christianity and really none in other religions, how could I not believe in a God? All the evidences point towards Him.

            Lastly, why I believe in Jesus Christ, my God, is because God can be immediately and personally experienced through salvation with salvation experiences, answered prayers, and miracles God proves to be real.  Jesus Christ is the only God that does not require works in order for you to be saved or go to Heaven.  He only asks that once a man or woman recognizes the need for salvation and realizes that God has provided for their salvation through Jesus Christ, he or she must go on to embrace it. Salvation is a process of confessing and believing (Romans 10:9). A man must confess that Jesus is Lord and this confession of Christ as Lord also assumes that it is Christ who will work and fulfill His own righteousness within man. Next, he or she must believe that God has raised Jesus Christ from the dead. This belief in the death and resurrection of Jesus carries with it the realization that the penalty has been paid for sin and power is provided for man to live a life free from sin.  God only asks that we confess our sins and come to him, love Him, and know him.

God is the Father that loves his child unconditionally, the Husband that loves him wife passionately, and the Shepard that watches his sheep continuously and soooooo very much more. How can anyone say there is no God? 

........ It’s beyond me........

  People say it’s foolish to be a Christian and believe in Jesus.  Well then I’m a huge fool to them! But to God I’m His child, His wife, and His lamb. I am a Christian and I believe in God!

Center of the Bible .... God is soooooo Good!

Hey guys! I was looking through some old e-mails I saved and came across this and I just wanted to share it! It brightened my day! :D

Center of the Bible

The pictures are awesome.... but wait until you read the words.



Q: What is the shortest chapter in the Bible?

A: Psalms 117



Q: What is the longest chapter in the Bible?

A: Psalms 119



Q: Which chapter is in the center of the Bible?

A: Psalms 118



Fact: There are 594 chapters before Psalms 118

Fact: There are 594 chapters after Psalms 118

Add these numbers up and you get 1188.



Q:? What is the center verse in the Bible?

A: Psalms 118:8



Q:? Does this verse say something significant about God's perfect will for our lives?



The next time someone says they would like to find

God's perfect will for their lives and that they want to

be in the center of His will, just send them to the

center of His Word!


Psalms 118:8

"It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man."

Now isn't that odd how this worked out (or was God in the center of it)?

Why do I ask for anything ... When He's already given everything...? Sometimes we need to just PRAISE! :D

I've been having a lot of down time lately due to being sick and I've just had a week or so where my days have been full of sitting around and having no plans or places I need to go. I've had a lot of time to think and dwell and process. I'll never know all the answers to things I wonder about or worry about (which I know I shouldn't worry)... But I was just sitting today and thinking over the past few days and how I've asked God to show me things in my life and asked Him to heal me and asked Him for this or that or whatever it might be and I just stopped and thought today that God has really already given me everything I need. He never leaves me without. I ask for so much all the time, but He is always in control and things may be confusing to me or I may not be able to understand them, but I have to realize even if God doesn't give me what I want or even the things I think He may want for me... I'll be fine.... because He is involved in every area in my life. I don't shut Him out. I have opened the door to Christ in every area. He is in control of me and my choices and decisions and wants and needs.  I just realized today that I really don't need to worry. I definitly would need to if I really was holding something back from Him, but I know I'm not. I've confessed everything to Him. There's nothing that separates me from Him except me when I let Satan try and deceive me. So how can I ask God for anything more than what He's given me? If I truly trust Him, I know he'll protect me and has my best interest at heart. So for now I'm holding off on my "askings"; it's not always bad to ask, I'm not saying that, I'm just saying for me It's time to stop asking for a little while and just praise, because sometimes we just keep asking something when we already have the answer, but things aren't crystal clear so we keep pushing something. So I'm stopping and just praising! I praise You Father for who You are and for what You've done. You are amazing! You are my creator! You are in control. You love me! You hold my heart and I trust in You. :) .... Why do I ask for anything? When He has given me everything!

- Isaiah 30:19-21~ O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you. Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it."

-Isaiah 49:15-16 -15 "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! 16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ⁵ Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; ⁶ in all your ways submit to him,  and he will make your paths straight. 

. . . Tears Fall . . .

James 4:7-10~  ⁷ Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. ⁹ Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

            Sometimes we all just need a good cry… Last night I had this overwhelming feeling. It was the weirdest thing ever, I was in the shower and had recently gotten off the phone with my dad, who unfortunately I have a rocky relationship with, and we had a normal conversation for us, which is rarely ever good, but I got in the shower and just felt so overwhelmed I began just crying out to God and just praying for my dad, because as some of you know he is sick and the doctor’s only gave him so much time to live. Also he had surgery a little while back that went bad and he can now barely walk, on top of all that he is an alcoholic and is honestly a bitter man from his past and losing my mom. …. But I just called out to God asking him what am I suppose to do. My family all encourages me to not be around my dad so much because of his behavior and how he is with me, but I feel bad not being there for my dad. On the other hand, every time I’m around him I’m never good enough and he always wants to fill my head with gossip on everyone we know and he just talks bad about everyone. I want my dad to go to church with me. I want him to get better mentally. I wish he wasn’t so sick. I just don’t know what to do. I was just sobbing there in the shower just saying all of this to God and asking Him what to do and to guide me and just giving it all to Him telling Him I couldn’t handle that weight of my dad anymore and all the sudden my sister opens the bathroom door and asked me if I was ok, apparently she had heard me crying from downstairs, she had asked if I had hurt my back (earlier that night I attempted to do a back handspring again, lol, and it didn’t go so well) … Well all the sudden I started cracking up laughing cause it was just kind of crazy how she had heard me from downstairs and I was just imagining what she was thinking, lol, but just that little moment , with her coming in, and me laughing about it all helped me feel a lot better. . . .  I told my sister I was ok and I just started thinking about what had happened . . . It felt good just to cry out to God and get everything off my chest and just verbally and physically humble myself before Him. …. Sometimes I think we all just need that. And I feel like God had my sister come in at just the right time after I had gotten everything out and just brought joy and laughter in her coming in. God is just so good and amazing in how His hand is in everything and how He shows his comfort to us and loves us. Thank You Lord for who You are and for loving me and comforting me when I need You!

Psalm 29:11~ The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD blesses his people with peace.

Actions Speak Louder than Words

Actions speak Louder than words. It is so true, isn’t it? Whether it’s in relationships with a boyfriend/husband or how our political leaders act or parents are? Actions always mean more to us as a society than words do.  I’m not saying words aren’t powerful, because they definitely are, but without actions to back up those words there just empty words right? . . .

For example, if a husband or boyfriend tells his wife/girlfriend he loves her, but then abuses her or is an adulterer then obviously those words he uses to express his love aren’t really backed up with true love. If he were a loyal man who was a devoted leader to his wife/ girlfriend those would be the right actions to show his love towards her.

Another example is our political leaders. For example, many people voted for Barak Obama because of his amazing way of speaking and how comfortable with only his words and safe he made some of the American people feel. He uses great rhetoric when speaking, but since his presidency many of those same people who voted for him do not feel the same warm, fuzzy feeling they once felt about him and claim that his actions do not reflect his words and what he said he was going to do. People are mad, hurt, angry. . .

Our parents . . . If you ever got in trouble when you were younger or even now, lol, and your parents yelled at you and grounded you, but never backed up that grounding and went through with it you would think you could get away with anything right? If their cycle was always yelling and threatening punishment but never backing that punishment up and following through with it, it would be easy for us as children not to obey knowing the consequences would never really be there . . .

As Christians we say all the time we love God and we talk about Him to others and tell others our views on Christ and what He means to us and we talk and talk and talk, or blog and blog and blog, whatever it is we do . . . but are our actions backing up our words? I look at myself and I hope that for the most part to whoever is reading this that my actions back up my words, but I also know how many times I can fall short and not let me actions reflect what I say and if I think about it, it’s such a powerful thing. If a non-believer sees me act not in accordance with what I say that can ruin my testimony so much. . . Have you ever heard the story of Marilyn Manson? The ‘Prince of Darkness’, he went to a ‘Christian’ school and this school claimed to be a school full of believers and people who followed after Christ, but the kids in that school just outcaste Manson  and look where he is today . .  It really makes you think. If someone had acted like a Christian, as they had said this school was full of them, maybe Manson wouldn’t be doing what he is doing today? ….

More than just our actions though is our mindset. Because I also believe we can have good words and actions, but our mindset is a HUGE thing also. Because we can be saying and doing all the “right things” but if we don’t have our mindset on Christ and have a pure mind in what we’re doing then it’s not real also. If we’re doing things just to reflect back on us that’s wrong or if we’re only performing our actions to try to “save” ourselves that’s wrong to, because our works are nothing. It’s a relationship with Christ that God wants. He wants us to confess with our words to Him and then through a pure mindset, in just wanting to follow our Amazing creator, wants our actions too purely and truly reflect how we feel and what we say about Christ.

~Matthew 12:36-37- “³⁶ But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the Day of Judgment for every empty word they have spoken. ³⁷ For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”~

I liked this little analogy and decided to share it :)

"People often come to Christ in the fog. The fog lifts and we can perceive life in a whole new realm. Even more exciting is the knowledge that the day will come when we stand before Christ, when we will see Him clearly just as He is, in all His glory. Nothing will be able to cloud the true and living Christ from our vision. For now, we must trust Him to see for us, then guide and direct us through His Word and prayer." ~Quiet Moments with God: Devotional Journal for Women.

God You are so good! Help me to see and follow You clearly daily! I love YOU Lord!

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